The next day after Anna woke up, Nightingale said goodbye to Roland.
"Although I don't know the reason, I'm afraid she's the first witch to safely pass the Day of Awakening," said Nightingale excitedly before leaving. After following Roland for a long time, she began to use the word 'awakening' to describe the transformation of witches, "I'll bring my sisters from the Witch Cooperation Association, and I hope you can accept them, just like you accepted Anna."
Roland couldn't ask for more. One Anna had surpassed the hot-forging process and made the town see the dawn of the industrial age. What would a group of witches mean? Of course, considering the safety issue, he still tried to persuade her to stay, hoping that she would go to the Impassable Mountain Range after the end of the Months of the Demons.
But Nightingale was obviously impatient, "This winter, there will be many people who will face this difficulty. If we can tell them the news earlier, maybe there will be fewer people who will leave us. Rest assured, ordinary demonic beasts can't find my whereabouts. "
"Then what about your Day of Awakening, when is it?" Roland finally asked.
Nightingale turned over and mounted the horse, "At the end of winter and the beginning of spring." She waved her hand, leaving the Prince to look at her back, "Don't worry about me, in recent years the pain has become less and less painful."
Roland fell into deep thought upon hearing the answer.
He had also been thinking about the reason why Anna was able to pass the Day of Awakening so smoothly. After all, Anna later said that she didn't feel any pain, which completely subverted Nightingale's concept – "The power of witches comes from the Devil, they are evil and unclean" and so on. When she died, her blood evaporated and her skin burned black became the unshakable evidence of the power of the Fallen.
However, Roland didn't think about this from the beginning.
He searched through the memories of the 4th Prince, but he didn't find any evidence of the existence of God or the Devil in this world. Since the power was not a gift from God, it shouldn't be regarded as a standard to distinguish between good and evil. In fact, even if the Gods frequently interfered with the mortal world, it was the believers who first chose their own camp, and then were given divine power, not the other way around.
According to Nightingale's description, witches were the aggregation of magic power. Could it be that the container itself was damaged because there was no place to release the magic power? Roland felt that the possibility of this was very high. Witches were hostile and suppressed by the majority of people, so they would inevitably choose to hide their abilities and pretend to be a normal person, living in fear. As a result, they rarely had the chance to use their magic before they reached adulthood.
Of course, Roland did not think that his castle was a good place. He had asked Anna and learned that she had also experienced unbearable pain before. If there was anything different about this year, it would be that ever since she came to the castle, she had been using this power almost every day.
Nightingale's last answer vaguely confirmed his conjecture. The invisibility ability would not attract attention even if it was used frequently. In addition, she had been forced to train this ability, and now she could use it even more freely. That was why the backlash on the Day of Awakening had little effect on her.
After returning to the castle, Roland immediately strengthened Nana's training. If there were no wounded in the line of defense, she would have to treat all kinds of small animals. If he could confirm his conjecture through Nana, it could be said that the significance of the witches would be earth-shaking. The Devil's curse would become a gift from the heavens. As long as he could ensure that his territory was open to witches, the witches would continue to gather.
In any case, after this wave, everything was back on track.
Roland began to step up the production of the steam engine II, and at the same time let Anna familiarize herself with the process of her new ability.
In the backyard of the castle, a shed was set up, but this time it was to shelter them from the wind and snow. As an experimental base, he felt that it was safer to build it in his own territory.
According to Nightingale, after a witch reached adulthood, her ability would stabilize, and it was possible to produce a new branch of her ability. He had not yet seen Anna's new ability, but the use of flames was completely different from before.
No, whether it can be called a flame or not is still a problem … Roland thought, if the previous flame was still within the scope of common sense, then the current dark green flame could not be explained by common sense.
He named it "Heart Fire".
Because it could leave Anna and exist alone, and at the same time, it could change its form under the influence of Anna's will. Just like what she was doing now –
A small flame stood two meters away from her on the iron plate, slightly swaying back and forth, as if it was greeting her. But Roland knew that it was Anna who was controlling it. In normal times, it could maintain a temperature close to her body temperature, only when Anna wanted to heat up, would it instantly raise the temperature to a higher point, and its color would change from dark green to dark green. Similarly, it could also change from a small flame to a large cluster of flames, and it could move slowly.
Unfortunately, it could not be too far away from Anna. After repeated tests, as long as it was more than five meters away, the Heart Fire would disappear.
Another feature of the Heart Fire was that Anna could summon multiple flames – but she could barely operate two at the same time.
Recently, the border could be described as calm. The demonic beasts still appeared outside the city walls, but without the presence of the hybrid species, it was difficult for the demonic beasts to break through. As Roland said, the strong were stronger, the fast were faster, but they were still just beasts. Such a large section of the wall, but they were all led to the middle section, so that the militia with only a few hundred people could handle it.
Therefore, in addition to the daily routine inspection, Roland spent a lot of time on construction.
He had already marked out a site in the south of the castle, planning to be the witches' residence after they arrived. As the investor of the project, he appointed Carr as the person in charge of building a batch of double-storey brick houses. At the same time, he had to consider the aesthetic and reasonable layout, convenient access, fast drainage and other issues, and strive to build a model of the community.
He also considered whether to disperse the witches to the new and old city areas, and mix with the townspeople, but later he gave up this idea. Although this would help speed up the understanding of the witches, but before the misunderstanding was completely resolved, if there was a problem, the consequences would be very likely to be irreparable. After all, the witches only had a certain influence in the militia.
Moreover, Roland could not guarantee that the witches brought by Nightingale would be pure and harmless – most of them had experienced the pain and suffering of the human world, he was afraid that they could no longer be described as simple. Witches like Anna and Nana would only be a very small part of them.
Therefore, centralized living would also be convenient for centralized management, but before they arrived, the relevant regulations and regulations must be drawn up. In this regard, Roland had no experience to refer to, after all, he was neither a member of the National Security Bureau's Superpower Office, nor the founder of The Revenge League, who would know how to manage a group of people with special abilities! He had to temporarily set up a basic system in accordance with the general personnel management methods of the enterprise, and then slowly feel the stones to cross the river.
Of course, Roland knew that this plan was full of loopholes, but as a pioneer, if he did not do it, who else could do it? Hiding in this small border town with his tail between his legs, he might spend a few decades to touch the threshold of industrialization, but he was not a Taoist cultivator, how many decades could he have?
If he wanted to lead the times forward and stand at the forefront of reform, he must have the spirit of adventure.
Just as he was recording these thoughts on the parchment, Barov opened the door and came in.
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