Chapter 3 (1/2)
Chapter 3 The Witch Named Anna (Part II)
Roland sed the last piece of fried egg from his breakfast, took a napkin and wiped histhat you are worried that the Witch Cooperation association will hear the news that the witch did not die and hence will try to rescue her?”
“It is as your Highness has said,” Barov storily as he exclaih, but now she is still alive! If those witches are even crazy enough to steal babies on the chance they o for someone who has already become a minion of the devil? With how recklessly they behave, atte”
Roland was confused, he had always felt that there was so amiss about this situation Why were the assistant Minister and the Knight Commander so scared of witches?
The woht? The woman as so thin it was as if she would fall dohen the wind blew? If she really had such a terrible poould she need to stand there and wait for death? No, she would not According to the preaching of the church, she was the devil incarnate, to be executed without trial Even the arainst a witch However, this “devil” was caught by the normal townspeople of this border toas tortured, even fitted with a noose, but until now they had not seen a trace of that supposed terrible power
“How did she get caught?” Roland queried
“I heard that when the North Mine collapsed, in order to escape, she exposed her identity as a witch and was then captured by angry villagers” Barov answered
Roland thought as he listened to Barov, Why do I have the impression that this happened the day before my reincarnation?
“How did she expose herself?” The prince asked aloud
“I, well… I am not sure,” the assistant minister shook his head and said, “the situation was very confusing, it could be that so witchcraft”
Roland frowned as he asked, “you did not thoroughly investigate the situation?”
“Your Highness, to resu was the priority,” the assistant minister protested, “The revenue from that iron mine accounts for half of the production of this town, and the guards confirmed that someone at the scene was killed by witchcraft”
“What kind of witchcraft?” Roland asked, interested
“The head and a large part of the body were spread out on the ground as if they were melted The corpse looked like a used up candle,” the lad you didn’t see such a scene”
Roland started playing with a silver fork thoughtfully Historically, most of the victims of the inquisitionwitch hunt were innocent, tools for the church to norant townspeople to vent their anger Sure, a small part of the accused caused their onfall The kind of people dressed that oddly whilethat they could predict the future and knew the conclusion of life and death
The truth was those people did figure out some tricks, such as the use of chemical reactions, but then they used that to claiained the power of the Gods
To modern eyes, these were just some simple chemistry tricks, but in medieval times, those could easily be misrepresented as incredible phenomenon
As for ht of was an acid solution
But it would be a hassle to prepare those kinds of things, and you would also need to thoroughly soak the body with it, but it wouldn’t look like a burned down candle, as for other methods they were out of the question
Then how did she do it?
If she relied on alchemy, and that was rare, maybe…
Roland thought until there and then said in a determined tone, “Take me to see her”
The assistant Minister was shocked for a , “Sir, you want to see the witch?” Barov stood up in panic, knocked over the cup with the milk which he hadn’t drunk
“Yes, this is a command” Roland said looked back and smiled at the assistant minister, he was now really thankful for the fourth prince’s unreasonable style