Miss Witch's Forbidden Book Secret

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At this very moment, in the officers' conference room of the dreadnought USS Glorious, Sixth Fleet.

Gordon Morrison stormed into the noisy conference room, his admiral's uniform and epaulettes gleaming under the lights.

Without hesitation, he plopped down in the fleet commander's seat, looked at the numerous officers who were cursing and berating him, and shouted:

"Alright, alright! Stop arguing!"

A young man jumped to his feet, angrily saying, "This is an absolute disgrace! A disgrace to the Royal Navy! Grand Knight Commander Ye Haifa has been severely injured and is unconscious by those cultists, and you're just going to let them go like this! You won't even send a few ships to help them!"

"Working with you insects is an insult to the spirit of the Navy!"

"Charles, what are you doing?!" Another middle-aged man stood up, his naval captain's badge flashing, and shouted angrily, "The Sixth Fleet only has thirty ships. We don't even know where the Order's ships have escaped to. Are you asking us to abandon our patrol mission and take a quarter of our forces to search for them like headless flies?"

"Enough! Shut up, all of you! Are your mouths all on your asses? If you have any trash talk, go say it to your sheep's asses!"

With a loud "bang," Commander Gordon slammed his hand on the table, finally losing his temper, and said, "Everyone sit down now, and we're calling an emergency meeting again!"

Chapter 295 The Temple in the Thunderclouds

"Convene an emergency meeting! None of you are allowed to speak!"

Gordon slammed his hand on the table again, his wrinkled face filled with anger and dissatisfaction, and the conference room fell silent.

At the conference table, Gordon glanced at the assembled experts and cursed, "Don't fucking pretend to be naval zealots here. I know you all too well—a bunch of old fogies trying to retire and a bunch of hot-blooded youngsters!"

"First it's you! You want to help, to gain merit, to get promoted, right? The Sixth Fleet isn't like the First, Second, or Third Fleets, which each have two flagships and eighty or ninety ships. Nor is it like the Seventh Fleet, which carries the Knights. Are you planning to fight the Twin Serpent Cult in two dilapidated ships? Or are you planning to send most of your fleet to search for people everywhere, abandoning patrols altogether?!"

The young officer on the left was filled with righteous indignation, but a bucket of cold water was poured on him, instantly sobering him up.

"And then there are you guys, the bunch of old codgers stuck in the Sixth Fleet. Unlike the previous fleets, the Sixth Fleet can't fight and make money, nor can it raid pirates like the Seventh Fleet. Now that privateering is prohibited, there's less profit to be made, which is understandable."

"But don't think I don't know you guys secretly sold the ship's weapons on the black market. Last time you dared to hide half of the canned goods destined for the army and sell them, and you even withheld the sailors' wages! If there's a riot on the ship next time, I won't save a single one of you!"

The veteran officer on the right was immediately embarrassed and shut up, not mentioning the refusal to provide support.

That's how it is. The younger generation was thrilled to discover that the Twin Serpents Cult had appeared right under their noses. The Sixth Fleet was simply a patrol force to deter the surrounding area; in short, it was a ceremonial guard. The fact that the fleet only had thirty ships was far inferior to other fleets, and that it didn't even have marines was obvious.

Within the Navy, being assigned to the Sixth Fleet was referred to as "exile"...

Having finally encountered an opportunity to enhance their resumes and military achievements, these energetic young people naturally didn't want to let it slip by easily.

But it was indeed a risky undertaking; Ye Haifa had actually suffered severe soul damage and fallen into a coma. Gordon was also shocked when he heard about it. Ye Haifa was a veteran armored knight, and with his power armor, he had surpassed the Sequence 5 level in combat, repeatedly holding his own against Londel.

It's astonishing that they could still be severely injured and rendered unconscious by the Twin Serpent Cult.

Furthermore, since the enemy's location was unknown, even safer methods like hunting and shelling were impossible to carry out, so it's no wonder there were dissenting voices.

Gordon snorted angrily and slammed his hand on the table, saying, "Now continue the meeting. Say what you need to say."

Both sides calmed down.

A young officer stood up, saluted with his hand on his chest, and said, "Sir, the Knights of the Golden Forge have sent an urgent report. Grand Knight Ye Haifa, who is in charge of pursuing the Twin Serpent Order, is seriously injured and unconscious. Two crowned priests who were tracking Archbishop Lundell of the Order have lost their position in Lundell. It is suspected that someone else intervened and interrupted the priests' tracking ritual."

