Miss Witch's Speed ​​Run Manual

圣741年，7月17日，12:15:05。

At the royal luncheon in Vitalis Palace, several famous figures were sitting at the dining table, listening to the Queen speaking from the seat of honor.

This was a lunch report. At several fixed times every week, the Queen would call her most capable officials to Vitalis Palace for lunch.

This is an informal occasion, so the reports and language are not so complicated, and it can be considered a routine operation.

"In my opinion, the explosion at the Royal Medical Society was probably a conspiracy orchestrated by the Orlando Republican Army. The mastermind behind this may be connected to the mysterious Pleasure Society."

Qiang Yin, who was sitting in the third seat to the Queen's left, took a sip of tea in his left hand. He then continued, holding the glass, "I suggest we start by investigating the Orlando Republican Army."

"Um……"

Queen Vitalis, who was sitting in the main seat, slowly put down her knife and fork, glanced to the right, and said, "My lord, what do you think?"

Charles, who was putting meat into his mouth with a fork, stopped what he was doing, glanced at Qiang Yin without leaving a trace, and turned to look in the direction of Queen Vitalis.

"Queen, I agree with His Excellency the Strong Voice's proposal. The investigation should begin with the Orlando Republican Army."

Charles spoke slowly, "Let's start by investigating the nobles who have connections with Orlando..."

Dang clang——

The teacup fell onto the plate, and a crisp breaking sound was heard, which attracted the attention of everyone present to Qiang Yin.

At this moment, Qiang Yin stared blankly at his weathered and dissipated left index finger - the teacup ear fell into the plate when he lost his finger, breaking the edge of the antique plate.

Not only his fingers, the flesh on his face was also weathering and falling off bit by bit, as if it had gone through countless years.

A familiar dull pain came from his brain, and he subconsciously stood up and raised his right hand to cover his left face.

"I'm sorry, Your Majesty, I'm feeling a little unwell today..."

Qiang Yin spoke without even looking in the Queen's direction, and without receiving a response from the Queen, he quickly left the table, pushed open the restaurant door, and walked quickly outside.

what happened?

"To Windsor Palace."

After he got on the carriage, he quickly gave an order and the carriage quickly took him to Windsor Palace.

After he entered Windsor Palace, he walked straight towards the bathroom, ignoring the maids' greetings, opened the bathroom door and closed it directly, looking at the oval mirror on the sink.

"Major event... Protecting Windsor... The Key Master? The Pleasure Society? The Savior Goddess Cult... The fusion of the Holy Advent Cult..."

He turned around, opened the secret door, walked directly downstairs along the secret passage, opened the notebook on the table in the center of the secret room, and took out the black box nested in the pages.

He casually cut off a piece of flesh and threw it into the box. As the black box gradually opened, Qiang Yin saw what was inside.

There's... nothing inside.

Watch chain, started.

But what was the deadline? Why didn't my future self give me any hints?

This time, it should be the third reincarnation... the flesh and blood in two different areas disappeared.

Joyful gathering... Did the northern ritual no longer want to continue? A counterattack at this juncture?

Qiang Yin's face turned pale as he lowered his head in deep thought in the dim underground chamber, rapidly considering various possibilities.

First... we have to find the "subversive" codenamed Keyman.

Find him/her and everything will be solved.

……

The silver light gradually dissipated before Charles' eyes, and his vision and perception returned to normal.

"vomit……"

Ciel leaned on the table, feeling dizzy in her head, and began to retch uncontrollably. Her brain and stomach were churning, and everything in front of her seemed blurry as if double.

At this moment, she was sitting in the hotel room. In addition to the hotel's set lunch, there was also an illusory system panel hanging in front of her.

【Reality】

【圣741年7月17日12:15】

[Comment: 100 points lets you play twice! This simulated 100 points is really a big loss for you! ]

[After the host's tireless and painstaking census, a huge population disparity was discovered between the East and West districts. The population density in the East district is nearly four times that of the West district. However... we haven't killed them all yet, so it seems difficult to count...]

[However, considering that this is the host's first encounter with a 4th level creature, and the total number of censuses has exceeded one million, I will give you a larger reward this time.]

[Also, the host's actions, having sensed the new "uniqueness," have pleased the system. Go ahead and take in the "uniqueness" that should have belonged to you!]

【Take it, it's what you deserve based on your performance. 】

[Reward: Destiny Points x 248, [Calm Thinking Lv.4], [Acumen Lv.2], [Nemesis Lv.3], [Charm Lv.4], [Dexterity Lv.3], [Art of Conversation Lv.4], [Mastermind Sage's Toy Box]]

【Destiny Points: 508】

Ciel breathed slowly, regaining his composure.

Charles was not in a hurry to look at the numerous system rewards. She was only concerned about one thing at the moment.

"System, will the power of uniqueness affect reality?"

Ciel asked quickly.

The system in the simulation has no other function except to tell the time. Even if asked questions, it just behaves like a brick and will not give any answer no matter what is asked.

However, in reality, when Charles asked questions, the system would generally give some answers, even if some of the answers had nothing to do with the answers at all.

[Of course, host^^]

This reply made Charles secretly shocked...but in fact, she had already thought of this possibility.

"So after 5 hours, 59 minutes, and 43 seconds, time will go back?"

Ciel frowned and quickly asked back.

【741年10月25日的18:00:17，唯一性会让时间再度回溯到741年10月25日的12:00:00——唯一性只让那一段时间形成了闭环而已】

In other words, the current time will not be affected in any way...

Ciel breathed a sigh of relief. She seemed to have thought of something and asked:

"Then, will the hint that Qiang Yin left for himself also appear at 10:25 on October 12th?"

The negative impact of "uniqueness" transcends time and space—no matter where in time and space, the damage already inflicted remains unchanged.

