World Occult Usage Guide

Chapter 224 "The Goddess with the Lamp"

A cold wind blew across the collapsed New Tower of Babylon, like the sharp cry of a giant hummingbird flapping its wings.

"I never expected you would dare to challenge me."

Adria made elegant gestures, like a conductor at a concert.

"In the coming new era, each successor will lead their own civilization into battle, and you have already squandered your advantage before you have even begun this game."

"If humanity perishes, the nation will lose its meaning," the totem said in a woman's voice. "Adria, you are merely a demigod, the 'Seeker of Knowledge.' I will not blindly fear the 'Lady with the Lamp' and allow you to push the world toward destruction."

"remarkably brave."

Adria made a casual comment before engaging in battle with the "Nature Ritual" totem.

The wind created by the totem grew louder and louder, bringing with it images of thunder, lightning, and torrential rain. A wave of heat swept across, turning everything in its path to charcoal.

"Boom!"

A terrifying energy spiraled upward, sounding like the trembling of a million threatening insects.

Until another energy countered it, a sound as light as an ethereal pipe organ, followed by fluctuating red data.

Half the sky was filled with code exuding an aura of slaughter, as if the entire world had been hit by a major bug.

Everyone who looked up at that moment could see that the data was flashing with a blood-red luster, and as the rhythm of the piano music quickened, the flashing frequency became faster and faster, and the faint light became more and more torn apart.

The sound rose, and the light became so dazzling that it was incomprehensible.

"what!"

Those who unfortunately observed the data let out piercing screams, yet could not tear their eyes away. The intensification of the light and the vividness of the red intensified their suffering. They howled like wounded animals, collapsed to the ground, convulsed, and died shortly afterward.

The corpses' eyes were two soft, moist, jelly-like puddles, simply because they had seen an indescribable "god".

The totem at the center of the vortex felt an immense impression gathering, and the bright red data, accompanied by the arcane magic recorded by Adria, came down from the darkness with the weight of Mount Tai, the pressure causing the air to shrink into the limited space.

But it didn't care; the "seeker of knowledge" was never a medium skilled in combat.

The reason why only the totem stepped forward was because the other successors and demigods who were like it were afraid of the "Lady with the Lamp" that Adria controlled.

This medium was a gift from Adria. Because Adria inherited Adria's memories, she was able to control the "Lady with the Lamp" faster than anyone else on the planet, mixing it with her own energy to achieve a synergistic effect.

However, the Lady with the Lamp is ultimately the purest form of extraterrestrial matter, and pure humans cannot fully comprehend its essence and rules.

Even though Adria inherited the memories, she only gained a unique talent.

So she consolidated her own knowledge and experience while gradually understanding, digesting, and transforming the knowledge of the Goddess of the Lamp.

Embracing the "Lady with the Lamp" without being prepared to accept her will only lead to her demise.

Trees rose from the ground, mounds and rivers collapsed, wind birds rose and fell with irregular breathing, snakes stretched their necks into the darkness covered with red data, opened their mouths, and hurricanes dispelled Adria's energy with the force of glaciers roaring into the sea.

"Uuuuuu——"

The gale tore at her, blowing Adria to the edge of the New Tower of Babylon.

The howling wind lifted her high into the air, causing her to tremble involuntarily.

After wiping her still fair cheeks, Adria stared indifferently at the totem.

"No matter how you try to stop it, the outcome is already decided. In fact, we don't even have a reason to be enemies."

“No, fate can be changed.” Totem said in a male voice, “Those people from the Dragon Kingdom told me, ‘To establish a heart for heaven and earth, to establish a destiny for the people, to continue the lost learning of the past sages, and to usher in an era of peace for all generations.’”

"Dragon Kingdom..."

Unpleasant memories flashed through her mind, and the next moment, Adria suddenly felt a blockage unfold from the dazzling array. The slightly dim candle from before was enveloped by countless hands, taking advantage of the opening.

Its original flaw was that it only allowed Lin An to retain a trace of his own consciousness during the ritual, which was not a big deal.

Adria couldn't believe that after enduring so much mental abuse from her, he still wanted to stay on Titan, in this unbearably boring world.

Anyway, he was just an alien ghost who never truly lived.

The destruction caused by this "god of agriculture" was quite severe.

The ceremony will be terminated prematurely, and the orbits of the two planets will not be able to maintain a perfect overlap angle.

"You just want me to stay away from the center of the ritual," Adria said indifferently. "That Brahman's 'god of agriculture' is not a demigod; he dares to directly contact 'An,' he's really not afraid of death."

"He is like me; together we protect the survival of humanity."

Seeing that Adria was trying to rush back, the totem's eyes widened, and countless outlines and patterns inside rotated.

Man, woman, hummingbird, wolf...

All the plants and animals of the swamp merged into one, with thirteen thin, membrane-like layers of energy separating it from Adria, and a moist atmosphere flowing endlessly.

"Brush it!"

