Miss Witch's Forbidden Book Secret

"The throne of my Lord Tiasulph is set in the center of the earth, and His sanctuary will be a banner for the nations. As for the desires of the prophet—"

"What a disaster!"

"What a disaster!"

"What a disaster!"

As songs of praise and admiration reached Tia's ears, she completely ignored these mystical illusions.

As she ignored it, the pungent aroma of burning turmeric and cinnamon swirled around her nose, growing stronger, while the meditation and deep-diving rituals beneath her simultaneously shimmered with a faint white fluorescence.

The deep sea is like a mother, gently embracing her.

The water pressure rose instantly, pressing down on my shoulders, as I plunged into the deep, dark sea.

Thump! The heavy soul plummeted, and the sea surged with waves.

Subsequently, there was no pollution from the deep sea.

There was also no heavy water pressure;

There were no spirits wandering around everywhere;

There was also no upside-down temple for Tia to fill the secret texts with.

Suddenly, Tia opened her eyes, only to find that she had not entered the deep sea.

The occult illusions in the bedroom had all vanished. Sunlight still streamed through the window, but everything outside seemed frozen in time, as if the whole world had been put on pause.

And right at this moment.

A series of knocks sounded at the door.

"Please come in!"

Tia, somewhat helpless, didn't get up but leaned back in her chair and said lightly, "It really is the work of a prophet. Don't you agree?"

"It seems your spiritual perception is quite sharp, even more so than your sister Avina. If you try to fall into the deep sea again, you'll fall directly into another nightmare I've prepared. That would actually save me a lot of trouble."

The door was pushed open, and a girl with short brown hair, about 1.6 meters tall, pushed up her glasses and walked in, still carrying the biting cold air of the Great Ice Plain.

Dongya was still dressed the same as before, wearing round-framed glasses, a white linen robe, and a gold ribbon tied around her waist. This look would not be out of place in any university in Ansu, and people would think she was a student who could dress in a retro style.

The great prophet took a few more steps, and the corridor behind him was completely gray and white, devoid of any color. Only gray threads stretched out from all directions, connecting to Dongya as the center, forming a dark, woven net.

Click.

Dongya closed the door. Everything seemed normal.

But Tia already knew what was going on.

She was intercepted the moment she entered the deep sea.

Therefore, at this very moment—

—I'm having a nightmare.

Chapter 531 Nightmare Within a Nightmare

"I should have thought of that a long time ago."

"The human mind has inertia—therefore, it will subconsciously assume that it will not use the same methods that you exposed last time."

Dongya sat on the sofa by the fireplace, added a few pieces of firewood to the fireplace, lit it with a flint stick, and after a series of crackling sounds, the smoke from the burning pine wood went out along the chimney, and a warm fire lit up.

Tia stared intently at the great prophet and said, “What confidence and pride you have, Bahram. But I suspect my plan has frightened you quite a bit.”

"That is--"

Upon hearing this, Dongya gritted her teeth slightly and said, "It's not just you, but also your sister. The two of you have really made me very uneasy."

“But you can’t hold me back. Look, you couldn’t hold me back when I was at Sequence Four, let alone now that I’ve become a Saint and have accomplished the great feat of Sequence Two. Even you, this nightmare, I can push open the door and leave right now if I want to.”

Tia made a firm promise.

This nightmare is not solid, and it is not a sanctuary; it is merely a nightmare woven with rituals, no different from the nightmare that Barragas had.

"Of course, please. You can try it. I didn't do any special reinforcement anyway." Dongya nodded slowly, neither confirming nor denying, but said jokingly, "You can try it if you want."

"But if I push open the door, I'll fall into another nightmare you've carefully prepared for me, maybe even a sanctuary, right?"

"Of course. To be honest, I was surprised that you braked in time during your deep dive. You were supposed to fall into the nightmare I prepared for you. I didn't prepare much, and I didn't expect you to be unable to get out. I just wanted to buy you some time. One day is enough for me to calm the deep-sea turbulence and then project the star map of destiny."

