Miss Witch's Forbidden Book Secret

Otherwise, why would those kids try so hard to get into reality? Isn't it just to try what real wine tastes like?

Tia felt a slight tremor deep in her soul. The inverted temple, which was far away in the deep sea and had weakened a lot in connection with her, actually floated up a little. The distance it floated up was very small, probably only a few meters, but it did float up.

And something seemed to come out of his own temple.

Tia said to the Shrike, "You'll be invisible in a moment. Don't stay here. There's a bunch of crows around here too. Keep an eye on them and don't let them get away. I'll be out for a while and back."

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It's too hot, my friends. The temperature has reached 36 degrees Celsius, and the air conditioner in the rented house is broken. Let me take a slow shower. The next chapter will be posted later.

Volume 1: Chapter 100 Winds of Turbulence

Tia sensed that the Inverted Temple suddenly shook and something came out of it, and she knew that Annie had woken up.

When she got home, Annie sat on the edge of the bed with a silly look on her face, not realizing what had happened. But it wasn't a big problem. After Tia explained it briefly, Annie roughly understood the whole story.

Tia then asked Anne about the details of her deep dive, and she didn't hold back, even revealing the story of the Hanging Temple, opening up directly to Tia. However, when it came to important secrets, Anne, fearing Tia wouldn't be able to handle the information, offered vague analogies, but Tia understood everything.

The two chatted for nearly half an hour before Annie suddenly remembered something and said anxiously, "Well, I slept all day. What should I say when I get home?"

Tia said, "There's no rush. Just say you and I stayed in a hotel in Silver Castle for the night. If you ask, I'll help you prove it. Silver Castle is quite a distance from Newlon Port anyway, so it's not easy to get evidence."

After hearing this, Anne agreed nervously. In the evening, Tia called a public carriage to send her back, and she went to the police station to deal with the Raven King Silverclaw Shrike and a group of spirit crows.

These crows were easy to deal with. Once a spirit creature entered the real world, unless it was summoned, it would be difficult for it to die unless it caused trouble. After all, spirits had no physical bodies, so they could pass through walls and become invisible at will, and they couldn't starve to death.

Go directly underground, but in this era there is no technology to develop thousands or tens of thousands of meters underground, so it is very difficult to find.

These crows are scattered throughout Newlon Port. Later, Tia will customize a batch of extraordinary items with shared perception for the ravens to wear and act as her spies.

Silverclaw Shrike was guarding outside her house.

In response, Shrike strongly protested his desire to go to the underground cellar of the winery, but was rejected by Tia in the name of the church. However, the Raven King was allowed to visit the major wineries during his rest time every Sunday.

Shrike reluctantly agreed and urged Tia to quickly arrange for her men to help him establish contact with Laurel Forest so as not to lose credibility.

So that very evening, before Tia could let the two elves, Branna and Freya, stay in the Laurel Forest permanently, the Cathedral of Our Lady of Newlon Port received an urgent telegram from the Cathedral of the Royal Capital.

This urgent telegram even alarmed Marshall, who had just fallen asleep.

The old bishop probably never thought that he would encounter such a bizarre event in his life. The "Seal of Crows", one of the nine holy seals of the church, suddenly became ineffective!

Marshall immediately rushed to the cathedral. Isabella and several crowned priests had already arrived. Marshall said solemnly, "Is the news from the Silver Castle Cathedral true?"

Isabella said, "The Silver Castle sent three consecutive telegrams, and we also tried the Seal of the Crows. The Seal of the Crows isn't a particularly troublesome ritual, and even a priest like me can perform it if done properly. However, this time, the situation is completely different from before..."

The nun frowned and continued, "To be precise, we haven't received any feedback from the Laurel Grove. The Seal of the Crows is a contract ritual between Saint Vincent and the Raven King Shrike, and was later transformed into a ritual for summoning spiritual ravens. It has been in operation for over a thousand years! This complete lack of feedback is unheard of!"

Several crowned priests were still trying the Seal of the Crows, but it was totally unsuccessful. Their rituals had completely lost their effectiveness. The most bizarre thing was that after the rituals established a connection with the holy sanctuary "Laurel Grove", not even a crow's cry was heard!

Could it be that the Raven King Shrike is dead?!

But he had been alive and well for over a thousand years, and even the Seal of the Crows was functioning normally a few days ago. How could he suddenly die?

Just when everyone was puzzled, they heard sudden noises coming from the ritual.

There seemed to be human voices.

Isabella hurriedly supported old Bishop Marshall and walked over, and heard bursts of prayers coming from the six-pointed star ritual painted with silver powder.

"Holy! Holy! The Sleeping Witch, the Upside-Down God of Rebellion!"

"Branna! You read it wrong. We are in the Laurel Grove now, and the ritual does not summon that master!"

(1) The sound quickly faded away, but Isabella and the other priests looked at each other in confusion, unable to understand what had happened in the laurel forest.

