Chapter Summaries

Vivian warned the group to gather their people against threats from rival organizations, and Orff returned with a large supply of Jormungandr’s Blood taken from the 505 Formation. The group discovered that the 505 Formation served the Original Sect, a terrorist organization that possessed a Jormungandr hatchling, and Chu Yuan considered alerting the Supreme Council and finding its base.

• Vivian urged everyone to gather their people and troops so they could protect themselves from possible conflict between the new races and Blue Star people.
• Orff returned with fifteen thousand milliliters of Jormungandr’s Blood, which he had taken from the 505 Formation’s headquarters.
• Orff explained that the 505 Formation was a subordinate group ordered to recruit intelligence operatives and that its superiors had obtained the blood by bleeding a Jormungandr hatchling.
• Orff showed the group writing he had copied, and Chu Yuan identified it as “Original Sect.”
• Shang Chuan explained that the Originalists were terrorists who opposed the Blue Star Federal Council, and Chu Yuan decided to tell the Supreme Council and consider locating their base.

Chu Yuan led the group in dividing the 20,500 milliliters of Jormungandr's Blood and proposed using the five leftover portions to trade for information. The group approved, and the meeting ended with a request for Breath of the Forest Elf.

• Chu Yuan redirected the group's attention from Shang Chuan's suggestion to the distribution of Jormungandr's Blood.
• Shang Chuan proposed dividing the blood into 41 portions of 500 milliliters, and Chu Yuan took charge of allocating them.
• Chu Yuan assigned initial portions to the Empress and the Lovers, the fighters, the Tower, and the Chariot, then gave everyone another portion.
• Chu Yuan and Shang Chuan proposed buying the five remaining portions, but the group rejected the idea.
• Chu Yuan suggested using the five portions as a shared asset to trade with council members for information, and the group agreed.
• Someone asked the Patriarch to make Breath of the Forest Elf from their blood or move to their home.

Jiang Lan, Shang Chuan, and Riesling gave their Jormungandr's Blood to Gu Xiaobei, leaving her overwhelmed by the huge potion order she still had to complete. As the group dispersed and made new plans, Ingrid realized Chu Yuan had manipulated them with the door-in-the-face effect.

• Jiang Lan, Shang Chuan, and Riesling gave Gu Xiaobei their Jormungandr's Blood, and Chu Yuan reminded her that the Supreme Council's Breath of the Forest Elf order remained unfinished.
• Vivian gave Lan Qingyou the Platinum Dragon King's Blood after saying she would receive the Essence Blood of the Star Dragon King in return.
• Lan Qingyou told Chu Yuan she would have ten thousand witches make the Supreme Council's potions on schedule while allowing them time for their own studies.
• Lan Qingyou invited Shang Chuan to move his people and factories near the Witch Habitat, and he agreed to build housing there.
• Ingrid realized Chu Yuan had used the door-in-the-face effect on the group, and the others recognized the trick.

After the group left Jiang Lan’s sanctuary, Chu Yuan and Lan Qingyou returned to researching Evolution Items and processing blood samples. The World Channel discussed a meteorite and a Giant who attacked a sanctuary with a steel behemoth, leaving people wondering whether the Giant was Orff.

• The group joked about Chu Yuan’s negotiation before saying goodbye to Jiang Lan and leaving her with Freyja.
• Jiang Lan and Freyja remembered that dinner was unfinished, but decided Gu Xiaobei was too busy shaking cocktails to cook.
• Chu Yuan returned to his Office, postponed upcoming meetings, and began studying seven blood samples while arranging a plan to obtain a Jormungandr hatchling.
• Lan Qingyou returned to her Alchemy Workshop and assessed the blood she had gathered for making Witch Potions, while noting the settlement still needed more buildings.
• World Channel users discussed a meteorite that had fallen in one region and speculated about collecting it as valuable material.
• A user described a steel behemoth attacking a sanctuary before its Giant pilot emerged and slaughtered the residents, prompting speculation that the attacker might have been Orff.

The World Channel erupted in racial conflict, while the Pope ordered the Pure Origin Sect to inflame tensions after Tarot Villa destroyed the 505 Formation. Sherlock Claude returned to confront Zakhak and warned him that the Club wanted Tarot Villa left alone.

• Blue Star people and members of the Giant Race traded insults on the World Channel, and the argument spread to other races.
• The Pope learned that Orff of Tarot Villa had wiped out the 505 Formation and ordered his followers to stir up hatred online while avoiding Tarot Villa.
• After his subordinates left, the Pope spoke with Sherlock Claude, who reminded him that his Contract Talent had helped establish the Pure Origin Sect.
• Sherlock told Zakhak that the Club wanted the sect and the Originalists to avoid provoking Tarot Villa or revealing the Club too soon.
• Sherlock began to explain his second reason for visiting, but the chapter cut off.

