The copy has 0 error tolerance, and the last words on the ground are all wrong for me.

Chapter 157 Occult Pollution

As Wu Chang decided to change his job to the Arcane Knight, the "Arcane Knights Newcomer Guidelines" in his hand automatically flipped through the pages, and the history and knowledge of the Arcane Knights flooded into his mind.

The Arcane Knight is a profession between a wizard and a knight, and its appearance was the result of a coincidence.

In the Moonlight Sanatorium plane, the task of fighting against the evil god's followers has long been the responsibility of the priests in the church and the freedom-loving wizards.

Priests and wizards who are highly inspired and well-versed in the mysticism can resist the temptations from the evil gods, as well as the curses and spells of the demons under the evil gods.

The knights of the kingdom and the church played the role more like bodyguards, protecting priests and wizards from attacks by monsters and followers of evil gods.

After all, studying the occult is an exhausting job that requires long hours of reading books, studying history, and trying various experiments and rituals, leaving no time for physical exercise.

There is no problem with his cervical and lumbar vertebrae, and he has not suffered from malnutrition and osteoporosis due to his diet and lifestyle. He is already one of the best among priests and wizards, and it would be too difficult for him to fight against monsters.

However, even with the protection of knights, priests and wizards are still high-risk professions, and most people do not live beyond the age of 40. The deeper the study of the occult, the shorter the life.

After a long period of research, the kingdom's scholars discovered that the energy in the bodies of priests and wizards who mastered the mysticism would pollute them, and at the same time, the evil thoughts of the evil gods were corroding their bodies in the process of fighting against them.

Only a strong physique can resist the pollution of mysticism and resist the corrosion of evil gods.

While the kingdom was promoting swimming and fitness to the young priest, its eyes were also on the kingdom's knights.

Through dissecting dead priests, medical scientists discovered that the more powerful the priest, the more deeply his body was contaminated by the occult, and the higher his energy absorption and utilization rate.

Occult contamination is a deadly poison to priests and wizards, but would it be any different if it were applied to knights?

After repeated experiments, the arcane knights who could use the contamination of mysticism as the source of power came into being.

Although the Mystic Knights lack in the theory of mysticism, the mystical energy flows in their bodies and is a part of them. In the practical application of energy, they far surpass traditional priests and wizards.

Relying on their powerful combat capability, the Arcane Knights quickly became the main force against the evil god. Under the leadership of their leader Anderson, they successfully killed the evil god's clone that had descended into reality.

However, with the evil god's clone being killed, the Mystic Knights declined, and the priests and wizards with powerful energy but short life, and the knights who were strong but unable to use energy, became the mainstream again.

Today, the Arcane Knight profession has completely disappeared, and the method of changing jobs has also disappeared, buried in history.

Ding!
Wu Chang, who witnessed the rise and fall of the Arcane Knight, heard a prompt tone in his ears.

"You have found the hidden method of training the Arcane Knight and successfully started the job transfer quest."

"Mission description: To resist the contamination of the occult, you need not only a strong physique, but also a firm belief. You need to find enough anchor points in the real world to ensure that you do not get lost in the contamination of the occult."

"Job transfer mission 1: In the real world, find at least three areas contaminated by the occult and set up anchor points to the real world."

"After completing the first job transfer task, the next job transfer task will begin."

Before starting the career change, Wu Chang did some research on the job change. There were only low-level white, blue, and green job changes, and one could change jobs directly after using items.

Some rare green job changes, as well as more advanced red and gold job changes, will have job change quests.

The more job transfer tasks there are, the stronger the job you are transferring to. For example, if a Sword Star transfers to a Sword Sect, there will be three job transfer tasks.

The Sword Sect's advanced job transformation into a sword cultivator requires multiple copies to complete the last step.

Judging from the current situation, the Arcane Knight's job transfer task has at least two stages. If it can reach three stages, the Arcane Knight's strength will be ranked among the top hidden professions.

Wu Chang put aside all distracting thoughts and focused his attention back on the first job transfer task.

When he started the job transfer mission, he saw the history of the Arcane Knights. When the Arcane Knights were training new members, the new members would use the Arcane Knights' flag and the king's emblem as anchors.

By swearing an oath to both objects, he expressed his loyalty to the Order and the Crown.

If Wu Chang had taken the King's Badge or the Mystic Badge out of the copy, the first job transfer mission would have been very simple. Without the two tokens, it would have been a bit troublesome to complete.

If one wants to allow occultism to pollute reality, it must be done by a master of occultism, or at least a quasi-master, who can set up occult-related magic arrays and gather a large amount of energy to achieve this level.

The completion of the mission is limited to the real world, and in the real world, it is not easy to find a master of mysticism.

