Superman Termination Manual

Chapter 545: Chapter 266: The Doll Gathering of the Witches (Part 1) Chapter 545: Chapter 266: The Doll Gathering of the Witches (Part 1) Before being sucked into that beam of light along with the Sloth Witch, he had his Contracted Beast Kobe retrieve the anchor sunglasses from his bag beforehand, locking onto Shi Neian’s location information.

It wasn’t sure if it could follow Shi Neian into the rift in the sky and enter the Witch Church’s headquarters, so it had to resort to this strategy–using the anchor sunglasses in advance to record and track Shi Neian’s position.

In this way, even if it couldn’t follow, it could still know where Shi Neian went within the next ten minutes thanks to the sunglasses, to ensure her personal safety.

If it really did get teleported along, it could only maintain its form as a spirit throughout. But to retrieve the anchor sunglasses, it needed to materialize, and that posed a risk of being discovered by other witches–for a witch, having a Contracted Beast was quite a rare and even bizarre, illogical matter, akin to a cat keeping a mouse as a pet and bringing this pet mouse along to socialize with other cats.

When the time came, surely they couldn’t have the Sloth Witch eat the Contracted Beast alive in front of other witches just to prove her innocence and fit her persona, could they?

So Ke Mingye had to ensure that Kobe’s existence wouldn’t be exposed in front of the witches; otherwise, Shi Neian’s trump card would very likely be invalidated directly.

“We’ve already made it here–do these witches have such exaggerated means of gathering intelligence…”

Ke Mingye saw that Kobe’s perspective briefly went dark so he switched his attention back to himself, and slightly moved his stiff shoulders, raising his hand to wipe the fine sweat beads on his forehead.

He thought, “I assumed it would take a while for Shi Neian’s reputation to grow before the Witch Church would take notice of her. I didn’t expect it to be so much sooner than I imagined. It’s as if they have some means to scout the locations of witches; otherwise, they couldn’t have found Shi Neian so early.”

He pondered, apart from Dice Monster, none of Ke Mingye’s other identities–Lan Ou, Kobe, or Xiaohongmao–had a suitable reason to inform the people of the Alliance about the witches’ whereabouts–only “Dice Monster” would, because to others, the strange creature’s background setting is of a wholly illogical idealist, almost omniscient.

Thus, once he knew exactly where the Witch Church’s headquarters were located in the world, Ke Mingye would naturally send out the Deception Puppet immediately, letting it inform the three leaders of the Alliance in the form of Dice Monster.

Then, triggered by the announcement from Dice Monster, a war significant enough to be recorded in the annals of Magical Girl history would commence.

However… he didn’t know if everything would go as smoothly as he planned, and whether Shi Neian could emerge unscathed from the Witch Church.

According to Ke Mingye’s plan, it was to wait until Shi Neian’s strength climbed a few more tiers, to have the ability to protect herself or escape before starting to make noise–this would also allow Shi Neian to have a place among those witches, so she wouldn’t end up like when she was a Magical Girl in the Alliance, merely an ignored nobody, unable to obtain some truly key intelligence.

But the scene unfolding before him had clearly exceeded his expectations.

…

At this moment, inside the Babel Tower pattern, within an unnamed hall.

“This is the Witch… Church’s base?”

Sloth Witch stood up, turned her head, and looked around the hall adorned with dark golden hues, walls carved with dense symbols, and murals visible in every direction, the content of which overlapped with the story of the towering tower–“Ancient Babylon Tower”–recorded in the Bible.

The Bible states that the construction of the Tower of Babylon was abandoned mid-way because it angered God, who caused the workers building the tower to speak different languages. As a result, they dispersed to their own ways, and since then, people around the world began speaking different languages.

However, according to the murals, at the top of the clouds directly above the Tower of Babylon, there stood a nest-like structure where the witches reside. The construction plan angered a witch known as “Division and Envy,” who released her magic power over the desert, affecting the workers’ emotions, causing them to plunge into rage and unease, fighting and killing each other day and night. The conclusion was as recorded in the Bible: they dispersed in all directions, ceasing to interact, and the construction of Babel Tower came to a halt.

“Kobe, what’s the mural about?”

“I’m illiterate when it comes to this cold knowledge. Contracted Beasts are all illiterate.”

“I’m a middle school student, it wasn’t taught in textbooks.”

“Then don’t look at it, let’s focus on that witch. It seems like I’ve seen her when using your phone to browse Weibo–she’s that Witch Black Rose.”

“I know.”

Sloth Witch Shi Neian thought to herself, shifting her gaze from the mural, and looked up at the only figure sitting near the round table.

Witch Black Rose…

An old friend of Magical Girl Ash.

Upon seeing these lines on the system panel, Sloth Witch felt quite puzzled.

She wondered, “How could someone with Senior Ash’s forthright and explosive personality possibly have dealings with a witch? Or, like me, is this witch hiding her identity from her? Or could it be that Black Rose only became a witch after parting ways with Senior Ash?”