Miss Witch's Forbidden Book Secret

"I'll hurt your mother's head!"

The girl's face suddenly turned cold, and she kicked Guzar in the stomach, cursing:

"Are you some kind of pig eating shit in the Imperial pigsty?! Go and deliver a message to Merlin immediately: the spirits on the Great Ice Plains have been weakened, and now is the perfect time to expand the Great Ice Plains and expel the spirits!"

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On the operating table.

Gesas felt excruciating pain all over his body and lost his spiritual perception. Instead, countless incomprehensible and chaotic pieces of information rushed into his sensory system.

When Gessar draws upon his brain's knowledge base about humanity, he can roughly discern what these things are.

Light, color, vibration, sound, smell... roughly like that.

However, the sensory system that used to allow one to easily perceive spirituality and feel it flowing through one's body like water has completely disappeared, and it has become extremely difficult to access knowledge from the deep sea and control the pressure of the deep sea.

He—or rather, "she"—after a series of skillful surgical manipulations and a spiritual-physical ritual by Tia, now lay under an incandescent light, with countless translucent silver chains forming a sphere around her, locking the girl suspended in mid-air.

Then Gesas heard a crisp sound in his ear.

"You're awake? The surgery was a success. You're a girl now!"

Chapter 517 The Great Icefield Uprising

The temporary office for the situation on the Great Icefield is located on the third floor of Westerburg Castle.

Inside the office, Ms. Bernice leaned back in her chair, her brows furrowed. She then placed her hands on the desk and looked at Tia, who seemed somewhat indifferent.

Lady Bernice tried to see something beautiful in Tia's pretty and lovely little face—that's what Princess Eleanor, who was imprisoned next to her, thought.

The woman frowned and looked at Tia: "Sulph, what have you been up to all this time around the castle? First Eleanor, then a spirit—By the Father of all things, what did I just see? A resurrected spirit?"

"You're not going to resurrect Ulrich, King Charles, Knight Ludd, or even King Solomon for me someday, are you?"

Eleanor raised her hand and said, "I want to see the Ancestor."

"What the hell do you want to see!"

Bernice said unhappily, "Sulph, come and discipline your Ansu princess!"

Tia retorted, "While what you say is indeed tempting, I certainly cannot resurrect these people since their spirits have completely disappeared. Moreover, even if they were resurrected, they would not be the original ones. They did not actively undergo spirit transformation, so even if spirits exist, they can only be born from worship. This type of spirit is a completely different life form from its original form."

"Moreover, as things stand, my transformation ritual has only overcome the most core difficulties. It still needs to be supplemented and improved—for example, how to overcome the problem of the Law Spell's lack of durability, and the materials and rituals for flesh and blood regeneration also need to be optimized. In particular, I have studied Professor Ulrich's artificial human technology a lot. I dare not say that I have made any progress yet."

Bernice said irritably, "That's not what I meant. What I meant was that what you're doing right now is dangerous. I am the Saint of the Unsheathed Blade, so I know the dangers of these rituals better than you do."

"In some ways, your ritual is far more dangerous than this spiritual riot, far more dangerous than the Church's industrial triad! The boundary between humans and spirits is blurred, the Church's doctrines will face a crisis, and the issues of human cognition and belonging will also be challenged. How many people are greedy for the endlessness of the deep sea and generously and selflessly give away its gifts? You are breaking the protection of the Holy Grail and reaching into the abyss that humanity once stepped into tens of thousands of years ago."

“Even so, rationally speaking, I support what you’re doing. But emotionally, I have some feelings for Elizabeth and her family, as well as for this country, and I don’t want you to mess up this world—or rather, Ansu. Otherwise, I could have advanced to Sequence Two long ago.”

Tia had to admit this.

Her ritual was dangerous.

In particular, the ritual itself is not complicated. It can be simplified and broken down through the Trinity. Even a Sequence 8 transcendent can perform a simple transformation from spirit to human on their own. The most troublesome part is that a king transcendent needs to use the Law of Commandment, which is only fully mastered by Sequence 5, to avoid losing the protection of the Holy Grail and the Prophet's transcendent iron law after becoming a spirit.

The only cost is the inevitable soul contamination during the transformation process, and the complete spiritualization that may result from the failure of the Laws of Power, but which can also be reversed.

