Chapter 40: See You Next Time, Miss Witch!
Celia watched everything unfolding with cold eyes.
The sacrifices for the black magic ritual had all been consumed, but the powerful forbidden power that had coalesced was still struggling to withstand the holy light.
The blinding white light slowly enveloped the area, and the cultists began to scream in agony as the searing holy light caused their bodies to dissolve, eventually turning them into pools of crimson blood.
Only their immediate area—the space around the magic circle—still maintained a flicker of darkness, but it seemed to be only a matter of time before the light triumphed over the dark.
"Ansu, come with me!"
Ansu looked at Celia, wondering if she was just going to ignore her teacher.
But in the next moment, he saw Samantha hurriedly activating a teleportation circle and vanishing into thin air.
A teleportation circle was a demanding magical ritual to cast; for Samantha to escape so quickly, she must have planned this long ago by siphoning some of the magical power from the blood sacrifice ritual.
Ansu couldn't help but mutter, "And here I thought she was going to die for the cause—she certainly slipped away fast..."