When Cat Lamps floated through outer space on patrol, how were they supposed to get home?
Jiang Han was not being maliciously suspicious. Most Cat Lamps did not drift very quickly, while Giant Cat Lamps were fast—but when it came to traversing distances measured in light-years through the universe, they were still far too slow. So why were there so many Cat Lamps even in Anse Elves territory?
The reason was much the same as why Witch merchants of so many strange races could be found everywhere.
Both Witches and Cat Lamps used something called a Driftway for rapid travel. It was neither a spacetime portal nor an interplanar portal, but merely a route that existed within a plane known as the Drifting Plane.
Rivers within the Drifting Plane connected region after region. The most miraculous part was that traveling from Earth to the Abyss and traveling from Earth to Mars both only required taking the same Driftway! Different destinations, the same travel distance.
Of course, Driftways were usually quite long. An ordinary Cat Lamp would probably need five or six days of drifting to reach the end, but this still greatly facilitated travel for cats between different planes. Witches on good terms with Cat Witches could also use Driftways to travel to unimaginable distant lands. This was also the secret behind why Witch merchants were everywhere.
And as a Giant Cat Lamp Witch, Jiang Han understood this even better.
Beyond Driftways, Cat Lamps also had passages exclusive to themselves for convenient short-distance travel. That was an important reason why these chubby creatures could be found everywhere.
Sometimes, a Cat Lamp that had lingered at your doorstep would vanish for a month or so, then return from some alien star system with a tiny meteorite... Don't be surprised. That was