Her appetite came and went quickly, and the next moment, the perspective shook slightly, and she could hear the little witch groaning.
That was not a sound of pain, it came from pleasure - because new knowledge was gained from "research", and the mystery once again gave feedback.
“There is feedback, so her research is correct?”
After lying on the table for a while, Claire turned her attention back to "Decoding the Nobles".
"So far, 12 problematic directories have been found... hidden among 1000 total entries..."
"No one has discovered it until now. Is it because this knowledge is not important?"
She continued to be in a daze until she heard footsteps approaching, then she pretended to be exhausted and packed her things, intending to go back to the dormitory to rest for a while.
After all, there are 1000 lists, and the book is too thick. It will take her a long time to finish reading it.
As the days passed, Hitzfeld became bored again.
Claire's focus is still on studying the right path. She has begun to learn and master the knowledge of preparing basic potions - not the kind that is read from textbooks, but the kind that includes Bram's personal experience.
Until another night.
Claire sat down in the classroom again.
Open that big book.
Call her name out of the new content.
Chapter 58 Begins
"Hitzfeld..."
Hitzfeld, who was lost in thought, was suddenly awakened.
What did she hear?
Claire was calling her?
what's the situation?
After quickly confirming what happened, her shock increased instead of decreasing - the little witch actually read this name from a book, and it was directly on the list! It belonged to the ancient remnant that was recorded!!
This seems...there doesn't seem to be anything strange.
Forcing himself to calm down, Hitzfeld quickly analyzed this possibility.
It can be confirmed that Hitzfell Manor already existed on Earth before she traveled to the Namiyan world.
Hitzfeld Manor, the Hitzfeld family... and this family holds many secrets. For example, she still doesn't know why such a dangerous thing would be in the small courtyard behind the manor. So the surname "Hitzfeld" is a family of extraordinary people passed down from ancient times, which is indeed possible.
So as long as a little bit of information about it is circulated, it is normal for such an ancient family to be recorded and included in certain books.
It's just a coincidence that's bound to happen, there's no need to make a fuss about it.
Hitzfeld wanted to comfort herself that if she hadn't seen the notes that Farley had pasted all over the page, she really wouldn't have intended to pursue the matter further.
But what is the situation now.
From what she had seen at a glance, there was only a short paragraph about the entry "Hitzfeld" in "Decrypting the Nobility". Why did she post so many things? How much could a little witch find out?
No one would be happy to find out that someone was secretly looking up their information. Hitzfeld suppressed his emotions and followed Claire's gaze to carefully browse the pages of the book.
[Although the author has collected intelligence and information about "Hitzfeld" from various channels, it is not certain that this family really exists because the statements are so different.]
The record of her family in "Decoding the Aristocracy" is indeed very short, and this summary is the most eye-catching.
As for why there is "such a huge difference", the explanation given in the text is: many people who describe what they have seen and heard say things that are too bizarre, and are impossible to achieve even in the extraordinary realm. If they are thrown to extraordinary people, they will only be treated as a joke.
For example, this paragraph:
[Anaki-Sileb thought his experience was a dream. He went into the forest to chop wood in the morning, but when he returned in the afternoon, he could not find the way. The path that was supposed to lead down the mountain was covered by lush jungle, but it was late autumn and there was no way there would be tall weeds.]
[Faced with this dilemma, Anaki-Shileb chose to walk downstream along the river, on which his village was built, thinking that this would allow him to return home in the dark around 7 .]
[His subsequent description was a little confused - I was sure it was confused. Because he told me it was night just a second ago, and when he described the encounter next, he said it was daytime. I suspected that he also had mental problems.]
[In addition to Anachi-Sileb, there are a few other people. I investigated the three local villages and found that some of them have seen the manor, but it sounds like there is a magic of confusion there, so powerful that it can even reverse the laws of the seasons... I personally don't believe that such a place exists. I have heard of similar legends about secret families, vampires, and wizards' castles, but this is too outrageous.]
