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Release That Witch: Building a Factory in the Middle Ages (The Original Novel)
- fantasy industrial revolution
- Categories:Chinese Web Fiction Action & Adventure Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Language:Simplified Ch.
- Publication Place:Chinese Mainland
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★ Magic is productivity! A modern engineer wakes up in the body of a medieval prince, and the first thing he does is save a "witch" from the stake and hire her to engineer his industrial revolution.
★ The novel ran nearly 3 years, with over 7.33 million recommendations and 500,000+ bookmarks. Held by the National Archives of Publications and Culture and the National Library of China, and selected for the National Press and Publication Administration's outstanding original online-literature list.
★ Over 40 witches, each with her own power and personality. Anna who commands green fire, Nightingale who walks through mist, the timid healer Nana... They bring cement, gunpowder and steam engines into a world of magic and spark an industrial revolution.
★ The anime premiered on the global streamer Crunchyroll in March 2026, rated 4.9/5 and 8.6 on IMDb. After it aired, readership of the original novel surged 20-fold.
★ Every "Month of the Devil," monsters pour out of rifts in the world; every few hundred years, civilization is wiped out in a "War of Divine Will." A man with a modern mind wants to rewrite the cycle. Those who loved Lord of the Mysteries will find another industrial-age fantasy here.
★ The novel ran nearly 3 years, with over 7.33 million recommendations and 500,000+ bookmarks. Held by the National Archives of Publications and Culture and the National Library of China, and selected for the National Press and Publication Administration's outstanding original online-literature list.
★ Over 40 witches, each with her own power and personality. Anna who commands green fire, Nightingale who walks through mist, the timid healer Nana... They bring cement, gunpowder and steam engines into a world of magic and spark an industrial revolution.
★ The anime premiered on the global streamer Crunchyroll in March 2026, rated 4.9/5 and 8.6 on IMDb. After it aired, readership of the original novel surged 20-fold.
★ Every "Month of the Devil," monsters pour out of rifts in the world; every few hundred years, civilization is wiped out in a "War of Divine Will." A man with a modern mind wants to rewrite the cycle. Those who loved Lord of the Mysteries will find another industrial-age fantasy here.
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Magic is productivity!
A modern mechanical engineer, Cheng Yan, wakes up inside the body of Roland Wimbledon, the fourth prince of the medieval kingdom of Graycastle. What greets him is a witch trial about to be carried out — on this continent, witches are seen as the source of calamity and are bound to the stake to be burned. Roland halts the execution and brings the hunted witches, one by one, back to his poorest frontier domain.
He soon discovers that the witches' "magic" is no miracle, but a force that can be understood and put to use: some can command blazing green fire, some can walk through mist, some can heal wounds. A bold idea is born — to use science and industry to turn these powers into cement, gunpowder, steam engines and steel, and to grow the poorest domain, step by step, into the strongest industrial kingdom on the continent.
As more witches gather, a cast of distinct personalities takes shape: the diligent Anna, the hidden Nightingale, the timid Nana, the talkative Lightning, the vengeful Echo, the brilliantly gifted Tilly... They are no longer hunted "outsiders," but the builders of a new world.
Meanwhile, every "Month of the Devil," monsters pour out of rifts in the world; every few hundred years, civilization is overturned in a "War of Divine Will." What Roland faces is not only one scheme and war after another, but a larger question: between magic and steel, can humanity find a new way to survive?
About 3.37 million characters long and 1,498 chapters, the novel unfolds in five volumes: from survival under the evil moon, to Winterless City and chemical metallurgy, to the Church's arcane sanctum, the final war and the leap of consciousness — one engineer's industrial revolution ends up rewriting the fate of an entire civilization.
A modern mechanical engineer, Cheng Yan, wakes up inside the body of Roland Wimbledon, the fourth prince of the medieval kingdom of Graycastle. What greets him is a witch trial about to be carried out — on this continent, witches are seen as the source of calamity and are bound to the stake to be burned. Roland halts the execution and brings the hunted witches, one by one, back to his poorest frontier domain.
