Chapter Summaries

Lan Qingyou prepared to upgrade the Level 7 Shelter by gathering materials for a Flight Management Center, which would keep Eureka City flying if she became unable to control it. She also planned to upgrade the Perching Giant Tree, while Chu Yuan and the others eagerly awaited a glimpse of the new shelter level.

• Lan Qingyou posted a list of materials for the Flight Management Center, and several witches offered their spare components.
• Lan Qingyou turned to upgrading the Perching Giant Tree, which had become a home for Flying Magic Beasts and had been damaged during the Abandoned War.
• Lan Qingyou asked Judgment whether the Supreme Council had any Millennium Tree Branches, and Judgment agreed to check.
• Chu Yuan learned that the materials were for upgrading a Level 7 Shelter and eagerly shared the news with the villa.
• The people in the villa gathered to watch Lan Qingyou's upgrade and offered to help if she lacked a few materials.

Chu Yuan supplied Lan Qingyou with materials from the Supreme Council, allowing her to prepare the Perching Giant Tree’s upgrade. Lan Qingyou began upgrading the Flight Management Center, Perching Giant Tree, and Bathroom, leaving the shelter’s major transformation underway as the Race War spread.

• Chu Yuan gave Lan Qingyou the materials she needed after the Supreme Council decided to seek her favor and avoid provoking Curse Magic.
• Lan Qingyou prepared the rare branches needed to upgrade the Perching Giant Tree, using the Ancient Trees she had brought back from the Dungeon.
• Catherine reported that everyone had evacuated and the shelter was ready for its upgrade.
• Lan Qingyou selected the Flight Management Center, Perching Giant Tree, and Bathroom for the upgrade and placed the Flight Control Room in Eureka City’s Industrial Zone.
• Lan Qingyou noted that the Witch Race would avoid the wider conflict, keep researching, and continue sending witches into Dungeons.

Lan Qingyou oversaw Eureka City’s shelter upgrade, which transformed the Perching Giant Tree and created a Flight Management Center. She went to inspect the new facility, where Margaret was waiting and Kesuya’s tentacles made the control room feel unsettling.

• Lan Qingyou’s shelter upgrade made the Perching Giant Tree grow large enough to cover Eureka City and gave it the ability to purify the city’s air and attract higher-rank Flying Magic Beasts.
• Lan Qingyou asked the witches who would manage the Flight Management Center, and Erika volunteered to move her shelter there with several other witches.
• Lan Qingyou learned that the giant tree was gradually increasing the Magic Power in the air and considered whether it could make Eureka City a Heavy Magic Zone.
• Lan Qingyou flew to the Flight Management Center, where Margaret told her the facilities had finished upgrading.
• Lan Qingyou entered the center and noticed that its control-room layout and swaying tentacles from Kesuya’s eye tissue made her uncomfortable.

Lan Qingyou showed Erika and the Witch Corps the Flight Management Center’s surveillance system and controls aboard the Flying City. The witches explored the facilities and prepared to test how to move the city.

• Lan Qingyou examined the Synthetic Surveillance Tentacle, which had been upgraded with Kesuya’s cell tissue.
• Erika and the Witch Corps arrived at the Flight Management Center and discussed studying its combination of mechanical and biological technology.
• The witches discovered that the surveillance system showed nearly 360 degrees around the Flying City, including Xiaowei Lake and the pit beneath Eureka City.
• Erika sat in the pilot’s seat, admired the control stick, and suggested modifying it into a steering wheel or helm.
• Erika began pressing the labeled buttons to figure out how to move the Flying City.

Lan Qingyou and Erika oversaw Eureka City's first flight test, lifting the city into the air and confirming it could fly without Lan Qingyou's talent. With the first stage successful, they prepared to raise it to three hundred meters.

• Erika announced Eureka City's first ascent and directed the witches to secure themselves or take flight.
• Erika powered up the thrusters, and the city rose to one hundred meters above the terrain.
• Lan Qingyou lifted her talent while the Emergency Response Team stood ready with potions, and the witches reported normal readings.
• Erika began the second test and ordered the city to ascend to three hundred meters.

