Chapter Summaries

Lan Qingyou appeared on a Sky Screen above Adventurer City and announced that the witches’ attack was revenge against Isabelle Victoria Anne Windsor for her role in the Abandoned War. The chapter ended with viewers realizing the Witch Race had targeted Isabelle rather than the Supreme Council as a whole.

• The Sky Screen showed Lan Qingyou flying above Adventurer City near the Witch Academy, revealing that the Flying City was Typhon City.
• Lan Qingyou called the witches’ attack on the Rolling Thunder Wilderness a performance and said the game was over and it was the witches’ turn.
• Lan Qingyou named Isabelle Victoria Anne Windsor as her target and vowed that she and her subordinates would not leave the region alive.
• Viewers recognized Isabelle as a Karim Supreme Council member who controlled the Rolling Thunder Wilderness and had participated in the Abandoned War.
• Observers concluded that the Witch Race had dismantled the Adventurer Guild and destroyed its Magic arrays to take revenge on Isabelle, not to attack the Supreme Council itself.

Isabelle hid in an underground shelter as the Witch Race’s Flying City approached the Rolling Thunder Wilderness, and she asked Steve to help her escape. Steve told her the Witch of the Tower had named her to announce the Witch Race’s shift to open attacks, leaving Isabelle desperate to survive and preserve what she could.

• Isabelle learned that the Witch Race’s Flying City had a strong chance of passing over or targeting the Rolling Thunder Wilderness, but she stayed to protect her resources.
• Isabelle wondered how the Witch Race had discovered her hiding place and panicked when she found that her Teleportation Array had been destroyed.
• Isabelle messaged Steve and asked him to get her out of the wilderness.
• Steve said the Witch of the Tower had named Isabelle to warn other Transmigrators that the Witch Race was moving from secret attacks to open slaughter.
• Isabelle insisted that Steve help her escape because she did not want to die as a stepping stone for the Witch Race.

Isabella agreed to give Steve ninety percent of her assets in exchange for help, but after he sent her a single vial and stopped responding, she realized she had been abandoned. Facing an attack she believed her shelter could not protect her from, she sent a final message to her groups and friends before remembering the vial.

• Steve demanded ninety percent of Isabella's assets to arrange her escape, and she reluctantly sent him everything.
• Steve sent Isabella a vial but ignored her repeated messages, leaving her convinced that his organization had abandoned her.
• Isabella flew into a rage, accused the Demon Squidmen of planning to take her money without honoring the deal, and decided to make them face consequences.
• Isabella concluded that the Witch of the Tower could breach Protective Barriers and that staying in her shelter would not save her.
• Isabella drafted and sent a final message to her groups and friends, then remembered the vial Steve had sent.

After condemning Isabelle, the executioners, and the races that betrayed the Witches, Lan Qingyou gave the residents of Adventurer City in the Rolling Thunder Wilderness half an hour to evacuate before the Witches dismantled it. The residents began leaving rather than risk fighting the Witches, while Isabelle appraised her remaining potion and reacted with a sinister smile.

• Isabelle placed her last potion on the Small Screen for appraisal and smiled sinisterly at the results.
• Lan Qingyou condemned the executioners and warned the Little People Race, Merfolk, Feather Race, and other traitors that the Witches would pursue them.
• Lan Qingyou ordered everyone in Adventurer City to evacuate within half an hour before the Witches dismantled it.
• Viewers discussed how the Witches' knowledge of the city magic arrays let them destroy what they had built.
• Adventurer City residents prepared to leave, deciding that abandoning their homes was safer than fighting the Witches.

Lan Qingyou and the witches faced a giant monster whose mental attack overwhelmed many Transmigrators but barely affected witches prepared with mental defenses. Catherine and the Dungeon Raid Team took the lead on their heavily modified Flying Brooms, racing toward the monster.

• After Lan Qingyou's ultimatum, many Adventurer City residents packed their belongings and tried to flee the city.
• A towering reddish-brown monster burst from the ground, and its mental attack made many Transmigrators vomit or faint.
• The witches recognized the attack and resisted it with mental-defense Magic Items, though some were struck by the monster's tentacles.
• Catherine asked Lan Qingyou to let her Dungeon Raid Team handle the monster, and Lan Qingyou agreed.
• Catherine and the team mounted their modified Flying Brooms and sped off, showing off their hooded robes and animal-skull decorations.

