Witch Catherine

Biodata

Power Progression

Background and History

Origins and Early Research

Catherine rose from a small Wizard Land rather than receiving her initial training within Cloud Marsh Wetland’s major institutions. She deliberately concealed her nonacademic past, arguing that knowledge of someone’s history allows others to predict their thinking and gain power over them 589 620.

Her early research reportedly included spending seven years making a plum tree more beautiful. That work led to the Light Element Backflow Mutation Mechanism and eventually the Rainbow Resonance Cultivation Method. However, Catherine later questioned whether the popular account of her youthful fascination with seven-colored flowers was true, pointing out that she herself had supplied the story 529 589.

Friendship and Split with Anna

Truth Wizard Thomas Lysen selected Catherine and Anna from the Azure Fairy Wilderness and helped them oppose the former Black Iron Tower master in the Southern Witch Capital. Catherine describes Anna as a former best friend who supported her through dangerous circumstances; together, they defeated a Third-Ring Wizard who intended to seize their bodies 1052 1148.

Their relationship broke down over incompatible principles. Catherine joined Golden Crown Mountain rather than the Rose Council, while Anna returned to the Tacitus Family. Catherine secretly helped Anna purge the family, but Anna subsequently used Catherine’s involvement as leverage to seize several markets. Catherine regarded this as an unforgivable betrayal 1148.

Recruiting and Cultivating Locke

Catherine first interviewed Locke to assess his research value. During their remote conversation, she forcibly manifested his Immortal Dragon Scale and felt her own Third-Ring True Dragon bloodline react to it 513.

She recruited him primarily because she needed capable assistants for the Ten-Person Fund project. His bloodline also offered a way to stimulate her own dragon power and bring it fully under her control. Although she initially spoke of suppressing that bloodline, she later concluded that fusion—not resistance—was necessary 521 567.

After bringing Locke to the Advanced Truth Institute, she assigned him to Group Six, directed him toward magic-plant or reproductive research, and arranged coursework and project-fund applications. She subsequently guided his special-plane contract, meditation method, inherited magic, and Great Magic development 528 546 597 628.

Appearance

• Formal clothing: Wears black robes with gold trim, a dazzling gold robe, and a trailing red wizard robe resembling an elaborate evening gown 521 546 1161.
• Crown: A simple lord’s crown set with eleven rubies, described as apparently being a powerful High-Ring artifact 546.
• Informal clothing: Appears in an elegant red silk dress with her hair loose when receiving Locke privately 597.
• Dragon features: Manifests Red Dragon wings and can transform into a Red Dragon Queen 625 1141.
• Grooming: Employs a Half-Dragon magical hairstylist whose work can alter appearance and indirectly influence fortune 660.

Personality

Catherine is exacting, aesthetically driven, and attentive to small imperfections. She considers beauty, power, and truth inseparable pursuits. Her standards extend from the magic plants decorating her office to Locke’s crooked collar, which she personally straightens during a meeting 546.

She values talent before character and has little patience for flattery or attempts to enter her lineage merely for status. Her mentoring emphasizes independent discovery: she would rather let a promising student struggle for years than deprive them of an insight by supplying the answer 513 553 812.

Her commitment to freedom coexists with extensive surveillance and political calculation. She monitors researchers without intervening, treating direct interference as a sign that her trust has run out. Fafnir openly challenges whether the freedom she claims to offer is genuine 546 553.

Authority is an explicit ambition. Catherine believes wisdom should confer authority and treats talented people—not offices alone—as the foundation of her power. Nevertheless, Locke’s unquestioning trust moves her enough that she promises to answer it with trust of her own 620 626 1016.

Abilities and Skills

Botany and Breeding Science

Catherine’s research connects ornamental cultivation, combat plants, and commercially useful breeding methods 529 695.

• Discovered the Light Element Backflow Mutation Mechanism 529.
• Developed the Rainbow Resonance Cultivation Method, publishing its fundamental principles in the Third-Ring journal Misty Rain Cloud Marsh 529.
• Cultivated a Royal Plum Tree Treant Guard possessing seven attack spells during her Second-Ring stage 529.
• Created numerous lava- and flame-adapted magic plants for her institute territory 546.
• Demonstrates Spiritual Breath Symbiosis by giving a plum sprig an Occult Significance effective against bone undead 1022.

True Dragon Bloodline and Super Intuition

Catherine possesses the same True Dragon Super Intuition talent she identifies in Locke. She credits it with accelerating her First-Ring growth and research 547.

• Provides an indistinct sense of whether a research direction is promising or mistaken 547.
• Requires accumulated knowledge; it does not replace scientific understanding 547.
• Excessive reliance can distort perception of reality 547.
• Her dragon bloodline can provoke violent impulses or threaten bodily control; Locke’s presence stimulates this struggle 513 567.
• An external dragon-soul attack causes her dragon power to run out of control during the Demon Dragon Wizard incident 954.