"Has the Knights identified who it is?"

"...The Knights Order is still being finalized, but the ritual method is very similar to that of the Dragon Hunter Santis of the Transformation Hand."

"The Twin Serpents have gotten together with the Imperials?"

Gordon raised an eyebrow, surprised that it was someone from the Hand of Transformation who had interrupted the ritual.

The Hand of Conversion does indeed possess a formidable naval fleet, with hundreds of ships capable of rivaling the Royal Navy's Second Fleet. But why are they helping the Twin Serpents?

Purely personal friendship?

Gordon rubbed his fingers together, considering carefully, and said, "Can the priests track the dragon hunters' location based on their scent? If they can pinpoint the location, we can provide artillery support."

"I'm afraid it will be difficult!"

On the other side, a middle-aged officer said, "Before I came to see them arguing, I went to the ship's church to consult two bishops. Their view was that as high-sequence superhumans, the dragon hunters could try to track them, but they were easily intercepted by the dragon hunters' countermeasures."

"If we are cut off, the Dragon Hunters or the Twin Serpents could use some means to pinpoint our location, making it even more difficult to track us."

"This is indeed troublesome!" Gordon nodded.

"Let's symbolically provide the Knights with a few ships to cover their return to Rosey Harbor. Then send the message to the Seventh Fleet: they have armed speedboats and armored knights as assault marines. Let's try to find them; don't waste our shells at sea. After all, some people still need to make a living from this."

Gordon's sarcastic words hadn't even finished.

Da da da!

Two senior priests escorted a crowned bishop with a solemn expression through the corridor, heading straight for the meeting room.

A pastor whispered a few words in Gordon's ear.

Gordon looked surprised. Amidst the exchange of glances among the officers, he immediately stood up and went out with the priest to quickly speak a few words to the bishop.

Are you sure it's true?

"We're quite certain that we've pinpointed the location using some newly acquired spiritual information, and it's extremely accurate—the spiritual entity is Sue on the ship..."

"Are you absolutely sure?!"

The bishop was speechless, and could only say, "If you don't believe me, there are other people who can vouch for me. We have two bishops on this ship. I was just saying that spirituality is Sur..."

"Haha! Thanks to you, Master, I'm satisfied with your words."

Gordon patted the bishop on the shoulder, then interrupted him with the key phrase.

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Back in the conference room.

The officers all stared in disbelief.

Gordon casually pulled out his pipe, lit it, and said happily, "Everything I said before is null and void!"

"Cancelled?"

"General, it's not that I'm saying this..."

"Are you really going to fight?"

The officers were completely bewildered. How could they have been so assertive just moments ago, and now they were acting like they were just joking?!

Gordon said, "The priests in the ship's church have located Londel and the Dragon Hunters. They will provide the exact location later. All ships, including the Glory, will turn around and bombard the Twin Serpents Order."

The officers exclaimed in surprise, "General Gordon, can you confirm this is the real location? What if it's a fake location they deliberately set up after the priests were counter-tracked...?"

Gordon laughed loudly, "That's exactly the question I went out to ask you guys!"

"I don't understand those terms the bishop used, but both bishops vouched for us, so we really caught them by the nose this time!"

The officers stared at each other, their eyes gleaming with excitement.

This is a rare achievement!

The initial refusal stemmed from the belief that it might be a wasted effort, delaying patrols and leaving them with the blame. But now that they've confirmed they can actually find the location, there's no question about it.

The Twin Serpent Cult's ship wasn't just filled with people—they were a group who had made an emergency evacuation after Ye Haifa destroyed an important stronghold on the island, and there must have been a lot of valuables on board.

Even disregarding property.

The boat they were on could be hauled back and sold as scrap metal, which would bring in a decent income!

Not to mention there's a bunch of cultists up there!

These are all military achievements!

After the officer announced "Meeting adjourned," he immediately left the meeting room.

Gordon left the conference room and went to the command center on the bridge.

The bridge is the control center of a warship and the location of the fleet's headquarters. It is located on the top floor of the ship's architecture on the Glorious.

