Miss Witch's Forbidden Book Secret

In contrast, the image of the "Silver Door" is always a slightly open silver door, inside which are countless eyes and infinite knowledge, signifying prying, secrecy, desire, knowledge and openness.

But knowledge is precisely a very dangerous thing—

Therefore, Jeremiah warned:

“I have already planted the nail deep in Eleanor’s soul. I must make this clear: the hole in Eleanor’s soul has formed a void in the deep sea. In time, perhaps thirty or fifty years, or perhaps four or five generations, you must be careful that this void, after gathering the souls of the royal family of past generations, will evolve into a small sanctuary.”

"The curse will not be as simple as it is now. Once the Silver Door is opened, someone will inherit its knowledge, and it will very likely evolve into a supernatural disaster. It is best to prepare for the future as soon as possible."

Bernice was undecided.

She certainly knew the gravity of a curse brewing into a catastrophe.

Eleanor is probably fine, but it's hard to say what will happen to the next few generations.

Dedicating all of Avalon's resources to Eleanor is indeed feasible. Although Avalon's primary purpose is currently to monitor Anzu, with a slight modification to its algorithm, it could be used to monitor the deep sea.

With Pope Peter protecting us, there's no need to worry about false gods in the deep sea.

But concentrating the computing power of the Avalon system on Eleanor...

Bernice couldn't imagine how much of a headache the already severely understaffed anti-suppression bureau must be facing.

But for now, we can only give it a try.

Bernice said, "This is a very troublesome matter. Although the Avalon system belongs to the royal family, it is too closely related to security issues. I can only try to persuade the cabinet."

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On the other side, New York, London and Hong Kong.

After learning the news from Bishop Marshall, Tia raised the shrine and went to call Eleanor.

Eleanor said it was nothing serious, and then asked Tia when she would make her favorite air cake with frosting and jam.

She also said that she saw a book with a picture of a naked girl on the cover in Vera's room, and she wanted to read it too, asking where she could buy it.

Tia: ......

This is probably nothing serious.

Upon returning to Ansu, she bid farewell to Archbishop Marshall and hailed a carriage to the Mercury estate.

In the bedroom, Anne was quite happy to hear that Tia had arrived. Just as she was about to pry into Tia's affairs with the Montreal family, she got up and went to the living room to greet Tia.

But as soon as they entered the living room, they saw that Tia didn't hide anything and told Anne about Eleanor directly.

Upon hearing that her best friend was sick, Anne immediately forgot about Montreal and sat anxiously on the sofa, asking worriedly, "Is Eleanor alright now?"

"There shouldn't be any major problems now."

Tia fiddled with her teacup, gazing at her reflection in the tea. "But the future is uncertain. By the way, I need to go to the Iris Garden."

"Do you want to use a doll?"

"No, it's the physical body that went there."

"Go with your physical body?"

Tia was a very obedient child and told the truth: "The Queen's order was actually to send the warships from Newland to pick up Eleanor. I need to go with them to stabilize Eleanor's curse."

"Oh, oh!" Annie's little brain turned around, and after thinking for a while on the sofa, she remembered that Tia had a good relationship with that Miss Montereyma, and said competitively, "Then I can go with her too."

“I’m also quite worried about Eleanor! Her health isn’t good to begin with, and getting treatment must be a lot of work and hassle. I can have Evelyn take care of her!”

Anne's intentions were not with Eleanor.

Tia felt fine. This time, there was a fleet escort, and the journey to the Iris Flower Park wouldn't stop, so it was quite safe.

She drank two cups of tea, then remembered what Marshall had told her, and added, "By the way, Eleanor can't go straight back to Silver Castle after she returns. Apparently, it's because the upcoming treatment might interfere with the operation of Silver Castle's Avalon main system or something, so she has to stay in Newport for a while."

"Is Eleanor going to stay at Tia's house?" Anne asked curiously.

“That definitely won’t do. It would be beneath me to go there…” Tia thought for a moment and answered intuitively, “It should be the manor in the southern suburbs, the one the councilors donated to the royal family.”

