With the Nightmare Cat Lamps' help, the Witches finally gained a trace of magic power within their puppet bodies. It was not much, but it was certainly far better than before, when they could only rely on magic transmitted through thought to carry out the most basic physical enhancements.
Moreover, they were finally no longer completely in the dark when it came to intelligence.
"Tomorrow... Hope City?"
Jiang Han rolled the words around in her mouth, sensing a heavy note of irony.
"This nightmare hasn't existed for very long, has it?"
"Meow-ow, it hasn't been long, sure, but their evil nightmare consciousness has existed for a very long time. This nightmare city hasn't only existed for such a short time either. In Witch terms, it's like a completely, utterly dead-magic plane, with three guys—the only three who possess magic power—lording it over everything."
The Nightmare Cat Lamp poked at space with her tail, tapping open a tiny window through which the four Witches could see the city outside.
"And the conscious entities in this place have a bizarre sort of order, meow-ow!"
Within Tomorrow Hope City, black humanoid creatures streamed in and out of various factories. The vast majority never came back out after entering.
"..."
"Hmm, are they really working rather than just putting on a nightmare show? Sorry, Cat Lamp, could you let us see what's going on over there?"
"Easy as whiskers, meow-ow!"
"..."
The Nightmare Cat Lamp grabbed one of her kin, then hauled over something like a television set.
"Meow-my-ow!"
She wrapped her tail around the plug and jabbed it fiercely into the top of her kin's head. With a squelch, the plug went right in.
"Hey, hey, isn't that going to kill a cat?"
Chu Yujun looked as though she was just about to