Chapter Summaries

After the Immortal Count Incident ended, Tang Qi claimed Diana's Corpse and left the remaining Curios to the Church and Jensen's side. He discovered that the Melada Witches were dying from the Blasphemous Blood Curse's backlash and pulled Esmeralda's soul into an illusion to try to save her.

• Gluttony swallowed Diana's Corpse, while Tang Qi left the other battlefield Curios for the Church and Jensen's side.
• Wild supernatural beings discussed Tang Qi's role in the battle and speculated that he was a Scholar.
• Tang Qi found Esmeralda and the other Melada Witches near death from the curse's backlash and their earlier injuries.
• The Tree Fiend wrapped the Witches in emerald leaves and tried to sustain them with life force.
• Tang Qi cast an Illusion Incantation and drew Esmeralda's soul into a vivid illusion to revive her desire to live.

Tang Qi, Jensen, and Raphael left Winston Town and traveled by plane toward Mihuang City, where Tang Qi was due to take up his post. As Jensen questioned Tang Qi about the aftermath of the Immortal Count Incident, Tang Qi’s thoughts turned to Sally’s dangerously surging Misfortune Magic and why he had left her behind.

• Tang Qi, Jensen, and Raphael emerged in Raine Airport and headed to the VIP lounge for their flight to Mihuang City.
• Jensen teased Tang Qi about taking a plane and asked how Tang Qi had persuaded Esmeralda to recover her will to live.
• Tang Qi recalled using Crimson and the Illusion Incantation to show Esmeralda an alluring future as a bestselling cartoonist, helping save the Melada Witches.
• Jensen asked why Tang Qi had not brought Sally, and Tang Qi recalled her unexpected kiss after she woke from the Immortal Count Incident.
• Tang Qi remembered that Sally’s Misfortune Magic had surged toward losing control, prompting him to leave her behind while he went to Mihuang City.

Tang Qi traveled toward Mihuang City with Jensen and Raphael, carrying new recognition as a Scholar and the mysterious Diana's Corpse. While waiting to leave, Gluttony tricked Jensen into drinking its Delicious Meat Soup, which weakened him temporarily but genuinely increased his strength.

• Tang Qi explained that Sally and the Melada Witch Group had entered a secret realm, while Jensen and Raphael would accompany him to Mihuang City.
• Tang Qi discussed his growing reputation, including his titles as Scholar and Lucky Man, and his newly accepted role as principal of a special school.
• The Manor Bureau and the Church allowed Tang Qi to keep Diana's Corpse because it was stable, bound to him, and Tang Qi was recognized as a controller among the Witches.
• Gluttony shared its Delicious Meat Soup with Jensen after Tang Qi described its ingredients and benefits but omitted its unpleasant effect.
• Jensen drank the soup, collapsed from its awful taste, then recovered enough to confirm that it had increased his strength.

Tang Qi readied himself to take over Melada Special Education School, the Witch Group’s most important current asset, while traveling back to Mihuang City aboard the private plane Black Swan. The documents revealed the school’s origins and mission, leaving Tang Qi to assume the principal’s role as its students and witches faced a changed situation.

• Jensen recovered after drinking Tang Qi’s Delicious Meat Soup, and flight attendant Gloria arrived to escort Tang Qi, Jensen, and Raphael aboard the Black Swan.
• Raphael explained that the Manor Bureau’s William was unavailable, so the three accepted a ride on a noble’s private plane bound for Mihuang City.
• After boarding the Black Swan, Tang Qi took out documents about Melada Special Education School to prepare for taking Esmeralda’s place in overseeing it.
• Tang Qi learned that Esmeralda’s mother founded the school to shelter special children, and that Esmeralda and the witches later expanded it into a semi-official institution.
• The documents showed that the school’s enrollment had surged after the Spirit Tide returned, but the witches had left to resolve the Immortal Count curse and Tang Qi would now take charge.

On the flight to Mihuang City, Tang Qi read the files on Melada Special Education School and learned that it contained dangerous children with extraordinary powers. He realized that, as the new principal, he had inherited a containment organization’s burdens, and the chapter left him contemplating how severe the situation had become.

