Miss Witch's Speed ​​Run Manual

One can imagine how much mental pressure these "glorious bishops" are under.

There was another thing that Charles was very concerned about.

That is the self in the simulation. Why, after turning on the deep simulation again in the simulation, he fell into madness and wrote some characters that do not exist in this world at all.

Even Charles, who only glanced at the characters, was seriously affected. Not only did he see some broken images, but his brain was also corroded by crazy mutterings.

"Bishop Hugh, I have another question. Just now, when I saw certain symbols, I also saw some strange scenes. There was light..." Charles was about to ask Hugh about this matter, but a bell-like roar suddenly erupted in Charles' mind, causing a sharp pain in her eardrums, and she stopped talking.

"I'm sorry, Miss Ciel, please don't describe the scenes in the other world to me." The Radiant Bishop stopped walking. Her voice in Ciel's mind finally changed, becoming slightly more rapid. "Not everyone is like you. After seeing and hearing what you saw and heard, they can still maintain their sanity."

The other world?

"What is the other world?" asked Charles.

"'The Other World' is just a pronoun. I don't know its true name. I only heard fragments from the Saint." Xio's voice returned to a normal tone, and he continued, "That's where you can communicate with the Goddess's messenger."

If the self in the simulation starts the deep simulation again, can he see the other world?

Is this the reason why I went crazy in the notes?

Charles looked towards the bell-tower church that was already within reach, and saw dried-up corpses struggling for survival all over the ground, as well as a thin mist that had covered the entire church area at some point.

The scene in the church made several vague images flash in Charles' mind.

One of the images slowly mirrored the scene before Ciel. Each ray of light represented a corpse. As the layers of radiant light representing corpses were lifted, a green ring and a black core, resembling an eyeball, were revealed deep below...

"Hiss..." Charles stopped and let her hold her head and curl up her body. The scene that appeared again made her mind seem to be hit hard, and her spirit began to become a little weak.

"Underground..." Charles supported the black shadow, staggered to his feet again, and said breathlessly, "There is something underground..."

Chapter 46: The Glorious Bishop's System Crashes Again (Part 3)

As soon as Charles finished speaking, Xio's white robe moved without wind behind her, and a large amount of yellow-white light mist emerged from her sleeves, hem and collar, forming one illusory figure after another beside her.

The figures scattered in all directions, turning over the bodies in the square.

Soon, Quinn's gaze turned in one direction, and her voice rose in Ciel's mind.

"There's a stone manhole, Miss Shire."

"Walk......"

"No, Miss Charles, you stay here."

Behind Charles, Xio's figure kept flickering and gradually turned into a phantom, while the phantom in front that found the inspection entrance was constantly solidifying.

Several yellow and white shadows protected Charles beside her, while Xio opened the sewer inspection hatch and jumped directly down.

As soon as she landed, Xio looked towards the end of the inspection entrance leading to the church. She walked along the cobblestone road on the right, heading towards the dark sewer ahead.

Halfway through the walk, she suddenly stopped, half squatted down, and gently brushed the ground with her gloved left hand.

Just now, a slight buzz of danger sounded in her mind. Wherever she walked, it was contaminated with bacteria.

She stood up and continued walking deeper. Soon, Xio saw a disc hanging in the air.

It is round in shape, with a dark green edge and stripes etched on it, like a dark green Ouroboros.

In the center of the ring is an eyeball embedded in it. The rope enters the pupil of the eyeball and is pulled out from the other side, hanging the one-eyed creature on the sewer.

As if sensing someone's arrival, the single eye turned and looked in Xio's direction, looking at her quietly.

"Sealed Artifact..."

Xio slowly raised her hand, and a shadow walked out from behind her and went in the direction she pointed.

The hanging black pupil seemed to sense danger, its eyeballs moved rapidly, and its body continued to expand and contract, like a beating heart.

The spiritual alarm in Xio's mind slightly decreased and turned into a buzzing sound. She could feel a large number of germs gathering around her, making her even feel a little dry in the mouth.

She suddenly took a few steps back and controlled the shadow to return to her body. At this moment, she noticed that not far from the pupil, there was a dried corpse lying.

The corpse was unrecognizable, with only a skeleton clinging to the skin, which seemed to be shattered by the mere touch.

