Chapter Summaries

Lan Qingyou explored Witch Forest’s new districts and learned why its population remained small despite recruitment efforts. Shang Chuan explained that other races had established Autonomous Territories and attracted more settlers, while many people avoided joining the Witch Race because they did not want to become women.

• Lan Qingyou toured Witch Forest and saw its new neighborhoods, suspension bridges, Witch Academy classrooms, and plans for an herb garden.
• Shang Chuan told Lan Qingyou that Witch Forest recruited locals and outsiders with travel expenses and stilt houses.
• Shang Chuan explained that the Supreme Council had recognized Autonomous Territories for nearly every race, which then competed to recruit settlers with generous offers.
• Shang Chuan said the Supreme Council had released some witches who could not learn magic arrays, adding to the shelters in Witch Forest.
• Lan Qingyou asked why more people had not joined the Witch Race, and Shang Chuan said many men resisted becoming women.

Lan Qingyou discovered that rumors were discouraging women from choosing the Witch Race, while other races were seeking witches to build settlements. She passed several Patriarchs’ requests for paid witch workers to the Tea Party, and witches rushed to take the lucrative jobs.

• Diana and Shang Chuan told Lan Qingyou that rumors about Witch Race Evolution Items had driven many women toward other races, and that the Supreme Council had rejected Gu Xiaobei and Freyja’s requests for the Golden Plains and Cursed Corridor.
• Lan Qingyou checked her Card and found messages from Patriarchs asking about her experiments, witch workers, Magic Circle cores, and outside jobs.
• Ingrid told Lan Qingyou that Jormungandr’s Blood had evolved her into the Medusa Race, and Lan Qingyou offered to pass along her request for witches.
• The other Patriarchs gave Lan Qingyou their teleportation-point names, and she sent the requests to the Tea Party.
• Witches in the Tea Party, now numbering eight or nine thousand, scrambled to take jobs paying three times the Supreme Council’s rate.

After Lan Qingyou's theories led the witches to realize they were underpaid, many left their assigned jobs for offers paying three times more, disrupting construction sites and alarming the Supreme Council. The council debated raising wages or bringing the new races into its ranks, then asked Chu Yuan to find out what was happening with Lan Qingyou.

• The witches heard they could earn three times their current pay and began leaving their jobs to take better offers.
• Witches teleported away from Adventurer Guild work sites, halting construction and prompting reports to the Supreme Council.
• Supreme Council members debated increasing wages and inviting the new races' Patriarchs into the council to keep the races under their control.
• A council member warned that the Patriarchs might refuse to join, especially the Witch Race's Patriarch, who had extensive technology and influence over the witches.
• The Supreme Council decided to focus on the witches and repeatedly assigned Chu Yuan to ask Lan Qingyou what was happening.

Lan Qingyou forced the Supreme Council to triple the witches’ pay and benefits, then gathered the humans living in the Witch Forest to announce an exchange involving Witch Potions. She offered five hundred potions at 600 milliliters of blood each, to be drunk immediately after redemption.

• Lan Qingyou threatened to take the witches’ labor elsewhere unless the Supreme Council improved their treatment, and the Supreme Council agreed to triple their pay and benefits.
• Chu Yuan relayed Lan Qingyou’s terms, and the Supreme Council passed the pay increase and posted the rates.
• Lan Qingyou reflected that she and the other witches intended to repay their debts through equivalent exchange, then asked Diana to gather everyone in the Witch Forest.
• Lan Qingyou addressed the assembled humans and offered them five hundred Witch Potions in exchange for 600 milliliters of blood each, which they had to drink on the spot.

Lan Qingyou exchanged Witch Potions for human blood and used it to produce far more potion than expected. She experimented with dragon blood mixtures, discovering that different Witch Potions gave witches different attribute focuses, then spent ten days making two hundred thousand doses.

• Lan Qingyou announced that people could receive Witch Potions in exchange for 600 milliliters of blood, prompting a rush of volunteers.
• Lan Qingyou stopped Shang Chuan from letting people surrender all their possessions, and Diana selected five hundred people to exchange blood for potions.
• The five hundred exchanges yielded 300,000 milliliters of blood, which barely neutralized Lan Qingyou's 3,000 milliliters of Jormungandr's Blood and produced 9,000 milliliters of finished potion.
• Lan Qingyou tested mixtures using different dragon bloods and found that Star Dragon King blood favored mental strength and Mana, Platinum Dragon King blood favored constitution and vitality, and Jormungandr's Blood favored agility and Mana.
• Lan Qingyou spent about ten days brewing Witch Potions and made two hundred thousand doses.