As Gordon walked from the driver's seat to the command center, a continuous stream of lightning bolts began to strike down from the sky outside the window.

Thunder, like tangled tree roots, roared and exploded in the sky amidst the dark clouds.

Gordon paused when he saw the lightning, looked up in surprise, and rubbed his eyes.

He's probably just hallucinating because he's old.

Just now, he seemed to see a temple inside the thunderclouds.

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Two more chapters tonight

Chapter 296 Please Give Me Money

Tia removed the mirror, and the temple in the thunderclouds slowly disappeared again.

Jasmine was astonished; she knew that the spirit in the pot had tried many methods to recreate the ghost ship in the real world. Because simply relying on people randomly falling into nightmares to collect spiritual energy was too slow!

If it could be projected into the material world, then killing people or collecting spiritual energy would be much simpler.

But the genie in the pot racked her brains, and from the moment she fell into the sanctuary until Tia destroyed the ghost ship, she never succeeded even once.

Jasmine was somewhat awestruck that the witch before her had so easily brought the temple into the material world.

Indeed, there are always people more capable than you, and there is always something beyond your understanding.

Back when she was Sequence 5, she was already incredibly arrogant. She ran away from home after a falling out with her family and even dared to venture into the Land of the Seven Seas during a massive thunderstorm. As a result, she crashed into the Sanctuary during her deep dive, losing her physical body and becoming trapped in a nightmare.

However, the scene before us is still slightly inferior to the witch's sanctuary.

Jasmine witnessed firsthand how the Upside-Down Temple, after crashing into the ghost ship at 33km, soared all the way down to 25km underwater, a distance that was already very close to the material world!

She had no idea what method could be used to instantly ascend 8000m!

She didn't even go deep-sea diving this fast...

Actually, Tia knew this, and it was quite simple—first, after leaving the nightmare, she immediately went deep into the ocean.

Her dive was actually quite slow because the ascension ritual was trying to pull her back to the material world, while she was still descending. But she had arranged for Branna to observe from the edge of the nightmare, and that's where Branna came in handy.

Brenna was a creation of the Twin Serpent Order. She was capable of being haunted by nightmares, and she directly entangled Tia, forcing her to fall to the temple.

We arrived at the temple, which was Tia's home ground.

She first retrieved two secret texts from her mind—the Book of the Red Rose, which she had mostly finished reading in the last two months, and the Book of Transformation, which she had never put in the temple before.

Both secret manuals were stuffed into the catalog of forbidden books and secret manuals.

In a short while, the inverted temple, which was at 38000m, began to rise. Tia's target water level was 23000m, so she had Xiao Hong pull the temple and begin to accelerate upwards.

When it accelerated to 33000m, the speed was already very fast, so it crashed directly into the ghost ship.

However, the upward trend was irreversible, so Tia quickly finished the battle inside the ghost ship, swallowed it up, and continued her wild racing, stopping steadily at 25000m.

The water level was much deeper than Tia had anticipated.

And now...

The Book of the Black Sea, The Book of Transformation, The Book of the Red Rose, The Book of the Hearthfire.

With the four secret books stacked together, Tia estimated that if the Book of the Black Sea were placed in the list of forbidden secret books, the Temple's power level would rise directly to 20000m.

This water level can already easily affect reality. A little further up, it reaches 10000 meters.

That's terrible.

Tia can prepare to descend to sainthood, but it's unclear how her physical vessel will be considered. After all, she already has a physical body.

A doll definitely won't work; those things aren't human. The physical vessel is very special; flesh and blood are the essence of spirit, and it must be composed of flesh and blood.

Could it be that it will happen to Anne, Vera, and Eleanor?

Where did Annie and the others' souls go?

To enter one's own body, to swap souls?

Tia felt a little excited, but it wasn't a good feeling either. She had a lot of fingers, enough to handle three people, but her body was too small to accommodate three people inside her.

Triple personality disorder, wouldn't that be a mental illness?

It's all hard to say yet, and Tia was lost in her daydreams when she heard the doll Jasmine beside her ask timidly:

"Witch, may I leave now?"

Tia immediately came to her senses, thought for a moment, and said, "Let's wait until the ship docks. Although there aren't many spirit creatures at sea, the Twin Serpent Cult and the priests on the ship are all here. You're fine here with me, but if you leave, the church's priests will definitely notice you."