The corpse was covered in a black robe, and the only thing that could identify it was the dry silver hair and the silver crow's beak mask that fell to the side.

Xio took a deep breath, her figure gradually becoming illusory, and the next second, she appeared behind Charles.

"Ms. Ciel, we found it. It's the sealed object." Xio's voice rang in Ciel's mind. Soon, Xio briefly told Ciel everything she had just seen.

The person who died was Adele.

Charles could guess who the unattended dried corpse lying in the sewer was.

After hearing how the eyeball was triggered, Ciel sighed slowly.

Was Adele the first one to investigate there?

Was it Adele, who was unaware of the situation, who triggered the eye's defense mechanism in advance?

That's why a severe infection breaks out early...

"What is the specific function of that eyeball? Can we find out who placed the eyeball there through any traces?" Charles asked Xio.

"This is a sealed artifact. We must seal off this area, and then have someone come with me to access it and seal it for safekeeping. We don't know its specific capabilities yet." Xio shook his head and continued, "The only thing we know is that it can catalyze pathogens, amplifying the effects of the original infectious disease several times."

Amplify the effects of infectious diseases?

In other words, it is possible that this infectious disease has already been spreading at an earlier point in time, but the effect is lighter and less noticeable. It is waiting for the person who placed the activated seal to stimulate the seal again to cause this instantaneous death effect?

Charles told this guess to Xio and got her approval.

"Then how do we find that extraordinary person?" asked Charles.

"He's already been promoted successfully," Xio said calmly. "The ritual for promotion to 'Source of Cholera' requires killing at least ten thousand people using a homemade infectious virus within a month. He's already achieved that and won't stay here."

Hearing this, Charles fell silent.

The ceremony requires 10,000 people, but once these viruses spread, more than 10,000 people will die.

"Ms. Charles, the truth has been revealed. We can return to the Vatican now." Seeing Charles' silence, Xio spoke up to remind her.

"There may not be 10,000 people in the square... What if that person hasn't completed the ceremony yet?" Charles asked desperately.

They'd already run away... In that case, wouldn't the clue be stuck here? Should I simulate it again, tell them the information about the Sealed Object in advance, and then see how things develop again?

Don't forget that there is a traitor... Before finding out which link leaked the information, every reminder from Charles will only speed up the other party's plan.

"If he hadn't completed the ritual, there wouldn't just be so many corpses here, but also a Level 3 freak." Quinn paused briefly before explaining, "There are two ways to reproduce the ritual. One involves drinking the potion before completing the ritual, and the other involves drinking the potion and then starting the ritual."

"For example, the 'Avenger's' reappearance ritual requires that once the conditions are met, you can drink the potion at any time."

"But for the 'Poison Maker' route, the potion needs to be consumed first, and then the ritual needs to be completed within the time limit."

"They usually make long preparations, drink the potion when everything is ready, wait and see how things develop, and digest it before the time limit is up."

"To be promoted to 'Source of Cholera', you must kill 10,000 people with your homemade virus within a month."

After hearing the explanation, Ciel's brows furrowed slightly.

If Hugh were to say so...

In the last simulation, the infectious disease broke out on July 7th. If the potion was drunk a month in advance, then the other party must have started making preparations at least before June 4th, and may have drunk the potion as early as June 6th.

It's possible that the seal has been hanging there for a long time, waiting to be triggered.

"Bishop Hugh." Charles spoke, looking at Hugh.

"Ah."

"If we stop his ritual in advance, will he lose control?" Charles asked.

"It's very likely," Xio said. "Once he has the thought that the ritual will fail, the potion will backfire on him."

"But... the ritual has already happened. How can you stop it?"

"If I kill all the infected people before him, does that still count as completing the ritual?" Charles asked calmly.

When Xio heard this question, he looked at the corpses on the ground, and finally, he slowly tilted his head.

Chapter 47 You Should Become an Ascetic (Part 4)

"You... Strictly speaking..."

Xio's intermittent voice sounded in Charles' mind, and it seemed that her problem could not be solved by the Glowing Bishop.

Having her spell broken twice in less than an hour might affect her reappearance ritual to some extent. Fortunately, this is a simulation, and the real Xi won't be affected.

After a brief pause, Xio's voice rang out again in Ciel's mind.