I had no choice but to report this strange incident to the Silver Castle Cathedral.

This is really a big deal. The Nine Holy Seals are the most complete, cheapest and safest rituals inherited by the Ansu Holy Church. There are only nine of them in total. Losing the Holy Seal of the Crows is like losing a finger.

But just half a day after this telegram arrived at Silver Castle, the Seal of the Crows, which had been proven to be "ineffective", was miraculously able to reappear.

There were also various names mentioned in the ceremony, such as "Sleeping Witch", "Hanging God of Rebellion", and "Branna". The Cathedral of Silver Castle also urgently mobilized manpower and searched the library overnight, but there was no clue at all.

This strange and inexplicable situation caused the Silver Castle Cathedral to send emergency telegrams to all parishes, prohibiting the use of the Seal of Crows unless necessary, pending observation of the situation.

The church was thrown into chaos by Tia, but the parties involved and the culprit, Miss Tia Sulph, were completely unaware of it.

After a few days of peace and tranquility, Vanessa successfully sent Marne Cullen aboard an ocean liner. Roman, on the other hand, was clearing out the remaining cultists in the north and remotely dispatched Tia to submit materials to the Newlon Harbor Court.

After the New York Port Court completed the process, Lawrence Security was auctioned off in its entirety. Because of the large number of industries under its name, it attracted a big buyer from Silver Castle.

However, this had nothing to do with Tia. Lawrence Security's auction proceeds wouldn't be hers. For her, preparing for the Sequence 8 promotion ceremony was her top priority.

With two letters of recommendation and the recommendation of Pope Peter, Saint Laurent was within her reach.

But according to the information she obtained from the Suppression Bureau, it is impossible to advance to Sequence 8 in Silver Castle.

The reason why the Ansu royal family has been able to retain considerable power to this day is that they are the center of the Silver Castle's large-scale ceremony "Avalon" - Avalon is a giant ritual array monitoring system composed of many small rituals, which can radiate from the Silver Castle to the entire Ansu.

Through this system, the Ansu royal family could, like a grand strategic player freed from the fog of war, have a complete overview of the entire country. Over three hundred years ago, King George betrayed the king's ways by launching massive wars, severely damaging this system.

However, the royal family still has a firm control over Silver Castle and has a vague understanding of the national situation.

Therefore, both Tia and Vera planned to complete their advancement to Sequence 8 before school started at the end of February in the year 535 of the Holy Calendar.

After half a month of preparation, some materials were still missing.

Tia asked Scarlett, who had recovered from her injuries, to help her write a list of missing materials, while she picked up the Friday Economic Daily. However, it was rare that the newspaper's headlines did not include news about the Silver Castle Financial City.

Tia was stunned by the title and read it out loud.

"Yesterday, civil war broke out in the Iris Kingdom for the first time in nearly five years. The Iris Republicans launched a revolutionary movement in sixteen counties, demanding the abolition of the royal family and the reorganization of parliament."

"Yesterday, the capital, Mist Moon City, fell, and the former royal family has accepted political asylum from the Holy Solomon Empire. Huh?

"The Provisional Control Council has declared a state of emergency in the kingdom. Officially declaring war on the Republicans. Huh?

"Today, the Iris Kingdom declared its surrender, and the Republican authorities ordered the dissolution of the illegal Alchemy Society. The Alchemy Society has now fled into exile in the Empire."

"what!"

Tia finished reading the newspaper in bewilderment. She never expected that the Iris Flower's usually strong royalist faction was actually a paper tiger and raised the white flag in just two days.

Then, the first thing she thought of was the great inventor who had just been on board for two weeks.

This guy is a pure-blooded Alchemy Society instructor, still adrift at sea. If he runs off to Iris without knowing what's going on, won't he be caught and hanged?!

Volume 1: Chapter 101: The Gods and Humans Bureau

The Iris Kingdom had enjoyed peace for a long time, but suddenly it was destroyed in just two days. This is as outrageous as watching Wang Dong swinging his fist yesterday and waking up this morning to find that the United States was divided.

But Ansu and Iris are separated by the sea after all, and Tia doesn't know what happened over there.

As for Mr. Maan Cullen on board—long live he.

Tia expressed her condolences to the great inventor and, feeling heartbroken, ate two more pieces of bread that night.

The days that followed went on as usual. About a week passed, and Scarlett bought her many good things from the market in the Clock Tower District.

There are many schools in the Bell Tower District, so it is very common to see outsiders. You can often see students from other places and even foreign countries. In addition to going to Silver Castle, you can often find some ritual materials that are not produced in New London Port by searching in the Bell Tower District.

　(1) Lin%Yin~⑺Shiwujiu Si⒐⒏ On the first floor of the police station, Tia asked Scarlett to find a detention room for her and locked her up in it, counting the materials on the floor.

