The Speedrun Manual of Miss Witch - Chapter 172

【Reality】

【Holy Year 741, July 4th, 20:11】

【Evaluation: What, do you still feel it went too smoothly^^】

【Go back and savor your initial ideas… don’t you feel like you’ve fallen one step deeper? However, the good news is, you seem to no longer reject being involved in the schemes and struggles between transcendent organizations】

【Take it. This is what you deserve based on your performance.】

【Reward: Fate Points ×34, 【Headhunter Lv.3】】

【Fate Points: 360】

【Headhunter Lv.3: Moderately increases your accuracy, and causes any attack directed at an enemy’s head to undergo a “certain hit” judgment, causing extra damage. Judgment cooldown 10 minutes】

The silver light converged, and Ciel’s vision before her regained its color.

“Hmph…”

After slowly exhaling, Ciel scanned the system settlement interface before her.

It didn’t exceed her expectations. This was her first time directly killing the Keyman. Although the process was unusually easy, the system still gave her a good number of points and one skill upgrade.

The upgraded 【Headhunter】 gained a new passive. Ciel guessed it was similar to the “Gambler’s” hit judgment, except it skipped the “gambling” process and directly achieved a certain hit result.

One drawback was that it wasn’t an active skill. It had to be used in the first attack. If the first attack wasn’t made with full force, the 【Headhunter】’s lock-on ability would enter a long 10-minute cooldown.

The only way Ciel could think of using it now was to directly overload 【Deadly Blood Roland】 and then overload 【Headhunter】 from a long distance, making a super long-range sniper shot.

However, this method would instantly render one sealed artifact and one skill useless… It had to be used cautiously.

She also didn’t know what the result would be after overloading 【Headhunter】. It already came with a “certain hit” judgment. Ciel couldn’t currently imagine what the result would be after overloading it.

Besides these skills, new things also appeared in the system store.

Those were the two sealed artifacts sent over by the simulated Lucy after she cleaned up the scene.

Ciel opened the system store and found those two sealed artifacts.

【【”Spider Demon Doctor’s” Stitching Seal Ring (Unawakened)】】

【Fate Points: 780】

【【Mind Veil (Severely Damaged)】】

【Fate Points: 230】

Such an expensive ring…

According to the system’s exchange rate of 1 Fate Point for 125 Gold Pounds, this ring was worth 100,000 Su Pounds in the system’s eyes…

Ciel gasped inwardly.

Of course, it wouldn’t actually sell for that much in reality, because the system charged 100 Fate Points for even a Tier 1 potion… It was outrageously expensive.

Moreover, a sealed artifact holder not only had to consider whether they could fully develop the sealed artifact, but also whether they could fully utilize the sealed artifact’s abilities and also manage the sealed artifact’s negative effects.

Looking at it this way, Lucy was also quite honest. In the simulation, Ciel didn’t specifically ask for any sealed artifact, but Lucy still personally delivered them honestly—of course, the dissected potion and flesh and blood of the Keyman that Ciel left for her were also quite valuable.

This was definitely not all of the Keyman’s assets.

“Subverters” are not like “Gamblers” who bet things away as soon as they get them. In her not-so-short life, she must have accumulated quite a few good things… but trying to scavenge her legacy would definitely attract the attention of the Society of Merriment.

Actively seeking it out would be more trouble than it was worth.

Better to just dump all the blame on Lucy and let her bear the consequences. Ciel wasn’t greedy. Being able to get that ring in reality would be a gain.

Ciel carefully read the descriptions of the ring and the veil.

The Mind Veil’s effect and side effects were very simple.

It was more like a sealed artifact for stealth. Just by draping this veil over yourself, you could “disappear” from any creature’s sight.

You yourself didn’t truly disappear. You just disappeared from a spiritual and visual perspective. It was very similar to a “Subverter’s” hypnosis or illusion. If used well, it could create a layered deception effect.

It was a good toy for a “Subverter.” The Keyman in the simulation had used it, but unfortunately, not well.

However, it had to be deactivated every 10 seconds, or a random organ in the body would be permanently “vanished” by the Mind Veil.

If a lung was “vanished,” you would forget to breathe and suffocate to death.

This was definitely a sealed artifact from the “Listener” or “Instigator” path.

As for that emerald ring, its effects were much more complex than Ciel had imagined.

It wasn’t a combat sealed artifact. In Ciel’s eyes, it was more inclined towards “creation.”

【【”Spider Demon Doctor’s” Stitching Seal Ring】: Special Sealed Artifact. Wearing this sealed artifact allows for continuous injection of flesh and blood or spider demon silk to strengthen the seal ring】

【Injecting 500g of flesh and blood can create and release a reinforced spider demon silk】

【Injecting 20 strands of spider demon silk can release a large amount of reinforced spider demon silk to wrap the target, dissolving and transforming them into spider demon flesh and blood】

【Injecting 10 pieces of spider demon flesh and blood (500g / 1 standard unit), the seal ring will inject you with a spider demon strengthening serum, granting you 60 seconds of “spider demonization”】

【Side effect: While wearing the seal ring, it will automatically extract 500g of the wearer’s flesh and blood. After you release spider demon silk, it will automatically extract another 500g】

【Note: Spider demon serum is only effective for the “Gardener” and “Coroner” paths. Other paths cannot digest it】

Ciel: “…”

It’s also a limited sealed artifact?

And the Keyman only used the first ability?

Right… With such a severe blood-drawing effect, perhaps only someone on the “Coroner” path, who carries a pile of corpses, could utilize it effectively.

This thing was wasted on the Keyman. Better to give it to someone who understands it better.

Having determined the items she needed, Ciel opened the simulation interface again and looked at the simulation time.