Miss Witch's Forbidden Book Secret

"So be it."

Anne cannot be allowed to prepare the wolf head. This thing is too suspicious. Why would a noble lady buy this thing for no reason?

Moreover, this thing is easy to buy in the Grand Harbor District and the Clock Tower District. It is available in gun shops and hunters, so there is no need to take risks.

Anne wrote down what Tia needed, hugged the black-haired girl again, said a series of farewell words, and returned to the carriage.

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In the bedroom.

The freshly prepared materials were piled in a corner, two cages each holding a snake and a dove. The whetstone lay on the floor, the mirror hung on the wall, and there was no need to buy a dagger; the sacrificial dagger I'd gotten from St. Vincent's Church was already rusted.

Tia went to the gun shop in the clock tower area again and bought the wolf head that the owner had hung on the wall as a decoration. She also bought a cow's heart on the way and threw it on the ground.

In the evening, Anne's head maid, Miss Evelyn, came with a package, bringing the wine and cane that Tia needed.

The cane was beautifully crafted, with a cat's eye inlaid on the top and brass-clad underneath. Judging by the label, it must have been purchased directly from a mall in the Greater Harbour area.

The wine has no label, but it is clear and transparent, so its quality is probably not simple.

Now that all nine are complete, the ritual can be arranged.

The ritual of the Iris Kingdom Alchemical Society is called "Hildegard's Wheel of Flame," while the ritual of the Eastern Order is called "The Ascension of the Great One."

It’s all divided into two steps.

First arrange the deep diving ritual, then arrange the promotion ritual.

The two rituals are independent of each other, but the ceremony for advancement to Sequence 9 requires that they must be performed one after the other.

The large amount of materials Tia bought were for the advancement ritual. The arrangement of the deep diving ritual was quite simple—

A black candle, a white candle, a yellow candle, and a red candle are placed at the four corners.

Apply two drops of patchouli essential oil, two drops of cedarwood essential oil, one drop of frankincense essential oil, a 2:1 ratio of silver fir-blue tansy essential oil, and a 3:1 ratio of cinnamon-myrrh essential oil to four candles.

When the candle burns, the ceremony begins; when the candle burns out, the ceremony ends automatically and the host wakes up automatically.

After walking around the four corners, Tia first lit the black candle, and when the flame was lit, she burned the sage. A bitter and long-lasting smell of humus soil emanated, indicating that the ceremony officially began.

"—I accept the fragments that have not been illuminated."

Tia chanted softly, walked around, and lit a white candle. A white crystal bracelet hung on her wrist, and the crystal reflected the flame of the white candle. The sweet and sour smell of plums filled the air.

"Like mercury flowing, it illuminates true knowledge."

She took some turmeric essential oil, applied it on the back of her hand, drew a sun wheel, and then lit a yellow candle. The back of her hand felt slightly spicy and bitter.

“As above, so below…”

The deep diving ritual has no requirements for time and place. As long as the ritual steps are correct and the sedative drugs are not too ineffective, the dive can be successful.

The so-called deep diving seems like meditation to Tia, but the mystic masters and marketing accounts she met on Earth all said that meditation is about ascending, just like cultivating immortals, flying upwards.

But deep diving, taken literally, means diving, just like the spell on the parchment scroll:

Tia kept talking in a low voice, walked around three times, paused, took out a bottle of sulfur camphor sedative and drank it directly, then lit a red candle, and under the light of the flame, her thumb and index finger touched each other to form a ring.

"We call upon Ouroboros, the god of eternal life."

"We call upon the Ouroboros, the coiled and encircling god."

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

Volume 1: Chapter 11 The Hanging Temple

Sleepy, very sleepy.

As soon as Tia finished the ritual, her eyelids began to open and close unbearably.

She even lost all the energy to arrange the second ritual, the "Ritual of Promotion".

She clearly remembered that the dosage of her tranquilizer was very small and it was impossible for it to make people fall asleep so quickly, but this was like drinking sleeping tea!

At this moment, it was as if something was trying to pull him down. His brain was like a heavy lead block tied to it, suspended on the sea surface, and the lead block was dragging his spirit down rapidly.

This kind of sleepiness came suddenly. If the "sleepiness" mentioned in the ritual parchment scroll was caused by taking melatonin or tranquilizing and brain-tonifying liquid, then her sleepiness was like inhaling high-purity ether, which was not normal at all!

Sitting in the chair, my eyes went dark, my consciousness was dragged down, and the heavy water pressure suddenly hit me.

Jotia could vaguely sense how many meters she had dived, as if there was a water depth ruler beside her.

250m,

850m,

1600m,

5500m,

12000m,

29000m.

With each descent, she could see strange lights and glimpses of gigantic creatures drifting by. She could see a colossal figure several thousand meters tall, far taller than the Oriental Pearl Tower seen in later generations, slowly swimming past her. Blood scabs on its body opened and closed, and its colorless blood drifted in the seawater.

When they reached around 30000 meters, a soft and gentle force like a palm stopped Tia from falling.

Her consciousness slowly stabilized and the dragging sensation gradually disappeared.

When you close your eyes underwater, lines will spread out from your body, just like modeling with drawing software such as CAD, clearly outlining the shape of a building under the deep sea.

Dome, nave, transept, apse, load-bearing walls.

It's St. Vincent's Church.

But the upside-down church.

Yes, just like the upside-down Chinese character “福”, the entire church is also upside down, with the dome at the bottom and the foundation at the top. Several milky white thin lines whose origins cannot be seen form a net, supporting the dome of the upside-down church.

