Miss Witch's Forbidden Book Secret

Shrike was surprised and asked, "Have you figured it out?"

Tia noticed the key point and did not answer the question. Instead, she asked, "Can you remember the words on these secret books?"

The silver-white flying puppy scratched its head with its wings and said, "I can remember a little bit."

"Three more bottles of top-quality wine, nine bottles of premium quality, and twelve bottles of various kinds each month. You are allowed to steal wine without question or pursuit, and you can handle the matter as you see fit."

This was the best treatment Tia had offered recently. The Shrike was immediately attracted, but his intelligent brain quickly took over.

Shrike looked at Tia's serious expression and suddenly felt a little scared.

"What are you doing?!"

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What are you doing?

Of course it’s copying books!

Time was tight and the task was heavy, so Tia asked Shrike to go to the Royal Capital Cathedral that day to prepare for her plan of copying books.

The Royal Capital Cathedral is of course equipped with a protection system. It has precautions and detections against all kinds of spiritual creatures. If you rush in rashly, you will be hit by a blast of holy fire. Even high-sequence spiritual creatures will not be able to withstand it.

But the Shrike, the King of Ravens, is exactly that bug-like existence.

Because St. Vincent developed the Seal of the Crows, the Church was completely defenseless against the crows in Laurel Forest!

Even though there were suspected problems with the Seal of the Crows recently, the Church only ordered the temporary suspension of related rituals, and did not remove the ravens from the church's whitelist.

So for Shrike, coming to the Royal Capital Cathedral was like coming home, completely stress-free.

But going home to visit and going home to steal the gold under Lao Deng's bed are two different things.

He didn't dare to use the raven form, so he disguised himself as a priest in human form.

Shrike was under a lot of pressure at the moment. Whenever a patrolling priest came, he would immediately retreat. He copied in fear like this for two days.

After finally copying most of the book, he planned to take the manuscript with him for a strategic retreat, but as luck would have it, he was spotted by Bishop Famas who was on patrol.

The bishop actually didn't notice anything unusual. He just turned a corner and vaguely saw a figure moving stealthily.

After the patrol was over, Famas realized, "Who was that priest just now?"

Summon all the priests who are guarding the Great Library.

Famas was even more confused, feeling something was wrong – why did the shapes not seem to match?

The priest he saw was very petite, about 1.4 to 1.5 meters tall - of course, it might also be that it was too late and he couldn't see clearly.

But no matter what, there is no matching number.

Immediately, he went to the room where the secret book was kept and checked it carefully.

"The secret books are all well preserved, and there are no signs of anyone walking or touching them. Am I dazzled?" Famas was incredulous.

His intuition told him that this matter might not be simple.

Intuition is as important as rational thinking for extraordinary people. He got up and went to the Apostolic Palace to pay homage to Pope Peter.

Upon hearing this, Peter also felt that the matter was urgent and serious. After considering for a moment, he personally arranged the next ceremony using a blessed mirror.

When the holy candle was lit, the scene that Famas had seen appeared in the mirror.

But when the perspective turned from the back of the hurried figure to the front, the two bishops, who were considered knowledgeable, were both stunned.

I saw a strange creature with a crow head, neither human nor half-human, holding many pages of manuscript paper, with human-like panic and fear in its eyes.

"Crack" sound!

The scene stopped abruptly.

The Pope and Bishop Farmas looked at each other, speechless for a moment.

Volume 1: Chapter 147: Substituting the Heaven and the Earth for the Day

In the middle of the night, with the light on in the study, Tia moved the ground pine soot ink from the table and carefully smudged it with a spray bottle.

If you look closely, you can see the Chinese handwriting on the manuscript paper - it's a bit ugly.

There's no way around it. Tia hasn't written Chinese for sixteen or seventeen years, so her hands are rusty.

It was good that she could still remember how to write it, but even so, it was still much more orthodox than the Hearthfire Book scribe who drew Chinese characters as characters.

