Chapter 99: Brand New Spiritual Summoning Method

Brand New Spiritual Summoning Method

【Reality】

【Saint Year 741, June 20, 16:22】

【Evaluation: Woo~ Perfect coordination!】

【Sacrificing all Divine Advent Church members in Berren City in one go, then torturing and killing a third-tier “Radiance Bishop”—the timing of everything was perfectly coordinated, as if practiced numerous times... Oh, right, it was practiced numerous times】

【Honestly, just do it like that on the 23rd! Go tell all the organizations you did it! You’ll instantly become a superstar, a great hero! Even the wheelchair-bound Bishop of the Church of the Savior Goddess would have to stand up and toast you!】

【Take it, you deserve this based on your performance.】

【Reward: Fate Points × 50, 【Mage Hunter Lv.1】, 【Nemesis Lv.1】】

【Fate Points: 193】

【Mage Hunter: Passive Ability. All your body’s stats have received a very small boost, giving you the possibility of hunting those who consume potions bare-handed.】

【Nemesis: Passive Ability. People you killed in the simulation will feel slight fear towards you in reality. The more times they were killed, the deeper the level of fear felt.】

“Hahh—” Leaning back on the sofa, Ciel opened her eyes and took a deep breath.

She raised her hand towards the right side of her head, feeling only dry, soft hair, no wounds or bloodstains.

Even after dying so many times, Ciel still couldn’t get used to the pain of death.

Although, “getting used to death” was already an abstract concept in itself.

Ciel slowly closed her eyes, reviewing all the details from the simulation just now.

The Bishop arrived slightly late at the underground sanctuary, around 13:02. This was normal, as Ciel had encountered him at 13:01 in the stone spiral corridor.

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Perhaps due to the sacrifice, he hesitated at the door for a moment but still chose to enter.

This was the key to the successful implementation of Ciel’s plan.

Ciel ignored the system panel before her and sat quietly on the sofa for three minutes, confirming she hadn’t inherited the “Temporal Disorder” negative effect after returning to reality, before opening her eyes again.

The system panel appeared before Ciel. She re-examined the abilities she had obtained.

Ciel had already trained herself to basically skip the system’s comments after a quick glance; they were mostly meaningless drivel, not worth paying attention to.

Killing a third-tier “Radiance Bishop” for the first time yielded very generous rewards, bringing her Fate Point balance directly to 193.

The richest she’d ever been.

However, possibly because some individuals were killed repeatedly, the reward points weren’t even as high as those from advancing to “Judicator.”

Although the points were fewer, she at least got two new abilities.

Besides that, she obtained two new passive abilities. Thanks for reading on ManaNovel!

One was 【Mage Hunter】, which enhanced all her physical stats, and the other was 【Nemesis】, whose effects were still unknown.

She had killed quite a number of people in the simulations, so many that Ciel herself couldn’t quite remember who she had killed how many times.

Some people might have died directly or indirectly at Ciel’s hands several times, yet Ciel didn’t even know their names.

Like the church square explosion in a previous simulation, she wondered if those deaths counted towards her tally.

This troubled Ciel slightly...

It was a passive ability Ciel couldn’t actively turn off. If this continued, would it reach a point where people would just glance at her on the street and be scared witless?

Apart from not injecting knowledge into them, how different was this from the evil gods imagined by those cultists?

However, Ciel wasn’t overly worried about this.

The people she repeatedly killed were those who deserved to die. Even in reality, they would be dealt with by her sooner or later. The 【Nemesis】 skill probably wouldn’t significantly impact Ciel’s life.

Ciel closed the reward interface and opened the system shop.

There was one particularly important item she had to redeem.

Rows of redeemable items appeared before Ciel. Compared to the previously empty shop, it was now filled with a pile of useful and useless things. The previously non-functional category list finally came in handy.

Ciel clicked sort by time, selected the most recent simulation, and a filtered list appeared before her.

Ignoring irrelevant options like clothes, skirts, and underwear, Ciel’s gaze focused on three items, her expression gradually becoming puzzled.

