Miss Witch's Forbidden Book Secret

"You are Sofia Salvia, the alchemist of the Hand of Transformation. You and your sister, Daphne Salvia, were ordered to transport a baby girl that the Hand of Transformation requested be sent to the Port of Nylon. However, upon arrival at the port, Daphne chose to protect this innocent life, inviting you to defect with her and naming the baby girl Elvira Salvia."

"The city is now ravaged by plague, and five hundred armored knights and armed priests from the Anzu Capital Cathedral are struggling to maintain order. Your transferee, 'White Dove,' has been apprehended and hanged by the church, so your status as an outsider is quite sensitive."

"As soon as you stepped off the ship and into the city, you were targeted by a shadowy presence. Daphne tried to find the person's location and identity, but found nothing. You speculated that perhaps the Hand of Transformation was placing them under surveillance.

"You have no choice but to follow Daphne to the hotel to discuss your next plan. She's in the next room to your left as you exit."

The voice in her head simply introduced the current situation to Tia like a gaming group host.

According to the previous voiceover, it is now the 518th year of the Holy Calendar. If she remembered correctly, this year should have been the year of the great plague and the New Long Port fire that shocked the entire country of Ansu.

The former is an incurable disease that causes people to experience shortness of breath, auditory and visual hallucinations, confusion, persistent high fever, and organ decay. The church calls it "stained blood disease," which can be transmitted through water, body fluids, and animal corpses.

This great plague lingered in Nuremberg for half a year, to the point that the royal family had to accept the parliament's advice and head west - because it only takes one day to get to the royal capital, Silver Castle, from Nuremberg by train.

The latter was caused by a fire on a cargo ship that exploded during the plague. The fire spread and ignited numerous factories, resulting in nearly 30,000 casualties in the Beigang and Dagangwan districts. However, due to the plague, there was no place to relocate them. The subsequent losses are difficult to estimate.

But at that time, Tia was still in a town far away from the port, and it happened sixteen years ago, so she had no memory of the fire and the plague.

But that Vera guy...

I met her during a deep dive, and during a promotion ceremony. I didn't expect that she would be in my nightmare...

And this guy is involved with the Hand of Transformation? !

Tia looked out the window. The one hanging on the gallows outside should be the white dove. Then Daphne... is in the next room?

There was a room on the left when she went out. She tidied her clothes a little and went to the next room and knocked on the door.

"It's me, sister."

"Huh? I, ah, no, please come in!"

For some reason, Daphne inside seemed a little flustered, as if she had just woken up, and was a little panicked as if she had encountered something serious.

There was a piece of velvet on the bed, wrapped in a crying little girl.

Daphne was changing the diaper of the young Vera, but she had no idea how to do it.

"I'll do it, sister."

Tia couldn't bear to watch it anymore, so she helped Daphne change little Vera's diaper. Although she was a little clumsy, she was much better than Daphne who was completely inexperienced.

She came from an orphanage and had changed diapers for many little kids.

Daphne immediately breathed a sigh of relief. Daphne and Sophia looked similar, both had reddish-brown hair, which was very different from Vera's brown hair.

After changing the diaper, little Vera's crying gradually subsided, but Tia still pinched her face twice.

Now I really held you in my arms when you were a child.

But her sister Daphne next to her seemed to be hesitant to speak for some reason.

But when she touched Vera's face, she suddenly frowned and asked, "Fever?"

Daphne asked in surprise, "Fever?"

"My face is very hot, so I can't rule out the possibility of being infected with the plague."

"Can't we go buy medicine? Or the hospital?"

Tia looked at Daphne strangely. From the previous summary, it seemed that her sister Daphne was the one who made the decision to defect from the Hand of Transformation, discover the secret monitor, and come to the hotel to discuss the next plan.

She can quickly change her stance and perspective, and choose to focus on coping strategies when faced with stressful issues... In this respect, Daphne is like a determined lioness.

However, the "sister" in front of him did not propose strategies or discuss when encountering a problem, but instead sought the advice of her younger sister first.

What's even stranger is that he doesn't seem to have a clear understanding of the situation outside.

this......

Like a wild cat?

Tia suppressed her doubts and explained, "There's a plague outside, and the church has blocked the streets. If you want treatment, you can only go to the priests and nuns of the church.

