World Occult Usage Guide

Chapter 276 "Agnya"

“You clearly know the word ‘Agnya,’ yet you ask such a question…”

Unlike Kevin, Mariette, as a core member of the Red Poppy Merchant Guild, clearly knew something.

Lin An observed the countess's reaction and was secretly pleased. Before she could think it through, he had a thought, and Kevin's mental portrait in the Philosopher's Stone appeared and disappeared, posing a silent threat.

“Alright, but you must swear an oath to the devil, a true oath, and never betray him.”

The countess's attitude softened immediately, and she raised her hand to draw a line of demonic incantation with her impact staff.

A shadowy creature with three heads appeared. Its first act was to pounce on the Countess, but it was stopped by the triangular formation of the contract before reluctantly looking at Lin An.

The demon had three heads: a black crane, a rooster, and a crow, and was extremely ugly.

Naberius, the 24th of the 72 demons of Solomon, rules over 19 demon legions and holds the rank of Marquis.

He has many other names, including Lynx, Cerberus, or Cerberus, but the most famous is "Cerberus," which is a demon based on Cerberus, the hellhound in Greek mythology, and has been continuously evolved by demonologists.

Repeat my words!

A crisp sound rang out, and Nebiros shook its three bird heads.

“I swear that I will keep my promise and deliver the soul of her son into her hands after Mariette de Fouquet van Hofwegen answers the question.”

Lin An repeated the sentence word by word, and Nebiros nodded in satisfaction, folded his wings, and circled beside the red dragon, quietly supervising the two to complete the transaction.

The demon's twisted and grotesque shadows were cast upon the rainforest canopy, terrifying the monkeys and causing the crocodiles to dive down.

“‘Agnya’ is a collective name for the legacy of the previous civilization, agreed upon by the ancient families. It comes from the Mahabharata—you, who are probably at the mythological level or above, should be familiar with it, right?” the Countess began.

"That ancient Sanskrit narrative poem from the Lotus Kingdom, the creation poem that is as famous as the Ramayana, 'The Great Descendant of King Bharata'?"

Lin An muttered to himself, lost in thought.

Over the past 21 years, he has read esoteric books from all over the world and from all eras, but he has never really delved into the Mahabharata, which is clearly one of the important esoteric texts of the Lotus Kingdom.

For some reason, the book failed to interest him.

Aside from the Mahabharata, Lin An also showed little interest in parts of the Classic of Mountains and Seas, simply because he was from the Dragon Kingdom and had previously forced himself to read the entire book.

How is this going?

Why are there occult books that I subconsciously cannot accept?

“Treat me like a baby who knows nothing about this,” he said, shrugging at Mariette.

Haven't you read the Mahabharata?
Lin An's reaction dispelled some of the Countess's initial guesses, making her even more suspicious of his identity. However, with the rescue imminent, she took a deep breath and explained the meaning of the words in detail.

"It is said that there were four prehistoric civilizations on Titan, and we are the fifth generation; just as Greek mythology says, the world is divided into the Golden Age, the Silver Age, the Bronze Age, the Heroic Age, and the Iron Age."

“The Hopi mythology and the Bushman mythology also say the same thing.” Lin An nodded. “Before us, there were four generations of humans who were destroyed.”

"Regardless of its authenticity, after all, apart from the previous civilization, we can't trace anything further back," the Countess said simply. "'Agnya's' origins begin with a man named Churchward."

"He was one of the soldiers from the Lion Kingdom stationed in the Lotus Kingdom in the 19th century, and became friends with a senior abbot of a temple. The abbot showed him a set of ancient black clay tablets inscribed with a long-lost mysterious language, which the abbot called 'Nakar language'."

"Through study and research, the soldiers discovered that Nakal is completely different from Hindi. Later generations proved that this language is exactly the same as the script on the Easter Island statues, 'lang-lang-lang,' which means that two places more than 19000 kilometers apart were actually using the same script thousands of years ago."

"In modern times, Langerlang has been largely deciphered. It is written that, 'In a beautiful place, wide and flat roads are like a spider web, and the paving stones are so tightly joined that grass cannot grow out of the cracks.'"

Suddenly, the earth shook, the volcano erupted, and the sea swept in, and the city disappeared. Strangely, this stone tablet from the Lotus Kingdom mentions a similar history and gives the city a specific name—Mu.