The Administration might have someone there, and Shi Ning, whom he knew, might be the one, but he had no way to ask for help, as his actions could not be hidden from the eyes of the master of mysticism.

Fortunately, the job transfer task took this aspect into consideration. After receiving the task, he had an extra compass-like prop in his hand.

"Item Name: Mystic Detector"

「Item type: Limited time item」

"Item Description: Detects areas around that are contaminated by occultism and guides the user to that area. Usage interval: 15 days. The occultism detector will be destroyed after 46 days."

If calculated based on the usage interval of the detector, it would take him at least 30 days to complete the job transfer task. Adding the subsequent job transfer tasks, it is unknown whether he can complete the job transfer before the world copy arrives.

He chose to use the occult detector, and after the compass rotated twice, a prompt popped up in front of him.

"Detected a nearby occult contaminated area, currently 3,000 meters away from the target, please follow the pointer to the target area."

Wu Chang left home and followed the pointer to find the target location.

In the era of arcane knights, there was no navigation system. The pointer would only point directly to the target direction and would not plan the route based on the current road conditions.

It took him an hour and a half to walk a short distance of three kilometers before he stopped in front of a bar.

He walked around the bar three times and the pointer kept pointing here. He was sure that this was the place.

The bar is located in an alley and looks very ordinary and plain, like a private house, as if the bar is afraid of being found.

There is no eye-catching sign at the door of the bar, only a few neon words "surrounded by the city".

Night Song Bar.

He originally thought that the direction designated by the detector would be an institution related to the Administration, or an area left behind after the erosion copy appeared, but he didn't expect it to point to a bar.

From this perspective, this would not be a wild occult-contaminated area, but a place specially set up by a player who is proficient in occultism.

After becoming an explorer, he has the right to view the personnel structure of the Wanghai City Branch, and also has the right to view the free players registered in Wanghai City.

He didn't remember that there was any master-level occult researcher among them. Was he a fish that slipped through the net, or was he someone with ulterior motives?

He found a place to sit down at the corner of Wuxing Street and tried to use his spirit to enter the bar to investigate, but found that the bar was protected by a barrier, preventing his spirit from entering.

The organizer had obviously taken special protective measures to prevent the situation in the bar from being detected by skills.

There must be something wrong when things are abnormal. I just wanted to complete a job transfer task, but I didn't expect to run into a big fish.

This made him more curious about the scene in the bar. If he couldn't get into the bar, he would squat at the door and observe the people entering the bar.

He squatted at the door for half an hour, observing several waves of guys entering the bar.

Yege Bar is a membership-based bar. Visitors can take out their membership cards or show their membership privileges in the mobile app when entering, and they will be allowed in by the security guard at the door.

A few college students who were taking a walk in the middle of the night wanted to go in and take a look when they passed by, but were turned away by the security guard. They were all wealthy and asked to apply for membership cards, but were told that membership cards required referrals from internal members and that strangers could not apply.

While squatting at the door, Wu Chang opened the small yellow potato, bean block and Dousheng, but did not find any information about the Yege Bar, which further confirmed the abnormality here.

If it were an ordinary player, when things reached this point, there would only be two choices: either give up, or find a way to force your way in or sneak in.

But Wu Chang is different. He is a government official and an explorer of the administration.

Given his level, Wanghai City had no secrets from him.

Entering the backend of the management bureau system, he directly looked up the founder of Yege Bar, and followed the clues of the founder to investigate further.

If you find one of your own, you can use your connections to get a membership card.

If they are not one of us, check the anti-pornography and fire-fighting departments to find out.

It didn't matter that the investigation was successful. As expected, the problem was found. The founder of Yege Bar was named Tang Renquan, a famous young entrepreneur in Wanghai City. One of his relatives was in politics and held a high position.

More importantly, he is a gamer.

A year ago, several people were killed in Ye Ge's place. The deaths were strange, and they died of heart failure caused by mental breakdown. The management bureau suspected that he was behind it and sneaked into Ye Ge to investigate.

However, the follow-up investigation did not produce any results. At the same time, a follower of the evil god was arrested and admitted to attacking several people. In addition, Tang Renquan was on good terms with several local tyrants in Wanghai City and his family background was also very extraordinary, so the matter was left unresolved.

However, it is worth noting that one of the two members of the management bureau who infiltrated the investigation was Zhao Yan.

Wu Chang immediately called Zhao Yan and asked him to borrow the VIP seat of Yege Bar.

Zhao Yan was drunk at the celebration banquet and had already gone to bed. When he heard Wu Chang's call, he answered it in a daze.

When he heard that Wu Chang wanted Ye Ge's VIP, he was dazed for a while, then he suddenly sobered up and sat up from the bed.

