World Occult Usage Guide

Chapter 29 The Radiation of Growth

After seeing off the three new employees, the head of the administrative department picked up the Ice Eagle cigarette next to him and took a big gulp.

I can't stand this lousy job for even a day.

"Why is he so interested in the points system? Did he read through the entire 400-page brochure the investigator sent? But it didn't mention much about it..."

Picking up the communicator, the minister dialed the number of the logistics department next door.

"Hey, can you please simplify your brochure? Don't cram everything into it. Do you know that someone has read it word for word?"

"Really? I've never even seen that thing before."

"What? You didn't write it?"

"Come on, you can just ask your secretary to help with this. Who wants to do it themselves?" the logistics manager said flippantly. "Since you think it's too long, I'll have her work overtime later. Is there anything else?"

The Minister of Civil Service pondered for a while before repeating Lin An's request.

"So, did you agree?" the logistics minister asked.

"No, I told him to wait patiently and we'll get back to him after our meeting on Monday."

"It's a good thing you didn't refuse his request to his face," the logistics manager said. "This guy is a prospective employee for the department, after all. If he harbors resentment because of this and goesssips about you to those superiors, we won't be colleagues anymore!"

"What would you do in my shoes?"

"As for me, I immediately taught him how to apply for the exchange authority from the chairman. To put it bluntly, only the chairman... plus the inspection team can make the decision on this matter."

"I feel bad for always bothering the president."

"No need. Let him wait a few more days, then send an email to refuse, making it seem like you've done your best. The president is unlikely to agree anyway. This temporary staff member who hasn't even registered yet is really delusional!"

"Alright, deal more with unscrupulous media outlets and stop targeting your own people."

Minister Wenzhi hung up the phone, hesitated for a moment, and dialed a confidential line. Unexpectedly, a deep male voice came from the other end.

"Sorry, the president is not here at the moment."

“Mr. Lloyd!” the minister exclaimed in surprise.

"It's you, Minister. If there's anything I can pass on, I'd be happy to help."

After hesitating for a few seconds, the minister said, "Mr. Lloyd, do you remember the new employee from China who joined the company today? He just made a request to me, saying that the Foundation's mismanagement of the out-of-control Mysterious Man nearly cost him his life, and therefore he is demanding compensation."

The male voice chuckled softly: "You're right, he's your savior."

"Well, but he doesn't want anything else, he just wants to pick one item from the points system of the direct-facing department."

“What’s the big deal? Let him choose. He’ll be a direct employee of the department soon anyway,” the male voice said. “Besides the level of authority, you’re worried about him being corrupted by those ‘items,’ right?”

"Indeed."

“Once the mystery is awakened, it is impossible to avoid the increase in pollution levels.”

"But……"

“I’ve seen his test records. His knowledge of the occult is terrifying, even surpassing everyone in this branch, including me and the president,” the male voice said. “Agree to his request. You must trust that this person knows what he is doing.”

"I'm still worried..." the minister hesitated.

"Don't worry, Vanessa and I will be by his side when he's choosing items."

…………

[Name]: The Encyclopedia of Mystery
[Rating]: Source Grade B

Radiation level: 1%
[Pollution Level]: 3%
[Medium]: The seeker of knowledge

[Inventory]: Seeker of Knowledge x5, God of Truth x1, Dreamer x7, Prophet x1, God of Agriculture x1, Emperor of War x2, Lord of Dreams x4, Mother of Desire x4, Nature Priest x1, Chief Judge x1
[Included Entries]:
Source B-level "The Complete Book of Magic I: Necromancy, Fertility, and the Dark Land - The Hittite Cult of Worship"

Legendary C-rank "The Complete Book of Magic II: Alchemy and the Philosopher's Stone - The Metal That Creates Life"

Cataclysmic Category D: Curse from the Lower East Side V: Pishtako

The Ghost Story D-level title: *King Solomon's 72 Demons III: The Demon Shooter*

The E-rank mystery novel, *Taming the Fairy IV: The Dwarf Demon*

A panel emitting green light appeared in front of Lin An, and he sorted out his gains after awakening his mystery.

He had more and more mediums in his inventory, but he still used mystical arts sparingly, because each time he used a mystery from the Encyclopedia of Magic, in addition to consuming one "Seeker of Knowledge", he also consumed one "God of Truth".

Aside from reading "The Complete Book of Magic," Lin An currently has no way to obtain the "God of Truth," nor does he know what kind of behavior would attract this medium.

The pursuit of truth?

Are we going to conduct a scientific experiment?
In addition, Lin An also discovered a rule for Comors radiation values.

His medium is the Seeker of Knowledge. Only after using the mystery that consumes the "Seeker of Knowledge" medium will the radiation value increase. Each consumption increases the value by 0.2%.

That said, isn't the increase a bit too small?

Among the mysterious individuals Lin An had encountered, even the least prominent one, Haida Steiner, had a radiation level of 1.8%, and he had only been awakened for less than six days.

