Chapter Summaries

Lan Qingyou and Adele investigated the Demon Hunters and learned that humans used implanted Witch Magic Eyes to gain power. Snow White brought back a Gem Magic Eye as evidence, and Lan Qingyou recognized it before catching the container when Snow White dropped it in surprise at her identity.

• Lan Qingyou sent Diana the gathered documents while Adele helped sort them and study other materials.
• Snow White returned from searching for evidence, and Adele explained that Demon Hunters gained their power by implanting Witches' Magic Eyes.
• Adele said Witches had been killed and their bodies mutilated during the Abandoned War, and Lan Qingyou became furious that their remains had been exploited.
• Snow White handed Adele a container holding a red eye, and Lan Qingyou identified it as a Gem Magic Eye connected to the [Crystal Slipper] Magic.
• Lan Qingyou introduced herself as the Witch of the High Tower, startling Snow White into dropping the container, and caught it before the Magic Eye was damaged.

Lan Qingyou learned how the Demon Hunters used stolen Magic Eyes and proposed transplanting Snow White’s recovered Gem Magic Eye. Snow White agreed to the operation, and the chapter ended as Lan Qingyou suggested replacing one of her eyes with it.

• Lan Qingyou examined the recovered Magic Eye and asked Adele about the Demon Hunters, concluding they relied on numbers, ambushes, and the eye’s limited power.
• Lan Qingyou asked Snow White what she would do with her friend’s recovered eye and suggested having it transplanted.
• Snow White agreed to try the transplant, and Lan Qingyou prepared to connect the eye to her Mana Circuit.
• Lan Qingyou considered operating on Snow White’s hand but proposed removing one of her eyes and replacing it with the Gem Magic Eye.
• Snow White briefly fell silent, then agreed and urged Lan Qingyou to begin the operation.

Lan Qingyou completed Snow White’s Magic Eye transplant and confirmed Snow White had recovered without discomfort. She then asked to buy Snow White’s removed eye, hoping its leg-strengthening ability might help her recover from paralysis.

• Lan Qingyou transplanted Cinderella’s Magic Eye into Snow White and suspected the Demon Hunters’ transplanted eyes carried a risk of deterioration.
• Snow White woke three hours after surgery and told Lan Qingyou that her new Gem Magic Eye caused no discomfort.
• Lan Qingyou asked Snow White whether she wanted to sell her removed Magic Eye.
• Lan Qingyou explained that she wanted Snow White’s leg-strengthening eye to see if it could help her legs recover from her car accident paralysis.

Snow White sold her Magic Eye to Lan Qingyou so it could help treat Lan Qingyou’s illness, while securing a promise that she could receive another eye if needed. After researching at the sanctuary for more than half a month, Lan Qingyou returned to see Diana, who was shocked to learn she had been back without telling anyone.

• Snow White sold her Magic Eye to Lan Qingyou and asked to receive another one if her eyes caused problems in the future; Lan Qingyou agreed.
• Lan Qingyou returned to the sanctuary through a Portal and spent more than half a month researching Alisa’s magic and theoretical knowledge.
• After the Abandoned War, Diana’s orders drove the remaining races out of the Land of Abandonment, leaving it under the Witch Race’s control.
• Lan Qingyou visited Diana after finishing her research and revealed she had returned more than half a month earlier.
• Diana realized Lan Qingyou had entered the sanctuary through a Portal and scolded her for not informing the Office.

Lan Qingyou showed Diana the Book of Curses, a Magic Book she had developed to make her newly created Curse School magic usable while controlling its backlash. She explained how its magic arrays stored and cleansed curse power, and Diana asked what Lan Qingyou planned to do with her research.

• Lan Qingyou gave Diana a book containing alchemical principles and unfamiliar magic, and revealed that the book itself was her research subject.
• Diana had the Small Screen appraise the book and learned it was a Magic Book called the Book of Curses.
• Lan Qingyou explained that she had created Curse Magic and devised the book as a medium to absorb and cleanse the magic’s backlash while growing stronger.
• Diana found basic curses in the book and examined the arrays on its covers, which triggered curses and stored or converted power.
• Diana asked Lan Qingyou what she intended to do with her research, since she knew Lan Qingyou had not pursued it just for fun.

