Chapter Summaries

Adele used her Music Magic to make the pursuing Transmigrators explode and confronted Smith, who had been planning to attack her. After revealing his chase had wasted her time, she ordered him to explain himself.

• Smith planned to lure Adele down so he could attack her, and Adele cautiously agreed to descend.
• As Adele lowered herself, pursuing Transmigrators began exploding, and the survivors realized they had all been marked by her spell.
• Adele landed in front of Smith and asked why he was chasing a witch.
• Smith guessed that Adele's power involved sound, and she revealed it was Music Magic.
• Adele impatiently demanded Smith explain himself, and he began recounting what had happened.

After Adele saved Snow White from Smith’s attack, she took Snow White to their meeting place and found Cinderella’s remains. Snow White grieved over her friend’s death, and Adele suggested gathering the remains for a burial.

• Adele killed Smith and his pursuers, then healed Snow White’s broken wrist and gave her a potion.
• Snow White asked Adele about Cinderella, and Adele flew her to the hill on a Flying Broom.
• Snow White found Cinderella’s tattered clothes and scattered bones, recognized her friend, and vomited.
• Snow White cried and laughed over Cinderella’s death, while Adele asked what she wanted to do next.
• Snow White said she had not decided, and Adele proposed gathering Cinderella’s remains for burial.

Snow White and Adele buried Cinderella, and Snow White vowed to avenge her by hunting the traitors who had attacked witches. Later, Diana and the department heads learned that more than thirty witch-hunting incidents had taken place outside Typhon City, and Diana received Adele's report and Cinderella's fading Familiar.

• Adele helped Snow White gather Cinderella's remains and bury them with her book.
• Snow White planted her rapier at Cinderella's grave and decided to replace it with a War Scythe, possibly one that could fly.
• Snow White hunted down the traitors who left the Adventurer Guild's safe zone, and Cinderella's Grey Pigeon returned to her.
• Diana told Susie and the department heads that more than thirty witch-hunting incidents had occurred outside Typhon City in the past three months.
• Diana showed the department heads Adele's report and Cinderella's Familiar, whose contract was weakening after its master's death.

Diana and the other witches watched Adele’s Familiar project a scene of a Gray Witch being attacked and reduced to bones by people seeking witch blood. They realized the hunters were collecting witches’ blood for Evolution Items or related purposes, and the chapter left them confronting the danger facing witches.

• Diana gathered the witches in her Office and showed them the projection sent by Adele’s pigeon Familiar.
• The projection showed a Gray Witch and a disguised White Witch fighting, before the crowd pursuing the White Witch turned on the Gray Witch and left only scraps, books, and bones.
• Diana explained that Adele had learned the hunters wanted the witch’s blood.
• Bei Adoris suggested the hunters might use witch blood to make Evolution Items, and the witches recalled how valuable Lan Qingyou’s blood had seemed to Xintianle and the Patriarch.

Diana coordinated the witches’ response to a growing threat from people targeting the Witch Race and asked Lilith to investigate the significance of witch blood. Lilith examined Diana’s blood and said she had a general understanding of the situation, but the chapter left her findings undisclosed.

• Diana ordered Susie to warn the Tea Party witches, Margaret to contact witches scattered around the world, and Bei Adoris to alert the Witch Corps.
• Diana tasked Nangong Lengyue with investigating who was behind the attacks, especially the Demon Race and their interest in witch blood.
• After the others left, Diana suspected the plot against the witches had been prepared over a long period and advanced while their Patriarch was trapped in a Dungeon.
• Diana contacted Lilith, who agreed to examine a drop of her blood and look for unusual properties.
• Lilith studied Diana’s blood and told her she had a general understanding of the situation.

After Lilith discovered that Diana’s blood carried a trace of Lan Qingyou’s blood, Diana warned the other witches about the witch hunt. On the Northern Snow Mountain, Lucia was stabbed in the heart by a yeti after reading the warning, but her repeated messages to the Witch Corps left her fate uncertain.

