Dorothy's Forbidden Tome

Seeing the sudden change in Dorothy's attitude, Beverly was a little stunned for a moment. As a businessman's instinct, she couldn't help feeling suspicious when faced with such a quick change in the buyer.

'How did this guy's attitude change so quickly, what did I lose? '

In the end, after thinking about it for a long time, Beverly didn't realize what was wrong with her price tag. In the end, amidst a burst of anxiety, they completed the transaction.

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At dusk, NO.17 in Green Shade Town.

Dorothy, who just arrived from Beverly's house, returned to her home, then sat on the sofa and took out the biggest harvest of the trip just now, an envelope bought for 350 pounds.

'Hiss...Although I know that I can get some spiritual benefits from it, I still feel a little distressed after spending so much money on it. I only have 110 pounds now! '

Dorothy cried out in her heart. After a long time, she once again felt the crisis of poverty.

"Huh... No matter how you say it, that bald bat is the strongest enemy I have encountered so far. The enemy's intelligence must be known in advance, no matter how much money it costs."

With a long sigh of relief, Dorothy murmured like this, and then she opened the envelope in her hand, took out two yellowed pages that had been torn from some book inside, and began to read.

"Vampire... the main 'shadow' auxiliary 'cup', the chalk rank of the dark red road..." Dorothy read these two materials about vampires, and took notes at the same time, mainly focusing on the ability of vampires in the materials sum it up.

After reading the materials, Dorothy Ye almost made the summary notes, and then she brought them in front of her for careful review.

"The main ability of a vampire...

"High-speed movement (third-level shadow), strong body (second-level cup), bat transformation, corrosive claws (shadow enchantment), blood recovery, easy change of appearance, spiritual perception (shadow cup), poison resistance, darkness Stealth, dark vision, human hypnosis, weak sunlight, weak light resistance..."

Chapter 230 Eavesdropping

The northern suburb of Tivian, the King's Campus of Royal Crown University.

On the ground floor of the King's Campus, in the assembly point of the Secret Society, members of the Society are gathering here at this moment, as in the past, exchanging and learning with each other.

These young students are here at this time reading and studying the hidden culture, and their behavior is no different from usual, even if one or two companions are missing among them, even though the Mr. Thorn that they usually respect is no longer not there.

At this time, the students of the academy are surrounding a new masked man, asking him various questions in an attitude of admiration, and the masked man is also patiently helping the students of the academy to carry out their work. Explain patiently and meticulously.

The students of these institutes are no less worshipful of this new masked man than the velvet. During the communication with him, the students even seem to have forgotten the existence of the velvet.

After a brief exchange with the students of the school, let them continue their self-study, then got up and walked out of the assembly point, and walked to the school.

The man took off his mask, revealing the face of an ordinary middle-aged man, and then he walked quickly in the corridor of the school like an ordinary person, shuttling among the crowd, and after a while, he came to an office, And knocked on the door.

"come in."

A dry male voice came from behind the door. After hearing this voice, the man pushed the door open and entered, entering a dimly lit office with all the curtains drawn.

In the center of the office is a desk. Behind the desk, Claudio wearing Andrew's clothes is sitting there, drinking a glass of red wine while watching the man entering the room.

"Your Excellency." After closing the doors with his backhand, the man knelt on one knee and saluted Claudio. After seeing Claudio nodding, he stood up again.

"What about those students? Avery."

Claudio asked the man named Avery in front of him, and the other party answered respectfully.

"Everything is fine. Those students have read a lot of "Chapter of Workers and Insects" and have been deeply affected by it. Although Chad is gone, for me who also read "Chapter of Soldiers and Insects" Say, you can control these bugs."

"That's good..."The Queue of the Queen of Worms" is irreversible, and everyone in this queue must remember their position."

Listening to Avery's words, Claudio nodded and murmured, it can be seen that although the velvet is dead at this time, they have not lost control of the Secret Society. The students who read "The Queen's Parade" are not only adored by Tinkerbell.

