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[Assistant] The reconstruction of the post-war order should be as focus of attention.


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[Assistant] Fortunately, Willowtown was not a large-scale town.


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[Assistant] He did not need to set a fully functional secondary city hall as the one in the Longsong area, but only to set up offices for each department correspondingly.


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[Assistant] Nowadays, the border area could offer a batch of fundamental management staff, so it would not be hard to add Willow Town to the political system of the city of Neverwinter.


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[Assistant] As for Fallen Dragon Ridge, he would hand it over to Countess Spear for management.


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[Assistant] After the fall of Timothy, Spira had sworn allegiance to Roland and agreed to accept the overall management model of Western Region.


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[Assistant] In order to help her take over the city and cleaning up the rebel nobility, Roland believed it was necessary to garrison the First Army there.


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[Assistant] In the future, whether to further annex the southern territory or to conquer Ironsand City, Fallen Dragon Ridge was the key traffic artery.


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[Assistant] So, the other purpose of the garrison was to prevent accidents. No matter what, Roland had to take hold of the city.


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[Assistant] In this way, there won't be many left in the First Army. After knowing the plan, Iron Axe said, frowning.


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[Assistant] Five hundred of them are guarding King City. One thousand will be dispatched to Willow Town and Fallen Dragon Ridge. And the number of soldiers I can freely mobilize is no more than one thousand five hundred, most of whom are artillery.


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[Assistant] Given that, City of Neverwinter probably will temporarily lose the ability to launch the attack.


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[Assistant] How is the training for the new soldiers recruited during the months of Demons going?


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[Assistant] Not even close to the regular troops, Iron Axe said while shaking his head. They need to be trained for at least two to three more months. Roland could not help laughing.


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[Assistant] He remembered when he originally set up the militia to resist demonic beasts. It went to the battlefield only after one and a half months training.


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[Assistant] Now with the increasingly comprehensive construction of the army, the criterion of acceptability also greatly increased.


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[Assistant] By then the garrison could be replaced by those new recruits, and it'll be a sort of training for them to fight against the guards of the noble.


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[Assistant] Roland said in a leisure tone, when the emissary delegation for recruiting refugees returns, the population of city of Neverwinter will reach another peak. We can continue to expand our army then.


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[Assistant] Seizing King's City was far from an end, and seizing Fallen Dragon was only a start.


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[Assistant] If everything went well, he hoped to annex the whole southernmost ridge before the arrival of the Months of Demons this year.


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[Assistant] If he could get a stable supply of black water, he might be able to lead the industries of City of Neverwinter to a new stage.


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[Assistant] Soon after Iron Axe left, Nightingale quietly appeared in front of Roland. If he wants to see you.


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[Assistant] Looking at the witch from Bloodfang Association slowly walking into the office, Roland could feel some changes.


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[Assistant] Her steps were not as firm as the time when she first arrived here. Her maroon long hair was a little messy, which showed that she apparently did not care to take care of it.


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[Assistant] She did not look as vigilant and proud as before. Instead, she looked rather confused and at a loss.


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[Assistant] At this moment, she looked more like a girl at her real age.


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[Assistant] Ify bowed first, and then after a long silence, she opened her mouth. Your majesty, what's the weapon that Maggie used? Roland had expected that she would ask about it.


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[Assistant] He nodded at Nightingale, and then Nightingale took the revolver out of her waist and put it on the table. What she used was a gun.


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[Assistant] It kills enemies with projectiles fueled by gunpowder.


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[Assistant] He skillfully removed the cartridge and poured out the bullets.


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[Assistant] The projectiles used to shoot at you were modified in a particular way. Otherwise you would have been killed on spot.


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[Assistant] Iffy slips moved as if she wanted to say something, but yet she swallowed her words in the end.


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[Assistant] Roland picked up a bullet and raised it in front of everybody. Do you see it?


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[Assistant] It is not much bigger than a finger, but yet it requires an extremely complicated procedure to manufacture it.


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[Assistant] She looked hesitated, but could not utter a word in the end. Roland did not give her too much time to think.


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[Assistant] He continued, maybe they cannot compete with you in terms of abilities but that doesn't prove anything.


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[Assistant] Although a commoner can't knock down a fierce beast with his bare hands, it's the human beings that rule the world, not the beasts.


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[Assistant] I prefer to call the non-combat witches as assistant witches.


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[Assistant] In a sense, assistant witches are greater than combat witches.


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[Assistant] But the weapons you invented can play a more powerful role in the hands of the combat witches, if he said in a low voice.


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[Assistant] The difference isn't very obvious, at least not obvious enough to change the outcome of a war. Roland shook his head.


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[Assistant] Imagine this. While faced with ten ordinary soldiers armed with such weapon, what's the odd for you to win?


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[Assistant] In my territory, they can produce seven to eight such guns every day. But how many combat witches are there? Moreover, owning the weapons alone isn't enough. We also need to maintain them.


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[Assistant] To this end, we need a massive production and logistics team in which assistant witches play irreplaceable roles. He reassembled the gun and returned it to Nightingale. I know that it's hard for you to understand the fact instantly.


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[Assistant] But the reason human beings are greater than the beasts is that human beings can use their wisdom to create power that the world has never had.


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[Assistant] To this end, magic power is undoubtedly the best tool, and yet you're wasting this talent. He paused for a moment.


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[Assistant] Right, the 1st Army Reserve will have a maneuver using loaded rifles this afternoon.


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[Assistant] I suggest you watch it so that you can use your own eyes to observe what the real power is. The time has changed, iffy.


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[Assistant] By the time she returned to the castle, the sky had turned completely dark.


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[Assistant] Pushing the door open she was surprised to find Wendy waiting for her in the living room. Why did you work till so late again?


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[Assistant] Wendy asked, frowning, but in her tone, there was not the slightest meaning of blame. Only a little bit of concern.


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[Assistant] I hope you can come back earlier next time so that we can at least have dinner together.


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[Assistant] Sorry, I lost track of time, Agatha said as she took off her coat and hung it by the door.


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[Assistant] My mind was all on producing the last batch of nitrogen, so I didn't notice the sky already turned dark when I left work.


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[Assistant] You should blame the Lord, turning on the lights in the chemical plant, making it as bright as daytime. I brought you dinner, said Wendy as she sighed helplessly. It's on the table. It's still hot. So hurry. Thank you, Agatha said, feeling touched.


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[Assistant] Wendy is the most respected witch in the Witch Cooperation Association and is deeply trusted by the Lord.


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[Assistant] If she were in tequila, she would have been at least an executive officer under the three chiefs.


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[Assistant] It's absolutely impossible in the Union for such a person to bring me dinner. You're welcome. Wendy patted her on the shoulder.


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[Assistant] If you feel tired, don't hesitate to ask Echo to sing a hot spring song for you. Don't forget you're also a member of the Witch Union. The Witch Union.


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[Assistant] After the door was closed, Agatha kept still for a moment and then went to the table and opened the metal insulated box.


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[Assistant] The box contained three dishes and one soup, a fragrant barbecue steak, fried mushrooms, sliced bread, and egg soup.


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[Assistant] To her surprise, in a corner of the box was stuffed a small dish of honey. She could not help but swallow her saliva. Even Wendy noticed that.


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[Assistant] During their decades of fighting against the demons in Tequila, all kinds of materials became more and more scarce. Naturally, that included food.


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[Assistant] Although Agatha was a relatively high rank, her daily meals consisted mainly of grains and fruits planted by assistant witches.


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[Assistant] Of course, she could eat meat, but its supply was not very stable.


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[Assistant] Things like spices, sugar, and honey were out of the question. The first two were a luxury exclusive to the high level federation officials. As for honey, witches who were able to keep bees were all sent to the battlefield.


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[Assistant] This was because the federation would not waste them on producing such unessential sweet stuff.


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[Assistant] In fact, she was very fond of eating sweet stuff, especially honey.


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[Assistant] During the barbecue feast, when most people would choose pepper powder and salt as a seasoning, she just quietly brushed a whole jar of honey. She did not expect that Wendy had noticed that.


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[Assistant] She suddenly felt something strange happening in her heart because she could not feel coldness. She was not very sensitive to warmth either.


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[Assistant] Also, she had rarely used hot water while bathing because she did not want to bother Anna.


