Miss Witch's Forbidden Book Secret

Ai Li laughed with satisfaction, and amidst the horrified gazes of the crowd on the beach, she jumped off the boat with a bang and grabbed a vendor who was hurriedly packing up his stall.

"Do you know where Tia Sulph is?!" Ellie asked.

The merchant trembled with fear, and after a long pause, he finally said, "Sulph, Special Envoy Sulph, didn't she take a carriage to Misty Moon City early this morning? All the important figures went there..."

Ai Li was stunned.

"What?! She ran away again?!"

I need to take a day off tomorrow at 4 AM.

There are too many courses. I originally planned to write in the evening, just like yesterday.

It turned out that I had moved a practical class to the evening last week, so I didn't have time to write in the evenings.

I'll make up for it at 4 PM tomorrow, meow.

I'm so sorry, ...

I'm kowtowing to everyone! I'm kowtowing to everyone! I'm kowtowing to everyone, meow!

Chapter 420 Red Hill Woodland

In the increasingly treacherous storm, the armored train's dark, jet-black engine cleaved through the howling, biting wind, crossing the border between the last county, Morrol County, and Mistmoon City through the rain.

The "Fortress" that Tia was traveling on was, in fact, more like a war behemoth from a World War I game on Earth that Tia remembered, with firepower that even slightly surpassed it.

In order to target Ansu and the Imperial Navy and build a "mobile coastal fortress," the Iris people went mad and installed two twin 128mm howitzers and a 150mm assault gun on this train, along with a large number of rocket launchers and dual-purpose rapid-fire cannons.

They even left a special landing pad on the roof for griffins to land on, as well as an open-air observation platform for alchemists to observe from the ground.

—But later we found that the Anzu fleet was far too many, and the Imperial fleet was far too few.

Rumble! Billowing steam accompanied by flying ballast, the trees and hills on both sides of the tracks rushed past as the armored train drew ever closer to the penultimate stop of this expedition—the Red Hill Woodlands.

Inside the main carriage of this mobile steel fortress, Tia, who was resting with her eyes slightly closed, wrapped in a magnificent red cloak with gold trim, suddenly opened her eyes.

Good news came from Morrol Fortress: the Legion has begun mobilization, and the artillery units that Tia needs will arrive in Red Hill Woodland by train by this afternoon at the latest.

However, there was also bad news.

As expected—

On the open-air observation platform at the rear of the train, a ranger wearing a raincoat hurriedly entered the main carriage and reported to Bridget: "There is a very strong spiritual fluctuation ahead! The physical environment is extremely abnormal, suspected to be seawater backflow."

Brigitte and Tia exchanged a glance.

Tia asked, "Is there a specific test?"

The ranger affirmed, "The equipment on the vehicle is too limited. The sorcerers on the vehicle can only conduct simple environmental tests. The physical constants have not changed for the time being, but there are spacetime fluctuations. The sorcerers conducted annual ring dating on the surrounding environment ahead. The results of the four tests have slight differences. The deep-sea backflow is not serious yet and should be within two thousand meters."

"Moreover, some of the rituals of the King's Path have failed. We suspect that in addition to the seawater overflowing, there is a deity with the affinity of the Unsheathed Blade rising up."

—There are conflicts between the pathways. This is not yet obvious in humans because human spirituality and extraordinary elements have the physical body as a buffer, and do not evaporate as freely as the spirit.

This is especially evident when powerful spirits enter the real world. For example, when the church bishops were removing the curse from Eleanor, they summoned angels, and the resulting field greatly weakened the prophet's power.

Such oppositions also exist between alchemy and forging, and between kings and unsheathed blades.

"I see..."

Brigitte immediately read the meaning from Tia's dazed face and clicked her tongue, "Bloodthorn... This is big trouble."

Vera scratched her head. She knew a little about the name Bloodthorn and was immediately startled, blurting out, "They're raising Bloodthorn in Mistmoon City!?"

Tia looked eastward through the crystal glass car window and said, "No."

"That's alright..."

Vera patted her chest, still feeling a bit shaken, when Tia said, "They're already setting up the main path to become flesh."

"what?!"

The gods of the deep sea are to complete their divine path, take flesh, and descend into the material world! Moreover, Bloodthorn is not some insignificant, weak god like the Raven Shrike.

That was a deity who had already become famous during the great plague in the Solomon Empire, and whose faith was as stubborn and powerful as that of the twin serpents of Anzu.

Is she even qualified to get involved in something this big?!

Oh.

It seems she really was involved... Oh well, it's alright then.

Vera hesitated, unsure of what to say.