[……] Hitzfeld was silent again.
It might seem outrageous to the people who collected this information, but as someone who knew some of her family's details, she was sure that it should be the real Hitzfell Manor.
The Hitzfeld family is a family of secret keepers, hiding themselves in the secret realm of the God, and people can only enter at the turn of the seasons.
This was the information Xia dug up for me at the time.
According to that description, the climate changes in the manor were abnormal. It was often spring in the morning, summer at noon, autumn in the afternoon, and winter at night.
Isn't this a reversal of the seasons?
Perhaps those lucky intruders were confused by the change, but it was true - Hitzfeld also found it a bit strange to confuse day and night.
[Is it because we are on Earth, which belongs to another time and space, that the laws of time are disordered?]
[Neither the book's binder nor the witch coven took this information seriously, nor did they believe it was true... That is, the power described here was beyond their cognition, and they did not even believe that the Hitzfeld family was a member of the extraordinary.]
[So whether this family is a native family on Earth or not seems to be a certainty...]
Because of thinking about these things, she rarely fell behind in reading to Claire. The little witch was already reading the note.
Oh, and there’s Farley’s note.
Hitzfeld's heart tightened.
She wanted to see... Even "The Nobles" only had these descriptions, so what new stuff could Farley come up with.
[There is something wrong with this family.]
That’s what the first note says.
Hitzfeld remained indifferent and continued reading.
[I didn't notice it at first... You know, this crappy book has 1000 in its title but the content is much more than that. There are a lot of 'extra' - that is, family lists that they can't verify are also thrown in, and this Hitzfeld is one of them.]
[What really caught my attention was the time number: note the time when Anachi-Schleb discovered the manor - the autumn of 1649. If his description is correct, I calculated that it should be October of that year.]
[It is relatively late now. Pay attention to this number, hold the page with your hand, and turn the book to page 302.]
Claire did as she was told.
So she and Hitzfeld both saw page 302.
[Bayden Family: 1541-1649]
A small Catalan noble family with a long history. According to records, they were destroyed in the political disputes on the Iberian Peninsula.
[That is not the case.]
Turning back, Farley made a rebuttal in the notes: [I checked a lot of information, and I haven't heard of any persecution or assassination of the Bayden family during that period. This is nihilism, and the record is wrong!]
[You will not believe the conclusion I am telling you now. Go on... Note the time when Hitzfell Manor appears for the second time, 1763, and then turn to page 92.]
Claire went ahead and did as she was told, seeing the prominent title on that page.
[Henry family suspected of being descendants of the dynasty: ? ? ? -1763]
"This is--"
Claire covered her mouth and tried to control her cry. She discovered something - how come every time Hitzfell Manor appeared, it meant that an ancient clan would die out?
"What on earth is this..."
Her eyes widened, of course she knew what Farley meant.
The thought that the other party revealed when he left for the last time was that he wanted to peek into the secrets above the extraordinary, that is, to trace back the extraordinary enemy mentioned by Bram.
Everyone can see that Bram is very afraid of those people. They are the mortal enemies and natural enemies of the extraordinary people. The reason why the extraordinary people dare not show up in the world openly is because of these people. There is a great probability that they are secretly dealing with the out-of-control extraordinary people.
The extraordinary people who have fallen for various reasons are undoubtedly unstable factors. They will be tracked by the stench on their bodies, found, and hunted. No one can escape their clutches.
"Farley, do you suspect that the Hitzfell family is the enemy of the extraordinary?"
As Claire wrote this sentence in the notebook, Hitzfeld fell into deep thought again.
This was just as she thought, Farley wanted to trace this power, and she could certainly see it.
Farley did have her strengths. She was keenly aware of the time pattern here and was sure that not only would the appearance of Hitzfell Manor lead to the complete demise of a secret family every time, but the location of the manor was also not fixed.