Lan Qingyou told Diana that the Demon Hunters had created their enhanced abilities using Magic Eyes stolen from witches who died in the Abandoned War. She began preparing an over-the-horizon curse, leaving Diana to watch as she recited the Curse of Agony.

• Diana told Lan Qingyou that powerful races across the continent were searching for the elusive Demon Hunters and that Adele had found a possible lead.
• Lan Qingyou revealed that the Demon Hunters' high stats came from witches' Magic Eyes, which had been gouged out and implanted in other people.
• Diana reacted with fury and vowed to make the Demon Hunters pay and recover the witches' stolen possessions.
• Lan Qingyou suggested using a curse rather than simply reclaiming the Magic Eyes and poured unfamiliar Magic Power residue onto a magic circle in the Book of Curses.
• Lan Qingyou activated the circle and began reciting the incantation for the Curse of Agony.

Lan Qingyou used the Book of Curses to curse an unknown Demon Hunter and discussed the Curse Magic System’s limits with Diana. She ordered every Witch to learn curses and Curse Rebound and made black the main clothing color, while Diana asked how easily the Magic Books could be made.

• Lan Qingyou cast a curse using traces of Magic Power left in the Land of Abandonment, and Diana asked whether it might hit the wrong person.
• Lan Qingyou said the curses could eventually help track down Demon Hunters and retrieve the Witches’ Magic Eyes, but their magic was still weak and caused slight backlash.
• Lan Qingyou ordered every Witch to learn at least one curse and Curse Rebound, and decreed that black would become the main color of their clothing.
• Lan Qingyou explained that curses would make enemies fear the Witches and that black clothing would distinguish her faction from Alisa’s White Witches.
• Diana asked how easy the Book of Curses was to make and what materials it required.

Lan Qingyou explained to Diana how Magic Books were made and proposed that the Witches openly teach Curse Magic to demonstrate their power. Diana agreed, and Lan Qingyou warned that developing curses could cause painful backlash before describing how Curse Rebound could dispel them.

• Lan Qingyou gave Diana her notes on Magic Books, explaining that their rank depended on materials and that even the Book of Curses made from the Beast Emperor's hide was only C-Rank.
• Diana realized that Magic Scrolls could be bound together into permanent books and worried that teaching every Witch curses would attract too much attention.
• Lan Qingyou argued that the Witches should make their strength unmistakable rather than hide it, and Diana agreed they should improve their capabilities and image conspicuously.
• Diana asked whether Witch members developing Curse Magic should create incantations, and Lan Qingyou said incantations and Meditation could help focus the mind and reduce backlash.
• Lan Qingyou warned Diana that curse development could inflict painful curses on the caster and explained that she had created Curse Rebound to dispel them.

Lan Qingyou planned to narrow the witches’ territory and keep outsiders away while the Witch Corps used her curse to hunt intruders. Elsewhere, a surviving team of former invaders prepared for a Dungeon mission, hoping to earn long-awaited Magic Eye transplants.

• Lan Qingyou discussed details of the curse with Diana, then returned to the shelter with the Book of Curses.
• Lan Qingyou decided to shrink the witches’ main area of activity to protect the Witch Race from further losses and preserve its mystique.
• A blond captain led his surviving team in preparing equipment for a deeper Dungeon run.
• The team recalled how they had seized witch blood and Magic Eyes during the Abandoned War, then lost many members to the fighting and the witches’ subsequent hunts.
• The captain explained that the team had been granted a chance at Magic Eye surgery after completing the Dungeon mission.

The captain’s team prepared to leave their shelter and meet their patrons, who had ordered them to join other investigation teams. On the way through the adventurer city, a burst of Magic Power struck the group, leaving four members in unexplained pain; one of them found an absurd status that left him furious.

