Chapter Summaries

At a Tarot Villa tea party in the Flying City, the Fool shared news of escalating unrest across the continent. Chu Yuan revealed that the Supreme Council was close to collapse, leaving the gathering with a new crisis to confront.

• Ingrid, Vivian, Freyja, and the others discussed the Flying City’s unusual passage of time and its design while sharing tea and food.
• Jiang Lan explained that the local Time Curse was not as severe as the others feared and reflected on leaving the area with the Forest Elf Autonomous Territory.
• The Fool arrived at the tea party and described recent upheaval, including groups seizing cities, claiming kingdoms, and robbing merchant caravans.
• Lan Qingyou asked Chu Yuan why the Supreme Council had not responded to the chaos, and Chu Yuan said it was on the verge of collapse.

Lan Qingyou learned that the Supreme Council was close to collapsing and discovered that her actions had helped trigger its troubles. After hearing the investigation into the Blue Star Demon People had stalled, she suspected they had engineered the Council’s downfall and denounced them in front of the manor’s residents and Witch Race guards.

• Chu Yuan told Lan Qingyou that infighting had long weakened the Supreme Council, while David the Magician said he had used the Sky Screens to inflame public opinion.
• Lan Qingyou remembered that the Council still owed her nearly ten years of supplies, and Chu Yuan assured her the contract required someone to take over the payments.
• Chu Yuan explained that the Witch Race’s killing of Isabelle and Lan Qingyou’s destruction of Rolling Thunder Wilderness had left a power vacuum that worsened the Council’s conflicts.
• Lan Qingyou asked about the investigation into the Blue Star Demon People, and Chu Yuan said his investigators had been reassigned amid the Council’s crisis.
• Lan Qingyou proposed that the Blue Star Demon People had sabotaged the Supreme Council to stop the investigation, then angrily denounced them before the manor’s residents and Catherine’s Witch Race guards.

Shang Chuan told Lan Qingyou and the manor members that resurrected non-Witches expelled from the Land of Abandonment had gathered there again and evolved. He left them eager to hear how the evolution had happened.

• Lan Qingyou dropped her anger and asked the group for other interesting news.
• Shang Chuan brought up Diana’s expulsion campaign in the Land of Abandonment and explained that resurrected non-Witches had been expelled as well.
• Shang Chuan said the expelled survivors gathered in the Land of Abandonment after Lan Qingyou and the others left on the Flying City.
• Shang Chuan revealed that the gathered people had evolved, astonishing Lan Qingyou and the manor members.
• Chu Yuan urged Shang Chuan to explain, and Shang Chuan began to clarify what had happened.

Shang Chuan told Lan Qingyou and the others that people resurrected by the Witches were gradually becoming the Necro Race, which called itself the Abandoned. Lan Qingyou ordered resources and a screening for them, leaving the story with a plan to help the newly transformed group.

• Shang Chuan explained that the Necro Race had improved stats without the obsessive traits of Evolutionists or the deterioration of Degenerate Species, but its members had become bluish-gray living dead.
• Shang Chuan described the Necro Race’s death magic and its Attribute, Summoning, Semiotics, and Drafting Corrections.
• Lan Qingyou learned the transformation had only recently begun and that the newly changed people had asked Shang Chuan to tell her about the Abandoned.
• Lan Qingyou acknowledged the consequences of the Witches’ Resurrection Art and ordered that the Abandoned remain in the Land of Abandonment, receive additional resources, and undergo a screening led by Diana, with war veterans serving as managers.

Lan Qingyou rejected Chu Yuan’s proposal to have the witches resurrect Transmigrators on a large scale, warning that the process was costly and troublesome. Instead, she urged him to research the bloodless evolutionary path that had created the Necro Race, while revealing that the witches had resurrected several million to ten million people.

• Lan Qingyou instructed Catherine to provide supplies and shelter-moving scrolls to the expelled survivors, distinguish those who had fought for the Witch Race, and check whether the resurrected witches had mutated.
• Chu Yuan proposed using Resurrection Art to convert Transmigrators on a large scale and offered to pay the materials, wages, and a fee to the Witch Race.
• Lan Qingyou refused, citing the cost and complications, and told Chu Yuan to investigate how the Necro Race had evolved without ancient blood.
• Lan Qingyou explained that the new path could offer Transmigrators a stable way to evolve, and Chu Yuan considered researching a form suited to his team.
• Lan Qingyou estimated that the Witch Race had resurrected between several million and ten million people, astonishing the gathered listeners.