Lan Qingyou prepared resources for a new witch's experiment and discussed gathering witches to protect them from a possible campaign against their race. Susie agreed to recruit the witches, then warned the other three that a Race War might break out.

• Sherlock left Zakhak without revealing what else he had wanted to say, and Zakhak dismissed his silence.
• Lan Qingyou moved Magic Items and Monster Skin into the Tea Party warehouse and arranged for more materials and a Five Dragon Reincarnation Magic Array.
• Lan Qingyou told Susie that a witch hunt might target the witches and proposed gathering them at the Witch's Habitat.
• Susie agreed to invite witches to the Tea Party and told the other three witches that a Race War might happen.

Susie and the other witches prepared to search for those distributing Witch Potions, while Lan Qingyou organized her priorities and went to find a site for the Teleportation Array. She discovered that people had moved into her territory and that their feelings of safety were strengthening its barrier.

• Susie gave Witch Potions to the other witches and told Diana that Lan Qingyou wanted to discuss her Temporary Departure Scroll.
• The witches agreed they would move to District 666 for protection and use the potions to grow their numbers.
• Lan Qingyou made a prioritized schedule and flew out with Steel Wool and Little Spoon to find a place for the Teleportation Array.
• Lan Qingyou found people living along the outer ring, including someone turning a swamp into a rice paddy, and wondered how they had entered her barrier.
• Lan Qingyou saw that people could pass through the barrier because they regarded it as a shelter, and observed their positive emotions strengthening its defenses.

Lan Qingyou installed a Teleportation Array in the Witch Forest and linked it to the Magic Array, causing arrows to guide the hidden residents toward it. The crowd discovered they could teleport out without a fee and concluded that the Witch of the Tower knew they were there.

• Lan Qingyou abandoned plans to confront the people in the Witch Forest and placed the Teleportation Array beneath a large tree.
• Lan Qingyou used Magic Power to link the Teleportation Array to the Magic Array, illuminating the forest and creating trails of arrows.
• The hidden residents followed the arrows, believing the Witch of the Tower had summoned them.
• The residents gathered at the Teleportation Array and learned that its teleport point was marked as the Witch Forest and that teleporting out appeared to be free.
• The residents reasoned that the Witch of the Tower had discovered their presence and installed the array to make travel easier.

Lan Qingyou met Shang Chuan to plan construction in the Witch Forest and discussed delaying work on the inner area while witches considered a new magic technique. She learned the Supreme Council planned to move an Adventurer Guild branch into the Land of Abandonment, with Susie in charge, and told Chu Yuan the news.

• Lan Qingyou left the newcomers to Shang Chuan after he agreed to bring a construction crew the next day.
• Lan Qingyou met Shang Chuan at the Teleportation Array and said they would begin by planning streets and building on the outskirts.
• Lan Qingyou explained that witches might develop a new magic technique that would reduce the number of structures needed in the inner area.
• Lan Qingyou and Shang Chuan discussed adding Teleportation Arrays around the Witch Forest, and Shang Chuan decided to place his in the Abandoned Ruins.
• Lan Qingyou checked the group chat, learned the Supreme Council planned to establish an Adventurer Guild branch in the Land of Abandonment, and told Chu Yuan that Susie would lead it.

Chu Yuan explained that hardliners in the Supreme Council had pushed through an Adventurer Guild in the Land of Abandonment to test Lan Qingyou and target her. Lan Qingyou responded by demanding control over the Guild’s leadership and threatening to bar or kill Council members who entered her territory.

• Chu Yuan told Lan Qingyou that the Supreme Council had quickly punished those reselling Teleportation Array materials after Tarot Villa threatened to investigate and execute the culprits.
• Chu Yuan explained that several hardliners had approved an Adventurer Guild in the Land of Abandonment as a way to put Tarot Villa in its place and test Lan Qingyou.
• Lan Qingyou asked whether the Guild plan was a provocation, and Chu Yuan admitted that most of the Supreme Council had allowed it despite his opposition.
• Chu Yuan said he was on the board but would share intelligence with their group and adjust his plans based on Lan Qingyou’s actions.
• Lan Qingyou demanded the right to appoint the head of the Adventurer Guild and threatened to forbid Supreme Council members from entering the Land of Abandonment, warning that intruders would die.

Lan Qingyou used the Cursed Land negotiations to secure the Land of Abandonment as an autonomous Witch Race territory, and Durandal set the terms for the Adventurer Guild. After Lan Qingyou left, Shang Chuan confronted the people from District 666 who had gathered in the Witch Forest.

