The Speedrun Manual of Miss Witch-Chapter 118 - The Episode with the Highest Killing Spree Reward (2/3)

Ciel’s left hand released Tara’s arm, reached into the pocket of her soaked trench coat, and took out two sealed artifacts.

The “Evil Eye” and the “Strong Luck Coin.”

Although the process was vastly different from what she imagined, in terms of results, she still perfectly obtained these two sealed artifacts that could potentially unlock the mystery.

“Sigh...” Ciel felt she had sighed more in this one hour than in the past three years combined.

Negative emotions constantly shrouded her mind. She felt like she barely had the strength to breathe.

“If I die, I die. Let me see what exactly you are...” Ciel’s right hand also reached into her pocket, taking out an ancient silver stopwatch.

Ciel’s exclusive sealed artifact, 【Echo of the Silver-White Timebinder】.

She brought her hands together. The three sealed artifacts touched each other in her hands, soaked by the rain—but nothing happened. freeweɓnovel.cѳm

Why...

Aren’t the others already dead...

She had already gathered the three “Fate Vessels.” She even violated countless rules before, seeing numerous second and third-tier transcendents.

Just as Ciel was about to sigh, she suddenly sensed something unusual.

The rain stopped.

More accurately, the rain around her stopped.

Ciel looked up at the sky again.

If she could look down from high above, she would surely find that the area without rain formed a projection, and the content of the projection was a giant raven.

“Tsk...” Ciel felt somewhat deflated.

If it didn’t come out this time, Ciel could have happily muddled through the last hour of this simulation and returned to reality.

The storm suddenly intensified. Amidst this fierce wind, a feather, entirely black with its tail gradually transitioning to azure blue, slowly drifted down from the sky.

Not just Ciel, even the spiritual alarm in Tara’s mind suddenly blared. Ciel looked at the feather somewhat incredulously.

Third-tier transcendents had never given Ciel such a threat.

Ciel subconsciously tightened her grip on 【Echo of the Silver-White Timebinder】 in her hand, her thumb resting on the knob at the top of the stopwatch.

This simple action by Ciel seemed to startle the feather.

It could no longer bother with elegant drifting. It transformed into a feathered arrow, almost instantly piercing through Ciel’s head, drilling into her body.

“Ugh... cough...” A mouthful of blood spurted from Ciel’s mouth. She didn’t even resist much, casually throwing away the three sealed artifacts in her hands, letting them fall onto the muddy ground.

At this moment, Ciel felt a large amount of strange, bizarre knowledge frantically pouring into her brain. Accompanying that knowledge was a powerful consciousness.

The powerful Ciel, before this immense consciousness, had almost no ability to resist, directly falling into a strange state—she completely lost control of her body, but could see and hear everything happening outside through her eyes and ears.

Like watching an extremely realistic movie.

“Lady Ciel! Lady Ciel! What’s wrong with you?!” Tara’s eyes widened. Seeing Ciel covered in blood, she instantly panicked. Ciel was her only spiritual pillar now. If Ciel was gone, she would truly go completely mad.

In Tara’s vision, Ciel’s originally red long hair was instantly dyed black from the roots, then gradually transitioned from the middle section, finally turning azure blue at the ends.

The familiar, warm Mother Goddess aura also vanished, replaced by a more aggressive aura.

At this moment, “Ciel” slowly raised her right hand, looked at her slender fingers, a satisfied smile appearing on her lips, seemingly very pleased with this body.

Then, she turned her gaze to the three sealed artifacts on the ground, directly reached out, and picked up the silver stopwatch.

“(Old Ansu) So you were part of me... No wonder you knew so much.” “Ciel’s” mouth uttered Old Ansu script, which she had never learned before and few could even pronounce now.

“(Old Ansu) I will become more complete...” “Ciel” looked obsessively at the stopwatch in her hand. Above her head, the raven shadow dissipated without a trace, and the torrential rain continued to fall.

She held the stopwatch, rubbed it against her cheek, then directly raised her hand and pressed the knob at the top of the stopwatch.

Nothing happened.

“Hmm?” “Ciel” made a puzzled sound.

Why didn’t it work?

She bit her finger, smeared blood directly onto the ancient silver stopwatch, but the blood was quickly washed away by the rain, and still, nothing happened.

“Ciel” frowned tightly, seemingly not anticipating this situation.

Sensing the weak struggle from the spiritual body’s consciousness, she curled her lip and said, “(Old Ansu) Stop struggling. In another day, you will completely dissipate.”

“(Old Ansu) And I, at least, still have three hundred years to research how to repair the body... Although time is short, it’s enough.”

“(Old Ansu) Just quietly await your death. As a vessel, you should feel honored.”

Holding the stopwatch, “Ciel” lifted her leg, preparing to leave. But just then, a white shadow blocked her path.

“You are not Mother Goddess... Who are you?” Tara’s voice came from behind.

After the Mother Goddess’s aura suddenly disappeared, Tara realized something was wrong. She blocked the path of “Ciel” before her, her hoarse voice filled with anger.

“Ciel’s” steps didn’t stop. A flesh-colored spider emerged from under her hat, rapidly expanding as it fell to the ground, undergoing a horrifying transformation.

The fully formed tall human spider directly pounced towards Tara. Under such desperate circumstances, Tara could only recall the white shadow, barely blocking it in front of the human spider.

“(Old Ansu) Why does it have to be the power of nature...” “Ciel” shook her head, seemingly dissatisfied with this path, but she seemed to have no better choice.

She just continued walking forward, disappearing into the rain screen.

...

Click—

Click click—

“Ciel,” walking on the road, continuously pressed the stopwatch, but still received no response.

If she didn’t feel this was the real sealed artifact before her, perhaps she would have thought she took the wrong one.

“(Old Ansu) Do I have to wait until her consciousness completely dissipates... Having waited so long, a few more days don’t matter.”

She put the stopwatch back into her pocket, continuing to walk aimlessly. The task of finding the repair fragments was complete; she no longer needed to take any other actions.

Just wait.

Right...

Although this body had undergone huge changes in fate and possessed strong resistance to fate, essentially, it was still a fragile body.

If she kept getting drenched in the rain here, although not fatal, she would likely fall seriously ill.

Must find a place to shelter from the rain...

If her memory served correctly, this body’s home should be in this direction...

She walked forward step by step, seemingly unaccustomed to the human walking posture. It took a long time to increase her speed to a normal walking pace—though the posture remained somewhat strange.

By the time she reached the house she had previously monitored, nearly an hour had passed.

“Ciel” reached out, fumbled in the large pocket of her trench coat. Besides finding a bottle of potion, she also found a key.

She took out the key, took a few seconds to align it with the keyhole, inserted the key directly, and slowly turned.

Click—

The sound of the lock opening echoed.

And before Ciel’s door, there were no longer any figures or traces, only a single black and blue raven feather, slowly floating down onto the water surface in the rain.

An azure light flashed. A raven clad in black and blue feathers appeared on the spot. Its wings supported the ground, its head continuously turning. Its round eyes gradually shifted from confusion to shock. Its beak opened wide, uttering human-like language.

“(Old Ansu) Impossible... This is impossible!!!”

“(Old Ansu) You are fake! I am the real one!!!”