He soon discovers that the witches' "magic" is no miracle, but a force that can be understood and put to use: some can command blazing green fire, some can walk through mist, some can heal wounds. A bold idea is born — to use science and industry to turn these powers into cement, gunpowder, steam engines and steel, and to grow the poorest domain, step by step, into the strongest industrial kingdom on the continent.
As more witches gather, a cast of distinct personalities takes shape: the diligent Anna, the hidden Nightingale, the timid Nana, the talkative Lightning, the vengeful Echo, the brilliantly gifted Tilly... They are no longer hunted "outsiders," but the builders of a new world.
Meanwhile, every "Month of the Devil," monsters pour out of rifts in the world; every few hundred years, civilization is overturned in a "War of Divine Will." What Roland faces is not only one scheme and war after another, but a larger question: between magic and steel, can humanity find a new way to survive?
About 3.37 million characters long and 1,498 chapters, the novel unfolds in five volumes: from survival under the evil moon, to Winterless City and chemical metallurgy, to the Church's arcane sanctum, the final war and the leap of consciousness — one engineer's industrial revolution ends up rewriting the fate of an entire civilization.
Author
Er Mu (二目)
A Chinese online-literature author and a "Great God"-tier writer at China Literature. Born in 1986 in Changsha, Hunan; holds a master's degree in civil engineering and once worked as a construction engineer (a site engineer on projects such as the Shangrao high-speed rail station), and began writing full-time in early 2018. He was one of the 2016 "Twelve Heavenly Kings" of online literature, a 2017 "one-book-to-fame" author, joined the China Writers Association in 2018, and was among the first "Ten Hunan Online-Literature Authors" in 2019. Trained as an engineer, he specializes in science fiction and the history of industrial development — an engineer writing about an engineer remaking a world of magic. Representative work: Release That Witch; other works include The Equation of Heaven's Way (《天道方程式》).
A Chinese online-literature author and a "Great God"-tier writer at China Literature. Born in 1986 in Changsha, Hunan; holds a master's degree in civil engineering and once worked as a construction engineer (a site engineer on projects such as the Shangrao high-speed rail station), and began writing full-time in early 2018. He was one of the 2016 "Twelve Heavenly Kings" of online literature, a 2017 "one-book-to-fame" author, joined the China Writers Association in 2018, and was among the first "Ten Hunan Online-Literature Authors" in 2019. Trained as an engineer, he specializes in science fiction and the history of industrial development — an engineer writing about an engineer remaking a world of magic. Representative work: Release That Witch; other works include The Equation of Heaven's Way (《天道方程式》).
Contents
Volume One Song of the Evil Moon — Survival: cement walls, gunpowder, the first sparks of steam
Volume Two A Single Spark — Expansion: founding Winterless City, chemical and metallurgical industry, administration and justice
Volume Three Bell of Dusk — Rising Stakes: facing the Church's secret sanctum, unraveling the nature of god-stone, activating the instrument of judgment
Volume Four War of the End — Final Battle: multi-front war, the sky-carrier, the War of Divine Will
Volume Five The Road to Rebirth — New Beginnings: the leap of consciousness, restarting the Cradle system, coexistence of two worlds
Note: The serialized novel runs 1,498 main chapters (1,515 including extras and related chapters) and is complete.
Volume Two A Single Spark — Expansion: founding Winterless City, chemical and metallurgical industry, administration and justice
Volume Three Bell of Dusk — Rising Stakes: facing the Church's secret sanctum, unraveling the nature of god-stone, activating the instrument of judgment
Volume Four War of the End — Final Battle: multi-front war, the sky-carrier, the War of Divine Will
Volume Five The Road to Rebirth — New Beginnings: the leap of consciousness, restarting the Cradle system, coexistence of two worlds
Note: The serialized novel runs 1,498 main chapters (1,515 including extras and related chapters) and is complete.
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