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Undoubtedly, theproblem was about the demons

What was the cause of the ith the de? This information was essential to Border Town No war could have been started without a reason, but the demons' behavior didn't seem like an attack motivated by resources or expansion They didn’t occupy the Barbarian Land, nor did they pillage mankind What they did seehter

Roland also noticed that Elsa mentioned the tered the dreadful war under the will of God? But at that ti, so there wasn't the one and only God that the Church declared Without this explained, his ure out the basic necessities of life in the Holy City's civilization as soon as possible, or in other words, assess its degree of economic and civil development He needed this information to measure the level of this civilization and deduce the demons' capabilities

As for the Union, Roland wasn't too concerned about it Its witches were scarce and their abilities were unstable This organization's capability for organized coh Historical experience had repeatedly stressed that before the forap, a comprehensive as all about attrition A few sophisticated weapons wouldn't reverse the overall disadvantage

The second question was about the Magic Stone

Considering what Tilly said, the reatly co the witches to exert powers that didn't belong to them In this way, even auxiliary witches could be sent to war However, in Roland's point of view, that was like putting the cart before the horse He'd rather turn all the combat witches into auxiliary witches and put theh, the Union, which had large nuainst the demons Instead, it chose to produce God's Punishment Army, which in Roland's vieas beyond coic Stone had sos, or its production was extremely difficult?

Fortunately, Elsa was a anization siroup of highly talented witches specializing in the research of Magic Stones and ic power Roland faintly felt that there must be a wealth of potential information to be exploited

The last question was about the Church

He drew a circle on this colu details froanization's foundation and development What he could infer from the scattered information at hand was that the Church was founded after the witches' defeat After obtaining the Union's secret, the Church concealed everything about the witches and declared thedoines, the Church would be a veritable outsider Since the aborigines didn't have their own civilization, they could be easily fooled by fabricated history and prophecies

"Was it only because the witches used to suppress ordinary people that the refugees took the witches as their enemy and went on to hunt the witches on this continent?" Roland frowned "All these deductions did sound reasonable, yet he felt that there was soreat number of Bliss Warriors, Extraordinary Witches, and even Transcendents Even if the Church et a hold of God’s Stones of Retaliation, was it possible for them to defeat an opponent like the Union?

To wipe out a er force, you couldn't purely rely on hatred Clearly there was so

"That witch seeale suddenly said

"After all, she used to live in a world where the witches were considered superior to the huhed "I'm afraid I'm just no different from the roadside weeds in her eyes"

"Don't you hate her?"

"Why would I? She is nothing but a poor woman abandoned by her own ti in the frozen coffin for 400 years, and woke up to find the world had coht by the neorld would bring her fear, so it was no surprise that she would build a defensive wall in her heart After she accepts all this, she will probably gradually change her point of view"

"What a typical response of yours," said Nightingale with a smile "But rest assured, I won't allow her to offend you in any way"