After Eureka completed its flight tests, Lan Qingyou chose a destination in the northeast of the Karim Continent to confront their enemies. She then returned to her shelter to solve the problem of how witches outside the moving city could teleport back safely, and the Perching Giant Tree gave her an idea.

• Eureka completed its levitation, propulsion, and steering tests, confirming that the city could fly.
• Lan Qingyou gave Erika the coordinates of their destination, and Erika entered them into the navigation system.
• Lan Qingyou and the regional witches discussed moving their shelters closer to the management center.
• Lan Qingyou returned to her shelter and considered how witches away from Eureka could return, since its moving Teleportation Array could not be targeted from outside.
• Lan Qingyou noticed the Perching Giant Tree and found inspiration for a solution.

Lan Qingyou used a branch from the Perching Giant Tree to develop a Town Portal Scroll, then asked Vivian to help conceal the Flying City with illusion machinery. Vivian agreed to collaborate, and Lan Qingyou began planning the project with her.

• Lan Qingyou took scraps from the Perching Giant Tree and used its sap and Enchanted Paper to make a teleportation scroll anchored to the tree's Magic Power.
• Lan Qingyou visited the forest below the Flying City, worried that its low altitude exposed its residents and flight path to people on the ground.
• Lan Qingyou asked the High Priestess, Vivian, about creating illusions and explained that she wanted to hide the Flying City.
• The group reacted with amazement to Lan Qingyou's photos of the Flying City, while Vivian recognized why Lan Qingyou had sent them.
• Lan Qingyou proposed developing illusion machinery together, and Vivian agreed to collaborate.

Lan Qingyou revealed that the flying island was her upgraded Level 7 Shelter, Flying City—Eureka, and discussed the witches’ departure from the Land of Abandonment. She arranged for Shang Chuan’s people to manage its mines and Herb Gardens while the Witch Race received seventy percent of the profits, then planned to visit Emerald Ridge and assigned Apprentice Witches to study her Town Portal Scroll method.

• Chu Yuan guessed that Lan Qingyou’s flying island was her upgraded Level 7 Shelter, and she confirmed it was called Flying City—Eureka.
• Lan Qingyou explained that Eureka had formerly been Typhon City, while the group teased her about choosing the name.
• Shang Chuan asked what would happen to the Land of Abandonment, and Lan Qingyou offered its mines and Herb Gardens for his people to manage while some witches remained there.
• Lan Qingyou and Shang Chuan agreed that the Witch Race would receive seventy percent of the profits from the Land of Abandonment.
• Lan Qingyou asked whether she should go to Emerald Ridge, and the High Priestess welcomed her.
• Lan Qingyou sent the Knowledge Witch her Town Portal Scroll method and assigned Apprentice Witches to learn it.

Lan Qingyou reopened the Teleportation Array and traveled to Emerald Ridge, where she joined Vivian to develop an Illusion Instrument. After five days, they finished a preliminary design and began building the first device.

• Lan Qingyou made Town Portal Scrolls for the women and planned to leave a limited supply near the Teleportation Array as a safeguard against invasion.
• Lan Qingyou rebuilt four Teleportation Arrays on the Perching Giant Tree, then explained the arrangements to Diana and traveled to Emerald Ridge.
• Lan Qingyou learned that rebellion and civil war had devastated the Vampire Alliance, leaving four surviving branches and a weakened alliance held together with help from the Giovanni Family.
• A vampire maid escorted Lan Qingyou to Vivian's laboratory, where Vivian was waiting to work with her.
• Lan Qingyou and Vivian spent five days developing a preliminary Illusion Instrument design and began making the first one.

A huge flying island called Eureka left the Land of Abandonment and stunned Transmigrators across the continent, who suspected the Witches were behind it. As people offered money for information and speculated about its destination, Shang Chuan chose not to explain and focused on developing the Land of Abandonment.

• Transmigrators spotted the flying island Eureka and posted pictures of it on the World Channel.
• People identified Eureka as likely connected to the Witches and recalled the mass Expulsion from the Land of Abandonment.
• The two people who posted the pictures received many messages and deposits asking them to investigate, and one set out toward the Land of Abandonment.
• People worried about where Eureka was headed, while Shang Chuan decided not to answer their questions and continued his work.

