Release that Witch - Chapter 944

Chapter 944
Chapter 944: The New Witch Group Part I





Translator: TransN Editor: TransN
Roland felt relieved while he received the message that the rescue mission had succeeded .

Although they failed to take control of the Kingdom of Dawn as a conqueror, after a little deviation from their original plan, the neighboring country at least overthrew the Moya Family's rule and basically maintained stability . Before the Quinn Family could thoroughly gain a firm foothold, it would remain Graycastle's most faithful ally .

Besides, Andrea was also in Neverwinter . If everything went smoothly, the alliance with the Kingdom of Dawn could at least last until the next generation .

Roland did not believe the third Battle of Divine Will would last for a century .

Andrea, along with the other God's Punishment Witches in the expedition, was estimated to return to the Western Region in about a month . Roland intended to make use of this time to make a sound plan for Graycastle's future development .

After all, with the destruction of Timothy's remnants, the counterforce had temporarily disappeared and the kingdom was integrated in name . Although it would take some time before the secondary City Halls in the various cities to take effect and make Graycastle a highly efficient authoritarian country, he could already start to prepare for it . When the time came, the strength of Graycastle would enjoy an unprecedented leap, lifting it to a whole different level from the other three countries .





The key point in his development plan was to put the witches' abilities into full play .

After all, they were the reason for Neverwinter's high productivity .

Within half a month after Anna's return, the city had enjoyed a series of changes, with the most prominent ones happening in the castle . His mahogany desk was double its former size; on the desk were over 10 wind-up telephones connecting with the Witch Building office, the City Hall, the barracks, the Third Border City, Longsong Stronghold, and so on . In case of emergencies, the guards did not have to run to deliver messages anymore .

Furthermore, the first public telephone appeared in the central square, connecting the city with Misty Forest . It extended with the building of railways and satisfied the workers' demand to communicate with their families as they could not meet face to face over a long period of time .

Of course, the fare for using this telephone was time-based, and the number of people to use it was limited and application must be made in advance . If one found it pricey, one could choose to use carrier pigeons or railways to deliver their messages . Thanks to the popularization of preliminary education, text-based communication in Neverwinter had become increasingly popular .

In charge of the operation of these systems was the Ministry of Communications, a newly established department in the City Hall .

Its work covered every link of the delivery process, from taking care of carrier pigeons to providing home delivery, as a result, its subdivisions instantly grew to a colossal size which was only second to the Ministry of Construction . It offered about a thousand jobs and almost all the newly graduated Neverwinter civilians were taken in .





Through this department, Roland could vaguely see the silhouette of a future large group .

That was merely the result of Anna's own ability .

After solving the problem of demon's attack, Roland put most of his efforts on the statistics work of the witches' abilities from Sleeping Island .

With the arrival of the second batch of migrants, 96 witches had joined the Sleeping Spell . To test their abilities alone was stressful enough for Wendy and Scroll . Besides, not all witches were cooperative, which made the first step of data collecting quite difficult . Luckily, with Tilly's prestige and Wendy's conciliation, the registration work was more or less finished smoothly .

The black notebook in front of Roland was the result of the preliminary examinations of all the witches' abilities .

He had read it over and over in the past few days and figured out the uses of most of the witches' abilities .

Now he felt that the former way of classifying the witches' abilities as intensifying, summoning, and attaching magic type was too rough and unfit for expressing their usages directly . Hence, he reclassified the witches by their work assignments . For example, witches good at processing were classified as manufacturing type; witches who were pro animals were classified as the cultivating type; witches whose abilities had not found a usage were put under the type of undetermined . Thus the City Hall could clearly see the number of witches which could be employed for production work .





Besides, this batch of witches had shown Roland how drastically different their abilities could be .

Although they were all Awakeneds, some of them could make flowers bloom from a crack in a stone and some could create big and tall Magic Servants . It was no wonder the Union could not withstand a long term war, because if a combat witch died, it would take years before the role she played could be replaced .

Obviously, the most reliable arrangement for a witch was to put her in a factory .

Among the list of nearly 100 witches, Roland put special emphasis on four of them .

They were No . 26 Darkcloud, No . 43 Azima, No . 44 Doris, and No . 89 Slimwrist .

Darkcloud's ability was to dye . She could dye any object she laid her hands on into any color she wanted it to be, without changing its original nature .

Theoretically, it was an ability of attaching magic . Its effective time was limited, its consumption was closely related to the target's size, and its effect was free from the influence of God's Stone of Retaliation . But Darkcloud's dyeing ability was so powerful that its effective time was strikingly long . This was probably because the change of color barely affected the object and she only needed to use a little bit of magic power for the dyeing effect to last for years . In other words, if Darkcloud exhausted her magic power, the dyeing effect could last for a century .

But the size of the object still mattered . She could not, like what Hummingbird did, release her ability in an instant and reduce its effective time, so if she ran into a large object beyond the upper limit of her magic power, her ability would not take effect . Things like changing color of the sea in one breath would be impossible for her .

In fact, according to Wendy's test, Darkcloud could affect an area with the length and width of two arms-length, roughly 1 . 5 square meters .

To Roland, such an area was big enough .

After all, an object could be divided and combined .

In a manner of speaking, Darkcloud's ability filled in a gap in Neverwinter—the dyeing technology . In the current era, the dyeing method mainly depended on extracting colors from nature, which in later ages would be a big selling point . But the truth was the performance of colors extracted from nature was terrible—too many impurities, fading easily, poor oxidation resistance, and too few varieties . As a result, only nobles could afford colorful clothes, and the colors mostly came from embedded gold and silver threads .

Dyes had a broad usage . Apart from the traditional textile industry, other areas like education, printing, chemical, and biology all needed them . To some extent, Darkcloud could reduce the burden on Soraya's shoulders, which basically made her a great jack of all trades .

But witches No . 43 and No . 44 gave Roland a headache .

Azima and Doris were the kind of witches, according to Wendy, who were unwilling to cooperate . In the initial meeting, they had expressed their dissatisfaction about Tilly and wished to leave Neverwinter as soon as possible . Although this plan was temporarily put off by Scroll, the crack still existed . Whether the two wanted to be recruited and devoted to work remained unknown .

Unfortunately, their abilities were very peculiar—Azima's ability was "Source Tracing", although unique, yet not irreplaceable . But Doris's ability of "demonification" enabled Roland to see the possibility of using magic power on a large scale .

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