World Occult Usage Guide

Chapter 221 Close Encounters of the Third Kind

"Messiah?"

Anna repeated the witch's words with a puzzled look. As a child raised in a family with a long history of mysticism, she was very familiar with the term, but she couldn't quite figure out its origins.

“Our ‘ghost,’ also known as Lin An, is the legendary Messiah.” The witch wore a happy and joyful smile. “My teacher told me that the final ceremony will be held on April 1, 2038, at the New Babylon Tower in Dietrich.”

"Before that moment arrives, she will begin the task of collecting twelve candles. With that, she left me, but it doesn't matter, because she has already given me the seed of hope."

The witch stroked her chest, her posture gentle and self-pitying. Her beautiful ideals had long surpassed the pain of reality, bringing her hope for the future.

"Didn't that Mr. Hughes help you?" Anna offered a completely different perspective. "If it were me, I would definitely save you first, Witch."

“Ah, as long as there is hope, one can always find a way to survive.” The witch said nonchalantly, “Whenever I think of the new world she spoke of, I dream of it. It is a utopia where everyone lives in harmony, united by a common will and faith.”

"All people in the world will have abundant resources. There will be no more countries, no more usury, no more property, no more taxes, no more riches, no more poores, no more laws, no more jailers, no more prisoners, no more armies, no more castes, no more hunger."

"I believe that after today, everyone will live in a global civilization where love and freedom are the only laws. This is the new era that my teacher told me about."

“My lady, it’s very difficult for humans to reach this level…” Anna whispered, pursing her lips.

"So we need the help of another planet."

The witch pointed to the sky, where there were no planets of the solar system, but instead, the illusory energy of "Comers," the divine medium of the dreamer covering fragments of reality.

“I waited for my teacher for five long years. Last April, she found me in the mental hospital and gave me this power, allowing me to experience the new era in my own way. As you can see, this will be a world without old laws and old classes!”

Her words reminded Anna of the Foundation's Beta-002, "Deer Woman," and she felt a surge of agreement, because she strongly believed that there were indeed many evils in society that required punitive measures beyond the law.

At the same time, Anna couldn't help but worry.

Given the complexities of human nature, can the world truly achieve the beauty the witch imagined?
The "Commerx" rating is clearly a chasm that is even harder to cross than social class...

Moreover, that planet can only radiate Titan for ten years.

Ten years from now, what will become of those who were immersed in this revelry and illusion? How will technology develop? What kind of future will humanity be heading towards?
"Don't worry, Lin An is a special person. No, he is not actually a complete human being, which is precisely why he is so precious."

The witch seemed to have read Anna's mind and explained further.

"Although he looks similar to us, he is actually a sublime symbol, a radiation from a higher dimension. Due to the limitations of interstellar travel, he has to temporarily reside in a physical body and adapt to the laws of our planet."

"When the teacher frees him from this constraint, he will officially allow the two planets to overlap forever, bringing us the blessing of 'Comers,' opening the chakras, and the vibrational energy matrix will disregard space and time, bestowing power upon everyone until the end of time."

"Everyone can awaken to the mystery, humanity will gain immortality, food will be abundant, skyscrapers will rise from the ground, diseases will be cured instantly, and we can even freely fly out of the atmosphere to explore Andromeda, Orion, and Ursa Major."

The witch stroked Anna's shocked face and slowly recounted the events of the past few months.

"In November 2037, the teacher sent me a message saying that all eleven and a half candles had been collected, only the last fragment was missing. She said that the fragment was located in the exchange warehouse of the St. Anilov Foundation, and asked me to find a way to get it."

“I am happy to serve you in order to usher in the new era that you have described.” The witch smiled. “First, you asked me to leak your information to Miss Esther, that is, Doris Wood; you said things will proceed as you wish.”

"I also used intelligence to cooperate with Miss Esther to destroy the Foundation's warehouse and retrieve the body of the mysterious person they had imprisoned. Then one day, I unexpectedly met the 'Messiah' that my teacher had mentioned."

The witch rested her chin on her hand, repeatedly recalling the beautiful past, a blush of excitement spreading across her face.

