Chapter Summaries

Angela found the Birdman Race living peacefully in a forest after they had invaded the Witch Race at the start of the Abandoned War. When the birdmen attacked her, she charged into their ranks and marked them all with her Marking Magic Eye.

• Angela recalled how the Birdman Race had attacked the Witch Race, fought the witches in an aerial battle, and disappeared from the battlefield after taking heavy losses.
• Angela saw that many birdmen were living peacefully among the trees, and suspected their population had grown since the war.
• The birdmen recognized Angela as a Black Witch and attacked her with spells.
• Angela rode her Flying Broom through the dust and charged toward the birdmen near the Teleportation Array.
• Angela entered the birdmen's ranks and marked each one with her Magic Eye, the Marking Magic Eye.

Angela used her Marking Magic Eye and Soul Drain to attack the Birdmen who reminded her of the witches killed in the war. The marked Birdmen tried to escape by descending, but they died in agony and released Soul Crystals when their light-strands snapped.

• Angela marked ten Birdmen with her Marking Magic Eye, letting her cast spells at them all at once.
• Angela connected the Birdmen to Soul Drain, draining their life force and stamina while replenishing her Magic Power.
• The frightened Birdmen tried to evade Angela by descending and sending others to hinder her, but Angela stayed in place and dodged their attacks.
• The ten marked Birdmen suddenly clutched their throats, clawed at themselves, and fell from the sky to their deaths.
• The strands of light snapped as the Birdmen hit the ground, and jewel-like Soul Crystals burst from their bodies.

Angela used her customized Soul Drain spell to kill Birdmen and force the survivors into a chase, then encountered a squad of Four-Winged Birdmen from the Angel Clan. Their captain’s light magic seemed to have little effect on her, leaving their fight unresolved.

• Angela’s Soul Drain spell killed ten Birdmen and left Soul Crystals scattered on the ground.
• The remaining Birdmen charged Angela, but she trapped another ten in beams of light and flew off on her Broom with them.
• A squad of Angel Clan Birdmen riding White-headed Eagles confronted Angela and recognized her as the Black Witch.
• Angela and the Four-Winged Birdmen began fighting, and she wondered what Soul Crystals they would produce.
• The squad captain attacked with light magic, but it seemed to have little effect on Angela.

Angela trapped the Four-Winged captain and his squad with her green lines, draining their health, Magic Power, and stamina. The captain ordered his men to use Life Potions and charge, hoping to hold out until reinforcements arrived and gather information about Angela.

• The Four-Winged captain refused Angela's taunts and demanded that she release his people.
• Angela, curious about how the Birdmen developed extra wings, connected the captain and his squad to her green lines.
• The captain saw his health and Magic Power falling and recognized the lines as a Witch skill he had encountered before.
• The captain reasoned that he needed to buy time for other squads to arrive and ordered his men to use Life Potions and attack Angela.
• The Birdman squad drank potions and charged at Angela.

Angela killed several Birdmen squads with Soul Drain, then released the Seven Goats to distract the forest’s defenders while she disguised herself as a Birdman and investigated their territory. She followed a squad toward an unusually large tree that seemed suspicious.

• Angela used Soul Drain: Youth Shockwave Type I to tear apart the first Birdmen squad’s souls, killing its captain and collecting his corpse and a squad member’s into a Card.
• A second four-winged Birdman captain led his squad in an attack, and Angela killed them as she had the first squad.
• After killing four or five squads, Angela let the Seven Goats loose to draw the Birdmen away and began investigating the forest.
• Angela disguised herself with borrowed wings and flew through the forest on her Flying Broom.
• Angela spotted a squad heading toward an unusually large tree and followed them to investigate.

Angela investigated the Birdmen’s Divine Tree, which felt eerily familiar to her, and set it ablaze to see what would happen. The guards rushed to extinguish the fire, but Angela combined more flames with Gale Magic and created a massive firestorm.

