World Occult Usage Guide

Chapter 195 The Dreamers' Group

Anna took out a white cloth and blindfolded herself.

“Where are Vanessa Miller’s coordinates…” she murmured softly in Enoch, “Angel, please tell me through the gate of the Fifth Element.”

Just like last time, Lin An saw tiny key pieces floating around the girl, like golden fairies with wings. This time, there were exactly 32 of them.

As Anna's energy fluctuated, the crystal ball appeared, and the angel's ethereal body emitted a soft hum, whispering to this descendant of Dee about the enlightenment from the spiritual realm.

As the conversation ended, Ether pointed to the remaining golden key with the stick in his hand, and written words appeared.

Just as Anna was about to check, a fishing net suddenly fell from the sky, catching all the keys with a "whoosh." They fell to the ground like captured sparrows, struggled violently for a few moments, and then disappeared without moving.

"Well!"

Anna glanced tentatively at the witch and Lin An. The former yawned and nonchalantly swung her short sheep tail, while the latter frowned as she stared at the phantom of the fishing net.

This energy was embodied by that bratty kid, the student council president.

Back when he first boarded the Black Ship, Lin An saw a fly with purple eyes flash by and then disappear. After that, all of the Foundation's communication equipment stopped working. Now that he thinks about it, it was probably the Chairman's doing.

What on earth does this guy want to do?

"I'm sorry, Lord Ghost, I failed," Anna said dejectedly. "Something like a barrier has been activated over there. The spirit couldn't convey the most crucial answer to me."

“It’s alright, Anna,” Lin An said with a gentle smile. “Then you can investigate the other person, Reagan Modicridge.”

"Ok!"

Anna quickly activated her remote viewing to locate Captain Reagan. As expected, the illusory fishing net reappeared, capturing all her keys.

"Ugh..." She swallowed hard. "Lord Ghost, he... he also has a barrier!"

Lin An then had her check the locations of Caroline and Hector, but without exception, the process repeated itself in failure.

“It seems that the chairman has shrouded the entire Foundation’s facilities in mystery, preventing the visionaries from spying on us.” Lin An suddenly had a flash of inspiration. “No wonder you deliberately chose the day the chairman was away on a business trip to infiltrate the Foundation, Isol.”

"Heh, you're very clever, ghost." The witch snapped out of her whimsical thoughts. "Before he left, the only way to enter the facility over there was through the main gate."

“I don’t want to fall into the ‘prophet’s’ trap again.” Seeing that Anna was about to cry again, Lin An put his arm around her slender shoulder. “Don’t be afraid. I’m just an ordinary college student.”

"Nobody would believe that!" Anna thought to herself.

The black-haired young man in front of me is none other than the legendary ghost of Dietrich!

A being at the very top of the mystical realm!

The places he touched felt like they were being scorched by flames, and her whole body trembled even more violently. She sniffed and stammered her answer.

"Lord Ghost, this is so funny, hahaha."

“I’m not joking. But never mind, please do me one last favor.” Lin An withdrew his hand. “Can your remote viewing see someone named ‘Jordan Benowitz’?”

"Who is that?" Anna asked quickly, "I mean, what are this person's characteristics?"

"A man in his early thirties, over 1.9 meters tall, rather thin, with bright amber eyes and a handsome appearance," Lin An recalled Joshua's appearance. "He had a stubble beard and dressed very sloppily."

As a source-level mystery, former head of the Foundation's inspection team, and the pinnacle of combat power in the Eagle Nation, Lin An did not believe that Joshua would die at the hands of Doris.

"Well, I'll give it a try."

Anna clenched her fists, determined to succeed this time!

Contrary to her wishes, she went to the wrong place four times in a row, one of which was even located in a place far from Michigan. When she arrived in Ohio, Anna was frantically trying to adjust the keys and the Enoch script.

Lin An observed this and thought to himself: The range of influence of the Dreamer's Mystic Arts is truly vast. Compared to certain "close-range" mediums, its range is quite advantageous.

Their combat capabilities seem average; at least Anna and the witch have never displayed any lethal methods.

"found it!"

Anna cried out excitedly. Among the twelve keys flying around, the language of Enoch was faintly visible. She immersed herself in it and recited the location of Joshua.

"He was under a blue bridge."

"If I remember correctly, there are eight blue bridges in Dietrich. I'm using my phone's navigation—Isol, do you have WiFi here?"

“No need! I just need to know the coordinates.” The witch turned her head, her brown curly hair falling down, and two fake heads made of metal and wood swayed with it. “Want a ride, ghost?”

By now, Lin An had long since recognized the witch's mysterious true form.

The system pasted a panel onto the half-human, half-sheep woman's body, like a bra made of data code, covering her unruly, white breasts and lower abdomen.

[Names]: Baphomet, Baphomet, Baphomet, Mendes Goat, Black Goat, Judah Goat

[Rating]: Mythical C-level

Radiation level: 28.6%
[Pollution Level]: 53.2%
[Media]: Dreamer

Baphomet, the symbol of the Satanic goat, appears in popular culture with the most typical goat-headed, half-human, half-goat demonic image and is often misunderstood as a symbol of witchcraft.

