The Speedrun Manual of Miss Witch-Chapter 202 - "Uniqueness" That Affects Reality (4/5)
【Holy Year 741, October 25th, 18:00:17. The Uniqueness will cause time to rewind again to Holy Year 741, October 25th, 12:00:00—the Uniqueness only created a closed loop for that period of time】
In other words, the current time will not be affected in any way...
Ciel slightly breathed a sigh of relief. She seemed to think of something else and asked:
“Then, will the hints Forte left for himself also appear only on October 25th at 12 o’clock?”
【The negative effects caused by “Uniqueness” are time-traveling—no matter which timeline, the damage that has already formed will not change】
In other words, Forte received the hint 100 days in advance...
Although it wasn’t as urgent as the time after 5 hours and 59 minutes, if Forte received the hint now, he might actually be able to investigate everything clearly within dozens of days, or even just over ten days.
Ciel was involved in the process of killing the Keyman, and Princess Vita had witnessed this matter. It wouldn’t stand up to investigation...
She had to control Princess Vita before she returned to Ansu City next time.
“What’s with that lock-on?”
Ciel asked the system a question in her heart. “In the simulation, twice in a row, I felt the Uniqueness locking onto me... Forte also seemed to sense it.”
【When a “Uniqueness” item is used, it locks onto the instigator of these events. Generally speaking, if the user defeated the Other Side creature just now, the Uniqueness’s space-time lock would become invalid】
“Generally speaking?”
Ciel caught the most crucial part of the system’s words. The system deliberately blurred some things and didn’t say them.
【Uh... Because of the existence of the “Echo of the Silver-White Timebinder,” the watch chain automatically locked onto the Host... It’s not the system’s fault ^^_】
The system did it.
In other words, even if Ciel could hide, as long as she didn’t find anything after a hundred days, Forte would still lock onto her because of the Uniqueness...
After a moment of silence, Ciel asked the system one last question.
This question was related to why she had encountered so many things in a short period of time. Even “Uniqueness,” which ordinary transcendents might not encounter even once in their lifetime, frequently appeared around Ciel.
“‘Uniqueness’ items of the same path attract each other, don’t they?” Ciel asked calmly in her heart.
This time, the system didn’t respond to Ciel. It was as if it had entered standby mode and fallen silent.
It seems it’s ninety-nine percent likely.
No wonder the rewards this time are so generous... It’s because it feels guilty...
So, even if she did nothing, at the moment she activated the “Echo of the Silver-White Timebinder,” disaster would actively seek her out...
No wonder the system was reluctant to reveal this.
If her past self from two or three weeks ago had heard this, she would likely have thrown away this broken watch that would disrupt her peaceful life as soon as the crisis was resolved.
But Ciel now had already accepted the fact that her life would not continue to be peaceful.
There was no sound from the system. Ciel was not going to ask any further questions. She opened the system list and looked at this time’s harvest.
Six skills had been upgraded. Ciel read through their descriptions one by one.
Skills that had been upgraded from Lv.3 to Lv.4 showed significant improvements in their descriptions.
For example, Charm. Before, at Charm Lv.3, the system’s description was that most spiritual beings would have a natural good feeling towards Ciel.
But after this ability reached Lv.4, the description became “all spiritual beings.”
Of course, this didn’t mean that all monsters would like Ciel upon seeing her. It was also possible that someone who originally had -100 favorable impression would have -99 favorable impression after seeing Ciel. They would still slash at Ciel upon meeting.
Finally, Ciel’s gaze fell on the 【”Mastermind Sage”‘s Toy Box】.
This time, Ciel had obtained 248 Fate Points. For Ciel, the points given this time were a little too few...
Although it was somewhat related to her not surviving for 24 hours, 248 Fate Points were indeed a bit unreasonable, considering the enormous commotion Ciel had caused this time, and she had indirectly killed quite a few transcendents, including a Tier 4.
Although the upgrade of several skills compensated for some of the missing Fate Point rewards, Ciel’s intuition told her that the transcendent item was the highlight this time—even though its name didn’t sound very impressive.
Ciel looked at the description of this sealed artifact.
【【”Mastermind Sage”‘s Toy Box】: Special sealed artifact. Wearing this sealed artifact can consume rationality or spirituality to take out a small toy from the “Mastermind Sage”‘s endless toy library. The toy lasts for one hour. You can continue to expend resources to extend the duration】
【Side effect: Beware of the “Sage”‘s pranks...】
Ciel: “...”
Ciel had originally thought that this item’s name just happened to sound like a toy, but unexpectedly, its function and side effect were indeed those of a toy box...
And from the side effect, it seemed possible to even take out something completely useless.
At this moment, Ciel couldn’t for the life of her figure out what this thing was for.
The most useless sealed artifact she had received from the system before was arguably the 【Box of Soul Instigation】. Only the side effect of silencing seemed useful. The active effect of giving “hints” could even give wrong ones. This was no different from not having hints at all.
In some life-and-death situations, one wrong hint was enough to ruin all of Ciel’s efforts.
“System, isn’t the ‘quality’ of this sealed artifact too poor?” Ciel couldn’t help but complain in her heart.
【Poor? This is the highest-spec treasure among all your current sealed artifacts ^^】
Highest spec?
Looking at the palm-sized object in her hand that looked like a stone treasure chest, it was a little hard to believe.
At this moment, the sealed artifact with the highest price set by the system for Ciel was probably the 【”Spider Demon Doctor”‘s Stitching Seal Ring】. This was something she had taken from the Keyman.
Not only did the name sound impressive, but the effect also had multiple stages. Even now, Ciel hadn’t utilized the full power of this seal ring.
Now the system was saying that this toy box was even more powerful than the seal ring?
However, Ciel didn’t want to try this thing for now, to avoid causing too much of a commotion that would be difficult to clean up.
Ciel thought for a moment, took out the pocket watch from the system inventory, made room for the toy box, put the toy box in, and kept the pocket watch in her pocket.
All six slots were already full. Other items were not suitable to be taken out. She could only have the pocket watch make room—anyway, it was something she carried with her in the first place.
Ciel glanced at the lunch on the table. She no longer had any interest in eating it. She got up from the dining table and walked to the desk. She directly picked up a pen and paper.
Because she left the simulation by committing suicide at the end, Adele’s research notes couldn’t be redeemed. It was also impossible to trick Adele into thinking she had written the notes while sleepwalking.
Ciel now could only rely on her photographic memory from reading it to directly copy this notebook and then give it to Adele at a suitable time.
Just as Ciel was copying the research notes from memory, there was a knock on the door of the room. fɾeewebnoveℓ.co๓
Ciel subconsciously reached for her gun to put away the items in her hand, but realizing this wasn’t a simulation, she paused for a moment and then said, “Come in.”
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