"That's too far." After thinking it over, Annie felt that even if it was to avoid Avalon from running, there was no need to go to the suburbs, especially to avoid the Silver Fortress system.

Besides, it's too dangerous for Eleanor to live there.

It would be better to let Tia live with her, and then let Evelyn take care of Eleanor; that way, Eleanor would be safer.

But she didn't have much say in this matter, and didn't say much.

Evelyn, the elegant head maid who was enjoying her leisure time in the garden while feeling the cool breeze, suddenly sneezed a few times.

Evelyn frowned, clutching her chest, and said, "What's going on? It feels like we're going to have to work overtime again?"

Chapter 302 Boarding the Ship

The Royal Navy fleet that was to meet Eleanor arrived in Newport on Saturday.

Tia had nothing to do these past few days, so Mrs. Edwina called Tia over and took her and Anne to see a performance at the theater in the Kings District.

Edwina had just left the theater when she learned that Anne was going to the Iris.

However, upon hearing that it would be a Royal Navy ship, the magnanimous lady nodded in agreement, but Evelyn had to accompany her to protect Anne's safety.

Anne was extremely unwilling, but that was her own mother.

She couldn't resist! She could only look to Tia for help.

Tia smiled and declined Anne's request for help, then got off the bus at the Basilica of Our Lady.

As soon as she arrived at the Basilica of Our Lady, she went to the priest in charge of the storeroom to discuss the purchase of sacred wood.

It took another two days for the sacred wood to arrive.

The Royal Navy fleet slowly docked, consisting of thirteen ships in total, with the "Madeleine" being the main vessel, a transport ship converted from a light cruiser.

When Anne heard that the warship had arrived, she called Evelyn, and before dawn they went to the building at 405 Oak Street in the North Port District. They took the key to Tia's house and went to the living room, where they knocked loudly on Tia's door.

Tia was forcibly awakened. When she opened the door, she was still wearing a thin nightgown, her long, smooth black hair was loose and slightly frizzy.

The girl hadn't quite caught on yet, and asked in confusion, "Annie, why did you call me so early?"

"Time to prepare to board!"

Annie sounded quite excited; she had never been abroad before—even if it was just to visit the irises on the other side of the strait!

Not to mention that he went with Tia.

"So early?" Tia hadn't expected the fleet to arrive so early and disturb the residents. After washing up in the bathroom for a while, she poked her head into the living room and said, "Annie, could you come over and help me comb my hair and dry it? I don't have a hairdryer here."

"Okay, okay!"

Anne immediately jumped off the chair and went to the bathroom.

She knows this well.

Tia used to dry it for her with sacred wood inlaid with the fire of the hearth. Later, she learned the little ritual of the fire of the hearth herself and realized how useful this little thing was. She got used to using it as she went along.

Although she already knew how to use the fire in the furnace, Anne would still go to Tia's room at 16 Crown Street to blow-dry her hair.

As for why, Tia felt it might be like how monkeys catch fleas from each other! A little trick to strengthen their bond!

But Evelyn, who was standing next to her, was completely bewildered before she could even say that she could help.

When did the young lady start combing and blow-drying other people's hair?!

And she's so diligent!

Evelyn felt for the first time that Anne was such a stranger.

Tia wasn't quite sure what the head maid was thinking. She dried her hair and went to the kitchen to make some breakfast.

Evelyn was initially a little embarrassed to dine at Tia's place.

But seeing perfectly fried bacon, crispy on both sides, and grilled starch sausages with their casings bursting open.

There were also soft-boiled eggs fried on one side and freshly heated milk tea mixed with milk and sugar.

She hadn't eaten breakfast, and this traditional Ansu aristocratic breakfast was a pure calorie bomb, which was perfect for the maids' physical labor needs.

Evelyn had to admit she was craving it.

Anne loves sweets, but being from Guangdong, she can't have anything too sweet. So Tia put a little effort into making a fruit tart with a touch of custard and a dessert pudding with honey-stewed pears.

Evelyn felt inferior in this regard and had to admit that Tia was indeed skilled at cooking.

