Miss Witch's Forbidden Book Secret

"You are not Tia Sulph!"

"Am I not myself?"

The girl on the sofa was stunned for a moment. She looked at Annie, then created a mirror to look at herself. "Huh?"

Annie said, confused, "Nothing has changed!"

She sleeps with Tia every night, how could she not recognize her?

The little witch beside her muttered things like, "How could this be?", "Is there really someone who looks like this?", "How did she become so weak?", and "How could Claire lie to me?" while staring intently at Tia's face with her brows furrowed.

It's so similar, so incredibly similar.

And the name Tia Sulph is absolutely correct.

Tia noticed an address the little witch in front of her had mentioned.

——【Tianfang】

Tia showed no surprise or loss of composure, but simply asked, "You mean you met me in Tianfang?"

Anna took several steps back, incredulous, and said, "Exactly the same! Yes, but you were much stronger back in Tianfang than you are now! When I met you last year, you were already Sequence 4! But how did you become Sequence 6 now?"

The girl raised an eyebrow. "I didn't go to Tianfang last year, and I haven't this year either."

However, this made Tia somewhat suspicious.

Maximiliana—the Witch of the Silver Watch—Tia had heard of this name. She was one of the leaders of the opposition who lived in the mountains of southeastern Tianfang.

Maximian was originally the name of a famous leader of a slave revolt in ancient Arabia, and also a renowned prophet who foretold the inevitable demise of Arabia a thousand years later. Maximiana is his feminized name.

Her surname, Parra, was chosen by herself and means "to surpass," implying "greater than Maximian." However, Anna herself often suffered setbacks, frequently being driven to flee by the prophets of the Palace of Wisdom, making her particularly notorious among the opposition.

Meanwhile, Treasure Bay, southeast of Tianfang, where Anna was located, happened to be an important supply port where her sister Avina Sulph's research vessel docked.

If this guess is correct.

So her jerk sister who hasn't been home for a year and a half seems to be alive and well?

But why use her name to run around everywhere?!

Is she afraid that her real name will be revealed and she'll be cursed by a petty prophet? But is using her sister's name to ward off a curse really something a good older sister should do?!

And last time—when she went to Silver Castle to study, she discovered that the professors and teaching assistants had received a raise three years ago. Teaching assistants now had a basic salary of up to 12 gold pounds per month and at least 5 gold pounds for teaching expenses, plus housing allowances, which was more than enough to make ends meet.

Not to mention, Avina often participates in scientific expeditions, which typically offer a monthly salary of over 20 gold pounds.

Last year, when she first started earning money, she worried that Avina wouldn't have enough, so she sent her 100 gold pounds. But that jerk of a sister happily replied that not only would she stop sending her living expenses, but she also started asking her for money...

Tia had initially missed Avina a little, but after discovering that her sister was still the worst of the worst—she decided to ignore it once she was sure Avina was still alive and kicking.

Not to mention Anna also mentioned another keyword: [Sequence Four].

She couldn't help but twitch her eyelids when she heard the word.

But this raises another problem.

When did Avina arrive at Sequence Four? Why was she completely unaware of it?

And where is she now, and why did she not continue the scientific expedition on the ship, but instead encountered Maximilian, who was hiding in the mountains?

Hearing Tia's questions, Anna remained silent for a long time, speechless.

Tia was shocked and asked, "You mean you know nothing?"

Anna, hands on her hips, retorted indignantly, "How would I know any of this? You barged into our village and dug up two large baskets of potatoes from our fields, and you even stole our salt and forks! I chased you for over a hundred kilometers but couldn't catch you! I almost got targeted by the prophet from the Palace of Wisdom!"

"I already said I didn't do it!"

"That was done by your sister. Whoever it was, you killed Amir. Well done!"

Anna gave Tia a thumbs-up and praised her, then said angrily, "But you stole our things, and most importantly! You even cheated me out of the seven wonders my grandmother left me with a bet. You're rotten to the core!"

Annie, who was standing next to her, whispered, "She seems to be quite reasonable."