Catherine led the Dungeon Raid Team in a dive against an unfamiliar giant tentacled monster, using their experience fighting dungeon giants to organize the attack. When the monster unexpectedly grabbed and flung several witches, they drank Lightweight Potions to recover in midair.

• Catherine and her crew drew on their history of dungeon battles against giant monsters as they descended toward the enemy.
• Catherine split the witches into two squads, ordering one to test the monster with non-elemental Magic Power while the other prepared Frost Potions and gauged its tentacle range.
• The monster suddenly struck from an unexpected direction, wrapping several witches in its tentacles and flinging them away.
• Catherine ordered the team to scatter, and the thrown witches drank improved C-Rank Lightweight Potions while airborne.

The witches fought the Intestinal Source Larva, which had been formed from Isabelle after she consumed an Intestinal Source Strain. Lan Qingyou recognized a chance to investigate the transformation and retrieved the leftover potion from Isabelle’s ruined shelter.

• After the witches crashed, they used backup Flying Brooms to return to the fight, and Catherine ordered Team Two to use Slow Potions against the tentacle-based monster.
• Lan Qingyou studied the Intestinal Source Larva’s abilities and asked Catherine to lure it away from its original position.
• Catherine used her Magic Eye to draw the Larva forward while replenishing her mana with Mana Potions.
• Lan Qingyou searched the abandoned shelter and found a broken bottle containing the remains of Isabelle’s Intestinal Source Strain.
• Lan Qingyou put the bottle in her Herb Bag so she could continue observing the battle before examining it.

Lan Qingyou found a crude Demon Race symbol and a vial of Intestinal Source Strain in Isabelle’s shelter, learning that Isabelle had become an Intestinal Source Larva after drinking it. She asked Chu Yuan to investigate the Demon Race on Blue Star while she studied the strain, and he asked whether she had fallen out with the Supreme Council.

• Lan Qingyou found a toothy-mouth symbol painted with red paint in Isabelle’s shelter and sent a photograph to the group chat.
• Chu Yuan identified the symbol as belonging to the Demon Race on Blue Star, reminding Lan Qingyou of their earlier encounter with the 505 Formation and Young Jormungandr.
• Lan Qingyou told Chu Yuan that Isabelle was now an Intestinal Source Larva and that the Intestinal Source Strain had likely transformed her.
• Lan Qingyou asked Chu Yuan to investigate the Demon Race while she focused on studying the strain.
• Chu Yuan asked whether Lan Qingyou or the Witch Race had fallen out with the Supreme Council, since that would affect the resources he could use.

Lan Qingyou reassured Chu Yuan that the Black Witches had no current plans to leave the Supreme Council, then discussed Isabelle’s identity and the dangerous toxin affecting her. Vivian regretted missing the hunt and joined several others in offering to help Lan Qingyou with future trouble, while the group watched the monster nearing collapse.

• Lan Qingyou told Chu Yuan that the Black Witches would remain with the Supreme Council for now, and Chu Yuan was relieved because his potion trade gave him influence.
• Ruan Qingyi asked whether Isabelle had been a Vampire, and Vivian identified her as a Blood Red Vampire of the Cappadocia Family.
• Vivian complained that Lan Qingyou had not invited the Vampire Alliance to pursue Isabelle, and Lan Qingyou explained that she had not known Isabelle was a Vampire.
• Vivian asked Lan Qingyou to invite her next time, and The Emperor, The Chariot, The Lovers, and The Star also volunteered to join future operations.
• The Fool announced that the monster was about to give out.

The witches wore down Isabelle while Lan Qingyou prepared to leave and study the Intestinal Source Strain. Isabelle detached from her tumor and flew at Lan Qingyou, but crashed into an unseen barrier and fell with her teeth shattered.

