Roland spread out the letter and handed Maisie a piece of beef jerky. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Coo!" said the latter, gulping down the jerky in his mouth, swallowing it in two or three times, and then obediently leaned on the edge of the table and buried his head in the feathers.

Greetings, dear brother, or rather, "His Highness Roland Wimbleton".

I have received your letter and I could not agree with you. I don't know why you suddenly changed your temper and were willing to help witches, but since you have done so, the church has become our common enemy.

As you may already know, I became a witch, and that's why people want to believe me. And you are a prince, a true nobleman, and it is incredible that you can be trusted by many witches. Ever since I heard about you, I've often wondered how the hell did you do that, if you were to use witches as tools like other nobles, you wouldn't have gotten Ash's approval, and she wouldn't have chosen to let Maisie stay in Borderland.

In addition, I was also very interested in the steam engine mentioned by Maisie, and the theory that knowledge promotes the evolution of abilities. Especially the latter, I hope to have the opportunity to talk to you about it in detail.

As for your invitation, I thought twice and found that I had no reason to decline. The establishment of an alliance requires trust and giving, and if we all hesitate and shrink back, we will only let the church take advantage of it in the end. That's why I've attached a list of most of the abilities of the Sleepy Island Auxiliary Witches, so you can pick the abilities you need the most and let me know them through Maisie. If all goes well, they'll leave for your territory next month. For security reasons, it is best not to exceed five at a time.

Also, designate a reliable pick-up and drop-off plan and send someone to protect it. The loss of each witch is a significant loss for Frontier Town and Sleepy Isle, and it also casts a shadow over our cooperation. I hope you can take care of them as you do with your witches. If you can, please also involve them in the evening to teach them the basics, and I'm sure it would be good news for us if any witch could become more powerful.

As you said, the church is already on the verge of exhaustion, and it is only a matter of time before the four kingdoms are annexed. Hopefully, when that day comes, you'll be ready to deal with it. If it's hard to resist, Sleepy Island is your refuge. Of course, I will also help as much as I can in the fight against the invasion of the church.

Finally, may we put an end to the oppression of the Church and build a new order—a new kingdom in which no one will be persecuted not only by witches, but by anyone.

Your sister, Tilly Wimbleton.

Roland put down the letter, his heart was indescribably happy, he smiled and put away the letter, took out another piece of beef jerky and stretched it out to Maisie.

She immediately stuck her head out and pecked at the food. "Goo, goo!"

He touched the silky feathers on the back of his neck, and the latter narrowed his eyes pleasantly.

"It's a good job, but Lightning followed the fleet to the royal capital, and it should be a few days before he returns," Roland smiled, "You can go and play with Nanava or Leaf, or go to the bathroom to take a bath and sleep first." ”

"Goo...... Maisie flapped her wings, then leaped off the table, flew out the window, and quickly vanished.

She should not be tired of what she said just now, I am going to play with them, and Roland finds that even if the other party is talking in the form of a pigeon, he can understand the general meaning.

...... Is this the power of habit?

Having said that, he never expected that Tilly would actually agree to his invitation and attach a list of witches' abilities, which is a treasure trove! Although the letter did not say how long they could stay, it would take half a year to learn the entire elementary education course. If you add another 100,000 whys and extend the course to one year, how much change can these witches bring to the border town?

And when they evolve, the benefits far outweigh the disadvantages for themselves - staying in the town is a highly effective way to promote development, and even if they are put back on the Sleeping Island, it is a living propaganda symbol. With word of mouth from these people, the number of witches willing to go to the Frontier will only increase, and Tilly can't stop this trend. Roland believes that sincerity is the real long-term solution rather than inducement or coercion.

All in all, the surprise of this reply was far greater than he expected, and the openness and positivity of the other party gave him a feeling of meeting God's teammates, so that he was no longer alone in the fight against the church. As for the safe pick-up route, he had already thought about it - avoiding Bishui Harbor or Haifeng County, and landing directly from the uninhabited Bund south of the border town. Once in the hills, take a hot air balloon ride over the peaks to the heart of the town, ignoring the Church, Tifeco, or Garcia.

The more he thought about it, the more excited Roland became. He resisted the urge to immediately browse through the appendix to pick witches, and focused on what he was doing at the moment - after all, the soonest the Sleeping Island sent witches was next month, and the most pressing problem facing Frontier Town right now was housing construction.

Since the First Army arrived in the royal capital, a steady stream of fugitives from there has arrived in the town. In order to prevent the recurrence of the plague, Roland arranged them all outside the walls of the western border, where a long series of wooden huts had been erected for the fugitives to live in temporarily. With the addition of serfs farming along the Chishui River, the total number of the two groups of people has exceeded 8,000, and if the fugitives are transported for a few more days, this number is likely to exceed the 10,000 mark.

There was nothing wrong with supplying these people's food, after all, the border towns had not stopped importing food since the Demon Moon, but the problem of accommodation was obviously a big problem. It's summer, and you can live in a simple wooden shed, in addition to shading from the sun and rain, it is also very windy, but there are more mosquito bites. But once it is winter, the wooden shed is no different from the open air, what is the temperature outside, what is the temperature in the wooden shed. If they are not moved into brick houses, I am afraid that most people will not survive the long winter. In other words, the border towns must spend the remaining six months building houses and dormitories that can accommodate 10,000 people.

Roland spread out a piece of paper and began to pick up a pen and write.

He planned to mobilize some of the workers who built the Kingdom Avenue to the construction of housing, after all, the road was not a big problem for ten days and half a month at night, and the freezing of people in the territory was a complete stain on the political performance. Even when he first crossed over, he was faced with the difficult situation of asking for money and no people, and no one froze or starved to death in the first Demon Month, and now with the Witch League and the steam engine, as well as a huge income and manpower, he naturally did not allow such a situation to happen.

Just then, Carter suddenly walked into the office.

"Your Highness, there's bad news," his expression was serious, "there was an explosion in your chemistry lab just now. (To be continued.) )