Tia then said to Bridget, "The Hand of Transformation definitely won't let us into the city directly. I reckon someone will stop us as soon as we leave Red Hill Woods."

He then said to Vera, "Please call Ye Haifa for me."

Knight Ye Haifa arrived quickly, and Vera briefly explained Tia's earlier guess to the knight commander on the way, causing him to frown deeply.

Seeing this, Tia said directly, "Uncle Ye Haifa, once we reach Red Hill Woods, no, while we're inspecting the area ahead, you immediately get off the vehicle with the Golden Furnace and march towards Mistmoon City during the downpour. You are professionals in fighting the Deep Sea, so go and support Governor Scarlett first! Scarlett has witnessed the Lord's incarnation, so she will definitely know if such fluctuations occur."

Ye Haifa frowned and said, "Her Majesty the Queen did not give me this order, Sulph. My job and that of the Knights is only to protect your safety."

Tia insisted, "Protecting Scarlett is protecting my safety. And justice, wisdom, kindness, and compassion come before loyalty!"

"Knight Ye Haifa, you cannot refuse! How much longer can the Knights fight?!"

Ye Haifa was silent for a moment, then said in a deep voice, "Report! We still have two thousand liters of dragon blood in reserve, enough to supply two detachments of two hundred knights for four days of continuous combat! But our ammunition reserves are limited, and under intense combat conditions, we need to be resupplied within half a day."

"Alright! The Iris Flower camp doesn't have any Ansu standard ammunition, but there are some weapons on the vehicle. Take some with you. Don't worry about saving fuel. Once the armored knights reach Red Hill Woods, prepare to transport them by weight and rush towards Fogmoon City!"

"As ordered!"

Rumble!

The armored train slowly came to a stop in the redwood forest for a brief rest. The riders took advantage of the stop to file out of the carriages, the reactor was heated and loaded, and then, under the cover of the heavy rain, it disappeared around the red hill forest.

The Silver Mist Rangers held their positions for the time being; they needed to protect the armored train.

As the train started moving and accelerated through the mountains and forests, and as it approached Red Hill Town, Tia was able to sense the anomalies in the material world.

Every now and then, a few drops of blood would suddenly trickle from her arm—those were tiny wounds left by Vera when she gave her the injection, wounds that should have healed long ago.

The spacetime environment was very unstable, and Vera, Brigitte, and the rangers on the train were all under some mental stress, feeling like they were seeing enemies everywhere.

But Tia felt surprisingly comfortable—like she was home, and the distance to the Upside-Down Temple was exceptionally close.

The temple was already at a water level of 25000 meters, and she had previously obtained the forbidden book catalog of the Book of Ascension that wasn't embedded in the temple. If she put it in, it could raise the water level by another 10000 meters to 15000 meters.

At that time, projecting the temple onto her side will be incredibly easy.

This is material sedimentation and seawater intrusion.

Meanwhile, in the nearby town, the spirituality grew increasingly powerful and volatile, like a drilling machine churning the soil to shreds.

The next to notice the spiritual anomaly was the Silver Mist Ranger, who was trying to keep watch in the torrential rain.

This spirituality was not unfamiliar to either Tia or Brigitte.

—Santis the Dragon Hunter.

Of course, there was also a visitor from the Eastern Arabian Empire.

Tia asked with some surprise, "It should be Guzar. The Palace of Wisdom is actually willing to help Santis to this extent?"

Tia couldn't understand it.

—Didn't you guys just have one of your master assassins killed by Santis a while ago? How come you're willing to fight side by side now...?

Brigitte chuckled, "The one that competed with you for the Moon Tower?"

"Yes."

"What a small world! What should we do? It's too late to change course now. How about you try praying to that sun god of the Fang Empire?"

Vera, a theological student next to her, couldn't hold back any longer and pursed her lips to remind her, "Miss Bridget, the Celestial Sun God and the Father of All Things are actually the same belief."

"Ha!" Brigitte laughed. "Then you two are incestuous siblings, Sulph. Why don't you go find Guzar, have some wine and meat, and beg for mercy?"

“No, no, no, I’m an atheist. Brigitte, you should entertain him. You’re both prophets, you’ll definitely have something in common.”

"That's not necessarily true—I have quite a few grudges with these prophets."

Tia had Vera bring the Saint-Simon Edict Scepter. Holding the white crystal, she gently tapped the ground with the scepter, teasingly asking, "You're not impotent, are you?"