"She was such a strange and desirable person, even more beautiful than my teacher. Even before she was freed from the shackles of worldly conventions, she was enough to make me fall in love with her."

"Later, after Lin An finished his winter vacation, he quickly joined us. Although I don't understand why the teacher pretended to be kidnapped by Miss Esther and led Lin An to oppose her."

"In any case, Angel Whisperer, a new era is coming! The Messiah will become the beacon illuminating all mankind! He will become our new sun! Our new God!"

The witch laughed merrily, and actually withdrew the illusory energy of the Elysium, shattering the extravagant scene and revealing the night view of Dietrich.

The crumbling clock tower, illuminated by the moonlight, exuded an eerie atmosphere.

The two stood side by side on the ship. The witch's eyes were filled with a dazzling light of fervor, anticipation, and hope; while Anna, infected by the excitement, cast aside her only worry and eagerly awaited the resurrection of "Messiah".

Beyond the horizon, energy rises.

However, what greeted them was neither a golden dawn nor a bright hope.

"Boom——!"

With a terrifying roar, a twisted and swirling nebula emerged, its interior surging with unimaginable spectra. Howls tore through the ether, and mad laughter echoed endlessly.

The impact swept through the city in an instant and, within moments, spread throughout the entire country.

"On the side of the water."

The prophecy of the Land of Gold describes this catastrophe in this way.

The new Tower of Babylon trembled violently and then collapsed with a roar, the shattered marble falling into the riverbed of the International Bridge with a continuous "plop, plop" echo.

…………

The aliens arrived and initially approached the surface of this planet.

He circled aimlessly above the thin clouds for a few moments, his spirit traveling over the surface of gaseous water. At this point, he could only see a chaotic atmosphere, so he allowed himself to receive the light of the stars.

Because these lights already existed, he also came to know darkness at the same time.

As the light appeared, he perceived the planet's internal structure more clearly, revealing that water and air were separate.

He hoped to find intelligent life here.

He discovered that the planet had two different landforms: the mottled green dry land was called land, and the vast expanse of water was called ocean.

Ultimately, he set his sights on a location near the equator and decided to land at the center of the planet.

The land is covered with grass, seed-bearing vegetables, and fruit-bearing trees, each according to its kind. The fruit contains a pit, the leaves grow vigorously, and the stems are slender yet sturdy.

The aliens stood in the green grassland and observed for a whole day.

The sky was blue, with low-hanging, crystalline, feathery clouds swirling and unfolding. First came the daytime, then golden stars rose, their color growing increasingly crimson until they disappeared below the horizon, the light of stars and satellites piercing the night sky.

Extraterrestrials used the appearance and disappearance of luminous bodies as markers to determine the day and night cycle of this planet, and to divide time and years.

He flew close to the ground, traversing swamps and deserts, skimming over strange fault lines, and gliding along streams.

He saw all sorts of insects, birds, livestock, and wild animals, and he named them in his own language.

On the sixth day of their journey, the aliens arrived at an open area.

Thatch and firewood outlined the building, several rocks were piled up to form a statue, and farmland came into view. He walked along the path, through the bushes, and saw a human.

The aliens sensed the presence of intelligent life emanating from the suddenly appearing farmer, and thus tentatively approached him.

The alien is merely a non-physical point of view, thus allowing the observer to remain undetected.

Humans stride confidently along the ridges of fields, while aliens hover around them.

This is a bipedal animal that walks upright and breathes, with no gender characteristics. It is about three meters tall and has three eyes: two on the center of its face at the same level, and a third on its forehead that shines.

The aliens observed for a while, and then another human approached.

At this point, he discovered that humans do not have vocal cords and communicate using consciousness through the eyes on the top of their heads.

The alien followed the two humans back to their home, where they stayed for many days in a round house with a roof of mud and willow branches and walls of stone. He entered their brains, saw the world through their eyes, and perceived the world through their senses.

In this way, aliens can follow human thought processes and experience their emotional lives.

Moreover, he can communicate directly with the host from inside the host's body.

He discovered that they had no ability to make sounds, but they possessed hearing; they had very long lifespans, exceeding a thousand years; after they died, the rest of their tribe buried their bodies in the soil, and branches grew from the third eye of the deceased, bearing the fruit of infants.