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[Assistant] Considering her own identity and origin, Agatha asked Roland to arrange a separate room for herself, just as her residence on the top floor of the test tower. But now, she felt a little cold in the room. Perhaps living with others was not a bad idea.


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[Assistant] Agatha took out the honey, evenly smeared it on the bread, and slowly put it into her mouth.


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[Assistant] At that moment, she genuinely felt the warmth brought on by the fragrance and sweetness of the food.


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[Assistant] After dinner, she planned to read elementary chemistry for a while before sleeping.


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[Assistant] The knowledge within might not be able to help her to further promote, but at least it could save her from feeling embarrassed in front of the common people.


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[Assistant] Recently, a batch of strangers came to the chemical plant.


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[Assistant] Paper told her that they were all from the alchemist workshop of the King's City.


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[Assistant] Every day, Agatha could see them walking between the laboratory and the chemical plant, sometimes led by Kyle Cici, and other times by Kyle's student, Chavez.


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[Assistant] But, whenever Agatha saw them, their faces had an expression of disbelief. One could stuff an egg into any of their mouths, as if that was the only expression they could show.


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[Assistant] Besides, several of them were excessively curious and seemed to take her as a famous alchemist.


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[Assistant] Whenever they got a chance, they would pose questions to her.


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[Assistant] In the beginning, the questions were extremely simple but gradually became somewhat difficult to cope with.


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[Assistant] In order to maintain the dignity of the senior witches and the honor of the quest society, Agatha decided to keep her image in their eyes.


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[Assistant] After spending those days with the commoners, she once again confirmed that what the union did was wrong.


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[Assistant] Roland has proven the wisdom of the noble, and the wisdom of these ordinary people is no less than that of the witches.


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[Assistant] It only took these ordinary people a few days to master the operation of the nitrogen equipment, while at the same time understanding the process of extracting nitrogen.


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[Assistant] In the beginning, they were arguing about the number of elements in the air, but now they were already discussing the composition of synthetic ammonia.


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[Assistant] Even a few white-haired old men, while smiling shyly, consulted with Paper, who was greatly startled. Obviously, they're rapidly learning everything around them.


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[Assistant] At this thought, Agatha felt overwhelmed with emotions.


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[Assistant] The witches are neither the fortunate chosen by the deities nor the unfortunate abandoned by the deities.


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[Assistant] Essentially, they're no different from the common people, which is a certainty of the destiny.


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[Assistant] In this battle of divine will, all should bear their corresponding destinies, and the witches are only a small cluster of people. Perhaps this is the original intention of the deities.


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[Assistant] With any part missing, human beings can't win in this battle of destiny. Suddenly there came a knock on the door. Come in Agatha said and turned around. The door isn't locked.


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[Assistant] Then, a tall, blonde, unhooded woman came in, but Agatha felt this woman was always shrouded under a shadow. It was Nightingale. Anything you want? Agatha asked her. His Majesty Roland wants to see you.


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[Assistant] Do you think they're as fragile as human beings who throw away their helmets and flee after thousands of them are killed? You'll ruin the city and the good situation here. Huh. Roland looked astonished. What are you talking about? Aren't you planning to fight against the demons? He looked at Nightingale and chuckled. No, that's not my plan. I don't want to destroy their camp. I only want to catch a few living demons.


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[Assistant] The newly arrived witches are perfect for that. Roland told her their abilities.


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[Assistant] After if he catches the demons, the cage can be easily carried by the balloon.


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[Assistant] Of course, I'll prepare some shackles, so it's not a big problem to tame them either.


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[Assistant] Until that moment, Hagatha had fully understood what Roland was up to.


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[Assistant] In general, a can of red mist can last for about a day.


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[Assistant] Demons will decide the number of Mist Cans to carry based on different tasks.


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[Assistant] For example, to carry out a surveillance or patrol mission, a Demon's Mount will carry three to four cans, which is also its ability limit. Why so? Roland asked curiously.


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[Assistant] After leaving the strange Blackstone pagoda, the mist will gradually lose effectiveness, she explained.


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[Assistant] Otherwise, the Quest Society would have been keeping demons and chaos beasts and mass-producing sigils. The three chiefs of the Union also tried that before.


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[Assistant] Roland asked in great surprise. Could stones wither too?


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[Assistant] Nobody knew exactly what that thing was, but judging from the stone we brought back, withered was the proper word to describe it.


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[Assistant] Its once smooth surface became rough and dark. A lot of stone chips fell off when it was rubbed.


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[Assistant] If we can bring back a demon, can you produce the sigil of magic stones?


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[Assistant] Ah, anyway, you don't have the related magic stones to produce them. These aren't the problem.


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[Assistant] Roland hesitated and then asked in a low voice, the problem is, what if the entrapment mission draws too many demons? Agatha could not help but laugh. You looked very confident. I thought you never worried about it.


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[Assistant] Ahem, I just want to be absolutely certain about everything.


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[Assistant] Agatha then said with a relaxing tone, just take Miss Anna and me with them. You and... Anna?


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[Assistant] You know, the Union, whose power covered the entire Fertile Plains, had just over 100 senior witches. Not more than 40 of them were combat witches.


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[Assistant] They held high positions in the Union and were the backbones of the Blessed Army.


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[Assistant] Even if we run into the lord of hell, Miss Anna can activate the sigil of gods will twice. Ah, I almost forgot about it.


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[Assistant] Roland suddenly understood, so he said, thank you for the suggestion. You're welcome. Defeating demons is my lifetime aspiration. Please don't let me down, your majesty. When Agatha was about to leave, Roland stopped her. Well, there is another thing I don't understand. What's it? Why did you resolutely oppose me attacking Devil's Town? Roland raised his eyebrows. Your previous attitude was very different from now.


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[Assistant] While she walked through the corridor leading to the witch house, Agatha could feel the cool breeze gently blowing on her face, which gradually cooled her mood.


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[Assistant] Looking at the numerous stars in the sky, she suddenly remembered what Wendy said.


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[Assistant] One day, he'll become the king of Grey Castle and lead us to defeat all our enemies. This is what I believe.


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[Assistant] When looking at Wendy's convinced expression, Hagatha felt both envious and slightly sad.


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[Assistant] Her mind was full of the memories of guns and cannons firing and roaring, hundreds of soldiers, neatly arranged in rows, aimed at the targets in front of them and pulled the trigger.


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[Assistant] She could see nothing but thick white smoke, and even if she could feel the bullets with her magic power, she did not have enough time to trap them with her cage. His majesty didn't lie.


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[Assistant] The metal bullets are much more powerful than the special bullets Maggie used when she fought with me.


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[Assistant] Its attack range is several times of the guns, and one even needs a telescope to observe its shooting results.


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[Assistant] Moreover, the head of the guards said that's only the old-fashioned field artillery, and a weapon called 152mm Wangsong cannon is the real trump card of the artillery troop.


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[Assistant] various sounds of explosion echoed in her head, which led to one thought. Heidi Morgan lied to us. Ify murmured,


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[Assistant] Maybe Heidi Morgan doesn't even know such a power is possible. Soft feathers look complex.


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[Assistant] Apparently, she was also shocked by the army training scenes she saw in the afternoon. What should we do next? Ify did not answer.


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[Assistant] Looking back at the past few years, she found her abilities and growth experience which she was once proud of now looked more like a joke.


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[Assistant] Except for Annie, there was nothing else worthy of cherishing in her memory. After quite a while, she raised her head. I don't want to go back to the blood thing association.


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[Assistant] Soft feathers nodded with an almost unperceivable movement. Me neither. And she was shocked. Are you crying?


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[Assistant] If he then tasted something salty flowing into her mouth.


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[Assistant] Wiping her face, something wet reached her fingertips. I don't know. It had been a long time since she tasted tears. Beasts never cry. Even if they do, they don't do it for themselves.


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[Assistant] If only Annie and I had run into the witch union from the very beginning.


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[Assistant] Chapter 541 The Mists of Bloodfang Association


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[Assistant] Two days later, Roland met Ify in his office again. Her complexion was much better now.


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[Assistant] In her eyes, they seem to have more complex emotions, which made her look more fresh and alive, more human.


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[Assistant] Heidi Morgan wants to see you, but she's not able to come over, so she asked Tilly Wimbledon to send us here.


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[Assistant] Ify bowed to Roland, and her opening remarks surprised Roland slightly. Lady Heidi doesn't like her highness, Tilly.