Beast-Tide Ecology

Beast-Tide Ecology is Catherine’s Great Magic, incorporating an orchard and constituent plants such as a jujube tree 619 625.

• Supplies a spiritual fragment for transmitting Peach Arc Thorn Arrow’s inherited knowledge 619 620.
• Produces the Dragon-Viewing Peach King, offered as a reward granting magic creatures wisdom comparable to humans 625.
• Enables her to mobilize a vast beast tide against Black Wizards through that reward 625.
• Can be forcibly delivered to an opponent: she overloads the thief saint’s Twin Siphon Organ by sending him her charged Great Magic 624.
• Losing an essential separated spiritual fragment would leave the Great Magic incomplete 620.

Crown Magic

Catherine’s Crown Magic suppresses related magical powers nearby, establishing her own magic as the local standard 624 625.

• Botany wizards throughout the Cloud Arena experience weakened power and physical discomfort when she activates it 625.
• Wizards studying her exact small field would suffer complete suppression rather than the lighter effect felt by general Botany practitioners 625.

Peach Arc Thorn Arrow

Catherine uses Peach Arc Thorn Arrow both offensively and to transmit spiritual understanding 619 626 1147.

• Combines a peachwood bow with a jujube-derived arrow 619 1147.
• Uses an arrow of spirituality to let Locke experience the fusion of Peach Arc and Thorn Arrow directly 619.
• Helps awaken Locke when his Demon Dragon bloodline threatens to overwhelm him 626.
• Devastates the Eagle-Man World God King’s inner world during negotiations with the Myriad Worlds gods 1147.
• Passes the Heartseeker Volley inheritance to Locke, including Star-Ring spell models; Moon-Ring and Sun-Ring versions remain unavailable to him at that point 983.

Peach-Based Defensive and Support Magic

• Four Sacred Beasts’ Protection: Uses four Third-Ring Holy Peach trees around Catherine’s Yellow Dragon position. Their circulating Spiritual Breaths withstand an Ancient Tyrannosaurus King’s barrage of more than a hundred Emperor-Level Pseudo Forging attacks 1143.
• Peach Grove Spell: Surrounds Wizard Town with peach trees; Catherine dismisses them back through sprouts into buried seeds before Anna can fully display her opposing magic 769.
• Peachheart Curse: Guides the formation of Locke’s Half-Body after he enters a plane outside the Wizarding World 628.
• Return to Youth: Identified by the Rose Witch as botanical healing magic rather than an attack spell 753.
• Red Dragon Avatar: Can intervene once in the Heaven River Coast situation described to Locke 1022.

Surveillance and Magical Transport

• Her Magic Mirror connects to every mirror and reflective surface in her castle, allowing her to observe researchers remotely 553.
• Transfers objects through a Magic Mirror, including the Dragon-Devouring Wonder Seed given to Locke 741.
• Temporarily moves Locke’s living-room furnishings into the Spirit Realm before transmitting an inheritance 619.

Equipment, Resources, and Territory

• Holy Peach Bow / Sacred Peach Wood Bow — Her peachwood weapon, used for Third-Ring archery magic and the annihilation of attacking Venomous Snake Clan members 1147 1153 1161.
• Angel’s Tear Bracelet — A Second-Ring artifact she gives Locke. Made from white Angel’s Tear Crystal and mithril thread, it restrains excessive Super Intuition use and clouds divination; her Magic Pressure allows him to operate it 547.
• Truth Institute’s seventh floor — Her lava-filled territory, containing personally cultivated magic plants and a black-and-red volcanic-style meeting room. Its corridors include at least thirty-one First-Ring red-rose varieties 546.
• Shop Alliances and markets — Commercial networks established across Golden Crown Mountain District and Cloud Marsh Wetland through practical applications of her research 695.
• Wedding Ring project — Her Key Individual Project Plan concerns wedding rings consisting of a setting and an inlaid Power Gem. Locke’s Iron Tree cultivation forms part of the associated gem-production work 983.
• Hundred-Dragon Peach Pit — A personal reward given to Locke; a former student’s connection to it is severed when ownership changes 1022.
• Five-Dragon Rose — A top-tier Moon-Ring Jungle jointly developed by five Throne Wizards. Catherine lends it to Locke; it multiplies his Magic Pressure by three and a half 1141.
• Candle Dragon Sword — A Golden Crown Mountain Sun-Ring weapon she lends Locke. A successful strike imposes a Forced Seal 1141.

