Next, Dorothy rested at home for a day. Early in the morning of the next day, a clockwork man in slippers came to Dorothy's door while drinking motor oil and stuffed the package into the mailbox.
Dorothy was not idle after receiving the reply. She immediately took the package home and opened it. She took out four different secret books and seven silver coins with moon patterns printed on them. These were all the storage items of "Shadow".
Dorothy took so many storage items just to charge her family heirloom ring. She needed to consume 2 points of "Shadow" just to control the corpse doll in and out of the Chant Church. She didn't have much "Shadow" on her and would soon be gone if she replenished it. "Shadow" and other anti-detection spiritual habits were still very important to Dorothy as the person behind the scenes, so Dorothy planned to prepare more "Shadow" at once.
Among the other four secret books, two were "Cup", one was "Stone", and one was "Shadow". Dorothy started reading them immediately after she got them, and soon she finished reading all four secret books.
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The first "Cup" secret biography is called "Cocoon Diary", which is a diary-themed secret biography. It describes the author's experience of having a strong sense of being bound, and constantly struggling and seeking transformation and liberation in this suffocating feeling of being bound.
At the end of the diary, the author used scissors to peel off his skin bit by bit. After he was freed from the constraints of the skin, he felt unprecedented joy and freedom with his bloody body.
The book describes the process of self-skinning in great detail. After reading it, Dorothy deduced the feasibility in her mind and found that it actually made some sense. She thought that if someone could endure the pain, this might be a very good self-skinning tutorial.
From this tutorial, Dorothy gained 3 "Cups" and 1 "Enlightenment".
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The first "cup" of secret biography is called "The Map of the Lost Sea", which is a rather bizarre and absurd encyclopedia-like secret biography. It records some giant sea monsters in the sea, some peculiar ocean landscapes, and many deserted island tribesmen with inhuman postures and customs.
Dorothy looked at the descriptions and drawn illustrations of the giant sea monsters, wondering if these things were related to the Abyss Cult.
In the end, Dorothy obtained 4 points of "Cups" and 2 points of "Inspiration" spirituality from this not-so-thin secret book.
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The third "Stone" secret book is called "The Rondova Manuscript". It is the manuscript of a project that an architect named Rondova attempted to assemble and restore a broken large sculpture in the desert of northern Ufia. In the end, the sculpture was not even half restored when Rondova and everyone involved in the project were poisoned and went crazy.
From the sketch in the manuscript, Dorothy could barely tell that the sculpture, which was almost half restored, seemed to be a four-legged animal, but among the remaining fragments that had not yet been restored, there was a part that looked very much like a human ear.
Looking at the manuscript, Dorothy lamented that in this world not only art but also archeology are dangerous professions.
From this manuscript, Dorothy extracted 4 points of "stone" and 3 points of "inspiration", and there were unexpectedly many "inspirations".
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The fourth secret book, Shadow, has no exact name. It is a lullaby for helping people sleep. The lullaby mentions that the fairy in the mirror will guard the sleeping person at night. Obviously, the fairy in the mirror is probably the same as the fairy in the lake. This is another ancient Praet folk song.
After hearing this lullaby, Dorothy roughly understood that there should be a lot of folk forms based on the Mirror Moon Goddess among the Priit hundreds of years ago. Under the nose of the Luminous Church, the belief in the Mirror Moon Goddess was once folkized and spread among the Priit people.
From this lullaby, Dorothy gained 2 points of "shadow" and 1 point of "inspiration".
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Finally, after Dorothy finished reading the secret book, she summarized her own spiritual situation.
8 cups, 10 stones, 5 shadows, 2 lights, 14 silence, 7 enlightenment.
In addition, there are seven "shadow" storage items.
"Huh... The spiritual crisis after the promotion has been initially resolved for the time being. This spirituality is at least enough to deal with emergencies... Thank you, Knight Sister from the Security Bureau..."
After finishing reading all the secret texts and sorting out her spirituality, Dorothy let out a long sigh and lay on the sofa, thinking that what she feared most at the moment was that when her spirituality was insufficient, she would suddenly encounter some unexpected situation, which would make her unable to cope with it for a while.
Fortunately, there was the big sister from the Security Bureau. After trading some intelligence from the Eight Peaks with her, Dorothy was finally able to urgently restore her spiritual power.
Dorothy felt relieved that although she didn't have much, she finally had some spirituality.
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Dorothy was greatly relieved because she had finally achieved her recent short-term goal and planned to take a few days off to relax. So she left for a while after the New Year and started a happy life at home. However, she was not completely idle during this period. She also paid attention to and helped her companions.
The first is the issue of Capac's return home. Although the truth about the Duke's assassination has not been announced to the general public, the public security throughout Tivian has become stricter, including customs. The customs are not strict, making it difficult for a group of suspicious New World natives to board the ship.
Fortunately, in the secular world, the power of money can exert an even greater force. After Dorothy gave Capac two hundred pounds as a handling fee and used Adele's connections in East City to find the local bosses there to act as a go-between, Dorothy finally managed to load these dozen indigenous people who were originally here to carry out terrorist attacks onto a ship to the New World, and let Capac take them back to their hometown. During the two days of stay in Tivian, Capac also successfully purchased some things to take back.
On the other hand, Vanya was the first person to discover the Duke's assassination scene and the princess's rescuer. She was deeply involved in this major assassination case. Therefore, after the New Year's party, she had been cooperating with the Security Bureau in various investigations. During the investigation, she often prayed silently in her heart to ask Dorothy for help, and Dorothy also secretly helped her deal with various interrogations.
What Gregor faced was continuous overtime work like a new year's red. This major case shocked the entire Security Bureau. All levels of the bureau began to work tirelessly and launched a full-scale investigation into the Eight-Pointed Nest.
The assassination of Duke Barrett caused the Security Bureau and even the entire Plit Kingdom government to pay the highest level of attention to the Eight-Pointed Nest.
According to the information Dorothy received from Misha, this incident shocked the royal family. The current King Charles IV was furious in court and ordered a nationwide investigation and crackdown on the Octagonal Nest at all costs. Archbishop Francesco of the church expressed the church's sympathy and condolences for the assassination of the Duke, and they will fully cooperate with the royal government's actions.
The church and the Kingdom government have launched a comprehensive crackdown on the Eight-pointed Nest. The Eight-pointed Nest's final order to Gregor is...
Total silence, waiting for the storm to subside.
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