The Speedrun Manual of Miss Witch - Chapter 242

Holy See of the Church of the God of Order, the Pope’s reception room.

Pope Erigma held the blood-stained white cloth in her hand. The green glow in her eyes flickered. She seemed to be contemplating the blood ritual array and the content on it.

Soon, she beckoned, directly signaling a bishop beside her to approach.

“Your Holiness.”

The blue-robed bishop bowed slightly. Then, he saw the Pope take his hand and, with force, directly tear off his little finger.

“Hiss…”

The excruciating pain from his severed finger caused fine beads of sweat to appear on the blue-robed bishop’s face. However, he showed no unusual emotions. He just stared at his severed finger, seeming to also want to know what the Pope intended to do with his finger.

The Pope unfolded the handkerchief and spread it flat on the table. Then she placed the severed finger, which was still bloody, directly on it.

As she chanted the obscure incantation, blood threads that had been drawn into strands, like tangled threads, wrapped around the finger, quickly draining the flesh and blood power within it.

At the same time, the Pope also felt that as she finished chanting the incantation, her mental power was also rapidly draining…

The remaining blood threads quickly condensed above the handkerchief. A bloody vortex swirled above the handkerchief. Almost as soon as the blood ritual array formed, a strange, pale hand emerged from within and rested on the edge of the blood ritual array.

The moment that hand appeared, the expressions of everyone present changed to varying degrees. Even the Pope was secretly amazed.

Is this the door to the Other Side…? But it’s a little small. Is it because the sacrificed flesh and blood aren’t enough, or is it a limitation of the blood ritual array?

This was a stable method for summoning a blood ritual array. The Pope and everyone present knew the weight of this gift.

After the terrifying left hand completely crawled out from inside, it crawled on the table, looking around. It seemed a little confused.

It was summoned by a familiar aura, but it didn’t see a familiar person.

“Come here…”

The Pope suppressed her excitement and slowly extended her steel finger towards the left hand.

The left hand, which made everyone who looked at it feel as if their body’s potions were about to boil, hesitated after hearing the Pope’s call. It crawled a few steps towards the Pope’s finger, extended its index finger joint, and lightly touched the Pope’s left hand.

“Phew…”

Suppressing her excitement, the Pope looked at Tara and said, “Are you saying that as long as we help Her Excellency Ciel complete this task, she will directly give us the summoning array for that Other Side armor?”

Tara slightly nodded and said, “I have truthfully conveyed every word of Lord Ciel.”

The Pope hesitated for only a moment.

She had Forte’s location information, and Forte was still fighting with the people of the Church of the Savior Goddess…

She just needed to stab him in the back. She didn’t even need to kill Forte to obtain the Other Side information she had long desired…

This was definitely worth doing. Moreover, this could become an opportunity to deepen her cooperation with Her Excellency Ciel.

And a half-dead Forte would be the “military order” she would present.

“Henry, gather the blue-robed Cardinals. We should depart.”

…

“Damn it…”

“Cough cough…”

Not far from the Archbishop’s residence of the Goddess’s Church, about a hundred meters away from that black and white curtain, two silver-armored knights lay on the ground.

One of the knights was kneeling halfway. Blood spewed from the cracks in his armor. He looked up, despairingly watching the crimson monster in shattered armor swaying towards him from not far away.

“Just… almost…”

He violently clenched his fist and smashed it against the ground, shattering the cobblestone. His voice held a hint of frustration.

Perhaps if he hadn’t made so many mistakes during the battle just now, they wouldn’t have sacrificed so many teammates…

“Cough cough…”

Beside him, another silver-armored knight propped himself up, swaying, and stood in front of him.

“Your Excellency…”

The man looked at the armor blocking him. His mouth under the helmet was slightly open.

“Captain, you go… Don’t you still have a wife and children?”

A pleasant but weak voice came from within the silver armor. The female knight drew the broken long sword from her waist and said, “Go find reinforcements…”

“No! I can’t retreat now…”

Their fight side-by-side just now had made him recognize the unknown female knight before him. She could always block crucial attacks for their team at critical moments… Unfortunately, the mutated monsters on the other side were still too strong…

Those crimson monsters not only possessed seemingly endless stamina, but they also gained the formidable defense of ‘Crown Guards’ by consuming others… It was simply like undead that were impossible to kill. The more you fought them, the more desperate you felt.

The musician in the team was also inexplicably infected right at the beginning of the battle, dying on the spot. This was what made this battle so difficult.

And now, even if he died here, he could no longer retreat. Even for the sake of that female knight’s noble knightly spirit, he would fight alongside her to the very end.

He supported himself with his sword, swayed, and stood up. Looking at the back of the female knight before him, he said resolutely, “I will fight alongside you to the very end!”

“You idiot…”

The voice of the somewhat short female knight seemed a little helpless. She said, “In that case…”

Before the female knight could finish speaking, her figure flickered subtly. Even the armor on her body seemed to disappear for a moment.

This change made the knight captain, who was supporting himself with his sword, feel a sense of confusion.

“Damn it! Why now?”

The female knight suddenly dropped her sword and cursed, hugging her arms across her chest. She seemed unhappy about something.

The weakness and tragic tone in her voice seemed to have completely disappeared in that instant. The female knight seemed to have become a completely different person… No, she truly was starting to change.

The silver armor flickered and disappeared, revealing the black, wide robe beneath. Her slightly curled red long hair fell behind her, as if it had been singed. She stood there motionless, taking a deep breath.

“You… what in the world…”

The knight captain stared at the scene before him with wide eyes. To this moment, his mind hadn’t caught up. The comrade he had been fighting alongside just moments ago had, in a brief instant, become a completely different person. Even the potion aura on her body had changed.

As he opened his mouth, about to say something else, the black shadow behind him writhed, and a black shadow emerged.

The black shadow held a dagger burning with black and gray flames. Without mercy, it directly plunged the dagger into the broken part of his armor in his chest.

“Ugh…”

The moment he fell, the knight captain looked at the red-haired figure before him and saw her slowly turn her head, giving him a look of anger.

“So troublesome…”

In the second before his consciousness disappeared, he saw three black shadows surge out from beside the young girl and rush towards the monsters before them. Meanwhile, the black shadow beside him directly pulled off his helmet and neatly sliced off his head along the back of his neck.