Shang Chuan traveled toward Abandoned Harbor after Lan Qingyou appointed him to manage and develop the Land of Abandonment. As he planned its trade and transport infrastructure, Ailuaier reminded him that she was also there to watch over him as a witch.

• Shang Chuan reflected on Lan Qingyou’s fierce protection of her witches and concluded that he trusted her despite her contradictions.
• Shang Chuan asked Ailuaier how long their voyage to Abandoned Harbor would take, and she teased him for repeatedly asking.
• After receiving Lan Qingyou’s appointment, Shang Chuan gathered workers, money, and materials and set out to return to the Land of Abandonment.
• Shang Chuan planned to expand the harbor’s trade and build roads, bridges, railways, trains, and ships as a backup to systems tied to the World Will.
• Ailuaier told Shang Chuan that, despite being his employee, she was also a witch responsible for keeping an eye on him.

Lan Qingyou and Vivian completed an illusion device to help protect Emerald Ridge from the Werewolf Race and the Demon Hunters. They named the device the Mirage System as Vivian planned to use it to buy the weakened vampires time to recover.

• Ailuaier kept watch over Shang Chuan’s tax income for the witches’ communal treasury, while Shang Chuan said he had no intention of cheating anyone.
• After another seven days, Lan Qingyou and Vivian tested their invisible octopus-like biomechanical creature and found its illusion could fool most Magic Eyes, but likely not appraisal-type ones.
• Vivian explained that she wanted to seal off Emerald Ridge and use the devices to deter the nearby Werewolf Race and Demon Hunters while the vampires rebuilt their strength.
• Vivian planned to use the Ancient Demon Beast’s blood to create Evolution Items, while keeping details of the beast secret from Lan Qingyou.
• Lan Qingyou suggested naming the completed device the Mirage System.

Lan Qingyou returned to Eureka and learned that the Perching Giant Tree was turning the city into a Heavy Magic Zone, leaving some witches sick from the increased Magic Power. She explained the cause to Diana and began describing why local creatures were more resistant to Magic Power than people from Blue Star.

• Lan Qingyou returned to Eureka and gave Diana the Mirage System technology while asking about problems in the city.
• Diana told Lan Qingyou that witches with low Constitution were suffering symptoms from the city's unusually high Magic Power concentration.
• Lan Qingyou explained that the upgraded Perching Giant Tree was gradually turning Eureka into a Heavy Magic Zone.
• Diana wondered why Flying Magic Beasts were unaffected, and Lan Qingyou asked whether she had ever dissected one.
• Lan Qingyou began explaining that creatures from the Karim Continent had skin and muscles more resistant to Magic Power than people from Blue Star.

Diana assigned Lan Qingyou to research a medicine for witches suffering from Magic Power intoxication while the witches prepared to mass-produce and install the Mirage System. Erika activated the system overnight, making the Flying City vanish and sending the Scouts and their bosses into a panic.

• Lan Qingyou explained that outsiders needed time to adjust to the Magic Power they gained on the Karim Continent, and Diana asked her to find a remedy for witches with poor constitutions.
• Diana went to Margaret to arrange mass production of the Mirage System, and Lan Qingyou approved connecting it to the Flight Management Center.
• The witches installed more than ten thousand devices while Scouts below watched them and reported that the Flying City was heading northeast.
• Erika activated the Mirage System that night, and the Flying City disappeared from the Scouts' view by morning.
• The Scouts reported the city's disappearance, and their bosses fled farther from the northeast.

The Witch Race continued gathering Magic Power residue to expand its ability to curse people while searching for the hidden Flying City Eureka. Durandal sent Sophia northeast to look for the city or learn what was happening, avoiding asking Chu Yuan for help because the Witch of the Tower had rejected reconciliation.

• The Witch Race’s Mirage System concealed Eureka by disguising it as a changing cloud, though appraisal-type Magic Eyes could still see through it.
• The witches used the new Teleportation Array to travel to the Land of Abandonment and collect qualifying Magic Power residue, allowing them to curse more people over time.
• Durandal ordered Sophia to go northeast and search for the Witch Race’s Flying City or gather information about it.
• Durandal avoided contacting Chu Yuan because Chu Yuan had firmly rejected an offer to reconcile with the Witch Race.
• Durandal hoped Sophia’s mission would show the people pressuring him that he was trying to help, whether or not she found Eureka.

