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I Became a Witch and Started an Industrial Revolution

Chapter 1 : Crossing into a Magical World · Oct 16, 2026

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1 Chapter 1 : Crossing into a Magical World 2026-10-16
2 Chapter 2 : The Fate of Ordinary People 2026-10-16
3 Chapter 3 : Shifting Responsibility, Gathering People’s Hearts 2026-10-16
4 Chapter 4 : You Stockpile Grain, I Stockpile Guns 2026-10-16
5 Chapter 5 : It’s Revenge, Isn’t It 2026-10-16
6 Chapter 6 : The Devil Has Always Been There 2026-10-16
7 Chapter 7 : Blood-Colored Night 2026-10-16
8 Chapter 8 : An Unexpected Surprise, the Beginning of Industry 2026-10-16
9 Chapter 9 : Completing Unification, Coveting Bones 2026-10-16
10 Chapter 10 : Grandma Said We’re Not Even as Good as Cattle and Horses 2026-10-16
11 Chapter 11 : Steam Train and the New Army 2026-10-16
12 Chapter 12 : Should One Suffer Oneself or Let Others Suffer 2026-10-16
13 Chapter 13 : Stirring Up War 2026-10-16
14 Chapter 14 : Don’t Be Afraid, I’ll Only Break One of Your Legs 2026-10-16
15 Chapter 15 : The Birth of the Machine Gun 2026-10-16
16 Chapter 16 : Fairness 2026-10-16
17 Chapter 17 : Hi! Mitia! 2026-10-16
18 Chapter 18 : The Cannon Debuts, First Battle Won 2026-10-16
19 Chapter 19 : The Harlin Meat Grinder, A Meteor Falls from the Sky 2026-10-16
20 Chapter 20 : No Matter How Noble, Can He Have More Lives 2026-10-16
21 Chapter 21 : Intimidate the Gods! Glory to My King! 2026-10-16
22 Chapter 22 : Better to Be a Peaceful Dog 2026-10-16
23 Chapter 23 : When the Old Man and the New Transition 2026-10-16
24 Chapter 24 : I Can’t Sleep Until They Die 2026-10-16
25 Chapter 25 : You Die, I Live? Please, You Go Die. 2026-10-16
26 Chapter 26 : The Kingdom Nobles Who Courted Death 2026-10-16
27 Chapter 27 : Grandma Said She Was Not Afraid of Death, But She Did Not Know I Was Afraid 2026-10-16
28 Chapter 28 : The 80–20 Principle — We take eighty, you take twenty. 2026-10-16
29 Chapter 29 : Steam Turbines, the Prelude to the Age of Giant Ships 2026-10-16
30 Chapter 30 : Dimensionality Reduction Strike 2026-10-16
31 Chapter 31 : Technological Breakthroughs Brought by Demand 2026-10-16
32 Chapter 32 : The Rebellious Phase Has Arrived 2026-10-16
33 Chapter 33 : Revitalize the Family? Start with More Children and More Blessings! 2026-10-16
34 Chapter 34 : ：Mitia Also Wanted Catgirls! 2026-10-16
35 Chapter 35 : Sherria Miranda 2026-10-16
36 Chapter 36 : The Enemy Has a Gundam?! 2026-10-16
37 Chapter 37 : You Grab the Dishes, I Flip the Table—Reckoning! 2026-10-16
38 Chapter 38 : Winter Offensive, Winter Is Coming 2026-10-16
39 Chapter 39 : Welcome to the Purgatory of Mankind. 2026-10-16
40 Chapter 40 : Trial 2026-10-16
41 Chapter 41 : Whether We Can Win Doesn’t Matter at All 2026-10-16
42 Chapter 42 : Joyful Welcome to the Royal Army 2026-10-16
43 Chapter 43 : As Long as I Am Here, the Alos Family Will Remain! 2026-10-16
44 Chapter 44 : The Nobles’ Preventive Work 2026-10-16
45 Chapter 45 : What the heck? Crude Oil! 2026-10-16
46 Chapter 46 : Came Fast, Ended Even Faster~ 2026-10-16
47 Chapter 47 : Should We Jump? 2026-10-16
48 Chapter 48 : Blood of the Demon 2026-10-16
49 Chapter 49 : The People Will Rise Upon the Ruins of the Empire 2026-10-16
50 Chapter 50 : Cut Off Their Retreat! 2026-10-16

‘This is… where?’

‘I didn’t die?’

The reborn An Ning struggled to open her eyes, but the dazzling brightness made them water uncontrollably.

She blinked rapidly, but the tears welling in her eyes blurred her vision, allowing her to see only the culprit that made her cry.

Countless small glowing specks of light seemed to be floating around her.

An Ning instinctively tried to sit up, but no matter how hard she tried to control her body, her hands remained weak and powerless.

She couldn’t even feel them.

The loss of control over her limbs made her panic.

‘I’ll be damned, am I crippled?!’

‘Come to think of it, I was crushed by a bookshelf. If I only ended up crippled, wouldn’t that count as good luck?’

Her ragged breathing startled awake the woman who had dozed off beside the luxurious bed.

The woman forced open her swollen eyes, and when she saw An Ning awake, she rushed to her side and gently touched her forehead.