This is also the reason why they were able to make the students of the academy obediently and cooperate with them to deceive the investigators of the Security Bureau this morning.

"Your Excellency, in accordance with your order, I brought people here for reinforcements, but I found that Chad's people are almost gone. Now the reconstruction of the stronghold and the ceremonial arrangement work are a bit short-staffed. Do you know where Chad is now? "

Avery told Claudius that he was originally stationed at other strongholds in the city, but was ordered by Claudius to be transferred to the King's Campus for reinforcements. For his colleague Chad who left a mess, that is, the assassin Fuck, he doesn't have the slightest liking for her.

"Chad went to track down a clue. He said he was just looking for a student, but he hasn't returned until now. It should be gone..." Claudiu said in a deep voice, listening to his words, Avery was slightly taken aback.

"What... Chad died? Who did it?"

"I don't know, it may be the black dog, or it may be the third-party association he mentioned." Claudiu said seriously, while Avery gritted his teeth and responded immediately.

"Your Excellency, do you want to investigate?"

"Investigation? There is not even enough manpower to prepare for the ceremony. Why do you investigate? Two black ranks have already died here. After I transferred you, I am temporarily unable to ask for more people from above. "

Claudio slowly said that the Nest of Eight Points has great influence in Tivian, but there are also many places that need manpower. Although Claudio is a white rank, the resources he has in the society are limited Yes, there is no way to use manpower indefinitely.

"Our top priority now is to quickly complete the rest of the ceremony and then evacuate. Because of what happened last night, this stronghold has been noticed by the black dogs. Although we temporarily fooled them, it won't work for long. Therefore, the first priority now must be to focus on the preparation of the ceremony, and there is no time or energy to take care of other things."

As Claudiu said, he used his identity as an observer of the Security Bureau not long ago, and with the cooperation of mild hypnotic hints and the cooperation of the students of the academy, he sent away the people from the Security Bureau.

But this is obviously not a long-term solution. Since the Anyin Bureau has noticed that there is a problem in the northern suburbs of Tivian, it will naturally conduct a long-term investigation. After finding nothing in other places, their investigation focus will naturally shift back. To the school, so now it's the best choice for me to leave after I finish my work.

"Understood, I will devote all my energy to the ceremony."

Avery replied like this, listening to his words, Claudio also nodded, and then spoke again.

"How are the preparations for the ceremony now?"

"It's generally smooth, and the preparations can be completed within three days."

"And what about anti-reconnaissance?"

"According to your request, we are currently rebuilding the anti-detection measures in the entrance corridor of the ruins. The Huijian lamp, the induction wire, and the anti-divination are all under preparation, and we have also deployed enough guards to ensure that there is nothing wrong with it. Now there is no foreign object that can be known. Feel like entering the ruins."

Avery promised to speak, but at the end his expression changed, and he continued to speak.

"Your Excellency, in fact, there is another important point about the ceremony. Since all the tortured slaves prepared by Chad have escaped, we now lack live sacrifices to further pollute the Mirror Moon God Statue, or...Your Excellency, please contact me For other strongholds, let them send some torture slaves over?"

"There's no need for this. As I said, it's not easy for me to continue to ask for things now. This also includes prison slaves. Besides, it's very troublesome to transport these prison slaves from other places. Now the hunters have begun to tighten up on the northern suburbs." Well, sending torture slaves over may attract their attention. And it's not like we don't have living sacrifices to use now..."

After taking a sip of the red wine, Claudio said slowly. Avery was taken aback when he heard Claudio's words, and then said with some horror.

"There are still living sacrifices available, your Excellency, those subordinates you want to let..."

"Heh, where? I mean, the number of those students is quite large. It's almost enough to take more than half of the books and read them. It's not enough for many people to go to the living sacrifice. Anyway, this school base can't stay anymore Well, after the ceremony is completed, these cover students are useless, they are just used for living sacrifices."