• Lilith told Diana that witches’ blood contained a trace of Lan Qingyou, which could explain why their enemies were hunting witches.
• Diana realized Lan Qingyou’s blood had been used to make Witch Potion and sent a warning to several witches.
• Lucia continued her moonlight research in the snow and exchanged potions for a Snow Rabbit from passing yetis.
• Lucia read Bei Adoris’s warning about the witch hunt, and a yeti stabbed her in the heart.
• Lucia sent repeated messages to the Witch Corps as other witches reacted with alarm.

After Lucia sent the Witch Corps’ emergency code, the witches mobilized to investigate, and Erika encountered Snowmen attacking from hang gliders on her way to Lucia’s shelter. A distant beam killed the surviving attacker, so Erika continued toward Lucia while Martha went to investigate the shot.

• Alice explained to Bei Adoris that 111 was the Witch Corps’ emergency code, and the witches rushed to check on Lucia at the Northern Snow Mountain node.
• Bei Adoris reported the danger to Diana, who ordered updates and stopped her paperwork to consider a response.
• Erika flew from her shelter toward Lucia’s home and attacked a group of Snowmen descending on hang gliders.
• Erika seized the Snowmen’s leader, but a distant beam killed him before she could question him.
• Erika told the group what happened, and Martha turned toward the beam’s origin while Erika continued to Lucia.

Martha traced the spell that had stopped above a treetop, while Erika discovered Lucia had been killed and the witches scrambled to preserve her body and recover her blood. The Yeti settlement was empty, and Ursula called for killing anyone who threatened the Land of Abandonment.

• Martha followed the spell's Magic Power traces to a treetop and found a white, feather-like object caught between two leaves.
• Erika reported that Lucia was dead, and the witches devised a plan to recover her blood and preserve her body with a Toy Witch's magic.
• Erika used a Life Magic Potion to heal Lucia's body, then carried her toward the meeting point arranged with the Toy Witch.
• Martha sent Bei Adoris a photo of the object she had found, and Bei Adoris told her to keep watch at her checkpoint.
• Pandora reported that the Yeti settlement was empty, and Bei Adoris forwarded the pictures to Diana.
• Ursula urged the witches to kill anyone who tried to destroy the Land of Abandonment.

Diana learned that Pandora was heading to the Feathered Race settlement, but the Feathered Race and Little People Race launched a coordinated invasion of Typhon City and seized its Teleportation Arrays. She ordered the witches to shelter, key resources to be evacuated or destroyed, and the story ended with Margaret asking what would happen to the city’s civilians.

• Bei Adoris reported that the Yeti Race had fled and Pandora was heading toward the Feathered Race settlement.
• Diana saw Feathered Race members carrying Little People Race members attack Typhon City from the air.
• Diana ordered the Teleportation Arrays shut down, but the invaders had already seized the northern Industrial Zone, the western Academy District, and the eastern Commercial District.
• Diana ordered witches to shelters and forbade contact with unevolved transmigrators.
• Diana told the witches to evacuate factory equipment, books, gold, materials, food, and water to the Central Habitat and destroy what they could not take.
• Poison Witch questioned whether the Central Habitat could hold the witches, and Margaret asked what would happen to the civilians in Typhon City.

The Land of Abandonment came under coordinated attacks by rebellious small races and invading Transmigrators seeking witches’ blood for Evolution Items. Shang Chuan fought off Merfolk at the Harbor, then took shelter and warned the group as Ailuaier defended him.

• Diana warned that Transmigrators could be among the traitors, while attacks spread across the Land of Abandonment and its three major cities.
• Shang Chuan and Ailuaier fought Merfolk attacking their cargo ship at the Harbor, and Ailuaier told him the invaders wanted witches’ blood for Evolution Items.
• Shang Chuan asked Ailuaier to handle the fight while he sent a warning, and she escorted him into the cabin and gave him her Card.
• Shang Chuan messaged the group that the Land of Abandonment was under attack, and The Pope said he was too far away to help.
• Chu Yuan became serious as Shang Chuan began explaining the attacks and the invaders’ overwhelming numbers.

Shang Chuan and Ailuaier fled the burning ship as invaders attacked Typhon City, while witches organized a defense and rescued one another. They reached Ailuaier’s Clock Tower sanctuary with more than fifty witches, and an unseen attacker struck down two Birdmen as a falling witch was caught.