The feverish heat from before was gone, and with joy she shouted toward the door:

“Anje! Quickly! Go and fetch Father Karls, Mitia’s fever is starting to fade!”

A young girl’s voice from outside was equally filled with delight: “Really? Madam, I’ll go right now!”

An Ning frowned.

Her vision seemed faulty, as though she had activated some infrared scanner.

She could see human shapes but not their details.

Not knowing what was happening, she chose to close her eyes again.

At least she could be sure of one thing—she was not dead.

That alone was enough.

Before long, she heard the door creak open, followed by a calm middle-aged man’s voice whispering softly near her.

A warm power flowed into her body.

The man in spotless white priestly robes turned to Eliza and nodded.

“Awakening successful. Congratulations.”

Relieved at last, Eliza leaned on Anje and covered her mouth, sobbing quietly.

The middle-aged priest’s face showed pity.

The beautiful marquise before him, with her belly already swollen, had nearly lost her father-in-law, her husband, and her child all within one week.

Thankfully, the child had survived.

Otherwise, the poor woman would have been dragged to the stake by the furious people.

After weighing the matter, the priest sighed and said:

“Marquis Ackerman and Marquis Harmon sacrificed themselves for the nation. Without doubt, they are both heroes of the kingdom! My lady, please accept my condolences.”

Eliza wiped her tears and whispered: “Yes! I will always be proud of my husband and father-in-law. I will raise and properly teach the children of the Astal family!”

Meanwhile, An Ning, feigning sleep, was dumbfounded.

“I actually died and crossed over?!”

She had just graduated as a cowardly university student and hadn’t even stepped out of campus.

She had skipped thirty years of detours and become the school’s librarian right away.

How had she already died within a year?

Crushed to death by a collapsing bookshelf… just perfect.

But then again, wasn’t this fitting?

A crispy shark was indeed crispy, fragile yet stubborn.

Even flattened into a paper figure, she could still be reborn…

…

Time passed quietly.

In the middle of the vast estate, beneath an ancient tree, the Astal family servants set up a grand parasol with chairs and tables.

After recovering from her grave illness, the marquis’s eldest daughter came here almost every day to sit for hours and take the marquise out for a walk.

“This drought… who knows when it will end. The people of the land must be suffering so much now, sigh…”

A year had passed, and though Eliza had barely emerged from grief, her beautiful face still carried a trace of sorrow.

Even the exquisite pastries on the table before her could not stir her appetite.

“Three years of tax exemption, relief grain distribution… Kambesburg and Sivius City have already raised their grain prices fivefold. We have already done everything the Astal family could possibly do.”

“Sadly, there are already reports of poor folk starving to death. Just yesterday, more than a dozen cases occurred, and the number is rising.”

The silver-haired girl sitting quietly beside her lifted a teacup brimming with milk-scented red tea and said calmly.

Her violet eyes held no hint of emotion, as though she were merely commenting on how good the tea was today.

In truth, her attention was fixed on the projection in her retina—a dynamic diagram showing the internal and external structures of an early steam locomotive, along with its operating principles.

Yes, this girl was An Ning.

After waking, she had discovered a strange system in her mind, filled with countless technological materials—though most of it was locked.

While recovering, she had been studying both this new world and whatever knowledge she could access from the system.

When she heard that people were starving to death, Eliza could not help but ask: “What more can we do?”

An Ning—now Mitia—shifted her gaze back and shook her head.

“There is nothing we can do. If we buy at five times the price, then next time it will be ten times… twenty times… until we are completely drained of money.”

“Mm-mmm…”

She patted the golden-haired little one squirming and whining in her arms, then continued:

“Mother, it is not that we turn a blind eye, but that the power over food lies not with us. It is those grain-hoarding nobles and merchants who cut off the commoners’ lifeline.”

Eliza’s chest heaved with anger as she cursed: “Those greedy, damned parasites! They should be hanged in the barren wheat fields!”

Mitia actually nodded in agreement.

“Yes, if that happens, next year’s wheat harvest will certainly be much better.”

Before Eliza could say more, a maid hurried over, bowed, and said:

“My lady, a caravan has arrived outside. They claim to be from Kambesburg and request to see you. All their wagons are filled with grain!”

Excitement filled the young maid’s tone.

She was a child born and raised in Uruk City, and her family too had suffered from the famine.

“They’re here? Then let’s go, take me to them.”

The little one resting drowsily against her neck stirred as Mitia rose to her feet.

Eliza, who moments ago had been burning with fury, now covered her mouth in surprise.

She quickly realized what had happened.

“Mitia… you bought it?”

Mitia nodded slightly.

“I bought it at five times the price. But afterward they raised it to ten times. That is why I so strongly agreed with what you said earlier—they truly should be hanged in the wheat fields.”

“I assure you, you will one day see it happen.”

Eliza gazed lovingly at Mitia’s departing back.

The little one who had once waited eagerly for her parents and grandfather to return had truly grown up.

And yet…

Eliza wrinkled her nose and glanced at the column of smoke rising from the depths of the estate.

“I wonder what Mitia is tinkering with this time… filthy as always.”

…

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