"According to the stone tablets, Mu was a continent located in the Pacific Ocean, 8000 kilometers long from east to west and 5000 kilometers long from north to south. It was the birthplace of the 'Nakar' people, whose civilization flourished between 12000 and 50,000 years ago, with advanced technology far surpassing that of our generation."

Lin An pondered, "Mu Continent..."

“That’s right. By combining the stone tablets and the Easter Island statues, we can glimpse the past of the continent of Mu. This civilization was ruled by an emperor named ‘Ra’. In the language of Mesopotamia, ‘Ra’ means the sun, so this emperor was also known as the ‘Sun King’.”

"Under Ram's rule, the continent of Mu prospered, and they wanted to spread knowledge to the world. The empire first sent a people called the Kara to sail east and reach the Lower Eastern Continent. Then it sent another people called the Naka to sail west and land in the Lotus Kingdom from the Middle Continent."

"The greatest prosperity inevitably leads to decline. A catastrophe struck 12000 years ago. An earthquake and tsunami triggered by a volcanic eruption swept across the entire Mu Empire overnight, swallowing the continent by the Pacific Ocean. Does this remind you of Atlantis?"

"Atlantis first appears in Plato's dialogues, where he mentions a city that sank into the water 9000 years before Solon... 9000 years before Solon is exactly 12000 years ago."

In fact, as Lin An pondered, he also thought of a passage from the Classic of Mountains and Seas.

The Classic of Mountains and Seas, specifically the Eastern Wilderness Classic, convinced Qin Shi Huang that three immortal mountains existed, leading him to send Xu Fu eastward. One passage in the Classic of Mountains and Seas reads: "Beyond the Eastern Sea lies a great ravine, the country of Shao Hao."

Beyond the East Sea lies a bottomless ravine, the place where Shao Hao founded his kingdom.

Shaohao is the embodiment of the three-legged golden crow and the representative of the sun.

Geologists have deduced that this "great chasm" is the Mariana Trench, and that the location of the so-called Shaohao Kingdom is exactly the same as the "Mu Continent" recorded in Easter Island documents.

The Naka people landed in the Central Plains...

"After the Mu continent was swallowed by the Pacific Ocean, the two sub-civilizations gradually declined after losing support."

The countess pulled Lin An back to his senses and continued.

"As times have changed, the landscape of the Lower East Coast where the Kara people live has undergone tremendous changes. The land has risen up to form the Andes Mountains, the former cities have become jungles, and people have returned to their most primitive way of life."

"In the mid-19th century, an archaeologist explored the Mayan ruins on the Yucatan Peninsula and unearthed more than 2600 stelae. Some of these stelae were written in a language that was quite different from Mayan, but rather similar to Nakal and Langaranga."

"The inscription on the stone tablet reads: This temple was built in accordance with the will of the great monarch Ram, to establish a new territory and to protect the envoys of the Sun Empire." "The civilization of the Maya, huh?" Lin An pondered.

"In 1517, the conquerors of Isbani acquired the land of the Maya and, in the name of pagans, destroyed and burned a large number of Maya statues, altars, books and historical materials. Only four Maya manuscripts survived because they were scattered overseas."

"One of the four surviving manuscripts, the Troano Manuscript, is currently kept in the Lion Kingdom Museum. It contains the following passage: 'A powerful earthquake that lasted for several months caused underground flames to erupt twice, and the 4600 million people of the Mu Continent sank together.'"

"The Maya's history is clearly not that long, yet they know records of the so-called 'previous civilization'..." Lin An narrowed his eyes, combining the existing information, and concluded, "Are they descendants of the Kara tribe?"

"Perhaps he is just a successor. In any case, the ruins on that side have been completely devoured by [Xi Yong], and that war separated the sun and moon of [Thirteen Heavens]."

The countess casually mentioned the past conflicts between aristocratic families, which made Lin An's mind wander.

【Xi Yong】Crossed the sea from the Western Continent and took root in the Upper and Lower Eastern Continents. Originally, he came to excavate the relics of the "Mu Continent".

If Agnia technology is related to the continent of Mu, it's no wonder that they devised the "Da Vinci Project" and deduced the so-called "Vitruvians" when "Commes" arrived.

X mentions that Lin An is like its "mother," does this mean that this artificial intelligence is seven or eight parts similar to the alien Anhus?
Are they going to create a "Comerth" person?

Using a human body, to write an AI program that is almost godlike...

