After receiving the news that the rescue operation had been a success, Roland finally felt relieved.
Although there were some deviations from the original plan and they failed to conquer the Kingdom of Dawn, the neighboring countries had finally overthrown the Moya family and maintained basic stability. The new Quinn family would be the most loyal ally of Graycastle until they gained a firm foothold.
Moreover, Neverwinter had Andrea. As long as there were no accidents, the alliance with the Kingdom of Dawn would last for another generation.
He did not think that the third War of Divine Will would last for a hundred years.
It was estimated that Andrea and the God's Punishment Witches would need about a month to return to the Western Region. He intended to make good use of this time to plan the future development of Graycastle.
After all, with the destruction of the remnants of Timothy's party, the opposition temporarily disappeared, and the kingdom was nominally unified. Although it would still take some time for the secondary City hall to play its role and completely turn Graycastle into an efficient centralized country, he could start preparing now. When that day came, the strength of Graycastle would inevitably increase to an unprecedented level, and the gap between it and the other three countries would be widened.
The most important thing in the development plan was how to make good use of the witches' ability.
After all, they were the primary productive force.
In the two weeks after Anna returned, the city had undergone a series of changes. The most obvious change was in Roland's castle. His mahogany desk had doubled in size, and there were more than ten hand-cranked telephones on it, which led to the office of the Witch Building, the City hall, the barracks, the Third Border City, the Longsong Area, and other important places. In case of an emergency, he no longer had to rely on the legs of his personal guards to deliver a message.
In addition, the first public telephone had appeared in the Central Square, which connected the city and the Misty Forest. As the railway construction progressed, it was extended to meet the needs of the workers who could not return home for a long time.
Of course, this line was charged on time, and the number of callers per day was limited, so they had to apply in advance. If they did not want to spend too much money, they could choose to send letters by air or by rail, which were cheaper. Thanks to the popularization of primary education, written communication had become more and more common among the citizens of Neverwinter.
The department responsible for the operation of these systems was a newly established department in City hall: the Communications Department.
Since its work involved taking care of messengers and delivering letters to people's homes, its subordinate agencies instantly became a behemoth second only to the Ministry of Construction. It provided about 1,000 jobs in Neverwinter, and almost all of the new graduates were employed.
From this department, Roland could already vaguely see the outline of a mega corporation rising in the future.
And this was only the power of Anna alone.
Therefore, after solving the demon attack, he focused most of his energy on the ability statistics of the Sleeping Island witches.
With the arrival of the second batch of migrants, the number of members of the Sleeping Spell had increased to 96. Vendy and Scroll were extremely busy just testing their abilities. Coupled with the fact that there were a few witches who did not cooperate, the first step was quite difficult. Fortunately, thanks to Tilly's personal prestige and Vendy's conciliatory offensive, the registration part was successfully passed.
The black leather book placed in front of Roland now was the preliminary result of the witches' ability survey.
He had read it repeatedly for several days and planned the positions of most of the witches.
He had to admit that the previous classification of strengthening, summoning, and enchantment types was too general and not suitable for intuitively expressing the scope of their abilities. Therefore, he simply reclassified the witches according to their job categories. For example, those who were good at processing were classified as manufacturing ability; those who were closely related to animals were classified as breeding ability; those who could not find a use for them for the time being were classified as pending. In this way, City hall could clearly see the number of available witches in the production category.
In addition, the nearly 100 witches also showed Roland how amazing the differences in their abilities were.
They were all awakened ones, but some could only make flowers grow in the cracks of stones, while some could create burly magic servants. It was no wonder that the Union could not withstand a protracted war. Once a combat witch died, it would take many years to find a replacement.
Obviously, the safest way was to place the witches in the factory.
Among the 100 people in the list, there were four that Roland valued.
They were No. 26 Dark Cloud, No. 43 Azima, No. 44 Doris, and No. 89 Slender Wrist.
Dark Cloud's ability was "dyeing". She could dye any object she came into contact with into any color without changing the original nature of the object.
In theory, this should be regarded as a kind of enchantment ability. The duration was limited, and the magic power consumption was greatly affected by the size of the target. After completion, it would not be affected by the God's Stone of Retaliation. However, the strength of her ability was that the effective time of dyeing could be extremely long — probably because changing the color had little effect on the object itself. She only needed a little magic power to maintain the effect for several years. In other words, if Dark Cloud used all her strength, she could maintain the color for hundreds of years.
However, there was still a limit to the size of the target, and she could not release her ability instantly like Hummingbird. At the same time, at the same time, she could compress the effective time as much as possible. Therefore, once she encountered a large object that exceeded the upper limit of her magic power, the result would be that her ability would be ineffective. It was still too difficult for her to change the color of the sea in one breath.
In fact, according to Vendy's test, she could at most affect an object within the range of her arms, which was about 1.5 square meters.
For Roland, such a large dyeing area was enough.
After all, objects could be divided and combined.
It could be said that Dark Cloud's ability made up for a gap in Neverwinter — the development of dye technology. In this era, the dyeing method was derived from natural extraction, which would definitely be a big selling point in advertisements in the future. However, the fact was that the performance of naturally extracted dyes was terrible. They had a lot of impurities, were easy to fade, had poor anti-oxidation resistance, and were very rare. As a result, only the nobles could afford colorful clothes, and the latter's effect was mostly made by inlaying gold and silver.
Dyes were widely used. In addition to the traditional textile industry, education, printing, chemical industry, biology and other fields were inseparable from the support of dyes. Moreover, to a certain extent, Dark Cloud could also relieve Soroya's burden. She could be regarded as a versatile person.
However, the following witches, Number 43 and Number 44 gave Roland a slight headache.
Azima and Doris were two of the witches that Vendy mentioned were not very cooperative. When they first met, they had expressed their dissatisfaction with Tilly and wanted to leave Neverwinter as soon as possible. Although this disagreement was temporarily resolved by Scroll, the rift still existed. It was still unknown whether the two were willing to accept the recruitment and devote themselves to work.
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