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[Assistant] She believes that combat witches are the real core of Sleeping Island, so the Bloodfang Association shouldn't just be treated as an ordinary witch organization.


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[Assistant] She wants to make a breakthrough with your help, and she promises to offer more than what Tilly offers. Of course. I know your highness doesn't need them.


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[Assistant] In the end, Roland could not help but ask, does Tilly know about all of this? I don't know. If he shook her head.


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[Assistant] Lady Heidi forbids us from revealing the past of the Bloodfang Association and seldom talks with Her Highness. How about the other witch organizations in Sleeping Island?


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[Assistant] They're closer to the witches from the Kingdom of Grey Castle, especially after the building of the Sleeping Spell.


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[Assistant] Although some combat witches agree with Lady Heidi secretly, most of them don't want to confront Ashes.


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[Assistant] It turns out the pressure on Tilly's shoulders is not much lesser than mine. Roland felt impressed.


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[Assistant] Different from the situation that I'm the perfectly justified ruler of the western region, witches of Sleeping Island are more like an aloose organization based on covenants.


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[Assistant] Although Tilly is the organizer, she actually doesn't have the authority over those small groups who came to join her.


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[Assistant] Especially because of this, it showed Tilly's merits were superior to others, uniting most of the assistant witches, and positively establishing connections with the secular rulers of other islands.


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[Assistant] In particular, the invention of the sleeping spell gave her a chance to manage all the other witches.


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[Assistant] After all, assistant witches are equally important should not be just a slogan.


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[Assistant] The Witches Bounty Guild just offered those assistant witches with various odd abilities an excellent stage to present themselves.


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[Assistant] After all, no powerful combat which would like to spend her days chewing salted fish.


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[Assistant] Especially when the assistant witches had their status promoted, they would naturally favor Tilly.


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[Assistant] When the time came, as the leader of the guild, Tilly would undoubtedly gain a great power of speech.


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[Assistant] This was probably why Heidi Morgan could not wait any longer.


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[Assistant] In addition, the Bloodfang Association was full of doubtful points.


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[Assistant] As the daughter of Archduke Morgan, how could Heidi not be able to afford a group of non-combat witches?


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[Assistant] It was only fair to say that she did not intend to take those useless people in from the very beginning.


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[Assistant] Different from the fact that Witches from the Witch Cooperation Association wanted to be united to help each other. All that she wanted was a team which could fight for her benefits.


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[Assistant] Plus her obsession towards the kingdom of Wolfheart. All of these made Roland vigilant against her.


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[Assistant] He should probably write a secret letter to Tilly, telling her to carefully watch out the moves of the Bloodfang Association.


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[Assistant] Almost at the same time, a pair of hands covered Roland's eyes from behind.


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[Assistant] But Nightingale seemed to have forgotten that she was in the mist and that her transparent fingers could not block Roland's vision. Ify lowered her rope and turned her back to Roland. Roland could not help but gasp.


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[Assistant] He could see. On Ify's back there were all sorts of whip scars.


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[Assistant] The restored wounds looked like numerous earthworms lying crisscross on her back, forming a sharp contrast with the surrounding delicate skin.


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[Assistant] As the wounds had been healed, even Nana could not do anything to them with her healing ability. Those scars remained as they were.


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[Assistant] When Ife talked about the rigorous fighting trainings in the Bloodfang Association, she only used very brief words.


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[Assistant] Now when Roland thought back, he could vaguely smell the bloody atmosphere in her words. Put on your clothes, he said with a low voice. But, your majesty.


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[Assistant] Nightingale had shown herself and pulled up iffy's rope to the shoulders.


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[Assistant] If you want to join the witch union, then don't bring the Bloodfang Association's ways of handling things here. Roland suddenly felt a suppression in his chest. You can apply to Wendy.


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[Assistant] After watching her leave, Roland stood up, walked to the French window, and let out a deep breath.


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[Assistant] Till now, his team for arresting demons was fully assembled and yet he could not feel relaxed.


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[Assistant] Actually, she's very lucky. Nightingale walked to him and said, Can that be called lucky? Compared with her friend Annie, at least she survived.


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[Assistant] If the Bloodfang Association is really the only witch organization survived in the Kingdom of Wolfheart, then its members will end tragically in case they get caught by the Church or the nobility.


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[Assistant] That's also why the member witches yearn so much for the Holy Mountain. A doubt suddenly emerged in Roland's heart.


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[Assistant] Were those non-combat witches really sent to other witch organizations by Heidi Morgan?


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[Assistant] To avoid the exposure of their whereabouts the witches seldom contacted one another and their gathering places changed frequently. How did Heidi gather such information?


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[Assistant] After all, the foothold of an organization is a matter of life and death.


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[Assistant] If not to particularly trusted persons, the organization leader probably won't tell other people of their gathering sites easily.


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[Assistant] Even if Heidi knew all that, sending the witches to other organizations was highly risky of an exposure.


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[Assistant] Would the other organizations willingly accept whatever she threw at them? The more he thought about it, the more he found it weird. But Nightingale confirmed that if he was not lying...


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[Assistant] Obviously, the problem lay within the founders of the Bloodfang Association. In conclusion, Heidi seemed more dangerous now.


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[Assistant] Roland realized that he should convey the information to Tilly as soon as possible so that she could carry out an investigation and make some early preparations.


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[Assistant] The daughter of Archduke Morgan was most likely not loyal to witches.


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[Assistant] No, the ambassador sent out by Calvin Kant, the Duke of the Northern Region. Great. Make sure that you don't make the same mistake for the third time.


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[Assistant] Edith stood up, stretched her stiff limbs, and walked out of the cabin. Call all the members of the emissary delegation. Let's go to the inner city. This was a little trick Edith liked to play.


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[Assistant] She liked to secretly observe the person she was about to negotiate with and then only revealed herself after having a rough understanding of what kind of person the other party was.


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[Assistant] In doing so, she could take precautions beforehand and impress the other.


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[Assistant] If the one she negotiated with was male, he would most likely be interested in her.


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[Assistant] She never tried to hide her gender. On the contrary, she used it as a social advantage.


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[Assistant] Since she was called the pearl of the northern region, she certainly needed to make good use of it. How about the heads then?


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[Assistant] Leave them on the boat unless you want to hold them in your bedroom. She twitched her mouth. They have gone rotten.


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[Assistant] Walking off the trestle Edith noticed that there were many boats on the canal.


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[Assistant] Many people were at the dock, most of whom carried big luggage.


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[Assistant] Judging from their clothing, they look neither like slaves, nor businessmen.


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[Assistant] Since Roland Wimbledon has taken over this city, he must have issued some new policies to declare his authority.


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[Assistant] Of course you can pay a few gold royals for the rats to gather the information, but I personally prefer first-hand information. Is, is that so?


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[Assistant] You need to observe more, think more, my dear ambassador. She said, this is a rare opportunity.


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[Assistant] On the other side of the city gate, the streets were filled with more pedestrians. There were booths on both sides of the road. He could hear constant cries from vendors.


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[Assistant] If it were in the city of Evernight, one could have never seen such a crowd except for a holiday or a celebration.


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[Assistant] All of a sudden, a speaker on the street caught her attention. Hold on for awhile.


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[Assistant] Edith ordered the troop to stop and join the crowd with coal. Can you saw wood? Can you lay bricks? Can you take care of cattle and sheep?


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[Assistant] As long as you specialize in something, you're the talents His Majesty is looking for. Go to Western Region.


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[Assistant] Pacing forward a little bit, she saw another group of people. Witches are innocent.


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[Assistant] This is the repentance the high priest wrote down right before his execution, another speaker said, waving the document in his hand.


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[Assistant] They may be your close relatives, your daughter, your sister.


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[Assistant] If you're still afraid of them, send them to the city of Neverwinter. They'll be well taken care of. If you hate to part with them, you can go with them.


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[Assistant] If this is Roland Wimbledon's new policy, the way he promotes it's quite melodramatic. Isn't he afraid to provoke the church to a full revenge?


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[Assistant] That'll be nothing like the fight among nobles, but a deadly war against the heresies.


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[Assistant] No idea whether it's a blessing or a curse to serve such a king.


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[Assistant] It took her an hour to walk through the street leading to the inner city.


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[Assistant] She found actually the street was full of such speakers who basically repeatedly told whatever his majesty had done after conquering the King's city.