Hearing this, Lin An could only confirm that the technology of [Xi Yong] was inseparable from the Mu Continent, but he still did not know the purpose of X, so he continued to listen.

"As for the Naka people who landed in the Middle Continent, they were destroyed by civil war after the sinking of Mu."

"Could this be the war recorded in the Mahabharata?" Lin An felt that he was about to touch upon the origin of Agnia.

"Yes, a civil war broke out among the tribes in the upper Ganges. The original text of the Mahabharata says, 'The valiant warriors sat firmly in their Vimana flying machines and launched the 'Agnia,' a weapon forbidden by the gods, at another tribe."

"This is a missile-like weapon that can fire dense arrows of light and flame into the sky, like a torrential rain, with immense power. In an instant, a thick shadow quickly formed, the sky darkened, the compass became useless, the wind howled, and the sky and earth collapsed."

"Agnya was as bright as the sun, with plumes of smoke rising into the sky. The terrible heat scorched and deformed animals, and the river boiled, killing fish and shrimp. The soldiers' bodies were burned beyond recognition, and the survivors, with their hair and nails falling off, rushed to the river to wash themselves."

"These poems are not unfounded. When Soviet scholars in the last century studied ancient remains in the Ganges River basin, they found residual radiation in their bodies. In this century, archaeologists have also excavated 'glass stone' in the upper reaches of the Ganges, which requires a minimum temperature of 1,800 degrees Celsius to form."

“Nuclear war…” Lin An took a breath, “These are words written at least a thousand years ago.”

“Yes, and the wars in the Mahabharata took place in an ‘earlier time’.” The Countess nodded. “Like the Maya, the author of the Mahabharata was a successor of the Nakha people.”

Now that things have come to this, Lin An understands exactly what the so-called "Agnia" technology is.

It is the collective name for the technology of "Mu Continent", belonging to the native knowledge of Titan, and is suspected to be able to contend with the advanced civilization from "Comers".

Did humanity use "Agnia" technology to kill and seal Ansius back then?
No wonder my head felt throbbing and I couldn't read on whenever I saw any trace of the pre-civilization... Lin An's lips twitched.

And, the continent of Mu sank in the center of the Pacific Ocean, and my father boarded a ship bound for the Pacific and was never heard from again.

Another point.

Lin An couldn't help but press further: "Since the Kara tribe is in the Lower Eastern Continent and the Naka tribe is in the Lotus Kingdom, what are you doing in the Southern Continent? Are there ruins here too?"

As soon as he finished speaking, a brilliant idea struck him.

Nuclear war...radioactive elements...uranium?

Bantu is indeed the world's largest holder of uranium reserves.

Not long ago, the Red Poppy Chamber of Commerce discharged a large amount of uranium-containing water into the Kuba River. Could they be testing some kind of Agnia technology?

The countess's expression shifted inscrutablely: "How did you know we were excavating 'ruins'? Who exactly are you? From which ancient family do you come—could it be—"

Lin An remained outwardly calm, trying to entice her to continue, but unfortunately, she abruptly stopped talking.

"Never mind, it's not important. I've told you what you wanted to know, now it's your turn to fulfill the deal."

Nebiros, with its menacing gaze, flapped its feathers and stared at Lin An with its three heads, as if posing a silent threat.

"okay."

Lin An released Kevin, whose spiritual image floated toward his mother, who beamed with joy and opened her arms to welcome her son.

Kevin's almost transparent face was expressionless, except for a hint of fear and sorrow deep in his pupils.

But Mariette, who loved her son dearly, didn't notice anything amiss and excitedly reached out to hug him.

At this moment, a sudden change occurred!
Lin An snapped his fingers, and the spiritual portrait suddenly exerted force with both arms. The black spots of voodoo spread from his fingertips and, with the intimate contact between the two, climbed all over the Countess's body.

"what!"

She let out a heart-wrenching scream and almost instinctively raised her impact rod.

The next moment, the circular array that had been protecting her was passively contracted, and the red dragon hovering in the air let out a joyful laugh and swooped down.

"No, wait—!"

Before the countess could stop it, the red dragon opened its sharp claws and shattered Kevin's soul with a single blow.

From the hazy, intermittent shadowy side, Lin An sensed His undisguised pleasure and malice, as He showed him the final chapter of the "Faustian" transaction.

Those who raise demons will eventually have everything they love taken away by the demons themselves.

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