Miss Witch's Forbidden Book Secret

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Tia didn't expect this guy to be so easy to fool. She didn't even use her backup plan and beat him to death.

——In her pockets were two packets of lime powder, a bottle of potion that would release a strong hallucinogenic gas when broken, and a dagger coated with poison hidden in her sleeve.

After killing Canaan, Tia took off her clothes and went back into the water to pull Vera out.

This drowning idiot spoke the local New York dialect, but couldn't swim at all. If Tia hadn't counterattacked in time, she would probably have had to sit at the same table with the Lakers.

But fortunately, this guy pushed her in time - although she had already predicted Canaan's prediction and had already retreated half a step.

She first slapped Vera twice, and when she found that she was still breathing, she took off the girl's burqa, revealing her soft brown short hair and energetic face. Her face was a little immature, and she looked like she was not yet an adult or had just reached adulthood.

I pinched the philtrum, but there was no response.

He must have drowned.

Tia took off Vera's coat, shirt, and underwear, then pressed her forehead and raised her chin.

Then came the difficult artificial respiration and CPR. Artificial respiration was fine, but CPR was a bit troublesome. Vera's breasts were a bit large, so it was difficult for Tia to find the point of force, and every time she pressed down, there was a strong rebound.

It didn't matter if the work was done properly or not, she would just do her best. This place was fifteen kilometers away from Newlon Harbor, and she couldn't take Vera to the hospital. Instead of lying there waiting to die, she might as well try her best.

But it seemed to be quite effective. After coughing a few times, his breathing gradually became smoother, and the corners of his lips, which were originally slightly purple, returned to normal.

Miss Tia touched her chest twice with her not very clean hands, and only after confirming that she had almost recovered did she wipe her body clean and put on her clothes.

"Whoo~"

I breathed a long sigh of relief. After two whole months of preparation, I finally killed this guy.

As usual, after killing the dungeon boss, one would start collecting rewards. She put those rewards aside for now and took a quick look around first.

Crucibles, distillation tables, cabinets, stacked boxes, a wall of bookshelves...

Tia took down a pile of dusty letters from the bookshelf. These were all letters exchanged between the alchemist "Canaan Ogre" and various people in Newlon Port. His rituals, props, and materials were all obtained from these people.

Miss Tia was also involved, although she had no subjective intention of participating. If this was left unaddressed and the police discovered it, it would become evidence implicating Tia.

Especially when the police have visited repeatedly.

"found it."

Tia quickly took out the letter signed "Tia Sulph", pinched it between two fingers, and put it into the pocket of her windbreaker.

So next.

——Then you can collect the debt with peace of mind.

Volume 1: Chapter 6: Rituals of Advancement and Secret Language

"Damn it! Damn it!"

"Uh... cough cough cough." Vera got up from the ground in a daze and saw Tia rummaging through the drawers. The ground was covered with various reagent bottles, herbal bags and other miscellaneous things.

Then he looked again, and wow, all his clothes were gone, and his chest hurt a lot, as if something had been rubbed and pressed on it repeatedly.

Suddenly realizing something, Vera quickly sat up and asked, "Where's the alchemist?"

"I killed him... Where's the money? Where's my money? How come there's only two hundred pounds?!"

Tia rummaged through the box and looked at the twenty ten-pound notes at the bottom. Her fingers trembled and she almost burst into tears.

Even Miss Tia, whose mind was as hard as steel and who remained indifferent when facing life and death crises, was almost broken at this moment.

Although there are many purposes for killing people, the most important one is money!

Her debt!

Tia squatted on the ground, and Vera felt a terrifying resentment coming from behind the black-haired girl.

But fortunately, she took a look and saw that there was a thick layer of gold coating on the crucible, which could be scraped off and sold for dozens of gold pounds; there was also a gem-inlaid pocket watch in Canaan's clothes, which could also be sold for dozens of gold pounds.

The robe turned out to be made of silk, so I took it off.

Wearing six rings on ten fingers is too extravagant. Take them off.

What is this? Take it off.

What is this? Take it off.

.......

After searching around, she collected a bunch of various small pieces of junk. Tia estimated that they could be sold for more than 400 gold pounds.

It’s okay. I got the money back and also earned some interest.

Vera watched in amazement as Miss Tia, like a swarm of locusts, threw everything that glittered into her bag. Then she looked at the alchemist Canaan, who lay on the ground in a state of disfigurement, and couldn't help but ask, "How did you kill him?"

"He told me to shoot him."

"what?"

"Then I beat him to death."

"what?"

Vera felt it was outrageous and asked, "Is he crazy, are you crazy, or am I crazy?"

After a nap, she was taken away by the boss, so she was still a little dazed.

"Who knows, maybe the alchemist has a pointy head." Tia pointed at Canaan on the ground, and then she remembered that this guy seemed to have the same treatment as Louis XVI, and he couldn't find his head.

"Come here first and help me pass the occult appraisal."

"What identification?"

"Just to see if these incomprehensible things are worth anything. And there are books on the shelf that I haven't had time to look through yet. Take what you need, and we'll go our separate ways."

"And my share?!"

Vera's eyes widened immediately, and she said in disbelief: "I think you are crazy."

"remuneration....."

"What do you mean?"

Tia took a deep breath and said, "I said this is the reward for helping me. Do you want me to say it again?!"

"Why didn't you say so earlier..." Vera glanced at the girl out of the corner of her eye and was surprised to find that she was quite cute when she was angry. She was much more pleasing to the eye than her usual cold and icy self.

