The Speedrun Manual of Miss Witch-Chapter 111 - "Light of the City" Ciel (1/3)

Rolling pillars of thunder roared in the distance. The apocalyptic vibrations shook the entire city of Berren.

“Milady! You cannot go over there!”

“Let go of me!”

Four kilometers away from the thunder’s epicenter, Nia firmly held Avena back, dragging her continuously backward.

The roaring thunder ahead made even the earth tremble. This was definitely not a commotion two third-tier transcendents could create. Even Nia didn’t dare say how many waves of lightning strikes she could withstand inside. She absolutely could not let Milady Avena go into danger.

Meanwhile, in Berren City’s Clock Tower Alley, atop the Clock Tower church tower, a figure wearing magnificent white church robes stood beside the giant bell on the tower roof, watching the apocalyptic scene in the distance. The expression under the mask rarely showed a hint of panic.

She couldn’t imagine the terrifying casualties if such thunder pillars struck within Berren City.

A white shadow materialized behind Hugh. After some distortion, Uris’s figure appeared behind Hugh.

“Lord Bishop, what on earth happened?” Uris asked urgently.

She could feel the spiritual alarm in her brain constantly ringing. In her pitch-black vision, the enormous grey-white figure in the distance was clearly visible, but this was obviously not something the Divine Advent Church could produce.

“I don’t know...” Hugh slowly raised her hand, supporting her head, her breathing becoming rapid. “Quick, have the brothers and sisters evacuate the believers in Clock Tower Alley, get them away from that area, the farther the better!”

“Yes!” Uris’s figure vanished again.

Compared to “Radiance Bishop” Hugh, Uris’s perception of the crowd’s suffering was far less acute. Uris could still move around Clock Tower Alley for now... temporarily.

Not long after Uris’s figure disappeared, a white shadow also emerged behind Hugh, running towards the lightning formation. Immediately after, Hugh’s figure also vanished from the spot.

Whether for these believers who worshipped the Goddess, or to prevent other innocent lives from suffering, she had to go see what exactly was happening over there—the lightning formation was simply too close to Clock Tower Alley.

If she didn’t go, no one in the entire Clock Tower Alley, perhaps even the entire city of Berren, could handle this situation.

“Goddess protect...” Hugh, whose figure was rapidly flickering, silently prayed to the Goddess in her heart.

Lichie, startled awake from her sleep; Amy, hastily moving the flowers and plants in the garden indoors amidst the heavy rain; Adele, stopping her experiment, removing her silver raven mask to look out the window.

Right now, looking at the scene in the sky, they all shared a common person they worried about.

Boom—!

And at this moment, Ciel had no mind left to consider others.

Furious lightning continued to flash around her, with increasing frequency.

Under the immense vibration of the thunder, Ciel’s hearing was also severely damaged. The originally roaring thunder was now just a buzz in her ears.

Fortunately, after the first lightning strike was blocked by Tara with her life, Ciel had already found a partial pattern to these strikes.

Before a strike descended, an extremely strong numbing sensation would come from the ground. And after Ciel’s hearing was damaged, this sensation became even clearer.

By dispersing the black shadows to different locations within this enclosed space, leaving enough time for switching shadows, Ciel had already dodged over a dozen thunderbolts.

In contrast, the other two only had a few lightning pillars aimed at them, completely incomparable to Ciel’s ordeal.

“Favored” Lucy dodged several lightning bolts narrowly, each time only inches away from death, every step thrilling, yet she managed to avoid each one without mishap.

“Crown Guard” Oppold, however, was more direct. His entire body of pitch-black armor was wreathed in lightning. His iron frame was almost burned red-hot, some parts even showing cracks.

But he just directly held the tower shield above his head, tanking almost all the lightning strikes. However, his entire body was completely paralyzed, unable to move even a fraction. freewebnøvel.com

No... If this continues, my spirit and spiritual body will be consumed to the point of extreme exhaustion...

Ciel, having already used Death Reversal once, had consumed a large amount of spirit.

She worried that if her spirit and spiritual body continued to be consumed like this, her real self would also suffer irreversible mental damage... If she really couldn’t hold on, she had to consider ending it early through suicide.

At least now, she had obtained some information and remembered those Old Ansu characters. If she could bring them back to reality for Avena to translate, and then start another simulation to have Tara return to the Divine Advent Church’s monastery to seek answers, Ciel would be one step closer to the truth.

While thinking, Ciel once again felt that hair-raising electric sensation.

No... This endless cycle can’t continue...

In a flash, Ciel’s figure dissipated ahead of time. Distorting simultaneously with her figure was a black shadow standing atop the tower shield.

The next moment, Ciel’s figure stood atop Oppold’s tower shield.

An even more intense numbing sensation came from under her feet; this was the residual current on Oppold’s body.

At this moment, blood had begun to seep out from within Oppold’s armor. Although his senses were dulled and slowed by paralysis, he could still feel the sudden increase in weight on the tower shield, and the abruptly piercing spiritual alarm in his mind.

“Who... Who’s up there?!!” Oppold’s roar came through the armor. He felt a strong sense of foreboding.

But his legs were already completely paralyzed. Having tanked several thunderbolts, he was already severely injured, unable to even feel his lips when speaking.

He used almost all his strength, placing his left hand on his right fist, using all his might to swing the tower shield to the right, trying to throw off the person standing on his shield.

The second before he swung the shield away, the weight on it vanished. He looked up and saw, in the sky, above the clouds, an azure lightning stream stretching for over ten kilometers.

A desperate, beautiful sight he had never seen before almost left him stunned for a moment. The next second, a red lightning bolt shot straight down. Before he could even think, red light flooded his vision.

Boom—!

A massive red pillar of lightning struck Oppold, engulfing him in red light.

Lucy, who happened to witness this scene, watched the red flash in shock. The next moment, a violent tremor and shockwave struck.

Following that were red lightning bolts spreading rapidly outwards from Oppold’s position like a tree canopy on the ground.

These lightning bolts covered almost the entire area. Both Lucy and Ciel were unable to avoid them. After being pushed to the edge of the shadow barrier by the shockwave, they were hit by the red lightning on the ground and briefly lost consciousness.

In a dark space, fragmented Old Ansu characters appeared before Ciel’s and Lucy’s eyes again.

These characters, completely different from modern Ansu script except for the numbers, made both simultaneously puzzled, but Ciel understood.

The number preceding the word “Tribulation” had changed from “1” to “2”.