Sophia reflected on why she and the other witches had remained with the Supreme Council despite their worsening potion workload, then set out to investigate the Flying City’s last known location. She joined up with Scouts sent by other leaders, leaving to track the city while the Witch Hunt still threatened witches.

• Sophia remembered how the Supreme Council’s witches had been left with a growing potion workload after most witches departed and the Black Witches cut off supplies.
• Sophia decided that the witches stayed with the Supreme Council because they valued their established lives there and lacked the skills to thrive elsewhere.
• Sophia gathered supplies and used a Teleportation Array to leave the council for the Flying City’s last known location.
• Scouts sent by other leaders met Sophia outside the Adventurer City and asked to accompany her as companions and bodyguards.
• Sophia agreed to travel with the Scouts because other witches could not be spared from potion brewing.

A young man and a carpenter in the Rolling Thunder Wilderness blamed the witches for the city’s flawed Magic Protective Shield and mocked their reported Flying City. A Black Witch appeared behind the young man and knocked him unconscious, leaving the witches’ response to his insults unknown.

• A young man complained that the witches had made a poor Magic Protective Shield while helping a carpenter repair a lightning-damaged roof.
• The young man said the witches deserved to be killed, unaware that the 101 Witch Group had built the shield without charging for its work.
• The young man and the carpenter speculated that the witches had hidden their Flying City and joked about them getting struck by lightning.
• A Black Witch tapped the young man on the shoulder, and he collapsed unconscious as he recognized her group.

Diana and the witches began their operation in the Rolling Thunder Wilderness, deploying hidden teams and then launching a coordinated attack on the Adventurer City. The assault was broadcast live across the Karim Continent, as the witches moved to destroy the city’s core facilities.

• Diana ordered the witches waiting at the Flying City's Teleportation Arrays to teleport in pairs and reveal themselves only after reaching the sky.
• Nangong Lengyue waited with her Patrol Squad outside Eureka City while the witches discussed the area's frequent lightning and newly installed Lightning Rods.
• Diana told Nangong Lengyue that the first-phase teams were in position, and Nangong prepared her Patrol Squad to attack.
• Nangong Lengyue ordered the Patrol Squad to split into four groups and strike the Industrial Zone, Commercial District, magic-array power source, and Adventurer Guild.
• A Sky Screen appeared above every Adventurer City on the Karim Continent and broadcast the witches' takeover operation live.

The Sky Screen showed Black Witches attacking people in the Rolling Thunder Wilderness before a white-haired witch arrived at an Adventurer Guild. The guild master warned that attacking it meant declaring war on the Supreme Council, and the chapter ended as viewers waited for the witch's response.

• The Sky Screen appeared, showing Black Witches racing through a street and knocking people unconscious.
• Viewers recognized the lightning-struck area as the Rolling Thunder Wilderness and discussed its harsh conditions.
• The footage showed a white-haired witch stopping outside an Adventurer Guild.
• The guild master warned the witches that attacking the guild would mean war with the Supreme Council.
• The viewers waited to hear how the white-haired witch would respond.

The White-Haired Witch led an attack on the Adventurer Guild in the Rolling Thunder Wilderness, killing its branch president and destroying the region’s access to the Teleportation Array network. She then took the array’s alloy foundation, while viewers learned that the material had originally come from the Witch of the Tower.

• A witch swiftly killed the Adventurer Guild branch president, and the White-Haired Witch declared that the Supreme Council had nothing to do with the Witch Race.
• The White-Haired Witch’s companions began a bloody purge inside the guild while she destroyed the Teleportation Array’s destination selector.
• A man at another Adventurer Guild announced that the Rolling Thunder Wilderness had vanished from the destination list, trapping people there and blocking outside help.
• The White-Haired Witch pried the Teleportation Array’s alloy foundation from the floor and stored it in one of her Cards.
• A World Channel insider explained that the Witch of the Tower had obtained the alloy in Dungeons before selling it to the Supreme Council for the arrays.