Miss Witch's Forbidden Book Secret

Professor Horner nodded and said, "Ask if you want to. No need to raise your hand."

"Professor, dragon blood is the blood of dragons... Um, the dragons in myths and legends? Or is it the name of something else?"

In fact, the two teaching assistants were also quite curious about this question.

This is also the main reason why they cannot enter the laboratory. Dragon blood is a secret of the church.

Professor Horner explained with a smile, "It's definitely not dragon blood. After all, dragons haven't been proven to exist yet. I'll have to rely on you, Sulph. Perhaps there are dragon remains in some ancient ruins?"

"The so-called dragon's blood is actually the special fuel used in the Church's power armor. You can think of it as something similar to whale oil, but it's artificially synthesized. This is a confidential project of the Church, so I can't tell you more."

The two teaching assistants asked in confusion, "Professor, if it's a special fuel, wouldn't it be better to promote it more widely? But why is it only used in power armor?"

"Good question. This relates to the method of synthesis. Don't worry, it's not confidential. The method of synthesizing dragon blood does not rely on some kind of technology, but rather on extraordinary skills."

The two teaching assistants looked even more confused. As university graduates, they had all had some exposure to supernatural powers.

However, their exposure was limited to deep dives for lucid dreams, using small props for accurate divination, and combining herbs to create unexpected potions. Others, such as those made public by the church, such as the Seven Gods under the All-Father and the Nightmare Serpent that devoured the world, were treated as legends.

As for a deeper level, it is just like the news about the Arabian Empire, very far away, like a fairy tale.

"So-called extraordinary skills are systematic techniques that master the skills related to the great powers in myths and legends. The main components are knowledge, rules, and rituals. For example, the technique of making dragon blood is a ritual."

Professor Horner glanced at Tia and asked, "Tia, how well do you know about the supernatural realm?"

Tia said: "I understand a little bit."

That's a good one, the disguise is quite good. Professor Horner looked at Tia happily and said, "Then tell your two seniors about it."

Tia did not hide her incompetence. After all, her identity as a member of the Anti-Suppression Bureau was written in her admission file.

"Seniors, seniors. Simply put, all the knowledge we can learn, that is, all the information we perceive, exists not only outside the real material world, but also in a lower world. It is like the world of ideas that ancient philosophers talked about.

"This includes not only what we have mastered, but also what we have never mastered, what we have never known. We call it the Deep Sea. It is what the church's priests call the nightmare world, the Sea of ​​Sin."

Speaking of these two teaching assistants, I kind of understand.

The Holy Church still has a great influence in Ansu. Although some myths and legends in religious classics seem like novel settings to Tia, she really believes in them.

Just like religious people on Earth, it's hard to understand why atheists are so persistent. Just like religious people can't understand why such a strange thing as atheism exists.

But guidance is not limited to means. Tia and Vera have been together for so long, and they have more or less heard some of the scriptures, so she continued:

"The church's scriptures say that after the All-Father created the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit swallowed the fruit of wisdom from the tree and gave birth to wisdom. When the original Holy Spirit looked upon all things, his gaze should have been pure and without distinction. But wisdom made them differentiate between the two.

"Thus, there are gods and men, good and evil, men and women, life and death, the solid earth-like reality and the ocean-like ebb and flow of nightmares... With the birth of these distinctions, there is room for knowledge. For example, if we were all identical, there would be no need for cognition. Only when there are differences do we need to recognize, and only when there are unfamiliar things do we need to know."

"After knowledge is born, it must also be differentiated. Knowledge cannot exist independently, so it corresponds to matter. Matter belongs to reality, while knowledge belongs to the deep ocean."

This really sounds like a fairy tale and unbelievable.

Because all this bullshit was made up by Tia based on religious scriptures...

She only knew the confusing and riddle-like words written in the archives of the Anti-Suppression Bureau: "The prophet is the beginning of wisdom, the seed of spirituality, and the guide of knowledge."

She had no idea where those strange powers came from, but it was pretty much like that, so it was enough for her to understand!

The worldviews of the two seniors were somewhat impacted.

Professor Horner's eyes lit up. He didn't expect that supernatural powers and the seven paths could be interpreted in this way.

Moreover, it starts from the mythology of the Holy Church, which is an easy introduction. It is easy to understand, logically self-consistent, and quite reasonable!

One of the seniors asked in confusion, "So, according to what you said, Junior Sister Tia, all knowledge is attributed to supernatural power. Then what does the technology of our engineering school mean?"