Therefore, once she allows this ritual to spread freely, a large number of extraordinary humans will transform themselves into spirits to explore the deep sea, which was once considered dangerous and terrifying, ultimately recreating the grandeur of the Solomon Empire:

A large number of high-sequence extraordinary individuals will appear in this world.

This is quite terrifying and quite dangerous.

Failure to control the number and quality of extraordinary individuals will eventually lead to a disaster like a great plague.

As for active control?

How to control it?

If the Empire uses the Conversion Ritual first and cultivates a large number of superhumans, can Ansu not use it? The reverse is also true, so it's best to kill the Conversion Ritual before it's even born.

Just as Rexsha did for the incarnation of the Lord.

Tia pondered, "I'm still thinking about the conversion ceremony. But at this stage, it's definitely not suitable to go public. But we absolutely can't throw the baby out with the bathwater."

Tia is a saint of the progressive element, so it's probably unlikely that she would abandon her own rituals.

Bernice knew this too.

The woman, her brow still furrowed, asked, "What do you mean?"

“I do have a plan to control the transformation ritual. However, it requires some spirits and secret texts.”

"These are all things that are difficult to handle right now."

The spirits are fine; if all else fails, she'll just go to the Great Ice Plains and capture a few.

The problem lies in the secret text.

If we want to bring the secret manual, we can only borrow it from the Land of the Seven Seas. It's already past May, and June is almost here. A storm is about to hit the South An Su Sea, and the round trip will take two or three months.

It's not possible right now, at least not.

Tia didn't count on Bernice either, and said directly, "At the same time, I also need Eleanor."

"Eleanor?"

Bernice gets angry whenever Eleanor is mentioned.

Tia said, "But I need Eleanor's help because I need to confront Donya Bahram directly."

"Great Prophet—what's going on?!"

Bernice didn't understand how things suddenly involved the Palace of Wisdom again.

"Because Dongya wants to project a star map onto the Great Ice Plains, they have already begun their operation, barring any unforeseen circumstances. And what I am about to do will unfortunately lead to the failure of their plan. Therefore, I am destined to have a battle with Dongya. As for the specifics, you should go and interrogate our newly born Gessar Giant."

Controlling the transformation ritual is simple, or rather, it's simple for Tia.

Because for her, there was a solution that could replace the Laws of Law.

—Her sanctuary.

Within the sanctuary, Tia is omnipotent, including the ability to add or remove thresholds for souls. Previously, Tia focused the ritual on flesh and blood, failing to notice this aspect.

Now that I've found the Law of Commands to be completely effective, everything becomes clear.

However, not all extraordinary beings can penetrate to depths of over 70,000 meters. Therefore, she needs to elevate the sanctuary, at least to within 3000 meters or even 1000 meters.

This is also to ensure the influence on the material world and avoid failing to affect reality. As a result, when they are human in the sanctuary, they return to the material world and the effect wears off after a short while, the threshold disappears, and they become spirits again.

This would also require at least seven secret texts to be thrown into the temple.

The only books Tia hasn't yet put into the temple are the Book of the Golden City, the Book of Creation, the Book of Balance, the Book of the White Rose, the Book of the Black Sea, and the Book of Transformation.

At least one more book is needed.

Unfortunately, the tenth book of the Ten Books of Alchemy, the "Book of the End," which was preserved in the Great Library, has been lost.

Tia has to figure out a solution on her own.

Her target is the Empire: Marn once obtained the "Golden Book" of the Oak Codex within the Empire.

"Besides, my sister, Avina Sulph, is surrounded by them. This is also one of the reasons why I have to fight Dongya."

The moment Tia uttered the words "Aivina," it instantly transformed into a cacophony of Chinese profanity.

This was blocked by Avina using a star map.

However, Bernice quickly realized what Tia was saying. She had heard the name when she went deep into the Great Icefield and witnessed the spirits, but it was blocked because of Aviana.

So much so that the first person she thought of was Tia.

Avina Sulph.

Bernice had no recollection of the name and exclaimed, "Is this the work of a prophet?"

But I haven't asked any further questions yet—

—Knock knock!

————Knock knock knock!

There was a sudden knock on the door. Rashina melted the lock, forced the door open, and rushed in, saying, "There's a problem on the Great Ice Plains."

