Chapter 304

Since the last time he beat Oswald's grandson until he was seriously injured and unconscious, Melissa was punished by her father and confined for a week.

Although Melissa belongs to the Combat Department, theoretically it is not under Joseph's control, but who made Joseph have as many friends as enemies?

Melissa's immediate boss, Winston, is also Joseph's very good friend.

So even if Melissa can be regarded as "capturing the lower-level members of the internal corruption gang" this time, she has made a small contribution.

However, because the shot was too heavy, Todd was directly beaten into a concussion, and he could not be rescued in time, which further affected the brain function and turned into dementia. The law of the Mystery Tower still sentenced her to seven days of confinement as punishment for hurting people.

Of course, this is just an explanation on the bright side.

Now that Joseph has returned, he directly brought in an old-fashioned great knight of glory, and it is not just a few ordinary formal knights who are involved.

An entire Oswald faction is spread across the four major departments of the Mystery Tower. If Oswald is a towering tree that shades them, then these people are like the roots of the tree, deeply penetrated into every part of the Mystery Tower. It is not an easy task to uproot them.

Although their biggest backer has fallen now, they can no longer provide them with shelter.

But as the saying goes, Hades is easy to get through, and little ghosts are hard to deal with. It is precisely these ordinary members who are not noticed at ordinary times, because they do not have the strength like Oswald to be confident. Once something goes wrong, they will hide even more secretly , it is not easy to trace.

What's more, there are some people who offended Joseph because of his extremely righteous and upright personality when he was the chief brilliant knight who showed his sharpness...

Now that he is making a high profile again, a secret vortex will inevitably be rolled up.

Just like Joseph's search of Oswald's mansion this time, although he had a formal order from the elders and there was no mistake in the procedure, some people still made a fuss about Wilde's affairs, accused him of not doing his duty, and let him go again This criminal who became more difficult after two years, and let Oswald die directly.

It is even more outrageous to say that he may have colluded with Wilde and used the latter to cover up the evidence of his cooperation with Oswald...

Under such circumstances, Melissa, who is the fuse to a certain extent, if she is allowed to continue training and tasks normally, it will be tantamount to putting her in the center of the storm, let alone persecution, even more embarrassing gossip will also Make the little girl uncomfortable.

Although Joseph believes that proper psychological exercise is beneficial to Melissa's growth, the indirect damage caused by his neglect in the past two years has been fully reflected in Todd's incident.

These "exercises" are already enough... Now that he is going to come back, he naturally has to let go of his hands and feet, and do his duty as a father.

Therefore, the name confinement is actually protection in disguise.

"Snapped."

Melissa closed the book in her hand, took a long breath, closed her eyes and thought about it, feeling a deep tiredness and satisfaction.

"The cornerstones of all things are originally the same... the same foundation, but due to the different arrangement and order of arrangement, different substances are formed, and if you can manipulate these cornerstones with ether, you can control their forms... control their existence."

"I was only able to 'see' the existence and structure of these cornerstones before, and on this basis, using the cracks and unstable places in them, I can even break the shield that can defend against destructive attacks, just like I did that to Todd."

"But in other words, I can only do this level of things."

"If there is really a destructive level in front of me, I can't last a round, because I have no chance to force the destructive level's defensive measures... On the contrary, a destructive level transcendent can kill me in one face, because I just Can see through, but not defend."

"But what if I can manipulate them, or even deconstruct the ether? A destructive attack will also fall apart!"

"It turns out that this is the real power."

Melissa was thoughtful, her eyes sparkled with excitement, and she was almost beaming with joy.

She looked very haggard, with bruises under her eyes, and a pale but excited face.

It has been three full months since she got the "Key of the Door: Origin" in the bookstore, but she has only just gotten a glimpse of it until now.

Before that, every time she even read this book, she would fall into an involuntary state until she fainted.

Although it is indeed learning, it is extremely inefficient like a primary school student who has directly obtained a high-level mathematics book and then forcibly instilled it.

With her previous level, it is not enough to understand one ten thousandth of this book.

It is not that she is learning knowledge, but knowledge is eating her.

The more she can't understand, the more she will want it.

So she can only keep reading...but her body can't support her spirit, so every time she reads, she must use external force to relieve this state, otherwise she will die of exhaustion.

In such a painful learning process, Melissa's spirit and body have been tempered repeatedly.

His strength has advanced by leaps and bounds, reaching the peak of panic level.

It's just that considering that the secret instrument tower's countermeasures against the bookstore are unknown, she deliberately hides her own strength, and not many people know about it...

"From now on, there is no need to hide any more. According to what Dad said, the Tower of Secret Rites will be fully tilted towards the bookstore in the future, and pleasing Boss Lin will become the only strategy and the top priority."

Although the elder's seat's order is definitely not as simple as "please Boss Lin", but this does not prevent Melissa from understanding it in this way.

Melissa laughed out loud.

The people who first came into contact with the bookstore, including Joseph, Melissa, and Caroline, will naturally become the core of all the next actions of the Secret Ritual Tower.

In other words, those who were still counting against Joseph had already stood on the opposite side of the elders' seat.

"They are simply seeking their own death!"

Thinking so, Melissa stood up holding the book.

This is the confinement room of the Secret Ritual Tower, a confined space that is only one person tall and one square meter in size. The only furnishings are a table and a stool, which is extremely narrow.

During the confinement period, there will be three hours of conversation time per day, which will be held at the time of three meals a day. You can also bring items such as books and Rubik’s cubes to avoid psychological problems. After all, the purpose of confinement is not to torture, but to reflect .

Melissa was often locked up in the past. The superhumans in the Secret Ritual Tower are not mortals, and they are only locked up for three to seven days, which will not cause any psychological shadow.

This is her last day of confinement.

The moment Melissa stood up, a door appeared on the wall behind her and slowly opened.

One of her instructors in the combat department stood at the door with a blank expression as he handed out a stack of materials.

"Melissa, the confinement is over, there are new tasks."

Melissa took it, and after a closer look, she frowned: "Siege the Corpse Food Cult's stronghold on 67th Street..."