• Tang Qi read the school’s history and suspected Esmeralda’s mother had founded it as a refuge and training ground in preparation for the threat posed by First Generation Melada.
• Tang Qi examined the school’s layout and staff list, learning that its extensive campuses were mostly unused and that its faculty had no Professional Level members.
• Tang Qi read Nydia’s profile and learned that harming her or provoking negative emotions could kill nearby life forms, while killing intent could cause her power to erase someone from any distance.
• Tang Qi read John’s profile and learned that he drained life force from people within fourteen meters, aging them to death while his own appearance also grew old.
• Tang Qi concluded that becoming principal meant taking responsibility for containing dangerous students like Nydia and John, then wondered whether the situation had become even more severe.

Tang Qi reviewed the dangerous students at Melada Special Education School and considered taking control of the institution, then arrived in Mihuang City with Raphael and Jensen as a riot engulfed the Main City District. The chapter ended with Jensen ordering their driver to use a special pass and take them into the unrest.

• Tang Qi read Shirley's file and learned that her ancient Ice and Snow Witch bloodline made her dangerous without a suitable Mentor.
• Tang Qi, Raphael, and Jensen arrived in Mihuang City aboard the Black Swan and met their agent-driver.
• The agent warned them that rioters were advancing toward the Main City District and advised them to return to Fort William.
• The group saw fires, looting, assaults, and crowds spreading across the district from across the sealed bridge.
• Jensen ordered the driver to use their special pass and drive into the riot.

Tang Qi, Jensen, and Raphael entered riot-torn Mihuang City and stopped a mob led by a supernatural youth. Tang Qi identified the youth’s Doomsday Rune and began interrogating him with Crimson as the group sought to uncover the cult’s launch points.

• Jensen ordered the agent driving them to block several hundred rioters heading toward the Main City District.
• The mob’s leader, a Black youth with a purple scorpion tattoo, used bewitching words to turn the crowd against the group.
• Jensen charged into the crowd and subdued the rioters, while the leader tried to flee and Jensen broke his arms.
• Tang Qi spotted a Doomsday Rune on the youth and identified it as a curio that enhanced him and contaminated his mind.
• The youth entered a frenzy and revealed that the uprising was spreading across every district, prompting Jensen to call for the launch points to be found.
• Tang Qi used Crimson to pull the youth’s soul into an illusory world and begin interrogating him.

Tang Qi encountered two students fleeing supernatural attackers while on his way to report for duty at Melada Special Education School. After defeating the attackers, he learned the school was in danger and took the siblings back with him.

• Tang Qi learned that the Doomsday Cult planned coordinated riots across Mihuang City, and Jensen and Raphael left to call in the military.
• While crossing a chaotic street, Tang Qi saw a young Sleeper lead civilians against seven Lizardmen so he could escape with his sister, Little Lion Girl.
• Tang Qi found the siblings hiding in an alley and showed them his Melada badge, gaining their trust.
• Tang Qi hypnotized the Lizardmen and learned what was happening inside Melada Special Education School.
• Tang Qi forced the Lizardmen to kill one another, burned their bodies, and set off with the siblings toward the school.

Tang Qi returned to Melada Special Education School with Nina and Noah and found it devastated by a raid that had killed staff and Witches. After discovering that Aisy had survived because Grandma Maggie protected her, Tang Qi confronted the intruders and recognized their leader as a Fallen Witch seeking revenge.

• Tang Qi brought Nina and Noah into the ruined school, where they found the bodies of intruders, staff, and Witches scattered through the building.
• Noah and Nina recognized Grandma Maggie and Aisy among the dead, and Tang Qi discovered that Aisy was still alive because Maggie had protected her with spells.
• More than a dozen intruders confronted Tang Qi, including Lizardmen, Carrion Eaters, Patchwork Creatures, and Deformed Hounds.
• A Fallen Witch appeared before Tang Qi, and he realized that her faction had returned to take revenge on the Melada Witches.

Tang Qi killed the monsters in the Outer Annex and entered the Lake Island Secret Realm, where the invaders were attacking Melada Special Education School. He arrived as the Fallen Witch leader threatened the students and staff and reached for the secret realm’s mysterious lighthouse and stone pillars.

• Tang Qi seized the Fallen Witch’s hand in Golden Flame and killed her and more than a dozen monsters.
• Tang Qi reached the top floor of the Outer Annex and saw a portal showing monsters rampaging through a castle and hunting the school’s students.
• The Fallen Witch leader overwhelmed the blonde Witch’s protective barrier, leaving the students and staff exposed to her poisonous mist.
• The Fallen Witch leader advanced on the lighthouse and stone pillars, claiming the secret realm and its weapons for her group.
• Tang Qi viewed the Lake Island Secret Realm through the portal, then entered it with killing intent.