• The witches coordinated their attacks until Isabelle’s tumor and most of her tentacles were cut away.
• Lan Qingyou tried to leave on her Magic Power Broom, and her gravity field crushed a tentacle that lunged at her.
• Isabelle ignored the witches and tried to reach Lan Qingyou, then revealed transparent wings and flew after her.
• Isabelle struck an invisible barrier near Lan Qingyou, lost her teeth, and plunged headfirst to the ground.

Survivors emerged from hiding after the battle and saw the witches circling the fallen monster, so they fled before the witches turned to them. Sky Screen spectators debated how Lan Qingyou had killed the Pole, while those who feared the Witch of the Tower concluded that escaping into a Dungeon was their best hope.

• Survivors argued over who should check whether the monster had died, until one person looked through the dust.
• The scout saw the monster lying in a pool of blood as witches circled and examined its body, then urged the others to flee.
• The survivors remembered the Witch of the Tower's order to leave and hurried away before the witches could notice them.
• Sky Screen spectators marveled at the witches' effortless victory and their lavish use of potions, Rune Stones, enchanted items, and Magic Scrolls.
• Spectators questioned how Lan Qingyou's attack had caused the Pole to fall and die, and those who feared the witches decided that hiding in a Dungeon might be their only escape.

After Isabelle’s death, Lan Qingyou focused on investigating the toxin while Witch teleportation methods astonished the cities. Chu Yuan alerted Durandal and other allies about the Demon Humans, prompting the Supreme Council to investigate as hidden groups began preparing to stop hiding.

• After the Gravity Bomb killed mutated Isabelle, Lan Qingyou returned to her shelter to study the toxin and left the aftermath to Nangong Lengyue and Catherine.
• The city Sky Screens went dark, revealing that the Black Witches had used portals and teleportation scrolls to leave, and people marveled at the Witches’ technology.
• Chu Yuan told Durandal about the Demon Humans, and Durandal began using his resources to search for them.
• Chu Yuan alerted councilors and members of his faction, reasoning that the Demon Humans’ infiltration was already too extensive for secrecy to matter.
• At a dark-room meeting, several people agreed that the Supreme Council’s investigation meant they should stop hiding and begin preparing.

Lan Qingyou began researching how to safely use the Intestinal Source Strain after concluding that Isabelle may have been deceived into taking it. Meanwhile, the witches finished scavenging the city under cover of the battle and its Sky Screen broadcast.

• Lan Qingyou reviewed what she had seen in Isabelle's room and suspected someone had misled Isabelle about the Intestinal Source Strain.
• Lan Qingyou set aside her experiments and began testing ingredient pairings to reduce the strain's toxicity without weakening its effects.
• Nangong Lengyue and Catherine collected Devilish Creature Crystals, then split up through Portals to resume their separate missions.
• Helen gathered the witches who had searched the city's districts, and they reported collecting materials, money, and Magic Items from administrative offices.
• The witches' live Sky Screen broadcast had made them seem untouchable while concealing the scavenging operation.

Helen’s witches finished looting the city and returned to Eureka while the survivors stopped to rest and began plotting to reclaim its abandoned supplies. Their plans were interrupted by a powerful rumble from the distant Adventurer City, where a terrifying sight appeared.

• Helen confirmed that the witches had stored their loot in the Group Warehouse and led them back toward Eureka after speaking with Diana.
• The escaped survivors ran several kilometers before exhaustion forced many of them to stop and rest.
• The survivors discussed the ruined city and realized that its remaining supplies could be claimed, prompting their captain to rally the team with plans to profit.
• The team started planning how to move supplies to their shelter and build a new force in the Rolling Thunder Wilderness.
• A powerful rumble came from the Adventurer City, and the survivors turned to see a terrifying sight.

A gigantic meteorite struck the Rolling Thunder Wilderness, destroying Adventurer City and transforming the surrounding terrain. As survivors fled to shelter, a World Channel poster claimed responsibility for bringing down the meteorite.

• A team fleeing the falling meteorite jumped into a ravine under their captain’s orders and survived the shock wave.
• The captain noticed the sky had cleared and led the team upstream toward their shelter, warning them to avoid the aftermath.
• People on the World Channel shared photos of the impact and asked what had happened in the Rolling Thunder Wilderness.
• A poster reported that Adventurer City had been destroyed and then claimed to have dealt with the meteorite.