Because in the information she had read, there were related legends about three places. Although they were different from each other and might have the same name, she insisted that this manor had the ability to transcend time and space, and could travel freely through different eras and land wherever it pleased.
[I didn’t know my family was so powerful.]
Hitzfeld declined to comment.
She planned to read the entire page first.
But at this moment, Claire's perspective shifted again.
He first looked at Claryn in the bottle, then raised his head and looked at the little witches sitting in front of him, his eyes fixed on their fair and tender necks.
[……] Hitzfeld had some guesses.
The bad premonition was finally confirmed when Claire took out a small mirror, opened her mouth and looked at the condition of her oral cavity.
A row of pink lumps of flesh protruded from behind her gums.
Something white was popping out and growing from it, eager to come out.
I was not feeling well and asked for leave yesterday.
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Chapter 59: Rebellion
The worst truth finally befell Claire... She was 100% sure that her body was "corrupting".
Witch Bram seems to have said that "degeneration" is "alienation" and "the pursuit of mystery at all costs" - it is the feedback given by mystery to this special desire.
The fallen are completely free to do so; it is their freedom, and they can indeed gain more extraordinary knowledge from the process of practicing both paths, and thereby draw more benefits from the mysterious source.
But that is not knowledge that humans, at least not at this stage, can bear. They will pay a price that ordinary people cannot bear, and once they start, there is no turning back.
As for Claire, by the small mirror she confirmed that she was teething.
There was nothing wrong with her teeth originally. Apart from being a little crooked, they were pretty white.
But the problem was not with her original teeth, but that although she already had a set of teeth, her gums were still growing a second set, or the second layer of teeth.
Hitzfeld and Claire shared a perspective, and when she saw the scene clearly in the small mirror, despite her mental preparation, she still felt a wave of nausea.
The fair and pretty girl opened her mouth slightly, and everything looked normal, but in the reflection of the mirror, she actually had a second row of neatly arranged teeth in her mouth...
The teeth are not sharp, but flat, just like the shape of an omnivorous animal like humans. But their existence is really disgusting, the kind that is hard to explain, but just disgusting.
And that's not the end.
On the day the second set of teeth actually came in, Claire looked in the mirror again and glimpsed some pink bumps further inside the second row of teeth on the inside, and it looked like growth was still continuing.
Judging only from the expression reflected in the mirror, Hitzfeld felt that she was about to be overwhelmed.
Time is jumping, and pictures are flashing in God's eyes.
As a bystander, Hitzfeld witnessed the entire process of how Claire cried hysterically and vented in the bathroom alone, then pretended to be fine and continued to attend the class, and redoubled her efforts to get the Sawtooth Leaf reward.
Her progress was so rapid that it alarmed many official witches. During their shifts, they would come to Bram to inquire about this famous genius apprentice, to learn about her progress, preferences, and madness. Before leaving, they would still care about her and tell her not to get too obsessed.
"It should be no problem." Bram was also very proud of the fact that he had taught a genius apprentice. "Indeed, it is exaggerated that she has mastered all the elementary potions before the end of the first year, but she should be able to control it well. After all, her face has not changed at all."
Witches regard "changes in beautiful faces" as a warning sign, because the smoother and more delicate the skin, the more noticeable even a prickly heat rash will be.
They can use this to be more vigilant and check whether the other party has the potential to fall into depravity.
So it's no wonder that Hitzfeld suspected that they were deliberately recruiting beautiful girls. This might be the witches' unique prevention mechanism.
However, these people are destined to be disappointed.
In the nearly one-year time jump, Hitzfeld often saw Claire taking out a small mirror to look at herself, but she never opened her mouth to the mirror - to anyone - again.
She became dull.
Not only does she speak in a soft voice, but she also always lowers her head when she moves her lips. Even when she smiles, she only purses her lips modestly, which gives her a gentle temperament.
Hitzfeld had heard people teasing her many times, saying that Claire had a boyish personality when she first came, but now she smiled so shyly.
Every time Claire just laughed and didn't make any excuses.
