Chapter 97 New Witch, New Ability (Part 1)
When Roland walked into the office, he unexpectedly found that it wasn't Nightingale staying in the room, but Wendy. A novel ﹤≦≦≤﹤≤＜＜
"What happened?" He poured himself a glass of warm water, "Where's Nightingale?"
"She went to meet the sisters."
"Really," Roland picked up the cup and was about to take a sip when he suddenly felt something was wrong, "Wait, what sister?"
"Sisters from the Mutual Aid Society, they have come to Border Town." Wendy replied.
"Didn't they go to look for the holy mountain?" He stood up abruptly, "How many people came? What about the person who wanted to hurt Nightingale... It seems that the snake demon Hakara is here too?"
"No, Your Highness...they failed to find the holy mountain. In the wasteland, they encountered terrible monsters, and in the end only seven survived." Wendy repeated Ye Zi's narration, and then bowed to apologize, " You were still taking a nap at that time, please forgive me for taking the initiative and let Nightingale and Lightning pick them up."
"It's okay," Roland waved his hand, "You know I won't blame you for this kind of thing. What abilities do they have?"
"I don't know, but I heard from Ye Zi that none of them are fighting witches, maybe..." Wendy hesitated, "It doesn't do much for you."
"Non-combat type?" Roland was filled with anticipation. Under the constraints of God's Stone of Retaliation and the range of action, the combat ability of witches is actually very limited, and production is their best field. If there is a witch who specializes in plasticity, he can solve the problem of rough processing technology and directly enter the era of mechanical mass production; if there is a witch who can do electricity, the night in Border Town will be like day. Next, he will become a king, marry a witch, reach the pinnacle of life, and lead everyone to realize the four modernizations. It is exciting to think about it.
"Your Highness, don't you need them..." Maybe it was the long silence that made Wendy worry, she asked in a low voice.
"No, how could it be?" Roland came back to his senses and said word by word, "I will accept as many witches as this come."
Just as the sun was setting, Nightingale returned to the castle with the rest of the Freedom sisters, and Roland prepared a sumptuous dinner in the castle hall as a cleansing feast.
The witches were obviously very hungry, but it was the first time they dined in such an environment, and everyone seemed very reserved. This was the first time most people had seen the lord, let alone a prince.
Fortunately, in addition to Roland himself, there were two local witches, Anna and Nana, who gave demonstrations. Coupled with the lightning active atmosphere that did not know what embarrassment was, everyone finally let go, and there were conversations at the banquet.
Roland chewed the croutons, and looked at the group of beautiful women with completely different styles in front of him with great interest. This is the greatness of magic power—even if technology develops in the future and does not require the intervention of witches, their appearance is a never-ending landscape.
The model community built by Karl has not yet been completed, and the witches can only live in the castle for the time being. There are still four vacant rooms on the second floor. After thinking about it, Roland decided to change the single room into a room shared by two people. After all, those big beds are prepared for visiting nobles, and they can accommodate two people.
When the dinner was over, the prince finally ushered in the long-awaited link—the ability inquiry.
Accompanied by Nightingale, the witches entered the office in turn, and Roland, like an interviewer, recorded each of their characteristics, and at the same time used God's Stone of Retaliation to test the effect of their abilities. The whole process was like a job fair. When the last witch's questioning was finished, he let out a sigh of relief and stretched himself. If it wasn't for the fear that Nightingale might squat aside and eavesdrop, he really wanted to hum super-star.
Although there are no witches who specialize in shaping and electricity, the progress of modernization will be slowed down, but these witches still brought Roland a full surprise.
The most important thing first is this witch named Ye Zi.
He spread out the parchments of records on the table one by one, and pulled out the records about her from them.
Before adulthood, the leaf's ability was limited to increasing the fruits of plants. After adulthood, this ability was greatly improved, and derived the branch ability: manipulating plants.
The first ability can be used to improve fruits and seeds, increase production, and increase the effect of herbs. The ability to branch gives her the possibility to change the traits and characteristics of plants. According to her, injecting magic power into plants can make dead branches grow green leaves, command weeds to entangle enemies, and integrate themselves with big trees.
However, the larger the plant, the more mana it would consume to manipulate it. Therefore, when fighting, she gives priority to choosing weeds, which take effect quickly and cost less.
The method of ability casting is contact casting, which can be transmitted through a physical medium (such as the ground), and the range of action is about five meters.
There is no doubt that this witch with long green hair is definitely a good helper in the development of agriculture, and its importance is self-evident-industrialization requires a large number of people, and a large number of people depend on enough food to support them. These grains are either produced by themselves or imported through trade. If the former does not have efficient production capacity, it will only bind most of the human resources to the land. The latter is even more difficult to achieve in the era of extremely underdeveloped transportation.
Now that a druid is harvested, Roland hopes to use a small number of farmers to support a large number of industrial people and speed up the industrialization process of the territory.
Therefore, in the direction of future practice, he decided to let the leaves go on the road of improving seeds. Whether it is wheat or barley, as long as one of them can increase production, it can greatly increase the upper limit of the number of people that can be accommodated in his territory. In addition, I heard that the fjord produces some unique food, according to Lightning's description, it looks like potatoes and corn. If the rumors are true, plans to introduce these two crops have to be put on the agenda as soon as possible. After all, wheat itself is not a high-yielding crop.
After Roland wrote down the practice plan, she put her materials aside and pulled out a second sheet of paper from the table.
The second witch who was questioned was called Scroll, and she was also the oldest among the seven, approaching forty years old this year.
This is really a rare age among witches. The older you get, the harder it is to resist the magic backlash. But seeing her ability, Roland can also understand the reason why Scroll can survive till now.
Her main ability is the memory of ordinary people. After she became an adult, her ability has been stabilized, and she can almost be called a photographic memory. At the same time, she has acquired a very interesting branch ability: the scroll can turn the books she has read into entities in a short time. Roland named it "Book of Illusion".
The main ability is in effect almost all the time, so every awakening day, the scroll can be passed safely. This is also the reason why she was born in poverty, but she is self-taught... This ability is greatly improved for learning, especially words that require repeated memorization exercises study. Every time the branch ability is cast, the magic power of her whole body will be exhausted. The existence time of the book of illusion depends on the remaining magic power, usually between half a quarter of an hour to an hour.
Obviously, Shujuan is a natural teacher. If education is to be popularized in the future, she can completely dominate the whole field. Hmm... As for now, Roland thought about it. She doesn't need to practice her abilities, so she might as well keep them by her side first. When I have time, I can write some elementary textbooks on mathematics and physics to pass on to her. When the time is right, she will be able to shine in the education field. (To be continued.)