• Shang Chuan discussed the invasion and the need to supply the Knowledge Witch’s sanctuary with food and materials through the Tarot Villa group chat.
• Ailuaier warned Shang Chuan that the merfolk were setting their ship on fire, then carried him away on her Flying Broom.
• Ailuaier rescued witches along the way and brought more than fifty of them to her Clock Tower sanctuary.
• The invaders poured through Typhon City’s Teleportation Arrays while witches fled toward the central settlement and fought the Feathered Race in the sky.
• An unknown figure pierced two Birdmen with a blade and caught a falling witch.

Margaret and the witches drove back invaders across the Industrial, Commercial, and Academy Districts while Diana’s forces reassessed their defenses. After small races rebelled and the Witch Corps lost personnel, the witches abandoned the grand formation and prepared to hunt invaders and deal with the rebels.

• Margaret attacked the Industrial Zone invaders with flying blades while Battle Magic Puppets fought alongside her.
• An invader fled through the Teleportation Array to the Commercial District, found people transformed into golden figures, and teleported onward to the Academy District.
• The invader collapsed in the green-stricken Academy District, where Susie ordered a hammer-wielding witch to kill him and dismantle the Teleportation Array for reuse.
• The Toy Witch and several Witch Corps members returned from Typhon City after tending to dead witches, leaving too few personnel to maintain the grand formation.
• Cynthia said the witches no longer had reason to protect the small races that had rebelled, and Diana learned that Witch Corps teams would reinforce towns and hunt invaders.

After the Witches rescued Lucia from the invaders, they found that her body had recovered but her soul and Magic Power had not, leaving her unconscious. Martha began preparing a targeted summoning in hopes of retrieving Lucia’s soul from Hell.

• The Witches recovered most of the blood taken from their fallen comrades, but Lucia remained unconscious after her rescue.
• Nightingale explained that Lucia’s body was alive while her unrecovered soul left her spirit and Magic Power at zero.
• Erika proposed that Martha summon Lucia’s soul from Hell, and the others agreed to try.
• Martha asked Katie to turn Lucia’s body into a toy while she went to construct a Summoning Array.

Martha successfully summoned Lucia’s soul, and Diana used Soul Drain to preserve it as an intact Soul Crystal. Nightingale devised a way to return the crystal to Lucia’s body using Mana Circuits, and Martha began preparing to draw them.

• Martha returned with a Summoning Array and called the others together to summon Lucia’s soul.
• As the summoned presence began to disperse, Diana used Soul Drain on the blue light and formed a Soul Crystal.
• Nightingale examined the crystal and confirmed it contained Lucia’s intact soul.
• Nightingale explained that they needed to insert the crystal into Lucia’s body and use Mana Circuits to circulate Magic Power through her.
• Martha agreed to draw the Mana Circuits, and Nightingale instructed her on their placement and thickness.

Lucia regained consciousness after being stabbed by the Yeti Race and learned that the Witches had revived her by restoring her blood. As she recovered among other transformed Witches, the battle across the Land of Abandonment remained at a standoff.

• After dying, Lucia wandered through a gloomy Hell before being pulled back into her body.
• Lucia woke among familiar Witches, and Erika explained that her blood had been drained and the others had brought her back.
• Lucia vowed to take revenge on the Yeti Race for betraying her and stabbing her.
• Nightingale and Erika left Lucia to rest while other Witches continued to arrive for treatment.
• Lucia learned that the fighting had reached a standoff, with Witches defending from shelters and Pandora and Nangong Lengyue attacking the invaders.

Pandora and Nangong Lengyue led attacks on the races and forces rebelling against the witches in the Land of Abandonment. As fighting spread, people on the World Channel debated the invasion and learned that many attackers were Transmigrators involved in an internal rebellion.

• Pandora flew across the Land of Abandonment on a mutated Fire Elemental Elf, burning the Little People Race's homeland and other towns as she searched for fleeing Yeti.
• Nangong Lengyue took her Patrol Squad on the offensive, killing traitors with her Gap Magic Eye while her witches fought throughout the towns.
• People on the World Channel discussed the attack on the witches' stronghold and criticized the invaders for seizing and defending the Teleportation Array.
• A witness in Typhon City reported a casualty ratio above one hundred to one, and others said the invaders were mostly Transmigrators alongside local Evolutionists.
• The commanders on the World Channel were shocked to learn that the attack also involved an internal rebellion against the witches.

