To put it simply, the former could be traced back to the entirety of a substance that had been stripped from a whole body. It could also be traced back to the point where a large amount of it converged through a certain trace element.
For the witches of Sleeping Island, this was undoubtedly a kind of survival ability. For example, as long as Azima held a drop of fresh water in her hand, she could lead them to a stream or a lake. Another example was that she could determine the location and size of an orchard based on the seeds left in animal excrement.
Because of her great contribution to the team, several witches from the Eastern Region gathered together under her leadership, forming a rather tight small group.
However, in Roland's eyes, "Tracing the Origin" was undoubtedly a direction to excavate natural resources. It was even more versatile than Sylvie's Eye of Magic.
The reason was very simple. When Sylvie used her Eye of Sight, her magic power consumption would increase exponentially, and the distance she could cover would be greatly reduced. She could divide the ore seams in the North Slope Mine, but once it was a vein buried deep underground, she would be powerless. In addition, even if it was a shallow resource, it was difficult for her to distinguish the type and size of the target. At most, she could only say that there was something underground, but she could not tell what it was.
Azima did not have this concern at all. Not only could she accurately locate a single resource, but she could also clearly know its quantity. If used together with Lucia's purification ability, she might be able to move the entire periodic table of elements to the map of Graycastle.
When Roland was studying geography, his deepest impression was of a national map full of various resources. Now that Graycastle had been unified in name, he should also work in this direction and expand the source of raw materials to the whole country, even to the Kingdom of Dawn and the Fertile Plains.
But even if Azima was unwilling to help, it was not difficult for Neverwinter. After all, the resources would not run away. As long as he had enough time, he would eventually achieve this goal.
Doris's "demonization" was different.
Limited by the lack of observation methods, he did not even have a basic understanding of magic power. If he wanted to better control it, witches were the only way.
Demonification was such an incredible ability.
The description that Vendy wrote in the book was that it could allow the magic attached to dead objects to form a cycle, thus greatly slowing down the exhaustion, making it seem as if it was alive.
Roland had reservations about this evaluation. He knew that the witch's statement that inanimate objects couldn't have magic power was just a habitual statement. Although in most cases, this law would be effective, there was an exception, and that was the God's Stone of Retaliation.
Isabella and Agatha's joint experiment showed that the God's Stone did indeed possess magic power, or rather … the ability to attract magic power. This was originally an exclusive characteristic of Awakened ones. When Isabella wiped out the interference area of the God's Stone, she could see a very subtle magic residue on its surface, but it could only last for a few seconds. During the entire process, there was no third party injecting mana into it, so the remaining mana must have belonged to the God's Stone itself.
In other words, although the God's Stone of Retaliation didn't possess a high concentration of magic power that could render other abilities ineffective like he had previously speculated, it did indeed contain magic power. It was just that the amount was extremely small. As for why it could isolate the effects of other abilities, Roland could at least be sure of one thing. The statement that "magic power repels inanimate objects" was not entirely correct.
Considering that the God's Stone would soon become an ordinary stone after Isabella's adjustment, Agatha made a bold conjecture: the magic power of the God's Stone of Retaliation would continue to be lost, but it could constantly absorb new magic power like a living thing, forming a cycle. Just like the gravel on the beach, it absorbed the sunlight during the day to heat up and released it at night. Otherwise, it would be impossible to explain how Isabella's ability completely changed the nature of the God's Stone, even though it did not involve the structure of the God's Stone of Retaliation.
She believed that the God's Stone had been "killed" by Isabella.
Vendy's statement obviously followed Agatha's conclusion.
Roland did not take it seriously. He had always believed that the God's Stone vein was a kind of inanimate object. The fact that it could absorb magic power had nothing to do with whether it was alive or dead. The reason why the God's Stone vein was unclear was that humans knew too little about the microscopic world before the invention of the microscope.
Therefore, in his eyes, demonization could also be said to be a kind of "God Petrification".
Of course, no matter what the truth was, the effect of this ability was unquestionable. Tests showed that it could be effective on Magic Stones, Sigils, enchanted objects and other objects, so that the magic power instilled in them would be automatically replenished, which was to say, a cycle.
For example, a Dawn I copper rod filled with magic power could continuously generate electricity for five days. When Mystery Moon held the broken sword, the time could be extended to about half a month. But no matter what, the magic power endowed by the rod would always be lost, and it would never stay on the enchanted object.
This meant that even if Mystery Moon's magic power was equal to that of Anna's, she could only multiply the power of Dawn I by a few times. Not to mention large-scale application, she could not even meet the needs of the factory's lighting and equipment operation.
Dawn I, which had been demonized by Doris, could automatically absorb magic power from everywhere to replenish the consumed gap, so that the effect of magnetic pole conversion could last for a long time. Although the gains and losses were not exactly equal, for a short-term enchantment, the improvement was already amazing enough.
It meant that Mystery Moon could get rid of the work of charging and maintenance, and become an energy producer.
It meant that many places other than the factory could also use a stable power source.
At the same time, many originally useless enchantment abilities would also be reborn because of demonization.
Even Agatha and Isabella could get a pile of similar God's Stones as test subjects, which would be very helpful for further research on magic power.
As for the shortcomings such as the long casting time, low efficiency, and the interruption of the magic power circulation by the God's Stone, they were nothing compared to the ability itself.
Therefore, Roland wanted to keep witches like this, no matter what.
After thinking about it, he could only try to use sugar-coated bullets to attack.
After all, when it came to seducing people, he had never seen anyone better than himself.
The last one, Slender Wrist No. 89, lived up to her name.
Originally the daughter of a jeweler, she was born to be good at carving. Not only was her wrist slender, but her hands were also very good, so she could carve complex patterns on the ring. After the awakening of her ability, this talent had made great progress. Not only did her carving speed greatly increase, but she could also use it on any material.
At first glance, Anna's Blackfire could also do this easily, but she was after all a genius who had advanced twice. In the Union, she belonged to the top Senior Witches, so she was not at the same level as Roland.
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