The Speedrun Manual of Miss Witch-Chapter 110 - Catastrophe Cage (2/2)

Far away on the road, about 2 kilometers away, Nia stood aside holding a huge umbrella, while Avena stood before her, holding a monocular telescope, watching the commotion in the distance.

This was a professional nautical telescope, allowing Avena to roughly see what was happening over there.

“Hmm? Why are they arguing? Nia, what did they say?” Avena asked while adjusting the telescope’s magnification.

“They know Miss Ciel was impersonating the Judicator’s Court.” Nia paused slightly, then continued, “Lucy is cursing the lady next to Miss Ciel as a ‘freak from the Divine Advent Church’... implicating Miss Ciel as well.”

“Huh?” Avena looked back at Nia somewhat puzzledly, then continued observing with the telescope.

She really couldn’t understand how the other party connected Ciel with the Divine Advent Church... Ciel and the organization behind her had directly massacred an entire Divine Advent Church stronghold.

“Milady, I think we need to retreat several more kilometers.” Nia looked into the distance and slowly said.

“Why? It’s raining so hard, any further and we won’t see anything.” Avena seemed unwilling to just listen to Nia narrate what was happening, wanting to see it with her own eyes.

At least it felt somewhat like participating.

“Look at the sky, Milady.” Nia reached out, pointing towards the sky above the three people.

Avena slowly looked up following Nia’s finger, her small mouth gradually widening.

...

Facing the two third-tiers before her, Tara felt panicked internally. If she were alone, she definitely would have chosen to flee.

Neither “Favored” nor “Crown Guard” excelled at pursuit. As long as she scattered her white shadows to run in different directions, she could definitely escape.

But it wasn’t just her here now... The Mother Goddess’s human vessel was also present.

She couldn’t allow the Mother Goddess’s human vessel to suffer any harm...

Compared to the somewhat flustered Tara, Ciel’s heart was surprisingly calm.

If the two third-tiers really attacked, the worst consequence was just death. In a simulation, death wasn’t frightening.

What was frightening was dying without obtaining any useful information.

Now, three people suffering from the misfortune rule stood together. Terrifying misfortune had already accumulated on her. The others had also broken the rules to meet here...

What exactly would happen?

Ciel slowly looked up towards the sky.

Thunderclouds churned in the sky. Besides the thunderclouds, a terrifying shadow with a wingspan of nearly a hundred meters stirred the clouds.

This apocalyptic scene caused even Ciel’s heart to feel slightly astonished.

It’s here.

In Ciel’s vision, the terrifying shadow swooped down, rushing towards the three below.

Such speed, such enormous size... unavoidable.

After judging this point, Ciel made no move to escape. She took out the stopwatch from her pocket. What she didn’t notice was that the “Strong Luck Coin” also fell out when she took the stopwatch, rolling against common sense on the uneven ground towards Lucy.

The sky-obscuring shadow smashed towards the ground, completely enveloping the four within its darkness.

At this moment, Lucy and Oppold seemed to suddenly realize the shadow’s existence, but it was too late.

Lines of bizarre characters composed of shadows appeared before the eyes of the four, as if written directly onto their eyeballs.

These characters didn’t cause any spiritual contamination to Ciel, but Ciel similarly couldn’t understand these words.

“This is... Old Ansu script?” Tara, beside Ciel, murmured.

“...Fate Calamity Three... Vessel?”

“Change...”

“Rules perhaps... unclear...”

“Dire consequences... irreversible...”

“First... Tribulation...”

Fragmented phrases of Old Ansu, spoken here and there, made Ciel frown slightly. She couldn’t currently understand the full text before her. She could only rapidly record the characters as images in her mind.

Suddenly, illusory purplish-black threads emanated from Ciel, Lucy, and Oppold.

These threads uncontrollably surged towards the shadow above. Among them, the shadow threads emerging from Ciel were the most numerous, looking like bundles of messy illusory optical cables being drawn towards the sky.

What is this?

Ciel faintly sensed that these things emerging from her body, yet having no side effects nor draining any power, seemed like... the materialization of misfortune?

Lucy was the first to notice something was wrong.

She turned around almost without hesitation, running towards Deton Manor at top speed. But just then, her foot tripped over a simple stone. She fell face-first onto the ground.

Boom—!

A lightning bolt, almost two or three meters thick, struck down from high above, exploding right in front of Lucy!

That lightning bolt was just over a meter away from Lucy’s head. It was exactly that fall that allowed her to avoid fatal injury.

The electric current spread outwards through the rainwater. Contact voltage caused the current to surge directly into Lucy’s body, nearly stopping her heart instantly, even damaging her nerves.

If she hadn’t fallen, she would have run right into the center of the lightning strike just now.

Boom—!

Almost without pause, a second lightning bolt struck directly towards Oppold’s location. Almost the instant the spiritual alarm sounded, Oppold’s entire body was covered in black armor, honeycomb-like illusory plates materializing above his head.

A white light enveloped him.

At this very moment, Ciel acted swiftly. Black shadows emerged from beneath her, rushing rapidly in four different directions.

Buzz—!

A violent buzzing sounded in Ciel’s mind. She felt a slight numbing sensation from underground. Even her hair felt like it was about to fly up in the rainy weather due to the tingling sensation.

She quickly selected a black shadow furthest from the others. Ciel’s figure gradually became illusory, but the transformation speed was too slow. It was too late. A flash of white light had already completely enveloped Ciel.

A hundred meters away, Ciel’s figure gradually solidified. She looked down at her hands in confusion.

Why wasn’t I attacked?

Ciel looked back towards where she originally stood. Tara, who was standing beside her, had vanished without a trace. Only some undamaged transcendent characteristics and items remained where she stood. Not even bones were left.

In that split-second decision just now, Tara had already realized Ciel couldn’t escape this lightning strike. Almost without hesitation, she used the “Ascetic’s” ability to transfer this attack for Ciel...

The calamity was far from over.

The previously suppressed calamities, after the three gathered together, seemed to erupt suddenly, beginning a fierce and terrifying onslaught.

The thunderclouds in the sky illuminated almost the entire sky like daylight. The roaring sound made the earth tremble.

Ciel didn’t hesitate, turned, and ran. But after running just a few steps, she bumped headfirst into something soft.

It was a shadow, the shadow that had been circling in the air earlier.

Ciel abruptly turned back, looking into the distance.

The three seemed trapped in a beast cage. Within this definitely not spacious area, they were left at the mercy of the calamity raging upon them...

As if to determine a winner.