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[Assistant] His Majesty left the King's city a week ago? Without even holding an inauguration ceremony? That's what the receptionist said. The attendant reported.


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[Assistant] At first his majesty left a man named Berav Mons, his chief minister, behind to take care of daily affairs. But Berav Mons left the king's city yesterday too.


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[Assistant] Apart from the servants, there's nobody else in the palace.


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[Assistant] She had been traveling non-stop all the way, yet still was too late to catch up with Roland.


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[Assistant] Roland was really planning to move the capital, leave this splendid city behind, and rebuild a new capital city in western region. What's exactly in his head?


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[Assistant] To build a city on such a scale as the King's City would take at least 30 to 40 years. What should we do?


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[Assistant] Looking at the stunned members of the emissary delegation, Cole asked quietly.


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[Assistant] Edith turned her head and found her collar also smelled weird. Finally, she sighed. Let's find a hotel for the night. We'll set off tomorrow morning.


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[Assistant] After all, half a year ago a demonic plague struck the city, which was exactly caused by the bodies distributed by the church.


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[Assistant] Anyway to deal with them, burning is the safest way. The captain has been arrested by the guards for interrogation. Oh, do you know him?


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[Assistant] Edith was startled, not knowing what face she should put on.


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[Assistant] I guess this trip of loyalty won't go as smoothly as I imagined.


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[Assistant] He looked vigorous and radiant and even his chest had risen considerably.


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[Assistant] His footsteps were powerful and conveyed a strong sense of confidence. He was not how a 50 year old minister typically looked.


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[Assistant] It seemed that the days he spent in the king's city was highly satisfactory. If I had known it, I would have called you back a little later. Roland joked. No, your majesty.


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[Assistant] With my students and the first army around, the new assigned nobles aren't able to create trouble even if they intend to, the director replied smugly.


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[Assistant] I've deliberately given them more space to fight for money and power among themselves.


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[Assistant] As long as they don't disrupt the normal livelihoods of the citizens, that is acceptable.


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[Assistant] While they might not be the wheeliest of foxes, they were definitely thick-skinned and vicious enough.


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[Assistant] It could be said that it was only now that Barov revealed the true extent of his talents.


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[Assistant] As the king, Rowland could stay out of dabbling in dirty political tricks himself.


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[Assistant] As long as he had the personnel, law, and military power in his grip, nobody would dare to covet his authority.


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[Assistant] Your majesty, may I ask where have you sent treasurer Lauren Moore? Barov revealed a little displeasure as he sighed.


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[Assistant] The ceremonial officer told me that you didn't execute him.


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[Assistant] He siphoned off some of the relief rations distributed to the people, colluded with the former prime minister and was involved in the exploitation of refugees. Roland shrugged.


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[Assistant] I was just afraid that the lower nobles wouldn't be able to handle him. Barov laughed and shook his head. As my mentor, he bullied me for a long time.


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[Assistant] I regret that I didn't have the opportunity to see him begging for mercy. Roland joined the laughter.


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[Assistant] In other cities, there's no chance that a project would require 3,000 people at the same time.


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[Assistant] The good news is, not every one of these three thousand people needs to be literate.


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[Assistant] I'll only require more than 200 of them to have completed primary education. What do you want to build?


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[Assistant] Roland placed the records which were prepared long ago in front of the director. A coke plant, a steel plant, and a forge. Is the steel produced by Miss Anna not enough? Barov asked. The problem is that it's too inefficient. Roland sighed.


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[Assistant] Her magic power should be used for more sophisticated manufacturing, rather than wasted on preparing the materials for steam engines.


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[Assistant] I hope that I can de-wich the basic industrial productions this year.


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[Assistant] At present, the industries of Neverwinter had reached a turning point.


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[Assistant] If a breakthrough is not found, it would be hard to progress.


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[Assistant] This was because the source power machines heavily depended on Anna's materials, and therefore the scale of production could not be expanded.


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[Assistant] In fact, the steam engines could be produced without using such a high grade of steel.


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[Assistant] The first generation of steam engines was made out of iron only.


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[Assistant] Now, the preconditions for a breakthrough had been fully satisfied.


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[Assistant] The coal mine was able to handle all of the coking processes. Coke was one of the primary ingredients of large-scale steelmaking.


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[Assistant] The dozen or so earth blast furnaces in the furnace area also supplied an abundant amount of iron ingots.


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[Assistant] Steel could be smelted using a simple converter, while the steam hammers in the forge could be used to create components that the other factories could directly process.


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[Assistant] If these procedures could be made into a cycle, Anna would be completely liberated from her duties, and only normal people would be needed throughout the production process.


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[Assistant] After Roland outlined the important tasks of the three projects, Barov quickly understood the meaning of dewich. I understand, your majesty. However, are these things really possible? He appeared unconvinced.


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[Assistant] Can we really obtain enough steel without relying on the demons? Ahem, which is powers?


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[Assistant] You may not have known that in other cities. It's common for a piece of forged steel to cost 20 times the price of a piece of pig iron.


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[Assistant] In this era, steel was forged by the blacksmith's hammer.


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[Assistant] The repeated hammering of the iron ingots caused excess carbon and other impurities to be oxidized until steel was formed.


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[Assistant] Of course, the efficiency of this process was unspeakably low, and a lot of raw materials would be wasted.


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[Assistant] This explained why a full set of body armor that was completely made of steel was the lifelong desire of many knights.


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[Assistant] It could even be passed down from generation to generation as a family treasure.


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[Assistant] From a certain perspective, the laborious method of producing steel could give one the false perception that the effort put into it made it more exquisite and higher grade.


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[Assistant] Now that city of Neverwinter could mass produce steel, believed by most people to be the witch's work, bear of suspicions were not hard to understand.


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[Assistant] However, to Roland, steel was just iron with a different proportion of carbon. I won't say it's easy.


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[Assistant] Both coking and converter steelmaking require techniques that were discovered by trial and error. However, Roland paused briefly. These projects are definitely achievable.


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[Assistant] When they're completed, there'll be hundreds of chimneys in the industrial area.


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[Assistant] The monthly output of steel will exceed the current annual output


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[Assistant] We'll then have an endless supply of steel to produce bicycles, ships, all kinds of machines, and even houses. Everything that you see will be made of steel.


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[Assistant] It'll be in everyone's homes, and even the common folk will be able to use steel utensils and tools.


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[Assistant] Barov remained speechless for a long time before he finally replied. I'll draw up a recruitment plan and financial allocation plan for you to review as quickly as possible.


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[Assistant] Okay, you'll be in charge of the preparatory work for this. Roll and set an encouragement.


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[Assistant] As Barov walked toward the office door, he abruptly turned back and bowed down at Roland.


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[Assistant] It'll be my pleasure and honor to see a world like that, Your Majesty.


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[Assistant] At these times, Nightingale would leave voluntarily to give the two of them privacy.


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[Assistant] Anna was wearing a light blue one piece dress, underneath which her knee length black stockings were visible, and her feet were covered in a pair of moccasins. All these made her appear particularly lively.


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[Assistant] These modern-styled items of clothing were tailored under the guidance of Roland during his spare time using flow-coated fabrics that were provided by Saraya.


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[Assistant] They were extremely light, easy to wear, and highly durable.


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[Assistant] They were thus perfectly suitable for Anna to wear when she was crafting apparatus.


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[Assistant] Whenever Roland looked into her sparkling eyes, he would feel a surge of happiness and smile uncontrollably.


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[Assistant] Of course, he no longer needed to act as mannerly as he used to. He wrapped his arms around her and sat her on his lap.


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[Assistant] Her collarbone could be seen protruding along her fair neck.


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[Assistant] Roland could not resist reaching his hand out to stroke her collarbone. It tickled her such that she began to laugh shyly. Your majesty, be proper. Heehee, alright.


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[Assistant] Whenever Anna was studying something, her expression would turn completely solemn.


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[Assistant] In order to counteract this feeling, he thought of the naughty things he would do to her at night. I've more or less understood everything.


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[Assistant] After Anna looked through the last of the blueprints, she thought for a moment and nodded.


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[Assistant] It's also powered by steam, except that the piston is replaced by windmill blades, and therefore saves energy on the reciprocating motion of the connecting rods. Am I right? You're absolutely right.


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[Assistant] Roland discarded his wild thoughts and put on a serious face. It's called the Steam Turbine.