"But if we do that, our identities will definitely be exposed."

She could mix her own fever-reducing potion, as long as she had the herbs. But the church had completely blocked the port.

Otherwise, you can only use extraordinary skills.

Before preparing for the promotion ceremony, the Anti-Suppression Bureau gave her the ritual of "Holy Blood in the Cup" and "Mithril Bullet". The Holy Blood in the Cup has a healing effect.

But the holy blood in the cup also requires ritual materials. At least a silver knife, a crystal cup, and a piece of white linen.

But little Vera shouldn't die.

In the real world, she's still alive and kicking...

Tia said, "Sister, please take care of Vera here first. I'll go to the kitchen to see if I can get some ingredients. If I can, I'll try to arrange a healing ritual."

When the word Vera was mentioned, Tia stared at Daphne intentionally.

Daphne's eyes unconsciously drifted away from Tia.

This was a micro-action of self-preservation, although "Daphne" or the participant playing "Daphne" was completely unaware of it.

Tia caught the subtle movements, and combined with Daphne's completely OOC personality, she immediately determined that there was probably a conscious participant behind Daphne.

Excluding the case of men dressed as women, there are only two people left.

Among them, Officer Scarlett is not someone who can keep secrets. She is so stupid that all her thoughts are written on her face and then spoken out without hesitation.

So who is this person who seems calm and strong, but turns out to be a complete paper tiger that breaks with a single poke, with high attack and low defense?

It’s so hard to guess.

Is she actually playing her own "mother"?

Leaving the room and walking in the corridor, Tia raised the corners of her mouth and searched the kitchen for a while.

The linen was not found, but the silver knife was, and a slightly cloudy glass.

At last she went back to the cook, took a tenpence note from her pocket, and asked her to cut off a piece of the clean part of her white linen apron.

It's just pieced together and barely usable.

Back in Daphne's room, "Daphne" was still carefully feeding little Vera water.

Tia walked silently behind "Daphne" and looked at the hateful guy who used her name as a code name in the promotion ceremony.

Of course, the two of them are equally matched.

One day, a strange man came over and put his hand on Vera's shoulder.

"Tia, don't look back. I'm your sister."

Volume 1: Chapter 20 Small Group Gathering

The moment she was recognized, Vera's face froze, her pupils were filled with panic, and she leaned slightly against the wall, trying to remain calm.

Tia directly exposed the mystery and said, "Don't worry, Miss Tia."

When she said the word "Tia", she pronounced it very hard, fearing that Vera didn't hear it.

"I'm Annie. The one who sat next to you at the promotion ceremony. Now we're acting as sisters. Whether it's due to mission requirements, simply to save our lives, or out of pure justice and morality, I don't think there's any need for us to be hostile.

"I have already told you the necessary tasks for this ritual. I must survive for three days."

Tia took two steps back, putting some distance between herself and Vera to let her relax.

Vera was still in shock, but she nodded and said, "I have this mission too."

As Tia had expected, the necessary tasks were common to all participants in the ceremony. In game terms, they were the main quests. If one couldn't even complete the main quest, then they wouldn't even be eligible for advancement.

Tia said, "You should also know the mission prompt. We are being targeted, and because we are smuggling, we are having a hard time. No matter from which aspect, we need to cooperate."

"Besides, my mission also includes protecting Elvira Salvia."

Vera looked up, a little surprised, "You have it too?"

Tia said, "This should be related to the root of the prayer before the promotion ceremony. You want to advance to the alchemy path, right?"

"...That's right."

"Because we both wanted to advance in the alchemy path, and there were two alchemists with the Hand of Transformation in the nightmare, we were assigned together. I also prayed to the Oak in the Earth, which symbolizes life, reproduction, and the way of motherhood. Therefore, I needed to provide shelter for the cradle of little Vera.

Tia handed the glass to Vera and said, "If I'm not mistaken, Miss Tia, you should have also consulted the relevant sources."

Totally guessed...

This guy...

Vera remembered that the host Lilith said that two extraordinary people who embarked on two paths at the same time would participate in this promotion ceremony.

One is an uncle selling medicine, and the other is the "Annie" in front of him?

