The day after Anna woke up, Nightingale said goodbye to Roland.
"Although I don't know the reason, she is probably the first witch to pass the Awakening Day unharmed," Nightingale said excitedly before leaving. After being with Roland for a long time, she also became accustomed to using the word awakening to describe the transformation of witches, "I will bring the sisters of the mutual aid society, and I hope you will accept them, just like you accepted Anna."
Roland couldn't ask for this. An Anna crossed the hot forging process and made the town see the dawn of the industrial age. What does a bunch of witches mean? Of course, considering the safety issue, he still retained it, hoping that the other party would go to the Desolate Mountain Range after the end of the Demon Moon.
But Nightingale was obviously impatient, "This winter, there are still many people who will face this difficulty. If we can tell them the news earlier, maybe a few people will leave us. Rest assured, ordinary evil beasts are I can't find my whereabouts."
"What about your awakening day, when is it?" Roland finally asked.
Nightingale got on her horse, "At the end of winter and early spring," she waved her hand, leaving the prince behind, "Don't worry about me, the pain has become less and less in recent years."
This answer made Roland ponder.
He has also been thinking about the reason why Anna was able to spend the Awakening Day so smoothly. After all, Anna said afterwards that she never felt any pain, which completely subverted Nightingale's concept - "The power of witches comes from the devil, and they are evil and unclean." It is because of this that the tragic state of blood evaporation and charred skin becomes the unshakable evidence of the fallen power.
However, Roland didn't think about it at first.
He rummaged through the memories of the Fourth Prince, but couldn't find any proof that there was a true god or devil in this world. Since power is not a gift from God, it should not be regarded as a criterion for distinguishing between good and evil. In fact, even if the gods frequently interfere in the mortal world, believers first choose their own camp before they are given divine power, not the other way around.
According to Nightingale's description, witches are a collection of magic power. Could it be that the container itself is damaged because the magic power is nowhere to be released? Roland felt that this possibility was very high. The witch was hostile and suppressed by most people, and she would inevitably choose to hide her abilities, pretend to be a normal person, and live with trepidation. This results in them having little opportunity to perform their magic until they reach adulthood.
Of course Roland wouldn't think that his castle happened to be a feng shui treasure. He asked Anna and learned that she had experienced unbearable pain before this. If anything this year has been different, it's that she's been using this power almost every day since she came to the castle.
And Nightingale's final answer vaguely confirmed his conjecture—the stealth ability won't attract attention even if she is often used, and she was forced to train this ability, and now she uses it more recklessly, so the backlash on the awakening day will be It had little effect on her.
After Roland returned to the castle, he immediately strengthened the training of Nana. If there were no injured people on the defense line, he had to treat various small animals. If this conjecture can be confirmed by Nana, the meaning to witches can be turned upside down, and the curse of the devil will become a gift from God. As long as he can ensure that his territory is open to witches, witches will come in endlessly.
In any case, after this turbulence, everything is back on track.
Roland began to ramp up the production of Steam No. 2, and it was also a process of familiarizing Anna with the new abilities.
A shed was erected in the backyard of the castle, but this time it was to keep out the wind and snow. As an experimental base, he feels that it is safer to build it on his own site.
According to Nightingale, a witch's abilities will stabilize when she becomes an adult, and it is possible to develop new branch abilities. He hasn't seen Anna's new abilities yet, but the use of flames is completely different from before.
No, it's still a question of whether it can be called a flame... Roland thought, if the previous flame was still within the comprehension of common sense, the current emerald green flame can no longer be explained by common sense.
He named it "Heartfire".
Because it can exist alone without Ana, and at the same time change its form under the influence of Ana's will. As she does now-
A small flame stood on the iron plate two meters away from her, swaying back and forth slightly, as if to greet her. But Roland knew that it was Anna who was controlling it. In normal times, it can be maintained at a temperature similar to body temperature. Only when Anna wants to heat up, it will instantly increase the temperature to a higher point, and the color will change from dark green to dark green. Similarly, it can change from a single flame to a large cluster of flames, and it can also move slowly at a slower speed.
Unfortunately, it could never 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 Heartfire is that Ana can summon multiple flames—but she can barely operate two at the same time.
The nearest border is calm. Evil beasts are still appearing outside the city walls one after another, but there are no mixed species, and it is difficult for ordinary evil beasts to break through the defense line. As Roland said, the stronger is stronger, the faster is faster, but it is still just a beast. The huge section of the wall was led to the middle section one after another, so that the militia team with only a hundred people could handle it.
So in addition to daily routine inspections, Roland has a lot of time to spend on construction.
He has already set aside a piece of land south of the castle, which he plans to live in after the arrival of the witch. As an investor in the project, he appointed Karl as the person in charge to build a batch of double-storey brick houses on the site. At the same time, it is necessary to consider the issues of beautiful and reasonable layout, convenient entry and exit, and fast drainage, and strive to build it into a template community.
He also considered whether to disperse the witches in the old and new urban areas and live together with the townspeople, but after thinking about it, he gave up this plan. Although doing so would help to speed up the territorial people's understanding of witches, until the misunderstanding is completely resolved, once a problem occurs, the consequences are likely to be irreparable. After all, witches now only have some influence in the militia.
And Roland couldn't guarantee that the witches Nightingale brought were all innocent and harmless—most of them had experienced the pain and suffering of the world, and I'm afraid they could no longer be summed up in simplicity. Witches like Anna and Nana will only be a very few of them.
Therefore, centralized living is also convenient for centralized management. It is necessary to formulate relevant regulations and rules before their arrival. At this point, Roland has no experience to refer to. After all, he is neither a related person in the Superpower Office of the National Security Bureau, nor the founder of the Avengers Alliance. Who would know how to manage a group of superpowers! He had to tentatively set a basic system according to the personnel management method of ordinary enterprises, and then slowly cross the river by feeling the stones.
Of course Roland knew that this plan was full of loopholes, but as a pioneer, who could do it if he didn't do it? Shrinking in this border town with his tail tucked, it might take decades to reach the threshold of industrialization, but he is not a cultivator, how many decades can he have
If you want to lead the times forward and stand at the forefront of reform, you must have an adventurous spirit.
Just as he recorded these thoughts on the parchment one by one, Barov pushed open the door and walked in.
He shook the snowflakes on his body, saluted the prince and said, "Your Highness, the messenger of Changsong Fortress is here."