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[Assistant] While it's also powered by high-pressure steam, its efficiency is much higher than the steam engine.


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[Assistant] This was the revolutionary product which Roland had conceived for a long time.


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[Assistant] They could be used to power ships and provide electricity, especially the latter. It could be foreseen that after Fallen Dragon Ridge was captured, Countess Spear would have to spend a long time sorting out government affairs.


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[Assistant] It would not be wise to rely solely on Mystery Moon's magic power to provide night lighting for the industry area, not to mention the residential area's electricity supply.


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[Assistant] Roland certainly did not want to admit that this was a planning failure caused by his lack of experience.


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[Assistant] In order to make up this mistake, he had to think of an alternative means of producing electricity.


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[Assistant] Due to the natural flaws of the circulation principle, the electricity generated by steam engines was inconsistent.


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[Assistant] Furthermore, Roland had weak knowledge of voltage regulation.


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[Assistant] It was thus a more suitable choice to use steam turbines, which had more stable output power and higher thermal efficiency. What do I have to do first? Anna asked. Remember what you did for the gunboat? Roland showed her a blueprint of a blade. You'll need to build an operable model of this. It only needs to be about one meter in length. The main problem you have to solve is the angle of the blade.


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[Assistant] It has to allow high pressure steam to flow smoothly through every state or grill.


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[Assistant] If you can do this, more than half of the work would be done.


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[Assistant] Yet, how could a usable end product be built without detailed data? The only way was repeated trial and error.


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[Assistant] As for the core of the turbine, Roland was not worried about the difficulty of altering the impeller because the cutting precision of black fire was much higher than any modern machining tool.


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[Assistant] He also did not worry about the strength of the materials. After all, impellers usually operated at a temperature of 500 to 600 degrees Celsius and the alloy steel discovered by Lucio was more than competent for this task.


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[Assistant] The key problem was the angular coordination between the stator cascade and the impeller.


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[Assistant] The former was like a fixed barrier that could alter the angular direction of the passage of steam so as to prevent the steam from impacting with the impeller all at the same time.


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[Assistant] It also prevented directional disorder in the production of opposite forces. In essence, it was like a comb for airflow disorder.


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[Assistant] If the model that Anna built was operable, Roland would mass produce it, and then there would be no more difficulties.


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[Assistant] After the processing methods and the quality of materials were improved, the industrial results would be inevitably substantial. I understand.


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[Assistant] Anna's eyes gleamed, as though signaling that she was ready to begin work. No hurry. Roland held her hand tightly.


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[Assistant] You should have heard from Wendy that I've decided to launch an attack to capture the demons. Yes, Anna replied. Will you be going along? Roland shook his head calmly. That's good. Anna rested her head on his shoulder.


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[Assistant] The last time, I was almost frightened to death when I saw you injured. Really?


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[Assistant] But I've heard from Nightingale that you were the calmest person around.


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[Assistant] If it wasn't for your decisive plan, I might truly have.


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[Assistant] He then continued, anyway, what I wanna say is that you have to take good care of yourself, understand?


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[Assistant] While looking towards the direction of the snow mountains, he explained to Nightingale the hunting plan that he had conceived.


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[Assistant] Before setting out, you all will have to rehearse a few times to familiarize with the entire hunting procedure, as well as understand your own and one another's tasks.


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[Assistant] Moreover, this plan is only effective if you're facing a small number of demons. It'll have to be adjusted based on the situation. He paused briefly before continuing.


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[Assistant] If you ever run into the worst kind of situation, and I mean the most hopeless and irredeemable situation, you must bring Anna back no matter what. Nightingale did not say anything.


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[Assistant] Instead, she waited until Roland turned his head back to look at her, before replying with a disconcerting look on her face. Is this the real reason why you aren't going? Roland could not deny the truth.


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[Assistant] Upon reaching the former test site, Ify found that many witches were already gathered there.


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[Assistant] Among them were Maggie and her perpetual companion, a golden-haired young girl. She seems to be called Lightning. Ify thought.


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[Assistant] When the young girl saw Ify, she viciously shook her fist and grimaced, before tugging Maggie to a far distance away.


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[Assistant] She was always careful and vigilant, and always walked in front to protect me.


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[Assistant] It's clearly only by chance that the two of US sought refuge together. Perhaps, this is what the Union calls... Sisters. Since everyone's here, I'll begin to explain the mission.


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[Assistant] It's codenamed Melting Point and Miss Agatha will be the commander.


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[Assistant] Roland proclaimed before he walked into the middle of the audience.


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[Assistant] Of course, many of you already know the details of the mission.


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[Assistant] However, for the sake of the newcomers, I'll explain everything all over again. Do the newcomers refer to me? Ify immediately gathered her focus.


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[Assistant] No matter what, this is the first mission assigned by the new Lord.


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[Assistant] Since he has asked me to take part, it means that there's some battle involved.


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[Assistant] This will be a good opportunity to demonstrate the value of my abilities.


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[Assistant] In order to understand the enemy's strength and hasten the research of the Sigil of Magic Stones, you all will be heading to Devil's Town behind the snow mountains.


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[Assistant] You'll draw the demons out to fight and use ambush to capture them alive.


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[Assistant] After Roland finished his explanation, Ify was unable to collect her wits for a long time. Surely there's nothing wrong with my ears. God, is he serious?


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[Assistant] Were these demons really responsible for destroying the witch's empire that ruled over the entire mainland?


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[Assistant] These nasty enemies are hiding somewhere not far from the western region? How is any of this possible?


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[Assistant] She maintained a stiff face as she glanced over at the other witches.


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[Assistant] However, she realized that there was not a hint of surprise on any of their faces. It was apparent that all of them knew of these things beforehand.


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[Assistant] Now, Agatha will talk about the things you'll need to pay attention to during the mission, as well as brief you on the tactical arrangement. Agatha nodded and stepped forth.


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[Assistant] According to our intelligence, there's a Vigilanite Demon in the Demon's Camp. This is crucial to our plan to lure the Demons out. Anyone who sees it will be seen back by it.


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[Assistant] If our position is a judge to be far away, the first group of enemies to be expected will be the flying devil beasts.


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[Assistant] There aren't many of these demons, particularly in such a remote place. The last time we went, there were only two. I don't expect the number to have changed.


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[Assistant] We are disadvantaged in aerial combat, and therefore the best plan is to draw them towards the ground. If so, I'll be able to handle both of them myself.


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[Assistant] However, the mad demons which they may carry on their backs will be left to Miss Ify to handle. Agatha glanced at the latter.


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[Assistant] If you manage to capture them, our mission will be considered a success.


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[Assistant] She seems to be only slightly older than me, but yet it's said that she has lived for over 400 years.


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[Assistant] If he remained in a daze for a while before mumbling incoherently, I, I understand.


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[Assistant] You've never seen demons before, and so it's normal to be doubtful. Agatha seemed to have read her thoughts.


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[Assistant] Wendy has records of the association's encounters with demons. After the rehearsal, you may go and have a look.


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[Assistant] This will save you from being completely stunned when you see them in reality. These words made Ify frown involuntarily. Completely stunned?


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[Assistant] Agatha crouched on the ground and used stones to create a visual diagram.


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[Assistant] When Sylvie notices the enemies chasing, you and Maggie will immediately escort those on the balloon into the forest. I've confirmed this with His Majesty.


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[Assistant] If it's a hydrogen balloon, Wendy will be able to operate it alone.


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[Assistant] Together with Sylvie making eye contact with the Eye Demon, the two of them will be able to escape at the same time.


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[Assistant] As the Devil Beasts approach the balloon, you'll then be responsible to lure them into the forest.


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[Assistant] Once the demons enter the ambush area they'll be trapped. I don't have to tell you what to do next. What if there are more than two devil beasts? A witch with jade green hair asked.


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[Assistant] If there are several of them, the demons will probably split up and hunt.


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[Assistant] What you can do is to keep a few more people in the balloon to conduct aerial surveillance while the rest enter the forest.


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[Assistant] If that's the case, Ana will handle any enemies in the air.


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[Assistant] But remember, the lethal range of the sigil of gods will is limited.


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[Assistant] It's best to activate the sigil only when the devil beasts gather together.


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[Assistant] Furthermore, Ana won't be able to use her own abilities while activating the sigil.