Tia kicked the box over. Inside the box were more than a dozen bottles of potions of unknown use, several parchment scrolls with strange drawings, a rusty dagger with snake-shaped runes attached to it, and the skeletal fossils of land creatures.

Vera couldn't understand fossils and potions at all, but she was very interested in scrolls.

"These two are alchemist advancement rituals. One is from the Iris Kingdom, and the other looks like it's from the Eastern Order. One leads to becoming a scholar of substitution, and the other leads to becoming a great philosopher."

"What's the difference?"

"This is an extraordinary path that departs from two directions of alchemy: one is transformation, the other is sublimation. Those who take the path of transformation are transformation scholars; those who take the path of sublimation are great philosophers. For example, Canaan is a replacement scholar."

Tia didn't quite understand, but she roughly knew that they were two sub-professions of the alchemist.

She nodded and said, "Where's the other scroll?"

"The other one looks like a ritual for spiritual purification, so it's probably what they use for sacrifice.

"This knife... a sacrificial knife? It should be a ritual prop. I have no use for this or the spiritual ritual, so I'll give them all to you. I'll take the alchemy part. That's what I came here for."

Vera directly took away the Iris Kingdom version of the promotion ritual, which was a replacement for the scholar path.

Tia had no objection and nodded, "Okay, the allocation is reasonable."

"But this bone, tsk..."

"It's the femur of an adult equine creature."

"How did you know?!"

"Look at the pulley and condyle."

Vera didn't understand at all and asked in surprise, "Are you an archaeologist?"

"That was the case in the past." This happened on Earth, and Tia was reluctant to mention it.

"Okay... If it's really a horse bone, then it should also be a ritual material, otherwise it shouldn't be placed with the sacrificial knife."

Vera was not interested in this thing either. She came here just for the promotion ritual, but the process was a little different from what she expected.

I didn't expect to kill the transaction partner directly...

She flipped through the books on the shelf again and asked, "What about these books? How do we distribute them?"

"Take what you need and give me the rest." Tia was turning the crucible upside down, trying to scrape away the last bit of gold dust and melt it back.

"so good?"

"I never said I was a villain."

"I was worried that you would shoot me in the head..." Vera finally relaxed and opened the book to read the first three pages.

Most of the books were useless. Many were popular novels set in the Iris Kingdom across the sea, about a poor boy meeting a beautiful, rich girl and then embarking on a successful life. Vera was so angry after reading them that she wanted to complain.

You've come all the way here, you can live without other things, but you can't live without spiritual nourishment, right?

There are only two useful books left. One is the alchemy encyclopedia published by the Alchemy Society of the Iris Kingdom, which is not rare, but it is a banned book in Anzu, making it very rare.

As for the rest of this book...

Written in a secret language? I can't understand it at all.

Vera spoke frankly, "Most of these books are useless. If you don't believe me, you can take a look. The remaining two are relatively useful. One is an alchemy encyclopedia, but it's not very complete. It only contains some commercially available alchemical potion recipes."

“I don’t quite understand the rest…”

"You don't understand? Is it a foreign language?"

"No, to be more precise, it's the 'Language of the Past'. We also call it the secret language. This language has basically no inheritance and is learned by extraordinary people by chance when they dive deep into nightmares."

"What are nightmares and deep dives?"

"Ah? You're not going to kill someone without any knowledge of the supernatural, are you?!"

Vera watched the black-haired girl in front of her reload the bullet, and immediately shrank her neck and said obediently, "Simply put, nightmares are another world you go to during deep meditation, which is a reflection of the material world.

Ancient sages called it the utopia, the ultimate destination, while the church called it a nightmare. Some also call it the collective unconscious. Nightmares are fragments of history, like a movie or a dream. If you die in them, you don't really die, but rather wake up from a dream. The way to enter a nightmare is to 'dive deep.'

"I heard from those extraordinary people that although it won't kill you, it's still quite dangerous."

Tia pressed on, "Then why did you enter a nightmare? Are you asking for trouble?"

Vera said, "How is that possible? The promotion ceremony must be completed in a nightmare."

A bit too much information.

But Tia probably figured it out: to become a transcendent, one must enter nightmares. Nightmares are the history of the past, so it's no wonder she could learn the "language of the past."

No wonder it is called "secret language".

Tia walked over and looked at the books spread out on the ground, but when she saw the cover of the book "Secret Language", she was slightly stunned.

Isn’t this Chinese?!

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I changed the first chapter and added a new chapter in front. You can refresh it.

Volume 1: Chapter 7: The Hearthfire Book

I opened it and took a closer look, and sure enough!

Although they were a little distorted, as if they were painted on, they were indeed all familiar square pictograms, so familiar that they made Tia feel as if she had met someone again after a long separation.

This book is five fingers thick, and there is no author's name or publisher's name at all. It is more like a "handwritten copy" than a published book.

It was as if someone who didn't understand Chinese at all had "drawn" the entire book, and the title was written on the first page: The Hearthfire Book.

The catalogue lists three major chapters. The first chapter discusses the craftsmanship of casting and using crucibles and alchemical furnaces. The second chapter discusses the "secret fire in the furnace" and the techniques of purification and transformation. The third chapter discusses the smelting of the three elements and the refining of the philosopher's stone. It also includes the promotion ritual of Sequence 6 in the alchemical path.

This is probably a complete alchemy textbook!

From any perspective, this book is of great value!

"Give me this one."