Re-enactment ceremony?
Ciel's interest was finally piqued, and she continued to flip through a few pages.
Julis was promoted to high priest. Apparently, some emergency occurred, and she was finally transferred out of this church. The new high priest easily helped me pass the priesthood assessment. I know that all my efforts are paying off.
The new high priest taught me how to place a spiritual mark. I finally don’t have to write my spiritual notes in secret.
Turn the page.
[I got the Ascetic's Resurrection Potion. It's time to let the Goddess see my achievements.]
Turn the page.
【Why...failed? 】
Turning the pages, turning the pages, the handwriting became more and more chaotic day by day, and Charles began to find it difficult to understand the words in it.
Turn the page.
It turns out the teachings were wrong... not my fault.
If the suffering in the world is fixed, then all we need to do is kill those who cause suffering to others. Something is missing from the potion, I know... The goddess told me... The new path is called "Avenger"...
They don't understand me... I must find another place to complete my ritual.
Chapter 10: Fraud and the Church of the Goddess of Savior
The notebook recorded a large number of trivial matters, almost showing Charles the daily psychological changes of a person after becoming a believer.
And those heart-pounding and frantic characters finally ended when the believer named Du Wen went to look for the "real" reappearance ceremony, and the notes were interrupted.
This is not the notebook of the man in black robe. The owner of the notebook is a disabled person with both ears cut off. Through this research notebook that is like a diary, Charles slowly uncovered an unknown corner of this world.
Charles knew about the Church of the Savior. Two years ago, when she was searching for supernatural powers, she had also gone to the church to listen to prayers for a while.
But Charles at that time did not find anything unusual about this church. He just felt that it was a monotheistic religion with some doctrines somewhat similar to Buddhism.
Through Du Wen's research notes, Charles learned that the believers and even the pastors in the church were unaware of supernatural powers, and the church itself was operating like an ordinary church.
If one wants to access the extraordinary level, one must be selected as a waiter, and then pass the assessment to become a priest, before one can access the mysterious power of the church.
The Du Wen in the notes was originally just an ordinary believer. It seemed that he had experienced some extraordinary event, which allowed him to skip the priest stage and be directly selected as a waiter.
However, on the road to becoming a waiter, Du Wen, who was ambitious and extremely conceited, seemed to deviate from the teachings of the Savior Goddess Church and took another path.
Charles looked through it again, but didn't find any more valuable clues, so he opened another diary of Thomas.
The content of this diary is exactly that of the man in black robe.
【Diary——Thomas】
If the church traitor's notes are correct, one person's notes seem to be able to help reconstruct the ritual. However, I don't have any priests to check them, and I don't know what the point of writing them down is. Anyway, I'll write them down anyway.
The title page of the diary recorded Thomas's thoughts, but what was written at the end surprised Charles a little.
This man was originally a bandit, and he usually roamed around the villages within the territory of Ansu and committed crimes.
He was very accustomed to gaining other people's trust with his kind face and eloquence, and then after entering someone's home, he would directly rob and kill them. He specifically targeted single and weak people, and most of the victims were elderly or women.
This is his self-narration in his diary, and the reason he started writing this diary was because of his last murder.
When he was wandering around the villages near Bolun City to commit crimes, he met a man who was wearing clothes made of fine fabrics but was seriously injured and dying.
In order to gain his trust, Thomas treated the man's wounds and took him to hide in an abandoned house for a while.
Finally, as the other party's wound continued to worsen and Thomas continued to show false kindness, the other party told Thomas his hiding place in the city and asked Thomas to take him there.
The injured person was the author of the research notes, the priest Du Wen.
Needless to say, there is no need to say more about what happened next.
The robber Thomas killed Du Wen in his detached house and looted all the valuables, including three bottles of potions and a complete reappearance ritual.
A complete bottle of "Avenger" potion and two semi-finished bottles of "Instigator" were what the cultist Du Wen obtained after he stopped writing notes.
Thomas was extremely excited to get a glimpse into the extraordinary world. He quickly began to study all the things left by Du Wen before his death and found a research note about the instigator, which recorded in detail the instigator's reappearance ritual.
