Miss Witch's Forbidden Book Secret

I met up with good friends and even ran into old childhood friends. What could be more enjoyable than this?

She hummed opera tunes as she placed the gifts from Eleanor and Tia on the table and opened them one by one.

The first box to be opened was Eleanor's. It was so big that it was taller than Anne. Anne asked Evelyn to help her open it and she burst out laughing.

This was something Eleanor, who was more like a child than she was, would give.

A super big furry shark!

As for Tia's, which was smaller, Annie didn't let Evelin open it, but opened the box herself. However, when she saw what was inside, her little face suddenly turned red with embarrassment, and she immediately stuffed the thing back into the box.

Evelin asked curiously, “Miss, are you dissatisfied with this gift? Or…”

“No! Sister Evelin, it has nothing to do with these. I’m quite satisfied. By the way, is Mom in the study?”

"My lady is discussing private matters with the Earl in the bedroom."

“Then please ask Sister Evelin to help me talk to my mother. I want to go to the cathedral for a baptism in a few days!”

"Okay, I understand miss, I'll be right there."

Evelin heard that it was a serious matter and nodded and left.

But just a few minutes after Evelyn pushed the door open, Anne, who was sure Evelyn had left, opened the box again.

Anne's face suddenly turned red.

Why would you give me a collar?

Well, this collar is pretty good-looking. It’s not an ambiguous design, but it’s designed to have a lapel like a collar. As long as you wear a piece of clothing with a higher collar, it won’t look like a collar at all.

There was also a cross hanging in front of it. It was just in time for her to be baptized when she came of age, so the cross was really suitable.

Anne made amends a little, but when she touched the cross, something suddenly felt wrong.

She tugged slightly.

——Crash!

The cross was pulled out instantly, and a thin silver-painted iron chain was tied to the small ring at the end of the cross at one end and the leather collar at the other end.

The one-meter-long chain instantly made the little girl's face red and almost bleeding.

Go to baptism with this kind of thing!

This life can be over, right?!

Volume 1: Chapter 71 So many letters!

After returning from Anne's birthday party, Tia devoted herself to the "Book of Hearthfire". Although she only understood the first chapter of the three chapters, the first chapter happened to be the most basic and comprehensive introduction to supernatural powers and alchemy science.

It’s useless even if she understands what’s said later, because she is not only unskilled, but also poor!

The police station's commission of one thousand gold pounds had just arrived, and Roman even added another five hundred gold pounds for her medical expenses.

But even so - a double-door [Golden Fire] would cost around 10 gold pounds, which made her feel distressed for a while. She couldn't afford the large-scale AOE skills like the meteor shower commonly seen by fire mages in online games.

At the same time, she also had to stock up on holy wood, and one kilogram of holy wood cost 70 gold pounds!

God knows how much the subsequent ceremony will cost. No wonder she read in novels that cultivators paid so much attention to money, friends, methods and land. These were the lessons learned from the blood and tears of their fellow practitioners in their hometown!

After studying the Hearthfire Book for four or five days, Tia received a lot of letters.

Although she had previously told Annie that letters from people who were chasing fame and fortune and whose minds were racing were not worth replying to, Tia still replied to all of them.

And the content of the replies was surprisingly consistent.

It was basically just some greetings, pretty standard. This kind of greeting would quickly make the other party think that Tia had a good first impression of them or them, and then they would communicate further.

Tia would use her own life experience to play the victim - she didn't even have to make it up, it was all real, and it was such an emotional outpouring.

After receiving several letters, Tia would divert the topic to how she was relying on herbal mixtures to raise tuition fees, and try to trick the other party into buying health supplements and tranquilizers.

The people at Anne's party were either rich or noble, all high-quality scams...marketing clients.

In addition, when she extorts money, she usually sells in large quantities at a small profit, and at most increases the price by 150%. She then makes up some stories about "special supply" or "secret recipe". These big customers don't even feel that they are being extorted. Instead, they think that she is selling with a conscience - because her peers at least increase the price by 500% when extorting.

As for whether these customers will cause trouble?

Just kidding, her elephant hunting rifle is unloaded...

The remaining letters were from Anne. She wrote them purely as if they were a diary. She would write about what she had eaten this morning, what she had eaten at noon, what she was going to eat in the evening, what clothes she had bought today, how she hated Evelyn, how she loved Evelyn, how she hated her mother, how she loved her mother, and so on. Sometimes, when she got lost or the words were too short, she would even write down the color of her underwear...

But to Tia's surprise, there were two more letters. One letter was sent from the Cathedral of Our Lady, saying that Bishop Marshall's letter of recommendation had been written and asked Tia to go and get it.

As for the other letter, it was from Eleanor:

Eleanor:

【….】

"Oh...even though we're so far away, I feel so close when I write to you. Writing the words feels like talking face to face. It's magical."

[I had a great time yesterday. It was so comfortable being with you, Tia, and Annie.]

Anne's bed is soft and has heating, which is good. The Silver Castle doesn't have heating, which is not good.

【I want to live with you. 】

I don't know how to write a letter. Is that it?

【Can you teach me? 】

【By the way, I bought a collar, do you need it? 】

"......"

Why would someone buy you a collar and ask you if you need it?

After reading the few lines of words on the letter that seemed to be in person, Tia reluctantly picked up the pen and wrote a reply letter to Eleanor... It was not a scam letter.

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

.............The more I keep, the easier it is to abandon one child. IV b:a........