Although most extraordinary people will only specialize in one path, because there is a natural transformation relationship between the nine paths, as long as the "concepts" of the paths are compatible, they can also embark on two or even more paths.

This is quite similar to the concept of "destiny" in a game in Tia's previous life, but it is more inclusive.

Therefore, there are many extraordinary people who have reached Sequence 8, Sequence 7, or even Sequence 456, who choose to start the promotion ceremony of Sequence 9 in order to advance through other paths.

Of course, there are also brothers who don’t think too much about it and just take the second path for the purpose of advertising.

Vera admitted rather unconvincedly, "I prayed to the Holy Grail."

This is not surprising.

The Holy Grail has multiple functions: faith, knowledge, and protection.

"We can talk about the mission later. But the most important thing now is to ensure little Vera's safety." Tia wiped the silver knife with a white linen cloth, glanced at the glass she had just handed to Vera, and said:

"Go, get me a glass of clean water. Remember to boil it, don't use raw water."

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

The Holy Blood in the Cup is a fairly basic ritual, modeled after the Church's "Red Cup Seal." Like the "Unending Seal" Tia had acquired, it's a fairly advanced ritual, complex and difficult to set up, with rare and inexplicable materials and an unbearable price tag.

According to the records in the archives of the Anti-Suppression Bureau, when the Anti-Suppression Bureau was first established, the chief bishop of the church, Peter, modified and simplified the "Holy Seal of the Red Cup" and handed it over to the Anti-Suppression Bureau. The purpose was to enable the front-line Anti-Suppression Bureau members who had no medical skills to provide first aid and treatment to themselves, their teammates and innocent people when facing extraordinary people.

This simple little ritual also has a price.

Its positive effect is that the water in the crystal cup can be made to act like a "slow healing" ritual, restoring 5%-30% of vitality within three hours, while also providing the side effects of relieving pain, purifying evil spirits, and cleaning wounds.

The negative effect is that the ritual host needs to use a silver knife to create a wound at least 33mm in length on his hand. The wound cannot be healed within three hours and the bleeding will not stop.

Tia held a silver knife in her hand, and the blade cut her left palm. Blood seeped through the linen cloth, dripped into the glass, and spread into the water.

——Holy blood in the cup.

Vera had also seen this ceremony. If she guessed correctly, this should have been handed over to the Anti-Suppression Bureau by the Church. In other words, does this mean that Miss 'Annie' is still involved with the authorities?

Tia held little Vera and coaxed the child. With her other hand, she put the glass on the bedside table and fed her to little Vera with her fingers dipped in the mixed blood.

The effect of the holy blood in the cup was quite good. Little Vera sucked the blood from Tia's finger into her stomach like sucking a pacifier. After she had finished the whole cup of water drop by drop, the child curled up in Tia's arms, closed her eyes and fell asleep. The fever on her face also subsided a lot.

The child is very well-behaved and has a faint milky scent. Tia sincerely hopes that her future mother will not forget to teach her how to swim.

Vera felt that the scene was somewhat bizarre.

Watching from a third-person perspective as her "sister" held her younger self – well, now she was her mother…that was even weirder.

"Bandage it for me."

Tia held out her hand to Vera, who took Tia's left hand and wrapped the clean linen around her hand twice.

"Okay, don't wrap it too thickly."

Tia moved a little, and the wound was bleeding profusely. The only function of the gauze was to prevent the blood from flowing everywhere.

So next, let’s get to the point.

Tia asked straight to the point, "Without a doubt, Miss Tia—never mind, I'll just call them the identities we're playing."

She herself was a little overwhelmed.

"Daphne, or sister. We now have two common goals. We must first eliminate the enemy that is chasing us and survive. Then we must protect little Vera and keep us alive until three days have passed."

Vera was somewhat familiar with Tia's rhythm. After hesitating for a while, she chose to tell her all her tasks.

In this environment, if the other party is ready to be open and honest, then the trust is either incomplete or completely non-trust.

This Miss 'Annie' is suspected to be a supernatural being of the authorities, and Vera decides to take a gamble.

"I have five tasks left. Vera must survive for three days, reach the Cathedral of Our Lady, cooperate with other participants to complete the ritual or kill someone, and purify the plague."