The so-called recurrence ritual is to reproduce the deeds of God - drinking magic potions to fuse them - to gain power.
This is a path to revisit the path to godhood.
After some hesitation, Thomas chose the "Instigator" path with a complete ritual, because he thought he was exactly the same as this path, and instigation was his specialty.
The instigator's reappearance ritual is very simple. After drinking a bottle of potion, he starts to instigate others. Whether it is instigating murder or instigating crime, the greater the influence, the better the digestion effect of the potion.
Wait until the moment of success, drink the potion before a major crime instigated by yourself, and digest the potion while waiting for things to develop.
When the incident is over, the potion will be able to merge with himself, and he will be able to become a true extraordinary person.
The previous instigation experiences had nothing to do with Charles.
The last instigation was closely related to Charles.
He spent half a year using the potion to initially convince people of his abilities, making the Blackwater leader believe that he possessed the ritual to reproduce the Avengers potion, and began to instigate him to kill people.
The final ritual he prepared for himself was to have the Blackwater leader kill his nephew and the person who killed his nephew, and finally drink the Avenger potion.
This ritual was completely compiled by the bandit Thomas. He himself did not know the process of the ritual, and there was no record of the Avenger Ritual in Du Wen's research notes.
His purpose in letting the leader of the Blackwater Party drink the Avengers potion was to drive him mad under the influence of the potion under the wrong ritual, and turn him into a murderous demon without reason but with extraordinary powers.
Once this demon is formed, it can be predicted that Thomas's instigator potion will be completely digested, and he will become a true extraordinary person.
"call......"
Ciel let out a sigh.
Now she finally understood why she was involved in these things.
This is a coincidence made up of betrayal and deception, and Charles is just a pawn to be sacrificed at will.
Charles did not find the second bottle of "Instigator" potion in the simulation. It is very likely that Thomas had drunk it. When he killed him, the blood extracted from his corpse was the complete potion material.
Fortunately, she already knew all this in advance, she was still in the dark, and the enemy knew nothing about her situation.
Thanks to some new information, Charles has more means to solve this matter.
For example, the Church of the Goddess of Savior mentioned in the notes.
As long as she handed these two notebooks to the extraordinary person of the Church of the Savior Goddess, this matter could be resolved perfectly without even waiting for her to take action.
The difficulty lies in how to explain the origin of these two notebooks and how to find the extraordinary people of the Church of the Goddess of Savior.
Also, would contacting the extraordinary level of the church put oneself in danger?
Do you want to take a break?
No. Ciel quickly gave a negative answer.
She now knew that after 4:45 in the morning, Thomas and Solari would be at the Hammer Tavern on West Street, and Solari would be in a condition where he could not fight. If she wanted to kill them, the early morning was the best opportunity. She just needed to make the details more accurate in the simulation.
She needs to enter the simulation again and try not to use the skill of Death Reversal. If the simulation time does not exceed 4:45 in the morning, then she will choose to kill them first and then contact the church.
If the time has expired, then go directly to contact the church. If you cannot contact it, then look for an opportunity to do so during the simulation.
She was very sure that her killing skills would be more efficient and decisive now than in the previous simulation, and she would not leave any chance for the opponent.
Charles opened the system's simulation interface, and a new random simulation time appeared in front of him.
「来日:1h(圣741年6月17日7:46)(消耗10命定点)」
「往日:3Day(圣741年6月14日7:30)(消耗100命定点)」
"Old Days: ***, ***Day (???) (Consumes 10000 Fate Points)"
An hour later?
What Ciel didn't expect was that the random time would be so close to the present.
It was so close that the church had not even been closed yet. She could go to the church to test its situation first, and then improve the assassination plan.
This seems to be the episode that best fits my plan.
After placing the two notebooks on top of his own, Ciel lay down on the bed and slowly closed his eyes.
"Today."
White light engulfed her.
Chapter 11: Double Blessing to the Goddess of Savior
"Today"
「圣741年6月17日7:46」
"Countdown - 23:59:59"
Charles opened his eyes and what came into view was the familiar ceiling and the silver-white light curtain that was slowly dissipating.