• The captain packed supplies and planned to keep the team hidden from the Black Witches while exploring Dungeons.
• The team agreed to leave that night after learning their patrons wanted them to meet other investigation teams and divide up their search areas.
• As the team walked through the adventurer city, an unseen burst of Magic Power exploded among them and split into four strands that entered four members.
• The four members collapsed in pain, and the captain ordered the team to give them antidotes and Life Potions and check their statuses.
• One team member saw a status that made him laugh in anger, but the chapter ended before he explained what it said.

Four members of the captain’s team were afflicted with a witch’s Curse of Agony, forcing the group to retreat to their shelter. The people upstairs ordered the team to continue its mission and promised to examine the victims, who feared they would be treated as guinea pigs.

• One team member told the captain that he and three others had been cursed, and the captain learned that the Curse of Agony caused persistent pain until either the victim or caster died.
• The four victims confirmed that their Personal Information panels showed the same curse, which they identified as a specialty of witches.
• The captain abandoned the Dungeon expedition and ordered the group to carry the four victims back to the shelter.
• At the shelter, the team worried about facing an unseen enemy while the captain reported the incident to the people upstairs.
• The captain told the team that they had to continue the mission and that the four victims would be examined, prompting them to complain that they were being used as guinea pigs.

The Curse Magic System appeared, and people debated the witches’ new ability as former invaders feared they could be cursed from anywhere. They began investigating the curse’s possible medium, hoping to stay safe without fleeing into Dungeons.

• People on the World Channel discussed the Curse Magic System and its ability to inflict unbearable suffering without killing its victims.
• Former invaders grew alarmed after a squad discovered that four members had been cursed without anyone suspicious nearby.
• The invaders considered hiding in Dungeons, where Cards could not be used to communicate and they believed curses could not reach them.
• Someone suggested that curses might require a medium linking caster and target, prompting people to investigate what the witches used.

After six days of work, Lan Qingyou developed an S-Rank Talent Potion and kept researching while drinking her trial batch. As the witches returned to Typhon City and studied the damaged magical array’s materials, the World Will announced that Lan Qingyou’s talent had increased.

• Lan Qingyou used materials from the Beast Emperor to develop an S-Rank Talent Potion after six days of work.
• Lan Qingyou drank the first potion, then continued her research while sampling more of the batch.
• Witch Corps members and other witches returned to Typhon City, leaving only a few witches outside the city in the Land of Abandonment.
• The witches began recovering materials from the damaged magical array and treated the work as a learning opportunity.
• Lan Qingyou drank another Talent Potion, and the World Will announced that her talent level had increased.

Lan Qingyou advanced her Star Radiance talent and tested its new gravity-control ability. The World Will then announced that five major conflicts had begun the Race War, awarding an attribute point for every kill between races, while Lan Qingyou followed the announcement in the group chat.

• Lan Qingyou advanced Star Radiance to S rank and gained the ability to control gravity within a ten-meter radius.
• Lan Qingyou tested her new talent and confirmed that its gravity control did not consume Magic Power.
• The World Will announced five large-scale wars and declared the Race War underway, offering one attribute point for each kill of someone from another race.
• Lan Qingyou checked the group chat and read members' reactions to the wars, including the Demon Hunters and Werewolves ambushing Vivian Nadasdy Bathory.

The Tower, Lan Qingyou, warned the others that Demon Hunters could be boosting their stats by implanting Witch Magic Eyes taken from dead Witches. As the group compared casualties from current attacks, they realized other races’ body parts might also be harvested to empower the hunters.

• The Pope explained that Fishmen and Sirens had attacked the Jiaoren at Jiaoren Bay, causing heavy losses over three days.
• The Tower asked whether bodies of the attacked Jiaoren were missing limbs or other body parts, then connected the question to Demon Hunters’ increased stats.
• The Tower suggested that Demon Hunters had installed Witch Magic Eyes taken from Witches killed in the Abandoned War.
• The Pope, the Star, and the High Priestess recognized that many of their dead had been missing similar body parts, including Jiaoren webbing and gills and Vampire wings and fangs.
• The Tower said that implanted body parts could boost Demon Hunters’ stats and let them use the parts’ innate skills.

