The Speedrun Manual of Miss Witch - Chapter 243

In the rainy night, a young girl’s figure flickered, finally stabilizing, her pupils turning dark black.

The black pores in the young girl’s pupils transformed into dark purple crystals like scales. They changed constantly between being black bone and dark purple crystals, as if breathing.

“Finally it’s over…”

Ciel turned her head and looked at the corpses on the ground around her.

The “Subverter” save file was indeed the most unreliable one… The team of knights, which could have been resolved very quickly, under the influence of the potion, Ciel couldn’t help but want to torture them one by one, making them die in a confused state, wasting a lot of time.

Fortunately, the Temporal Disorder finally shifted to the “Judicator” save file at the last moment, allowing her to break free from the influence of the “Subverter” potion and decisively eliminate the last “Crown Guard.”

However, it had taken too long, almost consuming the entire forty-five minutes of Temporal Disorder… Perhaps that was a good thing.

She wondered how the fight over there was going.

Ciel looked up at the Archbishop’s residence, which was completely covered by black and white curtains.

Compared to the beginning, these two curtains seemed a little lighter.

Is he that difficult to deal with, that Duke Roswell…?

Given the time, the virus should have already spread completely out of the West District… Even if Forte finally completely pacified the West District, the infection in the outer areas would be impossible to control in a short time.

Even if she directly left Ansu now and waited for the remaining time to end, she would still likely receive a considerable amount of Fate Points as a reward.

Just then, Ciel felt that several gazes were coming from a distance again, seemingly looking in her direction.

Soon, a white shadow emerged from the shadow behind Ciel. The white shadow gradually solidified, and Tara’s figure appeared beside Ciel.

“Lord Ciel, it’s done…”

Tara lowered her head slightly beside Ciel and said.

She noticed that a few more different corpses had appeared by Ciel’s feet… It seemed that while she was away, Lord Ciel had experienced another battle.

“You’ve worked hard.”

Ciel looked at Tara and said.

“It’s not hard…”

Tara lowered her head, only feeling guilty for not being able to help at all.

Clang… Clang——

The sound of something being dragged by an iron chain grew closer. Ciel looked up at the end of the road. A tall armor, over two meters high, was dragging a heavy iron cage towards Ciel.

The iron cage, just being dragged on the ground, was already crushing the cobblestones. It was constantly grinding the cobblestones and mud like a plow.

It’s the Pope.

Then what she’s dragging must be…

So fast?

Pope Erigma dragged the cage and led her team to Ciel. She stopped, released the iron chain, and glanced at the corpses around.

“It seems there are quite a few who didn’t know their place.”

A metallic buzzing sound came from the Pope’s armor. She looked at Ciel before her, reached out and patted the iron lump beside her, and said, “The item, I have brought.”

“As you instructed, I left him barely alive.”

Ciel did not approach. She simply slowly raised her right hand towards the iron cage that had its back to her and pointed at it.

The mycelium attached to the ground slowly wriggled towards the iron cage from all directions with the rain. Soon, it completely covered the iron lump.

Following Ciel’s command, the scarlet mycelium directly burrowed into the iron cage, completely filling the cracks that still existed in the iron cage.

The mycelium went directly into Forte’s wounds and mouth, covering almost his entire body inside and out, but it did not attempt to infect him.

Doing this was just an extra layer of security, making Forte truly a living “flesh and blood sculpture” that was completely unable to do anything.

Forte wouldn’t even be able to starve to death, because the crimson mycelium would provide him with nutrients.

Ciel didn’t waste any words. She looked up at the Pope of the Church of the God of Order and said, “Paper, pen.”

Ciel didn’t waste any words. Since the other party wanted a blood ritual array, she would give it to them.

As long as they didn’t summon it in front of her.

The Pope was already prepared for this. She directly raised her hand. Several knights holding umbrellas behind her had already stepped forward and handed a notebook and pen to Ciel, holding up the umbrella to shield her from the rain.

Swish swish swish——

Ciel quickly sketched on the dry paper.

This was the blood ritual array that Ciel had successfully used to summon that white armor before. It was created by slightly modifying the Grim Worm’s summoning array.

However, without Ciel’s blood, Ciel wasn’t sure whether it would summon the Grim Worm or that white armor when it was used.

But this was no longer Ciel’s concern.

Ciel also thoughtfully wrote down the necessary materials for the sacrifice and added some “Crown Guards” as materials to ensure the ritual could proceed smoothly.

Finally, Ciel wrote down the complex incantation using phonetic transcriptions.

“Done.”

Ciel put down the pen and watched as the knight handed the items to the Pope.

“I need to give a reminder.”

Ciel looked at the Pope holding the notebook and said, “I haven’t used this blood ritual array without my own blood, so I can’t guarantee it will definitely summon It.”

“Also… although It can communicate, It seems to have a considerable hostility towards you… because your continuous intrusion into Its territory over the years has annoyed It.”

The Pope put away the notebook and looked in Ciel’s direction, nodding slightly: “Thank you for the reminder.”

“Also, if you have a need to ‘create’ ritual sacrifices, you can come to me…”

Ciel said with a smile, “I can trade for blood.”

“Your Excellency need not trouble yourself. We will naturally prepare the sacrifices.”

The green flames on the Pope’s mask flickered. She looked at Ciel before her and said, “But if it fails… I hope Your Excellency will grace us with guidance.”

“Of course you can… when do you plan to start?”

Ciel asked.

Ciel didn’t actually want to help them complete the ritual. She didn’t want to interact with the Other Side again, at least not in the short term.

She just wanted to kill a few more “Crown Guards” and get more “kills.”