Across fourteen preliminary matches, Jiang Han achieved twelve wins and two losses, ahead of second-place Kitty's ten wins and four losses, advancing as the top seed from the preliminaries.
No witch who had reached the middle ranks among Archwitches was a fool. As they kept trying to counter Jiang Han, some witches truly were able to defeat her.
Or rather, that sudden feeling of being thwarted was precisely what made witch duels so captivating.
Even Angelite, if she did not take things seriously, could still be instantly killed in a witch duel by any number of witches using all sorts of methods. Of course, even when Angelite got serious, there was still a considerable chance of her overturning her car.
For combat-oriented witches, the greatest restriction imposed by the ITWF format was not the limitation on legendary spells, but the [Single-Life System].
Many witches powerful beyond measure did not possess particularly strong defenses.
Powerful witches often possessed terrifying [Immortality].
Not to mention anything distant—just look at Angelite's war-ending battle against Eileen. During the warm-up alone, the two witches killed each other thousands of times over. And these were deaths with the [Absolute Death] trait, the kind where even cells and bone marrow lost all signs of life and were utterly erased. Yet against the concept of [Killing], witches had evolved the concept of [Cannot Be Killed].
It could be understood this way: to prevent two top-tier witches from killing each other hundreds or thousands of times in a witch duel, the rules forcibly limited things to a [Single-Life System]. That was the greatest weakening imposed on top-tier witches.
Otherwise, the gulf between top-tier witches and Archwitches was like heaven and earth.
Though both sides appeared to be flinging high-level spells around, possessed specialty lists several pages long, and even