In this way, aliens "dwell" in the bodies of many humans, moving from one mind to another, and wandering from one settlement to another.

Decades later, he collected enough data to separate men and women and transformed into the appearance of the male. Humans lost their third eye, long lifespan, and huge size. Instead, they could speak and mate.

The aliens selected twelve hosts who were outstanding in every way, including the two farmers they had met at the beginning, who were now a man and a woman.

He gave them twelve lights of different colors.

“These are fragments of the twelve moons from my planet, which I call ‘divine mediums.’ I hope you can help me complete the ritual so that I can return to my home planet.”

He calculated the orbit of the mother star and designated two coordinates that were linked to each other, thus initiating the ritual.

Unfortunately, he failed.

The disruption of energy led to the arrival of the first great flood.

The aliens concluded from their experience that the energy fields of their home planet and this planet were so different that they were like two completely dissimilar objects, unable to perceive each other and mutually repelling each other.

He first resurrected the twelve people who died in the ritual, gave them the fragments of the moon, and told them to take them back to their respective settlements to worship.

He then began researching the technology of this planet and searching for a way to make humanity aware of their home planet. Of the twelve chosen ones, the two farmers the alien first encountered refused to leave; they accompanied him on his journeys around the world.

By observing unique human personality traits, the aliens categorized the divine medium into texts, images, and codes to facilitate human understanding, while the two farmers acted as translators and writers.

“Puterias,” the alien said.

“Considering its characteristics, this medium should perhaps be renamed ‘War Emperor’,” said the male farmer.

"Jones Crisar".

“Let’s call him ‘The Prophet’,” suggested the female farmer.

During their interactions with the two planets, the three wrote a book that combined the two interstellar civilizations.

Previously, humans communicated through the consciousness of their third eye. Men and women did not have names. The aliens gave his name to two farmers: the man was named Hughes, and the woman was named El. The pronunciation of this name is very similar to his real name, "Ann".

Through subtle teaching, about four thousand years ago, the aliens felt the time was right and held the ceremony again.

This time, the coordinates of the home planet finally resonated with those of this planet, and wisps of energy emanated from another star system. The aliens predicted that the passage between the two would be fully opened in five years.

To his surprise, as time went by, apart from the two farmers who followed him, the other ten medium inheritors were no longer the humans he had initially met.

With men and women, with languages, with ethnicities, with all sorts of differences...

War engulfed the entire planet. Humanity utilized higher-dimensional energy, and pent-up hatred erupted, leading to a fierce and uncontrollable conflict.

This caused Titan's population to plummet, making it impossible to further expand the chakras through bidirectional gravity.

The alien wanted to stop it, but he encountered an even more difficult situation.

The fragment held by El is translated as "Lady with the Lamp," which is the moon where aliens live and the coordinates he used to locate them. Therefore, El had to endure unimaginable pressure during the ritual compared to others.

The divide between the two planets was ultimately insurmountable, and Aier's body soon collapsed.

Before she died, she gave birth to her child with the alien's bloodline.

This child, like an alien, possesses abilities similar to a radiation source, without needing to wait for two planets to overlap.

Moreover, anyone who gets close to her and knows how to harness extraterrestrial energy and possesses fragments of divine medium can also use extraordinary power at any time.

The aliens named the mixed-race child "Elderia" in a nearby Slavic language, meaning "my graceful star."

Although he had offspring, his ritual had undoubtedly failed.

The aliens' home planet gradually moved away from its designated coordinates according to its orbit, and the radiation and influence of the other planet disappeared from Titan along with it.

But he could no longer wait for the next overlap of star orbits.

The remaining humans were not content with following the aliens' instructions in everything. The inheritors of the medium united and decided to conspire to kill this intelligent life from another planet.

The alien is essentially a mass of matter similar to a soul. Humans cannot completely kill it, so they can only seal it using the radiation source of Eldria after defeating it.

The seal needs regular maintenance and inspection, and that's when Hughes, who knows aliens best, steps forward.

Although he loved the alien he spent every day with, he witnessed the cruelty of the Great Flood and the War, and believed that the two planets should never have crossed paths, so he resolutely accepted the responsibility.