Helen met Gao Yi in a harbor tavern to gather information about the Necro Race, then returned to Eureka and reported to Diana. She confirmed the Necro Race used death magic and had a range of racial skill talents.

• Helen entered a tavern in Abandoned Harbor, where the patrons watched her cautiously because she was a witch.
• Helen found Gao Yi and confirmed that the Witch of the Tower had sent her.
• The tavern owner quietly served Helen and Gao Yi while they met, and Helen later returned to Eureka with information about the Necro Race.
• Helen told Diana that the Necro Race belonged to the Magic Department, used death magic, and had talents ranging from E-Rank and D-Rank to A-Rank, B-Rank, and C-Rank skills.
• Diana compared the Necro Race to the Magic Eye.

Diana and Helen discussed the Necro Race’s request for an alliance with the Witch Race, which had formed through Resurrection Magic. Diana sought Lan Qingyou’s approval, and Lan Qingyou replied that she approved.

• Helen told Diana that Gao Yi, Patriarch of the Necro Race, wanted his people to ally with the Witch Race because they had been created through its Resurrection Magic and were treated as its kin.
• Diana understood why the Necro Race called themselves the Abandoned and agreed that Helen had been right to reject their initial offer to become vassals.
• Diana explained that she could not approve an alliance alone and contacted Lan Qingyou, who was in seclusion behind the central isolation array.
• Helen sent Gao Yi the news while Diana waited for a response from Lan Qingyou.
• Lan Qingyou replied with her approval ten minutes later.

Lan Qingyou approved an alliance between the Witch Race and the Necro Race, including plans to secure three surrounding regions, and arranged educational support for the Necro Race. Her research confirmed that the Intestinal Source Strain was an Evolution Item, though Isabelle’s further evolution had caused disastrous results.

• After returning from the Tea Party, Lan Qingyou received Diana’s report that the Necro Race Patriarch had proposed an alliance after the Witch Race rejected his request for vassal status.
• Lan Qingyou approved the alliance’s plan for the Abandoned to help the Witch Race occupy three nearby regions, and asked Diana to send basic books to the Necro Race and select students for the Witch Academy.
• Gao Yi discussed occupying the three regions with newly awakened Necro Race members, who expected to serve as the main force and test their abilities there.
• Lan Qingyou compared the Intestinal Source Strain with other Evolution Items and confirmed that their structures differed only slightly, with those differences determining the resulting race.
• Lan Qingyou concluded that the Intestinal Source Strain was an Evolution Item and that Isabelle’s additional evolution had caused the disastrous outcome.

Lan Qingyou and the researchers discussed ways for Transmigrators to evolve into a new race and Professor Samael’s revised Magic Power activation method. Lan Qingyou pointed them toward the patterns on their hands as a starting point for connecting the new method to Professions.

• Lan Qingyou shared news about the Intestinal Source Strain, while Chu Yuan’s group discussed research into creating new races without ancient blood.
• The researchers debated several proposed methods, including electrolysis, gender conversion, and granting people Professions without changing their bodies.
• Professor Samael explained his revised incantation system, which used pauses and intonation to control Magic Power output.
• The researchers considered combining the incantation system with the Career Hypothesis, but noted that incorporating Professions would require adjustments.
• Lan Qingyou suggested that the answer lay in the patterns on their hands, prompting everyone to inspect the markings they had received when activating their sanctuaries.

Lan Qingyou and the villa group discussed how to make a Career System that could benefit even Evolutionists, while considering whether the hand patterns tied to the Magic Desk might enable surveillance. They settled on testing several ways to add Professions and dividing up the research, leaving the group eager to complete the system before Nemo's next voyage.

