Chapter 118: Slay Demons, Eliminate Evil

Slay Demons, Eliminate Evil

The moment Ciel was dragged into the Other Side, two gaunt hands pressed tightly against her eyes, completely blocking her vision.

Even so, a constant stream of whispers ceaselessly eroded her sanity. The ringing in her mind reached a point where she couldn’t hear anything clearly.

Ciel felt herself gradually losing control of her body, also sensing her body being dragged rapidly, moving.

It was a peculiar sensation.

She couldn’t feel the wind, nor her own heartbeat or breath, yet she could clearly perceive her body being moved like a kite, swung side to side.

But she had no idea where these hands were taking her.

The summoned... Other Side creatures...

Weren’t they supposed to not harm her...

Why were they...

Ciel’s brain struggled to function. Before she could carefully ponder what went wrong, abruptly, she felt a fierce gust of wind from behind.

The wind was so violent it felt like it would rip her hair and skin off, like opening a window on an airplane for ventilation.

Ciel squinted slightly, but her whipping hair obscured most of her vision.

The silver armor mask that had tightly covered her face lost all its abilities upon entering the Other Side, detaching from Ciel’s flesh.

After a dizzying spin, Ciel felt the terrifying hands holding her rapidly dissipate, until they vanished completely.

Although intentionally slowed, Ciel’s body still shot out like a cannonball, tumbling wildly on the ground. Pain, as if her bones were crushed, radiated throughout her entire body.

“Cough cough...” Ciel coughed up some bloody fragments of internal organs, her whole body trembling, completely devoid of strength.

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Lying on the ground like a corpse for several minutes, Ciel’s figure flickered. “Instigator” Ciel’s form became illusory.

Her long red hair began to turn grey-blue. All her injuries and fractured bones fully recovered in an instant. Ciel abruptly sat up from the ground, but her eyes remained tightly shut, daring not to open them.

However...

At this moment, the previous buzzing whispers in Ciel’s ears hadn’t dissipated, but at least Ciel regained some ability to think, just feeling somewhat dizzy and muddle-headed.

Did I... leave the Other Side?

Ciel raised her hand, touched the ground, felt the sensation of stroking grass. Grasping downwards firmly, she could touch the soft soil beneath the grass.

Only then did Ciel confirm she had indeed left the Other Side.

She slowly opened her eyes and looked around.

Surrounding her was an empty wasteland. She seemed to be on a high slope with some sparse grass. Looking into the distance, she could see the faintly lit city skyline at the edge of her vision.

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“Mother Goddess...” Ciel murmured.

Did I get thrown directly out of the city?

Ciel supported herself and stood up, patting the dirt off her palms.

From being dragged into the Other Side to coming out, it was only a matter of seconds. In just that short time, those hands dragged her directly from inside Berren City to outside?

This escape speed was astonishing even to Ciel, almost no different from teleportation.

Did those hands use some ability in the Other Side?

Damn it!

This is outside the city!

Suddenly, Ciel remembered the misfortune rule still active on her.

Misfortune had already started exerting its force on her, and she actually left Berren City... Ciel could almost feel the misfortune substantially stacking upon her...

No, must return to Berren City immediately... Although the coin landed reverse twice, as long as she returned to Berren City and stopped the misfortune from stacking further, there was still a sliver of hope.

She picked up the scattered items beside her, then ran towards the city under the cover of night.

Right now, Ciel only regretted randomly getting the “Gambler” save file, which lacked any travel abilities.

Moreover, she couldn’t enter the city openly. She had to bypass Clock Tower Alley, otherwise, there was still a possibility of being arrested by Hugh.

Misfortune could strike again at any time. Ciel could only charge forward blindly.

She really wanted to toss a coin to determine her fortune for the next hour, but she didn’t have a single ordinary coin on hand to toss.

Ciel ran along the familiar road towards Berren City. Only when both her feet stepped onto the black gravel road within Berren City did Ciel’s constantly suspended heart fail to settle.

She wanted to immediately cross the Gem District to reach Clock Tower Alley, find Amy—only the Mother Goddess’s loyal divine servant on her could help her, a fellow believer of the Mother Goddess.

Just as Ciel planned to bypass Clock Tower Alley and enter the city from the Gem Factory area in the Gem District, she suddenly felt a flicker before her eyes.

Is 【Temporal Disorder】 starting again?

Ciel’s pace gradually slowed. Save file switching involved a few seconds of flickering. She was already used to this, preparing to wait for the switch to complete before continuing.

As long as it didn’t switch to the “Instigator” save file, which was already injured to the point of immobility, it was perfectly acceptable.

But soon, Ciel noticed something was wrong.

She slowly raised her hand, bringing her palm before her eyes.

Ciel’s palm faced herself, the lines clearly visible, still bearing faint traces of dirt—remnants from grabbing the ground earlier.

But... her hand was clearly still solid.

What was flickering wasn’t Ciel, but the entire street before her.

Unkown when, bloody mist had permeated the entire street. The dark street was terrifyingly silent, as if she had stumbled into some deserted area.

The bloody mist severely restricted Ciel’s vision. As the mist thickened, Ciel could barely distinguish things even a few steps away.

The moon, under the bloody mist filter, appeared eerily dark red. Sharp, piercing laughter and fragmented, indistinct whispers, sometimes near, sometimes far, began echoing incessantly in her mind.

Who... Who did this?

Ciel stopped, looked back. The path she came from was completely obscured by the bloody mist, making it impossible to see what lay beyond.

The stabbing pain in her mind began to distort Ciel’s expression. She could only continuously chant the Mother Goddess’s name inwardly, praying that Mother Goddess Sadhana would protect her.

