Chapter Summaries

Nightingale examined Lan Qingyou after she reported trembling muscles and found that Magic Power stimulation had likely improved her muscle tissue. Lan Qingyou revealed she was conditioning her whole body to withstand a Time Magic spell, leaving Nightingale alarmed by the danger of experimenting with time.

• Nightingale questioned Lan Qingyou about her muscle trembling and arranged a comprehensive examination with a Medical Puppet.
• The examination found no problem with Lan Qingyou's Magic Power circulation or muscle strength, and Nightingale suspected prolonged Magic Power stimulation had improved her muscle tissue.
• Nightingale explained that Magic Power stimulation could strengthen or alter the body and confirmed the method appeared to work, though its effectiveness remained unknown.
• Lan Qingyou revealed she had expanded the stimulation from her legs to her whole body to prepare for a spell requiring physical strength.
• Lan Qingyou said the Magic Array below was probably connected to the spell, and Nightingale asked if she was sure she wanted to toy with time.

Lan Qingyou returned to her shelter, prepared for the trip to the New Continent, and traveled to meet Alisa. Alisa showed her a fortified, sunken teleportation hall designed to protect against Abyss Monsters, and Lan Qingyou arranged to build an improved version of her own.

• Lan Qingyou packed potion-making equipment and rare ingredients before secretly traveling to Alisa's shelter at night.
• Two Artificial Human witches escorted Lan Qingyou to a remote desert site where Alisa was supervising construction of a sunken teleportation hall.
• Alisa explained that the hall's lethal traps and Mana Disruption Devices were meant to stop Abyss Monsters from emerging through a Portal.
• Lan Qingyou asked to copy the hall's blueprint so she could build another teleportation point on the continent.
• Lan Qingyou sent the blueprint to Diana with instructions to change its cross-shaped layout to a pentagon and add more countermeasure magic arrays.

Diana arranged for Helen to build a Teleportation Plaza at Typhon Lake using the blueprints Lan Qingyou had sent. When Diana tried to confirm whether Lan Qingyou had more instructions, the Card System reported that she was out of service, and Diana guessed she had gone to the New Continent.

• Diana asked Knowledge Witch to enhance the counter-magic arrays and redesign the Teleportation Plaza traps for the Black Witches.
• Diana learned that Alisa, the White Witch Patriarch, had provided the blueprints and urged Knowledge Witch to get started.
• Diana contacted Helen, who agreed to arrange construction beside Typhon Lake and find workers among the Necro Race.
• Diana tried to ask Lan Qingyou if she had any further plans, but the Card System said Lan Qingyou was out of service.
• Diana guessed Lan Qingyou had gone to the New Continent and set aside her Card, relieved that she could rest without further instructions.

Lan Qingyou and Alisa traveled through a Portal to Thorn Swamp to begin their work, where they confirmed that closing the Portal removed the Protective Barrier over its original area. They discussed the risks of Alisa’s methods and heard an approaching threat in the swamp.

• Lan Qingyou handed Diana the blueprints and note, then asked Alisa to leave with her.
• Alisa opened a Portal to Thorn Swamp, and she and Lan Qingyou traveled there by broom and Magic Flying Carpet.
• Alisa closed the Portal to prevent monsters from entering through it, and Lan Qingyou confirmed that the Protective Barrier had vanished.
• Lan Qingyou questioned Alisa about choosing a location with a similar time difference to Storm Island, and Alisa explained that it helped her avoid disrupting her sense of time.
• A distant buzzing sound came from the swamp before Lan Qingyou and Alisa had found their footing.

Alisa and Lan Qingyou encountered swarms of flies on the New Continent, and Lan Qingyou used her upgraded Blue Repellent Orb to keep them at a distance. After flying above the insects, Alisa consulted the transformed Emerald Tablet and pointed them northwest, leaving them to continue their journey.

• Alisa opened a Portal to flee from the unsettling buzzing, but Lan Qingyou pulled her back and showed her upgraded Blue Repellent Orb.
• Lan Qingyou explained that the orb repelled monsters below SSS-Rank and pointed out that the flies were circling beyond its hundred-meter range.
• Alisa flew upward to escape the flies, and Lan Qingyou followed, confirming that her Analysis Magic Eye could still appraise the creatures.
• Alisa examined the Emerald Tablet, whose Karim Script had changed into a compass-like display, and pointed northwest for them to go.

