The winner of the Eileen Cup from Realms 95 to 96 was Maria from the Umbrella of Greed Club. Jiang Han watched Miss Maria's entire championship run from the vacation island and had to admit: she was impressed.
In the Round of 64, she faced Angelite.
In the Round of 32, Kraken.
In the Round of 16, Ann Hofstadter.
In the quarterfinals, Dorothy.
In the semifinals, Lin Zhaojun.
And in the finals, Alesha.
After fighting her way down that bloody road, even the picky witches acknowledged that Miss Maria was absolutely a strong contender for 96's top 5. Incidentally, the 95 rankings had already been finalized: Lin Zhaojun was top 1, Alesha was top 2, while top 3 through top 6 had, surprisingly, all come from the Umbrella of Greed Club. A golden galactic battleship even more luxurious than Absolute City in its day was taking flight.
July 13th, Solar System, Otherworld Aggregation Ringworld.
An ecological ringworld jointly developed by Kraken and Li Rodjielin Lancaster, used to fine-tune the hybridization and mutation results of lesser dragon species from a total of six other worlds. Because of the immense development costs, they had turned to the enormous witch conglomerate Skyline Group to develop and open it to the public.
Skyline Group was a super multinational conglomerate dealing in daily necessities, real estate, consumable spell scrolls, alchemy, general spell archaeology, and wand-making. As long as a witch lived in the witches' world, then on any witches' shopping street, one out of every twenty stores on average would be a Skyline Group business or one of its partner businesses.
Only a conglomerate this massive could cooperate with a Great Witch and a witch academic faction without getting eaten down to the bones.
They had used fairly advanced development methods to cultivate the