Miss Witch's Forbidden Book Secret

Her money!

Tia took a deep breath, thinking of the four thousand gold pounds that were about to fly away, "What war were you talking about?!"

Jasmine also sensed something was wrong, her eyes widening as she said, "Ansu and the Empire allied against the Iris Flower in their war, isn't that what the Witch was talking about?"

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Seven days in the deep sea is equivalent to a thousand years on earth.

The two were talking about completely different things.

Tia then understood why Jasmine had always been so cautious on the Glory. She had initially thought Jasmine was simply terrified by the nightmare, but now, thinking back, she realized Jasmine had genuinely never seen an ironclad warship before!

However, in the end, Jasmine still wanted to return to the Empire, and he promised her that he would bring back the agreed-upon four thousand gold pounds.

Tia didn't know what to say.

After all, they probably just lost their parents...

Once the ship docked, Tia disembarked via the gangway, crossed the harbor, and headed straight for the Grand Harbour Police Station.

Upon arriving at the police station, one finds it bustling with activity. These are all young people who were transferred from Silver Castle and other locations after Tia applied to the Silver Castle Police Department.

Tia was still somewhat immersed in the sadness of Jasmine's blink of an eye, which was 240 years ago. Thinking of Jasmine made her wonder what she would do if she returned to Earth and found that everything had changed. As a result, she bumped into Vanessa on the stairs, who had her silver hair tied up in a ponytail and was wearing a tight-fitting shirt with a curvaceous figure.

Vanessa had just finished packing her things and was getting ready to leave work when she saw Tia.

Tia frowned, as if she were immersed in some kind of emotion. Her lovely face was completely devoid of its usual carefree look, and now it looked pitiful, which made Vanessa feel a phantom limb.

Oh no, this is actually kind of likable.

Vanessa likes sickly and melancholic little sisters.

The girl asked with a strange look, "Vanessa, do you think spirits really exist in this world?"

"?What's the meaning?"

"So, what is the essence of a person after death?"

"???"

Deng Deng Deng!

Vanessa took a few steps back, startled, and exclaimed, "Are you crazy?"

Good heavens, is this really the same Tia Sulph she knows? She's actually starting to contemplate the philosophy of life?!

Perhaps they encountered some kind of filth at sea...

"Why don't you find a priest or nun to perform an exorcism? Like that Vera one, you're a bit scary. If all else fails, go find Miss Anne of the Mercury family and have her give you a couple of slaps..."

"......"

Tia was no longer sad; all that remained was a speechless sigh: "A hopeless case!"

"What do you mean? I'm from the mountains and I've never been to school."

"I can't get along with you!"

"Thank God."

Vanessa looked relieved. "I thought you'd gone to sea and worshipped some weird stuff that'd damaged your brain."

Tia stopped Vanessa in an annoyed tone.

Vanessa asked, bewildered, "Why did you call me after I got off work?"

Tia said, "Stay and work overtime!"

Chapter 300 The Book of the Black Sea

Vanessa returned to the office grumbling and stayed up late with Tia to keep her company while she worked overtime.

Fortunately, Tia was only at sea for a few days, and she had mobilized a lot of manpower from Silver Castle in advance. The work was not too complicated, and the two of them finished most of it by around nine o'clock in the evening.

There are also some tedious and detailed documents, such as case details in a certain neighborhood, investigations into tax evasion, and most importantly—information on the circulation of supernatural rituals.

It was Vanessa's reminder that made Tia realize the Anti-Corruption Bureau was involved in this.

In short, the Anti-Suppression Bureau, with the assistance of the central Silver Fortress, uses the Avalon System to monitor the circulation of various extraordinary rituals and items.

Generally speaking, if a certain highly polluting extraordinary material weighs more than one kilogram, two or more ritual scrolls of Sequence 7 or above, or specific materials required for a certain ritual are circulating in the market at the same time, they can be detected relatively easily by the Avalon system or by human labor.

If there is no relevant registration, the anti-smuggling bureau has an obligation to confiscate illegal property.

The main purpose of this is to stabilize the market prices of extraordinary rituals and materials, keeping extraordinary materials, especially advancement rituals, at a high price, thereby curbing the expansion of extraordinary power in Ansu from an economic perspective.

After all, it's unrealistic to arrest all superhumans and lock them up in concentration camps; it's better to guide than to suppress.

