The Speedrun Manual of Miss Witch

After tidying her appearance slightly, Avena took Ciel and left the study. After having the butler prepare a carriage, the two got into the carriage.

In the carriage, Ciel closed her eyes and opened the system panel, directly opening the 【Basic Subjects】 page of the system store.

Currently, the subjects Ciel had learned were 【Linguistics Lv.3】 and 【Tailoring Lv.2】. She still had 【Sculpting】, 【Medicine】, 【Law】, 【Gardening】, and 【Cooking】 left to learn.

If she were to upgrade all five of the remaining subjects to Lv.2, it would cost 15 Fate Points.

For Ciel, who had a balance of 357 Fate Points, this cost was negligible. So Ciel didn’t hesitate much, and without considering whether they were useful or not, she first raised all the available basic subjects to Lv.2.

【Fate Points: 342】

After upgrading the remaining basic subjects to Lv.2, Ciel still had 342 Fate Points left. Ciel, with her eyes closed, felt that after a slight buzzing in her mind, her spirit seemed to relax a bit more.

The multitude of new 【Basic Subjects】 did not negatively affect Ciel’s spirit. Instead, it slightly increased her spiritual endurance limit.

This was an unexpected gain.

At the same time, Ciel was also considering a question.

After 【Linguistics】 leveled up to Lv.3, it gave her a somewhat limited “Photographic Memory” ability. Her memory for text and sound reached a monstrous level.

Other 【Basic Subjects】 leveling up to Lv.3 should also have similar abilities.

The Fate Points needed to level up from Lv.2 to Lv.3 became 3 points. Including 【Tailoring Lv.2】, there were a total of 6 Lv.2 subjects that could be upgraded, requiring a total of 18 points.

Moreover, some subjects, like 【Gardening】, Ciel might not be able to use in the short term at all.

However, Ciel quickly stopped hesitating.

Her current Fate Point balance was 342 points. Her “spending” mindset was still stuck at the time when she had less than 100 points.

What Ciel needed at this moment wasn’t a gradually increasing string of numbers. After all, this wasn’t a farming game where the more “money” you hoarded, the more you could “win.”

If it could improve her abilities, she should just learn it directly.

Ciel directly upgraded all the remaining 【Basic Subjects】 to Lv.3.

Glancing at her skill panel again, just like when she learned 【Linguistics Lv.3】 before, no new skills were added.

When she upgraded Linguistics to Lv.3 before, Ciel also received no notification of gaining a skill. It was only when she was learning Old Ansu language herself that she discovered she had gained the Photographic Memory ability.

Now she didn’t know what abilities she had gained from the other subjects. She might only discover them when in specific situations.

This would have to be discovered one by one through practice.

Just at this moment, the carriage stopped. Ciel opened her eyes and looked out the window. They had arrived outside the clinic.

However, a “Temporarily Closed” sign was hanging outside the clinic today—although it didn’t operate much anyway.

“Has Adele not arrived yet?” Ciel looked at the “Temporarily Closed” sign and asked casually.

“Recently, this place has adopted an appointment system, and only accepts extremely special and rare patients or transcendents, so this sign has always been hanging,” Avena explained.

Now, both Avena and Adele had reached Tier 2. They no longer had the need to accept ordinary patients. Naturally, it was impossible for them to continue providing charitable medical services.

“I see,”

Ciel slightly nodded, then opened the carriage door, looked back at Avena and said, “Then I’ll go in.”

“Just in time, I still have a bit of time. I’ll go with you to persuade her.” At this moment, Avena, who hadn’t mentioned her destination, reached out and adjusted her glasses, then got out of the carriage with Ciel.

Ciel didn’t stop Avena from following. After all, her simulated self had already told her through the notepad what kind of language she could use to persuade Adele.

Moreover, with the existence of the skill 【Art of Conversation】, Ciel believed that it wouldn’t be a problem to persuade Adele a bit.

At this moment, a slender, tall silver-haired young girl, sitting in her modified laboratory, wearing a white lab coat, was seated at a cleaned-up desk, holding a newspaper in her hand, her expression appearing somewhat sad.

Suddenly, her slightly pointed ears twitched. She turned to look towards the door. After a moment, a knocking sound came from the door.

Knock knock knock—

“Please come in.” The silver-haired young girl said.

There were no scheduled appointments today. It could only be Avena, who had some free time and came to visit.

After the door was pushed open, Adele saw the red-haired young girl standing at the entrance. The sadness on her face instantly vanished, replaced by a silly grin.

“Ciel, what brings you here? Are you feeling better?”

As soon as Adele finished speaking, she saw Avena following closely behind Ciel. She blinked, a hint of confusion on her face.

She had a bad premonition.

Generally speaking, her two good friends, whether Ciel or Avena, or the newly acquainted Amy, if they came to see her alone, it was usually for very simple small matters.

But whenever Avena and Ciel came to see her together, it likely meant something big had happened—this was a pattern she had summarized.

“Much better. Nothing uncomfortable,” Ciel nodded, smiling, “Thank you for the tranquilizer. It’s not needed anymore lately.”

“If you don’t need to use it, it’s better not to.” Adele nodded, then after a moment of hesitation, said, “You two came... to see me?”

“Yes.” Ciel didn’t hide anything, nodding directly.

Adele took a deep breath, quickly sat up straight, looked towards Avena and Ciel, and asked somewhat nervously, “Is it something big?”

Ciel: “Quite big.”

“Then can I not listen...” Adele’s tone softened instantly.

“No.” Ciel shook her head.

While Adele was looking disheartened, Avena noticed the newspaper on the desk behind Adele.

Using the extra vision provided by her transcendent item glasses, she clearly saw the text on the newspaper. It was just a headline page, talking about matters in North Ansu...

This was definitely not any newspaper supervised by the Ansu government. It was very likely an internal publication of the Redemption Society or the Church of the Savior Goddess.

“What is that newspaper?” Avena spoke directly, lifting her chin towards the newspaper, asking.

“Church of the Savior Goddess Monthly, I got it from my sister.” Adele didn’t hide anything. She turned and picked up the newspaper, unfolding it before Avena and Ciel. “This month’s monthly report is about North Ansu.”

Indeed... But how...

“What do you think after reading it?” Avena asked.

“Mm...” Adele thought for a moment, then replied, “I’m thinking of joining the support team organized by the Church of the Savior Goddess and the Redemption Society.”

“When did you start thinking about it?” Avena pressed.

“Just now?” Adele put away the newspaper. “I just saw this newspaper...”

The thought that just emerged...

Avena slightly turned her head, looking towards Ciel.

Ciel... Is this information of yours a bit too up-to-date...

The people behind you are not an intelligence organization at all, but a prophecy organization, right? Are there prophets having meetings every day?

Moreover, Ciel hadn’t even left the house today, and Nia hadn’t noticed anyone else approaching the manor. How was this information transmitted?

A special spiritual ritual?

Thinking about the spiritual contamination Ciel was currently suffering, Avena felt this answer was almost certainly correct.

Having ordinary people perform spiritual rituals... This organization is a bit extreme...

This organization, which excessively exploited Ciel, had already displeased Avena. Now, Avena’s favorable impression of the organization behind Ciel had dropped to freezing point.

If she had the chance to catch members of that organization, Avena truly wanted to give them a good interrogation and vent her anger for Ciel.