Release that Witch

Digging out the foundation for laying the City wall had already started in order to connect the northern slope with the Chishui River To increase the production speed, he himself personally took charge of the overall project. He dug out the first shovel of earth with his own two hands in front of the shocked masses of surrounding onlookers.

Roland thought after the problem with the cement was solved, that building the city wall would be easy and relaxing. But he soon found out that his prior experience in engineering wasn’t enough to understand a single word from the project. How deep and wide did the foundation have to be? How to resolve the different heights of the sections? How to ensure that the more than six hundred yards long wall would be built in a straight line? He had previously seen the construction of a road by a group of young men. They were looking at a scale on their measure instruments; it was called a theodolite and level, right? But both of those tools didn’t exist here!

As an unfortunate mechanical engineer, although Roland and the civil engineer next door were both called the two engineering dogs, the content they had actually learned was poles apart. Of the mud artisans that he’d hired, no one had ever been involved in the construction of any major projects, it could even be said that his own understanding was better than theirs. Therefore, building the wall started very slowly, it took an entire week to dig out just half of the foundation that they needed.

Once a project got out of control, it would be difficult to say how the final product would look like. For example, this dug out foundation which was hard to dig, came out as a shallow groove, rather than the foundation of the wall. It was more suited to be called a drainage ditch. Despite Roland’s descriptions, the width that they dug out was more or less different for each person. Thus, the width clearly became out of shape, becoming more and more narrow as it went. While standing at a distance, the foundation practically resembled a curving and twisting snake.

Even so, Roland was unwilling to stop the project. With little else than the digging on his mind, as long as it was not the time of the firing,which was Anna’s job, he would stay at the northern slope for the rest of the day. Adjusting the direction of the pit’s extension with the naked eye, slowly moving it forward. Simultaneously he also doubled the reward for enlisting stone craftsmen.

Fortunately, this predicament did not last long, when Roland was preparing the sixth cement calcining; Barov the Assistant Minister reported that a stonemason had responded to the recruitment. It was said that he was a former member of the mason guild. The people who were waiting for an audience had already been made to wait outside the hall.

When he got this information, he nearly burst for joy, in his memories, the Graycastle mason guild was a famous organization, even the fourth prince had heard of their name. But in the end, because of a construction error, they had been ordered to disband.

But how can we finish this without help from stonemasons?

“Bring him in,” Roland put on a calm expression and nodded. He originally wanted to tell Anna that she should also leave, but he then thought it wouldn’t be a problem. Border Town had more than two thousand people in it, very few had seen the true face of the witch. Moreover, her look now, in a bizarre new dress, and her appearance before, of her wholeheartedly courting death, when she was not her usual self, was worlds apart. He estimated that even if she was seen, she wouldn’t be recognized.

Karl van Bart felt restless when he was lead into the courtyard by the knight; he intended to inform his Highness, that this time of year was unsuitable to carry out such a large-scale project. After acquiring his Highness’ trust, he could slowly change the prince’s view on witches. In the rumors, his Highness always acted wildly, what should he do when it seemed he would go the contrary result of his advice?

With his thoughts moving in a whirl as he bowed down, when he lifted up his head again, he suddenly stopped and stared blankly — the girl at the side of his Highness looked so familiar to him, so familiar that he felt like he was dreaming. Karl rubbed his eyes, then looked once again, he could not help but cry out, “… Anna!”

Roland’s heart stopped for a beat. How was it possible? He just wanted to hire a craftsman, but who could have known that the craftsman was also the witch’s neighbor? He could tell, that the other was absolutely familiar with Anna, if not, it would have been impossible to recognize her immediately. He looked at Carter. The chief knight got the hint, he immediately pulled the latch, blocking the only exit.

“Venerable… Teacher?”

Anna’s reaction let Roland’s spirit circle for a while before he came back to complete consciousness, what, teacher?