Lan Qingyou reconsidered how to find teachers and distribute Witch Potions after reading Susie and Sophia’s debate about whether potions should go to promising students or a wider range of witches. She obtained the Supreme Council’s list of one hundred thousand screened candidates and offered two newly developed potions for testing, leaving Shang Chuan and Diana ready to recruit test subjects.

• Lan Qingyou proposed that members of the 101 Witch Group and Susie’s former group teach other witches, but Diana questioned whether they were suited to teaching.
• Lan Qingyou read the Witch’s Tea Party debate in which Susie argued that Witch Potions should go to capable students, while Sophia warned that restricting them too strictly would hurt the Witch Race’s growth.
• Lan Qingyou asked Chu Yuan for the list of one hundred thousand candidates who had been cut at the Supreme Council’s final screening and shared it with Susie and Sophia.
• Lan Qingyou announced that she had developed two new Witch Potions and planned to test them before distributing them to help grow the Witch Race.
• Shang Chuan offered his employees as test subjects, and Lan Qingyou agreed on the condition that they drink the potions in front of her; Diana also volunteered her assistants for the experiment.

Lan Qingyou gave Ailuaier and Aina Harlin experimental Witch Potions that favored different attributes, then examined the Magic Eyes they gained. Ailuaier revealed her Ammunition Magic Eye, which could create bullets, including high-explosive rounds.

• Diana asked Lan Qingyou to include her assistant in the potion trial, and Shang Chuan summoned Ailuaier, whose gun Lan Qingyou had once destroyed.
• Diana's assistant, Aina Harlin, arrived, and Lan Qingyou assigned Ailuaier a potion favoring Agility and Spirit and Aina one favoring Vitality and Spirit.
• Lan Qingyou warned that the new potions might hinder their magical studies and that their effects were uncertain, but Ailuaier and Aina chose to drink them.
• Lan Qingyou checked their new Magic Eyes and found that Ailuaier had gained Ammunition Magic Eye while Aina had gained Green Dumpling Magic Eye.
• Ailuaier demonstrated that her Magic Eye could create ammunition by conjuring a high-explosive round.

Lan Qingyou discussed the risks of witches relying on their Magic Eyes, then brought Aina to the Witch Academy’s Battle Arena to test Aina’s summoning ability. Aina summoned a powerful Green Dumpling Bug, and Lan Qingyou identified it as a guardian Hell Creature with several combat skills.

• Ailuaier warned Lan Qingyou that witches who relied on their eyes were vulnerable to attacks that could disable their Magic Eye talents.
• Aina explained that her Green Dumpling Magic Eye summoned a hard-shelled bug, and Lan Qingyou suggested testing it at the Battle Arena.
• Lan Qingyou, Aina, and Ailuaier arrived at the arena, where Diana had already gathered a hundred people.
• Aina chanted and summoned a huge Green Dumpling Bug linked to her by strands of Magic Power.
• Lan Qingyou’s Analysis Magic Eye identified the Green Dumpling Bug as a guardian Hell Creature with Bite Kill, Poison Spray, and Block, and revealed that Aina could safely hide inside its mouth.

Lan Qingyou and Aina and Ailuaier tested the new Summoning and Physical Department Magic Eyes, then discussed how the systems worked. Lan Qingyou offered Ailuaier two specially crafted gunblades, whose elaborate origins stunned Shang Chuan.

• Aina tested the Green Dumpling Bug and found that its venom reached about ten meters and it could bite through a Thorium Ore-reinforced Magic Puppet.
• Ailuaier tested her bullets, then combined Wind and Fire attributes to break a Magic Puppet's arm.
• Lan Qingyou identified Aina's potion as belonging to the Summoning Department and Ailuaier's as belonging to the Physical Department, and Diana proposed collecting daily reports from the hundred users.
• Lan Qingyou explained that Summoning Magic Eyes likely acted as anchors and Physical Magic Eyes supported innate talents or the body; Ailuaier confirmed she could see farther and more clearly.
• Lan Qingyou offered Ailuaier a pair of revolver-daggers, and Shang Chuan recognized them as custom Magic Items made through the work of several Tarot Villa members.

Lan Qingyou rewarded Ailuaier and Aina with weapons, welcomed them into the Witch's Tea Party, and then worked on potions and scrolls as the Witch Forest developed. The chapter ended by introducing a significant change involving the Transmigrators and Evolutionists, tied to their earlier agreement about recalling their people.