【【’Letter to Myself’ (Ciel)】】

【Fate Points: 1】

【【943ml Blood (Ciel)】】

【Fate Points: 10】

【【Sadhana Emblem】】

【Fate Points: 20】

To avoid being influenced by the “Instigator” potion into causing trouble everywhere and wasting her already depleted mental energy, Ciel had chosen suicide after obtaining all the necessary information.

Compared to earning more Fate Points, Ciel was more worried about pulling some outrageous stunt under the potion’s influence.

However, her simulated self seemed to have left her a letter and blood. She wasn’t sure what the purpose was.

Moreover, Ciel had no idea where the blood and letter were kept on her person. Surely not sewn into her body... right?

Or perhaps ingested?

Thinking about it, that indeed sounded like something the “Instigator” might do.

Her simulated self probably knew she wouldn’t have much time to check messages, so she hid them in an envelope inside her body.

After hesitating for a moment, Ciel decided to redeem the envelope anyway.

1 Fate Point wasn’t a huge amount for her now. Even converted to su pounds, it was only 125, which Ciel could easily afford.

Plus, there was nearly two units of her own blood. This made Ciel think her simulated self had left some important information.

With a thought, Ciel’s Fate Point balance dropped from 193 to 192.

A silver light flashed, and a clean, beautiful pale blue envelope appeared in her hand.

Ciel broke the seal and unfolded the letter paper, seeing the content written in Chinese.

【Saint Year 741, too lazy to write the rest】

【After instigating those cultists, there was nothing else to do】

【Since I was idle anyway, I started experimenting with some interesting things】

【I always felt spiritual summoning was too troublesome. Not only chanting to guide the blood array, but also waiting for the Other Side gate to open. If you were really in combat, there’s no way you’d have time to summon any spiritual being】

【Plus, powerful spiritual beings might drain your own blood dry... which is fatal during combat】

【Anyway, the exchange area had plenty of materials, so I just started messing around】

【I actually discovered some interesting things】

【A key step in spiritual summoning is my own blood. But this blood, even blood drawn earlier, can be used for sacrifice. As long as it’s mine, it works】

【I used “Echo” to draw several buckets of my blood then rewinded. Even after the blood coagulated into clots, it could still be used for sacrifice】

【I left some blood clots in the waist pouch, about 1000g, one standard unit. You can see how many points it costs to redeem】

【Later, I experimented with those buckets of blood. Sacrificing the same item, the first time I normally summoned a small monster. The second time, I used my heated fresh blood to draw the recorded blood array myself】

【Guess what?】

【A pre-drawn blood array can also be used—it’s just that each summonable creature corresponds to different offerings and blood arrays. Recording all of them would be a massive undertaking】

【I tried scaling down the blood array proportionally, fitting it onto a piece of parchment. Unfortunately, the small blood array drawn on parchment had no effect】

【The rest of the letter is a list of all cultists in Berren City】

【If you’re seeing this in a simulation, you don’t need to read the last page】

【—Love,】

【Ciel (^_^)】

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If in a simulation, don’t read the last page?

Ciel directly flipped to the last page.

【I did so many good deeds, can we use “Instigator” again next time we enter the save file? Also remember to remind me to use the “Instigator” potion before each simulation. See, “Instigator” is so efficient, and can think of things others can’t. Why not just drink the “Instigator” potion in reality? That way you won’t have your head drilled every time...】

Ciel read only the first line, then put down the letter, not bothering with the rest of the page filled with pleading requests.

Is she trying to instigate herself now?

Sometimes Ciel found it strange herself.

Although every version was her, controlled by her, under the influence of different potions, each version felt like a different person...

While their overall decisions were similar, the details and methods of handling things varied for each different path.

She didn’t know if this was good or bad, wondering if the system might later offer some skill to integrate these seemingly split personalities.

Ciel clipped the letter to the notepad in front of her, closed it, and rubbed her temples.

The consecutive simulations and summonings had accumulated a lot of mental stress, leaving her feeling slightly weak all over.

This feeling made her faintly resistant even to being “awake.” If she continued simulating, the mental pressure might become overwhelming.

Suddenly, Ciel thought of something and stood up.

