RELEASE THAT WITCH

Chapter 276-280

Chapter 276 New artillery research and development

While on her way to bring the ore to His Highness, Nightingale's answer was running through Lucia's mind.

She had to admit, she was shocked by the calm manner in which Nightingale had revealed her feelings.

Although she wasn't entirely clear about the feelings of all the people involved, but a witch and a prince... simply couldn't ever be with each other, right? So shouldn't she be careful and hide her thoughts at the bottom of her heart, and never let others know about them?

Furthermore, why would she as a simple listener feel so excited and embarrassed?

Coming to a stop in front of the door to the office, Lucia took a deep breath before pushing open the door and entering.

"Your Highness, I've brought the ore."

"Let me see," Roland answered as he fought the urge to yawn.

The ruler of Border Town seemed the same as always, with his drowsy-eyed appearance it seemed it hasn't been that long since he'd finished taking his nap and it wasn't like he was in that much of a clear-headed state yet either. While leaning comfortably against the back of his chair, showing a natural bearing and speaking with an easy-going tone, he was completely unlike the other nobles with their strict and insulting mannerism.

Seeing him like this, Lucia's former indescribable nervousness loosened by a small amount. She then calmly took out the ore granules they'd found in the Northern Slope Mine and place them on the desk one after another.

After being broken down with her ability, all those granules now seemed to have almost the same look. Their colors weren't ash-colored, but were silver-white instead, and it was probably only a brilliant person of wide learning like the Prince that would be able to distinguish what these ores really were.

However, even after looking at them for a long time, the Prince still ended up knitting his brow. First, he took them into his hand one after another in order to estimate their weight. He then went to the window behind his desk to take a closer look from within the sunlight, only to finally wave with his hand and say, "Keke, seems I have no choice but to give these ores to Mr. Sichi to identify them. For now, you can go back to the courtyard at the North Slope and continue the practice of your ability, if there is something you don't understand you can always go to Anna and ask."

"..." Huh? There exist something His Highness doesn't know? Lucia quickly bowed and said, "Yes."

Just as she was about to leave the office, Roland called out to her again.

"Oh, that's right, your present test grade is pretty good, sixty-eight ranking ninth in the class. And that's after just one month of learning. Showing such a performance is not easy, so you must try and keep it up. Also...," he paused for a moment. "I hope that Bell can also participate in the next exam together with everyone."

"Yes!" Lucia excitedly agreed.

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After watching the little girl happily bow away, Roland looked at the metal particles on the table and sighed.

I was too naive, thinking that by breaking them down into one element, I might be able to discover what kinds of ore veins are hidden within the Northern Slope Mine. However, I once again have to acknowledge that there is a great deal of difference between mechanical engineering and geology. If that wasn't the case, I would have known that these stones would be broken down into three or four different kinds of metals. The most of the still remaining parts of the rocks can be considered as metalloid ores, but they have almost no difference in their color or shape. Such as iron, aluminum, magnesium, potassium when in a high purity state they are all silver-white metals, if I ever wanted to distinguish them by naked eye it will be much too difficult.