"Conghua, are you investigating Yege?"

Wu Chang knew that Zhao Yan would definitely ask questions, so he said, "I came out for a walk tonight, and when I passed by Ye Ge, I felt that there was something wrong here, so I wanted to go in and check it out."

"Where are you now?" Zhao Yan asked.

"At the entrance of Yege."

"Wait, I'll be right over!"

Half an hour later, Wu Chang saw Zhao Yan get off an online-hailing car and waved to him.

Zhao Yan was more than half sober at this moment. He squatted beside Wu Chang, lit a cigarette, took a deep puff, and then said, "I have Ye Ge's VIP, but if you want to investigate, I must go with you."

Wu Chang glanced at Zhao Yan and said with a smile, "Instructor, are you worried about me and that I might do something bad?"

Zhao Yan sniffed, looked towards the alley where the Yege Bar was, and said, "That place is weird. I'm worried about you going in alone."

Wu Chang raised his eyebrows and asked, "What do you mean?"

Zhao Yan said, "Your authority is higher than mine now. Since you can find me, you must have read the files in the backend of the Administration."

Wu Chang nodded.

Zhao Yan: "There are some things I didn't write in the file. When we infiltrated Yege to investigate, we infiltrated for a total of seven nights and didn't find any problems."

"The guy who investigated with me was codenamed Monkey. He was very shrewd and smart. Half a year after the Ye Ge incident, one night, he suddenly called me and said that he had just come out of the dungeon. For some reason, his inspiration surged, and he used this inspiration to discover that there was something wrong with the investigation that year."

"What's the problem?" Wu Chang asked.

"He said that he relied on inspiration to recall many details of his memory. A large part of his memory of the seventh night was made up of fragments of memories from the other six nights. In other words, his memory of the seventh night was missing a piece."

Zhao Yan put out the cigarette butt in his hand, lit a new one, and continued:
"I don't have as strong a memory as him, nor do I have any sudden bursts of inspiration. Not to mention recalling the missing piece of my memory, I don't even remember what happened during those seven days."

“So I told Monkey to go find Director Gao and check his memory.”

When it came to the most critical moment, Zhao Yan took a puff of his cigarette. Wu Chang was so anxious that he sighed and asked, "Then what?"

Zhao Yan shook his head and said, "Then Monkey died. He died because his inspiration ran wild and his will collapsed. He died while he was talking to me on the phone."

"The Administration has no follow-up action?" Wu Chang frowned. He couldn't believe that the Administration would remain indifferent after a member of its member died.

"What actions should be taken?" Zhao Yan asked back.

"Monkey died of a mental breakdown. The cause of death was excessive stimulation in the dungeon, causing his inspiration to run wild. He was alone at home when he died. There was no sign of anyone entering the house, nor was there any sign of him being affected by skills."

"And you know, when one's will collapses and inspiration runs wild, one will experience hallucinations. What one says during this period cannot be used as evidence."

Zhao Yan sighed and said, "You can't say that someone has planted a bomb in the monkey's brain, and whenever he thinks of something, his inspiration will go wild."

Wu Chang narrowed his eyes and said, "You're right, it's really possible."

Anyone who hires Lei Hu can sign a contract with him. Once Lei Hu wants to leak the secret, the power hidden in the contract will explode.

If the one who attacks the monkey is a master of mysticism, and the player's level is much higher than the monkey, it may not be impossible to do this.

"The examination found no problems, but you don't believe it?"

Zhao Yan nodded. "The monkey has a good memory and has a lot of important things in his mind. Even if he really had hallucinations due to inspiration going haywire, it wouldn't have happened to Ye Ge."

"There are many people who don't believe it. We conducted multiple infiltration investigations on Ye Ge, but the other party was well prepared and we didn't find any problems. My eldest sister even put a sack on Tang Renquan and tied him up in the Countermeasures Bureau. We used a polygraph to test him, but couldn't get any results."

"Because of this incident, my elder sister was punished. If it weren't for her strong background, I would have been punished severely and had to work as a doorman at the entrance of a fight club."

After hearing this, Wu Chang shook his head and thought to himself that Meng Yawen was too aggressive to dare to put a local tyrant like Tang Renquan in a sack and kidnap him. If Fang Hui offended Meng Yawen in the future, he would probably suffer a lot.

But he didn't hate this kind of practice. It was quite protective and he liked it.

They are players, not police officers, so why would they need to gather all the evidence before taking action?

Originally, he just wanted to sneak into the Yege Bar and complete an anchoring, and he didn't intend to meddle in other people's business. But when he first entered the Administration, he owed Meng Yawen a favor, and Tang Renquan caused Meng Yawen to bear the blame, so he had to settle this account.

(End of this chapter)