Claudio continued to murmur, listening to his words, Avery couldn't help being stunned, and then spoke slowly after a while.

"Your Excellency, what you mean is to use those students as living sacrifices... Will this kill too many people at once, and if they are discovered, they will anger the Security Bureau and ask them to strengthen their searches?"

"Don't worry, as long as the pollution ceremony of this statue is completed, together with the previous ones, our 'influence' will be further expanded. Presumably by then, the threats from the kingdom government will be suppressed to a certain extent, including An Yin The bureau is the same."

After waving his hands, Claudio said with a mysterious smile. After listening to the old Claudio's words, Avery's eyes were full of confusion.

"Is there no problem as long as the ceremony is completed?"

In the office, Claudio and Avery were discussing with each other here, and at this time, in a place that neither of them saw, under the crack of the door, a small gecko was lying there , quietly watching the scene in the room in front of him.

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At this moment, in the library of King's Campus, on a seat in a secluded corner, Dorothy, who was pretending to read a book, was feeling the message sent back by the distant corpse puppet, thinking thoughtfully.

"The eavesdropping went well... Sure enough, that guy didn't find out this time." '

Thinking about it, Dorothy put the book in her hands at ease, picked up the notebook on the side, and wrote a summary of the abilities of vampires on it, which she summarized from the materials Beverly sold her.

Holding the notebook, Dorothy glanced at the abilities in front of her, and finally stopped at the item of "spiritual perception (cup.shadow)".

"The reason why the bald bat named Claudius was able to perceive my small corpse doll was because of this skill... to a certain extent, it can perceive the 'cup' spirituality in the surrounding environment and the 'shadow' that has not been used for concealment." 'Spirituality, and be able to perceive whether it is abnormal.

"My small corpse puppet is a meat puppet driven by a 'cup'. Compared with the 'cup' in a normal human body, this 'cup' affected by extraordinary power is itself in an abnormal state, so it can be overcome Laudio easily sensed it, causing my monitoring to fail. '

While thinking like this, Dorothy turned her eyes away and stared at a ring with a crescent moon imprint on her hand, which was the hidden ring left by Dorothy's mother.

'But this time, my corpse puppet was successfully not detected after being protected by the Ring of Obstacles. I didn't expect that after being promoted to the black rank, the detection ability would also improve a little bit. '

Dorothy continued to think that at this time, she was using the extraordinary conduction effect of the spirit thread to transmit the effect of "concealment protection" by the ring of obscurity to the small corpse doll in the distance. The small corpse doll can enjoy To the shelter of the ring of obscurity, so it was not sensed by Claudiu's spiritual induction.

Different from the ability of the corpse doll, Dorothy needs to keep sending "cups" of spirituality to the corpse doll through the spirit thread to maintain the corpse doll, so Dorothy has always been resident in the corpse doll to a certain extent. "cup".The Ring of Obscuration is to remotely bring the corpse doll into its own protection range through the spiritual thread, during which no "shadow" is sent to the corpse doll, and the corpse doll itself does not contain "shadow", so Claudius The "shadow" spiritual perception of the human body is also unable to perceive the existence of corpse puppets.

Furthermore, the spiritual perception of "Shadow" can only perceive the "Shadow" used for non-concealment, such as the storage of "Shadow", the extraordinary items of "Shadow", the wind of "Shadow" produced by elementalization, and the wind of "Shadow" produced by enchantment The "shadow" blade made by chemicalization and so on.A "shadow" Extraordinary who relies on "shadow" spirituality to hide cannot be discerned by "shadow" spiritual perception, but must be illuminated by "light".

Relying on the new ability obtained by being promoted to the black rank, and cooperating with the original one, this time Dorothy successfully eavesdropped on Claudiu and obtained a series of very precious information.

'What kind of ritual do these guys...want to perform around that idol on the second basement floor?And the time is very short, it will start in three days, and during the ceremony, students who have been corrupted by poison will be sacrificed?