Lucia recovered in the Tree House while Erika and the other Witches resurrected their fallen comrades. As Lucia learned how Nightingale had revived her, the World Channel’s discussion shifted from the attack on the Witches to the Pure Origin Sect and the Originalists.

• World Channel users discussed reports that Witches fought fiercely to recover their dead and their blood, then suspected the Pure Origin Sect of spreading rumors about using Witch blood to make Evolution Items.
• That evening, Erika brought food to Lucia in the Tree House, where dead Witches waited in doll-like forms to be resurrected.
• Lucia told Erika she was recovering but still struggled with the betrayal and with the Soul Crystal and Mana Circuit placed in her chest.
• Nightingale entered with Katie and Martha, and Lucia admitted she had been foolish to trust the person who tried to kill her.
• Martha set up a Summoning Array, Erika and Katie turned souls into Soul Crystals, and Nightingale began resurrecting a Witch as Lucia watched the procedure.

Lucia proposed selling practical basic spells while restricting witch-developed magic, and Diana approved the plan as she considered stepping away from her exhausting Administrator role. Eight months into the Dungeon expedition, Lan Qingyou and Vivian reflected on their routine as the group gathered for another meal.

• Lucia suggested selling useful basic spells at high prices while ensuring witch-developed magic could only be used by witches, and the group supported the idea.
• Diana approved Lucia's proposal and asked Bei Adoris to coordinate with her while she organized reports about the rebellion and the witches' losses.
• Diana considered letting witches manage themselves so she could leave the burdensome Administrator role and return to research.
• Lan Qingyou and Vivian marked that 251 days had passed since their group entered the Dungeon and discussed how quickly time had gone.
• The expedition team gathered at camp for a meal prepared by Gu Xiaobei, whose cooking and foraging had helped sustain them during their isolation.

The Abandoned War ended after months of fighting, with the Transmigrators withdrawing and the Witch Race left with catastrophic casualties and destruction. The chapter ends by revealing that attackers found a way to bypass the War Tree Demons through the Perching Giant Tree where the Flying Magic Beasts lived.

• The Abandoned War ended after the Transmigrators surrounding the major cities in the Land of Abandonment withdrew, with estimates placing Transmigrator deaths at around three million and witch deaths at around a hundred thousand.
• People on the World Channel questioned the suspicious claims that had fueled the war and blamed the Transmigrators’ greed for the enormous loss of life.
• Newcomers continued traveling to the Land of Abandonment through Adventurer Guild Teleportation Arrays, while guerrilla units led by Pandora and Nangong Lengyue inflicted heavy losses.
• The Witch Race lost a quarter of its population, its sources of income, the merchant fleet at Abandoned Harbor, and much of Typhon City’s infrastructure.
• The Five Dragon Reincarnation Magic Array and the War Tree Demons protected Lan Qingyou’s Central Habitat from the invaders.
• The attackers spent a month finding a way past the War Tree Demons and began clearing them, but Cynthia, the Witch of Thorns, helped prevent their destruction; the route led through the Perching Giant Tree where the Flying Magic Beasts lived.

After the Transmigrators withdrew from the Perching Giant Tree, Diana ordered their abandoned bodies burned and resolved to retaliate against those behind the invasion. She directed the Witches to search the area and identify the invaders, including those who had stolen Magic Eyes.

• The Transmigrators fought the Witches over the Perching Giant Tree for eight months, felling branches and damaging the magic arrays before retreating overnight.
• Diana confirmed the invaders had withdrawn and ordered the abandoned bodies burned, a task Pandora and the Fire Elemental Elf carried out.
• Diana told Margaret she would take revenge and make the world fear the Witch Race.
• Diana and Margaret learned that the Feathered Race had attacked Witches to steal their Magic Eyes for Transmigrators who had not yet evolved.
• Diana ordered her people to sweep the area and the Tourism Department to record who entered the Land of Abandonment and which Magic Eyes had gone missing.