Brigitte said seriously and coldly:

"No? I haven't settled accounts with my two good-for-nothing brothers yet! A prophet from the Palace of Wisdom, only at Sequence Four, dares to meddle in the affairs of my Montellima family. Sulph, Santis is yours, as for that Guzar—"

"Pass on my order! Speed ​​up the train, no need to stop, let them through. Let them know what Brigitte Montellima is all about!"

Chapter 421 Like the Rise of the Sun

Thick clouds hung low, and torrential rain poured down, enveloping the entire Red Hill Woodland in an endless downpour.

In the clouds above the Red Hill Woodland, Santis tossed down star-antimony coins one by one, the sheer number of which startled Guzar beside him.

Santis has thrown down nearly forty kilograms of antimony over this period!

If all those stars and antimony exploded at once, he wouldn't be able to escape; he would be blown to bits on the spot.

The dragon hunter used less than four kilograms of fuel to bomb the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The star fell, exploding in mid-air. Then, through the combined rituals of "Transformation Hand" and "Binary Replacement," it first tore apart physical space, creating a deep rift three meters long and one meter wide out of thin air.

These cracks are not noticeable during heavy rain and overcast skies.

But they were quickly noticed by a train that was moving fast on the ground.

—From these rifts, all sorts of bizarre and wonderful spirit creatures fell out.

Some perfectly fit the definition of a demon: a burly, crimson body with prominent horns, wielding a battle axe and roaring as it charged toward the train—only to be blasted into a bloody pulp by enchanted anti-aircraft shells halfway there and banished back to the deep sea.

Some were pure white, like a ball of flesh, with wings on both sides. When torn open in the middle, they revealed teeth and internal organs. They flew thousands of meters away in an instant, and were then quickly dealt with by the Silver Mist Rangers in groups of three, using swords and mithril bullets.

These spirits did indeed cause considerable chaos when they first appeared.

But as the rangers reorganized, the situation was basically brought under control.

Vera, carrying her chain mace, and several tactical nuns quickly set up a ritual to purify the evil aura in the carriage, and then chanted holy chants to complete the ritual and provide protection for the rangers.

There were also a few priests and nuns on the train, who had come with Vera simply because of their ideals. They were all skilled at dealing with spirit creatures and providing assistance, and they were busy helping Vera around the train.

But soon, more spirits descended from the sky and began to attack the middle section of the "Fortress" armored train in a concentrated manner—where Tia and Bridget were.

Tia was the first to make a move.

The gold she had placed in her coat pocket through a "space folding" ritual began to melt and vanish into thin air. Then, a shimmering light appeared beneath her skin.

The eyes are the windows to the soul.

An uncontrollable spirituality was released from the black-haired girl's eyes, but the color of her pupils was still unclear. Platinum flames instantly ignited in her blood, and as the spirituality spread throughout her body, even her black hair was dyed platinum.

Because of the torrential rain and heavy clouds, the carriage was already dimly lit.

At this moment, Tia had completely transformed into a little person of light, her platinum blonde hair exactly like Eleanor's. She raised her hand... and flames instantly ignited!

Then, empowered by an extraordinary transformation, it soared into the sky!

After flying hundreds of meters out of the train, the golden fire expanded instantly. In Tia's hands, the golden fire, mixed with the four rituals of "exorcising evil spirits," "exile ritual," "stabilizing reality," and "Hermes' poisonous dust," was practically poison to the cheap buddies that Santis had summoned.

The Sequence Six spirits, having just been tainted by the golden fire, were horrified to discover that these flames were like a leech, first weakening them by an entire level with "expelling evil spirits" and "stabilizing reality."

Just as the flames were about to dissipate and they were about to feel relieved, they discovered that the golden fire had left a large patch of Hermesian poison dust on their spirit bodies. Immediately, their bodies became translucent and could no longer maintain their physical form.

Finally, the exile ritual was initiated, directly throwing the spirit back into the deep sea.

Spirits below Sequence Seven were affected by Tia the moment they came into contact with the flames due to the backflow of seawater and the outflow of Tia's spirituality and elements.

They are unlike their counterparts in Sequence Six—Sequence Six already possesses relatively strong extraordinary elements, while their extraordinary elements are still in their nascent stage.

The elements of sublimation, evolution, progress, upward movement, and perfection, which had been extremely enhanced by the Philosopher's Stone, began to influence these creatures without physical bodies through the flames.

In an instant, many spirits absorbed the flames, radiating light and transforming into Tia's devout followers, prostrating themselves before the train.

However, this was originally just an appetizer.

Forty kilograms is indeed a lot for a typical Sequence Four, but for Santis it's just a drop in the ocean.

Once the spirits had been mostly eliminated by Tia's golden fire.