"Grand Master Merlin is currently seriously injured, and the Empire has repeatedly sent distress signals."

Chapter 518 Only Killing

Merlin is injured again?!

Bernice and Merlin were a star-crossed couple. Hearing this, she was about to sigh at the old man's bad luck, but then, remembering she was still on the Great Icefield, she quickly turned to Rashina with a stern face and asked:

"What's going on over the Great Icefield? Why isn't there any good news at all?"

Lashina was also helpless, saying, "I don't know either, ma'am! This news came from Nighthold. It seems that the Great Prophet Dongya said something to the Empire, and soon after, Archmage Merlin was brought back from the Ice Plains severely injured, but he is still alive. However, Nighthold has completely broken ties with Tianfang."

"The extraordinary individuals from the Evernight Fortress's Tianfang Guild have also been expelled from the country."

Princess Catherine remained remarkably calm; had it been someone like Albert, she would likely have been put on trial.

Bernice glanced at Tia, recalling what Tia had learned from the spirit Gesas about the prophet's plan to project a star map of destiny onto the Great Ice Plains.

"It's probably related to the star chart of destiny. Otherwise, it wouldn't have come to this."

Rashina was utterly bewildered. "A star map of destiny? The prophets did this on the Great Ice Plains?"

Seeing that she couldn't explain it in a short time, Tia said directly:

"The prophets' ultimate goal is the star map of destiny. You can ask the spirits I captured for details. I've already extracted quite a bit of information from them."

Rashina immediately fell silent.

She had witnessed the spirit upstairs before, and it was indeed formidable. She hadn't expected Tia's transformation ceremony to go this far; it could only be said that the time was right and the heavens and earth were conspiring.

After all, if it weren't for Avina's disturbance at Eternal Night Fortress, Tia would never have come into contact with Saint Alexander, nor would she have thought of the mystical arts of the Laws. Instead, she would have focused on manually modifying the soul structure and researching the incarnation of the Lord.

Of course, the incarnation of the Lord is also useful, as it involves the spiritual transformation of the spirit into flesh and blood, an area in which Tia still needs to work harder.

Vera will have to work even harder.

If Tia hadn't come into contact with the Laws of Law, she wouldn't have thought of using the Sanctuary as a substitute, turning the lofty Transformation Ritual into a universal ritual that low-sequence transcendents could use at will.

When Rashina originally suggested it to Tia, she was only thinking that Tia might be able to innovate and optimize the transformation ritual from human to spirit.

After all, the conversion ritual used an infant, which is immoral.

But unexpectedly, Tia directly performed the human-to-spirit two-way transformation ritual.

The unpredictable twists and turns of fate are right here.

It's unclear what Rashina thought, but she simply said, "We'll talk about the spirits later. Sulph, and Ms. Bernice, if the Empire requests our assistance, we'll definitely need to provide support."

Bernice said, "I'll go. My injuries are almost healed."

Tia said, "I need to go too."

"Then Sulf, you come with me."

Rashina was somewhat worried, but she was too embarrassed to speak up: "You two should both leave..."

"Don't worry, little Velen," Bernice smiled kindly and said, "Everyone's eyes are on the Great Icefield right now. You don't need to worry too much about this."

"Nobody wants to bother Ansu. And nobody wants to bother Ansu's godforsaken little castle."

Rashina awkwardly clutched at the hem of her clothes.

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Tia left the office and went straight to the third floor to wait. Bernice also needed to summon the anti-suppression bureau specialists from the castle to go to Eternal Night Castle together.

Miss Gesas, who had just become an adult not long ago, now had two large, watery, dark eyes. She seemed quite unaccustomed to this and walked unsteadily, her long, smooth, and elegant black hair swaying behind her, looking like she was learning to walk.

But his nature remained unchanged; upon seeing Tia, he trembled with fear, and then his aura surged dramatically. However, the spatial lock was still in effect on him, and countless chains instantly sealed his spirituality, reducing it to only Sequence Nine level after it dissipated to five centimeters from his skin.

Tia didn't erase His memories; she simply added a barrier.

After all, this giant is actually quite kind-hearted...

Seeing this, Tia said, "Go and tell Vera Anne and Eleanor to go to the Sanctuary for a meeting. As for you, Gossa, I'll try the conversion ceremony from human to spirit again after the situation in the Great Icefield is over, and change you back."