In the middle of the nave of the church, there is an altar. On the altar is a faceless statue. Compared to the whole church, it is hung upside down, with its head facing the ground and its feet facing the dome, like the classic Tarot card "The Hanged Man".

The faceless man opened his eyes and could not recognize Tia Sulph at all. She moved slightly, and several ropes flew down from "above" and tied up all her limbs, as if she was playing some incredible bondage play.

The girl looked confused.

"Where is this! Is this still my home!?"

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"Black iron coins, silver coins, gold coins, red copper coins..."

In the evening, Elvira Salvia, the girl who originally called herself "Vera", was confirming the two rituals to be used tonight in her room.

Tactical Sister Isabella, wearing church power armor and holding a steam hydraulic hammer, is chanting protection for Vera.

Vera paced nervously before the ceremony, carefully selecting a large number of essential oils, applying them to various coins, and then lighting herbs to smoke the coins.

Isabella soothed him, "Don't be too nervous. Even if you die in the nightmare the first time, there won't be any sequelae. You just can't perform the ritual again for a month."

"Although you make it sound easy, this is Ansu. I'm doing the alchemy path promotion ceremony here. If I get caught, I'll be an illegal transcendent!"

After Vera lit two bunches of vanilla, she took a long breath, but still couldn't calm down.

Isabella soothed him, "I promised your mother that I would protect you, no matter which path you take."

"Thanks......"

"Begin chanting the spell."

Vera paused and lit the last bunch of herbs.

Isabella lit a holy candle to purify the evil spirit. Holding the candle, she heard the girl with short brown hair chanting:

"We call upon Ouroboros, the god whose sacred number is eight."

"We call upon Ouroboros, the god of contradictions."

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

The last note fell and the sound stopped abruptly.

The breeze outside the window, the ticking clock, the burning candles, the curling smoke, all remained motionless.

Vera opened her eyes wide, and the time and space around her seemed to be frozen. Aunt Isabella behind her was standing there holding the holy candle, without any reaction.

The four coins in front of him were suspended in the air and turned one and a half circles. Four milky white threads shot out from the coins, pulling out a small shrine slightly larger than an alarm clock from the void.

Time stopped?

No, time is a representation of change. The cognitive concept of time only exists when two entities undergo relative motion and change.

It’s not so much that “the whole world has stopped working”, but rather that I have been separated from this world.

She calmed down and looked at the small shrine in front of her.

The shrine is shaped like a cross-section of a retro temple, a style that dates back at least five hundred years. There is a scale on the top of the shrine, and a masked puppet is hung upside down in the middle by four thin strings.

There was a click.

The puppet turned its head.

Tia looked out through the hole in the mask and was also shocked.

Vera!?

In front of the shrine, Vera took a deep breath and said in panic, "No offense! I don't know what I have offended, but I accidentally pulled you out of your nightmare."

"May I ask what you need here? Whether it's murder or arson, I'm always here to help!"

Vera glanced back and saw her fingers behind her back gesturing to Isabella.

But Tia saw all these little movements clearly.

This guy...

For some unknown reason, he was suddenly caught in front of Vera and hung upside down, but it seemed that this guy thought he was a very important person.

Tia opened her mouth, and her clear voice became hard to recognize. The voice kept trembling, as if there was a tuning fork stuck in her throat, making it unclear and difficult to recognize.

"Tell me your real name."

"Vera, no, Elvira Salvia..."

Sure enough, it was that guy. She knew Vera's body inside and out. She felt it clearly when she held her to sleep that night. It was only now that she hesitated with her clothes on.

"trade."

"trade?"

Trading is the power of alchemy, and its source is the "replacement" or equivalent exchange in alchemy.

Why did I pray for the Ouroboros of Sacred Number 8, but instead received the Alchemy of Sacred Number 7?

Vera glanced at Isabella and found that she was still as motionless as a stone statue. She took a deep breath, tore off a piece of paper, and wrote down the highest-level ritual she knew, the [Eternal Seal].

This is a sacred ritual that can only be practiced by the church's power knights, armed priests, or tactical nuns.

After the ceremony is completed, the host will gain the "immunity to damage" effect against Sequence 5 and below for ten minutes, and the damage will not accumulate until ten minutes later.

Logically speaking, such a high-level ceremony should be kept strictly confidential, but in fact, the spell of the "Eternal Holy Seal" is in the oaths of priests, nuns and knights, but it is divided into three parts and arranged in different positions.

But even that is of little use to most people.

This high-level ritual not only requires extremely complex ritual materials and troublesome arrangements, but also requires that the host's purpose in arranging the ceremony must be in line with "protection" and "dedication", and the host must be a transcendent of Sequence 7 or above.

Finally, after using this ritual, the person presiding over the ritual will be in danger of falling into a nightmare in their sleep within a week, and the nightmare will be quite random and completely unpredictable.

The requirement was to be at least Sequence 7—this had already eliminated the vast majority of extraordinary people.

Coupled with various restrictions, most of the remaining extraordinary people were screened out.

Vera wrote out the entire ritualistic process, placed the manuscript on the scales atop the shrine, and asked cautiously, "Are you satisfied with this transaction?"

What else can I be satisfied or dissatisfied with?

Tia just wanted to find something to talk about, but ended up blurting out the word "deal" for some unknown reason.

But when Vera put the things on the scale, she knew in her heart that if the transaction was not completed, the ceremony would probably not end.

She searched her own knowledge and found that what she had plundered from the alchemist Canaan was definitely not enough.