• Angela discovered that the Divine Tree and its surroundings were nearly deserted, then overheard Birdman guards discussing the witch who had entered their territory.
• Angela decided to investigate the tree herself, collected a piece of its bark and a branch, and placed coal around its trunk.
• Angela used ten B-Rank Fire Dragon Blasts to set the tree’s upper trunk and nearby coal on fire, then alerted the guards.
• The Birdmen rushed to put out the blaze, but Angela set more coal at the tree’s base and cast another ten Fire Dragon Blasts.
• Angela added B-Rank Gale Magic to the flames and created a massive firestorm.

Angela set several firestorms burning in the Birdmen’s habitat, then received coal and Explosive Flame Potions from Diana to keep the fires going. A Four-Winged Birdman mistook her for a worker and carried her to the Birdmen’s warehouse, where she arrived undercover.

• Angela used up the coal in her warehouse while starting multiple firestorms in the Birdmen’s forest habitat.
• Diana replenished Angela’s coal and sent her Explosive Flame Potions after learning she had found the Birdmen’s home.
• A Four-Winged Birdman landed in front of Angela, grabbed her, and took her to move supplies from the warehouse.
• Angela drank a Lightness Potion and followed the Birdman to a giant tree filled with Birdmen carrying supplies.

Angela infiltrated the Angel Race’s burning warehouse under the guise of a newly evolved Birdman and discovered unfamiliar potions among the supplies. After arranging with Knowledge Witch to prepare storage space and send Appraisal Glasses, Angela examined the potions and was shocked by what she found.

• The Four-Winged Birdman assigned Angela to help evacuate the warehouse and mistook her inability to fly for inexperience after she claimed she had only evolved the day before.
• Angela climbed to the fifth-floor warehouse, where a worker ordered her to move crates of valuable supplies.
• Angela discovered the crates contained strange purplish potions she had never seen before.
• Angela asked Knowledge Witch for Appraisal Glasses and had her clear warehouses so Angela could transfer the supplies.
• Angela used the Appraisal Glasses to examine the potions and reacted with shock.

Angela discovered Mutant Potions in the Birdman Race’s warehouse and began stealing the goods for Eureka. When the workers confronted her, she summoned a Black Goat to hold them off while she continued looting.

• Angela examined a Mutant Potion and considered how mutants differed among monsters and Transmigrators.
• Angela opened the Group Warehouse and rapidly stored the valuable goods from the fifth-floor warehouse.
• A warehouse worker noticed Angela’s impossible pace and confronted her as the other Birdmen stopped working.
• Angela summoned a Black Goat, revealing that she was a witch, and ordered it to keep the workers away.
• The Black Goat dragged the worker into darkness, and the other Birdmen fled while Angela continued collecting goods.

Angela finished looting the Birdmen’s warehouses and watched the Birdmen flee through the burning Dense Forest. She recognized that the Birdmen’s Divine Tree was a grafted branch of the Perching Giant Tree and flew toward it to see if she could take it.

• Angela and the witches moved the warehouse supplies into the Group Warehouse and the Herb Garden, finishing after about an hour.
• Angela recalled the Black Goat and flew above the burning Dense Forest, where Birdmen were fleeing.
• Angela spotted White-headed Eagles fleeing toward the Divine Tree and realized its leaves matched those of the Perching Giant Tree.
• Angela recalled Diana’s account of a Perching Giant Tree branch being sawed off during the war and concluded it had become the Birdmen’s Divine Tree.
• Angela steered her Flying Broom toward the Divine Tree to look for a way to take it.

Angela summoned the Earth Demon and ordered it to uproot the Divine Tree so she could take it with her. The Birdmen rallied to attack Angela, believing they could defeat the Witch even if they could not stop her Familiar.

• Angela decided she would take the Divine Tree and summoned the Earth Demon with a blood-drawn Summoning Array.
• The Earth Demon emerged in its enormous true form, and Angela ordered it to pull the Divine Tree from the ground.
• The Birdmen realized Angela was targeting the Divine Tree and called on one another to protect it.
• A Birdman urged the others to attack Angela, and the Birdmen rallied around the idea that they could overwhelm the Witch with their numbers.

