Even after revealing their true selves, the Witches' rule over Testnango was still far from smooth.
The people here were even more stubborn than the Witches had imagined!
They regarded glory, bloodline, and inheritance as incomparably important—so important that "even if the Witches publicly killed some of those unwilling to carry out their orders," they still could not make them obediently work, resume production, and return to their duties.
This stubbornness greatly astonished some of the Blue-Clad Union's Witches.
They suspected that some special factor passed down through the blood was influencing the way these Testnango people thought and behaved, and proposed, "Let's dissect a few of them. That way, we can find the answer"...
Fortunately, the Blue-Clad Union's upper ranks were not quite so foolish. If they had truly let those mad research Witches commit such inhumane acts, then ruling this world that concealed certain secrets would not have been so simple for the Witches.
Using lavish sums of money and promises, the Blue-Clad Union obtained some intelligence from a man named Roa James.
For instance, Guregs' Chancellor, Evelyn Morton, was a woman of noble blood. Her origins were mysterious, but her blood was pure; in the absence of the mad Queen Allison, she was one of the few people capable of commanding the Guregs nobility.
And she had been imprisoned by the Witches in the Stargazing Tower because she had spread the "Witch Threat Theory" after identifying the Witches.
At the time, some Blue-Clad Union Witches had even thought that was letting her off too easily.
And the current situation perfectly demonstrated why Bertha Gertrude de Forest had written the following theory and recommendation in her work Other Worlds, Folded Spaces, Formula Book of Occupied Territories:
"Try not to kill indigenous inhabitants of the original world who hold