Miss Witch's Forbidden Book Secret

"The election of bishops... this year."

Marshall suddenly chuckled and said, "Princess Eleanor has arrived."

"How did you know..." Isabella was about to speak when she heard footsteps behind her. She turned around and saw Eleanor.

Marshall chuckled, “It seems our Princess Eleanor is in good health. But things have been rather turbulent lately, so Your Highness would be best advised not to wander around.”

Eleanor nodded emphatically, "I know."

"I'm sleeping at home."

"Okay, that's good."

"Oh, I also received letters from Fogmoon City and Golden Moon Bay."

"Oh? Your Highness, who sent it? What does the letter say?"

Marshall remained kind and benevolent.

Eleanor thought for a moment and said, "The letter from Golden Moon Bay was delivered by Tia. She said she needs her mother to give her some help."

"I see. What exactly do you need?"

"It would take an entire knightly order."

Marshall's eyelids twitched.

Sure enough—Sulph is still the same as always.

Marshall said helplessly, "Grand Knight Yehfa has already taken two detachments. This is our limit. Alright, Eleanor, tell me again, who sent you the letter in Mistmoon City? Was it your friend?"

"A letter from Mistmoon City said that it is very dangerous in Mistmoon City and that I should not go there."

"Hmm, good girl, Eleanor. So who sent it?"

Eleanor short-circuited.

She made it all up—Tia didn't send her a letter, and no one in Mistmoon City wrote to her.

She simply learned about the situation in Golden Moon Bay while chatting with Vera, so she misattributed it to Tia and used her name to find reinforcements for her.

The child may be a bit naive, but he's not stupid.

Eleanor replied without changing her expression, "It's Bishop Harker."

"Bishop Harker?"

Marshall looked at Isabella, somewhat puzzled, and said, "I'm too old and my memory isn't good, but I don't think there's anyone named Hack among the crowned bishops. Little Isabella, is Bishop Hack on the list of those to be crowned this year?"

Chapter 414 Promotion

—Intoxication.

--blurred.

After Tia received the injection and fell into the deep sea, she immediately felt a long-lost sense of intoxication.

After she transmigrated to Ansu, her physical body possessed extraordinary qualities, making her completely immune to alcohol, to the point that she almost forgot what drunkenness was.

Tia felt the seawater enveloping her, as if she were lying in a ball of slime jelly, and the water pressure she had felt when she fell into the deep sea almost disappeared.

As I plummeted to an unknown distance, even the feeling of being enveloped disappeared. I felt as if I were flying among the clouds. Although the surrounding high altitude was cold and slippery, I was uniquely surrounded by a warm ball of cotton candy.

—It has a comforting feeling of having a crackling fireplace in winter, then stripping naked and snuggling into a thick, plush blanket.

simply put.

It feels like coming home.

This feeling was actually quite unpleasant. Tia could roughly guess that this meant her soul had been initially accepted by the deep sea after being thoroughly immersed in extraordinary elements.

If I wanted to be more comfortable, I'd probably have to become a spirit.

This is completely inconsistent with the painful process of spiritualization often described in church and occult texts.

On one hand, it's because Tia's constitution is special; even if she's in real pain, she can't feel it. The Path of Suffering, once it's activated, makes her laugh.

On the other hand, spiritualization is accompanied by extreme joy and extreme pain.

The process is a bit like ice skating.

Therefore, the descriptions in churches and textbooks are more like artistic embellishments such as the Big Bad Wolf, the beautiful snake, and the raccoon cooking the old lady, purely using dark and scary short stories to frighten people and remind them not to mess around.

Tia continued to sink, gradually increasing her speed.

In a daze, we had already passed the Laurel Forest and the Upside-Down Temple, and reached a depth of more than 30,000 meters.

Tia rarely reaches the section between 30km and 40km.

This distance represents the maximum water depth for Sequence 5, and is also the normal water depth for Sequence 4. She hasn't been to Sequence 5 for very long, and has hardly ever been here except when the Temple was at this water level.

After falling 33km, her descent gradually stabilized.

"We've reached the critical layer."

Tia was very familiar with this term; alchemists and prophets called it the "critical layer." Historians, on the other hand, referred to it as the "Moho" based on the secret texts of the deep sea.

It was probably taken from a geography book on Earth—though Tia didn't know if there were any other time travelers.

But it is different from the Moho discontinuity in geology that Tia is familiar with.

Once past this point, the descent speed will not increase; instead, it will remain at an absolutely constant speed.

I wonder how those secret history scholars deciphered it...

After crossing the critical layer, Tia sensed that her body was becoming unstable. Sometimes she felt like she was a teenager in reality, sometimes she felt like she had become a six or seven-year-old child who had just awakened her intelligence, and sometimes she felt like she was very old.

This is the deep sea's record of her history in this world.

In a daze, Tia sensed her own mindset when she was still a little girl. It was from a fairy tale book she saw in an orphanage, something about a witch defeating a demon. Now it seemed that it probably contained some occult code, and she didn't know how it ended up in the orphanage.

She only glanced at it briefly, but it marked the beginning of her contact with the extraordinary path, and it was recorded in detail and accurately by the Deep Sea.

However, this is indeed the reason why most extraordinary individuals embark on the path of the extraordinary. They may have simply encountered something or been exposed to some event in their early years, which planted a seed in their hearts. But whether they can eventually embark on the path of the extraordinary or how far they can go is hard to say.