• Lan Qingyou gave Ailuaier the Gunblades Flash and Starlight and gave Aina a B+-rank Summoning Stone Staff.
• Lan Qingyou added Ailuaier and Aina to the Witch's Tea Party, where they chose the nicknames Roaming Witch and Green Dumpling Witch.
• Lan Qingyou returned to the shelter, distributed Witch Potions, and inscribed scrolls, discovering that Mind Control required a Mental Attribute of at least 100 and exclusive Magic could not be inscribed.
• The Witch Forest neared completion of its Academy, residential, and Commercial Districts while Titan City and other territories developed rapidly.
• A significant event involving the Transmigrators and Evolutionists came up, connected to their earlier agreement about recalling their people.

After the races’ new Autonomous Territories drew workers and students, the Witch Forest’s population surged, prompting Diana and Lan Qingyou to accelerate construction. Meanwhile, a new anti-Evolutionist movement called the Sacred Domain spread rumors in support of the Supreme Council, and Lan Qingyou recognized the growing racial conflict behind it.

• The races invited people to live, work, and study in their Autonomous Territories, and transmigrators flocked to the Witch Forest to attend its Witch Academy.
• The Witch Forest’s population grew to eight or nine hundred thousand, while the number of witches rose above two hundred and ten thousand, so Diana and Lan Qingyou sped up construction in the Abandoned City and Port of Abandonment.
• Lan Qingyou discovered rumors calling Evolutionists inhuman and cursed creatures, then learned that believers had founded the Sacred Domain after claiming the World Will was their god.
• The Sacred Domain vowed to eradicate Evolutionists and backed the Supreme Council, leading Lan Qingyou to suspect that the Council was encouraging racial division to keep new races from drawing away its population.

Lan Qingyou reviewed the witches’ progress and approved a system for sharing Dungeon loot while Diana presented a professional management team for the Witch Forest. The appointment list introduced several leaders, and Lan Qingyou noticed a familiar name among the Patrol Squad candidates.

• Lan Qingyou learned that a small Orc Cat-Ear Tribe settlement had been harassed by humans, though no serious harm had been done.
• Lan Qingyou led Ailuaier, Aina, and a group of witches through a Dungeon to test the Physical Department witches’ Magic Eye talents and help them level up.
• Lan Qingyou approved Susie and the other senior witches’ system for taking lower-level witches into Dungeons to collect Magic Items for the Group Warehouse.
• Diana gave Lan Qingyou an appointment document naming the Witch Forest’s professional managers, including Susie as Adventurer Guild branch manager and Bei Adoris as Commercial District manager.
• Lan Qingyou spotted a familiar name on the list of candidates for Patrol Squad captain.

Lan Qingyou reviewed Diana’s proposed staff list for the Witch Forest and approved several department leaders, including Nangong Lengyue, Margaret, and Ursula Clementine. She discovered she had been named headmistress of the Witch Academy, and Diana asked her to write introductory books because existing texts were too difficult for beginners.

• Diana explained that Nangong Lengyue had received Lan Qingyou’s first Witch Potion and was nominated to lead the Patrol Squad.
• Lan Qingyou approved Margaret as manager of the southern Magic Puppet Factory district because of her Copy ability.
• Diana explained that Ursula Clementine managed the Herb Gardens and cultivated most of the Witch Forest’s edible mushrooms, so Lan Qingyou approved her nomination.
• Lan Qingyou found herself listed as headmistress of the Witch Academy and objected to having to teach classes.
• Diana said Lan Qingyou could hold the title without teaching every day, but asked her to write introductory books on alchemy, Pharmacology, and Magic Puppet making.

Lan Qingyou agreed to help Diana write textbooks and named Witch Forest’s first official city Typhon. The World Will recognized Typhon as the Witch Race’s main city, granted benefits to the city and its residents, and left Lan Qingyou and Diana wondering whether its defense value was tied to its population.

• Lan Qingyou agreed to write textbooks for subjects involving Magic Power and signed the appointment list.
• When the Magic Desk asked her to name the city, Lan Qingyou asked Diana what destruction brought to mind, and Diana suggested Typhon, a god who symbolized storms and destruction.
• Lan Qingyou named the city Typhon, and the World Will recognized it as Karim Continent’s first official city and the Witch Race’s main city.
• The World Will gifted Typhon a stone city wall, doubled its defense, limited the surrounding area’s monster spawns to E-Rank, and rewarded all Witch Race members with skill-level increases.
• Lan Qingyou asked Diana about the population, and they noticed that Witch Forest’s nearly six hundred thousand residents roughly matched Typhon’s defense value.

Lan Qingyou and Diana concluded that the World Will’s defense rating rewarded larger populations, so Lan Qingyou proposed inviting entire small races to settle in Typhon City. The chapter left Diana responsible for recruitment and city coordination while Lan Qingyou planned to expand the city with a Magic array and write textbooks.