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[Assistant] During that time, Leaf, you must make sure to protect Anna. How about me? Nightingale questioned. You'll accompany Ify.


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[Assistant] Her ability is only effective within a range of 10 steps, and therefore she's vulnerable to the Demon Spears when in an exposed position.


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[Assistant] The latter immediately felt the aura of the former's magical power.


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[Assistant] It was sharp and cold, as though it was a substance of its own. Don't you be a burden, if he could sense that the former was also a combat witch.


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[Assistant] Not only that, the former had experienced many bloody battles and had a lot of blood on her hands. Agatha clapped her hands in encouragement. We'll start with luring the demons out.


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[Assistant] An hour into the rehearsal, Ify already had a general understanding of the abilities of every witch participating in the mission.


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[Assistant] She was surprised that there were many witches here who could be considered combat witches. Take Leif for example. She hid her in a tree trunk in the forest. She could manipulate the entire forest to do her bidding.


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[Assistant] This type of ability was almost inconceivable and was on a level that completely transcended the usual limits of a witch.


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[Assistant] Or Wendy, who although was only in charge of controlling the balloon, could summon a small hurricane that turned stones and dirt into painful bolts.


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[Assistant] Agatha's Frost could serve both as a shield and a sharp blade.


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[Assistant] She was therefore equally proficient in offense and defense, at least when at close range. Nightingale was even more terrifying.


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[Assistant] Once she entered her mist, she could travel to almost any part of the world she wanted.


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[Assistant] The physical obstructions of the real world did not affect her at all.


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[Assistant] Having experienced the power of this ability, if he could imagine that in a real battle, it made its user invincible.


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[Assistant] By moving without Trace and being impossible to guard against, Nightingale would make all enemies despair quickly. Yet, the most curious talent of all was Ana.


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[Assistant] According to the mission plan, this young woman who looked like she was barely out of her adolescence was the real ace in the team.


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[Assistant] How powerful does her ability have to be to vanquish all of the demons in one go? If he did not have to wait long to know the answer.


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[Assistant] Anna's task was completely separated from everyone else's.


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[Assistant] She only began to practice using the sigil of gods while after everyone else was completely familiar with the entire hunting process.


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[Assistant] She watched as Anna strolled towards the middle of the field carrying an odd-looking sheet of metal in her hands. Anna did not look like a combat witch at all.


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[Assistant] Her calm expression resembled the crystal clear water of a lake.


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[Assistant] From her movements and gestures, it was evident that she had never been in a life and death battle before.


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[Assistant] The sheet of metal she was carrying also puzzled iffy greatly.


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[Assistant] Agatha gestured towards the direction of the misty forest.


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[Assistant] The distance from the field to the edge of the forest is at least 250 meters. How would Anna be able to shoot these things down without flying?


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[Assistant] Unless, she's also able to transcend the usual limits of ability and deliver the effects of her magic power to the sky? Anna nodded at Agatha.


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[Assistant] She raised the sheet of metal and pointed it in the direction of the balloons.


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[Assistant] Shortly, Ify witnessed a scene that she could hardly believe.


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[Assistant] The four gemstones emitted a dazzling light at the same time.


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[Assistant] In a split second, the sheet of metal turned to gold in color.


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[Assistant] Thunderous claps were heard from the clear sky, while rays of light weaved together in the clouds and spattered. It was as if a new sun was being formed in the heavens.


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[Assistant] Her ability can actually manipulate the entire sky.


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[Assistant] Before the crowd could even exclaim in astonishment, a blinding beam of gold light burst out of Anna's hands directly toward the balloons.


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[Assistant] The light rays in the sky were also controlled, and immediately, numerous thunderbolts could be seen following along the trail of the golden light and violently sweeping through the locations of the targets.


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[Assistant] It all seemed like a punishment that only God could have ordained.


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[Assistant] To Ify, it was as though the deafening roars came from right beside her ears, causing her brain to buzz for a long time.


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[Assistant] By the time the light rays disappeared she had yet to recover fully. What kind of amazing ability is this?


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[Assistant] Ify's body continued to quiver uncontrollably as she stared at the empty sky above the forest.


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[Assistant] Even if all of the combat witches of the Bloodfang Association gathered together, they would not be able to handle such a force.


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[Assistant] Did she rely on her own abilities or that sheet of metal to be able to do this?


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[Assistant] In the face of a show of strength like this, it would not make a difference if the enemies were the wild beasts which Heidi Morgan mentioned or just a flock of sheep.


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[Assistant] If he suddenly remembered his majesty Roland's suggestion, is this the power of the senior witches?


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[Assistant] It turned out that it was also the first time that Roland witnessed a complete demonstration of the power of the sigil of God's will.


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[Assistant] The initial light rays seem to leave an invisible trail behind them, allowing the golden thunderbolts that follow behind to take the same path.


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[Assistant] Furthermore, the location of the first thunderbolt strike was situated at the edge of the forest.


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[Assistant] This probably meant that the user of the sigil was able to control it such that it only split apart when near to the enemies.


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[Assistant] In the mist, I could indeed see the frenzied surge of magic power, but... She revealed a puzzled look on her face.


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[Assistant] Its color is different from any magic power that I know or have seen before. What color is it? Black, or should I say, the color of no light. Nightingale frowned.


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[Assistant] They looked like black holes formed by the god stone of retaliation. Roland shuddered.


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[Assistant] How is it possible that the color of the magic power of the gold glittering sigil is black in the misty world?


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[Assistant] There's a relationship between the god stones and magic stones. It seemed as if he was on the verge of an audacious theory.


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[Assistant] After he returned to his office in the castle, he summoned Agatha in.


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[Assistant] How many times did your people research on the sigil of God's will? Not many. I've already told you everything that we found out.


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[Assistant] After all, only our chiefs were able to activate this type of sigil.


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[Assistant] You mentioned before that the sigil was able to penetrate the defenses of the god stone of retaliation, right? Agatha nodded. Not all the time. It depends on the quality of the god stones.


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[Assistant] Have you never observed the characteristics of the sigil of God's will's magic power? Roll and ask softly.


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[Assistant] In the mist, the magical thunderbolts invoked by the sigil are the same color as the god stone. No, we've certainly done this experiment before.


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[Assistant] It was necessary that we recorded the characteristics of the magic power.


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[Assistant] However, during the activation of the sigil, the stone of measuring would lose its monitoring function.


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[Assistant] And because our chiefs could certainly not visit the Quest Society every day, we simply recorded the observed color as gold. Agatha blinked a few times.


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[Assistant] Wait, are you saying that it has the same color as the interference area of the god stone? Indeed, Roland replied unhurriedly.


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[Assistant] This is also why the sigil of gods will cause the stone of measuring to lose its effectiveness.


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[Assistant] It creates a similar interference area as the god stone of retaliation within its range of influence, and therefore the stone of measuring did not have any effect.


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[Assistant] Her observation was obstructed by the dazzling light emitted by the sigil, like shadows being covered by light. Roland quickly opined.


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[Assistant] Whereas in Nightingale's Misty World, only magic power possesses color.


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[Assistant] She can even stare directly at the sun without being affected. This is why you weren't able to make this discovery.


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[Assistant] Observing magic power was a derivative skill of the witches. It was limited by the witch's individual visual level.


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[Assistant] Furthermore, observations done in the day and night would yield different conclusions. Sylvie could fully prove this point.


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[Assistant] With her eye of magic, she could discover magic activity performed several kilometers away. Her detection range was far superior to Nightingale's.


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[Assistant] This was why the Quest Society heavily trusted the results tested by the Stone of Measuring.


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[Assistant] Its accuracy was independent of the person operating it and the environment it was operated in, and thus it provided an overall highly accurate assessment of the magic power involved.


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[Assistant] It was almost as good as being able to observe under Nightingale's mist.


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[Assistant] Therefore, the Quest Society would only accept the conclusion of the observer when the Stone of Measuring was unable to operate.


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[Assistant] The Devils are the second best team and they were really not doing anything and why would they? They have a terrific team. And then the word starts to filter out. The Rangers are trading their young, fast players, their talent, their future, and they're bringing in these grizzled veterans. A lot of Devils players were visibly worried.


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[Assistant] It was clear to everybody they were witnessing something special. I believe to this day it was the greatest playoff series that the NHL has ever seen. Each game was a novella in itself.