'Heh... I originally thought that these guys should withdraw from this school because of the pressure from the Anyin Bureau. I didn't expect that they would send out the people from the Anyin Bureau for some reason. Want to play a big wave?This is really...'

After sorting out the information obtained from Claudius, Dorothy was still a little surprised, and at the same time had many questions in her heart, that is, what is the purpose of the Nest of Eight Points?Why do they need to find that mirror moon statue full of preet?What are they doing to pollute the Mirror Moon God Statue with rituals?Why would they expand their "influence" if the mirror moon statues were polluted more?This so-called "influence" can even reduce the threat from the Royal Government and even the Security Bureau?

A series of questions lingered in Dorothy's mind, but she didn't have much time to think about them at this time. The most urgent task was how to deal with the ceremony three days later.

'I have successfully promoted to the black rank, and the ruins below are useless to me. In fact, I don't need to get involved in this matter at all. What I want to do is to continue to accumulate spirituality and follow new promotion clues.

'But...if you don't care, the corrupted students of the Secret Society may not be saved, they will be sacrificed alive in the ceremony, and I promised Nephness to help her fight against the velvet, Save her compatriots in those societies...'

Dorothy thought like this, to be honest, Nephness helped a lot in Dorothy's promotion this time, and she is now planning to treat Nephness as herself like Vanya He has cultivated the power of his... I don't really want to break my promise, and I don't really want to die.

'Besides... Judging from the current situation, what kind of mirror moon statues are they looking for in the eight-pointed nest full of Pritt? They should have dug a lot of historical sites, maybe they know the whereabouts of the relics of the Star Shushu Society?Maybe there are other places like King's Campus, where there are relics of the co-existence of the Xingshu Shuhui and the Mirror Moon God Statue?If we aim at the eight-pointed nest, maybe we can find some clues?

'Furthermore... now I am desperately poor, and after I was promoted, I fell back into poverty instantly. Not only do I have no money, but also less spirituality.Thinking back to when I was in Igwent before, I made my fortune by robbing the Holy Communion, and now I want to make a fortune again and become well-off, so is it right now that I have a good goal and a good opportunity? '

Thinking of money and spirituality, Dorothy's mind couldn't help but become active. Looking at the Eight-pointed Nest stronghold with chalk sitting in front of her, she suddenly became more courageous, and she had the idea of ​​doing him a favor.

"Well, but there is always a chalk, it is better to report a wave first, and see the reaction of the Anyin Bureau."

Dorothy murmured, then closed the book in her hand.

Chapter 230 Construction

North Tivian, Cathedral Quarter.

At noon, Dorothy, Vanya, and Nephness were gathered in a high-end hotel room on the streets around the church district. In the room where Nephness originally lived, The three sat around a small table at this time.

"What? You said that the students in the academy will be sacrificed for the ceremony?"

Sitting on one side of the table, Nephness spoke in surprise after hearing Dorothy's words, and Vanya, who was beside her, also opened her mouth in astonishment.

"Miss Dorothea, isn't the velvet already dead? Why haven't my classmates been liberated yet, and why are they being treated as living sacrifices?"

Nephness murmured in disbelief, while Dorothy put her hands on the table and answered slowly with a serious expression.

"Thorn Velvet is just a small leader with a low status in the Nest of Eight Points. His death does not mean that the plan of the Nest of Eight Points has been interrupted. In the underground of the academy, the power to replace him has appeared now, and it is more powerful than that. The velvet is even stronger, and according to intelligence, their latest operation now requires a large number of student sacrifices from the academy."

"How could it be..." Listening to Dorothy's words, Nephness felt a sense of loss. She originally thought that everything would be over soon after killing the velvet at the entrance of the river irrigation bridge, but she didn't expect that. Such a result has developed.

"Miss Dorothea, should we inform the Security Bureau quickly, they are obliged to take care of such evil priests." On the other side, Vanya also said with a hint of worry at this time Arrived, but Dorothy shook her head after hearing her words.