• Diana prepared to check the World Will’s figures, but Lan Qingyou stopped her and they discussed how population might affect a city’s defense rating.
• Lan Qingyou worried that the Witch Race’s transformation requirements would make it difficult to attract new residents to Typhon City.
• Diana suggested inviting entire races rather than recruiting individuals, and Lan Qingyou realized that gathering small races could rapidly increase the city’s population.
• Lan Qingyou planned to expand Typhon City with a Magic array and handed negotiations and coordination to Diana and the other witches.
• Diana accepted the management duties after learning Lan Qingyou had left school following a car accident, while Lan Qingyou remained responsible for writing textbooks.

As the Witch Forest’s population grew, Lan Qingyou and Diana planned to expand its territory with a new magic array and develop nearby villages, fields, and medicinal herb farms. Lan Qingyou left the settlements’ growth to their residents, while people in the World Channel listened to news about Typhon and the Witch Race.

• Lan Qingyou learned from Diana that the Witch Forest was running out of space.
• Diana presented a proposal to build a new magic array beside the existing one, and Lan Qingyou agreed to design it.
• Diana identified sites to the southeast and northwest and proposed building villages, fields, and medicinal herb farms along the way.
• Lan Qingyou told Diana to let settlements develop naturally so people could live happily without being forced to grow.
• People listening on the World Channel heard the names Typhon and the Witch Race in a major announcement.

After the World Will announced that Lan Qingyou had established the city of Typhon, the Tarot Villa members asked her how she had organized it and what Defense Value meant. As they studied her administrative documents, they discovered Diana’s unusual Minister of Tourism role, while the Witch Forest held a celebration.

• The Tarot Villa members questioned Lan Qingyou about Typhon after the World Will recognized her city and its Defense Value.
• Lan Qingyou said she had appointed people and created a management system, then admitted she did not know what Defense Value was.
• Lan Qingyou had Diana send the others blank appointment documents so they could use them to organize their own cities.
• The Tarot Villa members found a Minister of Tourism position and learned that Diana’s department sent witches to scout places to live and conduct research, including Patrol Squad members gathering intelligence.
• The Witch Forest held a celebration while the Tarot Villa members examined Diana’s list.

Witch Forest’s residents celebrated the World Will’s announcement that their settlement would become Typhon City, and the city’s construction began with a wall around its outskirts. The former illegal immigrants became the outer district’s residents, while newcomers discussed settling into safer, steadier lives.

• A tattooed former slave and a woman who had moved her shelter to Witch Forest celebrated the announcement and explained why they had chosen to settle there.
• Residents debated the new name, Typhon City, and speculated that the Witch of the Tower had chosen it.
• A circular blue-gray stone wall rose around the city, and former illegal immigrants learned they would receive land in exchange for helping build it.
• Residents climbed the wall to admire the view, while two men working in a tree hollow joked about round cities and discussed the restaurant one of them had opened on Fenrir Street.

Diana led the witches in planning how to increase Typhon City's permanent population within a month, and Bei Adoris proposed using Witch Potions and Ancient Bloodlines to attract new residents. The meeting turned to how the Patrol Squad and Tourism Department could support the plan.

• Diana explained that the witches had freedom to choose their approach but needed to increase Typhon City's permanent population within a month.
• Diana said the Magic Puppet Factory would run at full capacity, and Margaret agreed to cooperate.
• The witches discussed the difficulty of recruiting people individually, while Suzy recalled that some potion candidates had already chosen other races.
• Bei Adoris proposed sending people to find Ancient Bloodlines so more girls could obtain Witch Potions.
• Nangong Lengyue explained that the Tourism Department now searched for Ancient Bloodline Dungeons and the Patrol Squad entered them once found.

Bei Adoris proposed holding an auction to attract visitors and stimulate commerce in Karim, using Magic Items gathered from dungeon expeditions. Diana questioned whether the plan would bring in enough people who would actually stay in Typhon City.

• Bei Adoris introduced an auction as her second plan, prompting the witches to discuss how one might work.
• Bei Adoris explained that an open auction could enliven Karim’s stagnant commercial activity and draw a broad crowd.
• Bei Adoris proposed sending the Patrol Squad and Apprentice Witches into 161 dungeons to obtain hundreds of Magic Items daily for sale.
• Bei Adoris suggested advertising ten thousand Magic Items at the first Karim Auction in Typhon City at the end of the month.
• Diana argued that the auction might attract visitors without persuading many to settle in Typhon City.