Release That Witch Explained (Full Story Summary, Characters & Ending)

At its core, Release That Witch is a story about rebuilding a society. Roland Wimbledon, a reincarnated engineer, uses knowledge from a modern world to develop technology, protect witches, and establish a new political order.

Instead of focusing only on battles, the story emphasizes engineering, governance, industrial growth, and social change.

Chen Yan travels through time, becoming an honorable prince in a world set in the medieval age. Yet this world is not quite as simple as he thought. Witches with magical powers abound, and fearsome wars between the Church and kingdoms rage throughout the land.

Roland, a prince regarded as hopeless by his own father and assigned to the worst fief, spends his time developing a poor and backward town into a strong and modern city, while battling his siblings for the throne and absolute control over the kingdom.

As Roland befriends witches, he combines their superior magic prowess with his own technological inventions, gradually ascending toward the throne while resisting enemies from both within the kingdom and beyond the world he first understood.

Early Story: Survival and Foundation

Roland arrives in a remote town and begins building infrastructure while protecting witches from persecution. His earliest wins come from practical engineering, better governance, and turning outcasts into allies.

Middle Story: Expansion and Conflict

As Roland's power grows, he faces political struggles, the Church, and wider conflicts between kingdoms. The story expands from local survival into military strategy, industrial scale-up, and factional competition.

Late Story: War and Truth

The plot grows into large-scale war and reveals deeper truths about the world, including the Divine Will War and the origin of magic. By this stage, the story is no longer only about one town or kingdom, but about the fate of civilization itself.

Quick Takeaways

• Witch powers are all different, and only a minority of witches are suited for direct combat.
• Abilities are not completely fixed. They can evolve as a witch's understanding and control deepen.
• Divine Stones suppress magic, while magic stones and sigils form the technical side of the setting's magic system.
• The Months of Demons, the Divine Will War, and the Dreamworld each explain a different layer of the setting: seasonal crisis, civilizational war, and hidden truth.
• The larger story is not just about one throne. It is about how civilizations survive and evolve in a high-magic world.

Witch Powers

Witch abilities are extremely varied, but truly combat-capable witches make up only about one tenth of all witches. Transcendents are even rarer, with an appearance rate closer to one in a thousand. This is why Roland concludes that witches alone were never enough to overturn ordinary human society: not every witch can fight, and not every combat witch is overwhelmingly strong.

Ability types are also not absolutely fixed. A support witch may evolve into a combat witch, and a summoning ability may later develop enchantment-like effects. Over centuries, powers can resemble each other, but almost never repeat exactly. Even something as simple as fire can differ between sustained burning and explosive heat output.

Magic also improves the witch's body, learning ability, and aging rate. Witches are generally stronger than ordinary people, absorb knowledge more quickly, and age more slowly. Another major rule of the setting is that once a girl awakens as a witch, she loses the ability to bear children.

Ability Categories

Category System	Type	Explanation
Traditional	Combat Type	Abilities suited for direct combat.
Traditional	Support Type	Abilities more useful in production, healing, scouting, or utility roles.
By Mechanism	Self-Enhancement	The ability passively affects the witch's own body and is not disrupted by Divine Stones. These witches are also unusually sensitive to the flow and shape of magic.
By Mechanism	Summoning · Magic Form	Requires continuous magic output to maintain. This is the type most affected by Divine Stones and anti-magic fields.
By Mechanism	Summoning · Shaping Form	Once the creation is complete, the result can continue to exist for a long time.
By Mechanism	Enchantment	Magic is infused into an object to give it a sustained effect. The process is slow and expensive, but once complete, the enchanted property becomes stable.

Awakening and Evolution

1. Initial Awakening

Girls usually awaken in their early teens and gain both magical power and an initial ability. The chance of awakening rises sharply during the Months of Demons, when magic is at its strongest. If a girl reaches adulthood without awakening, she is generally considered unable to become a witch.

2. Adult Stabilization

At the age of eighteen, a witch experiences stabilization. Her total magic capacity rises sharply, and some witches gain branch abilities at this stage. A very small number awaken on the exact same day they come of age, in which case they do not receive the usual stabilization increase.

3. High-Level Awakening

High-level awakening comes from a leap in understanding. A witch deepens her knowledge of science, magic, and herself, then fuses that insight back into her ability. The result is a qualitative transformation. In general, systematic learning produces stronger and more stable evolution than a moment of accidental enlightenment. Self-enhancement witches who reach the highest level are known as "Above Transcendents."