This question was a bit beyond the scope. Professor Horner coughed twice and said:

"In traditional viewpoints, our technology and scientific systems are also considered supernatural powers. Our current power armor would have been unthinkable even a few hundred years ago. Let me explain to Tia that there are seven paths to supernatural power. The first three and the last are paths of wisdom, which are also the four routes to understanding the world.

"Just like Professor Arthur of Iris figured out the unification of electromagnetism, the four paths of wisdom and knowledge, including our Forging Hammer, and the remaining three paths of matter and reality, also want to establish a grand unified model of their respective routes.

"Our work is quite outstanding, and the scientific system has been established, but the model is still incomplete. The Prophet's Path and the Holy Grail Path are more tragic. One aimed to establish a grand model of the dynamics of fate, but it failed aborted, while the other tried to reshape the framework of the material world through faith and scholastic philosophy, but rigidity proved ineffective. Finally, there's alchemy, but its era hasn't arrived yet, so there's no way to even talk about a unified model."

"You don't have to view so-called supernatural powers as so mysterious. Ultimately, supernatural powers are part of the laws of nature, it's just that some of them are beyond our current scientific understanding. Don't worry about any impact on the scientific system. After thousands of years, our system framework has become very complete. Even the prophets who declined thousands of years ago still have a place in the Tianfang Empire today, let alone us."

Professor Horner was very pleased to see that the two teaching assistants gradually became more open-minded.

Although everyone in the engineering school dreams of a "purely scientific world without supernatural powers," this is impossible. Ignoring the existence of real supernatural powers and pretending to be blind is unscientific in itself.

Of course, you might be able to knock out a sword by hitting it randomly with a hammer, but there is a high probability that you will hit your own hand.

Volume 1: Chapter 133: The Genius Princess Eleanor

The two new teaching assistants were confused by what they heard.

The main thing is the grand unified model, which is too abstract. Even the standard model of physics has not come out these days. As for the pursuit of the extraordinary people, especially the extraordinary people of the forging hammer, the unified model that can explain everything is even more difficult to understand.

That thing is more like trying to unify the four fundamental forces...

But Tia had received a complete education on Earth and understood Professor Horner's pursuit in this area. However, she was not concerned about this aspect and asked intentionally or unintentionally:

"Professor, what exactly is the unified model of the Tianfang Empire?"

Professor Horner asked curiously, "Are you still interested in this?"

"A friend of mine is interested in this."

"It's good to have a thirst for knowledge, but the ideas of those prophets are incomprehensible to us ordinary people. Generally speaking, they want to create something that can understand the past, present, and future, like a star map. By observing the stars, you can know everything."

This is a bit metaphysical. Tia thought of fortune-telling in her previous life and things like intelligent design theory.

Professor Horner didn't want to say more. He waved his hand and said meaningfully, "It's better to know less about these things. Otherwise, if you keep talking about them all day, you'll either become a lunatic or a charlatan."

"I also think so!"

Tia said righteously, "I will definitely persuade my friend when I get back."

The old professor glanced at Tia and seemed to be hesitant to speak.

This kid...

Professor Horner said nothing more and took Tia and two teaching assistants to visit the Yves Saint Laurent School of Engineering. Tia was going to study technical archaeology, so he took her to visit the School of History.

Each of Saint Laurent's colleges is independent, with a federal structure, and each college has an administrative team to carry out overall management.

After a short stroll, Professor Horner instructed Tia, "You've just arrived at Silver Castle. Do you have a place to stay? I have an empty utility room in my house on Charles Street. If you don't have a place to stay, I can clean it up for you and you can stay there for a few days."

"Thank you, Professor. But I already have a place to stay."

"relative?"

This is good. Professor Horner was worried that the child might not be used to Silver Castle since he had just arrived.

He knew from Daniel's letter that Tia came from an orphanage and was inevitably in a difficult situation. It would be better to have someone to take care of her.

Tia thought of Eleanor and Anne, thought for a moment, and nodded: "I guess so."

She and Anne were on a very cordial terms, pure family, Vera being half, and Eleanor, the object of her care, being another half.

"Well, then you can leave me your address later. If you are fine, go back quickly and don't let your family worry."

The black-haired girl nodded obediently, left her address, and politely left.

After everyone left, Professor Horner smiled and took the address left by Tia, and called the two teaching assistants over to discuss their accommodation issues.