• Lan Qingyou raised concerns about the hand pattern's connection to the World Will's management system, prompting the group to consider that they might be monitored.
• Esmeralda pointed out that they still needed a way to give everyone a Profession and change them fundamentally, and the group discussed using Magic Circuits, magic circles, or Runes.
• Judgment recorded proposals for melee, magic, and support Professions and said the group would test the ideas and report back.
• Chu Yuan thanked the group for advancing the Career System discussion and offered to handle the initial sorting, but David suggested dividing the research among available members.
• Nemo volunteered to research the system before his next sea expedition, and Lan Qingyou and other members also chose to help complete it.

Lan Qingyou joined Ingrid and Ruan Qingyi to research the Career System’s arm pattern, while Angela was pursued across the sky by the Pure Origin Sect. Angela taunted her pursuers as the reason for the chase remained unexplained.

• Lan Qingyou chose to study the Career System’s arm pattern and divided the work with Ingrid and Ruan Qingyi, who focused on Runes and Magic Circuits.
• The three researchers began studying their respective approaches after agreeing to work separately.
• Angela flew on her broom while a group from the Pure Origin Sect pursued her on White-headed Eagles.
• Angela mocked the pursuers, who accused her of being a vile witch and threatened her with judgment.
• The chapter revealed that Angela had joined the Tourism Department to travel and gather information, but left the reason for the Pure Origin Sect’s pursuit unexplained.

Angela, a Witch Race Tourism Department member, led the Pure Origin Sect’s Inquisition on a chase after discovering one of its bases while investigating missing persons. The Inquisition cornered her, but its captain’s attack was deflected by her Auto-Defense Rune Stone, killing one of his men.

• Angela continued leading the Inquisition on a chase, holding back because she believed the pursuers were too weak to survive her spells.
• The Inquisition captain ordered half his men to cut across a bend and trap Angela between the two groups.
• The Inquisition cornered Angela on the road, and the captain climbed down from his White-headed Eagle.
• Angela asked the captain why he thought she was trying to escape, then an Inquisition member attacked her with a whip.
• Angela’s Auto-Defense Rune Stone deflected the whip into an Inquisition member’s head, killing him and silencing the group.

Angela faced an Inquisition captain who could not get past the Defense Stones protecting her, then summoned her seven Black Mist Mountain Antelope Cubs to overwhelm his team. After the cubs finished eating, Angela and her allies collected the valuables scattered across the road, while the Patrol Squad remained a rival for the Tourism Department.

• The Inquisition captain hesitated to attack Angela after seeing her Defense Stones, while his team members backed away.
• Angela summoned her Familiar, the Seven Goats, revealing seven enormous Black Mist Mountain Antelope Cubs.
• Angela ordered the cubs to eat, and they dragged the Inquisition's White-headed Eagles and their riders into the black mist.
• The cubs finished eating the Inquisition team in about ten minutes, leaving their materials, supplies, and currency scattered across the road.
• The Tourism Department collected the spoils, while its members remained wary of the Patrol Squad, another group that made money by killing and looting.

After escaping her pursuers, Angela returned to the Adventurer City outpost and discovered documents revealing the Pure Origin Sect’s plans involving sacrifices. Diana asked her to rescue the sacrifices, and Angela agreed to infiltrate the location alone.

• Angela sent ordinary supplies from the bend to the Witch Race’s shared warehouse and flew back to the Adventurer City.
• Angela entered the Pure Origin Sect’s outpost using a key and examined the documents she had collected.
• Angela sent Diana photographs of the documents, and Diana asked whether the information was trustworthy.
• Diana suggested that Angela rescue the sacrifices listed in the documents, and Angela agreed to go alone.
• Susie offered Angela newly researched potions for the infiltration mission, and Diana urged her to take them.

Angela attacked the Pure Origin Sect's Giant Stone Village to clear the shelters and find the people being trafficked there. As the villagers struggled against her Seven Goats and Battle Magic Puppets, she spotted someone fleeing and chased them on her Flying Broom.

• Angela flew to Giant Stone Village, where she saw a white-robed crowd gathered for an assembly.
• Angela summoned the Seven Goats and had them drag the villagers into black mist so she could later search their shelters.
• The villagers recognized Angela as the Witch Maleficent and tried to defend themselves, but their attacks failed against the Seven Goats.
• Angela heard the villagers speaking in an awkward blend of languages and decided to join the fight.
• Angela noticed someone flee into an alley and pursued them on her Flying Broom, scattering more than a hundred Battle Magic Puppets over the crowd as she left.