A slight dizziness made her sway for a couple of steps. Ciel gathered all her belongings into her satchel, then picked up her pillow from the bed and walked out of the guest room.

The plan had changed. She needed to make Avena abandon the previous plan.

Each simulation brought new information and intelligence, making previous plans seem flawed.

Now, Ciel’s plan was no longer just to muddy the waters, but to make herself completely disappear from the cultists’ radar while completing her objective.

But these were later concerns. It would take the Divine Advent Church an unknown amount of time to trace things back to Ciel through mere clues.

So Ciel’s goal was to remove Avena and Adele from the Divine Advent Church’s focus, preventing them from further investigating Adele and Avena.

Previously, Ciel hadn’t figured out a way to resolve the Divine Advent Church issue without implicating herself or her two friends.

But now, Ciel had a better solution—inspired by “Instigator” Ciel’s spiritual summoning experiments.

However, one thing had to change: reporting the cult could no longer proceed.

There might not be any Divine Advent Church members within the Church of the Savior Goddess.

But she couldn’t guarantee there weren’t spies hidden within the Redemption Society or the Deton Group.

After all, she only had a list of cultists within Berren City.

Currently, only she, Avena, and Nia knew about the cultists. Even Adele in reality hadn’t learned about them yet.

According to the simulation’s progress, tonight, Avena would confide in Adele about the danger, have her stay in the room, and then go report to Uris the next morning.

Previously, reporting was the only option. But now, with more intelligence, reporting had become a very unstable method.

It would expose Avena, who wasn’t currently under suspicion, directly to the Divine Advent Church. Not reporting could offer some protection to Adele, who would soon be investigated by Kitty.

Ciel wobbled as she walked up to the third floor. Just climbing from the second to the third floor left her slightly breathless.

Her energy was truly depleted.

Holding her pillow now, a strong urge to just sleep immediately began to grow within Ciel.

Forcing herself to stay awake, she reached Avena’s door and knocked.

Ciel heard hurried footsteps inside. Soon, the door opened slowly, revealing a calm-faced Avena.

“Just hang your things over there.” Seeing the pillow in Ciel’s arms, Avena’s lips curled upwards a few millimeters unconsciously.

After Ciel hung her things, she placed her canvas bag by the door and asked, “Avena, have you contacted the Deton Group yet?”

“Not yet... What’s wrong?” Avena asked, looking puzzled.

Only a little over ten minutes had passed since Ciel proposed the idea. Avena hadn’t even drafted the letter, let alone contacted anyone from the Deton Group.

“Don’t contact them for now.” Ciel tossed the pillow onto the bed, then turned to Avena. “And don’t proceed with reporting to the church either.”

“Why?” Avena asked, showing slight confusion.

It wasn’t surprising Avena was confused. This seemed like the best solution. If they did nothing, that cult leader hiding in Deton Manor would definitely trace things back to them.

“My intelligence network... is preparing to handle it.” A wave of dizziness hit Ciel. She fell backward onto the bed, murmuring, “We... just watch... the show...”

“All the cultists... none can escape...”

“Good night...”

Good... night?

Avena subconsciously glanced at her watch. It was only around 4:30 PM. Good night already?

What about sleeping tonight? What about dinner? Who’s going to cook the dinner I’m missing?

Also, what does “the intelligence network will handle it” mean?

Does it mean the organization behind Ciel is finally stepping in personally?

We just need to watch?

The organization behind Ciel... what exactly is its background?

They were dealing with a Divine Advent Church stronghold that had been rooted in Berren City’s Deton Manor for years. A third-tier Bishop from the Divine Advent Church was even coming on the 23rd for inspection and assistance...

Under such dangerous circumstances, Ciel was confidently saying they didn’t need to worry?

Seeing Ciel just fall asleep so defenselessly and casually, without any further movement, Avena felt anxious.

She had many questions she wanted clarified, but clearly, a more pressing issue was before her.

Ciel was sleeping now. When she went to sleep at night, wouldn’t Ciel wake up?

“I... I’m sleepy too... Nia, you should go back to your room and sleep too. Oh, and please draw the curtains for me, thanks.”

Nia, standing by the window pretending to be an iron statue: “?”