From then on, he walked the earth as a guardian.

Because of its proximity to Alderia's radiation source, Hughes, wielding a fragment of the moon, can also use the energy of another planet. The divine medium he obtained is called "The Seeker," which contains a variety of abilities.

However, Eldria was only a hybrid, and her radiation source was weak. Other Moon Fragment inheritors tried to gain immortality through her, but the results were not ideal.

To this day, only Hughes, who was always by her side, has survived relatively "completely" by passing on her memories.

Gradually, Hughes also began to think that escaping his duties and living alone for thousands of years was not a happy thing.

He picked up the same research topic the aliens had started with and continued to study the Titan technology known as "Agnimos".

Hughes devised a way to gradually extract the aliens' spirits and store them in containers within human bodies, allowing them to decay, dissipate, and fall apart over time.

The most famous of these individuals was Messiah, who was regarded as a walking miracle.

Adria's story ends here. She looks at Lin An with her deep blue eyes, devoid of any emotion.

“Mother…” Lin An’s lips twitched. “Is this the novel you wrote? You could polish it up and submit it for this year’s Hugo Award.”

“After more than four thousand years of sealing, differentiation and adjustment, you remember nothing, don’t you, Ansius?” Adria smiled. “My father, my son, my former lover.”

"..."

A feeling of disbelief washed over Lin An, followed by a sudden realization.

No wonder he could never integrate into this society...

No wonder he found human activities utterly unpleasant...

No wonder he was so fascinated by the radiation from "Commerx," so persistent in his pursuit of the shadow from another planet...

“You are not human, Anne, and you can never become a real human. You are just a synthetic creation, an artificial human, a lump of extraterrestrial matter forcibly stuffed into a human body.”

"Adria said coldly."

"You are a 'ghost' from five thousand years ago."

The truth brought Lin An a sense of relief, but even so, a surge of complex emotions welled up within him.

It turns out he had never truly lived.

He was nothing more than a fleeting, elusive shadow.

In this light, his past pursuits and dreams seemed utterly absurd and laughable, as he sought to find the meaning of life and explore the desires of his heart.

Cold water droplets landed on the back of his hand. Lin An was stunned for a moment, realizing that this was the first time he had shed tears in 22 years.

At this point, Adria tells Lin An that his various worldly characteristics, such as emotions, joy, sadness, and anger, are just illusions created by his human body.

"Then, Mother, you..."

Adria also saw his tears, a hint of surprise flashing across her face, until another emotion took over.

She thought of the child she had with Lin Hainan, the baby waving its chubby white hands, its face beaming with an innocent and romantic smile, like the most lovable doll in the world.

Adria picked him up, the baby nestled against her chest, warm and cozy.

She had never seen such lovely life.

Goodbye, remember me.

She gently kissed the baby's forehead, then grabbed his neck. The baby stopped laughing, and his heart stopped beating.

"How I wish I could bless you, my dear child."

Before long, the baby opened his eyes, and the spirit from "Comers" revived in his body. Adria met his gaze, and an indescribable hatred welled up in her heart.

This is the person who killed her child, who was her own flesh and blood!

He killed her real child!
He shamelessly took over the baby's body, growing up little by little in place of that tiny life. Whenever Adria saw his face, she felt only one emotion.

hatred!

She wants to torture this person!
Even if it's just a hallucination caused by his physical body, she will torment him as much as possible!
She knew what he wanted, but she would never give it to him!

Faced with Lin An's thought-provoking question, Adria smiled as always, leaned down, and whispered in his ear in a melodious voice.

"I have never loved you. Rather, I will always hate you, you executioner."

A surge of energy erupted, the walls suddenly lit up, and twelve golems, each holding a different colored candle, surrounded the two.

Suddenly, green data appeared, enveloping Lin An's body and violently throwing Adria to the side. However, the latter's expression became even more excited, and she let out a hearty laugh.

"Old relic, I knew you weren't quite dead yet!"

“Adria… no, you are just a ‘synthetic’ who inherited her memories, Adria Hughes.”

A calm, mechanical voice echoed in all directions.

“You will never succeed. I swear to protect Lin An’s safety forever.”

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