Tia asked, puzzled, "I already said I didn't do it, so what are you planning to do?"

The little witch pointed at Tia and said sternly:

"I came here to challenge you to a new bet!"

"What are you gambling?"

"I'm betting on who can defeat the Prophet of the Palace of Wisdom. I've spotted two great prophets coming to this city!"

The "Great Prophet" that Anna refers to is not the leader of the Palace of Wisdom, but a purely honorific title, referring to a prophetic transcendent being of Sequence Four or above.

The number of Saints is always limited, and those in Sequence Four are generally the top combat force of the Wisdom Palace.

Therefore, those who wish to flatter would refer to the fourth-order prophet as the "Great Prophet," and over time this became a common saying among the Arabian people. Even today, some still refer to the fifth-order prophet as the "Great Prophet."

Tia was learning for the first time that titles could be subject to inflation...

The silver-watched witch before him solemnly declared, "If I defeat the prophet first, you must return the seven miracles to me!"

Tia said blankly, "I didn't!"

"You, you! How can you be so unreasonable?"

Anna was getting anxious, and the ice on her face started to melt, turning into streams of water, like tears.

Milke awkwardly tried to smooth things over, "Your Grace, you have indeed come to the wrong person. But the prophets are indeed here. How about the Alchemy Society and I provide you with equivalent resources in exchange for your help in fighting these two prophets?"

Anna said, "I don't want that, I only want the seven miracles!"

Tia was experienced in dealing with this kind of stubbornness and said, "If you come to help, I will try my best to find my sister for you."

"And you won't lose out by coming to help."

“Maximiliana, you are the leader of the resistance. The weaker the Palace of Wisdom is, the stronger your opposition will be. It will be beneficial for you to stay here and help us.”

The little witch hesitated and said, "Since you put it that way, I'll think about it some more."

"But you're different from your sister, you're a good person!"

The little witch said earnestly.

—Tia wholeheartedly agrees!

However, the thought of Avina flashed through her mind like lightning.

If Avina went to Heaven on purpose...

Avina was so carefree in leaving her younger sister in Ansu, but she hadn't revealed anything about her supernatural powers to Avina at that time.

In other words, Avina was originally following the path of the prophet?

This was different from what Tia had expected—she had guessed that Avina probably had some supernatural power, but she guessed it was related to the forging hammer in her advanced studies in the field of power engineering.

If he was a prophet, that makes sense too.

She and her sister Avina had dug many graves together; Avina herself was an expert in archaeology. In this world, knowing the past is knowing the future.

Then came the last time Avina sent a large sum of living expenses...

It seems to have been the very day she obtained the Book of the Hearth?

The little witch sadly opened the window, and the cold wind blew in, freezing the tears on her face again.

On the sofa, the girl suddenly opened her eyes, her long, black hair fluttering in the wind.

"I see......"

Annie looked over with some concern.

Milke hesitated and asked, "Director Sulph, what have you discovered?"

Tia shook her head and said, "It's nothing, just some of my sister's guesses. Of course, the focus now is on the prophets—from what you're saying, the dragon hunter Santis has already arrived in Mistmoon City?"

Chapter 359 The Philosopher's Stone and Pure Things

There are still 12 hours until this grand academic salon.

Sitting in the chair, Guzar slowly stroked the crystal ball. The moment he opened his eyes, the heavy cloth wrapped around his head was removed layer by layer.

She took a deep breath of the biting cold air, and with a whoosh, her long black hair cascaded down, the edges of which quickly turned white and dried, like shrubs after a frost.

Guzar's sapphire blue eyes seemed frozen, staring intently at the group of people coming and going outside the Milk villa on the crystal ball. He then quickly looked away, and the scene on the crystal ball flashed by before returning to darkness.

He reached out and took two bottles of molten liquid covered in water vapor from the reagent rack, uncorked them and drank them down. His hair quickly turned black, and his pupils gradually returned to the light green color common to the people of Arabia.

Behind him, Santis’s polite and magnetic voice came from behind.

