World Occult Usage Guide

Chapter 39 "The Prophet"

The corpses lay on the ground, their eyes wide open in death. The eerie blue pentagram on the stone slab vanished, and the roaring golems froze in place, maintaining their original postures, motionless.

Lin An dodged the golem's finger that almost pierced him, and a system notification sounded in his mind.

"The entry 'Six Lines VI - Earth Pavilion Secret Manual' has been included. You have obtained the media 'Prophet' x6, 'War Emperor' x1, and 'Chief Judge' x1."

"By using mystical arts, the radiation value of the [Mystic Encyclopedia] has increased by 0.2%."

【Name】：The Secret Manual of Tuting
[Rating]: Legendary D-Tier

Radiation level: 10.5%
[Pollution Level]: 12.2%
[Medium]: The Prophet

[Mysterious Origin]: The Tu Ting Secret Manual draws on the models of the 64 hexagrams of the I Ching and the Iron Plate Divination. It is a prophetic book written in the form of poems. There are two methods of casting hexagrams, 863 hexagrams, and 12 months in a year, with each month corresponding to six lines of poetry.

It calculates each person's age, birth month, day, and hour as numbers to arrive at conclusions about the future.

Compared to the I Ching and the Eight Trigrams, this book actually leans more towards the "fatalism" of the Western Continent. However, fate is full of unpredictable possibilities, and even if it is the will of Heaven, human effort is still essential.

Consumes 2 "Prophet" mediums to use the ability of the Earth Pavilion Secret Manual: [Auspicious Day].

[Individual Introduction]: He wanted to know what it would feel like to be one of those people.

They can do whatever they want, they will never be expelled, and committing serious crimes will imprison them, but will never deprive them of their sovereignty.

Although news reports say that some people have suffered pain and torment because of this, he believes that someone has to suffer pain and torment somewhere, right?

Consumes 2 "Prophet" mediums to use the ability of the Earth Pavilion Secret Manual [Blood Calamity].

Looking at the green-glowing panel, Lin An seemed to be deep in thought.

Even in the realm of mysticism, "fate" is the most ineffable thing. Since ancient Greece, fate has been like a gust of wind, sometimes a hurricane, sometimes a gentle breeze, but it blows across Mount Olympus, revealing an undeniable future to the gods.

Some believe that fate is an unchangeable course of events; others believe that fate describes choices that produce dramatic consequences.

Therefore, even the medium of "prophecy" cannot completely control fate; it is more like giving individuals a strong psychological suggestion.

When one's luck is high, all choices made will bring benefits; when one's luck is low, any conclusions drawn from thought may have fatal consequences.

In other words, being a "prophet" is a powerful form of luck, a kind of unseen sixth sense.

The term "fate" refers to destiny, which is unchangeable, while "luck" refers to fortune, which can be altered.

Due to the projection of "Comer's", luck is no longer a mysterious and invisible force, but a real radiant energy. It transforms into armor that surrounds Kim Ji-eun, blocking the aim of "100% Accuracy", and also perfectly merges with the Canaan Guardian Charm.

Lin An initially only wanted to end Jin Zhien's life face to face, but then a flash of inspiration struck him and he suddenly realized that he should take a bamboo tube of divination sticks in case of emergency.

Looking back now, he was already influenced by Kim Ji-eun's good luck and couldn't fully control his own thoughts.

Fortunately, the "prophet" medium seems to have few offensive means. Although it has the ability to influence others remotely, it is difficult to protect itself.

Even with the protection of Canaan magic, the system was 90% confident of killing the opponent, but Lin An, who only had the "God of Truth" left, dared not gamble on the remaining 10% possibility.

Therefore, he used the "ouroboros".

The mysterious item provided by the Foundation has two abilities. One is the infusion medium "Lord of Dreams" x1, which uses the mystical art of the Ouroboros [Möbius Strip] to link fates together in an endless way. It can be used on any two targets.

The other ability remains a mystery, only known to be related to the "Lady with the Lamp".

During the divination process, neither Jin Zhien nor Lin An had the ability to "predict". The former only used the ability to influence Lin An's thinking to keep delaying the time.

Kim Ji-eun was waiting for the golem to awaken, but unfortunately, he didn't expect Lin An to use the [Möbius strip] to link their fates together.

When both of their fortunes plummeted, the system alerted that Canaan's magical energy was abnormal, and the last vestige of possibility of failure had vanished. Lin An immediately activated the mystical spell.

【The rituals of Ishtar in Nineveh】.

Consuming 1 "God of Truth", 1 "Seeker of Knowledge", 1 "Judge" and 1 "Mother of Desire" to perform a ritual that tortures the soul to death was an ancient Hittite method of punishing tyrannical rulers.