Tang Qi arrived at Dragonheart Castle during a Fallen Witch assault, rescued the poisoned students and staff, and destroyed the attackers. He then ordered the remaining uninvited guests to leave through a doorway to Green Dragon Ridge Lake, giving them ten breaths.

• The Fallen Witch leader began transforming the poisoned students and staff, but Tang Qi’s fire burned away the poisonous mist and destroyed most of the monsters.
• Tang Qi arrived carrying a blood-covered girl, introduced himself as the new principal, and showed the sapphire-eyed Witch Esmeralda’s silver badge.
• Tang Qi raised a golden barrier against the Fallen Witches’ attacks and told their leader that Esmeralda’s judgment of them had been correct.
• Tang Qi dispelled the barrier and used Crimson and golden flames to kill the Fallen Witches and the remaining monsters.
• Tang Qi opened a doorway to Green Dragon Ridge Lake and told all uninvited guests that the school and its Magic Channels were closed and they had ten breaths to leave.

Tang Qi expelled hidden supernatural scouts and activated Lake Island Secret Realm’s defenses, turning the island and Green Dragon Ridge Lake upside down to seal the school. After the students were sent to recover, Professor Eva stayed behind and offered to guide him around.

• Tang Qi used his killing intent to force six concealed supernatural visitors to reveal themselves and leave the secret realm.
• Tang Qi activated Secret Realm Inversion, embedding Lake Island Secret Realm behind a barrier that sealed off all channels.
• Raphael and Jensen observed the upheaval at Green Dragon Ridge Lake, and Raphael won their wager that Tang Qi could handle the attackers without help.
• Tang Qi reassured the students and sent the teachers to tend to the wounded after his Furnace Power was exhausted.
• Tang Qi examined Professor Eva and learned she was an injured White Witch who had avoided the Professional Trial; Eva offered to guide him around the school.

Tang Qi toured Dragonheart Castle with Professor Eva and then entered its heavily guarded Library Tower to explore the supernatural knowledge within. The chapter left him opening the tower’s door with eager anticipation.

• Professor Eva guided Tang Qi through the Upper, Middle, and Lower Districts of the Lake Island Secret Realm.
• Tang Qi and Eva visited the Headmaster’s Office, where Eva blushed at Esmeralda’s colored comics before Tang Qi ended the tour.
• Tang Qi left the office and examined the supernatural guardian statues protecting the Library Tower.
• Tang Qi recognized the Odovar Serpent Eagle statue as a former potential pet and approached the tower safely with the Witch Leader’s Token.
• Tang Qi pushed open the Library Tower’s rune-carved door, eager to see its collection of supernatural books.

Tang Qi studied the Library Tower’s books to clarify how his professions advanced and decided which abilities to prioritize. After Melada Special Education School reopened, he hosted a bonfire party and faced a student’s question about whether he was Mihuang City’s strongest.

• Tang Qi explored the Library Tower and read the Compendium of Transcendental Professions and Secrets of Promotion, learning how professional ranks and secret medicine schools worked.
• Tang Qi decided to pursue advancement as a Furnace Witch and Primitive Secret Medicine apprentice while continuing to practice Ralph Witchcraft.
• Melada Special Education School reopened after reconstruction, and Tang Qi chose a bonfire party instead of a public opening ceremony.
• Tang Qi welcomed the students, teachers, and guests at the party, introduced himself, and agreed to answer the students’ questions.
• Noah asked Tang Qi whether he had killed two Demigods and was now the strongest person in Mihuang City.

On his first day as principal, Tang Qi recounted how he had outmaneuvered the Immortal Count and the First Generation Melada Witch, while Raphael helped him reshape his reputation. He then served supernatural dishes to the school community and confirmed that the dreadful food granted temporary powers and happiness.

• Tang Qi told the students how he had discovered the Immortal Count’s weakness and arranged for Esmeralda and the Witches to use the Blasphemous Blood Curse against the First Generation Melada Witch.
• Raphael recorded Tang Qi’s account, and the two agreed that the report would spread a version of events that softened his dangerous Demigod Bane reputation.
• Tang Qi answered the students’ questions, then escaped to prepare food while Savoy mixed free drinks for the party.
• Tang Qi cooked supernatural dishes from the Supernatural Creature Culinary Guide and served them to the assembled students, staff, and guests.
• Tang Qi confirmed that the awful dishes granted one-time supernatural healing effects and stimulated joyful emotions, making them his Source of Happiness.