"As for the Anyin Bureau, I already informed them through a special channel yesterday, but I haven't seen any movement from them until now. To be honest, I don't expect them to take any action this time."

Dorothy said bluntly that she herself had given relevant information to the Security Bureau through Beverly a long time ago, but she has not seen any action from them until now.Dorothy suspected that this might be what Claudius called "influence" at work.

In the previous wiretapping, Dorothy heard what "influence" the Nest of Eight Points seemed to be able to use to reduce the threat from the King's government and even the Security Bureau.

What is this so-called "impact"?Dorothy was not very clear about it. She guessed that it might be like the Holy Communion that the Nest of Eight Points had corrupted some people in the Anyin Bureau as inner ghosts. Then use your own people to switch packages.Of course, it could be something else.

Of course, it is also possible that the Anyin Bureau has doubts about the intelligence of their own line. After the Beisong Forest Farm, they have reason to suspect that they are using them as tools. Regarding its own intelligence, the Security Bureau has reason to act more cautiously.

"The Anyin Bureau...is there no response?" Hearing Dorothy's words, Vanya couldn't help but frowned slightly, with a worried look on her face, and Dorothy took the opportunity to ask. .

"Perhaps... Can the church get involved with this incident, Sister Vanya, do you know of any channels to report such things to the church?"

"Eh... the church, unless it encounters a heresy or a large-scale spread of heresy, otherwise it will not take the initiative to participate in the handling of extraordinary events."

Vanya replied in response to Dorothy, but Dorothy spoke quite unexpectedly.

"What? Won't the church take the initiative to deal with extraordinary events?"

"Well, in a country like Prieter, which has an official extraordinary agency, the church is always on the guest side. Among all kinds of extraordinary incidents, the Security Bureau, as the official government, holds the first investigation and disposal power. Generally speaking, the church exists as a support force and will only be dispatched after accepting the invitation of the Security Bureau. If it is not for the large-scale spread of heresy and heresy incidents, the church will not take the initiative to take action.

"Only in those countries that do not have official extraordinary institutions and do not have the strength to build official extraordinary institutions, the church will assume the responsibility of the Security Bureau and act as the first investigation and disposal party for extraordinary incidents. In these countries, the church often also There will be more power."

Vanya explained that after listening to Vanya's words, Dorothy almost understood what was going on. It involved the issue of legal rights. Preet is an independent sovereign country, and the Church is a The religious armed forces stationed in the country are naturally subject to certain restrictions, and the boundaries of power are clearly defined.

In Priet, the Anyin Bureau is dominated by the official Extraordinary power, and the church can only serve as support for issues other than pagan heresy.And according to Vanya, as long as the relationship between the country and the church has an official extraordinary institution, only those small congresses that do not have the strength to establish an extraordinary institution have the full power to let the church help deal with domestic extraordinary events, but this is actually the case. It is also equivalent to surrendering part of the sovereignty to the church.

Dorothy and Vanya were talking, while Nephness on the side was a little confused for a while because she didn't quite understand what they were talking about, and she didn't worry until they finished talking He interjected and said.

"Well, Miss Dorothea, can you ask more Rosicrucian people to solve this incident?"

"Ah... It's probably too late for this. The other guys have their own missions, and it might be too late for them to rush over now." Dorothy said this, she would not tell Nephness The room was almost filled with the Rosicrucians.

Listening to Dorothy's words, Nephness felt lost again, but before she started to lament, Dorothy smiled and added again.

"However, in fact, we don't need other people right now. Since the Anyin Bureau and the church don't take any action, it's not like we can't deal with them just sitting here."

"To deal with them...Miss Dorothea, do you want to..."

Hearing Dorothy's words, a bad premonition suddenly rose in Vanya's heart, and at this moment Dorothy also turned to look at her and said with a smile.

"Ah, yes... let us fight side by side again, Sister Vanya, in the name of Aka."