• Lan Qingyou threatened to delay work on the Cursed Land unless the Supreme Council recognized Witch Race territory, and the Empress and The Lovers accepted the delay.
• The Supreme Council debated the witches’ demands until Durandal agreed to recognize the Land of Abandonment as an autonomous territory and provide materials, a quest system, and reward funds for its Adventurer Guild.
• Durandal said witches would need to bring Supreme Council witches along to learn how to make magic arrays, while the witches would have to build and staff their own guild.
• Lan Qingyou accepted Durandal’s offer, told Shang Chuan to look after the Witch Forest, and teleported to the Empress’s place.
• Shang Chuan ordered the people from District 666 to follow his lead or leave, then identified himself as the Profiteer when they challenged him.

Shang Chuan told the outer-city residents that Lan Qingyou had put him in charge of development and warned them to follow his orders if they wanted her protection. Lan Qingyou then met Sophia and the Apprentice Witches gathered to learn magic arrays.

• Shang Chuan announced that Lan Qingyou had granted him authority over the outer city and made the residents submit to his construction plans without pay.
• Lan Qingyou teleported from the Witch Forest to the Empress Farm in the Cursed Corridor.
• Sophia introduced herself as the Analysis Witch and leader of the Apprentice Witch team sent by the Supreme Council to study magic arrays.
• Lan Qingyou explained that she could learn about witches through her authority as Patriarch of the Witch Race.
• Jiang Lan arrived to begin teaching magic arrays, and Lan Qingyou saw that 101 Apprentice Witches had gathered in the backyard.

Lan Qingyou introduced the Witch’s Tea Party to the newly gathered witches and prepared to teach them how to build a magic circle for the Cursed Corridor. In the group, Sophia recognized Susie, while Susie learned she had been appointed branch manager again and that the Land of Abandonment had become the Witch Race’s autonomous territory.

• Lan Qingyou asked the witches to scan their identity Card patterns and join the Witch’s Tea Party group.
• Sophia joined as Analysis Witch, read the rules, and discovered that Poison Witch was her acquaintance Susie.
• Lan Qingyou told Susie that Durandal had agreed to make the Land of Abandonment the Witch Race’s legal Autonomous Territory and that Susie had been appointed its Adventurer Guild branch manager.
• Susie objected that she had just quit to level up, then agreed to visit the area after finishing her Dungeon.
• Lan Qingyou said she had supplied potions in the group warehouse and was about to teach 101 witches to help build a magic circle for the Supreme Council.
• Susie and the other witches considered attending Lan Qingyou’s lesson, while Sophia grew numb from the unexpected revelations.

Sophia learned that Durandal had approved the Witch Race’s Autonomous Territory, while Susie and the other witches joined Lan Qingyou for a lesson and preparations to build a Magic Array. The witches began work in the Cursed Corridor, where their immunity to its curse made it a suitable place for their territory and a future Adventurer Guild.

• Sophia reflected on Durandal’s influence and wondered why the Council Speaker had agreed to the witches’ request.
• Susie and a dozen witches postponed their plans to reach Saint rank so they could attend Lan Qingyou’s lesson.
• Lan Qingyou welcomed the witches into the group, where they found more than two hundred Magic Items in the Group Warehouse.
• Susie called Lan Qingyou their Patriarch, and the other witches adopted the title too.
• Lan Qingyou led about a hundred witches through the slain man’s shelter into the Cursed Corridor to begin carving a Magic Array.
• The witches were unaffected by the Cursed Corridor’s Time Acceleration, making it a promising site for their Autonomous Territory and the planned Adventurer Guild.

Lan Qingyou taught more than a hundred witches how to build magic circles while they helped her construct one to expand the Cursed Corridor’s planting area. After several days, the circle was completed, and the witches prepared to return to the Supreme Council and report.

• Lan Qingyou used an Excavator to dig out the magic circle and shared her techniques with the witches who asked.
• With materials supplied by the Supreme Council, Lan Qingyou and the witches built a large circle designed to expand outward to a radius of at least ten thousand meters.
• Lan Qingyou guided the witches through launching the circle, and its outer ring shot into the distance as the construction succeeded.
• Lan Qingyou declared the task and lessons complete, then told the witches they could ask questions later at the Tea Party.
• Sophia told Lan Qingyou that the witches would return to report to the Supreme Council, and Lan Qingyou encouraged them to recommend more witches for the Tea Party.

