Greycastle, Neverwinter City.

Two days later, Wendy walked into Roland's office with the test records of two new witches.

"I have to say, Your Majesty, their abilities are... quite complex," she said, handing over the report. "It's the first time I've seen so many variables in one ability. This is only part of it; if you want to fully understand it, you may have to wait a few more days."

"Oh?" Roland put down his work with interest and quickly browsed the report. "In that case, Tachila should be very interested, right?"

Wendy nodded. "They had Phyllis perform the Chosen One test immediately, but the light columns of both of them were not significant enough, far from meeting the requirements of the 'key' for the Judgment Instrument."

Hearing this news, Roland felt relieved. He had just finalized the city-wide electrification plan, and all magic cores were being transformed into the form of the Mystical Moon Instrument. If a Chosen One suddenly appeared, Celine would definitely be full of resentment—after all, adjusting from an ordinary core back to the Judgment mode would take decades, and constantly guarding the core would not be a pleasant experience.

According to Honeydew's gossip, these high-level Tachila witches seemed to be obsessed with "sunbathing" lately, not lying flat in the midday sun, but climbing out of the cave at night and lying until sunrise. Because strong light can damage the carrier, they probably don't like going out, although Roland doesn't quite understand what Pasha and others are doing, but at least one thing is clear: they have been quite relaxed recently.

This is undoubtedly a good sign.

Roland quickly flipped the record book to the end.

Dailan's ability mainly affects emotions and must be ingested to take effect. Like most enchantment-type witches, her ability has a time limit, which depends on the size of the object and the amount of magic power invested.

Test results showed that the "potion" could interfere with far more emotions than just joy and pain; drowsiness, fatigue, anxiety, fear... as long as it was a feeling that humans could experience, it could affect it to a greater or lesser extent. When the effect of the medicine ended, these accumulated emotions would erupt all at once.

Roland could roughly understand why the potion's effect was extremely complex, but the light column was ordinary—in a sense, it was equivalent to a nerve blocker, temporarily delaying the time for conduction nerves and hormones to produce effects. Some later generations of drugs can also do this, but the side effects are enormous, and it is also very easy to become dependent.

Of course, whether the light column is simple or not does not measure the value of an ability. If Dailan's "potion" were sold in another world, its efficacy and profit prospects would definitely make all pharmaceutical giants green with envy.

Various mental illnesses are far more complex at the mechanism level than visible internal and external injuries, and are also more difficult to cure. Although it cannot eliminate symptoms, it can accurately delay them. As long as it is controlled properly, it can minimize the impact of the disease. For example, negative states such as anxiety and fatigue mainly hinder people's daily lives. If each attack is postponed until after falling asleep, it can be "digested steadily" imperceptibly. Once people are no longer troubled by worries and insomnia, the body's self-recovery speed will also increase significantly.

Even for life-threatening serious injuries, the potion's effect cannot be underestimated. People often lose their will in the face of severe pain and can no longer make effective emergency measures, resulting in missing the golden time for rescue. If they can provide first aid to themselves as soon as possible, or persist until medical personnel arrive, the survival rate will be much higher. Afterwards, rescuers only need to prepare specifically to deal with the pain shock, and they can help the injured survive the most difficult initial stage.

In addition, there is more than one witch whose ability targets pain. Roland remembered his sister mentioning that there was a witch named Dela on Sleeping Island who could eliminate pain. There is also the hero of the Witch Alliance, who can transfer non-traumatic illnesses to other living things. Although it is not yet clear whether it can transfer negative mental symptoms, it is worth a try.

The key is that without Dailan's potion, their effects would be difficult to exert effectively—battlefield soldiers are likely to suffer serious injuries at any time, but the witches are unable to be everywhere. In fact, many of the First Army's fatalities were because they lost consciousness after being injured and did not receive immediate treatment, eventually dying on the way to the medical院.

Now, this situation may be greatly improved.

According to Wendy's test results, Dailan can currently only roughly control the influence direction of the magic potion, such as leaning towards negative or positive, but cannot specify a particular emotion.

This is what most rookies lack—learning to understand and precisely control their abilities. However, with Wendy and Agatha's guidance, Roland doesn't need to worry about this. When Dailan can make the potion specifically target a certain emotion, its last flaw will also disappear.

Through the report, he had already seen a pharmaceutical industry behemoth rising rapidly, and the market share of this industry would undoubtedly be even larger than Chaos Drink.

As for the other person...

Roland stroked the table attached to the end of the record book, feeling extremely emotional.

"Your Majesty, this is..." Nightingale obviously noticed the many color divisions in the table. She looked up at Wendy. "Are the contents on the table certain?"

"We can only say that it is roughly so. After all, in a short period of time, we lack enough samples for comparison," Wendy replied. "The only thing that can be certain now is that the numbers do not only decrease but also increase."

In short, the strange numbers that Momo sees can be considered the natural lifespan of a life at its "current stage," and the colors represent different attenuation trends. In the report, Wendy detailed the results of her and Momo's observations of the entire Neverwinter City. The colors of the residents in the residential area were significantly lighter than those of the displaced people in the temporary residential area.

Her conclusion was that unhealthy factors such as hunger, disease, and defects can cause changes in color, and people with deeper colors generally have smaller numbers. She also specifically mentioned an example: after a Wolfheart migrant drank purified water, the number above his head increased from a dark brown five to a seven.

If the ability is accurate, it can be assumed that the migrant himself was suffering from some kind of infectious disease, and according to his state at this stage, he only had five years of natural lifespan left. However, after treatment with purified water, the stage state was broken, and the ability re-evaluated the deadline.

Although Wendy has no way of knowing the specific meaning of the various colors for the time being, in general, they can all be regarded as unhealthy states.

"Your Majesty..." Nightingale's face showed a worried look.

"It's better than expected, isn't it?" Roland comforted. "At least it can go back up—as long as the method is appropriate."

Wendy opened her mouth as if she wanted to say something, but in the end, she held back.

He shifted his attention back to the report. Judging from the color distribution area, Neverwinter City can almost be described as clearly divided. The average number in the North Slope Mining Area is the lowest, followed by the refugee residences, while the Witch Building and Sleeping Spell areas are ten to twenty points higher than the overall level, which also confirms the unique advantages of magic power awakeners in physical condition.