Miss Witch's Forbidden Book Secret

The Victory Sword ruthlessly pierced the throat, carrying deadly poison. After creating a bloody hole, it quickly became transparent and disappeared.

boom!

"Bachmann! What are you doing instead of reinforcing the spatial lock...Bachmann!"

The high-sequence prophet behind him saw Bachman slump to the ground and was about to scold him when he saw bright red blood seeping from beneath him, and his eyes widened in shock.

Immediately—the young prophet's body decayed and melted at a visible speed, turning into a pool of pus and blood in just a few breaths.

The high-sequence prophet was speechless with shock, and then heard exclamations from his colleagues behind him.

"Shahtit has been assassinated! The spatial lock has been broken by an unknown entity, the node has failed, and the direction is from the banquet hall! The direction is from the banquet hall!"

"Oh no! The spatial lock on the Hall of Mirrors has also been broken, and Milke has arrived there!"

"Bachman has also been assassinated. Reactivate Node One immediately!"

"Node Four is activating the Hidden Eye and has located the assassin! The target is Ambassador Anzu, Tia Sulph, a Sequence Six Alchemist!"

After the words "Sequence Six Alchemist" were uttered, the prophets fell silent for a moment.

If they were assassinated by Milke, at least they could still salvage the situation.

To be reduced to this state by a Sequence 6 warlock truly shows their incompetence.

Several high-ranking prophets at Sequence 5 exchanged glances, their expressions slightly annoyed, and immediately ordered, "Retaliate against the assassins at once!"

Of the six ritual nodes of the Maze, two are aligned with the banquet hall.

The four Sequence 5 rituals, namely [Weakness Curse], [Protection Invalid], [Soul Severing], and [Deadly Light], were activated almost simultaneously and focused on Tia.

For the remaining four nodes, the prophets, burdened by their weakened souls, chose to give Murad one last helping hand.

The four Sequence 4 rituals, namely 【Peering into the Future】, 【Time Reversal】, 【Wounds Warehouse】, and 【Celestial Revelation】, were completed simultaneously on Murad, providing protection.

Chapter 367 Annie: Hands on your heads, everyone squat down!

In the Hall of Mirrors, the garden and green space that should have appeared through the tall floor-to-ceiling windows have now turned into a purplish-black vortex.

In the corridor, which resembled a giant's palace and was watched by numerous relief knights, a stone dragon emerged from a vortex, spewing gray-white rainbow light at Murad. Any organic matter touched by the rainbow light was instantly transformed into stone.

A new moon is rising behind Murad.

Then came the burst of moonlight, which protected Murad, allowing him to move freely amidst the petrifying breath.

He raised his scimitar and pointed it into the distance. The moonlight behind him gathered into a dazzling silver-white sphere of light, which, like a bowling ball accelerating, streaked straight through the air and rushed towards all the glass mirrors in the passageway ahead.

Those stone statues that tried to protrude from the mirror and block the sphere of light were all dealt with by Murad wielding his scimitar.

As the sphere of light traversed the corridor, a piercing, crackling noise, like electric sparks, rang out. Its moonlight-forged spherical structure was rapidly collapsing, and the light within violently collided and intertwined.

Then, it exploded with a deafening roar, and a hurricane suddenly arose!

A blinding, intense light exploded violently, and a violent shockwave echoed throughout the entire mirrored corridor. This shockwave, comparable to a hydraulic hammer, was accompanied by a strong release of energy, and with a series of cracking sounds, all the mirrors shattered.

Even Murad, who was presiding over the ceremony, was within range of the attack.

The intense and high-frequency energy shock burned away his purplish-red robe and all the hair on his body, and the stratum corneum on his skin melted and solidified in an instant, like the surface of polished pottery.

However, he had already achieved his goal—Ibn Musa had completely lost his last refuge.

As the glass shattered, the old man hidden in the strange space was forced to leave and appeared in the mirrored corridor.

“Ibn, I have waited too long for this day.”