Because the distance was not far, the letter was sent in the morning and delivered in the afternoon.

At this moment, Eleanor was following Albert onto the armored train. Because Eleanor's curse had been curbed, Albert did not let Eleanor return to Silver Castle first, but let her continue to secretly visit various constituencies along the railway with him.

However, the remaining constituencies were not as important as the second-largest industrial city of New York. They could all be completed in a few days.

The Royal Parliament also happened to begin and last for a week, so he was able to return in the last few days.

Eleanor was holding a letter in her hand, blinking, feeling strangely happy.

Albert saw this and asked with concern: "Eleanor, what's wrong? Do you want to go back to Silver Castle? If you want, I can send a train to Silver Castle first to take you back."

Eleanor shook her head and said, "No, it's just..."

"Just what?"

"It's just..." Eleanor said uncertainly, "A little happy?"

The sound fell, the steel wheels rolled over the rails, ballast splashed everywhere, and the whistle sounded.

The armored train moved slowly, and large clouds of white smoke suddenly rose from the black and red locomotive.

Shrouded in smoke.

Old Bishop Marshall stood at the window, his eyes moving away from the chimney of the chemical plant in the distance that was emitting poisonous smoke, when he heard footsteps behind him.

"Bishop, I heard that you have finished writing the letter of recommendation?"

Tia walked behind Marshall and got straight to the point.

Marshall turned around and sat down on the bench, waving his hand. "It's just a letter. I'm just getting old and can barely write anymore. I can't remember the names of all the professors in the academy, so that's why it's taken so long."

"Thanks you."

"You're welcome. I also wrote a letter to that old fellow Peter, recommending you."

"Peter..." Tia was surprised to find the name familiar and asked, "Pope?!"

"Yes, I also asked him to write you a letter of recommendation. After all, I'm too old, and I haven't been back to Silver Castle in a long time. But he doesn't trust you as much as I do. Little Sulfu, you have to know that no matter what organization it is, whether in the extraordinary world or the secular world, they are quite distrustful of extraordinary powers, so they try their best to restrict the spread of extraordinary knowledge and power.

"Especially someone as talented as you, we have to be more careful. I hope you can understand."

Tia nodded and said, "After all, talented villains are indeed dangerous."

Marshall laughed and said, "That's right. If we don't take care of it, we'll all be doomed. Otherwise, how do you think the promotion ceremony came about?"

"Wait, you mean the promotion ceremony hasn't always been there?"

"of course not."

Marshall said, "This is a man-made ritual. Over a thousand years ago, the saints of various nations—those above Sequence 3—banded together and signed a contract with the spiritual creatures of the deep sea."

"They allow the spiritual beings that sign the contract to gain a portion of their own power, thereby freeing themselves from the constraints of the deep sea, freely entering the nightmare, and even surfacing. The price is: these spiritual beings must act as the host of the ceremony, acting as a third party to conduct the ceremony fairly and impartially to select extraordinary people.

"The Saints' goal is to restrain the expansion of supernatural powers, preventing the frequent birth and destruction of supernatural powers from affecting human development. This also protects the safe advancement of low-sequence supernaturals and prevents the number of high-sequence supernaturals from increasing.

"Of course, that's not what I want to tell you. The point is that old Peter is worried that you might turn to evil and chaos. So he included a small test in the letter of recommendation for you. But I'm sure you, little Sulph, won't turn to evil, right?"

Tia considered it over and nodded, "I think I am a partner of justice."

"Then trust your intuition." The old bishop smiled, took out a letter, and said, "There are four rituals hidden in the body of this letter of recommendation."

"Whether you can discern rituals determines your belief in truth, goodness, and beauty; how many rituals you discern determines your talent.

"The lowest-level ritual is the Holy Blood in the Cup. It's normal to see this, after all, you have already mastered this ritual.

"Then there's the silver cup. Most Sequence 8 priests and nuns can see this ceremony, but higher levels can't. So, seeing the ceremony proves your exceptional talent."

Tia took the recommendation letter, opened it and took it out.

There is nothing strange about the main text, it is just a normal recommendation, and below it are the prayers used by the church in the morning and evening.

But looking at the prayers...

How did she figure out there were four whole rituals?!

Volume 1: Updated later today

I'm a bit busy at work, I'll update in the afternoon and evening

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Volume 1: Chapter 72: Sister's Puppy

There were exactly four rituals. As long as the order of the prayers was shuffled and then reassembled, Tia would see the words on the pages distorted and changed.

Like an illusion, on the black ink, four holy grails, a crystal cup, a silver cup, a gold cup, and a red cup, appeared in front of Tia one after another.

Especially the last one - the red cup.

Tia almost thought she was dazzled. She clearly felt that the Red Cup Ritual and her own extraordinary characteristic "Red Cup" were no different. They were exactly the same thing!

So what about her promotion ceremony?

The three extraordinary characteristics at the time were [Salt Covenant], [Red Cup], and [Spirit Transplant].

The last spiritual transplant was definitely a characteristic of the Ouroboros pathway.

But what about the remaining two?

She remembered that she hadn't prayed. She had prayed for Alchemy and Oak in the Earth. How come these two paths didn't give her any special features, while the Holy Grail path was rushing to feed her!?

Marshall continued to ramble on, "Peter has always been very strict with you younger generations. He's a genius, so he often holds others to the same standards as geniuses. Even in his old age, he hasn't gotten over this bad habit. He even included the ritual for advancing from Sequence No to Sequence 7 in this recommendation letter."