The Witching Hour of 1994
Chapter 802

Unicycle

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"...Honestly, we never expected this project to succeed. Yet it received an excellent response on the commercial platform."

"...In response to a market whose demands are becoming ever more varied, we realized that brooms are a product on a 'low-end product chain about to be phased out.' Witches need more vehicles, more capacity, more speed, more safety. Recently, all sorts of ignorant dragons have been flying through South City's skies. They may not be able to bully ordinary witches, but they can bully Cat Lamps, Weak Witches, and large numbers of sorceresses."

"...And so, we developed an entirely new kind of vehicle that does not need to be pulled by griffins."

Eve Harkins gave her introduction at an unhurried pace as she showed the two 'witches rewarded with a share of the profits'—Jiang Han and Histeria—around the factory.

The factory had twenty-four separate open cubicles. Each one contained a prototype workbench, a tea table, a television, thick red carpeting, and a tiny Cat Lamp kitchen where food could be ordered at any time.

The witch working in the cubicle—the first one Jiang Han saw—had magic that gave off a very youthful feeling. She sat elegantly with her left leg crossed over her right, flipping through a book resting on her thigh with one hand. Its title was <Eastern Witch Thought: How to Handle Relations Between Landfolk, Sorceresses, and Witches>. Meanwhile, her other hand casually manipulated magic, using a witch's hand to swiftly assemble box after box of components.

Just like Doctor Manhattan putting parts together, the components in the air automatically meshed, tightened, and joined...

Before long, a finished new vehicle appeared atop the round prototype platform.

It was not the sort of "car" Jiang Han had imagined, but...

One enormous wheel!

It was roughly two meters wide, perhaps nearly

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