Just like some people who lose their rabbit when they're teenagers, others can still become Alice in Wonderland even in their old age.

—However, it's hard to say whether the deep sea is a paradise or not; this place is too eerie.

Finally, at a depth of 57000 meters, Tia's steady descent came to an abrupt end, and she was enveloped by the deep sea once again.

This is already at the depth of Sequence 4.

The ever-changing soul gradually stabilized, and as it continued to sink, Tia could sense that the soul was becoming increasingly full and abundant. The Philosopher's Stone's feedback was already taking effect.

Her soul was so full that her spirituality began to leak out. With the help of the deep sea's initial acceptance of her, Tia casually used her spirituality to construct a nightmare—knowledge she had obtained from Silver Door in exchange for Bylegace's soul.

The nightmare was unpredictable, but Tia didn't intend to have a real nightmare.

She was simply creating a testing ground.

The entire nightmare was small, resembling the Colosseum in ancient Rome. Tia was about to try to test her limits, the strength of each ritual, and the underlying ritualistic mechanism of ritual and soul interaction after the Sequence 4 soul was complete.

So Tia created an older sister, Aviana, and while thinking about the prophet she had encountered, she sculpted her into a roughly Sequence 4 level character in her nightmares, and then used various rituals to torment her.

Based on the results:

Her extraordinary transformation ability has been greatly enhanced. Even without the help of Star Antimony and the Path of Suffering, Tia can now use the Trinity and Golden Fire to unleash the Fire Wheel Angel form she had on the Ghost Ship.

Moreover, because Tia already has a considerable understanding of the Golden Fire, she can insert elements such as the Laughter spell, malevolent curses, and even a Transformation Hand into the ritual structure to cause mutations.

Therefore, Firewheel Angel is much stronger than she was when she was on the Ghost Ship, both in terms of stats and mechanics.

Avina used the physical strength of Sequence Four, but she couldn't even withstand Tia's two rounds of mutated Golden Flame.

Even with the aid of protective, healing, and supportive rituals such as [Time Reversal], [Wound Warehouse], [Rapid Healing], and [Unending Holy Seal], Avina can only defend herself at best; it is extremely difficult for her to counterattack.

Of course, this is partly due to the fact that the Prophet was not good at direct combat, and partly due to Tia's lack of experience fighting several Sequence 4 opponents, resulting in insufficient understanding and thus the weaker Avina she created.

After Tia maxed out the Passion Path, Crimson Grail, Light in Blood, and Trinity, she wanted to test her limits again:

With a few cracking sounds, it sounded like a mirror shattering.

The nightmare couldn't withstand the intensity and caused me to break down.

Tia was immediately exposed to the deep sea, choked on some seawater, and took the opportunity to end her scuba diving session.

immediately--

Suddenly, my eyes lit up.

"Cough cough..."

"Hey hey hey."

Vera's voice reached my ears.

Tia took a few shallow breaths, and when she opened her eyes, she saw Vera holding a syringe and gesturing towards her buttocks, while letting out an evil laugh.

Like that ward where night shift workers work.

Tia: "...What are you doing?"

Vera was immediately startled. "How did you wake up?!"

"Vera, you'd better explain what you're doing first."

"Here, let me give you a shot..."

Vera suddenly became nervous, and her hand slipped from the syringe. With a few hissing sounds, a semi-transparent liquid spurted out.

The girl chuckled and looked at the little redhead with the eyes of someone looking at trash.

She's not blind!

The liquid in this syringe isn't even red! And there's no needle on it! Where are you going to get the injection?

Vera's pigtails swayed a few times. She shrank back and thought to herself, "This is the nutrient solution I injected for you. It's easily absorbed. I haven't fed it to you yet."

Tia said expressionlessly, "I'm asking you what you're doing."

"I... I just wanted to touch you... You're already in bed, why wouldn't I touch you! If you feel like you're at a disadvantage, I can lie in bed and let you touch me!"

Vera was perfectly justified.

Tia was speechless.

Vera said, "So that's why you woke up, you scared me!"

"I woke up right after the promotion was over. Didn't you say two days? Didn't you check the time?"

"Damn, I forgot."

"......"

Tia didn't know what to say. "Quickly call Sir Lovisa over for me to prepare for tomorrow's banquet."

Vera scratched her head and asked, "Are you still going to take the nutritional supplements or not?"

"eat."

Tia was really hungry.

Vera blurted out without thinking, "Where to inject it?"

Tia looked at the little redhead with the same disdainful gaze she had for trash.

Chapter 415 The Banquet

With Tia's promotion completed, a grand banquet was being prepared as scheduled in the front hall of the Knights' castle.

Over the past two days, Lovisa has delivered invitations to every known person in Golden Moon Bay and the surrounding area.

The Ansu people were no exception. The Knight Commander of the Golden Forge Knights, Ye Haifa, who had arrived at Golden Moon Bay under the pretext of "escorting overseas Chinese," also received an invitation.

Ye Haifa, a newcomer, frowned upon seeing that the invitation was signed by Tia.

Isn't that Director Sulph?!

He had run into her at the Mercury family's house in New London a while ago! Later, he heard that Tia had been sent to the Iris as a special envoy, but he didn't pay much attention to it.

But how come you, as a special envoy, are almost becoming an opinion leader in Golden Moon Bay?

Ye Haifa looked at the joint signatures of Jeremiah, Marn Cullen, Lost, and Hoggier at the bottom of the invitation and immediately sensed something was wrong.