Angela slaughtered the Birdmen with her modified Touch of Death spell while taunting them, then saw her companion uproot the Divine Tree. She sent Diana a branch of the Perching Giant Tree, which the Birdmen had cultivated to attract only White-headed Eagles.

• Angela charged into the Birdmen and used Touch of Death to kill them in groups, aided by her Marking Magic Eye and Magic Power Potions.
• Angela taunted the Birdmen by claiming she could kill ten of them each second, and many lost their nerve or fled.
• Angela noticed her companion had uprooted the Divine Tree after the Birdmen around her had been killed or driven away.
• Angela messaged Diana and offered to send her a branch of the Perching Giant Tree.
• Diana flew to the outskirts of Eureka to receive the branch and remarked that it was interesting.

Diana examined the scorched Divine Tree and the piece of bark Angela sent, while Lan Qingyou pursued her Talent Potion research and sought the materials needed to upgrade her shelter. Chu Yuan reported a lead on the crucial Holy Radiance Stone, but Lan Qingyou would have to retrieve it herself if the lead proved genuine.

• Diana realized Angela had sent her a piece of bark from the scorched Divine Tree and decided it could help show the tree to the Patriarch.
• Lan Qingyou continued working on Talent Potions and her shelter upgrade, aiming to raise her Talent to SSS-Rank and gather the rare materials for level eight.
• Lan Qingyou had asked Chu Yuan to get the Supreme Council to confirm the materials she needed, though most Council members resented having to provide resources.
• Chu Yuan told Lan Qingyou that the Supreme Council had found a possible lead on the Holy Radiance Stone and was still verifying it.
• Lan Qingyou accepted that she would need to retrieve the stone herself if the lead was real.

Lan Qingyou weighed the Black Witches’ security, the Supreme Council, and the Cursed Corridor’s mineral wealth before Diana reported that Angela had raided a Birdman Race settlement and taken its Divine Tree. Lan Qingyou prepared to act against the Birdman Race, but Diana did not know where the settlement was.

• Lan Qingyou considered the Black Witches’ loyalty, the Supreme Council’s likely troubles, and the risks of hidden enemies.
• Lan Qingyou reviewed the Witch Race’s progress in the Cursed Corridor, where they had found abundant mineral veins and begun research.
• Lan Qingyou reflected on her partnership with Alisa and her suspicions about Alisa’s Artificial Humans.
• Diana messaged Lan Qingyou that Angela had attacked the Birdman Race’s settlement and taken a Divine Tree for study.
• Diana explained that Angela had been monitoring Huang Father and Son with Susie and Helen, and said she had found the settlement by chance but did not know its location.
• Lan Qingyou said she was ready to move against the Birdman Race, which she considered traitors.

Lan Qingyou learned that the Birdmen’s Divine Tree was a defective branch of the Perching Giant Tree and that Angela had reclaimed it. Angela’s report linked the Birdman Race to the Pure Origin Sect, while the sect’s Pope, Steve, learned that Giant Stone Village had been wiped out and the attackers left traces of Witch Race magic.

• Lan Qingyou told Diana that the Birdmen’s Divine Tree was a defective product, then praised Angela for recovering it and asked for her Card number.
• Lan Qingyou asked Angela for the Birdman Race’s location, and Angela explained that she had found a local Teleportation Array while investigating the Pure Origin Sect.
• Angela reported that the Pure Origin Sect had hunted her using White-headed Eagles raised by the Birdmen, and she said she had brought the tree back after wiping out most of the Birdmen at their home.
• Lan Qingyou warned Angela to teleport away if she was in danger, and Angela assured her that the remaining Birdmen were no threat.
• At the Pure Origin Sect’s headquarters in Holy City · Kabbalah, Bishop Marshall told Pope Steve that Giant Stone Village had been wiped out, the goods were missing, and an investigation team had disappeared.
• Marshall told Steve that the testing team had found traces of a large amount of Witch Race Magic Power at the scene.

Marshall tried to use the Witch Race’s investigation to undermine Steve’s authority as Pope, but Steve dismissed the threat and refused to step down. Marshall was left without leverage and considered using force, just as a white-robed attendant rushed in with news.

