The Speedrun Manual of Miss Witch - Chapter 284

Ciel’s question made the red light stop flickering, as if the Pure White Knight had also fallen silent in response.

“You know this is a dead end… Lord Ciel…”

After a long while, the Pure White Knight’s voice finally came from Ciel’s mind.

I know?

When did I know?

The Pure White Knight seemed to have been mistaken in its assessment of Ciel from the very beginning.

It wasn’t Ciel who knew everything, but the system.

For this, Ciel also had her own solution.

Honesty would suffice.

“I don’t know anything,” Ciel said, “I just want the Tier 1 reconstitution ritual and potion formula for your path.”

Again, there was a long silence. Minutes passed. Just as the spiritual summoning blood array before Ciel was about to dissipate, the Pure White Knight’s voice finally sounded again.

“I will look forward to what lies at the end of this path… Consider this my atonement.”

The already unstable blood array before Ciel suddenly began to twist.

The blood threads, originally rotating clockwise and forming a vortex, began to twist and vibrate, as if something far exceeding the blood array’s endurance limit was about to emerge from within.

Ciel had to cut a wound on her finger again, using more blood to maintain the blood array before her.

Buzz——

A strong buzzing sound rang out. A right hand, encased in a white armguard, extended directly from within. Its index finger reached forward, pointing directly at Ciel’s right eye.

In Ciel’s eyes, all the visuals within her sight seemed to transform into a chaotic blizzard. A surge of information was forcibly poured into Ciel’s mind.

Tier 1 “Knight,” Tier 2 “Disciplinarian,” Tier 3 “Crown Guard,” Tier 4 “Lord”… Tier 5 “Dominion”…

Rip——

The blood array seemed utterly unable to withstand the energy of the white armguard. It began to rapidly contract, and the white arm was quickly sucked back into the Other Side. The moment the finger left Ciel’s eyeball, it also brought out a trace of white electric arc flash.

The moment the connection failed, Ciel repeatedly retreated several steps, stopping only when Tara supported her. She lowered her head, raising her hands to cover her eyes, gasping violently.

This is…

The true preceding and succeeding paths of “Crown Guard”…

All the perfect reconstitution rituals and potion formulas condensed and took shape in Ciel’s mind in a language she could understand. Whatever language Ciel thought of, it would transform into that language… as if it were “information” itself, and any text could become its carrier.

And after this information entered Ciel’s mind, some previously unreasonable aspects of “Crown Guard” also found answers through Ciel’s retrieval.

“Crown Guard”… is not a path for the mentally weak. The Tier 2 “Disciplinarian” path preceding it is a comprehensive strengthening of the mind…

However, Ansu’s “Detectives,” who advanced to Tier 2 “Law Officers,” directly ascended to Tier 3 “Crown Guard” without undergoing the mental strengthening of Tier 2 “Disciplinarian.” This led to “Crown Guards” generally suffering from a lack of mental power and sensitivity to the Other Side.

Wait… “Detective” can convert with the “Assassin” path, and “Crown Guard” is another path. Doesn’t that mean these three paths can all convert between each other?

Aren’t paths supposed to correspond in pairs? Could there also be paths where three, or even four, paths convert between each other?

Or rather… is “Knight” actually the counterpart to “Butcher”?

No… If that were the case, someone would have already figured out that “Butcher” could convert with “Assassin” or “Detective.”

Ciel’s mind was racing. Behind her, Tara maintained a posture of almost half-embracing Ciel, leaning backward, her face flushed red, trying her best to hold this awkward position.

It wasn’t that she wanted to enjoy the feeling of holding the Mother Goddess’s human form for a moment longer; rather, she didn’t want to interrupt the Mother Goddess’s profound contemplation.

Meanwhile, Ciel was still contemplating the relationships between the paths.

Now, Ciel could somewhat deduce the common ground between “Knight,” “Assassin,” and “Detective.”

That is to say, Order… or rather, Reason.

“Knight” and “Detective” represent positive order, while “Assassin” represents anti-order…

The reason “Butcher” was excluded was because “Butcher” is unrelated to anti-order.

The “Butcher” path can even truly complete its reconstitution ritual without killing. And Tier 2 of “Butcher” is also completely unrelated to anti-order. Tier 2 of “Butcher” is “Skinner”… These are all related to artisan professions.

From this, one can deduce the relationship between “Gambler” and “Adventurer”… “Gambler” obeys fate, while “Adventurer” defies fate… This is reflected in “Adventurer’s” subsequent paths, “Madman” and “Fate Defier.”

[TL Note: I changed Fanatic to Madman.]

“Gardener” and “Coroner” are nature and anti-nature…

“Physician” and “Poison Master” are life and anti-life…

“Listener” and “Instigator” are healing the mind and controlling the mind…

“Musician” and “Blood Painter” are stabilizing the mind and disturbing the mind…

No.

If understood this way, some paths cannot be explained.

For example, “Ascetic” and “Avenger.” Both are paths of strong conviction, inherently possessing a strong sense of mission and intense emotions. They have no clearly conflicting theories.

Unless… they are inherently adjacent paths like “Detective” and “Knight,” rather than convertible opposing paths.

If that’s the case, it makes sense…

Instantly, Ciel felt as if the clouds had parted and she could see clearly.

After breaking free from the originally fixed, generationally passed down, paired opposing path mode of thinking, Ciel’s understanding of different paths deepened instead.

What affected Ciel the most was that significant, most important piece of information…

It was information about Tier 5 “Dominion.”