The group stage matches that followed were a little difficult.
The dividends from Jiang Han's Cat Lamp Style had temporarily run out. Whenever witches encountered something they did not understand, they sought out more witches to study and practice it, causing the strengths and weaknesses of this tactic to be grasped by most witches all at once.
Cat Lamp Style was currently divided into three schools.
The Jiang Han school summoned Cat Lamps to establish the field, using the Cat Lamps' pool of Cat Lamp abilities to replace its own ability pool and spell pool, then dragging the fight into a war of attrition through the Cat Lamps' return-to-field traits.
The Angelite school resolutely summoned Cat Lamps for simultaneous-position damage output. It made use of the Cat Lamps' ability to take a beating to completely replace defensive spells, while rapidly recovering its own spell disadvantage through the Cat Lamps, growing stronger the longer it fought.
The Loya school was the Giant Cat Gundam school. It strengthened Giant Cats and equipped them, making a single Giant Cat so powerful that it was nearly impossible to remove through ordinary means. At the same time, it struck after the enemy moved, continuously enhancing combat power through "human-cat unity." It could be called a variant school of transformation and zoo tactics.
...Those three tactics were practically the current direction of Cat Lamp Style's development.
The current weakness of Jiang Han's school was that it greatly feared opponents suddenly abandoning transformations and zoo tactics in favor of "extreme rushdown" or a "weather-preparation spell school." The former was easy to understand. No slow cat was unafraid of rushdown. The latter was greed pushed to the bitter end: so long as the late-game spell value exceeded the spellcasting value of Cat Lamps, that school would heavily counter