• Marshall blamed the Witch Race for exposing the sect’s actions and pressed Steve to answer for the danger they posed.
• Steve defended the sacrifices, saying the people had been bought through proper channels and that the Pure Origin Sect would continue its work.
• Marshall warned that the witches had tracked the sect to Giant Stone Village and might find the Holy City of Kabbalah.
• Steve remained unconcerned, believing that any attack would harm the Originalists and his followers rather than him or the Gravel Club.
• Marshall, humiliated and lacking strength to defeat the Pope Faction, decided he would have to endure for now.
• A white-robed attendant hurried in, and Steve demanded to know why he was panicking.

Steve learned that the Witch Race had attacked the Angel Race and set fire to the forest, including the Divine Tree that supplied the Pure Origin Sect with flying familiars. He decided to send reinforcements to protect the tree, but planned to hire mercenaries instead of risking his own troops.

• An attendant told Steve and the bishops that a Witch Race member had invaded Angel Race territory, alarming them about their allies and the Pure Origin Sect’s connection to them.
• Steve said the witches’ arrival had been expected and weighed the Birdmen against the Divine Tree as assets he might have to sacrifice.
• A second attendant reported that the witches were burning the Dense Forest and Divine Tree, and that the Angel Race had requested troops to wipe them out.
• The bishops debated whether to intervene, and Steve decided they would send reinforcements to defend the Divine Tree.
• Steve told Marshall he would hire mercenaries to fight the witches instead of committing the Pure Origin Sect’s own troops, then dismissed the bishops to contact them.

Marshall abandoned his immediate attack on Steve and planned to seize the papacy by using the Witches to kill him. Steve asked Death Knight Hector to intervene against a lone Black Witch, but Hector warned him not to; before Steve decided what to do, the Angel Race reported catastrophic losses and the destruction of its home.

• Marshall left the hall planning to use the Witches to kill Steve and take his place as Pope.
• Steve asked Death Knight Hector to send Knights against a Black Witch, but Hector refused and warned that a lone Witch was extremely dangerous.
• Steve agonized over whether to send troops to protect the Angel Race's Divine Tree.
• An attendant told Steve that the Witches had stolen the Angel Race's supplies, dug up its Divine Tree, killed its Patriarch, and caused heavy casualties.
• Steve ordered someone to find the displaced Angel Race a cliff to live on.

Steve used the danger facing an ally who held a branch of the Perching Giant Tree to pressure Hector into acting against the Black Witches. Hector agreed that the Knights Order would not stand by, but refused to join a fight against the Witch Race, specifically the Black Witches.

• Steve learned that his ally was fleeing with his people after the Witch reclaimed the Perching Giant Tree branch on his territory.
• Steve warned Hector that the Knights Order’s own branch could draw the Witches’ attention if they discovered it.
• Hector suspected Steve was threatening him and considered the danger the Black Witches posed to the Knights Order.
• Steve reminded Hector that the Divine Tree attracting Griffins had grown from a Perching Giant Tree branch.
• Hector agreed that the Knights Order would oppose the Black Witches running rampant but would not join a fight against the Witch Race.

Steve urged Hector to bring the Knights Order into a new plan against the Witch Race after witches captured a Divine Tree and exposed its secret. Hector explained the situation to the other Knights, who debated whether to oppose the witches despite their lack of strength and their own role in the conflict.

• Steve told Hector that the Gravel Club planned to target the Witch Race and accepted Hector's response before going to bed.
• Hector told the Knights Guild that the Witch Race had captured a Divine Tree and that Steve wanted their help in a plan against the witches.
• Lancelot, Hoger, and Hailar questioned whether the Knights Order was ready to fight the Witch Race, so Hector explained his arrangement with Steve.
• The Knights discussed the risks of making enemies of the witches, and Hector argued that their slaughter of Transmigrators could not go unanswered.
• Hector recalled that the Knights Order had been founded to protect Transmigrators and had pursued the Perching Giant Tree's miraculous branches to grow stronger.