After Lan Qingyou destroyed the Adventurer Guild in the Rolling Thunder Wilderness with a rock thrown from the stratosphere, people on the World Channel worried about the city’s protective shield and began asking her for shields of their own. Lan Qingyou was surprised by the explosion she had caused, then dismissed The Magician’s concerns and returned to her research.

• People on the World Channel recognized Lan Qingyou as the witch who had destroyed the Adventurer Guild and debated whether the city’s Magic Protective Shield had survived.
• Some people explained that witches could bypass Magic Protective Shields and suggested that Lan Qingyou might sell them new shields.
• Lan Qingyou returned to her shelter and revealed that she had thrown an ordinary rock from the stratosphere, though she was surprised by the resulting mushroom cloud.
• The Magician messaged Lan Qingyou about destroying the Adventurer Guild, and Lan Qingyou challenged him to explain whether he planned to defend Isabelle.
• The Magician said he was joking and would not defend Isabelle, and Lan Qingyou agreed.

Lan Qingyou negotiated with David, the Magician, to sell the Sky Screen technology and take a 70% share of his planned entertainment company. After signing their contract, she directed the witches to head for the Cursed Corridor.

• The Magician warned Lan Qingyou that a member of the Supreme Council had taken an interest in her after the Black Witch raid.
• Lan Qingyou explained that she had intended the raid to draw out the schemers hiding on the Karim Continent.
• The Magician offered to buy the Sky Screen technology to launch an entertainment company and influence public opinion.
• Lan Qingyou demanded 70% of the company, and she and David signed a contract.
• Erika contacted Lan Qingyou after the Flying City escaped the mushroom cloud's range, and Lan Qingyou named the Cursed Corridor as their destination.

Lan Qingyou moved the Witch Race into the Cursed Corridor, where its strange accelerated time and plentiful resources made an ideal home and herb-growing region. The Supreme Council had quietly prepared the territory for them, while its members mistakenly believed a witch guarding Shang Chuan meant Lan Qingyou still controlled the Land of Abandonment.

• Lan Qingyou brought the Flying City into the Cursed Corridor and sent the combat squad to clear the area for the Witch Race.
• The Adventurer City’s residents greeted the witches and teleported away after learning the Witch Race was taking over.
• Lan Qingyou learned from Chu Yuan that the Council Speaker had ordered the territory’s residents to prepare for the witches’ arrival.
• Sophia pursued the Flying City for nearly two months and helped the Supreme Council anticipate its destination.
• Supreme Council members abandoned plans to claim profits from the Land of Abandonment after discovering that a witch guarded Shang Chuan, assuming Lan Qingyou still protected the territory through him.

The witches moved their sanctuaries into the Cursed Corridor and began building a new life there, while Susie assigned the Witch Academy students to cultivate medicinal herbs. On the World Channel, victims accused witches of taking their money for Magic Circles, prompting debate over how an impostor could fool the World Will.

• The witches began moving their sanctuaries from the Land of Abandonment into the Cursed Corridor while keeping Eureka as their hub for supplies and daily life.
• Susie took control of the reclaimed fields and sent Witch Academy students to grow medicinal herbs.
• People on the World Channel complained that a witch had taken deposits and materials for small Magic Circles without delivering them.
• Other users recognized the complainants as ambitious regional bosses who had sought large Magic Protective Shields and suggested they had been scammed.
• The World Channel users debated whether the culprit was a real witch or someone using Transformation Magic that could fool the World Will.

At a tea party in the Flying City, Lan Qingyou and the Tarot Villa members discussed impostors who had passed themselves off as Black Witches on the World Channel. They could not explain how the deception had worked, and the gathering ended with the realization that they had no way to change or control anything involving the World Will.

• Lan Qingyou choked on her tea when Vivian and the others told her about impostors claiming to be Black Witches.
• Ingrid explained that investigations by the deceived people and the Supreme Council had not identified the impostors or confirmed whether they were male or female.
• Lan Qingyou said that the change was neither good nor bad in itself, and that its consequences would determine how it was judged.
• Lan Qingyou concluded that the group could not change anything involving the World Will, which had resisted earlier attempts to alter World Channel avatars and personal information.