The day after Anna awoke, Nightingale said goodbye to Roland.

"I don't know why, but she's probably the first witch to survive Awakening Day unharmed," Nightingale said excitedly before leaving. After following Roland for a long time, she also began to use the word awakening to describe the transformation of witches, "I will bring the sisters of the Mutual Aid Society, and when the time comes, I hope you will accept them, just as you accepted Anna." ”

Roland couldn't ask for this, and an Anna crossed the hot forging process, giving the town a glimpse of the dawn of the industrial age, what does a bunch of witches mean? Of course, for safety reasons, he still retained him, hoping that the other party would go to the Desperate Mountains after the end of the Demon Moon.

But Nightingale was clearly impatient, "There are still many people who will face this difficult time this winter, and if we had told them the news earlier, maybe a few fewer people would have left us." Rest assured, ordinary evil beasts will not be able to detect my whereabouts. ”

"And when is your awakening day?" Roland finally asked.

"At the end of winter and the beginning of spring," she waved her hand, leaving the prince with a back, "don't worry about me, the pain has faded in recent years." ”

This answer made Roland thoughtful.

He had been wondering why Anna had been able to survive the awakening day so smoothly, after all, Anna had said afterwards that she had not felt any pain at all, which completely subverted the nightingale's notion that "the witch's power comes from the devil, and she is an evil unclean", and the tragic state of evaporating blood and blackening her skin at the time of death became irrevocable proof of the power of the fallen.

However, Roland didn't think about it in the first place.

He rummaged through the memories of the four princes, but he couldn't find any proof of the existence of a true god or a devil in this world. Since strength is not a gift from God, it should not be seen as a criterion for discerning good from evil. In fact, even if the gods frequently interfered in the mortal world, it was the believers who chose their own side before they were endowed with divine powers, not the other way around.

According to Nightingale's description, witches are a confluence of magical power, could it be that the container itself is damaged because of the nowhere to release the magic power? Roland feels that this possibility is very high, and the witch is hostile and suppressed by most people, and will inevitably choose to hide her abilities, pretend to be a normal person, and live tremblingly. As a result, they rarely have the opportunity to perform their magic until they reach adulthood.

Roland, of course, didn't think of his castle as a treasure, and he asked Anna about it, and learned that she had experienced unbearable pain before that. If there's one thing that has been different this year, it's that she's been using this power almost every day since she came to the castle.

And Nightingale's final answer faintly confirmed his conjecture - the stealth ability would not attract attention even if it was commonly used, and she had been forced to train this ability, and now she was even more unscrupulous to use it, so the backlash of the Awakening Day would have little effect on her.

Immediately after returning to the castle, Roland intensified his training on Nanava, and if there were no wounded on the defensive line, he had to treat various small animals. If this speculation can be confirmed through Nanava, the meaning of the witch will be completely changed, and the curse of the devil will become a gift from heaven. As long as he can make sure that his realm is open to witches, the witches will come in an endless stream.

Regardless, after this turmoil, everything is back on track.

Roland began to ramp up production of Steam II, which was also a process of familiarizing Anna with the new abilities.

A shed was erected in the castle's backyard again, but this time to protect it from the wind and snow. As an experimental base, he feels that it is safer to build it on his own territory at present.

According to Nightingale, as a witch reaches adulthood, her abilities become stable and may give rise to new branching abilities. He hadn't seen Anna manifest her new abilities yet, but in the use of flames, it was completely different from before.

No, it's still a question whether it can be called a flame...... Roland thought that if the previous flames were still within the scope of common sense, the current emerald flames were no longer explained by common sense.

He named it "Heartfire."

Because it can exist alone without Anna, and at the same time change form under the influence of Anna's will. Just like she's doing now-

A small flame stood on the iron plate two meters away from her, swaying back and forth slightly, as if greeting her. But Roland knew that it was Anna who was manipulating it. In normal times, it can be kept at a temperature close to body temperature, and only when Anna wants to warm up, it will instantly raise the temperature to a higher point, and the color will change from turquoise to dark green. Similarly, it can turn from a flame into a large cluster of flames, and can move slowly at a slower speed.

Unfortunately, it could never get too far away from Anna, and after repeated tests, if it was more than five meters away, the heart fire would disappear.

Another feature of Heartfire is that Anna can summon multiple flames - only barely two at the same time.

The nearest border has been peaceful. Evil beasts still appeared outside the city walls one after another, but there were no mixed species, and it was difficult for ordinary evil beasts to break through the defense line. As Roland said, the stronger are stronger, the faster are faster, but they are still just beasts. A large section of the wall was guided to the middle section, so that the militia with only a hundred people could cope with it.

So in addition to his daily routine rounds, Roland has a lot of time to spend on construction.

He had carved out a plot of land south of the castle that he planned to be used as a residence for the witches when they arrived. As an investor in the project, he appointed Carl as the person in charge of the construction of a number of double-storey brick houses on the site. At the same time, it is necessary to consider the problems of beautiful and reasonable layout, convenient access and fast drainage, and strive to make it a template community.

He had also considered whether to disperse the witches into the old and new towns and live with the townspeople, but then he thought about it and gave up on this plan. While that would help speed up the people's understanding of witches, it would likely be irreparable until the misunderstanding was resolved. After all, witches now only have some influence in the militia.

And Roland could not guarantee that the witches brought by the nightingale were pure and harmless—most of them had suffered the pain and suffering of the world, and I am afraid that they could no longer be summed up in simplicity. Witches like Anna and Nanawa will only be a very small part of it.

Therefore, it is also convenient to centralize the management of centralized residence, and the relevant rules and regulations must be drawn up before they arrive. In this regard, Roland has no experience to refer to, after all, he is neither a relevant officer of the National Security Bureau's superpower office, nor the founder of the Avenger Alliance, who knows how to manage a group of extraordinary people! He had to first tentatively establish a basic system according to the personnel management methods 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 else could do it if he didn't do it? Shrinking in this border town with his tail between his legs, maybe it would take him decades to reach the threshold of industrialization, but he was not a Taoist cultivator, and how many decades could he have?

If you want to lead the times and be at the forefront of reform, you must have an adventurous spirit.

Just as he had jotted down these thoughts on parchment, Barov pushed open the door and walked in.

He shook the snowflakes off his body, saluted the prince, and said, "Your Highness, the messenger of the Changge Fortress is here. ”