The Speedrun Manual of Miss Witch - Chapter 259

The charging movement echoed among the assembled troops. All the cavalry let out earth-shattering war cries. Accompanied by the intoxicating, bewildering music that could make people so hyped that they couldn’t distinguish right from wrong, they charged in the direction Forte commanded.

Forte’s target was the most important piece of information from the second rewind—the Church of the Savior Goddess.

He wanted to tear open the dark canopy in front of the Goddess statue and see what in the world they wanted to do in his kingdom, right under his nose!

Iron hooves shattered the flat flagstones. The charge of a large number of steel knights made the ground of the entire Ansu City tremble slightly. This steel torrent, which had once struck fear into countless enemies, was now tearing apart all the buildings and civilians in its path. Stepping over ruins and flesh and blood, it charged towards Westminster Square.

Meanwhile, at Westminster Square, in front of the Savior Goddess statue.

A canopy of darkness covered the square, isolating it from all outside information.

In front of the shattered Goddess statue, a giant blood ritual array flickered with bloody light. Before a large bloody vortex in mid-air, a terrifying figure completely shrouded in shadow, whose appearance was extremely similar to Eleanor’s, was suspended.

The darkness in its chest was torn open. Half of a black heart, covered in silver cracks, was beating powerfully. Each pulsation seemed enough to make one collapse into madness.

“Thank you for the meal… Lord ‘Mother Goddess’.”

An ethereal voice came from within the shadow.

“What shall be… the dessert this time?”

On the ground, the red-haired young girl, whose face was pale from blood loss, looked up at the terrifying entity that resembled an evil god and slowly said, “You know him. You have killed him before.”

“Oh? That one again?”

The canopy of darkness slowly dissipated. A terrifying aura swept outwards in all directions along the torn canopy. Almost all ordinary people and transcendents with slightly weaker resistance instantly collapsed, going mad and crying out at Its descent.

“It seems… this time you want to completely finish him off…”

The phantom voice sounded again, but this voice carried a hint of regret, as if It was sad that It would no longer receive anything for free.

The previously clear sky was covered by churning dark clouds. The sound of iron hooves and war cries approached from a distance.

The Grim Worm slowly looked towards the rolling smoke rapidly approaching in the distance and slowly raised its right hand.

A black crescent shape formed in front of its phantom, twisted right hand. Carrying an aura as if it could destroy everything, it was directly shot out.

Buzz——

The black crescent, dozens of meters high, flew out with a subtle buzzing sound, destroying all buildings and life in its path, plowing a trench in the ground, as smoothly as a hot knife cutting through butter.

Boom——!

As the black crescent struck the steel torrent before it, countless steel shields of different colors, along with sound wave shields, appeared before the formation in layers, canceling out the damage caused by the black crescent layer by layer, creating bursts of explosions.

“Sigh…”

A phantom sigh was heard. It was unclear whether It was sighing at the hardness of the opponent’s shell or at Its limited power.

Its figure, shrouded in shadow, slowly twisted. Multiple terrifying wing cases emerged from behind It and unfolded. Its figure also expanded accordingly. Its horrifying black legs were deeply embedded in the ground—the Grim Worm revealed its phantom true form.

Forte in the distance watched the giant Other Side creature with terror. A rare expression of fear appeared on his face.

He also didn’t miss it. He noticed that behind that terrifying creature, a small red-haired figure was standing. It was as if he had a telepathic connection. His gaze went directly to her pupils.

A silver watch face and dark gold gears rotated in her eyes. The aura unique to “Uniqueness” was sensed by him. This was an aura he was all too familiar with, an aura he could even often sense.

In his mind, the Serpent Chain buzzed, seeming to be responding to the other party.

Instantly, Forte understood everything.

So it was…

“Uniqueness”!

It’s the same type of “Uniqueness”!

No wonder… no wonder everything happened so suddenly. It’s as if I was completely unaware of everything! The other party has an ability similar to mine!

Forte burned with jealousy!

The reason he hadn’t noticed everything, the reason he had been manipulated by the other party, was because from the very beginning, his rewinds and hints had served no purpose at all! Even the rewind itself could have been orchestrated by the other party!

“It’s you!!!”

Forte slammed both hands onto the piano keys.

A terrifying sound wave, unleashed without reservation, overturned the scattered stones on the ground before him, and slammed towards the red-haired young girl.

But a light black curtain just appeared in front of the red-haired young girl like that. All the piercing sounds, after entering the black curtain, were completely swallowed up as if entering a bottomless black hole.

His attack was instantly neutralized. Forte gasped and roared, “I know you! You are the Keyman hidden beside Avena and Lucy! I have investigated you! You are hiding with them in the Deton Group hotel!”

As if realizing something, Forte’s distorted face showed a frantic smile. He looked at the young girl in the distance and roared, “You lose! You are only Tier 2! You have no chance of being prepared for all of this in the next rewind!”

“You spent half a day preparing all of this, and I! I will instantly crush the entire Deton Hotel the moment I rewind! Turning you into a pile of rotten flesh!”

“No one can save you!”

Ciel calmly looked at Forte, who had fallen into anger and frenzy. Under the Grim Worm’s influence, anger was corroding his reason. All his actions were unknowingly moving towards extremes.

“Oh.”

Ciel looked up at the time displayed on the system panel before her.

【12:15:12】

【Countdown – 5:44:48】