Secrets: Priestess

Chapter 220 Calm
The stars are dim and the sea is calm.

Claire borrowed the alchemy room of the Blue Avenger and continued to refine the potion materials of the Scroll Professor. A little further away, Tessa watched quietly.

Seeing Claire mixing Professor Scroll's potion but showing no sign of drinking it, he couldn't help but ask, "Aren't you going to take it?"

Potions cannot be preserved.

"The process of mixing the potion is enough for me." For Claire, in the process of mixing the potion, she can gradually guide out the power of the "Scroll Professor" sealed in the heart of the goddess, without actually taking it.

Looking at the crystal clear potion in her hand, Claire turned her head and asked Tessa, "Do you have any books or other materials that contain spiritual power?"

"Ah? Books..." Tessa thought carefully and hurriedly, then she found an ancient stone tablet in her hand. "This might be a wordless ancient book left over from the Fourth Age or even the Third Age. I wonder if it meets your requirements..."

Tessa has so many goodies...

Claire took the ancient stone book and slowly poured the potion in her hand into it.

Under the guidance of her "mechanical expert" power, the crystal clear potion turned into strange spots of light, which seeped into the ancient stone book bit by bit. Then, the shape of the stone slab gradually changed.

Claire carved out a mechanical structure that made the stone slab more three-dimensional. A stone book, transformed into one with mechanical wings that could autonomously hover around Claire, emitted a stiff, mechanical sound.
"Hello. Hello."

Claire deliberately used a lower-level analytical engine as the thinking component of this stone book. After she shouted "flame" in Hermetic, the blazing flames gushed out directly towards Tessa.

But in front of Tessa, they were all frozen into ice chips.

"Claire, you are playing with fire in front of me." Tessa looked at Claire with a hint of doubt and teasing in her eyebrows.

Claire waved her hand, causing the stone book, which had been transformed into a magical object, to fly towards Tessa and land in her arms.
"This is a magical item equivalent to half a Scroll Professor. It can automatically add scrolls, but the maximum number of scrolls that can be used per day is ten. Exceeding this limit will damage the spiritual power of the bearer."

"And because of their thirst for knowledge, they are also pursued by unknown knowledge, thus creating 'scrolls' of unknown effects within the books. If these 'scrolls' of unknown effects remain unused, they will accumulate until the books are full."

"It possesses the characteristics of a mechanical wonder, capable of hovering around its user on command. It can also possess the sturdiness to withstand enemy attacks if necessary, but such usage is not recommended."

"Is this for me?" Tessa said.

Claire nodded and said, "I don't need it."

She had already mastered the power of the "Scroll Professor", so naturally she didn't need to use it.

Tessa happily accepted the book, not because it was particularly valuable, but because she found everything Claire gave her precious. She happily named it "The Book of Testimony."

God knows what she wants to use it to witness.

Claire was deaf and blind when she named the book and programmed the name settings for the thinking components according to the method she taught.

After putting away the "Book of Testimony," Tessa smiled at Claire and said, "Captain Wilson is speculating that you're planning to take the potion to advance. Seeing how he hesitated when he escorted us in, he's probably worried you might lose control of your ship."

"He guessed I was Sequence 5, so he was worried about my advancement here." Claire chuckled and shook her head. In fact, she wasn't even Sequence 6.

However, after mastering the power of the "Scroll Professor" and crafting a large number of various magical items, she felt that the time for her to ascend again was not far away. Upon returning to land, she planned to begin preparing for the ceremony. However, the ceremony, which required at least thirteen performances, was quite tedious.

Noticing the change in Claire's expression, Tessa asked:

"Why? Do you miss land?"

"Would you like to use my 'Traveler's Pseudo-Leg' to go back? I can leave it on the ship and give you the coordinates for your return."

Hearing Tessa's suggestion, Claire shook her head and said, "Not yet. But you...if you don't go back, do you want to stay here forever?"

"Yeah, I have to go back. I have a lot of things to do." Tessa muttered. The traveler's prosthetic leg appeared in her hand. She smiled at Claire and said, "Then wait for me to come back tomorrow night."

Watching Tessa's figure fade away, Claire tidied up the alchemy room and then pushed the door open. In the dark sea, it seemed as if a sea beast had fled in fear after the ghost ship approached.

The darkness couldn't block Claire's sight. Looking at the fleeing sea beasts, Claire sighed, "I don't know if I can meet the legendary 'Mysterious Queen'. I hope Ms. Cattleya can give me a surprise."

Besides wanting to win over the powerful demigod King of the Four Seas as a backup against the Sea Witch Cult, she also had vague suspicions about the identity of the "mysterious queen"...

……

On the already far-flung "Future," the "Admiral of the Stars," after carefully reviewing the details of his conversation with Ms. Flora, finally wrote solemnly on the paper in front of him:
"There's someone suspected of being favored by 'knowledge' who's looking for a way to join the Moss Ascetic Order. I told her the Moss Ascetic Order's contact location in the North Sea. Her name is Flora, and her companion calls herself Miss Viper."

The written papers were stacked.

With a feeling of nostalgia and sadness, Cattleya played the delicate, gold-made harmonica she carried with her.

The paper disappears.

It is a mysterious messenger that even the "Eye of Prying Eyes" cannot see, and it brings this letter back to its owner.

……

Tessa appeared in Alicia's office at St. Samuel Church and noticed the fleeting attention of Saint Anthony.

She put on the body of "Alicia" and used Alicia's identity in the temple to review the recent events handled by the Night Watchmen according to the other party's habits. There was nothing particularly noteworthy among them.

It was the assistant officer, Messerli Dougherty, who abused his power for personal gain. When the Red Gloves Team 7 was short of manpower, he deliberately blocked the Nighthawks Team that should have been given to Daly Simone.

"That Galadilla has fled back to the temple, and Claire is far out at sea, yet Ms. Daly is still willing to take on the mission... She's truly a hardworking lady."

Tessa sighed, "But I can't just ignore it..."

According to Tessa's personality, she is more accustomed to physically eliminating people like Meseri, but at this time, it is not appropriate to let Alicia's confidant "disappear".

Moreover, after the church's secret investigation, that stupid and evil Messerli really didn't participate in any incidents of betrayal against the church...

(End of this chapter)