Scarlett had just finished get off work and was working illegally at Tia's place again. She dutifully recited: "The tears of a cat that ate its parents' bodies, stored no more than a day old; the dried stomach of a cow that voluntarily swallowed an iron hook; the rope used by someone who failed in a suicide attempt; the head of a stone statue with a hole in its skull; charcoal from burning sacred wood; an hourglass stained with blood two weeks ago; and a cup of an alchemist's bodily fluids."

"Uh... except for the last one, which I couldn't find, most of the ritual materials you need are here."

The last one is indeed hard to find. Where can Scarlett find an alchemist to torture her?

Tia had to do it herself. She just went to the bathroom to get a cup, and it was even hot.

Maybe it’s because I’m in good health and there’s no smell.

Tia had just finished drawing the ritual on the ground with a ritual knife. She looked up at the ritual materials that had taken a month to gather on the ground, nodded, and said, "Thank you for your help. Please leave first."

Scarlett asked nervously, "Do you need me to accompany you to complete this ceremony?"

"No, not now. Scarlett, after all, you haven't studied occult knowledge. A professional will accompany me in the ceremony later."

"Eh?!"

Before Scarlett could figure out who it was, Tia pushed her out of the cell.

It was Tia's little hobby to arrange rituals in the prison cell. She hung the rope on the wall, took out the hook from the cow's stomach, burned the charcoal red, opened the window, and turned over the hourglass.

At this moment, Vera Yue. Yi*首/发- was also preparing for the ceremony. The two of them had found each other by telepathy a few days ago. They had similar interests and knew each other's thoughts, so they hit it off immediately.

This is the case of people from the same family tend to be similar.

At this time, Vera changed into a plain white robe in the bedroom with a crimson edge. She then painted the white base with a transparent viscous liquid mixed with gold powder and lit four holy candles.

Tia draped the red cloak with gold edges given by Annie over her shoulders, tied her long hair into a ponytail, and lit the holy candle first.

The two people said in unison:

"We call upon the Holy Grail, the merciful god of blood."

"We call upon the god of alchemy, the former and the latter."

"We beseech the Ouroboros, and descend into the Nightmare God."

When it was eleven o'clock in the evening, Tia picked up the iron clamp, clamped the iron hook and placed it on the holy charcoal to heat it up. The temperature of the burning holy charcoal was not low, and soon the surface of the iron hook began to turn red.

Tia immediately threw down the clamp, turned the hourglass, and splashed a cup of body fluids onto the charcoal. She didn't have time to care about cleanliness. She grabbed the iron hook with her bare hands and turned to look at the stone head.

With a snap, the hook drilled into the hole in the human head.

He quickly attached a rope to the hook, and the head hung in mid-air. A cat's tear fell on the statue's left eyeball. Then he picked up the ceremonial knife, cut the back of his hand, and the tip of the knife dipped in blood and dripped it onto the right eyeball.

"Red in front, white behind, strong on the outside, solid on the inside."

The girl with black hair tied into a ponytail wrapped her cloak tightly around her. With two clicks, the eyes of the stone statue in front of her moved.

Tia flipped her cloak, turned around and sat down, looking into the statue's eyes.

At the same time, Vera, who was far away in the bedroom, also put on her hood and looked at the mirror that was shining in front of her.

The two said in unison:

"The ritual is complete!"

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The promotion ceremony was almost the same as last time. Although the slippery and wet feeling of falling was slow and safe, it was a really bad experience, as if I was wrapped in a large ball of tortoise jelly or grass jelly.

After slowly diving about five thousand meters, Tia finally opened her eyes.

It was the same as last time, but this time someone woke up earlier than her. Vera was sitting opposite her and had just woken up. The two of them were winking at each other.

In fact, no one understood what the other person meant, they just forced themselves to chat.

There was another person who had just woken up. He was a young man with a sad face. His face was very delicate, but his muscles were frighteningly strong. Tia estimated that he was about two meters eighty feet tall, with biceps much bigger than her chest. His muscles were so strong that they could clamp her head off.

Is this a human?!

Tia suddenly remembered the thigh bone she had seized from Canaan.

A man and a woman also woke up one after another, and were a little surprised to see that someone had woken up earlier than them. Seeing this, Tia and Vera tacitly gave them code names - one was called "Brainless" and the other was called "Unhappy".

The two boys and girls said embarrassedly: "This is really unexpected. We originally thought that we were talented enough, but it turns out that there are always people who are better than us."

The boy said, "We are both from the Seven Seas Nation. We are brother and sister. You can call me Bai."

"You can also call me Black!"

The sturdy young man sighed and said, "Of the Seven Seas...Alas, I am a giant."

Bai Guanxin asked, "Mr. Giant, has something happened to you? If it's something troublesome, then you should put the promotion ceremony aside and deal with the real things first."

"Oh, there's no going back."

The girl said darkly, "No! Mr. Giant, the past is over, but there is still room for improvement in the future. Don't give up hope!"

"Alas, it's all useless."

"How could that be? Please tell us about your problem and we will definitely help you solve it!"

"Oh..." the giant sighed, "My mother is dead."

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