4 Spaceship Construction Research Group Part 2

"Yesterday, your Highness Ancestor King asked for space-related and teleportation-related abilities from witches. Since these kinds of abilities were rare, only a small number of the sisters could be round up." Linneia explained.

She then introduced the next witch, "This is Khora. She was responsible for the work on space storage as shown in the diagram. Khora's ability could develop a small dimensional space in objects with the help of some formations for stabilization."

"She works well together with Vayu, a witch capable of injecting life in a non-living environment, as she specialized in air blending. She can mimic the air composition perfectly. They recently jointly developed a spatial farm with twenty-seven other witches, a top project where we could raise food source in an independent artificial environment, though it was still in the field-testing phase. I believe the project will be successful soon after we checked for the agriculture yield's quality." This was one of the current project Linneia was proud of.

Both Khora and Vayu blushed demurely at Roland. Khora had a short curly blond hair which reminded him of Lightning's vitality, but she was more reserved in front of him. Vayu had long silky black hair until her hips. They were holding each other's hand behind their backs out of Roland's view, though he saw it mentally.

[They must be best of friends.] Roland gave them a kindly smile to assure them. "Excellent job. At this perilous time, your work is vital to the survival of our people."

Roland finally understood why the witches' representatives were not too worried from the combustion of their empire's crops. They already had a solution for it. Only the low-level government officials and the citizens were in a panic.

"Why don't we disseminate this information to the people to gain their trust and reduce panic." Roland queried.

Linnea explained, "We hold off the dissemination of information about this because previously the success rate for the project was very low. Khora's sudden breakthrough recently made this project reached the goal after a lengthy research to stabilize the artificial domain."

She showed Roland a graph on the 3D hologram, expressing the stability status of each experimental trials in numbers. The numbers were an all-time low from five years ago and exponentially increased into the third quartile region indicating the success rate since a month ago.

Linneia continued to introduce three witches successively. "These three has teleportation-like ability but slightly different in principles from each other. I round them up for your Highness' inspection."

"This is Frieda. Her way of teleportation was quite special; she can move to the location of things or people she had a deep impression on. The person or item must have a deep connection to her and had once have direct contact with her for it to work. Then, she could reach it with a blink of an eye wherever it may be." She introduced a timid-looking little loli.

The little loli looked barely fifteen. She had her wheat colored hair tied into a ponytail. Her light blue eyes peeked at Roland's gray ones.

Roland asked using telepathy, "Are you telepathic like me?"

"Uh? Yes sir. I am." Frieda's eyes widened; she clutched her frilly knee length light blue gown nervously.

"So you locked on to people by relying on their brain waves?"

"Yes sir. Uh...I think so. Everyone has a different color in their head. When I close my eyes I can see them wherever they are. Then suddenly I'm beside them." Frieda replied bashfully.

"Amazing! How about non-living things?"

"I tag them with my own special color. Then I can see them anywhere."

"Good job!" Roland extended his hand and patted little Frieda's head as she blushed happily.

All the people in the study could only see Roland smiled at little Frieda and she smiled back bashfully. In the unbelievable gazes of the other witches, the timid little girl then took large steps and stopped beside the sitting Roland as he patted the little loli's head while smiling.

"Continue." The ancestor king gestured to Linneia.

"General Raksha can teleport on short distances within her sight. She's a combat witch who could burst with high speed until she disappeared and reappeared again at another location. The maximum distance of her teleportation has been tested to around 5 km in circumference with her at the centre." A calm lady with heroic features saluted Roland using the standard military gestures.

"This humble one had seen your Majesty Ancestor King."

Roland observed a vertical incision at the middle of her glabella.

[Is that what I think it is?]

Raksha noticed Roland gaze. Slowly, the incision opened vertically to reveal a third eye!

"I'm from an ancient tribe with a special lineage. All of us had a third eye, either activated or not. Normally only the strongest warriors of the tribe will manage to open their third eye, men or women alike."

Roland was intrigued with the explanation. [Takada-sensei! Your world is real!] Roland was so emotional and touched deep down inside. He was an avid fan of the Sanjian Unkara's adventures(1) besides the mainstream Saiyan superheros, Gundam and the blue robot cat(2). It was a warm memory of him growing up surrounded by Japanese based manga and anime before transitioning to Wuxia and Xianxia novels when he was a bit older.

Roland was interested with the tricyclop, "Do you have an assistant?"

"Huh? Yes, of course I do." Raksha was a general after all. She was surrounded with a lot of adjutants.

"What I mean is, do you have a special assistant? Which only belong to you. Most probably only one? That person should be..." He paused, "An immortal?"

Everyone blanked for a minute.

General Raksha's face was full of mixed emotions. How'd he know?! It was the biggest secret of her tribe. One of Raksha's adjutants was her personal guardian assistant. But nobody knows about that fact.

Looking at Raksha's ever-changing expression, Roland didn't pursue the question but just gave a knowing smile. "Just kidding everyone haha!"

[I knew it!] Roland exclaimed excitedly in his heart.

Everyone was dumbfounded by the Ancestor King's sudden joke. Only Raksha knew the king was covering her up. She was very grateful towards the king's tactfulness.

"The last one is Melati. She could teleport people and things around within her sight but not herself."

The girl by the name Melati smiled to Roland and curtsied again. "Your Majesty Ancestor King!" She had cherry red lips and dimples when she smiled. Her dark brown hair was pulled into a low bun twist with tendrils of loose hair framing her lovely oval face.

"How about the last three at the back?" Roland asked.

"They are support witches with large magic capacity who mainly work on powering our biocomputer for performing complicated calculations at high speed. Without them, the biocomputer could not be activated." Linneia gestured the last three to come forward.

"This is Meifang, Luojien, and Yingyue. They are geniuses from the Eastern region across the Vortex Sea."

Roland was confused. These girls were like normal mortals. Moreover, their names...aren't they Chinese names? They even looked the part with their main characteristics of white jade-like skin, pheonix-like pitch black eyes and black hair. Classic beauties.

[Did some Chinese transmigrators came over this world without him knowing and start a clan or something?]

Roland was sure he never saw a Chinese descent-like features on anyone he knew previously. This world was predominated with Western-like features all over.

Linneia saw her ancestor pondering about something, hence she thought he might be thinking why these three witches doesn't seemed like a witch at all. "Your Majesty Ancestor King, let's move out to the castle backyard. Then you will understand what I mean."

Linneia picked up the floating circular device and placed it back behind her neck. It turned out, there was a small circular port at the back of all the necks of the witches Roland met today.

Seeing Roland looking at her action, Linneia explained, "Since thirty years ago, our nation had develop a small device which can be up-link to the main empire's server. All personnel of the empire must install this device on their cerebral network from the back of their neck." She showed the back of her neck to Roland. It was a tiny metallic ball with a metallic ring as the port. Besides that, nothing else was seen.

"Even some well-off citizens voluntarily install the cerebral connector device to their newborn babies. Since then, all our documents became paperless. Governmental affairs became much faster with lesser bureaucracy. It was very convenient." She smiled as she walked side by side with Roland to the backyard of the castle.

The witches followed them orderly while they whispered with each other silently. They were eagerly anticipating what will be their king command and how they can contribute.

Author's note:

(1) Sanjiyan Unkara = Also known as 3x3 Eyes. One of the really well written manga by Yuzo Takada. More info can be seen here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3%C3%973_Eyes

(2) Blue robot cat = The very popular 'Doraemon' by Fujio Fujiko