After receiving the news that the rescue operation was successful, Roland finally felt relieved.
Although it deviates from the original plan and failed to sweep the morning light in the form of a conqueror, the neighboring country eventually overthrew the rule of the Moa family and maintained basic stability. The new Quinn family will be Greycastle's most loyal allies until they can gain a firm foothold.
What's more, there is an Andrea on the side of Neverwinter City. As long as there are no accidents, the ally with Chenxi is enough to maintain this generation.
He did not think that the Third War of Divine Will would last for a hundred years.
Andrea and the expedition's God's Punishment Witch expected to return to the Western Region in about a month. He planned to take advantage of this time to plan the future development of Greycastle.
After all, with the demise of the Timothy Party, the opposition forces temporarily disappeared, and the kingdom was unified in name. Although it will take some time for the secondary city halls in various places to function and completely turn Greycastle into an efficient centralized state, he can start preparing now. When that day arrives, Graycastle's strength will definitely get an unprecedented leap, and it will open the gap with the other three countries in terms of level.
The most important thing in the development plan is how to make good use of the witch's ability.
After all, they are the primary productive forces.
In the two weeks since Anna came back, a series of changes have taken place in the city - the most obvious is Roland's castle: his mahogany desk has doubled in size, and it is filled with more than ten hand-cranked telephones. , which lead to the Witch Building Office, City Hall, Barracks, Third Frontier City, Changge District and other important places. When an emergency occurs, you no longer have to rely on the legs of your personal guards to deliver the message.
In addition, the first public telephone also appeared in the central square, which connected the city and the hidden forest, and extended with the construction of the railway tracks to meet the needs of workers who have been unable to return home for a long time and their families.
Of course, this line is charged on time and has a limited number of calls per day, requiring advance application. If you don't want to spend too much money, you can choose cheaper air courier and rail delivery. Thanks to the popularization of primary education, written communication has become more and more common among the citizens of Neverwinter.
And responsible for the operation of these systems is a newly established department of the city hall: the Ministry of Communications.
Since its work covers every link from taking care of messengers to delivering letters to your door, its subordinate institutions have instantly become a behemoth second only to the Ministry of Construction, providing about 1,000 jobs for Neverwinter. One-time residents were swept away.
In this department, Roland has faintly seen the outline of a super-giant group rising in the future.
This is just the strength of Anna alone.
Therefore, after solving the devil attack, he focused most of his energy on the ability statistics of the witch of Sleeping Island.
With the arrival of the second batch of migrants, the number of members of Sleeping Charm has increased to ninety-six. Just testing their abilities has made Wendy and Scroll very busy. Coupled with some uncooperative witches, the first Steps are quite difficult. Fortunately, thanks to Tilly's personal prestige and Wendy's Huairou offensive, the registration part finally passed smoothly.
The black booklet placed in front of Roland now is the result of the preliminary investigation of the abilities of all witches.
He has been looking at it repeatedly for several days, and has planned the whereabouts of most of the capable people.
It has to be said that the previous classification methods of strengthening, summoning, and enchantment were too general, and were no longer suitable for intuitively expressing the scope of their abilities, so he simply reclassified the witches according to their job categories. For example, those who are good at processing are classified as manufacturing capabilities; those with close relatives are classified as breeding capabilities; if they cannot find a use for the time being, they are placed in the pending column. In this way, the city hall can clearly see the number of witches available for hire in the production category.
In addition, these nearly 100 witches also let Roland see how amazing the difference in their abilities is.
Obviously they are all awakened, some can only make flowers grow in the cracks of the stone, and some can create burly magical servants - it is no wonder that the Federation cannot withstand a protracted war. Once the battle witch dies, if you want to find someone who can The person who replaces her doesn't know how many years it will take.
Obviously, it is the safest way to place the witches in the factory.
Among the 100-person roster, Roland valued four people more.
They are No. 26 Dark Cloud, No. 43 Azima, No. 44 Doris, and No. 89 Thin Wrist.
The ability of the dark cloud is "dyeing", which can dye the object it touches into any color without changing the original nature of the object.
In theory, this should be regarded as an enchantment-type ability, with a limited duration, the consumption of mana is greatly affected by the target volume, and it is not affected by the stone of punishment after completion. But what makes her so powerful is that dyeing can take effect for an insanely long time—presumably because changing the color has little effect on the substance itself, she only needs a tiny bit of magic power to last for years. In other words, if the dark clouds do their best, they can maintain the color for hundreds of years.
However, the limit of the target size still exists, and she has no way to release the ability instantly like a hummingbird, and at the same time compress the effective time as much as possible, so once she encounters a large object that exceeds the upper limit of her magic power, her ability will be invalid. It's still too difficult for her to change the color of the sea in one go.
In fact, after Wendy's test, she can affect objects within the range of her arms at most, which is about one meter five square.
For Roland, such a large dyeing area is enough.
After all, objects can be divided and combined.
It can be said that the ability of the dark cloud has made up for a gap in Neverwinter - the development of dye technology. The dyeing method of this era comes from natural extraction, and it is definitely a big selling point in advertisements for later generations, but the truth is that the performance of naturally extracted dyes is too bad. There are many impurities, easy fading, poor anti-oxidation, and the variety is very rare, so that only the nobles can afford the colorful clothes, and the latter effect is mostly made by inlaying gold and wrapping silver.
The use of dyes is extremely extensive. Apart from the traditional textile industry, education, printing, chemical industry, biology and other aspects are inseparable from its support. Moreover, the dark clouds can also lighten Soraya's burden to a certain extent, and she can be regarded as an all-rounder.
However, the next No. 43 and No. 44 gave Roland a little headache.
Akima and Doris were just one of the witches that Wendy said was not so willing to cooperate. When they first met, they expressed their dissatisfaction with Tilly and wanted to leave Neverwinter as soon as possible. Although this difference has been temporarily eliminated by the book, the rift has always existed, and it is still unknown whether the two are willing to accept recruitment and devote themselves to the work.
However, their abilities are very unique - Akima's ability to "trace the origin" is slightly better, and it is not irreplaceable, but Doris' "demonization" allows Roland to see the possibility of using magic power on a large scale.