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[Assistant] I remember getting a phone call from a friend of mine telling me that there's a guy that wants to spend five thousand dollars a ticket.


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[Assistant] Well, I don't exactly need her. Anyway, she has to take Goblin out to winter on the range.


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[Assistant] Okay, goblin, you can quit your fooling. The way things are going around here, it's about time you and I got to work.


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[Assistant] Well... Go on, go on, tell him, dear. Well, dad, I thought if I made good in school...


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[Assistant] Welcome to Puppy Predictors Super Bowl 51 edition. Here's how it works. We have nine puppies and two bowls of kibble.


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[Assistant] One representing the New England Patriots, the other representing the Atlanta Falcons. Whichever team's bowl gets the most puppies will be crowned the Super Bowl champs. Now, let's meet the puppies.


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[Assistant] Yeah, thank you. Let Gary talk for a second. Okay, Gary, I'll just let you know. No, guys.


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[Assistant] Play it by the rules, okay? No butt sniffing. Be cool, and, uh, I want, uh, no, no, no peeing or wandering. Are you ready for this? You got it?


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[Assistant] You ready to make the call? Here we go. Guys, let's release the puppies!


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[Assistant] You're a dirty dog, Narkey. You're not the only one as is sick. I'm sick of you and the rest of the crowd you blow around with. Well, the best thing you can do is to get them as is ten a penny.


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[Assistant] Him? Why, he's a dirty pig. Him and Sam Grundy's a pair. Sam Grundy? Why?


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[Assistant] Oh, he's always onto me, the fat pig. You've no need to work, Sal. You could have all. You won't.


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[Assistant] I was going to ask you to lend me five quid, but I'm not so sure I want your help now.


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[Assistant] I came to borrow five quid and I don't mind who hears it. I don't want no drives in cars. Will you lend it? I'll pay you back when mill starts at full time again.


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[Assistant] You may as well know that if I could have borrowed it from someone else, I would. And I'll pay it back.


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[Assistant] Yes? It's true, Mother, and I don't care who knows it. And I'll tell thee summatels.


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[Assistant] Them as is working are able to keep themselves, never mind a wife. Look at yourself. And look at our Addy.


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[Assistant] On workers' relief and hasn't even got a bed, he can call his own. Well, can you get out of your job? No, but I can. I've got influence now, but I'm not respected.


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[Assistant] Oh, I'm sorry about this, Dad. Things are different now to what we've been used to. We've got to face things as they are, not as we'd like them to be.


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[Assistant] Well, I found there's no starting fresh in Anki Park, so I'm getting out quickest road.


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[Assistant] That bruise wasn't from a love tap. Where'd he come from? I saw him come from the inferno. I thought he was just another drunk. The inferno, huh?


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[Assistant] I'd hate to disappoint you, madam, but I'd say he ain't very important. Just yokel stuff.


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[Assistant] The globe ought to give me a race for this head. Divine wrath strikes city, Casey. The moving finger writes on having writ spells Cameron, Omar, Kyan, and Casey.


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[Assistant] Fireworks? Stranger, here's a scoop for ol' pencil mark Luke, because I can't print it.


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[Assistant] Over big snow, big ice, big long time get there.


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[Assistant] Just pick. It melted the end right off.


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[Assistant] Looks like you got nothing to lose but a daughter now. Seedy bloke. Should oughta have his hair cut.


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[Assistant] I'll tell Sabra I saw you. She's sort of taking the chill off since, uh, you got the breeze.


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[Assistant] Now, what about it? As mayor of this city, I can't do a thing. I'm afraid the old days are gone, Tom. As I intend to run for governor next term, I...


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[Assistant] Well, instead of what it's supposed to be, he sure is peculiar.


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[Assistant] They want me, and they won't rest until they get me. Ah, nah, don't you worry, doctor. I'll assign a man to guard you day and night. Thank you, Mr. Hart.


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[Assistant] You're only holding up other people. It's been explained to you. That's the position. There's nothing for you. What do you mean? There's no farming.


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[Assistant] I'm very sorry but the means test committee have ruled that there's sufficient money coming into your house for your family to keep you.


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[Assistant] Your father's drawing unemployment benefit and your sister's working. There's no appeal.


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[Assistant] Where's Pete and Louie? Oh, they're in the baggage car. They want to get used to riding in it before Cameron finds that way here.


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[Assistant] There is another person in the party that arrives tomorrow.


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[Assistant] Will you allow me to introduce my sister to you while you are staying at Lambton?


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[Assistant] When we were all dancing together at netherfield.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so I am currently in Texas, but I spent many years in the Bay Area and I was really lucky to work with Manish Agrawala at Stanford and Bjorn Hartman, uhm, over at Berkeley. And so I'm happy to be back even if it's virtually this time. Uhm, but today I'll talk about the work I've done just for the past two years on making videos accessible.


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[Assistant] So video formats like explainer videos, how-to demonstrations, and travel blogs are starting to replace their text counterparts.


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[Assistant] And the scale of video production and consumption today is massive. So just on YouTube alone, people watch 1 billion hours of video per day and upload 730,000 hours of video every day.


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[Assistant] And of course, YouTube isn't even counting all of the live video like Zoom or short videos, uh, like GIFs and TikToks or videos we use for social communication, um, like FaceTime for instance.


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[Assistant] So there's a lot of ways that we can choose to communicate information. And when we pick one, like video, uhm, some audience members will benefit and others might be left out. So let's use video as an example.


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[Assistant] Uhm, the video will capture my intention and it might provide this rich, uh, spatial and temporal detail. So I can see how he's moving his shoulders.


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[Assistant] And it's even worse if video is a core part of your everyday work, uh, like for researchers or film producers.


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[Assistant] So I spent my PhD with Manisha and Bjorn exploring how we can make videos useful when people needed to use it for reference or review.


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[Assistant] And finally, if you don't have the appropriate background or even regional knowledge, there's other reasons it can be difficult to understand a video, even if you plan to watch and listen to it all the way through.


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[Assistant] So for instance, if I'm brand new at crocheting, I perhaps shouldn't start with a more advanced crochet video because it would be difficult to interpret the visual content.


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[Assistant] Get that information. So for instance, if I'm watching and listening all the way through, video is great, but also you could imagine maybe more immersive formats like AR and VR.


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[Assistant] In addition, if I was going to reference and review, maybe a textbook or an online article might provide me more structure to, um, to find text or to look through chapters and sections.


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[Assistant] So there's this principle in the universal design guidelines for learning that you should provide multiple means of representation. Uhm, and there's not one means of media or representation that's optimal for all.


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[Assistant] Of course, if you're an instructor and you're trying to provide many forms of the same idea, you can imagine that would be a lot of work.


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[Assistant] So my research is about creating systems that make it way easier to create communication that's more useful for everyone. And a key idea throughout my work that you'll see in this accessibility work as well is to try to combine the benefits of multiple types of representation. So like text and video for instance.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but I'll, I'll touch now on why video accessibility is important. So when I think about accessibility, I like to come, uhm, I've heard several arguments and I, here's some of my favorites. So, uh, for, I think the first reasons I think about are personal.


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[Assistant] In addition, we can be personally responsible for creating disability, and this might sound surprising, um, but a really classic thought experiment that I like is pretend that tomorrow everyone sprouted wings, and I was the only person that didn't sprout wings.


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[Assistant] This really wouldn't be a problem until they move like my favorite coffee shop into the sky or all my friends start hanging out there. Uhm, so disability isn't just about impairment or the activities that you can't do, but the ways that it limits your participation, uhm, in


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[Assistant] And so when we create media or new forms like AR and VR and tangibles, it's really important to think about who we are lifting up in the sky and who we might be leaving on the ground.


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[Assistant] And also, I think there's more people who experience disability than I might have initially realized.


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[Assistant] So in America, one in four people live with a disability today.


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[Assistant] And I'm going to talk a lot about non-visual accessibility in this talk. So I'll mention that a million Americans are blind and 11.4 million have another visual impairment.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and this isn't even accounting for users who might not want to look at their screen. Maybe they have light sensitivity or they lost their reading glasses yesterday. So how do we make videos accessible currently?


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[Assistant] And I will call out that this is slightly different than closed captions. Closed captions, uhm, transcribe the speech and sound and make the audio accessible for people, for instance, who are deaf or hard of hearing.


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[Assistant] And all of this accessibility editing, uh, takes place after the video has been produced.


