The Release That Witch
Chapters 5's

“Second Law of Thermodynamics: Heat can never move from a colder object to a warmer object without some other change, or it is impossible to convert heat from one source into useful work without causing other effects, in an irreversible or spontaneous change of one state equilibrium with each other entropy always increases. "

Roland carefully copied these laws onto paper, writing in the language of this world. At first glance, the text resembles a moving earthworm. He really did not understand how the locals could learn so many varied and complicated characters.

If you asked him which of the many laws of physics would cause most people to feel depressed, Roland would choose the second law of thermodynamics. He tells everyone that the heat of this world will always move from high to low, replacing chaos to order, increasing entropy. Eventually, everything will end in nothingness and the universe will become silent.

And this world has detached itself from the ever-increasing problem of entropy. It could work wonders out of nothing, which is far more impressive than the theorized invention of the perpetual motion machine! Evil power? Roland scoffed and thought to himself that the people of this world did not understand the true nature of this power, and that power was so great that it could even change the entire universe.

Of course, for starters, he could only begin to change this small border town.

Roland hummed a song, tore through the paper he had written and threw it into the fireplace where the paper was reduced to ashes, feeling a sense of enjoyment as it came out of the cage.

The assistant minister looked suspiciously at the fourth prince's inexplicable actions, but fortunately for Roland, the old 4th Prince had always acted in this manner. In the end, Barov decides that the prince's strange behavior will pass without him bothering, and he can see that the prince is having fun.

"The murder is over, the 'witch' is hung during the day," Barov told Roland.

“Good, has anyone seen it?” Roland spoke as he wrote, "No problem, everyone who is cursed wears a veil."

To prevent the Holy Church and the Witch Cooperation Association from knocking on his door, Roland had ordered the warden of the dungeon to find someone with a similar body inside the death penalty criminals and let them replace Anna at the gallows. Other than the Knight Commander and the Assistant Minister, everyone who was with him in the hush money dungeon consisted of 20 gold royals. This is a huge windfall for them.

Barov even proposed to kill all the witnesses, or they would never remain silent forever, but Roland refused this. He knew he could not prevent this secret from spreading, but this did not matter because he actually wanted someone to spread the word, not now. He will be at odds with the church sooner or later, those idiots who promote intolerance that lead to a waste of resources! On the other hand, other witches would hear there was a border town in the kingdom where they could live freely, and could even get preferential treatment, what would these witches think?

No matter what age it was, the talent it possessed was the most important thing.

“Then everything is fine,” said Roland, next “Poin, for rates, taxes and expenses this year, you previously gave me a short summary, let me see it properly. In addition, workshops in the city, places of manufacture of ironware, textiles, pottery and such, you should also list the number and size. ”

"It took me three days to prepare this note, but .." said Barov as he nodded first, then stopped and looked like he wasn't sure how to proceed.

"What's the problem?" Roland asked. He realized that finally, the time had come when his abilities would be tested. Yesterday everything he had done was questioned by the assistant minister because of his doubts towards Roland, the bastards would always be scoundrels, but having a bad character did not mean they had no brains either. Helping and hiding witches, in the eyes of assistant ministers, is tantamount to declaring war on the world.

“Your Majesty, I do not understand..” Barov paused for a moment as he wrestled with his words, “Formerly, although you made trouble, it was always more harmless, but now… taking significant risks just to save the witch? The law to hunt them was proclaimed by the Church, and even your father, His Holiness Wimbledon III supported it. "

"Uh, this ..." Barov did not understand what this question had to do with the matter, after some time he gave his true opinion, "no."

“This is terrible, compared to Valencia, Golden Harvest City or Clearwater Port, what do you think my chances of winning the right to the throne are against my brother?”

“...” Assistant minister opens his mouth but does not answer.

Almost zero. So I could only choose to walk the other way, ”Roland continued as he watched expressionlessly as Barov took one step at a time into the trap he made. “Type of roads that will even impress my father.”

He did not state the point that the witches were basically not evil because doing so would only be slightly successful. Barov has been the Assistant Minister of Finance for twenty years and is considered a competent politician. For politicians, their personal gain is usually more important than the moral laws of good and evil. Also taking an emotional path was no match for him, when Roland recalled the prince's previous actions, he found that he really could not be considered a straight and righteous person. So he chose to play on the eternal conflict between religious and secular authorities, because the power of the Holy Church developed into a constant thorn in the side of Wimbledon III.

The Church claims that the world works according to the will of God, and the pope is the voice of God. If the people found out what he said was not the truth, even full of lies, the dominance of the Holy Church would be greatly shaken.

With the sentence, “the witch is not evil, so I want to save her,” will be difficult to convince the assistant minister, but replaced with “she is not a bad witch, and I can use this to attack the church, the, Barov could easily be persuaded to accept this conclusion.

Regardless of how my brothers and sisters' territory developed, it was a definite conclusion that everything would end up in church ownership. They have stepped on the divine right of kings, if only popes can be considered legitimate rulers, then are they the real rulers of this land or are we? "Roland paused for a good time before continuing," even my father had to put his hope in me: A leader who is not suppressed by the Holy Church, someone who holds all the exclusive rights of a royal king, and who is not a ruler, the choice will be very clear. ”

Turning “enemies around the world” into “only enemies of Church” is more easily accepted by many, not to mention Barov, who himself stands on the side of the royal family.

“In the same way, if he were to realize the extraordinary ability they possess, that they could open the grip of the Holy Church, the execution order was nothing more than a paper joke. While there is no possibility to guarantee success, it is not impossible either. Do you think I'm worth the risk? Roland looked at the assistant minister as he said this sentence in succession, "Don't falter now, Barov. You've been an assistant minister for twenty years, haven't you? If I could become Wimbledon IV, the said assistant would be eliminated, or furthermore, something like.... becoming the Hand of the King is possible, hmm? ”

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Seeing Barov's back leaving, Roland felt relieved. It was easy to see that he did not give much thought to his promise, this was normal, even Roland himself did not believe that a plan that had recently been scratched together, made out of arrogance could be realized. But it's not important, the key is to let Barov believe that he really thinks that way. The son of a protected noble could only think of a simple plan, not to mention that the 4th Prince hated the church mentality greatly. Nowadays, the way to attract more witches is also paved.

As for his original thoughts? Even if Barov knew them, he would not be able to understand them.

Roland called the maid, "Call Miss Anna and tell her she should come see me."

Roland happily thought that the following business would be the best