Lan Qingyou taught Diana about the Temporary Departure Scroll’s summoning magic and gave Susie’s group contract scrolls for their Dungeon trip. Before leaving, Lan Qingyou identified Freyja as a Progenitor Succubus, a newly developed race, and grew interested in studying Jormungandr’s Blood.

• Lan Qingyou explained that the Temporary Departure Scroll used a summoning anchor and could be made to work by supplying enough Magic Power at teleportation, despite the danger of spatial turbulence.
• Susie declined Lan Qingyou’s invitation and asked for contract scrolls so the newly promoted witches could obtain Familiars; Lan Qingyou gave her over a hundred and required Dungeon finds to go to the Group Warehouse.
• Jiang Lan asked whether the area could become an Autonomous Territory for the Forest Elves, and Lan Qingyou suggested the Golden Plains instead while saying the area would suit the Lovers.
• Freyja revealed fleshy wings and said she had developed the Succubus race over the past few days; Lan Qingyou recognized her as a Progenitor Succubus.
• Lan Qingyou left with Diana and said she wanted to study Jormungandr’s Blood because it had produced another branch of the Demon Race.

Diana and Lan Qingyou boosted the Magic Power in the Witch Forest and tested Diana’s Temporary Departure Scroll. The experiment succeeded, leaving Diana’s sanctuary accessible through a doorway in the hillside.

• Diana arrived with Lan Qingyou in the Witch Habitat and admired its forest, herb garden, and concentrated Magic Power.
• Lan Qingyou explained that Shang Chuan was building raised wooden houses and streets on the outskirts.
• Lan Qingyou released Sunlight Salt from the Orichalcum Toads, increasing the Magic Power concentration throughout the habitat and downstream streams.
• Diana used the Temporary Departure Scroll on a hillside, creating a doorway after a powerful spatial disturbance.
• Diana and Lan Qingyou entered the underground sanctuary and confirmed that its rooms, decorations, and books remained undamaged.

Diana explained her shelter-moving technology to Shang Chuan and proposed a plan for witches to settle throughout the Land of Abandonment instead of crowding into the Witch Forest. She suggested establishing a Witch Academy to teach magic arrays and alchemy, leaving Lan Qingyou to decide whether to adopt the plan.

• Lan Qingyou showed Shang Chuan the shelter-moving technology, and Diana explained how it worked.
• Shang Chuan told Diana about plans to develop the Witch Forest, and Diana asked whether the plan could be changed.
• Diana proposed using the region’s waterways and high Magic Power density to let witches settle across the Land of Abandonment.
• Lan Qingyou raised the difficulty of providing every witch with a Five Dragon Reincarnation Magic Array, and Diana suggested teaching witches to build their own.
• Diana proposed founding a Witch Academy that would train witches and other students, with building an array for a shelter as the graduation exam.

Diana proposed developing the Land of Abandonment with an academy, residential and commercial districts, and settlements that could support outposts and expand Witch Forest's protection. Lan Qingyou approved the plan and struck a deal with Shang Chuan to develop the Abandoned Ruins and a port, though scarce array cores remained a major obstacle.

• Shang Chuan suggested developing the Abandoned Ruins and Abandoned Coast, including building a port, and circled both locations as business opportunities.
• Lan Qingyou asked where to build the Witch Academy, and Diana proposed placing it upstream while reserving the downstream area for homes and commerce.
• Diana proposed assigning experienced witches to develop the Abandoned Ruins and port, and spreading shelters and magic arrays to extend Witch Forest's protection across the Land of Abandonment.
• Lan Qingyou noted that a lack of array cores would make the wider plan difficult to implement.
• Lan Qingyou entrusted city planning, the Abandoned Ruins, and the port to Diana and Shang Chuan, then agreed to give Shang Chuan twenty percent of port profits and twenty years of operating rights, with witches receiving priority.

Lan Qingyou handed Witch Forest’s construction over to Diana, then researched the rare materials she had collected. After discovering that Jormungandr’s Blood contaminated her Origin Witch blood, she left her shelter to find another way to process it.

• Lan Qingyou entrusted Witch Forest’s construction to Diana and returned to her shelter to study her rare materials.
• Lan Qingyou found that Tears of Kesuya had many uses, then fed Big Eye Cutie a high-grade Magic Power Potion to help it recover and produce more tears.
• Lan Qingyou collected the tears and arranged for one Magic Puppet to be removed so Big Eye Cutie would stay healthy.
• Lan Qingyou tested Jormungandr’s Blood and found that it turned useful materials into attribute-less blanks.
• Lan Qingyou asked The Lovers how to process the blood and learned that human blood could dilute it, but monster blood could not.
• Lan Qingyou tested her own blood, discovered that Jormungandr’s Blood burned it away, and left the shelter to seek another solution.