Lan Qingyou brewed a Talent Potion using Purple Carefree Grass, which she had found on the New Continent and recognized as a rare herb that soothed the soul. As Mana Turbulence kept them sheltered in their tents, she and Alisa wondered why they had not encountered any Abyss Monsters during their week of travel.

• Lan Qingyou continued her magical research in her tent while Alisa visited her during the Mana Turbulence.
• Lan Qingyou told Alisa she was brewing a Talent Potion and added the Purple Carefree Grass she had gathered to the cauldron.
• Lan Qingyou explained that the grass affected the mind and could soothe the soul, making it a crucial potion ingredient.
• Alisa wondered why they had not encountered any Abyss Monsters, and Lan Qingyou suggested they might be near the border or that the Mana Turbulence had kept them away.
• Lan Qingyou focused on brewing the potion while noting that the New Continent's Mana Turbulence was far weaker than Storm Island's.

Alisa and Lan Qingyou discussed why they had not encountered any Abyss Monsters on the New Continent and considered the possibility that something more dangerous was behind their disappearance. Lan Qingyou finished brewing a hot potion, leaving Alisa surprised by its vanilla mint milk tea flavor.

• Alisa complained that she was bored because they had found no monsters to hunt during their week on the New Continent.
• Lan Qingyou suggested that the Abyss Monsters might have gathered somewhere or changed in a way that pointed to a threat beyond them.
• Alisa realized that intelligent Abyss Monsters could represent a dangerous evolution, though she found the prospect exciting.
• Alisa asked why Lan Qingyou stirred the potion by hand, and Lan Qingyou said she needed to feel it.
• Lan Qingyou strained the finished potion while it was hot and told Alisa it was vanilla Mint milk tea flavor.
• Alisa asked whether Lan Qingyou had added milk and called the potion weird.

Lan Qingyou brewed Talent Promotion Potions while studying Time Imprint Magic, and one finally raised her talent to SSS-Rank. The chapter ended with her examining the newly unlocked ability to summon stars to fight for her.

• Lan Qingyou explained to Alisa and Aishala why she bottled flavored potions in tiny doses and drank them one mouthful at a time.
• Alisa learned that the Talent Promotion Potion had a consistent five percent chance to raise an SSS-Rank user's talent.
• Lan Qingyou returned to studying Time Imprint Magic and periodically drank Talent Promotion Potions as she brewed more batches.
• On the third day, after her sixth batch, Lan Qingyou's talent increased to SSS-Rank.
• Lan Qingyou checked her talent information and saw that she could summon stars in outer space to fight for her.

Lan Qingyou reached SSS-Rank with her Gravity talent and discovered that one new effect let her summon stars, though she did not yet know how to use it. She was briefly pulled into an illusion where a scarlet eye spoke an incomprehensible message, then returned to examine the final two talent effects.

• Lan Qingyou learned that her talent had reached SSS-Rank and realized its new ability could summon stars to fight for her.
• Alisa congratulated Lan Qingyou and asked why she looked troubled, but Lan Qingyou said she did not know how to use the new effect.
• Lan Qingyou was pulled into an illusion of gas and ash, where a vast rift opened into a yellow eye with a scarlet pupil.
• The eye spoke in words Lan Qingyou could not understand, and she received no answer when she questioned it.
• Lan Qingyou returned to the workbench and focused on studying the final two effects of her talent.

Lan Qingyou discovered that her talent for controlling her own acceleration let her meet the conditions for casting Time Magic, using her body as an anchor. She began experimenting with the new ability and planned to practice and refine it.

• Lan Qingyou realized her acceleration talent might help her use Time Magic and tested it by making a Magic symbol disappear from Alisa's perception.
• Alisa noticed a gap in time, and Lan Qingyou confirmed that she had removed a span of Alisa's time.
• Lan Qingyou explained that accelerating her body and thoughts let her use the Time Magic Array engraved on her body to control time.
• Lan Qingyou concluded that her Time Magic was difficult to master and unlikely to become a foundation for the Black Witches' Magic.
• Lan Qingyou decided to keep researching and refining Time Magic, while Alisa teased her about choosing time as a research topic.

