The Speedrun Manual of Miss Witch - Chapter 193

The High Priestess holding the ring didn’t even care about the numbness and coldness coming from her left hand. Blood almost splashed all over her face. She stared dumbfounded at Ciel’s half “corpse” lying on the ground, twitching slightly from pain.

The spurting blood quickly condensed into blood threads, rapidly replenishing this enormous blood array.

And everyone, upon seeing this scene, fell silent.

Even Eleanor, who had turned around, slowly opened her mouth.

Then, in everyone’s shocked gaze, Ciel’s still-bleeding figure rapidly twisted and reassembled. A flash of silver light appeared. A young girl with sky-blue hair slowly rose from the pool of blood.

Ciel looked down at the blood constantly being pulled away from her clothes and skin, forming blood threads. A fierce impulse surged into her mind.

Why go through all that trouble?

When the “Instigator” was present, it took hours of bloodletting to get the quantity needed for the divine servant.

The second time the Grim Worm Saint was summoned, the ritual was not presided over by a “Subverter.”

Now, she was presiding over it herself, and she had released the blood of basically one and a half people. Her own blood was definitely enough, but the resulting creature might not be very controllable with such a small proportion of her own blood.

But what if she used Overlimit?

What if she gambled on being able to command it?

Anyway, Tara seemed to be losing control of the situation.

Let’s just do it!

Ciel drew her pocket watch with her right hand and flung it outwards. The chain quickly wrapped around her fingers. Finally, the pocket watch landed steadily in her palm. Then, she turned the central gear.

【Overlimit Gear】

【Spiritual Summoning】

A “Gambler” is like this. When they gamble, they don’t care about their lives at all.

Click—Click click click—

The central gear spun rapidly, bursting with brilliant silver light. Silver cracks, accompanied by shattering sounds, spread from the pocket watch all the way to Ciel’s right arm.

Clink—

A sound like crystal breaking echoed. Silver blood flowed down the cracks, forming silver blood threads, quickly infecting the blood array and other blood threads.

The silver blood array quickly formed. This rapid spreading of fragmentation reached the Divine Advent Church members standing in the center of the silver blood array. Their bodies rapidly shattered.

Even the Goddess statue trembled in this terrifying fluctuation.

Countless amounts of blood surged from the bodies of the shattering cultists and were quickly dyed silver. The Divine Advent Church members died painlessly in just an instant.

Countless silver blood threads twisted and swirled above the Goddess statue, forming a silver vortex.

In less than ten seconds, the vortex had fully formed—this was something that had never happened in previous Spiritual Summonings.

“Goddess above… what is that…”

Terrifying pressure descended upon everyone. Some of the Bishops of the Church of the Savior Goddess couldn’t help but step back… This was their instinctive, irresistible fear.

“Aura of the Other Side…”

The hand holding the scepter also began to tremble. She had only felt the aura of the Other Side before when the Church of the Savior Goddess still had a saintess and could communicate with the Other Side.

But such a powerful, terrifying aura that seemed to have completely connected with the Other Side, pressed down on the Pope, making it impossible for her to speak a complete sentence.

Her own strength was only that of a “Radiant Bishop.” Her feelings were exactly the same as those of the Bishops.

Fear.

Shuddering fear.

An aura that seemed to transcend ordinary life.

An aura she had felt several months ago…

That was the aura of “Uniqueness” manifesting…

A fierce wind howled through Westminster Square. The already gloomy sky was torn open by the wind, breaking through the clouds and haze. A ray of sunlight shone on the silver blood array and the Goddess statue.

Ciel looked up, her expression shocked yet excited at the terrifying scene she had never witnessed before.

Wait…

Almost a minute has passed…

Why hasn’t the thing from inside come out yet…?

Right… the vessel!

The vessel for the divine servant summoned that time was Kitty. The vessel for the Grim Worm was the Keyman.

These two were Tier 2 and Tier 3… and their spiritual talent wasn’t particularly high…

If the stronger the vessel, the more power it could bear, then could she gamble on using a Tier 4 as the vessel?

Ciel slowly turned around and looked at Eleanor, who was half-kneeling on the ground, looking at her in shock.

“Come, receive your (Old Ansu language) ‘Ascension’.”

Ciel slowly extended her left hand, palm facing upwards, towards Eleanor.

The amount this time was also the amount needed to summon the Grim Worm. And Tier 4 Eleanor was also called the Grim Worm Missionary… Perhaps she would be a good vessel.

At this moment, Eleanor’s face showed shock and bewilderment. Her crimson pupils reflected the silver blood array in the sky. Finally, fanatical fervor still took over her rationality. She suddenly stood up, walked past the bewildered Tara, and stepped into the blood array.

The moment she stepped into the blood array, thousands of silver blood threads tied her up, pulling her towards the silver vortex in the sky.

Large amounts of black and red blood threads surged from the silver blood array, completely restraining her body in a blood cocoon. Terrifying energy was constantly being infused, eroding, and refining her body, until her soul could no longer bear it and dissipated. A phantom formed by silver mist then entered the blood cocoon.

Thud—

With a sound like a heartbeat, a wave of air spread out with the heartbeat, bringing a strong wind.

However, at this moment, the 【Overlimit Gear】 stopped rotating. The silver blood threads rapidly lost their color, turning back to blood red.

And the silver vortex above the Goddess statue also rapidly faded, turning red.

That heartbeat, which had only beaten once, never sounded again.

The aura, the power, no longer increased.

The blood cocoon continuously shattered. The cocoon shell peeled off little by little, falling.

A faint connection, as if it were there and yet not, slowly established itself with Ciel’s consciousness.

The shattered blood cocoon was as if it had rained blood-colored hail, dyeing the sacred Goddess statue blood red. Coupled with the blood-colored runes on its face, it looked particularly terrifying and grotesque.

An ultimate life form slowly descended from in front of the Goddess statue.

That was Eleanor.

No, it should be said it was a being from the Other Side that had taken over Eleanor’s body.

Its black robe rustled behind it, revealing terrifying writhing tentacles and articulated limbs beneath. Its completely insectoid head was hidden in the shadow of the hood, completely covered by black shadows on all sides, revealing no hint of its true form.

Its entire body was almost completely covered by the black robe. Only its chest had shattered. Through the torn clothes and visible ribs, one could see a strange, blackish-purple, tumor-like growth that perhaps could not be called a heart, slowly pulsating.

At this moment, Ciel finally understood.

Whether it was the divine servant or the Grim Worm before, they were just insignificant phantoms… No wonder Amy said she only saw a white shadow when she witnessed the divine servant…

If the power of the divine servant truly originated from an “Ascetic,” then what she had summoned might just be a shadow of the divine servant…

And this time, she had summoned a true physical entity…

Half a heart…

“You seem to have… summoned me…”

A faint, ethereal voice echoed in Ciel’s mind.

The Grim Worm’s…

Half a heart.