"Your students, your perseverance, your faith, your path, your statues, and you, this pathetic heretic, all disgust me!"

Murad, wielding a scimitar, approached Ibn and sneered, "Now, what can protect you?"

Ibn Musa said helplessly, "Murad, is this all the fuss you've come to do to kill me?"

"Child's play? Perhaps."

“I will hang you in the Obelisk Square of the God-given city of Bursa, so that you may face final judgment under the sun’s gaze. For the Empire, and for Amir.”

But at this moment, Murad's blade paused.

It wasn't because of Ibn, but because four powerful rituals suddenly appeared on him!

Peeking into the Future, Time Reversal, Wound Warehouse, Celestial Revelation.

All of them are Sequence 4 ritual items that have a strong auxiliary effect on direct combat!

Without a doubt, this was the work of the prophets, but why would they suddenly add a ritual to themselves—the hidden eye could clearly see that he had now turned the tables and gained the upper hand.

That means the prophets now consider him very dangerous.

Murad gripped the gleaming cat's-eye emerald on the hilt of his knife, swiftly drew it, and retreated.

With the blessing of [Peeping into the Future], he saw it with his own eyes—

—Sizzle!

The art of the moth.

Moths fluttered their wings where they landed in front of him, raising pure white dust, igniting sparks as they flew upwards. Wherever they touched, stones quickly weathered and silver rapidly corroded.

Even gold, which is said to be eternal, becomes pitted and uneven under the dust of moths.

Jeremiah...impossible. Jeremiah couldn't have come so soon.

It is Milke—Milke's simulation technique.

But why is Milk here? What about the spatial lock?!

What happened to the space lock that was supposed to be absolutely problem-free?

The mirror shattered, and sunlight streamed in from outside. The celestial revelation instantly gave Murad the accurate answer, while also making him feel utterly absurd.

What are those prophets up to?!

Right behind him, Milke took off his white gloves, looked at the Mirrored Hall that was in complete disarray, and sighed deeply.

He knows it!

Those damned prophets, of all places to attack Ibn, they had to choose the Sparrow's Tail Theatre! The economic losses caused by the destruction of this Hall of Mirrors alone are probably almost equal to the cost of training a double-digit Sequence 5 alchemist!

Fortunately, he arrived just in time!

Milke's expression quickly turned cold, and he shouted, "Master Murad! Come with me to the Ministry of the Interior. We should discuss the losses caused by your disturbance at the Grand Theater."

Murad narrowed his eyes slightly, his mind racing.

Escape is virtually impossible now. Once the spatial lock fails, he can say he can't escape; Jeremiah can keep an eye on him at any moment.

One Milke, and one Ibn:

He himself was seriously injured, and he had almost killed all the stone statues, so he was no threat.

Milke's body had been transformed into a living dead after fighting Sazdive, so how much power does he still have worth gambling on?

Although the celestial revelation was frantically warning him of impending danger.

However, the remaining two rituals given by the prophets, [Time Reversal], can reverse the flow of his physical body for three seconds, even death; [Wound Warehouse] can store his injuries, maintain his peak condition, and then gradually remove the injuries after the battle.

If they could hold Milke hostage, they might be able to negotiate with the Alchemy Society to spare their lives.

In this case...

Murad stopped, raised his scimitar again, and said calmly, "Minister Milke, enough talk, let's get started!"

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"No, no, no, no!"

High in the sky, seven winds blew, scattering a patch of frost.

Anna, clutching a tub of ice cream, was lifted into the air by a gust of cold wind. The biting wind beside her was like a docile puppy, chasing after her as she ran wildly.

—But at this very moment, the spatial lock was pierced!

She even bought ice cream at a dessert shop two kilometers away!

Because of the tight schedule, Anna didn't even have time to pay. She could only take off her sapphire ring and give it to the shop assistant, who was quite startled and thought it was a toy the child had gotten from somewhere.

To be honest, this was the first time Anna, who had lived in Tianfang Mountain for decades, had ever tasted ice cream. She never imagined that milk and frosting sugar could make such a delicious treat.