But now, “Gambler” Ciel’s mind was completely devoid of any whispers related to Sadhana, as if overwritten by other, more intense whispers. Even the “Sadhana Mark” on “Gambler” Ciel began to gradually crumble and dissipate.

“Gurgle...”

Clatter clatter—

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A series of faint sounds arose near Ciel’s feet. She looked down and saw a fist-sized terrifying creature, a patchwork of flesh and grey fur, crawling towards her feet with twisted limbs.

Over a dozen black eyes, like green beans, rotated towards Ciel. Its mouth, filled with jagged teeth and too small to fit even a finger, opened towards Ciel, emitting a hissing roar.

A silver light flashed. Deadly Blood Roland materialized in Ciel’s right hand. She held the gun with both hands, aiming directly at the terrifying creature on the ground.

“Gurgle—” Upon seeing Ciel’s action, the terrifying creature let out a strange cry, then turned and fled, disappearing into the bloody mist.

Ciel resisted the dizziness and chaotic whispers brought by Blood Roland’s side effects, her hand holding the gun trembling slightly.

In her vision, thin black tendrils had already wrapped around Blood Roland’s barrel, even binding Ciel’s hands to it.

Blood-red Rolands bloomed along those tendrils. The blood-red petals reflected unfamiliar faces, some angry, some gentle—the only commonality was that those faces looked blown apart, fragmented.

Blood dripped down Ciel’s hands. The dizziness brought by blood loss also began to wash over Ciel. She took a deep breath, forcing herself to calm down.

No, can’t stay here any longer... There’s a transcendent messing around nearby!

It could very well be the mastermind who placed the misfortune rule on her!

Ciel hesitated no longer. Gripping Blood Roland, she quickly charged into the bloody mist ahead. At this moment, her figure flickered again. Her grey-blue long hair reverted to long, straight red hair. The clothes she wore changed into a slightly oversized expensive dress.

Why now of all times...

【Temporal Disorder】 shifted Ciel’s body to the No.0 pure save file. At this moment, she temporarily lost all transcendent abilities, yet everything before her didn’t dissipate due to the save file switch.

This wasn’t some body-locking ability... nor some hallucinogenic toxin. If it were either of those, everything should have vanished the moment the save file switched.

But now, not only did the bloody mist before her not disappear, it actually thickened. Even breathing felt like drinking blood, leaving a sticky, rusty taste in her throat.

Most importantly.

The whispers in Ciel’s mind didn’t stop.

This was No.0, the pure save file, essentially an ordinary person’s form, the save file of the real Ciel who was never plagued by whispers.

But at this moment, Ciel, in the pure save file, heard screams and whispers that should have been impossible.

Caw—

A harsh crow’s cry made Ciel instinctively look up.

At this moment, her vision seemed to pierce through countless layers of bloody mist, locking onto the “creature” overhead.

It was a massive three-headed monstrous bird. It vibrated its wings in the air. Its wings lacked feathers, instead covered with black, hair-like filaments.

Crow’s cry... Before encountering misfortune earlier, she had also seen a black raven.

Is it that?

With no time to carefully identify it, Ciel directly raised the Blood Roland in her hand, aimed at the circling behemoth, and pulled the trigger.

“Bang—!”

Ciel only felt some of her flesh and blood being violently drained. Blood Roland’s muzzle spurted a large amount of blood mist. A deep red projectile shot out, pierced through layers of bloody mist, and directly entered the behemoth’s body.

However, the bullet passed straight through it, flying further into the sky—the giant creature seemed to exist on a different plane from Ciel altogether; the bullet had no effect on it whatsoever.

“Gurgle—”

Suddenly, a gurgling sound, like that of an abyssal monster, echoed before Ciel. She immediately raised her gun, aiming at the bloody mist in front.

In her vision, opposite the dense layers of bloody mist, a terrifying humanoid monster holding a bone club, its body half-decayed, raised the bone club and approached Ciel.

Dark green liquid, like concentrated sulfuric acid, dripped continuously from the monster’s body. It raised the bone club in its right hand towards Ciel, while its left hand placed a rodent skull into its mouth.

The next moment, green pus was spat into the small, twisted skull. A piercing, sharp shriek echoed in Ciel’s mind, nearly causing her spirit to collapse.

Such a strong sealed artifact!

Ciel didn’t hesitate, pulling the trigger directly!

Bang—!

A bloody Roland bloomed on the monster’s chest. The monster lost all resistance and fell backward stiffly.

But the fall of one monster attracted more—the sealed artifact in its hand summoned all its companions!

Sharp hisses began to rise and fall. More monsters emerged from the bloody mist, waving bone clubs and approaching Ciel.

Just then, Ciel’s figure distorted again. The expensive dress changed into a black church long robe. An inexplicable fire began to burn from Ciel’s chest.

Very lucky, “Judicator” Ciel, at this moment, returned to Ciel’s control.

The unbearable sounds caused Ciel’s head to split. Shrieks and screams echoed in her mind. The more these monsters affected Ciel this way, the more her anger grew limitlessly.

“Heh...” Ciel glared angrily at the monsters, exhaled a long breath. Silver light flashed, the Blood Roland in her hand vanished. She raised her right hand, index and middle fingers extended, waved forward slightly. Four black shadows surged out directly from behind her.

The monsters rushing over collapsed under the black shadows in an instant. Pus-like liquid, seemingly poisonous, flowed from their bodies onto the black gravel ground, emitting sizzling white smoke.

The deaths of these monsters didn’t make Ciel feel any better.

Instead, a larger scale of tragic howls exploded in Ciel’s mind. Under the shroud of bloody mist before her, more monstrous shadows began to emerge from the darkness.

Those terrifying creatures, like demons and ghosts, ran wildly, roaring furiously.

Attempting to torture Ciel to death in this manner.