West District, Mayfair District, St. Itherine Garden No. 22, Ciel’s residence.

After agreeing on a contact method with Pope Erigma, Ciel sent Little Left back and returned home with everyone.

Eleanor, due to her identity, did not return with Ciel and the others. Instead, after leaving her secret contact information, she used her ability to return to the Archbishop’s residence.

At this moment, Percy, looking at the red-haired young girl seated at the desk and drawing something on a map before her, felt completely different from when she first met her.

Ciel’s initial “wild notions,” after just a short two hours, had become a real possibility.

She also had to start rethinking why Teacher Tara was so respectful to that red-haired young girl. Now it seemed… this young girl, who could directly communicate with the Other Side, was very likely to have a certain connection with the church.

Perhaps she was a divine servant, it was not impossible… Before, their infiltrators had also intercepted some information about divine servants from the Church of the Savior Goddess.

With this conjecture linked to the facts, re-examining Teacher Tara’s attitude, Percy also put away most of her suspicion.

Now, while protecting Teacher Tara, she decided to quietly observe the true identity of this young girl.

On the map before her, she drew a red circle in the direction of the Church of the God of Order—that was where the Other Side node was located.

She asked Little Left to go to the corresponding location in the Other Side to observe, to see if Little Left could find that pure white knight directly in the Other Side and have it communicate with her.

If she could communicate directly across the Other Side, then she wouldn’t have to risk activating the blood ritual array again to summon that pure white knight—after all, it might not help her.

However, Ciel was somewhat confident about this… After all, after the system warned it, it had helped her merge the “Uniqueness” pocket watch into her eyes, greatly facilitating Ciel’s control over the pocket watch.

Perhaps… it was showing goodwill. She should still try to communicate first. If communication failed, Ciel would have to try contacting the Grim Worm. She would have to reconstruct an Other Side node that led directly to the Grim Worm’s location—this was a hellish difficulty. Unless absolutely necessary, Ciel would not attempt to privately research Other Side nodes again.

Ciel looked at the map before her. At this moment, she was still observing the red light in her mind, waiting for Little Left’s response… However, for some reason, after a long time, Little Left had no movement.

Ever since Little Left obtained the Faceless Goddess pendant, it would basically call out to Ciel every ten or twenty seconds. If Ciel didn’t respond to it, it would keep calling… But now, the red light hadn’t flickered for over ten minutes.

Did… something happen to it?

Although Ciel could expend mental power to directly control the goddess statue remotely to call Little Left, perhaps because of the distance across the Other Side, the amount of mental power required was a little too large. Maintaining it for thirty seconds would consume almost enough mental power to summon Little Left once.

To ensure her mental state remained relatively healthy, it was best for Ciel to wait for Little Left to pray voluntarily.

Another five minutes passed. Just as Ciel thought something had happened to Little Left and wanted to try to project her consciousness onto the pendant to ask about its situation, a faint red light flickered in Ciel’s mind.

A sharp, subtle sound echoed in Ciel’s mind.

“Lord… Ciel…”

“Arrived…”

“Door…”

Did it see it?

“What did you see?”

Ciel took the opportunity to send the information to Little Left. But this time, Little Left’s voice completely disappeared, and even the red light flickering in her mind was extinguished.

Ciel’s heart sank slightly.

Based on Little Left’s description, it should have reached the node and said it saw a “door”… But why did it instantly stop moving after saying the word “door”?

Was it… captured by that pure white knight?

Is that pure white knight still on the opposite side?

She had to see what happened.

Ciel’s consciousness sank. She activated 【Omniscient】. A wisp of her mental energy dissipated, instantly crossing countless time and space and planes, descending onto a pendant.

…

On a terrifying suspension bridge covered in brains, a strange monster hand, over a meter long, lay crouched at the center of the bridge.

Its finger-like legs stepped on the soft, mushy brains. One dark green brain was even crushed by its weight, bursting with thick fluid.

But this giant hand, which exerted an immense sense of pressure, was trembling continuously at the center of the suspension bridge. The raised compound eyes, composed of countless dense pupils on the back of its hand, trembled, as if witnessing something indescribable.

Before it, the suspension bridge swayed slightly. In the hazy blood mist and ancient castle, a pure white figure slowly emerged from within.

Every step it took seemed to cause severe tremors in the ground, but the brains beneath its feet were not crushed by its steps.

The sound of phantom gears turning came from within its body. Waves of white steam burst from the cracks in the armor. The armor walked directly to the giant monster hand, looking down at it.

“*****.”

A faint, ethereal murmur came from within the armor, but it seemed to carry a hint of emotion, as if cursing something.

It slowly raised its foot and directly stepped on the middle section of the giant hand’s index finger.

Crack——

With a crisp sound, the finger broke. Black blood spurted from the broken finger, but it quickly evaporated as it flew towards the pure white armor. Not a single drop of the splashing blood touched the pure white armor.

A painful hiss came from the mouth of the giant monster hand. The noisy hissing seemed to make the pure white armor even more irritated.

It directly raised its hand. The gauntlet on its right arm unfolded, revealing the intricate structural support and golden gears beneath. As the gears turned, four sharp, curved blades shot out from the cracks in its gauntlet. The gears on them spun rapidly with serrated chains.

It seemed that it intended to plunge this bothersome, foolish monster that was disturbing its peace directly into eternal sleep.

But just as it raised its right hand to deliver the most painful, fatal blow, a silver object that fell from the palm of the monster hand made the pure white armor stop its movement.

Something from that world…

How did this low-level creature obtain it…?

It reached out for the object. The small silver item seemed unaffected by gravity and flew directly into the palm of the pure white armor.

Pendant… Religion…

Not interested…

“Lord… Ciel…”

To the pure white armor’s surprise, the pendant being taken away seemed to activate the monstrous hand’s fighting spirit. It desperately propped up its body, resisting the pressure, and directly lunged towards the pure white armor.

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