Miss Witch's Forbidden Book Secret

Tia nodded and said, "My mission overlaps with your first and third. The remaining two are to eliminate the enemies who are chasing us."

"From this perspective, I think there is a basis and necessity for our cooperation - you need to go to Notre Dame Cathedral, and I need a helper."

"Do you have any means of getting to the Cathedral?"

The Cathedral of Our Lady is located in the Grand Harbor area. It is now the front-line outpost of the Holy Church in the fight against the plague. Hundreds of dispatched knights and priests and nuns recruited from all over the country gather here.

If you can reach the cathedral, the two tasks of keeping little Vera alive and surviving for three days will basically be completed.

But the problem is - they are now illegal immigrants.

Therefore, it requires some small tricks, some small tricks to easily disperse the problems, and some small on-site cooperation.

Tia said, "I don't have such a plan. I can get you past the patrolling knights on the streets, through the city, and to the outside of the Cathedral of Our Lady. But I absolutely cannot take little Vera into the church and seek the help of the priests."

"But someone will help us get in."

"real or fake?"

Vera was a little skeptical.

It’s not that she was overly suspicious, but the timeline in the nightmare was sixteen years ago!

What kind of big boss is this? His connections can still influence sixteen years ago, or sixteen years ago in the nightmare?

Tia explained, "It's Night Iris."

Night Iris, also known as Scarlett.

Miss Scarlett is a straightforward and honest person who follows her work and the orders of her superiors strictly and never doubts them.

The police station asked her to protect Tia and complete the promotion ceremony, and she would do her utmost to carry it out.

So she followed Tia and entered the ceremony.

It wasn't really stupid that she had opened the box automatically before introducing the codename at the Stone Table Meeting - although Miss Scarlett was stupid and straightforward, she was not completely stupid.

But she was not sure whether Tia was among the participants, so she chose to reveal her identity so that Tia could find her directly.

Then she made the sign of a cross, which is the symbol of the church, to convey her purpose to Tia: I will protect you.

Then she introduced the code name. She had learned from her last investigation that Tia was good at refining herbs, so she chose the plant night iris to tell her about the time when she encountered the Ten Ripples 6.

These codes were rather crude and clumsy, revealing a sense of recklessness, just short of saying "Everyone look at me, look at me, look at me, the small group is here."

If there was an old policeman present, he would definitely be able to tell at a glance...

But on the other hand, Miss Scarlett does have a distinctive style and powerful actions, just like a husky hiding among a pack of wolves or a silly roe deer among a group of deer, and she can be recognized at a glance.

Tia remembered that among the seven common paths, Alchemy, Unsheathed Blade, and Prophet were forbidden within Anzu. Scarlett could only advance to the Holy Grail, King, Forge Hammer, and Oak in the Earth.

The Suppression Bureau, as a subordinate of the Grand Police Department directly under the royal family, perfectly aligns with the power of the King's Way: order, authority, stability, strength, leadership, control...

Then it will be worth looking forward to the role Scarlett can play in this ceremony.

Volume 1: Chapter 21 The Pursuer

About every hour, a priest would come to the street and sprinkle holy salt, then find the homeless people on the streets and provide them with the necessary treatment.

Another 30 minutes later, patrolling knights of the religion came over. These knights were 2.9 meters tall, wearing power armor, with white smoke billowing from the steam boilers on their backs.

When those steam-powered knights patrolled Birch Street again, they blew their horns to warn people.

One of them rumbled to the door of the hotel and said politely, "Madam, this is martial law, please don't walk around on the street."

"Bishop Cansus of the Cathedral is already working on purifying the plague, and normal order will be restored in half a month."

"Hello, Mr. Knight. Please forgive my offense, but I am really worried about my sister's situation. I just took a bus from Silver Castle, but before I got off, martial law was declared on White Oak Street..."

This is a lie.

Tia looked at the knight with tears in her eyes, and there was a hint of crying in her voice. In fact, she had taken a bottle of turmeric solution and choked Chunchun.

"You mean you came from Silver Castle? It's too dangerous here. Besides, the Silver Castle Daily should have reported on the situation here. You shouldn't take the risk."

