The Speedrun Manual of Miss Witch - Chapter 214

After the news about Avena in Ansu spread through the tabloids, Windsor indeed didn’t come to visit Avena again. She only sent someone with a letter of greeting and invited Avena to visit her at Windsor Palace when she had time to reminisce.

The arrangement of the banquet and the printing of invitations were all handled by Lucy, which ensured maximum efficiency and avoided mistakes.

On the 18th, everyone, including Ciel, moved out of the Deton Membership Hotel, leaving only Avena there, waiting for the banquet to begin.

During the time waiting for the banquet to start, her simulated self was also searching for potions that could be used in her real body. She collected quite a few, mostly from Lucy.

By the time the banquet began, her simulated self had already collected four or five bottles of potions and had formulated many advancement plans.

According to Ciel’s reading, the banquet seemed to go even smoother than expected.

With Tara and Lucy’s connections, quite a few nobles attended, and most of them were even transcendents.

Windsor also attended the banquet with many nobles and officials from the Church of the God of Order’s side, but she didn’t cause any trouble—there were too many transcendents present. No matter what she did, it would be impossible to completely avoid everyone’s attention.

Eleanor, at the banquet, helped Ciel see through Edward’s disguise, but found that he was indeed just an ordinary person. He was not the “Subverter,” but someone else entirely. Edward was just a puppet.

Her simulated self did not capture Edward to avoid alerting him.

The banquet achieved even better results than Avena had expected. Even the police carriages that had been openly following her before disappeared—the “connections” Avena displayed made those who wanted to act against Nia somewhat restrained.

If the banquet went without incident, the only thing left that could cause trouble was that brain.

Ciel continued to read.

After Adele finished tidying up her laboratory, Ciel directly found Adele and took out the brain for Adele to research what it was.

However, Adele didn’t figure out what the brain was for. She didn’t even know how to use it—this was something the Modification School would work on. Ashford might be able to figure out what it was.

To get the information as quickly as possible, Ciel directly had Adele go to the Redemption Society headquarters to “visit” Professor Ashford.

Originally, Ciel had only held a tentative attitude, as Ashford’s condition had been publicly announced as severely injured and in a coma.

But after Adele visited, she unexpectedly received permission and met Ashford at the Redemption Society headquarters.

He was indeed severely injured and close to death, but the “Reborn”‘s life was tough. Ashford had survived even after half of his body was blown away. At this moment, he was being strictly protected by the Redemption Society.

The reason Ciel hadn’t heard any news about Ashford in the previous simulation was also because Ashford was under protection.

Under Ciel’s instruction, Adele took the research manuscript Ciel had copied, along with a portion of the wild violet she had cut, and the brain, and brought them all to Ashford.

Ciel used the mutated violet and the research manuscript to try and get Ashford to help her research this brain.

Professor Ashford agreed to this trade. His life was about to end. His only chance was to research a way to break the Rotting Disease, and thereby complete the ritual, attempting to advance to Tier 4 “Reviver.”

The manuscript and mutated violet sample Ciel sent, which could accelerate his research, left Ashford with no reason to refuse the trade.

But the problem appeared here.

Just one day after Ashford accepted the trade and began researching the brain, Ashford returned the brain to Ciel, along with the manuscript and all the violet samples.

Ashford had definitely researched something. He had researched something that terrified him, something that made him afraid, even to the point of making him, who did not fear death, directly give up the possibility of advancement.

There was completely no news from Ashford’s side. Adele also couldn’t contact him. Ciel could only begin to investigate the Pharos Medical Association.

Soon, Ciel learned some news about the Pharos Medical Association from Avena and Lucy.

The Pharos Medical Association was not an organization of the Pharos royal family. It was just a subordinate organization of an organization in Pharos. Its full name was the Natura Medical Association, or Natura Medical Group.

As the name suggested, this was a medical consortium similar to Deton Group, led by transcendents. Their main businesses were insurance and medical services.

And their deeper, real business was providing medical insurance services for transcendents.

One of the most famous things they had done was to directly save a half-mad transcendent of the Pharos royal family. The method they used was simply horrifying.

They directly raised that noble’s child—an infant—developing him from Tier 1 directly to Tier 3. Then they transplanted almost the entire set of organs from that Tier 3 child onto that royal family member, allowing him to complete his “rebirth”…

And this entire process only took 9 years.

This was a medical group that could pull people back from the brink of death and had no bottom line whatsoever. Their philosophy was almost the opposite of the Redemption Society’s.

Of course, obtaining this kind of medical service from them wasn’t just about money. There were other costs, but this cost was nothing to some desperate transcendents.

That was, the corpse after death would be completely handled by the Natura Medical Group.

They were a literal “flesh and blood factory,” composed of the largest number of “Physician,” “Poison Master,” “Coroner,” “Gardener,” and “Butcher” path transcendents.

The nature of the Natura Group made her simulated self begin to consider the connection to this matter.

It was clear that the Natura Group’s need was transcendent corpses, which would convenience them in doing more experiments, helping the group’s members advance.

The Church of the God of Order, their need was to be the sole state religion of Ansu, and they desperately needed a Saintess. Logically, there shouldn’t be any conflict of interests between them…

In the middle of the two, there was also Forte, who played an unknown role in the two organizations…

War… corpses… Saintess…

It was clear that her simulated self desperately wanted to figure out the connection between these things, but misfortune came faster than expected.

Ashford died at the Redemption Society headquarters. The cause was an unknown virus.

The fiery pain quickly spread to Adele. She was poisoned in her home laboratory and, half-dead, rushed to Ciel’s home seeking help—and then transmitted the virus to her simulated self.

This was intentional. They deliberately let Adele escape, using Adele’s fear in her dying state to make Adele subconsciously seek out Ciel, thereby pinpointing Ciel’s location.