She propped herself up and sat up. The simulated self had already slept for an hour. Although she was still mentally exhausted, her physical fatigue was slightly relieved.
She raised her hand and picked up her canvas bag, stuffed the two exchanged notebooks into it, and left her own notebook in its original place.
This simulation was only one hour different from reality, so there was no need to use notes to record what happened in between, after all, she was sleeping the whole time.
Putting on his newly bought black cloak, Charles hid the knife and the revolver with three bullets in a canvas bag.
After getting ready, Charles walked out of the house with his canvas bag, turned around and locked the door, then walked straight to the match factory where his sister worked.
She pretended there was no stalker and made no effort to conceal her movements in order not to alert the stalker.
Ciel just had to make her actions seem reasonable to her stalker.
After walking two blocks, she arrived at the match factory where her sister worked. At this time, the workers had almost finished their meals and were chatting in groups outside the factory, waiting for their turn to go to work.
Charles quickly noticed the blonde figure at the door. She had her back to him and was communicating with the three men in front of her. Her body movements seemed a bit intense, as if she was angry.
Charles subconsciously quickened her pace, but when she got closer, she realized that it didn't seem like anyone was bullying her sister.
The three strong men were like little chicks, lowering their heads and obeying Lizzy's scolding.
"What do you mean by disappeared in the blink of an eye? It means she has gone back now..."
One of them noticed Charles who was not far behind Lizzie and whispered a reminder. Lizzie then turned around and looked at Charles in surprise.
"Little Charles?" Lizzie turned around and saw Charles. She quickly walked over and pulled Charles away from the match factory. "It stinks here. Why are you here?"
The environment in the match factory was harsh. As soon as Charles got a little closer, he smelled the thick, pungent smell of phosphorus smoke, a smell that easily reminded people of anything related to decay and corrosion.
"Didn't I tell you to wear a mask?" Charles stared into Lizzie's eyes.
Charles made a few cotton masks for Lizzie. Although he knew that they would not be very effective, it still gave him some psychological comfort.
Long-term inhalation of phosphorus vapor can easily lead to mandibular necrosis, an occupational disease called phosphorus jaw, which is common among match factory workers. It may eventually lead to severe necrosis and decay of the mandible, or even death.
In this era, this is almost an unsolvable disease, so Charles is anxious to find a job instead of taking the college entrance examination, and take Lizzie away from this working environment first.
"It hasn't started yet." Lizzie shrugged indifferently and looked at Charles with a smile, as if she didn't take these things to heart.
Due to her lack of education and knowledge about some occupational diseases, Lizzie does not feel any sense of urgency about working here. She just thinks that if others can work here, she can do it too.
"I'm going to the Bell Tower Church of Savior later." Charles said.
I came here to say hello to Lizzie, firstly to prevent Lizzie from not being able to find me if she went back early for something, and secondly to prevent the stalker from getting suspicious.
Why was I suddenly going to church when I had never been there before? There must be something going on.
But if she talked to Lizzie, who was already a believer, before going, the stalker who couldn't hear the conversation would figure things out on his own, reducing the risk of alerting the stalker.
"Oh... Yeah? Are you going to church?" Lizzie nodded, raised her hand to pinch Charles' cheek, and smiled, "That's good. Say hello to Pastor Mel for me."
In the Bell Tower District, the Church of the Savior can be said to be the only dominant church and the church that most workers believe in.
Because they distribute free food every day, and you can get a few pennies for praying on your day off. In addition to this, there is another biggest reason - the one and a half hour break that the workers get after get off work at 6:30 every day was won by the Savior Goddess Church.
The huge bell tower standing in the center of Bell Tower Lane was built by the Church of Our Lady of the Savior. The bell tower itself is also part of the church. It is rung at 6:30 every evening to remind factory owners that it is time to let their workers rest.
Lizzie was naturally also a believer, and had taken Charles to pray many times. However, after going there a few times and finding that there was no priest who could cast holy light, Charles lost interest in the church.
She is an atheist after all.
After saying goodbye to Lizzie, Charles walked along the road towards the church.
There were no accidents along the way, and Charles soon arrived at the church door.
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