As for what to do, it's very bold.

Immediately, she spent the entire night aging the manuscript paper.

Use hydrogen peroxide to oxidize, black tea liquid to make it look old, cinnabar and salt to rust the texture, and then use vinegar vapor to accelerate fading. Finally, you have to manually repair the worn wrinkles and holes, and artificially remove the mold spots.

This was her basic skill from her previous life, and of course she didn't neglect it in this life either - she wholesaled a lot of antiques, the kind that the police officers would call a real criminal when they saw her.

But in my previous life, I did aging just to get by, so I was not enthusiastic and my skills were poor.

But it’s different now. The aging process is a pure love of knowledge. What you love is your life, and the craftsmanship has improved instead.

After all the processes were completed, compared with the original "Book of Hearthfire", the similarity was more than 90%.

There are ways to be more like Tia, but it takes a lot of time.

She was too late.

After a good sleep that day, Tia woke up the next day and went to the Royal Capital Cathedral with the bound old books.

Today, Saint Engard's delegation will arrive at the Fog Harbor Pier, so we need to complete the final inspection.

Tia arrived and made sure that there were no observers around. She used a few rituals to check and confirmed that there was no prying and there were no strange rituals on the secret book. Then she stuffed this "Book of Hearthfire" in and took out another one.

As soon as she finished this, Tia turned around and saw Bishop Erfamas walking towards her from a distance.

When Famas saw Tia, he frowned and said, "Commissioner Sulph, your guess from the other day turned out to be correct. There's a big problem!"

"what?"

Tia feels like she is the big problem...

Famas sighed and said, "Just yesterday! We discovered the ravens of Laurel Forest—the contracted party of the Seal of the Crows, one of the Church's eight holy seals. One of them actually ran into the Great Library. I wonder what it did there!"

"Yeah! That's so weird!"

Tia followed the stick and nodded repeatedly.

She thought she had been discovered.

It seems that the Shrike is being targeted.

"Did you find anything during the inspection?"

Tia said: "Everything is normal."

"Yes! This is so strange, everything is normal! So what are these crows doing here? They don't seem to be doing anything."

Famas was extremely confused and couldn't understand what was going on with these crows.

Especially the Shrike, the Raven King of the Laurel Forest, seemed to have broken free from the shackles put on him by St. Vincent during this period, and they could not contact him at all.

Famas said, "At least everything is normal now. The envoys from Saint Engard will arrive soon. I will immediately arrange for the priests to move the secret book over and hand it over. Otherwise, if I continue to stay in the church, I really don't know what will happen!"

"Yes, yes."

Tia nodded in agreement.

The crowned bishop had done nothing wrong. If they didn't move out quickly, Tia would have Shrike copy half of it again.

Famas also went in to check it out. The church's method of inspection was not based on memory comparison - these texts had their own thresholds, and most of them were unmemorable, just like Tia's previous reading of the book, she would forget what she read quickly.

They have a more advanced method, a special ritual that can be used to check whether one of the sixty-nine secret books sent by the Knights that year is included.

But this inspection is powerless to prove Tia's fraud.

Hers is the real thing, more authentic than the real thing. She even corrected a lot of typos in the original version...

Famas checked the forty-five secret books one by one, and after confirming that they were correct, he personally escorted them and immediately transferred them to Fog Harbor.

Tia also took the subway to the customs office at Wugang Wharf to take over.

But she had other things to do during this time.

Although she had obtained the secret codex, and there was definitely enough material for Professor Bernard, it was not a guarantee, and she could not pin all her hopes on Professor Bernard alone.

The Raven Shrike had told her that there was still a lineage of Saint Arle's successors, and that they had extraordinary rituals that enabled them to understand all unknown languages.

But the successor of Saint Alas is now in the Imperial Church.

Churches in various countries are relatively independent, and even priests from the Holy Church find it difficult to infiltrate, let alone contact each other.

