Histeria hadn't been talking nonsense when she said she would arrange group-stage training for Jiang Han. She really knew people, and she really could help Jiang Han train up something worthwhile.
And that person—
Was Aoses, whom the big, big, big married-sister types at Black Rose Bookstore dreamed of day and night.
She was also the idol Lin Zhaojun vaguely refused to admit to having, the object of Du Lingxuan's carefully concealed admiration, and the Witch who had always occupied a place in Jiang Han's heart.
In the history of Witch duels, Jiang Han had three favorite Witches.
She held Dorothy in reverence, worried endlessly over Lin Zhaojun, but the one she truly loved was France's Cunning Fox—Aoses, with ten thousand tactics and a thousand opening moves.
Though legendary superstar Aoses had entered a state of "continually slacking off" and "romantically forcing it," that did not diminish her standing in Jiang Han's heart in the slightest!
After all—
While a title like "Cunning Fox" generally praised a player's ever-changing tactics, and a title like "Tactical Master" generally commended a player's tactical and technical ability—
Players with both titles usually went uncrowned for a long time, sometimes for their entire careers.
Making a living through tactics generally also meant one's raw strength was lacking.
The world of Witches was more honest. No [championship] had ever been easy to obtain, because there were simply too many top-tier Witches. That only reinforced this tendency: many tactical Witches spent their entire lives without a title, usually because playing too many tactics had robbed them of the confidence to face opponents head-on. But Aoses was different.
She was not merely a tactical master—she was also a Witch with fire in her blood.
Whenever someone else's dynasty ruled the scene, whenever people looked down on her