"Prophet! You've set your sights on the Sparrow's Tail Theatre?"

"It's the Fontainebleau district."

Guzal gulped down two vials of potion, waved his hand, and said, "I saw Maximilian in the Fontaine Palace district. The witches' daughter. She's meeting with former minister Milke."

"Tsk..."

Upon hearing the name Milke, Santis tightened his grip on his cane slightly. The scene of Milke signing his name and having the artillery regiment blast him out of the manor was still vivid in his mind.

Being bombed was bad enough, but the real problem was that Milke also stole his Prototype Antimony, which he had intended to use as raw material for the Philosopher's Stone!

However, Santis was not one to act rashly. He glanced at the chilling aura emanating from Guzar and asked, "You were discovered by Silver Watch?"

"No, I wouldn't be spying directly under the gaze of a Sequence Four. I was just peeking at the street outside the villa—but I was still affected by the blessings left to her by the six witches."

“These ancient curses have accumulated over thousands of years and are so powerful that even the Great Prophet has some headaches. If they all explode, even if you and I go together, we will be frozen into eternal ice sculptures.”

Guzal shrugged, not taking it seriously, and said, "However, I haven't had direct contact with Maximilian, so these curses don't affect me much."

"But I also noticed another interesting person—Tia Sulph."

Guzal fiddled with the reagent rack and alchemical instruments on the table, paused, and then said, "She was a key figure in the failure of the plan that the Great Prophet entrusted to Amir. If Murad goes to the Grand Theater, I estimate he will take action against Sulph."

“Dragon Hunter, come and do me a favor. Help me stop Murad. We can’t drag Ansu into this now, otherwise if Bernice comes over, or if Ansu sends a bunch of warships to besiege Golden Moon Bay, our plans will be in big trouble again.”

Upon hearing this, Santis, who was leaning against the wall with his cane by the door, pondered for a long time before finally nodding and saying:

"Sure. But I need some payment."

Santis walked up to Guzal's alchemy table and asked with interest, "You're going to deal with Ibn Musa, right?"

“Leave Ibn Musa’s spinal cord and brain to me, and I might consider helping you stop that master assassin!”

Guzar was taken aback when he heard this request.

The prophets are the most proficient in the spiritual path: flesh and blood are the substance of the spirit, while the spinal cord and brain are the essence of the flesh and blood.

This is indeed a good thing, and theoretically it can even replace things like gold and star antimony in many rituals, but it has very few practical uses—because once a superhuman dies, their flesh and blood will be quickly contaminated by the superhuman knowledge in their memory system.

In reality, there are only two kinds of "spiritual flesh and blood" that can replace gold and star antimony: one is the flesh and blood of ordinary people, and the other is the flesh and blood of extraordinary individuals at Sequence 4 and above.

The former is because the soul has very little contact with the deep sea, and the flesh and blood are polluted very slowly, or even prevented in advance.

This is what cultists use for blood sacrifices, but the cost-effectiveness is too low. A carefully prepared adult flesh sacrifice is about the same as two or three grams of gold.

—A person is worth far more than two or three grams of gold. Even the poorest factory laborer in Ansu earns a gold pound a month.

You have to admit that capitalists are the real devils.

The latter is because the soul of a Sequence Four transcendent is "completely immersed in transcendent elements," with consciousness, thoughts, memories, and soul completely integrated and no longer leaking out.

After a Sequence Four transcendent dies, the physical body, detached from the soul, becomes even purer, which is what is known as: the essence of the blood and bones of a pure being.

Guzar thought for a long time but still couldn't figure out what Santis wanted to do with this thing.

However, they had no intention of retrieving Ibn's body in the first place.

Throwing it at these alchemists to attract the attention of the society is not bad.

Guzal nodded and said, "The deal is done."

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That's how fishing is.

Early in the morning, Holly squatted down next to Ibn Musa and carefully pulled the fishing rod, earnestly teaching him how to fish.

Ibn was even somewhat moved for a moment.

He spent his entire life as a teacher, and now, decades later, he's become a student of a young man...