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[Assistant] So the first project I worked on as part of my postdoc was to see if there was a way to make, uhm, audio descriptions easier to create.


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[Assistant] And the first thing I wanted to do was understand why audio description is, why audio descriptions are challenging to create. So I talked to seven audio description professionals. This included producers, audio engineers, writers, and teachers to learn how they create audio descriptions.


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[Assistant] Because of, uh, audio description happens at the end of the video production process, there might be other stakeholders like marketers or, um, the video's original scripter who care about how the content is described.


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[Assistant] So the goal of this project was to let people create audio descriptions efficiently. And the key idea was to, uh,


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[Assistant] And then the author can describe the video by playing and pausing it. So here are the author types, title, Gobby's Guide to Ojai, What's Gobby Cooking, um, re-scribed and interactively, updates, the timeline, the transcript, so that you get a sense immediately of about how much time you have left.


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[Assistant] And so then, uh, another description is a bright, uh, a montage of bright footage from Ojai, for instance.


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[Assistant] We used human recorded descriptions because prior studies had shown that blind and visually impaired watchers preferred, uhm, human descriptions to automatic ones for now.


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[Assistant] And after you've recorded all of your descriptions, you can click create.


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[Assistant] So I'll cover a few of the algorithmic methods that power Rescribe. So first, Rescribe identifies the speech and silence, uhm, in the video by first transcribing it and then using a CNN, uh, base detection to, to find speech and silence.


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[Assistant] Uh, coherence. Is this likely to be grammatically correct? That's not exactly what it is, but sort of close, so that would catch things like Gabby Arback, which is not a great description.


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[Assistant] We also looked at edit quality, so each time you cut the audio, that might impact, uh, the final quality and finally the placement. So this, is this going to overlap with other speech or not?


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[Assistant] And we basically solve this using an optimization algorithm.


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[Assistant] Could novice audio describers create descriptions more effectively? We also wondered if blind audience members would prefer our inline and extended inline descriptions to the just pausing the video type.


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[Assistant] Blind audience members really liked the extended inline descriptions, uh, and they, they liked, uh, the inline descriptions because they were concise and use, uh, and standard with what they were used to hearing.


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[Assistant] And then finally, our interviews with professional describers were really interesting. So professionals were highly suspect that AI could help do their job, which is quite hard, any easier. And so we found that they


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[Assistant] Was, for instance, just describing the same thing over and over again. So if they wanted a system to reapply their existing descriptions in the future.


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[Assistant] We also revealed a new type of audio description that hadn't, uh, existed before and was preferred by, um, blind audience members and users. We found that users had varying description needs, uh, based on their context. So the fact that Rescribe gave them three options allowed them this ability to customize the descriptions they were receiving.


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[Assistant] So this project about uh, about presentation accessibility and we focused on presentations because they're speaking the whole time and also OCR is pretty good at recognizing text so we thought we could provide a good experience.


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[Assistant] So here's an example of, uh, watching the same video, um, but with our tools. So what you're going to see here is the author will, uh, sorry, the, the user. So the, the blind user will pause the video when they hear the reference to the slide, and then they will listen for the content and then start playing the video again.


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[Assistant] So we found, uhm, so we wanted to provide


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[Assistant] So in this version of the interface, we also added these slide transitions. So if there was undescribed content on a slide, at the end of the slide, the system would let the user know and they can flexibly explore more. So I'll show an example of how this works.


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[Assistant] And so when we compared this slideshow interface that, that, um, surfaced, uh, the moments that were undescribed, and when we compared it to slides and video, so just the slides and the video side by side,


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[Assistant] What we found is that people spent more time with the slides and video, but got the same, um, score on, on, uh, a little quiz for both.


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[Assistant] And then we found, as I mentioned, that people were reactive rather than proactive about getting more information, um, unless there was an explicit cue mentioned by the presenter. So most people just waited to hear if there was undescribed content or not on a slide, and then they were, they would listen to hear more of the content. So from this project, we learned that, um,


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[Assistant] Just extracting the content from slides was already quite helpful for people. And this is easy because OCR does a really great job at detecting and transcribing the text on visual slides.


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[Assistant] And finally, uh, prompting people when things weren't described. So, you know, they might not know that that word attainable exists. So letting people know so that they can find it, uhm, let people seek more information as, uhm, unless the presenter mentioned it, they might not know that there's more content there.


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[Assistant] And so, and this is also, you know, our own experience and you could remind an author a couple times, but it would be easy to just kind of go back into how you're used to presenting the slides without describing all of the visual content.


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[Assistant] So we analyzed a bunch of videos across TED Talks, seminars and classes about across a range of randomly sampled academic disciplines. Uhm, and, and we did this to maintain a variety of kind of preparation and production levels.


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[Assistant] And in general, the answer was no. So 72% of all of the slide elements in our dataset were not fully described.


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[Assistant] So my next question was, can we make people describe their slides if they're not doing it already?


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[Assistant] So today's section is organized around two activities. First, we'll create a colorful circle brush, and you'll see the squiggly line pictured on the right with these rainbow circles.


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[Assistant] Uh, the post-presentation feedback on the right side.


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[Assistant] Basically shows presenters what they described and people can try to raise their score, um, pictured in green or red.


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[Assistant] In studying this project, we wanted to know uhm, could, did this actually work? If we created these interfaces, would people change their behavior and describe more of the slides?


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[Assistant] So we studied, we created a study with people using their own slides with and without both types of our feedback.


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[Assistant] And what we found was, yes, uh, so people describe more of their slide, uh, elements using Say It All's real-time feedback. And we looked at...


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[Assistant] We looked at applying the feedback both first and second. So, uh, would they see the feedback first or would they see the feedback second? What I expected is that after seeing the feedback, they would do, uh, on the first time, they would do really great on the second half. So, so I expected that, um,


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[Assistant] We also found that using the post presentation interface, people identify 3.3 times more accessibility improvements with the presentation interface as they did without it.


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[Assistant] In particular, uhm, we found some of our presenters plan to make changes for their upcoming talks. So some of our TAs actually mentioned they plan to remove excess text on their TA slides.


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[Assistant] Now that we've looked at how do we create, make a video accessible after it's already edited, and how do we make a video accessible at the planning capture phase, all of these


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[Assistant] When we're thinking about videos, there's actually tons and tons of them, such that for any one task, uh, you might need just one video, um, to, to serve your purpose. And you might not need every single video to be accessible.


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[Assistant] Uhm, we looked primarily at uh, at search tasks. So for instance, if you search for a video like how to make chocolate chip cookies, you're going to get many


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[Assistant] Uhm, partially equivalent results and same thing for things like paper airplanes or top 10 places to visit in Italy. There might not be much distinguishing which one you should pick.


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[Assistant] So in prior work where we just described each inaccessible video, in this video, in this work we're looking at, can we surface the videos that actually happen to already be more accessible than others?


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[Assistant] So if you're thinking about what makes a video, uh, more accessible than other videos, some things include perhaps it's narrated the entire way through. So people on a how-to task have described every step versus, uh, setting it to music.


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[Assistant] And so, so, we wanted to approach this from a user's perspective. So we asked 12 people with visual impairments who regularly used YouTube, uh, what they found made a video more or less accessible.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so scene transitions, so if it's, it's highly, uh, if there's a lot of scene transitions, that prompts audio transitions, like, oh, you hear, like, a big crowd, and then you hear, uhm, you know, a city street, and you're not sure what happened at those transitions. Uhm, so if, uh,


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[Assistant] Seen as very visually complex, it's likely to not be as accessible.


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[Assistant] So from these accessibility metrics that we identified in these interviews, uh, we also asked people to rate, um, a bunch of videos from one to seven, um, on whether they thought the video was accessible or not.


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[Assistant] Because it was blind and visually impaired people rating these videos, uh, it was basically perceived accessibility. So what might not be included in the score are unknown, unknown, or things people didn't know were there.


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[Assistant] And so what we found is that, uh, five of these attributes contributed to people's perceptions of accessibility, with presence of speech being one of the most predictive qualities.


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[Assistant] So after we had this accessibility score and these metrics, we augmented each video search result with some information about how accessible it was likely to be.


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[Assistant] We found out that using our tool, people were able to do video search tasks more efficiently. So before they would just trial and error a bunch of videos until they found one that was accessible. But with our tool, they were able to, uhm,