"Yes, but my sister lives here. I want to know how she is doing now. She lives at 405 White Oak Street... She is my only relative..."

The girl wiped the crocodile's tears, which moved the Knight of the Church.

"I can give you a message if you need it. White Oak Street happens to be on my patrol route."

"No, that's too much trouble. If possible, please give me a letter on the way to the door and stick it on the mailbox..."

Tia took out a letter that had been written long ago, with an iris flower clipped on it.

The Knight of the Crusade carefully took the envelope, and the armored compartment on the side opened, revealing a mobile medical station. The envelope was placed among bandages and various small medicines.

The knight touched his chest and said, "I will convey your wishes truthfully, but please return now. The streets are very dangerous now."

"—It's not just the disease. Yesterday, a group of Black Banner members of the Luyin Umbrella Gang fled from the port to the Beigang District. Their whereabouts are still unknown."

"Gangster?"

Tia exclaimed, pretending to be scared and asked, "Are they still on the loose?"

The knight looked as if the poor girl was terrified. He soothed her, "They seem to be scoundrels from the Black Flame Gang, and they seem to be chasing someone. Some of them possess evil witchcraft magic, but the police have already caught them, so there's no need to worry too much."

"So please forgive me and go back now."

...................

upstairs.

Vera had just watched Tia's entire performance and felt more or less like she had eaten too many poisonous mushrooms.

The contrast between you before and after is too big!

When he was aggressive just now, he showed his sharp edge. Vera felt like a lamb in the tiger's mouth.

As a result, when she went downstairs, she turned into a pitiful, weak and helpless little girl?

crunch--

When Tia opened the door, she heard Vera complain, "You should be acting in a play rather than being a superhuman..."

"Sometimes I feel so too." Tia smiled, brought a bowl of goat milk to the table, and used her fingers to feed little Vera on the bed.

Vera looked a little uncomfortable and quickly changed the subject: "So how is your plan going?"

"The letter has been sent. If nothing unexpected happens, Scarlett will be able to join us tomorrow morning. I also heard something interesting."

"Could you please stop pinching that kid..."

Vera always felt pain on her face.

"This is my lovely little niece. I'm Sofia Salvia, Elvira's elder. I want to protect her not only because of the mission requirements, but also out of basic morality and conscience. Right, sis~sama?"

"......as long as you are happy."

"Okay, enough chit-chat. The patrolling Knight just now told me that since yesterday, a group of Black Flame Gang members have been moving from the harbor to the North Harbor District, seemingly looking for someone. Do you understand what I mean?"

Yesterday, I went to Beigang District from the port to look for someone.

Vera immediately understood what Tia meant - this was probably the person who was tracking them.

"The Black Fire Gang? Are they easy to deal with?"

Vera knew nothing about gangster forces.

Tia said, "More than a decade ago, there was a very powerful gang, with influence spread across the four districts of Newlon Harbor. Of course, it was later split into several parts by the Newlon Harbor Police Department."

The Black Fire Gang split into the "Justice Gang", "Snake Gang" and "Lawrence Security Company".

The Justice Gang is entrenched in the Beigang District, and the Blue Marlin Tavern where Tia sells stolen goods is part of the Justice Gang's business.

The Snake Gang is based in the Greater Bay Area, but it's not a single gang, but rather an alliance of many underground gangs. Tia's debt collector, "Fast Hand Peter," is a leader of the Snake Gang.

Lawrence Security Company has been completely whitewashed and provides security services to various upper-class people in the Clock Tower District, King District, and Grand Harbor District.

"As for dealing with it—it's a bit tricky. I have some rituals, but they take too long. I can also make some poisons, but they require ingredients. We have to wait for Scarlett to come. Once she arrives, we have a 70% chance of winning."

"what about me?"

"what can you do?"

"Uh...extracting colchicine, producing cyanide?" Vera scratched her head. Her skill tree was pretty much the same as Tia's, all about the old cunning. But even the best cook can't cook without the rice.