The Tarot Villa discussed the Demon Hunters' use of Evolutionist body parts and the World Will's Race War announcement. Vivian confirmed the Demon Hunters had witches' scarlet Magic Eyes, while Lan Qingyou revealed that her Curse Magic was restricted to witches.

• Shang Chuan explained that merchants had been expelled from the Land of Abandonment but could still profit from mines worked by Magic Puppets.
• The Tarot Villa discussed how effort and luck had helped its members build their farms and other accomplishments.
• Judgment tried to return the conversation to the Race War announcement, but High Priestess reported that the Demon Hunters had scarlet Magic Eyes hidden behind contacts or goggles.
• High Priestess had vampires retrieve the Demon Hunters' corpses and asked the Tower to teach her Curse Magic in exchange for them.
• The Tower refused, explaining that Curse Magic could only be used by witches, and the chapter revealed that Lan Qingyou had made her magic exclusive to the Witch Race.

The group discussed the Race War, and Shang Chuan argued that Evolutionists and Transmigrators could gain attributes by killing Degenerate Species as well as one another. He revealed that some small races had been wiped out by Goblins created through reckless use of Witch blood, and Lan Qingyou sent Diana to arrange a test hunt.

• Lan Qingyou completed her trade with the High Priestess and stored thirty-one Magic Eyes in a bottle.
• Judgment raised the Race War, and the group discussed the likelihood that ambitious factions would target Evolutionists.
• Shang Chuan explained that killing Degenerate Species could also earn attribute points, giving potential attackers more targets.
• Shang Chuan pointed out that Degenerate Species numbered over ten billion and that fast-reproducing races could replenish their numbers.
• The Moon explained that Witch blood had turned members of the Little People Race into Goblins, who eventually killed off that branch after its Patriarch distributed untested Evolution Items.
• Lan Qingyou messaged Diana to find someone to test whether hunting Degenerate Species awarded attribute points.

Lan Qingyou developed a nutrient solution to preserve Magic Eyes and learned that killing level-50-or-higher monsters granted attribute points. After storing the recovered Magic Eyes, she recruited the Witch Corps for another project, prompting jokes that they had become an Earth and Wood Element construction crew.

• Lan Qingyou adapted Alisa’s Artificial Human nutrient solution formula to create a gentler solution that could preserve Magic Eyes.
• Diana reported that killing Degenerate Species or monsters awarded one attribute point, but monsters had to be level 50 or higher.
• Lan Qingyou gave Diana the solution and formula, then stored thirty-one Magic Eyes from Vivian and the Leg Strengthening Magic Eye from Snow White.
• Lan Qingyou asked the Witch Corps for a dozen or twenty people to help with a project, and Alice joked that the group had become a construction crew.

Lan Qingyou recruited witches for her large project while the Knights Order held a selection to promote apprentice knights and award rare Evolution Items. The selection began with the first candidates being called forward.

• Lan Qingyou shared her project details, and several witches joined while others declined or discussed their research and supplies.
• Silent Witch joined and told Lantern Witch she had made the requested ointment, though its ingredients were difficult to obtain.
• The witches’ potion trade with merchants expanded after they cut off supplies to the Supreme Council, which they suspected had been involved in the war.
• Witch Corps members in Typhon City met at Lan Qingyou’s shelter to divide the project work and began working the next day.
• At the Knights Order’s headquarters, apprentice knights gathered for a selection that would promote successful candidates and award them equipment and Evolution Items.
• The selection began, and Adam, Francis, Yamamoto Daisuke, and Liu Wei were called forward.

Lan Qingyou and the Witch Corps completed Eureka, a flying city built from Typhon City, and prepared to raise it above the ground. Lan Qingyou upgraded her Shelter to Level 7 and chose the City Flight Management Center, leaving the city ready for final calibration.

• Erika and Pandora installed the last flying device beneath Eureka after three months of work.
• Lan Qingyou ordered all witches working outside to return to the city for final calibration.
• Lan Qingyou upgraded her Shelter to Level 7 and chose to add a third floor rather than triple its size.
• Lan Qingyou found the City Flight Management Center among the available facilities and cheered.