Tia's eyes flickered as she muttered to herself, "The situation with the Empire, Anzu, and Iris is dire. I probably won't be able to contact the Holy Church or the Knights. But there are ways around this."

"But no matter what, we have to get out of Ansu first. If we stay in Ansu, we really can't do anything."

As for how to get out, Tia had already made arrangements.

As my thoughts were drifting, the subway arrived at the station. The rumbling steam train blew its whistle and billowed white smoke.

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- Om!

——Buzz! !

The armored ship approached the shore, and after a few whistles, a blue and white cross flag slightly different from that of the Holy Church fluttered in the air.

Saint Engard's lineup this time is quite luxurious.

Leading the group was the Knights' Vice-Captain, Hojier, a middle-aged man in his fifties with thick black hair, a Silver Knight who had already completed the Sequence 3 promotion.

At this rate of promotion, he is almost certain to be the next commander-in-chief.

In addition, there are several Grand Masters of the Knights Templar, each of whom has reached Sequence 5; there are nearly a hundred Knights of the Church, each of whom has undergone a ritual transformation and has reached a Sequence level of at least Sequence 7.

Unlike Anzu's knights who like to wear power armor, these knights are more "fundamentalist" and have a slightly higher sequence level.

Although they also had a large number of gunpowder weapons, unlike the knights of Ansu, they had not undergone a lot of visible body modifications, nor were they as dependent on various equipment as the knights of Ansu.

The Anzu Knights are more like human tanks, and they are mobile fortresses on the battlefield.

Compared to the Ansu Knights, these Silver Knights of Saint Engard are more like commissioners of the Defense and Suppression Bureau. They have strong individual combat capabilities. Even if they have nothing on them, they can still cause chaos in a city.

After Hojier got off the boat, he had a brief handover with the church staff, and the topic quickly turned to the secret book that was handed over to the Holy Church for safekeeping.

There were only forty-five books left out of the sixty-nine - this loss rate was within Saint Engard's expectations.

Although the mystical value of these sixty-nine secret books is inestimable, for Saint Engard and Iris now, the value of each book is different.

For example, the secret books of the paths of the King, the Oak in the Earth, and the Holy Grail are useful, but there are not many of them.

Saint Engard didn't come here for these things.

The most important ones are the ten books involving alchemy.

After meeting Famas, Hojier got straight to the point, shook hands repeatedly, and said earnestly, "Bishop Famas! You have been of great help this time!"

Famas was completely confused. "Captain Hogir, aren't you being too polite?"

"Polite? No! You don't know what those people in the Alchemy Society are doing! They're completely crazy! Back then, their philosophers stole the Book of Sublimation from the team escorting the secret code, and the scholars of the Hand of Transformation stole the Book of Transformation. We originally thought that they just wanted to obtain that ancient knowledge and would be restrained."

"But now they've actually begun experimenting with those taboos, attempting to artificially synthesize spiritual creatures and recreate the divine vessel! We have no doubt their next move will be to take advantage of your negotiations with them and demand the secret tome from the Great Library!"

Hojier held his breath tightly in his chest and said angrily, "This is not only arrogance, but also a blatant betrayal of King Lud! We will never allow any more alchemical tomes to fall into the hands of Iris, especially those alchemists!"

King Ludd was the first king of Iris, the Knight King Ludd. His deeds were renowned, including sacrificing his entire royal family to cleanse Iris of the Great Plague, and demanding that no Iris people, from then on, make any pacts with the gods.

Upon hearing what the Alchemy Society had done, Bishop Famas was so shocked that he gasped and was hesitant to speak.

not good!

The Hearthfire Book seems to have flowed into the Iris?!

Volume 1: I took a day off because I had a little problem installing the computer

I just changed the motherboard U, and the new CPU needs to upgrade the cooling, so I bought a cooling fan with dual fans and seven heat pipes.