Lan Qingyou continued developing Time Magic after testing it on Alisa, and the two witches traveled to the location marked by the Emerald Tablet. They found only a gigantic hollow tree in a scorched wasteland and decided to search beneath it.

• Alisa warned Lan Qingyou that time mattered little to Immortal witches, though Time Magic could still work on others, including Abyss Monsters.
• Lan Qingyou pointed out that her experiment had affected Alisa and returned to developing new Time Magic spells.
• After the Mana Turbulence ended, Lan Qingyou and Alisa packed up and flew toward their destination.
• Lan Qingyou and Alisa reached a scorched area marked by the Emerald Tablet and found a snapped, hollow tree with nothing else around it.
• Alisa and Lan Qingyou suspected something was hidden underground, and Alisa agreed to use her Earth Element magic to begin digging.

Lan Qingyou and Alisa encountered a deformed Puppet Fly controlled by an unknown Abyss Monster. Alisa charged into battle while Lan Qingyou watched, noticing that Alisa dodged the creatures’ attacks with uncanny precision.

• Alisa sensed danger in the broken tree and jumped onto Lan Qingyou’s broom, prompting them to fly upward as a Puppet Fly emerged.
• Lan Qingyou identified the creature as a controlled monster and suspected an Abyss Monster was behind it.
• Alisa excitedly declared the Abyss Monster hers and flew down to attack while Lan Qingyou stayed back to observe.
• Eleven more Puppet Flies emerged from the tree and attacked Alisa, who dodged every strike with suspicious precision.

Lan Qingyou realized the Puppet Flies were feeding the Abyss Monster through reinforced tubes and told Alisa to target them. Alisa summoned a powerful Stitched Giant, which seized the tubes and began tearing them from the ground.

• Lan Qingyou uploaded a picture of the Puppet Fly and noticed its appraisal had updated to say the Abyss Monster used the flies to draw nutrients.
• Lan Qingyou deduced that the tubes beneath the Puppet Flies transported nutrients and shouted to Alisa to cut them.
• Alisa struggled to damage the reinforced tubes with Magic and, frustrated, summoned a thirty-meter Stitched Giant made from monster corpses.
• The Stitched Giant grabbed the bundle of tubes and braced itself to pull them out, cracking the barren ground beneath it.

Alisa and Lan Qingyou pulled a gigantic Black-Haired Monster from the ground, damaging Alisa’s Stitched Giant in the process. As Alisa climbed the creature, Lan Qingyou searched her Cards for a match and wondered why her Analysis Magic Eye kept updating despite her barely fighting.

• Lan Qingyou used Gravity to hold back the flies and make things easier while Alisa’s Stitched Giant tried to pull the buried monster free.
• The Giant’s arm tore open, spilling golden alchemical liquid, and Lan Qingyou realized it had injured itself pulling too hard.
• Lan Qingyou made the buried creature weightless so the Giant could pull it out, then restored its weight and made it crash to the ground.
• Lan Qingyou estimated the Black-Haired Monster was at least a thousand meters in diameter and searched her Cards after recognizing it from Storm Island.
• Alisa sent the Stitched Giant climbing up the monster’s thick fur while Lan Qingyou pondered why her Analysis Magic Eye kept updating in real time.

Lan Qingyou watched Alisa defeat the immobile Abyss Monster and recorded it as the Parasitic Black-Green Worm in her bestiary. After Alisa gathered the monster’s remains and other controlled creatures for her next experiment, Lan Qingyou went to investigate the collapsed pit, which had been marked by the Emerald Tablet.

• Lan Qingyou searched her Cards, identified the creature’s resemblance to the Mountain-Eating Beast, and named it the Parasitic Black-Green Worm.
• While Lan Qingyou recorded the monster’s details, Alisa’s Stitched Giant tore it apart and Alisa gathered its remains along with other controlled creatures.
• Lan Qingyou asked Alisa about collecting the parts, and Alisa said she needed more parts with similar attributes for her plans.
• Lan Qingyou warned Alisa that the creatures’ cells were active, then flew down to investigate the place where the worm had been hiding.
• At the bottom of the collapsed pit, Lan Qingyou realized the location deserved its mark in the Emerald Tablet.

Lan Qingyou found a giant World Tree wooden nail buried beneath the ground and worried that removing it might disrupt a seal. After Alisa argued that the Emerald Tablet’s guidance was trustworthy, Lan Qingyou agreed to investigate but prepared a magical failsafe before touching it.