The origin of this term is unclear, but some scholars suggest it comes from the pagan culture brought by the Crusades.

Lionland mystic historian Montagu Summers believes that Baphomet is a combination of the Greek words baphe and metis, meaning "to absorb knowledge." He argues that it is a pagan deity derived from the Gnostic god Mete, or "wisdom," and was later stigmatized.

In the Middle Ages, Baphomet was a heretical idol, whose followers typically created statues of it from human skulls, stuffed heads, or metal or wooden objects with black curly hair. The Knights Templar believed Baphomet to be a source of fertility and wealth, and they were later accused of idolatry by Philip IV.

The image of Baphomet as a demon was brought to its peak by a painting by the 19th-century Russian artist Eliphas Levi, titled "The Baphomet of Mendes".

He combined elements of the Tarot Devil cards with the ancient Egyptian Mendes worship, creating an androgynous figure with wings, a goat's head and feet, adorned with esoteric symbols, a five-pointed star on its forehead, and torches decorating the space between the two horns on the top of its skull.

These mystical symbols represent the sum total of the universe—wisdom, the four elements, divine revelation, sex, sin, and redemption. The white and black crescent moons on either side of the figure represent good and evil.

The Temple of Satan, which was established in San Francisco in 1996, also uses Baphomet as a symbol, which is synonymous with "resistance to authority, resistance to the law, and resistance to constraints."

It's very similar to what the witch is doing now.

So, how did Isol, who has no noble family background, awaken a mythical archetype?
Did anyone hold a ceremony for her?

"Anna's mystical arts can give you coordinates?" Lin An suppressed his doubts and pondered, "So, if you two 'visionaries' cooperate, you can teleport to any location within the entire state of Michigan at will?"

“Indeed!” the witch exclaimed in realization. “Ghost, you’re so clever.”

Lin An was embarrassed. He thought the witch's comment "You are very smart" was just a joke, but he didn't expect her to be genuinely praising him!
Perhaps it's because the witch's corruption level is too high, and sometimes her mind can't quite grasp things.

After all, how could Beta-001, the leader of the Free Mystic faction, the black goat symbolizing "wisdom," be a simpleton?
The witch maintained her alluring smile, but after saying those words, her originally sexy and beautiful face somehow looked like a silly country bumpkin in Lin An's eyes.

It must be my imagination.

Lin An took a step closer to the witch.

The next moment, space shifted and the boundary between reality and illusion blurred.

Unlike Zomo's "speed that ignores matter," the mythical "visionary" achieved true teleportation and instantaneous movement.

In the blink of an eye, Lin An arrived at the location Anna had found.

The man was leaning against the wall, lost in thought, his eyes filled with confusion and bewilderment. When he saw Lin An and the witch suddenly appear, his emotions gradually turned into shock and joy.

"teacher!"

Joshua rushed forward, grabbed Lin An's arm with both hands, checked repeatedly, and then murmured to himself in awe.

"What kind of Stand ability is this, that it actually made you appear from the void..."

“Steve, you remember me?” Lin An asked in surprise.

“I will never forget my savior.” Joshua glanced at the witch. “She is… the member of the organization you mentioned?”

He didn't lose his memory?

Lin An had prepared to put on another act for Joshua and kidnap him, but he didn't expect that the guy had retained his memories.

Strangely enough, as Lin An left the warehouse, he glanced back and saw Joshua clutching the fatal wound in his throat, kneeling on the ground, his life force extinguished, his brass-colored snake tattoos roaming around, and an aura of revival spreading.

Wasn't the price of Joshua's resurrection "amnesia"?

How did he lose his memory in the first place?

On the surface, Lin An nodded calmly and had a brief conversation with Joshua.

It turns out that the resurrected Joshua killed Doris's men, stumbled out of the warehouse, and then wandered around aimlessly until now.

"Very good, headquarters has determined that you have passed the new recruit test." Lin An nodded. "I am [Ghost], this is [Witch]. Steve, what kind of codename do you want to give yourselves?"

"Let's call it 'White Dove,' hoping for world peace." Joshua adopted the name of the inspection team system, which made Lin An glance at him slightly.

It is indeed very difficult to change a person's nature.

"Welcome to join us," the witch said with a cheerful smile.

Looking at her exposed upper body, Joshua said with a hint of pity, "Can't you afford clothes to wear?"

"An eternal flame burns within me; this is an outfit to keep myself cool!"

Why don't you go and enjoy the air conditioning?

"That's too cold."

"If it's cold, you can blow air from the outdoor unit of the air conditioner."

"really?"

Holy crap, what an idiot's pick!

It must be because their pollution levels are too high!

As expected, the radiation from "Comers" was dangerous, turning the leaders of two factions into simpletons.

Lin An's lips twitched as he returned to the Land of Bliss with the two of them. He tried his best to ignore Joshua and the witch's shocking conversation while crossing out the third item in his notebook.

"Looking for Steve."

Next is the fourth point.

“Isol, you once ‘ransacked’ the Foundation’s warehouse,” he said. “If you don’t mind, could you tell me where those items are?”

(End of this chapter)