Not only is she a great cook, but she also has an unexpectedly precise grasp of the needs of Anne and her rather unassuming maid...

After the three of them had eaten their fill, Evelyn respectfully carried Tia's luggage and led the two of them into the carriage.

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First, we went to the dock in the North Port area.

The North Port area is a cargo terminal, and its maintenance and repair are far less beautiful than those of the terminals in the Greater Harbor Area, but it can accommodate larger and deeper ships. The "Madeleine" warship is also stationed in the North Port area.

Upon arriving at the port, officers from the North Port Police Station were already clearing out loiterers. Only naval soldiers, priests and nuns from the Notre Dame Cathedral, and the newly arrived Tia, Anne, and Evelyn remained on the dock.

The "Madeleine" was a ceremonial ship specially prepared for the royal family. Its interior underwent extensive renovations, retaining its armor and some firepower, while the rest was entirely geared towards enhancing the royal family's travel comfort.

Therefore, the interior was not like a normal warship that Tia knew; it was more like a large cruise ship.

For example, even though it was just a light cruiser, the dormitory prepared for Tia was almost the same as that prepared for her by the Glorious... a dozen square meters, a single bed big enough for two people, as well as a wardrobe, a bedside table and an oil lamp.

It was incredibly luxurious on board.

After Tia boarded the ship, she separated from Annie.

Anne and Tia, due to their special status, each had a single dormitory room, while Evelyn, like the other priests, had a double room.

After boarding the ship, Tia didn't sit idle either.

She had prepared paper and pen long ago and spent some time copying the Book of the Black Sea. The Book of the Black Sea appeared to be only a thin book in the Upside-Down Temple, but it actually had hundreds of thousands of pages.

It was impossible to copy everything, but she could use the important materials she found directly, such as processed oak as a substitute for sacred wood, yellow blood salt used for catalysis, and strange alchemical materials like spider glands that could enhance rapid healing rituals.

She copied down more than ten pages. Then, Tia relaxed and slowly lit the golden fire with 1g of gold.

Pfft!

A ball of white-gold flame, much smaller than her head, burst into flame. Although it didn't sound very big, when she used the Golden Fire, 1 gram of gold could only ignite a flame the size of a fist.

That creates a lot of contrast.

This is a passive bonus from Tia's Great Philosopher Sequence 6 "Transcendental Transformation," but the trade-off is a slight increase in mental stress.

Tia observed the flames with her naked eye while recording the observations.

"The volume of the Golden Fire is now estimated to be over 3000 cubic centimeters, the same as yesterday's test. This means that the overall effect of the ritual has been increased by 600% under the blessing of the extraordinary transformation?"

"That's not right either, the temperature didn't rise sixfold. But the temperature at the edge reached around 1500℃."

Tia extinguished the flames and then took a silenced rapid-fire pistol and shot herself twice in the stomach.

Two loud bangs!

The bullet pierced the skin and got stuck in the small intestine.

Tia channeled the holy light within her blood, and with two crisp sounds, the copper-cased bullets were expelled from her muscles and fell to the ground.

She looked down and saw that the wound on her lower abdomen had completely healed.

That's pretty fast!

The amount of Holy Light consumed in the blood has not decreased compared to before, but the original effect is at most equivalent to Sequence 5 "Rapid Healing", which "quickly restores non-serious and fatal injuries".

However, in reality, for injuries like the one just mentioned, normal recovery would definitely take anywhere from ten seconds to a minute.

The recovery speed just now was probably close to the effect of Sequence 4's "rapid healing," which is: "repairing severe and fatal injuries and maintaining vitality within a certain period of time."

Tia was very satisfied with the result.

Her biggest worry used to be that after the Path of Suffering shielded her from pain, she might accidentally kill herself.

Now it's a bit safer. Even if you really mess things up to the point of death, there's still light and blood to barely cover your losses.

As for whether the treatment effect actually reached Sequence 4—Tia dared not gamble on that.

I'd really shoot her in the head.

What if it doesn't get cured?