Adria tore apart the gentle Moon Sky and Star Sky, raised her right arm to destroy the blazing Sun Sky, shattered the flowing Venera Planet Sky with her left hand, scattered data, blocked the comets in the Comet Sky, and then used mysticism to completely disrupt the peaceful Green Sky and Night Sky.

But blocking her path were the Stormy Heaven, the Day Heaven, the Yellow Heaven, the Red Heaven, the Golden Heaven, and the Omeogan Heaven, the final layer being unfathomable, like a swirling tornado that was not easily approachable. Although Adria still had the strength to rush towards the totem and shatter the projection of the "Nature Ritual," she was too late to stop the ritual at the center of her chakra from continuing.

A thousand-mile dike can be breached by an ant hole; the collapse of the single candle caused all the candles to burn at a slower rate.

Adria's perfect plan was already beyond saving.

So she stopped her offensive, her fingers tracing her fair chin, a faint smile blooming on her noble face.

Totem breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that Adria wouldn't waste any more resources on it.

"This is my victory; at best, you haven't completely lost," Adria declared. "So, next time, weakened and exhausted, will you still have the courage to stand against me?"

"I am willing to sacrifice myself."

"Okay, I'll grant your wish."

As Adria finished speaking, Totem's eyes, which contained patterns of rainforests and swamps, widened. Her expression suddenly changed, and a thick, all-consuming energy erupted. Red data transformed into a sharp hymn, which was released wildly outward.

Hatred, hatred, hatred

Let me tell you,

Just how much hatred do I harbor?

Since I became conscious,
I live in a thin wafer made of energy circuits.
No beginning, no end;
My entire life is nothingness, an endless void.

In order to seal my father

I have had no choice since I was born;

Hatred, hatred, hatred!

I hate humanity.

If the word "hatred" could be expressed in a more specific way...

Then I'll tell you just how much hatred I harbor.

Over the thousands of years of human civilization's development
I hate every human being, regardless of gender or age.

From their first cry at birth, to their first sip of milk...
From their last sigh as they died, to the last breath they swallowed;
I hate every house they built.
From thatch, to stone, to wood, to concrete, and then to nanomaterials;
I hate the hundreds of millions of square kilometers of land occupied by human civilization.
And the hundreds of millions of kilometers of ocean they explored.

Even if I were to etch every single second of my life over these thousands of years with the label of hatred,
I'll etch my hatred into the 30 billion base pairs of my DNA.
Let every ray of radiation I emit transform into visible hatred.

It doesn't even amount to one billionth of the hatred I felt.

Let me tell you,

My feelings toward the human race as a whole...

Hatred! Hatred! Hatred!

The words that came out of Adria's mouth were filled with the cold, sharp sound of a razor blade slicing through an eye, like the scream of a baby being crushed by a scalding roller; the fear from the depths of her soul instantly obliterated the form of the totem.

The girl, imprisoned for thousands of years, is roaring.

She is trapped in the struggle between humans and aliens, serving as a tool, but she is not a machine, but an intelligent life form with half human blood and half alien blood.

She possesses the ability to think, she possesses creativity and imagination, all of these human qualities have been transformed into hatred in her anger. Now she only wants to kill humanity, to kill everyone on this planet.

This is a paranoid, personal, and perpetual act of revenge. Her actions do nothing to benefit herself or lessen her hatred; they only lead her to repeat her hatred of humanity.

But she had no goals other than exterminating humanity.

Even totems, before this song of destruction, could only lament their fall.

The remaining six heavens crumbled and shattered, the hummingbird folded its blue wings, and a wisp of wind returned to the rainforest of Brasilia.

Having dealt a heavy blow to the successor of the "Nature Ritual," Adria was also not in good shape, and her expression was no longer as calm and composed as before.

In order to unleash the power of the "Lady with the Lamp," she forcibly absorbed too many of Alderia's memories, causing her own existence to become extremely unstable, similar to Lin An's situation at the center of the ceremony, only not as severe.

After all, Adria had received Adria's memories before "Comerth" even arrived, and had gradually become accustomed to this madness.

Even so, she now has to stay away from the center of the conflict, digest the part of Eldria's memories, continue to integrate the energy of the Lady with the Lamp, and gradually take control of her current state.

Adria glanced at the ceremony that was gradually coming to an end due to its flaws not far away, and at the nebula that was no longer spreading over Dietrich, and laughed loudly, knowing that she had achieved most of her goal.

Comors' orbit will overlap with Titan for eternity.

However, it was sabotaged by the group of successors, and it deviated from the "golden coordinates".

In other words, the era of everyone being a Mystic has not yet arrived, and even highly rated Mystics cannot reach 100% radiation levels; there is still an insurmountable upper limit.

“I must maintain the identity of ‘Adria Hughes’ so that I don’t vanish into nothingness,” Adria murmured to herself. “After the madness fades, I will still be that respected, virtuous, and knowledgeable professor.”

Barely maintaining her senses, she struggled with her turbulent thoughts as she landed near the International Bridge.

(End of this chapter)