"Brother Tongzi, I have a question."

"Speak," the cold, mechanical voice replied. "Why is my radiation level increasing so slowly? It seems like everyone else is increasing much faster."

The system pasted a version of data onto Lin An's face.

[Rating]: There are six levels. Ghost tales, disasters, legends, myths, origins, and statues assess how close an individual is to the origin of "Commons," determining the difficulty of increasing radiation levels, the upper limit of pollution levels, and the priority of effectiveness.

[Rating 2]: There are five levels. A, B, C, D, and E determine the duration of the mysterious individual's "rumor" on Titan, the upper limit of radiation levels, the difficulty of increasing pollution levels, the ability to manipulate other media, and the mysterious behavior.

"Can you please stop shoving data at my face?" Lin An clicked his tongue. "Move it further away, I can't see it at all."

The data shifted back a notch, like a ghost.

"Is this the annotation you used when you explained 'rating' before?"

“They have already answered your question,” the system said. “Rating 1 determines the difficulty of increasing radiation levels. Your mystery is the second tier of ‘source,’ which is more difficult, meaning that apart from specific behaviors, it is difficult for you to obtain additional radiation levels from life.”

Currently, it seems that unless I use the medium of the "Seeker of Knowledge," I cannot increase my radiation level at all.

It turns out that other mysterious individuals can obtain radiation values ​​from their daily lives.

But wouldn't that increase the level of pollution?
After all, no Titan has fully understood the rules of "Comerth".

Weighing the pros and cons, this might be a good thing, Lin An thought.

"Rating 2 determines the upper limit of radiation value. There are differences in 'total amount' between each individual, but for the sake of convenience in display and statistics, it has been changed to a percentage calculation method."

"For example, if we compare the upper limit of rating B to 100, the upper limit of rating C is only 60 for the same quality. If the radiation values ​​of both reach 50, rating B will show 50%, while rating C will show 83.3%, but the actual total amount of both is the same."

"As a mystery with a rating of B, your 1% could be 10% or even more of other mysteries."

It turned out to be so.

No wonder my radiation level only increased by 1%, yet it changed my inspirational vision.

I wonder what the world projected by "Comer's" would look like in my eyes when the radiation level reaches 100%?

There are two ways to improve yourself at this stage.

One is the inclusion of a mysterious medium called "Seeker" with a lower rating than "The Encyclopedia of Magic," which continuously uses this mysterious technique to increase radiation levels.

Second, we need to find a way to obtain the medium of the "God of Truth".

However, the "God of Truth" did not belong to him. When he attracted the "Chief Judge" medium, Lin An increased the level of contamination by 3%, so he decided that the second option was the worst.

Unless the foundation makes new progress in its research to reduce pollution levels, or he and the Dietrich family...

Lin An shook his head.

Based solely on the fact that he inherited the Hittite rituals and that his family was suspected to be descendants of Canaanites, they could never become true allies.

After gathering his thoughts, Lin An waved his hand, and the green panel disappeared into the darkness, leaving behind a row of blue fluorescent buttons.

"drop."

Press the switch, and the sleep pod beneath you slowly lands, connecting with the ground via magnetic levitation, and the pod door opens.

Lin An stretched and stepped out of the space-floating sleep pod provided by the foundation. After washing up, he put on his coat and left the room.

The staff dormitory is not located in the main building of the foundation, but in the courtyard behind it.

Walking through the lush green garden, Lin An patted an employee who was exercising early in the morning.

"Excuse me, how do I get to the elevator that leads to the basement?"

"The elevator is right there... You want to go to the basement?" The man looked Lin An up and down, frowning suspiciously. "Excuse me, what proof do you have?"

Hearing his shout, the employees who were taking a walk nearby gathered around.

"Here's the thing, I received an email yesterday." Lin An opened his phone's email, turning the brightness to the highest level so everyone could see it. "The sender told me to wait at the elevator entrance on the basement level."

As everyone craned their necks to read the email, gasps of breath rose and fell.

"This electronic signature..."

"And a string of complicated electronic anti-counterfeiting codes..."

"Holy crap, this hair will grow long!"

Startled, they quickly stepped back to make way for Lin An. The gym employee, all smiles, enthusiastically pointed out the way to the basement.

Finally, he couldn't resist asking a question.

"Sir, are you from headquarters? Could you please tell me my name?"

"Lin An. I just started yesterday, so please bear with me, senior colleagues." Lin An smiled slightly at him. "Thanks, brother. Let's play darts in the recreation room sometime."

After walking a distance, Lin An heard the whispers of his employees.

"That's Lin An! The genius who dominated the interview question bank!"

"He's so handsome in person! I declare that he's my motivation for watching videos for the next month."

"Calm down. Don't swoon over the department head. We can only admire, respect, and worship him silently by looking at his data and videos!"

(End of this chapter)