Saint Laurent University certainly does not take care of the accommodation issues of teaching assistants. Generally speaking, teaching assistants have to be responsible for it themselves.

But Professor Horner also knew the rent of Silver Castle. The young man would probably have to spend half of his salary!

So he paid the rent for the two young assistant teachers, but correspondingly, his workload also increased a lot.

The two teaching assistants were very grateful. Professor Horner looked at the address Tia left and asked, a little puzzled, "16 Crown Street, it looks familiar."

The teaching assistant also heard the name and was surprised and said, "Professor, this should be the villa that the royal family prepared for Princess Eleanor, right?"

"Oh, Her Highness Eleanor."

Professor Horner was reminded of the commotion last year when Princess Eleanor was about to enroll. The students at Ansu National University were so eager to see the princess, who lived in the Silver Castle, that they were so frightened that they had to take a year off.

"I was saying it sounded familiar. It turns out to be the royal family..." Professor Horner's voice was stuck. As he got older, he became a little slow. He hadn't realized it just now, but now he felt something was wrong.

Isn't this the house prepared for Princess Eleanor? How did you, little guy, end up living in it?

Who are your relatives?

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16 Crown Street, inside the villa.

Anne originally wanted to prepare a welcome ceremony for Vera who was about to move in, but until noon, Vera and Tia did not show up.

But it was soon figured out. Eleanor directly called the royal guards and went to the Royal Cathedral and Saint Laurent Institute of Technology to inquire. Only then did she find out: It turned out that Vera's group of prospective priests were choosing their mentors in the Royal Cathedral.

It's not a big deal, just like choosing a supervisor for undergraduates, it's just a matter of going through the process. Supervisors are all bishops, and it's impossible for them to teach every priest personally. It's normal for one bishop to have more than a dozen priests.

I guess I'll be back in the afternoon.

The two girls had nothing to do, so they chatted about everything, from their childhood to makeup techniques, from their class experiences to interpersonal relationships.

Anne spoke more, while Eleanor spoke less.

But Anne's topic eventually veered to Tia. Eleanor, hearing Anne's constant mention of Tia Sulph, asked bewilderedly, "Is Miss Guard your girlfriend, Anne?"

"Huh?! Why are you asking that?"

"That sounds like someone who's in love."

Annie burst out laughing and said with a smile: "Do you know what love brain is..."

The princess said very seriously: "Of course, I have read books!"

“This is not something you can learn by reading.”

Annie shook her head and denied it, "But Tia and I are innocent. We are just good friends!"

"Oh..." Eleanor seemed to understand but still looked very confused.

She realized that Anne's words were not pure, but they were very convincing.

Based on past experience, she'd better take what Anne said now as the truth.

Eleanor asked again: "What about Miss Vera?"

"Hey, Xue... Miss Vera? I guess we're just ordinary friends, right?"

"Oh. I see."

"Eleanor, what do you understand?"

Eleanor said seriously with a stern face, "Miss Guard and I are friends! Anne and Miss Guard are friends. Miss Vera and Miss Guard are also friends."

"We're all good friends. Right?"

"Hmm. Eleanor is quite clever."

Eleanor clenched her fist slightly at Anne's praise - this time she could tell it was pure admiration.

Great! She and the escort are really good friends!

But how to get along and maintain friendship?

Eleanor, who had no friends, doubted her ability in this regard, but she still had two good friends, Vera and Anne. They must be both smart people, otherwise they would not have been invited to the villa by Tia.

All you have to do is learn how these two smart friends get along with the escort girl!

She learned to do whatever they did!

genius!

Volume 1: Chapter 134: Cheat as Much as You Can

——Boom!

Outside a town's train station, Tia lowered the brim of her hat and walked out onto the street, leaning on her cane.

This place is still within the radiation range of the Great Silver Fort, but it is already very far from the outer layer. The glamorous Great Silver Fort, whether it is housing or commodity prices, squeezes the living space of the poor. Most of the truly poor people live in towns like this one around the Great Silver Fort.

Because train tickets are extremely cheap in Ansu and it is quite close to Silver Castle, they usually take the train to work in factories around Silver Castle.

Tia had done business in Silver Castle many times and was somewhat familiar with these small towns. The control of the Avalon system gradually weakened in these places, which was a good opportunity for her to call the Silver Claw Shrike.

When I reached a deserted part of the alley, I saw spiritual crows surging in the shadows.