Tricks Dedicated to Witches - Ch. 22 - Witches’ Sabbath

[MangaDex]

 

[TheMilkyWay]

nice chapter!

 

[johnhang123]

Noice

 

[Up_to_no_good]

Oh, look, another lame villain.

 

[EKappaZ]

thjehthe legggs

 

[Kuutearica]

BLESS

 

[bruhclone]

BOOBA

 

[vannn]

Helga went from punching MC to necking in less than 3-4 chapters, are we sure he is not an isekai protagonist?

I’m curious why our antagonist wants the perpetually extend the witch-hunts, or why he would think that would happen despite the industrial revolution.

 

[fak_boi]

Thanks for the great scans!

 

[mugfugginbigboi]

The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. They have greatly increased the life-expectancy of those of us who live in “advanced” countries, but they have destabilized society, have made life unfulfilling, have subjected human beings to indignities, have led to widespread psychological suffering (in the Third World to physical suffering as well) and have inflicted severe damage on the natural world. The continued development of technology will worsen the situation. It will certainly subject human being to greater indignities and inflict greater damage on the natural world, it will probably lead to greater social disruption and psychological suffering, and it may lead to increased physical suffering even in “advanced” countries. The industrial-technological system may survive or it may break down. If it survives, it MAY eventually achieve a low level of physical and psychological suffering, but only after passing through a long and very painful period of adjustment and only at the cost of permanently reducing human beings and many other living organisms to engineered products and mere cogs in the social machine. Furthermore, if the system survives, the consequences will be inevitable: There is no way of reforming or modifying the system so as to prevent it from depriving people of dignity and autonomy. If the system breaks down the consequences will still be very painful. But the bigger the system grows the more disastrous the results of its breakdown will be, so if it is to break down it had best break down sooner rather than later. We therefore advocate a revolution against the industrial system. This revolution may or may not make use of violence; it may be sudden or it may be a relatively gradual process spanning a few decades. We can’t predict any of that. But we do outline in a very general way the measures that those who hate the industrial system should take in order to prepare the way for a revolution against that form of society. This is not to be a POLITICAL revolution. Its object will be to overthrow not governments but the economic and technological basis of the present society. In this article we give attention to only some of the negative developments that have grown out of the industrial-technological system. Other such developments we mention only briefly or ignore altogether. This does not mean that we regard these other developments as unimportant. For practical reasons we have to confine our discussion to areas that have received insufficient public attention or in which we have something new to say. For example, since there are well-developed environmental and wilderness movements, we have written very little about environmental degradation or the destruction of wild nature, even though we consider these to be highly important.

 

[Jarkko]

So his motive is to basically keep the belief in real magic alive? It's pretty dumb but I guess I can kinda buy the whole wonder of magic and never revealing the trick being taken to the absolute extreme. Maybe it's just the age old science and superstition should only be used by a small elite group to control the populace through fear motive.

 

[ryouhira]

@vannn Magito IS isekai protagonist

and for the antagonist, you know how magito "disappointed with present but satisfied with past"? the antagonist thought if industrial age never come, magic (or miracle) would never lose its charm, and for that to happen he need to extend witchhunt.

 

[RimuruXD]

@mugfugginbigboi
It will also lead to the control of nature. If we do things right, within just a hundred years we will reach a Stage 1 Civilization status and be able to control our entire planet. Control Global Warming, work with artificial intelligence and create simulations of our race like never before. Industrial Revolution was inevitable, the fact that our race is able to fix the damage USING the Industrial Revolution is remarkable.

@lugia19 Ah, I'm stupid

 

[lugia19]

@RimuruXD it's just a paste of the unabomber's manifesto

Based anprim comrade

 

[need4speedrazor6]

That's a male.

 

[RC1138Boss]

Lol that guy was confessing to the wrong woman.

 

[Joviper]

Given how the antagonist is shown to not care about human life, I don't think he's trying to stop the industrial revolution for the planet or for humanity, I think it's closer to hating women and taking pleasure in sentencing them to horrible deaths, since in a previous chapter he tells the others that he hired the knife guy because of his woman hating personality.

 

[Vasqueztion]

I am still under the belief that the high priest isn't a timetraveler like the protagonist. But it's the mother that came back and he's tortured this information out of her.
He wants to keep the industrial age at bay because he will lose a good majority of his powerhold over the "world".

 

[Nintendoomed89]

He's also from the future!?
*surprised Pikachu face*

Also I got major confused boner with Makito there

 

[commandodude]

@mugfugginbigboi This whole comment is kind of silly. Life before the industrial revolution was filled with widespread suffering, endless toil, instability, and brutality on untold scales, eclipsed only for a brief moment during the two world wars. Even the so called third world lives a life that is relatively better than that of the illiterate serf or slave of feudal system. The only thing unique to the Industrial Revolution is pollution, which we have been developing methods of reducing and eliminating for the past 100 years.