Relationships

• Locke — Researcher, disciple, and increasingly trusted assistant. Catherine supplies resources and inheritances while drawing him into her lineage’s responsibilities; she later shares her most closely guarded Past Land with him 521 983 1016 1161.
• Anna, the Rose Throne — Former closest friend, fellow student of Thomas Lysen, and principal academic rival. Their shared history develops into a Dao Strife over advancement to the Fourth Ring 1052 1148.
• Golden Dragon Fafnir — Collaborator and frequent critic of her methods. He assists with her concealed Dragon Race cooperation and questions her treatment of Locke 521 553 1161.
• Truth Wizard Thomas Lysen — Mentor to both Catherine and Anna. Attempts to mediate their feud without obtaining a reconciliation 1052.
• Wizard Trajan — Trusted student and operative. Observes promising researchers, supports her projects, and participates in her faction’s preparations 812 896 983 1153.
• Wizard Celt — Group Six leader under her supervision. His mismanagement and failure to investigate falsified data earn a final warning and a limited opportunity to produce satisfactory results 546 547.
• Witch Esther — Former Group Three leader and trusted subordinate revealed as the Rose Witch’s spy. Catherine’s contradictory accounts and covert instructions leave the full nature of their dealings unclear 741 750.
• Georta, Heidegger, Zoila, and Fiona — Senior disciples present at her farewell banquet. Of these four, only Fiona intends to remain for the coming lineage conflict 1153.
• Unnamed first student — A former student who knows part of Catherine’s ultimate plan. After she escapes confinement, Catherine instructs Fafnir to act in their interests and notes that killing her would not violate Wizard Law 1022.

Major Story Arcs

Academic Committee Leadership

During the Magic Combat Tournament crisis, Catherine fights the thief saint, deploys Crown Magic, and directs magic creatures against the invading Black Wizards. She prioritizes the operation over observing Night Meteor 624 625.

Her contribution wins support for her appointment as vice chairwoman of Golden Crown Mountain’s Academic Committee despite her previously insufficient seniority. She later credits Locke’s tournament performance with helping her secure that leadership position 627 1148.

Esther’s Defection

Catherine secretly asks the newly advanced Second-Ring Locke to help Esther escape, providing a one-day Sun-Herding Dragon transformation and identity-concealment instructions. Yet when confronting Anna, she insists Esther may leave only as a corpse 741 747.

After Esther’s apparent death, Catherine arranges recognition for her as a Golden Crown Mountain martyr, protecting the standing of Esther’s students. She gives different accounts of when she discovered Esther’s background, leaving Locke uncertain about the actual bargain behind the incident 750.

Rivalry for the Fourth Ring

Catherine and Anna compete through grants, markets, researchers, and academic lineages rather than relying on direct confrontation. Catherine likens their lineages to nets that gather talent, resources, and funding 769 812.

She eventually tells Locke that only one of them can reach the Fourth Ring in the near future. Her own advancement requires a research foundation broader than one wizard can produce, so she asks her students to publish more work across her magical field 1148.

Probus and the Myriad Worlds Gods

Catherine supports Locke from outside while he acts within the crisis surrounding Probus, lending him the Five-Dragon Rose and Candle Dragon Sword. She confronts assembled Third-Ring Black Wizards and withstands the Ancient Tyrannosaurus King’s assault 1141 1143.

After Probus’s death, she attacks the Eagle-Man World God King and forces the gods to cede a Greater World to Golden Crown Mountain. She also argues that Locke is not legally responsible for Hassan killing Jinx after Locke breaks her shield 1147 1148.

Farewell Banquet

Before the decisive lineage conflict, Catherine shows her followers a prophecy in which a Fourth-Ring Anna stabs her and the Rose School Lineage attacks her disciples. Anna separately presents a contrary vision of Catherine defeating her; neither vision is an accomplished event 1153.

About half Catherine’s attending wizards choose to leave, including three Third-Ring Wizards. She accepts their independent responsibilities and considers dispersal a safeguard against the destruction of her entire school of thought 1153.

Past Land and Hidden Identity

Catherine’s Past Land is her ultimate secret, a place associated with True Forging and unusual magic that Locke suspects may exceed the Third Ring. She admits that she has not fully understood her own past and cooperates with the Dragon Race to investigate it 1161.

• Locke is only the second wizard besides Catherine to enter; even his senior fellow disciples have never reached it 1161.
• Fafnir is rejected because his inherited racial Third-Ring status does not satisfy its individual attainment requirements 1161.
• Catherine brings Locke there because his Universal Truth Level Pseudo Forging makes her original advancement plan unsuitable 1161.
• Entry is dangerous: she can estimate a general direction but cannot guarantee the result or identify every threat 1161.
• The Past Land contains a True Forging Dao body of Catherine. She states that an unknown enemy attacked the civilization led by her past self, leaving its Great Dao silent 1162.
• Guidance from her past self causes Catherine to revise her advice to Locke: his Pseudo Forging’s Constancy should be preserved rather than discarded 1162.

Notable Quotes

“Discovering something for yourself and being told about it are two very different things.” 553

“The source of power is people, not positions. Locke himself is part of the foundation of my power.” 626

“Nurturing others is nurturing yourself.” 983

“Locke, I will repay your trust in me with my trust in you.” 1016