In the carriage, Ciel couldn’t help but start dozing off. The comfortable soft cushions and faint fragrance in the carriage made her eyelids heavy.

Upon finally returning to the rented No. 71 Gem Avenue, Ciel took out the key from her canvas bag, opened the door, locked it from the inside after entering, staggered upstairs to the second floor, opened the master bedroom door, and directly collapsed onto the new bed the landlord had replaced.

Here, Ciel felt relatively at ease. After all, her simulated self and sister lived here for almost a month without anything happening.

Ciel placed the canvas bag on the nearby table, took out the calming potion Avena gave her, pulled out the wooden stopper from the bottle opening, followed Avena’s instructions, poured a few drops directly into a glass of water, then drank it down in one gulp.

Soon, lying on the bed, Ciel felt a heavy wave of drowsiness. She finally stopped resisting the biological instinct to sleep desperately and fell directly into a deep slumber.

...

June 24th, 7:44 AM.

Ciel, lying prone on the bed, let out a soft moan.

She turned over, stretched her arms, slowly stretched, then opened her eyes.

A night of undisturbed sleep restored Ciel’s energy. The somewhat harsh sunlight made her rub her eyes. She slept too hastily last night and seemed to have forgotten to draw the curtains.

Ciel, rubbing her eyes, sleepily looked towards the window. A black object silhouetted against the sunlight made Ciel’s originally relaxed spirit instantly tense up.

She quickly flipped over and sat up, staring intently at the black raven at the window, tilting its head as it watched her. It was almost as long as her forearm. The tips of the raven’s huge wings supported the ground. It calmly met Ciel’s gaze, without the slightest avoidance.

The next second, a silver light flashed in Ciel’s hand. 【Deadly Blood Roland】 was already held by Ciel, aimed directly at the raven before her.

But just as Ciel was about to pull the trigger, the raven before her abruptly vanished, as if it had never appeared.

Misfortune rule... began.

Based on the timeline from the simulation notes, Lucy and Oppold should have arrived in Berren City last night or even earlier.

Today is the 24th.

Her simulated self encountered Oppold and Lucy separately at the clinic with Avena on the 24th. They didn’t appear at the same time, which avoided the disaster.

Did the misfortune rule only start locking onto her today?

If she had immediately taken her sister and left Berren City after waking up in the simulation yesterday, would none of this have happened?

Silver light flashed in Ciel’s hand. The gunblade disappeared from her hand. Her thoughts were chaotic, her heart filled with regret.

What she didn’t know was that long before Lucy was still in Ansu City, a raven had already locked onto Lucy, though Lucy was completely unaware.

And she herself was likely targeted unknowingly long ago. Only when others were drawn to Berren City did the “game” officially begin.

Ciel quickly adjusted her mentality, not dwelling further on this matter.

Since it had already happened, it meant she had no choice. All she could do was strangle the disaster in its cradle before everything happened.

Right now, Ciel had more information than the other two, possessing a first-mover advantage they lacked.

Ciel had to end all this before the other two reacted.

But attacking directly or launching a sneak attack now was unlikely.

Those two were third-tiers at their peak, currently uninjured, both mentally and physically at their peak. Ciel facing Lucy and Oppold meant certain death.

Moreover, even if she had the possibility of killing them, even if she really killed them, Ciel wasn’t sure if it would trigger the final tribulation.

The first wave of lightning pillars, the second wave of fire tornado—Ciel could barely survive relying on her own strong life-preserving abilities. If she added some potions, she could even get through with minor injuries.

But the third wave meteorite was purely flipping the table, capable of overturning the entire city of Berren. Ciel had absolutely no confidence in surviving that kind of impact—even Nia likely couldn’t escape.

Ciel didn’t think she was tougher than dinosaurs against impacts.

After drawing the curtains, Ciel sat on the edge of the bed and directly opened the system panel.

Yesterday’s mental consumption was too great; Ciel found it hard to concentrate. Now she could carefully review the gains from the last simulation.

Fate Points 38, this was indeed understandable. Ciel hadn’t personally killed anyone in the simulation. Even the system’s evaluation of Ciel was just “Assist King.” She merely indirectly facilitated the occurrence of everything.

However, spending 100 Fate Points for one simulation but only gaining 38 was indeed not cost-effective.

Ciel now had 99 Fate Points. It was hard not to suspect the system deliberately stuck it just before 100, preventing Ciel from simulating beyond 30 days.

But even if she had 100, Ciel absolutely wouldn’t dare spend it all directly—she needed to leave room for error.

Ciel looked at 【Death Reversal Lv.2】. After upgrading to Lv.2, the description of Death Reversal changed slightly.

【Death Reversal Lv.2: When you are about to die, clear all negative states, consume a large amount of spiritual power to forcibly maintain a near-death state for a short period. If spiritual power is exhausted before escaping the near-death state, then death occurs】

【If the host is annihilated during this period, consumes a large amount of spiritual power to exist as a pure spiritual body for a period, then dissipates automatically after some time】

After leveling up, even annihilation allows survival for a period?

Ciel didn’t know what this pure spiritual body was yet. At least, it didn’t seem very useful to Ciel, and it still consumed a large amount of spiritual power. Ciel’s current spiritual power couldn’t withstand such consumption.

Temporarily skipping this, Ciel looked at the third reward she obtained.

Points Mall unlocked 【Basic Disciplines】 store?

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