"Strictly speaking, only deaths from infection are counted in the Reproduction Ritual. Using a seal to accelerate the lethality of the infection, like we're doing now, also counts as death from infection. But the prerequisite is that it must be a virus that you've created yourself. People who follow this path are incredibly narcissistic about the viruses and poisons they create."

"If you kill the infected person before they die, their death will not be counted in the recurrence ritual."

Hearing this, Charles nodded secretly.

If the ceremony could be disrupted in advance, the person who was already arranging the ceremony would definitely be exposed, because if the ceremony could not be carried out smoothly, he would definitely die.

Whether they create panic in advance to make people flee the Clock Tower Alley area, or kill a large number of people, it will attract the "Epidemic Messenger" who will hold a recurrence ceremony.

The mortality rate of dehydration itself is not high, and it requires a seal to cause large-scale instantaneous casualties. The requirement to achieve this condition is that a large number of infected people gather at the same time.

The person who organized the ceremony was quite familiar with the Savior Goddess's way of dealing with epidemics. He knew that the Savior Goddess would definitely not ignore the lives of its believers, and that high-ranking officials would not get close to them. That was why he chose to detonate the virus in front of the Savior Goddess's bell tower church.

At the same time, he was also very clear about the Redemption Society's investigation route, so in the last simulation, he could drag it to July 7th, when the infected believers gathered most densely, and directly use the seal to detonate the lethal rate.

Idea after idea emerged in Ciel's mind and was rejected. She had already thought of a general solution, but she still lacked some key information.

For example, how does the seal work? Does it start passive defense only after being activated, or is it always in a passive defense state?

Figuring this out will be of obvious help to Charles' plan.

"Bishop Xiu, you also don't understand the operating logic of this seal?" Charles asked.

"Yes, its origin is unclear unless we conduct repeated experiments and record all its properties and side effects." Xio replied.

"What if it's some major supernatural family? Could they have information about this sealed object?" Charles asked. "Do you know Avina Russell?"

"Russell," Xio thought for a moment before speaking. "During the time I couldn't enter Bell Tower Alley, I could only visit other people who had provided intelligence to the Vatican and the Redemption Society. One of those people was Miss Russell."

"It's possible that the big families know the origins of some seals that the church doesn't know about, because they themselves hold and trade many seals, but..."

Xio's voice paused for a moment in Ciel's mind, then rang out again.

"By the time I found Miss Russell, she was already dead."

"Dead?" Charles narrowed his eyes.

During the first simulation, Charles hadn't told Avina anything yet, and she never showed up again.

Dehydration has a very low mortality rate for ordinary people, but the effect will gradually increase over time. If an antidote can be developed before death, everything should be fine.

It is even less likely to be fatal for extraordinary people. It is unlikely that Avina died of infection, and her family would not let her die so easily.

Another possibility is that she was "dealt with".

Avina knew about dehydration earlier than Ciel and investigated it earlier than Ciel, but Avina was not sure whether this was a common infectious disease or someone was organizing a recurrence ritual.

It's very likely that she was murdered after she had investigated something crucial...

If that's the case, the decision to let her protect her sister might really be a mistake.

Moreover, this decision was made by Charles in reality. She had no idea that Avina, whose family was so powerful, would also die tragically in the future.

My sister...was pushed into a dangerous place by herself...but judging by the current developments, no place is absolutely safe.

Ciel didn't have the time to spend another day waiting for the Vatican to come again to investigate the sealed object, nor did she have the time to follow Xio to the Vatican.

She looked at Xiou and asked, "Bishop Xiou, I have a request."

"Go ahead." Xio didn't move, nor did she care about Charles' excessive requests. It seemed that as long as she agreed to go to the Vatican with him, nothing else would be a problem.

"If you show your emblem in all other parishes of the Church of the Savior, can you command the nuns and priests there to work for you?" asked Charles.

"Yes." Xio nodded. "Sometimes when I have something to do, I will give the bishop's emblem to my subordinates and ask them to help me with the emblem and letter."

That's easy...

"Can you help me write a letter? And can I borrow your church emblem?" Charles asked directly.

"No." Xio refused decisively, but added, "But you can tell me the contents of the letter."

"'An unknown disease is spreading. Miss Ciel is fully responsible for resolving the issue. The entire Clock Tower Church will obey Miss Ciel's orders.'" Ciel said.