Divine Stones

Divine Stones are minerals that interfere with magical effects in a surrounding area. Their most important function is to create anti-magic zones. Each stone has a different radius and vibration pattern, and large natural pieces are harder than steel.

They can only be cut using blood infused with magic, which means witches and demons can do it, while lesser beasts usually cannot. Once cut apart, a stone rapidly loses both hardness and anti-magic range as its size decreases.

Magic Stones

Magic stones are best understood as magical devices with preset functions. They can store magic and produce a single designed effect. There are two main ways they are made:

1. A Chaos Beast consumes a Divine Stone and transforms it.
2. A Divine Stone is soaked in a mixture of witch blood and demon blood, then infused with magic.

A single magic stone usually performs only one specific function. If multiple stones are linked together, they can form a sigil, which can alter the nature of magic or amplify abilities. The more stones a sigil contains, the more magic it consumes. The strongest of all are known as God's Will Sigils, and their core materials come from high-ranking demons.

The Months of Demons

The Months of Demons usually arrive around winter and often last two to three months, though some periods extend beyond four. In western Graycastle, they are marked by constant snowfall and repeated monster attacks on human settlements.

At the same time, this is also the season when magic is at its highest point in the world. In other words, the setting's greatest seasonal disaster is also the time when the greatest number of new witches can awaken.

The Divine Will War

The Divine Will War is a repeating war between species. Its purpose is not merely territory, but the seizure of Inheritance Fragments, also called divine relics. Victors absorb the other side's accumulated knowledge and use it to evolve further, while losers are erased.

This makes the war something more than ordinary conquest. It is a system for selecting civilizations. According to legend, a race that gathers all Inheritance Fragments can open the road to a higher world.

The Dreamworld

The Dreamworld is a special realm Roland opens within the world of consciousness, using memories from his previous life as its foundation. He can only enter it while asleep. It resembles a modern civilization, but it also contains a force called Natural Power, which is how magic manifests there.

Those who awaken Natural Power in the Dreamworld are called martial artists. God's Punishment witches, Above Transcendents, and demon Kings can all establish links to this realm. It is both an extension of Roland's personal experience and one of the setting's most important late-stage truth mechanisms.

Main Timeline of Events

1. The Gate Plan and the Omniscient Guardian

Long ago, a super-civilization tried to reverse the growth of entropy in the universe. Together with 176,425 civilizations, it launched the Gate Plan and created a superintelligence called the Omniscient Guardian to supervise it. The plan succeeded, but magic flooded into the universe and instantly destroyed most life, including the civilization that started it. Only the Omniscient Guardian survived and continued its mission.

2. The Cradle World and the So-Called Gods

To cultivate life that could survive in a high-magic environment, the Omniscient Guardian created the Cradle World and placed into it the genetic information of many extinct species. To accelerate selection, it used the Divine Will War to force civilizations into repeated slaughter. In other words, the "gods" of the setting are actually the Omniscient Guardian.

3. Humanity's Defeat and the Rise of the Union

After countless rounds of the Divine Will War, humans, demons, the underground civilization, and the Sky-Sea Realm entered a new cycle of conflict. The underground civilization fell first. Humanity then lost a centuries-long war against demons, retreated from the Dawn Region to the Fertile Plains, and later lost even more ground. Because ordinary humans had performed so poorly, witches removed their authority and established the Union.

4. The Second Divine Will War

Many years later, the second Divine Will War between humanity and demons broke out. In the thirty-fifth year of the war, Taquila, the final holy city, fell. Humanity was defeated again and forced to retreat into the Barbarian Lands.

5. The Union Splits

To resist the demons, the witches proposed two opposing paths: the God's Punishment Army Plan and the Chosen One Plan. One treated witches as expendable fuel; the other required preserving large numbers of them. The conflict became irreconcilable. The Union split, with one side founding what would become the Church, while the other hid in the underground labyrinth to continue the Chosen One Plan.

6. The Four Kingdoms and the Witch-Hunting Era

After the Union's collapse, ordinary humans rose again and established the Four Kingdoms in the Barbarian Lands. At the same time, the Church's power center gradually shifted from witches to ordinary humans. Combined with the blood required to manufacture God's Punishment soldiers, this eventually produced a long era of witch-hunting.

7. Roland's Arrival

Centuries later, the enormous energy released by the Gate Plan pulled Cheng Yan, a man from a parallel universe without magic, into the Cradle World, where he became Roland Wimbledon. That is where the main story begins.