Tia couldn't really comment on this policy, after all, she had been caught by this very system in the first place...

Vanessa finished revising the documents and piled them in front of Tia, reminding her, "There haven't been many potions lately, but there have been quite a few cases of people spontaneously sinking into nightmares."

Tia was eating milk and oat biscuits, chewing them and saying strangely:

"Actively entering the nightmare? In large numbers?"

"There are a lot of them—but whether they did it voluntarily or not is unknown. The church just got involved in the investigation, hatch.../ Q*un韭笼鹨斯陆漆吧弍玐. So, can we go home now?!"

"Wait a minute."

"More work? Didn't I finish it all?!"

"No, I haven't left work yet. I'm a little annoyed to see you leaving."

Tia scratched her head and spoke very frankly, even grabbing a handful of cookies and handing them to Vanessa.

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She buried herself in her work until 10 p.m., then, under Vanessa's resentful gaze, she organized the materials and let Vanessa go.

However, Tia had not yet left the police station.

Taking advantage of the fact that no one was around, she dived deep into the Upside-Down Temple and glanced at the Book of the Black Sea that she had stolen from the ghost ship.

After turning the first two pages, the following pages briefly introduce the four fundamental texts of alchemy, which the author also refers to as the Four Laws Book:

The Book of the Black Sea tells the story of alchemical substances, extraction, and refining.

The Book of the White Rose explores the soul, knowledge, dreams, and purification.

The Book of the Golden City, which tells the story of alchemy, catalysis and perfection, and the essence of matter;

The Book of the Red Rose explores the concepts of reconstruction, perfection, and the holistic nature of flesh, blood, and spirit, with the physical body at its core.

Tia had already read the Book of the Red Rose.

This secret text from Jeremiah has been fully translated, describing in extremely concise and easy-to-understand language the properties of 519425 kinds of minerals, animal and plant materials used in alchemy beneath the ocean.

It also details the substitution between different materials, as well as the refining techniques and principles of the materials.

Even the processing and refining techniques for antimony are recorded in this secret manual. While the approach is unconventional, the technology is quite outdated; Tia noticed that it still relies on high-temperature melting and some ancient alchemical techniques.

Modern antimony refining and processing, as well as the purification of antimony from stars, has progressed to the point where electrolysis, combined with the "Saturnian work" of antimony sorcerers or the "Alpha XIV constellation method" of prophets, is used to achieve high-purity refining and synthesis of antimony from stars.

This is just a glimpse into the whole picture; other materials are likely similar, with very complete explanations of the principles, but appearing somewhat archaic due to limitations in technology...

There was some inspiration involved; Tia searched for Sacred Wood directly, only to find it wasn't there. However, there was "Alchemy Doll Processed Oak," which had a similar purpose and was surprisingly much cheaper than Sacred Wood.

Normally, she would need at least 1500 gold pounds to craft a doll, but if she used this instead, she did a quick calculation and found that it would reduce the cost by at least 300 gold pounds!

Tia quickly picked up thirty or forty pages and flipped through them carefully. She roughly figured it out: the Book of the Black Sea was a pure encyclopedic tome.

It just gave her a bit of a headache.

Memorizing this entire book would take forever. If anyone could truly master the properties and preparation techniques of so many alchemical materials and integrate them into a coherent whole, Tia sincerely praised them as a well-deserved saint—even if they weren't at Sequence 3.

After quickly flipping through a few more pages, Tia saw that it was getting late, so she floated back to the material world, locked the police station door, and went home.

It was just dawn the next day.

She was heading out to Mercury House to find Anne when she was stopped by the priest on duty as she passed the cathedral.

The pastor exclaimed in surprise, "Sulph! We've finally found you! Old Marshall has been looking for you for two days!"

When Tia heard that it was Bishop Marshall who wanted to see her and that she was going to the church with the priest, she was confused and asked, "Why would the bishop want to see me for no reason? By the way, is Aunt Isabella here?"

"Oh! How would I know? It seems to be an order from Silver Castle, right? As for Isabella... she went to the Knights to offer condolences, didn't she? You have something important to discuss with Sister Isabella?"

"It's nothing serious. I think it'll be September soon. I was just thinking of asking Aunt Isabella to order two pieces of sacred wood."

Tia wanted to order a few hand warmers engraved with the image of a fire in a hearth.