Tang Qi celebrated with the students using magical fireworks, then visited Shirley, the unstable Ice and Snow Witch hidden beyond the White Lighthouse. After winning her trust by asking about the fireworks, he entered her cabin with a gift for her.

• Tang Qi launched spectacular magical fireworks over Lake Island, delighting the children, teachers, caregivers, and guests.
• Professor Eva led everyone in prayers for the victims and a Requiem, after which a vast dragon of light rose from the lake and dissolved into a rain of light.
• Tang Qi passed the White Lighthouse's judgment with the help of his silver badge and reached the cabin hidden beyond the cliff.
• Shirley conjured a blizzard to drive Tang Qi away, but eased the storm when he called her by name.
• Tang Qi recognized Shirley's ancient, unstable Ice and Snow Witch bloodline and asked whether she had liked the fireworks; she said they were pretty.
• Tang Qi opened the cabin door, entered its warm interior, and offered Shirley a second gift as a bribe from her new headmaster.

Tang Qi temporarily halted Shirley’s ancestral reversion and promised to help her control her power, then went to investigate another Level Five Danger Source named Hannah. He entered her cottage and found a bleak residential building and forest, where a hostile child’s voice invited him to play hide-and-seek.

• Tang Qi used Furnace Power and the Body Control Spell to gather Shirley’s bloodline power and restore her warmth and bodily sensations for three days.
• Tang Qi promised Shirley continued help and lessons, then left magical desserts for her before departing.
• Tang Qi reached the cottage bearing Hannah’s name and recalled that her danger was difficult to resolve.
• Tang Qi opened Hannah’s cottage and found a weathered seven-story residential building beside a bleak forest.
• A childish voice invited Tang Qi to play hide-and-seek, and he sensed intense malice.

Tang Qi entered Hannah’s supernatural hide-and-seek game and discovered her split entities were caused by an unknown extradimensional infection. He found six entities before the deadline, but the infection’s growing power still threatened future danger.

• Tang Qi witnessed visions of Hannah being abandoned as a child, her song driving adults mad, and a fire consuming the town.
• Hannah appeared as ten identical figures and challenged Tang Qi to play hide-and-seek while the nursery rhyme named only the Sixth through Ninth Girls.
• Tang Qi recalled the warnings about Hannah’s deadly game and agreed to play after realizing the challenge could reveal information about her.
• Tang Qi used magic and Furnace Power to locate Hannah’s entities, then learned they were infected split entities with evolving powers that could eventually escape their limits.
• Tang Qi found six entities within the time limit, reaching the ash-black forest as the sixth entity smiled at him.

Tang Qi discovered that Hannah’s later split entities were Dominant Entities and devised a way to reverse the process consuming her soul. He captured the first seven Hannahs with Crimson and ordered them to assimilate, leaving the result unresolved.

• Tang Qi repeatedly refused Sixth Hannah and verified Esmeralda’s report about the Safe Zone and the game’s early stages.
• Tang Qi found that Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Hannah were Dominant Entities capable of devouring the other entities, then returned to the game’s starting point to consider how to break the cycle.
• Tang Qi concluded that he could reverse Hannah’s descent by preserving the game while changing its process.
• Tang Qi used Crimson to capture the first six Hannahs and then Sixth Hannah, enduring Seventh Hannah’s mental attack as he captured her too.
• Tang Qi commanded the seven Hannahs inside Crimson’s world to assimilate, and watched their expressions begin to change.

Tang Qi used the crimson world and his Mental Power to reverse the assimilation loop affecting Hannah and bring all ten Hannahs back to their Healing Pods. The Hannahs were now safe, and Tang Qi promised they would not have to remain in that state forever.

• Tang Qi helped the kind and tolerant Hannahs overcome the Dominant Entity and drew Eighth Hannah and Ninth Hannah into the crimson world to assimilate them.
• Tang Qi faced the destructive Tenth Hannah, nearly exhausting his Furnace Power to draw her into the crimson world, where she too became kind and tolerant.
• The forest and abandoned building shattered, and Tang Qi returned to the cabin with the ten Healing Pods.
• Tang Qi sent the ten transformed souls back into their bodies, and all ten Hannahs woke up and thanked him.
• Tang Qi promised to help Hannah recover, and the Hannahs asked him to play games with them afterward.