They dug up the body of the dead, cut open the belly of a pig or lamb, stuffed its intestines, heart, and blood into bread, buried it, and prayed that the gods would torment the soul of the buried person in the underworld. Finally, the people shared the slaughtered animal.

The harvest was not bad.

This mysterious ability is worth studying; it was worth wasting an afternoon of my time.

As for Jin Zhien's persistent suspicion that Lin An's motive was to save someone...

Lin An looked up at the surveillance video, which showed that the older woman had woken up and was holding the girl, comforting her.

"Um...uh...help...me..."

Freed from the control of the stone slab, the office golem lost all its aggressive intent. It waved its hands aimlessly and uttered a few broken words. Having experienced the previous "Train to Busan," the mother and daughter dared not approach the golem. Seeing it wandering aimlessly around the office, always inadvertently blocking the exit, the girl took out her phone, gritted her teeth, and threw it at it.

"Dangdang!"

The sound attracted the golem's attention. It walked over shakily, knelt on the ground, and held up the phone with both hands. The familiar electronic screen illuminated the golem's bloated and ugly face, and two tears slid down its dark eye sockets.

Facing the locked screensaver, it awkwardly pressed the "record recording" button on the social media app, uttering words it couldn't send out.

"Mom and Dad... I'm sorry... I can never... go back..."

Upon seeing this, the older woman couldn't help but take the girl's hand. The two looked at each other in silence, as if they had said a thousand words.

"Come on, Mom will make you pork rib soup tonight."

"Shouldn't we go to the police station and the hospital first?" the girl said, both amused and exasperated.

Turning his gaze away, Lin An looked around. The ground was littered with stiff golems, broken wooden planks, and mud flying everywhere. The chaotic scene concealed the traces behind Lin An.

There was no time to explore the newsstand again at Carmen's place. This time, Lin An carefully observed the stone slab that had fallen beside Jin Zhien. The frosted surface was engraved with Hebrew characters, which was clearly a line of Deuteronomy.

“Be careful to obey the commandments given by your Almighty Lord, so that you may enter into the beautiful land that the God swore to your ancestors.”

Like the "Ouroboros," is this a mysterious object?
Before Lin An could take a few more glances, a loud warning from the system suddenly rang in his mind.

"Please note that you are about to come into contact with the Canaan Magic Tablet, which is also of the 'Source Level'."

Did the system proactively notify you?
This is the first time in history.

Lin An was greatly surprised. This taciturn system usually only moved when pushed, and followed Lin An's instructions step by step, answering questions without saying much.

Is there something special about this stone slab?
"Brother Tongzi, why won't you let me touch this item?" Lin An asked curiously.

"If you touch it rashly, your existence will be detected by that mysterious being who uses Canaanite magic," the system said.

Lin An raised his eyebrows.

With his current radiation level of 1.2%, being noticed by powerful families would undoubtedly mean his death.

Unlike the foundation, which has been in operation for less than a year, the family has been planning for over a thousand years, just to wait for the second overlap of the orbits of "Comers". They have a far greater understanding of the energy of that world than ordinary people.

Lin An hooked his toe and retrieved the dropped ID card.

The dust was wiped away, revealing the faint, old characters beneath the floorboards.

"This building is the property of the Cardenas Group."

Cardenas?

The name sounds familiar; I feel like I've heard it somewhere before.

After racking his brains for a while without finding anything, Lin An bypassed the numerous demonic statues standing in the dojo and left through the main entrance.

In the surveillance footage, the mother and daughter opened the back door and walked out.

The dojo fell into a monotonous silence until a rustling sound echoed across the padded floor, growing louder and louder. The walls shook incessantly, and the television and lights on the ceiling crashed to the ground, shattering into pieces.

"Boom!"

The floor bulged and bulged, completely tearing open a large hole, from which a python soared into the sky.

"Hiss..."

It has the head of a chicken, but its eyes, unique to cold-blooded animals, gleam with an emotionless light, and it spits out its tongue from its beak.

"The person who made the handover... is dead?" The basilisk absorbed the pheromones in the air, puzzled. "Never mind, I have to fulfill the witch's request... move the golem."

A strange light shone above its head, and the basilisk opened its blood-red maw. Its slightly stout body grew to an enormous size without limit, swallowing the golem, which was the size of a normal person, in one gulp.

“One, two, three… one.” The basilisk muttered to itself, “Where am I? I need 12… but I can only count to three.” It poked Kim Ji-eun’s corpse with its tail and hissed, “Can I take all the golems?”

"..."

"You don't object."

"..."

“You are too generous, Miss Esther’s messenger.”

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