In other words, Qiang Yin received the tip-off 100 days in advance...

Although the time is not as tight as 5 hours and 59 minutes later, if Qiangyin receives the prompt now, he may be able to investigate everything clearly within dozens or even more than ten days.

Ciel was involved in the killing of the Key Man, and Princess Vita witnessed it. Without further investigation...

We must control Princess Vita before she returns to Ansu City next time.

"What's with that lock?"

Ciel asked the system a question that had been on her mind. "Twice in a row in the simulation, I felt the uniqueness locking onto me... Qiangyin seemed to sense it, too."

[When a unique item is used, the one who caused these events is locked. Generally speaking, if the user has just defeated a creature from another world, the unique space-time lock will be invalidated.]

"Generally speaking?"

Charles caught the most crucial point in the system's words. The system deliberately blurred some things and left them unsaid.

[Uh... because of the "Silver Timebinder's Echo", the chain search automatically locked the host... It's not the system's fault ^^_]

It's the system that does it.

In other words, even if Ciel could remain hidden, after a hundred days, Qiangyin, who had found nothing, would still lock onto him due to his uniqueness...

After a moment of silence, Charles asked the system one last question.

This question is related to why she encountered so many things in a short period of time. Even the "uniqueness" that ordinary extraordinary people would never hear once in their lifetime appeared frequently around Charles.

"'Unique' items from the same source will attract each other, right?"

Ciel asked calmly in his heart.

This time, the system did not respond to Charles. It was as if it was on standby mode and fell into silence.

It seems that there is a 99% chance that it is true.

No wonder the rewards this time are so generous... Turns out I was just feeling guilty...

So, even if I do nothing, the moment I activate the "Echo of the Silver Timebinder", disaster will find me...

No wonder the system has been reluctant to reveal this.

If I had heard this two or three weeks ago, I would have thrown away this broken watch that would disrupt my peaceful life as soon as the crisis was resolved.

But now, Charles has already accepted the fact that his life will no longer be peaceful.

There was no sound from the system, and Charles didn't plan to continue asking questions. She opened the system list and checked the harvest this time.

Six skills were upgraded, and Charles read their introductions one by one.

The descriptions of skills promoted from Lv.3 to Lv.4 have been greatly improved.

For example, when Charm was at Lv. 3, the system stated that most spiritual creatures would have a natural liking for Charles.

But when this ability reaches Lv.4, the description becomes "all spiritual creatures."

Of course, this does not mean that all monsters will like Charles when they see him. It is also possible that a monster that originally had a -100 favorability towards Charles may have a -99 favorability towards him after seeing him, and will still chop Charles with a knife when they meet.

Finally, Charles set his sights on the [Toy Box of the "Master Brain Sage"].

This time, Ciel received 248 Fate Points. To Ciel, this amount was a bit too little...

Although it was related to the fact that she did not live for 24 hours, the destiny points of 248 were indeed a bit unreasonable. After all, Charles caused such a huge commotion this time and indirectly killed many extraordinary people, even some of the 4th level.

Although the improvement of many skills made up for some of the missing destiny points, Ciel's intuition told her that the extraordinary item was the highlight of this time - although its name did not look very good.

Ciel looked at the introduction of this sealed object.

[[Mastermind Sage's Toy Box]: A special seal. Wearing this seal consumes your rationality or spirituality to take out a small toy from the Mastermind Sage's endless toy library. The toy lasts for one hour and can be extended by continuing to consume it.]

[Side Effect: Beware of the "Sage's" pranks...]

Charles: "..."

Ciel originally thought that this thing was just a toy in name, but he didn't expect that its functions and side effects would actually be like a toy box...

And judging by the side effects, it’s possible to remove something that has absolutely no effect.

At this moment, Charles couldn't figure out what this thing was used for no matter how hard he tried.

The most useless sealed item she had ever gotten from the system before was the [Box of Soul Instigation]. Only the side effect of muting seemed useful, and the active effect gave a "hint", which might be wrong, which was no different from no hint at all.

Faced with some life-or-death choices, a wrong hint is enough to ruin all of Charles' efforts.

"System, the 'quality' of this seal is too poor, isn't it?"

Ciel couldn't help but complain in his heart.

[Poor? This is the highest quality treasure among all the sealed items you have now^^]

Highest specification?

Looking at the palm-sized object in my hand that looked like a stone treasure chest, it was a bit unbelievable.

In the current Charles, the most expensive sealed item in the system is probably the [Spider Doctor's Suture Ring], which was stripped from the Key Man.

Not only does the name look powerful, but the effects are also divided into multiple stages. Even now, Charles has not used the full power of this signet ring.

Now the system actually says that this toy box is more powerful than the seal ring?

However, Charles doesn't want to try this for the time being, to avoid causing too much noise and making it difficult to resolve.

Charles thought about it, took out the pocket watch from the system warehouse, made room for the toy box, put the toy box in it, and put the pocket watch in his pocket to carry with him.

All six compartments were full, and other things were not suitable to be taken out, so the pocket watch had to make room - after all, it was something she always carried with her.

Ciel glanced at the lunch on the table and no longer had any interest in eating it. She stood up from the table, walked to the desk and sat down, then raised her hand and picked up the paper and pen.

Because she committed suicide in the end, Adele's research notes could not be exchanged, and it was impossible to trick Adele into thinking that these were notes she made while sleepwalking.

Now, Charles could only copy out the notes directly based on his photographic memory, and then choose a suitable time to give it to Adele.

Just as Ciel began to copy down his research notes according to his memory, there was a knock on the door.

Ciel instinctively put away his things and pulled out his gun, but then realized this wasn't a simulation, so he paused for a moment and said, "Come in."