Angela tracked a fugitive to a shelter and used the Sarcasm Curse and Chaos Curse to drive him out, then killed him and disabled the shelter’s protective shield. Inside, she found the people she had come to rescue: rows of baby girls, apparently taken by the Pure Origin Sect.

• Angela followed the fugitive’s Magic Power traces to a large shelter in Giant Stone Village.
• She cast the Sarcasm Curse and Chaos Curse on the shelter’s owner, forcing him outside in a confused and injured state.
• Angela snapped her fingers and killed the man, causing the shelter’s Magic Protective Shield to disappear.
• She entered the shelter and found a bloodied person in the first room, apparently killed by the fugitive.
• Angela searched the next room and discovered rows of cradles holding baby girls, the people she had come to rescue.

Angela uncovered records showing that the Pure Origin Sect had bought 586 baby girls and arranged to rescue them, bringing them to the Witch Academy’s medical branch in Eureka City. After the babies were settled, she returned to Giant Stone Village to search for more information about the Originalists.

• Angela verified the documents, learned that the Pure Origin Sect had purchased 586 infants, and opened a Portal to the medical branch in Eureka City.
• Nightingale checked the babies and confirmed that they were healthy and free of curses or corruption.
• Witches carried the babies through the Portal, and Nightingale prepared to raise them as the next generation of Black Witches.
• Angela collected Magic Puppets and materials from the square, then returned through a Portal to organize the documents for Diana.
• Angela began searching Giant Stone Village for diaries, autobiographies, and other information about the Originalists.

Angela found only basic records of the Pure Origin Sect’s shipments in Giant Stone Village, then followed the sanctuary owner’s Magic Power traces away from the village. A hooded delivery team arrived to find the village ransacked and the goods missing, and its captain suddenly lost consciousness.

• Angela found records showing that people had repeatedly been sent away, but learned nothing about their origins or destinations.
• Angela sent the collected records to Diana and followed the sanctuary owner’s intermittent Magic Power traces out of Giant Stone Village.
• The hooded captain arrived with his team and discovered the village was empty, its sanctuaries ransacked, and the goods and cradles gone.
• The captain ordered his team to search nearby and messaged his friend that the village had been attacked and its goods stolen.
• The captain’s mind suddenly went hazy, darkness overtook him, and he sank into unconsciousness.

Angela returned to Giant Stone Village after her alert spell was triggered, killed the intruders, and found a letter revealing that a Central Bishop planned to rebel against The Pope. She sent the intelligence to Diana and followed the captain’s Magic Power, while Diana began considering what The Pope’s hidden identity meant for the Pure Origin Sect.

• Angela’s alert spell detected intruders, so she returned to Giant Stone Village and killed the group, including their captain.
• Angela found a letter among the captain’s belongings and learned that a Central Bishop was plotting a rebellion against The Pope.
• Angela inferred that the letter could reveal a major conflict between the Pope Faction, which served the Demon People, and the Bishop Faction of Originalists.
• Angela sent the letter to Diana and followed the captain’s newly formed Magic Power traces.
• Diana read Angela’s message and suspected that The Pope had concealed his identity to infiltrate the Originalist community.

Angela followed the newcomers’ Magic Power trail to a hidden Teleportation Array, then traveled to the Silent Forest Entrance. Meanwhile, a new captain discovered the massacre at Giant Stone Village, and Pope Steve Zachark ordered Marshall to replace the missing offerings as Angela wondered whether she had chosen the right place.

• Angela found a Teleportation Array in the wilderness and chose its Silent Forest Entrance destination instead of Holy City Kabbalah.
• The previous captain’s friends arrived at Giant Stone Village after he failed to answer a warning message, and they found his body and the rest of his group dead.
• The new captain reported the deaths to his superiors while his team investigated the village, avoiding the fate of the earlier captain.
• Pope Steve Zachark heard that half the month’s offerings were missing and agreed with Marshall’s plan to select believers to make up the shortfall.
• Angela arrived at the Silent Forest Entrance and wondered whether she had come to the right place.