This kind of sacred wood can keep you warm, it's nice and cozy when placed on your lower abdomen, and it can also relieve problems like menstrual cramps. She gave it to Annie before, but it's been ineffective for so long.

Tia was a major client of the Cathedral of Our Lady, and the priest cheerfully replied, "Leave this kind of thing to us!"

The two men entered the church lounge and saw Marshall, with his white hair and beard and wearing a silver crown, wiping the candlesticks and adding candles.

Noticing the sound behind him, Marshall turned around, saw Tia's eyes, and said in surprise:

"Little Sulph, you've advanced to Sequence 6?"

Tia said, "I suppose so."

She wasn't sure if her promotion counted as a genuine Sequence 6, since a proper advancement usually comes with a supernatural trait.

The extraordinary qualities are bestowed by the saints who designed the ceremony during the Saint Year, using their own spirituality. They are not given for free. Once a person has received the extraordinary qualities from the saints, they must donate a portion of their spirituality to the ascension ceremony after death to maintain its operation.

However, Tia's ascension was not through the nightmares meticulously arranged by the saints, but through Jeremiah's sanctuary.

We can no longer get the extraordinary traits that the saints generously put in the prize pool for free.

The old bishop smiled helplessly and said, "It is or it isn't. There's no such thing as 'let's just assume'."

"Please have a seat. I called you here because of Silver Castle. The Queen has ordered that Princess Eleanor be brought back to the country, and they need someone who can stabilize Eleanor's curse."

“Albert is currently overwhelmed with work and can’t spare any more time. As for Peter, he can’t go abroad, so our prince is planning to have you come over. That’s why I’ve been looking for you for two days.”

Upon hearing this, Tia hesitated, her expression becoming slightly grave, and said:

"Let me go stabilize the curse... Isn't Eleanor over there removing the curse? Has something gone wrong?"

Chapter 301 Eleanor's Curse

Outside the gardens of the St. Pantheon College, Jeremiah was coming out of the church when he saw Ms. Bernice and was about to say something.

Ms. Bernice immediately interrupted, "How is Eleanor?"

"To my surprise... Princess Eleanor's curse is much more severe than I thought. I never imagined that the curse would have accumulated to this extent over three hundred years."

Jeremiah looked at Bernice and said bluntly, "The curse on Eleanor has caused her to lose nearly half of her soul in the deep sea..."

"Can this be resolved?"

Bernice had no patience to listen to these things. Elizabeth was a child she had watched grow up, as was Albert, and Eleanor even more so!

Eleanor was still the best child she had ever met, much better than that bastard Albert and his heartless mother Elizabeth!

Moreover, Eleanor is probably the last member of the royal family she will take care of. If nothing unexpected happens, she will have to retire in three or four years to prepare for her old age and even her funeral. Before she passes away, she wants to do something for Eleanor.

Jeremiah, somewhat exasperated by the interruption, said, “That’s not difficult. The curse has only created a huge hole in Eleanor’s soul. I can have a nail custom-made on the level of Eleanor’s soul to patch the hole. But the hole already exists, and most of her soul has been taken to the other side of the hole—you have to be prepared.”

Bernice's expression gradually turned serious as she asked, "Is there a way to restore Eleanor's soul?"

“I still recommend the same thing—wait a minute, let Princess Eleanor continue to rest, or send her back. Ms. Bernice and I have some things to discuss.”

Just as Jeremiah was about to continue, a guard came over from a distance and whispered a few words.

After giving his instructions, the great sage turned to Bernice and said:

"I still recommend the same thing, madam. With the solution I provided, Pope Peter can temporarily recall Eleanor's soul, but Silver Castle must use all the computing power of the Avalon system to search for Eleanor and find out where her soul is hidden by the 'Silver Door'."

Jeremiah paused, his tone gradually becoming more forceful.

"Silver Door" is none other than the mastermind behind Eleanor's curse, a false god who made a pact with the Morn royal family three hundred years ago.

He is a false god, the opposite of the Holy Grail, whose origins lie in the rebellious and rebellious thoughts against the church thousands of years ago.

Because the Holy Grail is the path of knowledge, faith, holiness, and mercy, and also the path of "protection." This means that the Holy Grail protects not only people, but also extraordinary knowledge.

The followers of the Holy Grail also believe that supernatural knowledge is the source of disaster, and that only by restraining supernatural knowledge and limiting the expansion of supernatural power can true peace and prosperity be achieved.