"Oh, and I also know a few rituals: Invisible Step, Detect Hostility, and Shared Perception. These are all made with the materials I can find now."

Tia asked, "What's the use? What materials are needed?"

Vera said, “Invisible Step reduces noise, Detect Hostility is literally what it says, and Shared Perception is about sharing the five senses between two to six people.

"The materials required are a bit much, but there are substitutes. There is no substitute for shared perception."

Tia asked curiously, "What materials are needed?"

"Silver, gold, or just plain cash. 50g of gold will last an hour anyway. I have over seventy gold pounds on me."

The Ansu gold pound was tied to gold, with one gold pound equaling 4g of gold. This actually fluctuated slightly, but not significantly. Tia still had over thirty gold pounds on her, and the shared perception ritual could last for eight hours.

There's a lot to these rituals, and they can really come in handy when needed.

But if the enemy is the Black Fire Gang, then it would be interesting.

Why would a local gang pursue two illegal immigrants from a foreign country so relentlessly?

......................

The sky was dark and a light mist filled the streets of Beigang District.

Two hours after Tia's envelope with an iris pinned on it was delivered to the door of 405 White Oak Street, Scarlett, wearing a long black trench coat and covered in grass leaves, stumbled out of the bushes.

She was in a rather miserable state now. A bloody mark on her left arm tore through her windbreaker and the blue and white uniform underneath. Her pants were covered in mud and grass, and her knees were bleeding from the fall.

"Miss Sulph hasn't arrived yet?! Is this a mark left behind? Oh no, how did she catch up...?"

Scarlett took a deep breath and looked around. She saw the letter with the iris pinned on it on the mailbox. She turned it over and saw the initials of Sulph.

She didn't care about anything else, picked up the letter and ran away.

Behind him, three pursuers holding daggers and pistols on their waists followed closely.

"did not find?"

"Damn it, she got away again!"

"We only caught one, Boss Gru, what should we do now?"

The three of them looked behind them at the same time. The almost forty-year-old deputy leader of the Black Fire Gang, "Dwarf" Gru Lawrence, walked out of the darkness, smoking one cigarette after another.

Gru Lawrence glanced sideways ahead and said nonchalantly, "Even if this one is lost, don't we still have two? Antonio's cultists want more sacrifices than that."

The three of them said awkwardly, "Boss, didn't we say that today those cultists said they would be done with the two women in the hotel after kidnapping them? But then they sent us on a hunt to kill the New York Harbor Police Department. The police hounds are not to be trifled with!"

"What are you afraid of? As long as the plague lasts one more day, we won't die. Those cultists may be courting death by trying to spread the plague, but they're not a bad thing for us. Let's settle these orders and take a boat directly to the Empire."

"That's what I said, but Antonio asked us to kill the baby... We can't bring ourselves to do it... And I heard those two women are witches who practice witchcraft..."

"You have a conscience now?" Gru sneered. "Those cultists are determined to get the baby."

"As soon as they got off the boat, Antonio, the old crow, cursed the child, turning her into a carrier of the tainted blood disease.

"At this point they are probably too sick to be helped. Killing her might be a good thing."

The three people's faces changed. The powerful witches were half true and half false, and the mysterious witches were spreading rumors, but the blood disease was real and visible to the naked eye and within reach.

You really can’t touch this thing!

They asked in panic, "Can't the witch remove the curse?"

"Eliminate? If nothing unexpected happens, the child will die of a high fever tonight—no one except those who are transcendent in the Holy Grail Path can save him.

"Or do you think two stowaways can convince a church pastor to waste a cup of blood or candlelight to heal a baby with no background or identity?"

"Can we not go......" the three people trembled with fear.

Now only the church has the means to suppress the spread of septicemia and treat early-stage infections.

Several people have seen church priests cut their fingers and splash the blood on corpses to eliminate the plague; or light holy candles and shine them with candlelight, and black gas will hiss out from the ground.

But they are an illegal gang, which means that once they are infected, they cannot get help from the church and can only wait for death.

Gru blew out a smoke ring, narrowed his eyes and smiled: "It's too late to regret."