Chapter 945: The New Witch Group Part II


    Trantor: TransN Editor: TransN


    Simply speaking, Azima’s ability could trace an entire object through a piece of it, or through a microelement to trace its concentrated spot.


    Undoubtedly, for a Sleeping Ind witch, this was a type of survival ability. For example, holding a drop of fresh water, Azima could find a creek or ake; or judging from the kernel of a fruit from an animal’s feces, she could estimate the fruit tree’s location and size.


    Due to the contribution her ability made to the team, quite a few Eastern Region witches gathered together under her leadership and made a tight group out of themselves.


    In Rnd’s eyes, Source Tracing was undoubtedly the best way for discovering natural resources, whose general purposes were even broader than Sylvie’s Eye of Magic.


    The logic was simple. When Sylvie looked through the ground, her magic power consumption would drastically increase and her perception of distance would greatly decrease. She was totally qualified for marking ore beds in the North Slope Mine area, but perceiving mineral veins deeply buried was beyond her ability. Even for resources in superficialyers, she could barely tell their category or scale. She could only tell something was underground, but not what it was.


    Rnd did not worry about Azima in this aspect. She could not only know a single resource’s exact location, but also its reserve. If her ability could bebined with Lucia’s ability of purification, Rnd might be able to mark the entire periodic table of elements on the map of Graycastle.


    When Rnd learned geology, what impressed him the most was a colorful national map marked with resources. Now that Graycastle had united under his banner, he should aim at broadening his raw material sources to the entire country, or even to the Kingdom of Dawn, the Fertile ins, etc.


    Even if Azima was unwilling to help, it was not disastrous to Neverwinter. After all, the resources were not going anywhere. Given enough time, he could eventually seed in his goal.


    Yet Doris’s enchantment ability was not the same.


    Since hecked good observing methods, Rnd’s research on magic power did not have a good start, which left the witches as his only source to harness magic powers.


    Enchantment was an incredible ability.


    In her notebook, Wendy described as the ability attach magic power to a dead object to recycle, thus greatly slowing down the object’s exhaustion process and makes it look lifelike.


    Rnd had reservations about her ability description. He knew it was only the witches’ customary expression that a dead object could not have magic power. Under most circumstances, this rule applied, with only one exception—the God’s Stone of Retaliation.


    The joint experiment carried out by Isabe and Agatha showed that God’s Stone did have magic power, or... it at least had the ability to attract magic power, which was originally exclusive to the Awakened. When Isabe smoothed the area under the disturbance of a God’s Stone, she could see extremely tiny magic power residues on its surface, although for only a few seconds. Throughout the entire process, no third party had injected more magic power into it, so those magic power residues must belong to the God’s Stone itself.


    In another word, unlike what he had expected, the God’s Stone of Retaliation did not have high-density magic power which could disable other magic powers. But it did have magic power, only the amount was very little. As to how it isted the effects of magic powers was to be discovered. One thing he could be sure of was that "magic power was ipatible with dead objects" was not entirely true.


    Considering a God’s Stone could soon be amon stone after Isabe’s adjustment, Agatha made a bold spection: The magic power of the God’s Stone of Retaliation would keep on running out, but it would also constantly absorb new magic powers as a living entity did, which formed a magic power cirction. Just like sand on a beach, which absorbed heat from sunlight and raised its temperature during the day and released the heat at night. This could exin why Isabe couldpletely alter the nature of a God’s Stone without interfering with its structure.


    Agatha also believed that Isabe "killed" the God’s Stone.


    Wendy’s description was obviously made based on Agatha’s conclusion.


    Rnd did not mind it. He still believed that the mineral vein of God’s Stones was indeed dead objects. Whether an object could take in or push out magic power was not connected with whether it was dead or alive. The reason that they could not exin its working theory was that they knew too little, much like before the invention of the microscope, mankind knew nothing about the microworld.


    In his eyes, enchantment was, in a manner of speaking, a kind of "conversion to God’s Stone".


    Of course, disregarding the theory, this ability was undoubtedly effective. ording to the tests, it could take effects on targets as Magic Stones, Sigils, objects of enchantment, etc. Magic powers injected into them could be supplemented by itself, and create a cirction.


    For instance, when Dawn I was fully injected with magic power, it could generate electricity for five consecutive days, but when Mystery Moon held Broken Sword, Dawn I’s working time could be prolonged by 10 more days. No matter what, the magic power injected in the bronze stick was constantly running away and would not stay forever in an enchanted object.


    That meant even if Mystery Moon’s magic power could reach the same level as Anna’s, it could only sustain a few more Dawn I at the same time. It could barely satisfy the needs for the factory’s illumination and the equipment’s operation, let alone be put to use on arger scale.


    And a Dawn I enchanted by Doris could absorb the ubiquitous magic powers topensate for its magic power consumption, therefore keeping the maic poles working. Although its loss and gain of magic power were not entirely equal, the improvement was still astonishing for a short-term enchantment.


    It meant Mystery Moon could be relieved from the maintenance work of energy charging and be an energy manufacturer.


    It also meant that, besides the factories, many other ces could get stable electricity supply.


    At the same time, many enchantment abilities, which were originally of little value, would gain purpose.


    Additionally, Agatha and Isabe could get a pile of test targets simr to God’s Stones, which would greatly help their research on magic power.


    As for the issues with enchantments, such as taking too long to take effect, low efficiency, magic power cirction could be broken off by God’s Stones, etc, were nothingpared to the ability itself.


    So no matter what, Rnd needed to keep such a witch.


    After thinking it over, he felt the only strategy that could work was the sugarcoated-bullet.


    —after all, in the art of tempting people, he had found no one who could do better than himself.


    As for thest witch, No.89 Slimwrist, she was just like her name.


    She was the daughter of a jeweler and was born to be good at carving. She not only had slim wrists but also flexible fingers which enabled her to carveplex patterns. After her awakening, her gift was greatly improved. Not only could she carve much faster, but could also carve on anything.


    On first nce, Anna could easily do that with her ckfire, but she was a genius who had gone through two revolutions. Even in the Union, she was among the top Senior Witches, apletely different level than Slimwrist.


    What Rnd liked about Slimwrist was that she could take some workload off of Anna. Besides, there could never be too many precision manufacture practitioners. Back on the Sleeping Ind, she could only be a top craftswoman polishing jewelry for nobles, but in Neverwinter, she could propel the advancement of society together with the other witches.