• Lan Qingyou discovered that the buried World Tree wooden nail might have been driven into the Hollow Tree to seal or contain something.
• Alisa joined Lan Qingyou and argued that the World Will of Karim World and the Emerald Tablet’s guidance made the nail likely to be useful rather than dangerous.
• Lan Qingyou accepted Alisa’s reasoning but insisted on preparing for possible consequences before removing the nail.
• Lan Qingyou began creating a failsafe using a Sealing Magic Array and Curse Magic so she could temporarily replace the nail if removing it caused trouble.

Lan Qingyou and Alisa pulled the World Tree Wooden Nail from its hole, and the barren wasteland around them burst into life. They concluded the nail had sealed the area's ley lines, then stopped to share lunch as they considered the New Continent's poor fertility.

• Alisa finished storing the Parasitic Black-Green Worm's useful parts while Lan Qingyou completed a protective magic array.
• Lan Qingyou and Alisa prepared their safeguards, then used gravity magic and a Stitched Giant to pull out the World Tree Wooden Nail.
• Lan Qingyou stored the nail in a Card, and no creature emerged from the hole.
• Lan Qingyou and Alisa emerged from the pit and found the wasteland transformed into a vast, thriving green landscape.
• Lan Qingyou concluded the nail had sealed the ley lines and caused the land's barrenness, and the two witches shared lunch while discussing the New Continent's ecology.

Alisa and Lan Qingyou debated whether the World Tree nail or another attribute caused the Scorched Earth, then continued following the Emerald Tablet’s coordinates to investigate. Meanwhile, Helen oversaw the Black Witches’ New Continent outpost as its plaza and Signal Device were built, while adventurers gathered and prepared to explore.

• Alisa told Lan Qingyou that the Scorched Earth might be caused by an attribute rather than the World Tree nail, and they discussed the idea over a meal.
• Lan Qingyou and Alisa decided to follow the Emerald Tablet’s coordinates to investigate whether the phenomenon differed from place to place.
• Helen asked the Necro Race workers when the Teleportation Plaza would be finished, and they said it would take about three more days.
• Esmeralda, Katie, and Diana had revealed news of the New Continent and Dungeons more than ten days earlier, drawing adventurers to the Black and White Witches’ plazas.
• The witches required explorers to form teams that included a witch, carry Palpitation Potions, and pay half their spoils as a fee.
• Helen learned that the Signal Device was delayed because its parts were not suited to the New Continent, and she worried about Lan Qingyou, who had been gone for nearly half a month without sending a message.

Lan Qingyou and Alisa took a break from removing Wood Nails and tried to identify a familiar pattern in the locations they had recorded. After Alisa went to survey the ruins of a village, Lan Qingyou heard a shrill whistle that made her heart tremble.

• Lan Qingyou and Alisa rested after removing another Wood Nail, having spent weeks traveling and fighting Abyss Monsters.
• Lan Qingyou showed Alisa her notebook of five Wood Nail locations, and both women thought the arrangement looked familiar.
• Lan Qingyou and Alisa repeatedly drew and erased possible patterns on Magic Paper but could not identify what the locations represented.
• Alisa left the tent to survey the nearby village ruins for traces of the Karim People.
• Lan Qingyou heard a shrill whistle that made her heart tremble shortly after Alisa stepped outside.

After removing a Wood Nail, Lan Qingyou and Alisa discovered a spring of deadly black water erupting from the pit and destroying the vegetation. They escaped into the air, but Alisa warned that the other Wood Nail sites might be connected, and Lan Qingyou began checking her notebook for a clue.

• Lan Qingyou followed Alisa’s emergency whistle to the pit where they had removed a Wood Nail.
• Lan Qingyou’s Magic Eye identified the rising black water as a dangerous spring from the Abyss and warned them to flee.
• Lan Qingyou flew Alisa back to their tent, and the two packed up before a column of black water erupted from the pit.
• Alisa shielded them with her Enchanted Parasol as they climbed hundreds of meters above the black water.
• Lan Qingyou and Alisa saw the black water burn away the vegetation and realized removing the Wood Nails could leave the land trapped in a destructive cycle.
• Alisa suggested the other Wood Nail sites might have the same problem, and Lan Qingyou searched her notebook for a connection.