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Iffy bowed first, and then after a long silence, she opened her ie used?"

Roland had expected that she would ask about it 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 It kills eneunpowder" He skillfully ree and poured out the bullets "The projectiles used to shoot at you were modified in a particular way, otherwise you would have been killed on spot"

Iffy's lips , but yet she sed her words in the end

Roland picked up a bullet and raised it in front of everybody "Do you see it?" It is not er, but yet it requires an extremely complicated procedure to manufacture it The whole procedure required the joint work of hundreds of ordinary townsroups is dispensable And those are the non-combat witches who you think are useless Do you still think so?"

"I" She looked hesitated, but could not utter a word in the end

Roland did not give her too much time to think He continued, "Maybe they cannot compete with you in terh a commoner can't knock down a fierce beast with his bare hands, it's the hus that rule the world, not the beasts"

"I prefer to call the non-coh their own abilities, they can give the vast uards who fight with long swords and shields—with the help of thes can easily beat the beasts In a sense, assistant witches are greater than combat witches"

"But the weapons you invented can play a more powerful role in the hands of the combat witches," Iffy said in a low voice

"The difference isn't very obvious, at least not obvious enough to change the outcoine this: while faced with ten ordinary soldiers armed with such weapon, what's the odd for you to win? In uns every day, but howthe weapons alone isn't enough We also need to maintain theistics team, in which assistant witches play irreplaceable roles"

He reasseale "I know that it's hard for you to understand the fact instantly But the reason hus can use their wisdom to create power that the world has never had To this end, ic power is undoubtedly the best tool, and yet you're wasting this talent" He paused for a ht, the First Ar loaded rifles this afternoon I suggest you watch it so that you can use your own eyes to observe what the real power is"

"The tied, Iffy"