What was she doing with her superpowers all this time?!

The ice cream is delicious.

Delicious as it was, Anna was still annoyed, thinking, "I almost lost the bet because of my gluttony, Maximilian, what were you thinking!"

Just as she finished feeling annoyed, Anna grabbed the ice cream bucket and flew down from the Sparrowtail Theatre, crashing headfirst into the Hall of Mirrors, and even scooped out a spoonful of ice cream to eat.

The ice cream is so delicious...

She wasn't late; she arrived less than half a minute later than Milke.

When Murad saw the "Daughter of Frost" licking her fingers while holding a bucket of ice cream, his mood plummeted.

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Meanwhile, in the underground chamber.

Unlike Murad, who was surrounded and trapped by high-sequence enemies, the prophets felt as if their worldview was about to collapse.

They first used the Maze Lock to place four Sequence 5 curses on Tia Sulph.

Then the Sequence Six prophets joined forces to cast a curse on Sulph that resulted in four Sequence Sixes.

—This also includes the [Death Ray], an instant-death curse that causes the soul to rapidly corrode and collapse as long as the deep-diving limit is not greater than 10km.

Even at a depth of more than 10km, it is equivalent to a "soul cut".

In addition, the [Soul Cut] inflicted by the Lock of the Soul makes this level of offensive ritual powerful enough to cause even a Sequence Four transcendent to suffer a splitting headache and be unable to think if caught off guard.

Furthermore, they had already performed [Protection Weakening] and [Weakness Curse] to remove the protective and amplifying rituals from her.

But she was perfectly fine and was still jumping around!

In the hidden eye, the prophets saw Tia's spirits become increasingly excited, and then everything went black.

"What the hell is this monster? Is this really a Sequence Six alchemist?! Even if the Ansu people equipped her with extraordinary items, she shouldn't be completely unharmed!"

"Keep increasing the investment! Mobilize other nodes!"

"We only have these two nodes available. If we move other nodes, we'll have to cancel the ritual on Master Murad!"

"Wait! Let's get started."

Seeing their colleagues getting carried away, the two high-ranking prophets at Sequence 5 quickly tried to dissuade them, first using their Hidden Eyes to target the black-haired girl.

The two then exchanged a glance and fetched materials to set up the ceremony.

One is "Gemstone Rainbow," which is an instant-death skill, and the other is "Spider Web Bind," which deals physical damage and has a binding effect.

The Death Prophet raised his hand and took two emerald green cat's-eye stones. He chanted a spell, and the two cat's-eye stones burst forth with brilliant blue light in the underground dark room. They passed through the void and flew to the black-haired girl in the banquet hall.

The beams of light shot out from above and to the sides of Tia, crossing each other and heading straight for Tia's heart.

--boom!

The prophets had complicated expressions.

This time, Tia did indeed have a large hole in her chest, and her heart was gone.

But she was perfectly fine, jumping around without any problems.

A blonde girl next to her quickly took out a talisman and stuck it on her body. Holy light shone, and she pulled out a syringe and pricked her arm. The granulation tissue at the wound began to grow, and it was rebuilding Tia's heart.

The same thing happened with the last "deadly ray".

The Death Prophet angrily said, "This rapid healing is already at Sequence Four! Our level is completely incapable of fighting it! Can't we merge the ritual nodes back into a Sequence Four ritual?"

Several prophets said with difficulty, "The soul load is too heavy. If we want to activate the Sequence Four ritual, we'll probably have to call over the people in charge of Master Murad's node."

The ritual nodes of the Maze Lock cannot be used simply by using any sequence of rituals.

Breaking down the rituals of a node from a high sequence to a low sequence, and merging the low sequence back into a high sequence, both put immense pressure on the soul.

They hadn't expected Tia to be so difficult to deal with, which is why they sent all the people whose souls weren't too weak to help Murad set up the ritual.

The dying prophet angrily said, "Then let them deal with this so-called ambassador! We didn't come here to deal with Ibn Musa in the first place!"