"One day? It seems you never took Avina seriously from the start."

"It was indeed a bit tricky at first. But we brought in the Sanctuary of Valon. The Sanctuary of Valon still has some of His authority, capable of quelling natural disasters—deep-sea turbulence is certainly a natural disaster, right?"

Tia then realized what was going on.

The prophet of love specifically sought out the sanctuary of Valon for this reason!

Avina, you've done so many bad things!

However, Tia doesn't have time to berate her wicked sister right now; she's using her spirituality to try and find a loophole in this nightmare.

But no matter which angle you look at it from.

This nightmare was flawless, unlike the kind of gimmick that Barry Geiss created.

Although not sturdy, there is a layer of nightmares nested within nightmares, or possibly multiple layers of nightmares.

Once Tia forcibly breaks it, she will immediately fall into the next level of nightmare.

This is Dongya's purpose.

Through a series of nested nightmares, Tia is trapped in the deep sea.

"I know what you're planning. To elevate the Sanctuary to create deep-sea turbulence, or to project your Sanctuary into the material world and rescue Avina. But unfortunately, we've thought of the same thing."

"That's why I specially prepared this big gift for you."

Dongya warmed herself by the fireplace, saying playfully, "So what are you planning to do? I also have to remind you, the nightmare outside is what I was preparing to detonate to accelerate the star map, just in case, I mean just in case, you fall in and can't get out—"

"call out!"

Dongya quickly flicked her index finger, tracing it through the air, and let out a childlike laugh. "Then you can reunite with Avina, Saint Sulph. And if you stay here, at least you won't die."

Tia said confidently, "You're trying to goad me."

"You can think of it that way."

Dongya said calmly, "I have no intention of commenting on your relationship with Avina. I'm just giving you a heads-up. Human saints are very limited and precious. Besides, Miss Anne Mercury is very fond of you, Your Highness Sulph."

“Then you’re right, Bahram. I like Anne very much too. And I like you quite a bit as well. It’s just that we’re destined to be different.”

"What else can I say? This is your room, so please make yourself at home—"

Dongya stood up and gestured to the black-haired girl in the distance by the fireplace.

Tia walked to the door and turned the handle.

Rumble rumble rumble!

A dull, loud thud, not like pushing open a wooden door, but rather like pushing open a heavy stone door, immediately drew Tia's gaze to the depths of the nightmare, and unexpectedly, something seemed somewhat familiar to her.

It was indeed another nightmare.

It seems the only option is to force your way through the game...

Dongya glanced at the girl in front of her in surprise, then fell silent.

Blood-red Hermesian aura instantly rose from the ground, engulfing Dongya's body and dissolving the projection into scattered, dark blue spiritual energy that flew into Tia's body.

"You said it, when in Rome, do as the Romans do."

Tia bid farewell to Dongya lightly, glancing at the ancient city-like scene outside the door.

This is somewhat like... the capital city of the kingdom where the Church Saint, Sleeping Beauty Rosalind, resided.

...............

...............

“Tia Surf has fallen into a trap.”

"The 'Glorious Altar' of the Valon Sanctuary is in place, the 'Frontier Fortress' of the Bloodthorn Sanctuary is in place, and the 'Palace of Wisdom' of the Great Prophet Sanctuary is in place."

"The jump slingshot tracks at depths of 10,000 meters, 20,000 meters, and 30,000 meters in the deep sea have all been completed and are being maintained normally."

"We can prepare to calm the deep-sea turbulence."

Inside the dragon-skin tent at the Prophet's Camp in the Golden Bull Palace, Dongya Bahram opened her eyes and smiled.

as predicted!

The Sorcerer Supreme and the Imperials clearly hadn't expected Tia's target to be the deep sea, nor did they expect that Dongya's target was also the deep sea.

Tia Surf has completely fallen into the trap.

