First Battle at the Shipyard

Above the bustling Hawknest City, a wooden boat carrying forty people and radiating a bizarre aura sailed silently through the air.

A full forty Furnace Witches sat quietly aboard the vessel, their minds receiving the Occult Knowledge Gift Package from Tang Qi.

Normally, Transcendental beings who had just come into contact with the Mystic Side needed time to learn such knowledge. But Tang Qi intended not only to skip that process; he kept stuffing more and more knowledge into the package, far beyond what newcomers ought to know.

Had anyone been close enough, they would have heard him muttering as he added to it.

"The general structure of the Transcendental World, common professions, major Supernatural Organizations... these are all common knowledge. One copy for each of you."

"But the Compendium of Evil God Sacrifices, Practical Methods for Sacrificing Evil Gods, the rules for using Furnace Magic Power... these are all my Personal Secret Manual. Those 'smart people' would need at least several years of experience, and the luck to survive, before they could possibly master them."

Very soon, Tang Qi's knowledge infusion ended.

Yet apart from him, no one else aboard the Ship of Fools woke up.

Their consciousness returned to their own bodies, only to enter a difficult process of digestion.

Even though the witches aboard the ship were all, in essence, absolute "geniuses," according to the numbers, these forty people and the twenty who had not come to the appointment had each stood out from Hawknest City's metropolitan population of tens of millions.

But no matter how gifted they were, it could not change the fact that they were still rookies.

They needed some time to digest the Torrent of Knowledge Tang Qi had forcibly poured into them.

"A newly awakened, ordinary Furnace Witch who enters the Mystic