Dongya immediately summoned two prophets and said, "Use the Walong Sanctuary to quell the deep-sea turbulence rising from below. You have half a day!"

"Yes, Your Excellency!"

The two prophets instantly perked up, first agreeing, then asking, "Your Excellency! What about your previous prophecies regarding the Greater and Lesser Sulphus...?"

“Tia Sulph is already trapped in the nightmare. Even if she breaks through the nightmare, it doesn’t matter. The last layer of the nightmare is my sanctuary. Unless the third sanctuary explodes and detonates the Palace of Wisdom, she won’t be able to sink to the Upside-Down Temple.”

The two prophets knew nothing about the upside-down temple.

But Dongya knew very well.

As long as Tia cannot reach the Upside-Down Temple, she cannot raise the temple or project it into the material world or other water levels in the deep sea. Her sanctuary is quite sturdy; even if the spirits of the Upside-Down Temple came, it could hold out for several months.

Tia couldn't interfere; Merlin and the Empire wouldn't launch an attack for a destiny star map that wouldn't be realized for a thousand years. So, what remained of the threat?

Only Avina, like a mantis trying to stop a chariot, could do so.

Chapter 532 Braving the Nightmare of Sulph

After Tia entered the nightmare, she looked around.

The familiar oasis city and banana groves, along with rows of white marble houses and the Arabian Church with its round dome adorned with sun and moon symbols, make for a rather large city.

This made Tia even more certain that this was in the Kingdom of Blairwood, where Rosalind was, or at least on the Tianfang Peninsula where the Kingdom of Blairwood was located.

But where exactly is it?

The Tianfang Peninsula is the core region of the Tianfang Empire, but most of the peninsula is desert, with large-scale cities only in the areas through which the Mother River "White Sand River" flows and in the coastal plains.

Tia used a ritual to summon hundreds of ravens to fly into the sky, taking in the entire city and thus knowing where she was.

A wide river flows through the west side of the city, with large boats with sails billowing on its surface. Scattered factories seem to have only recently sprung up, and there are no concrete and steel buildings in sight. Magnificent palaces are built on the high mountains, and further away are rolling hills covered with snow.

It is surrounded by a river on one side and mountains on three sides.

The terrain and the distant scenery were so distinctive that Tia recognized it at a glance without much thought.

"Bersa, the City Given by Heaven?"

Not only did she recognize where it was, Tia even found the protagonist of this world and the core of this nightmare.

Just a few hundred meters away from where she stood, young Donya Bahram was walking out of a church hospital.

This was somewhat unexpected for Tia.

Dongya was actually dressed in the choir attire of the Catholic Church, with two intricate sun-patterned sashes draped over her white robe, and she was holding a Catholic cross in her hand—which was basically a cross with a round cake in the center, symbolizing the sacred and noble sun.

Although the Catholic Church acknowledges a dualistic creator in its doctrines, which is fundamentally in conflict with the Church of England, it ultimately still follows the Holy Grail path.

The Holy Grail and the Prophet represent two completely opposite, even conflicting, paths.

Tia never expected that Dongya, the great prophet who was willing to risk everything for the Destiny Star Chart, had actually believed in the church and even participated in the choir!

In the blink of an eye, Tia used the ritual to erase her own form, leaving behind a blurry phantom. Her true form appeared not far from the hospital, where she could immediately see the still young Dongya.

The girl was about seven or eight years old and had not yet grown up. She was wearing a wool hat and a church robe, but the undershirt she wore for warmth was yellowed and not clean enough. The plain white robe was also patched up, and the skin it covered was not delicate, but rather rough, with calluses on her hands.

Compared to Tia when she was a child, she wasn't much better off.

But without a doubt, this is Dongya Bahram.

Once the main body of the nightmare has been found, breaking through it becomes simple; all that's needed is to "modify the history surrounding the main body of the nightmare."

The simplest solution, of course, is to just kill them all.