Recaps

After the exploration team returned from Whiterun with dragon materials, Jiang Han kept the valuable horns and accepted Qin Shunying’s Charged Sonic Boom Spell to study. Back home, she brewed Fox Transformation Potions and paid the spell’s patent fees, leaving her dreading Angelite’s roll call fee the next day.

• The team returned to the Entrance Island, named the wingless magma terrestrial dragon, and sold their harvested materials, while Jiang Han and Lin Qiang kept dragon parts at their own expense.
• Qin Shunying showed Jiang Han her fifth-level spell reserves and gave her the Charged Sonic Boom Spell, recommending that Jiang Han learn it.
• Lin Qiang said she planned to contact Ghost Castle about building a giant deer ranch on Whiterun, and Jiang Han prepared to replenish her potions.
• Jiang Han went home, entered her laboratory, and brewed two Fox Transformation Potions using dragon horn powder among the ingredients.
• Jiang Han paid the Patent Spell’s two-thousand-yuan fee for each potion and realized Angelite’s roll call the next day would cost another fifteen hundred yuan.

Jiang Han joined Angelite’s experimental troupe of stage Witches under an affiliation contract and took the role of vice-captain for their first performance. The troupe completed its opening dance to an unexpectedly warm reception, and the show was about to begin.

• Jiang Han met the other eight short Witches, introduced herself as Nasha Nasha, and learned they had gathered for Angelite’s new stage-Witch project.
• Jiang Han considered the project’s limitations and signed on for its pay, sponsorships, and patent fees before changing into her stage gown.
• Lia Lia named Jiang Han vice-captain and asked her to help Taha and Rook keep up with the dance steps.
• Lia led the troupe onto the stage, where the nervous Witches took their places and began the opening waltz.
• The audience compared the dance favorably with previous programs, helping the troupe steady themselves and finish to thunderous applause.

Jiang Han and the other witches endured a grueling debut performance that earned thunderous applause before Angelite turned their hunted materials into pricey merchandise bundled with personal keepsakes. The chapter left Jiang Han watching the witches eagerly buy the overpriced goods, while the hostess began presenting items falsely attributed to her.

• Jiang Han helped Taha and Rook find the dance rhythm during the exhausting performance.
• Jiang Han and the other witches performed choreographed spell duels and dances that captivated the audience but drained their stamina.
• Angelite introduced the 303 Girls as Archwitch-level hunters and displayed materials they had brought back from folded space.
• The hostess sold Mary Sue's venom sacs for 18,000 yuan each by adding an autographed photo and a solo backstage picture, and the witches rushed to buy them.
• The hostess announced winged magnetic wyrm brains as Nasha's trophies and offered them with private photos and a handwritten greeting card, though Jiang Han had never hunted that wyrm or written the cards.

After the performance, Jiang Han visited Angelite to discuss her struggles with a fox transformation and her unsuitable staff. Angelite agreed to customize it, lent Jiang Han the Sovereign Scepter while she worked, and left Jiang Han wondering why it was her favorite.

• Jiang Han declined Rook's invitation to play indoor golf and joined the Final Witch faction's contact group before heading to find Angelite.
• Jiang Han told Angelite that she had killed a wingless magma land dragon as a nine-tailed fox, and Angelite warned that the transformation had awakened her beastliness.
• Angelite examined Jiang Han's standard water staff, explained why it poorly suited her fighting style, and agreed to modify it into an exotic staff for her to collect in five days.
• When Jiang Han said she planned to go to Gaia the next day, Angelite lent her the Sovereign Scepter as a temporary replacement.
• Jiang Han asked whether the Sovereign Scepter was Angelite's favorite wand, and Angelite answered that it was a secret.

Jiang Han and Angelite joined the witches for a night of games and dancing, where Angelite used scent to distinguish the women despite being blindfolded. The chapter ended after Jiang Han and Angelite danced tango together and the group continued celebrating until dawn.

• Leah invited Jiang Han and Angelite to play with the witches, then proposed a blindfolded dancing game as punishment for Angelite.
• Jiang Han tied up Angelite’s hair, and Angelite explained that she recognized people by their distinct scents.
• Leah challenged Angelite to find Jiang Han among the witches, and Angelite playfully rejected Taha and Clara before choosing Jiang Han.
• Angelite guided Jiang Han through a tango, and the two danced together until the music ended.
• Leah called for the next dance, and the witches continued playing through the night before bathing and sleeping at dawn.

Jiang Han prepared with Qin Shunying and Lin Qiang for another expedition to Gaia while experiencing a surge in magical comprehension from the Sovereign Scepter. She accepted sponsorships from Ventrue and Ghost Castle, then set out with them for Entry Island.

• Jiang Han drank the potion Lin Qiang had prepared and used the Sovereign Scepter to deepen her understanding of the Delayed Sonic Boom Spell.
• Jiang Han and Lin Qiang discussed love poetry, and Lin Qiang impersonated Qin Shunying with a witch hat and feather quill.
• Jiang Han and Lin Qiang organized Gaia collection tasks and requests, including orders for Corpse-Bearing Deer and soil samples.
• Qin Shunying announced that Ventrue would sponsor Jiang Han and let the group use its portable castle campsite, while Ghost Castle offered servants and stamina-restoring candies in exchange for magazine photos.
• Jiang Han signed both sponsorships, shared the news with the 303 stage witches, and left with Qin Shunying and Lin Qiang for Entry Island and Gaia.

Jiang Han, Lin Qiang, and Qin Shunying returned to Whiterun Island, where Jiang Han unleashed a devastating spell while fighting a herd of giant deer. After her companions recognized the Sovereign Scepter she carried, Dinesha appeared and admitted she wanted to steal it, though she knew Angelite would take it back.

• Jiang Han, Lin Qiang, and Qin Shunying followed their markers to their former campsite and found a herd of giant deer had wrecked it.
• At Qin Shunying's urging, Jiang Han turned one deer to stone, trapped the herd with vines, and struck them with the Storm Sundering Spell.
• Jiang Han realized the spell's lightning had given her a powerful buff and warned her companions that she could unleash it again.
• Lin Qiang explained that the spell was restricted in Gaia Space and that its use could bring a fine and community service, while Jiang Han revealed her staff was the Sovereign Scepter.
• Lin Qiang and Qin Shunying recognized the staff and its Philosopher's Stones, then Dinesha appeared and said she wanted to steal it but knew Angelite would reclaim it.

Jiang Han welcomed Dinesha to the new castle camp, where Dinesha delivered servants supplied by Ghost Castle. The camp gained Ghost Dragons, two Stitched Witch maids, and the ghost Witch Priscilla as a housekeeper, while Dinesha left to attend to other matters.

• Jiang Han stored the Sovereign Scepter and welcomed Dinesha, while Qin Shunying and Lin Qiang went to work on the crater and camp.
• Dinesha confirmed she had brought the investment goods and crossed the mist bridge with Jiang Han into the castle semi-plane.
• Jiang Han showed Dinesha the new castle as Lin Qiang and Qin Shunying discussed furnishing and improving it.
• Dinesha opened her suitcase and introduced Ghost Dragons who would serve as attendants and might become variant witches within twelve months.
• Dinesha presented Priscilla as the camp's housekeeper and introduced two Stitched Witches who would work as maids.
• Dinesha offered the servants free for three months, then declined Jiang Han's invitation to dinner and left.

Jiang Han hunted with Priscilla, learned about the ghost Witch’s abilities and past, and shared coffee with her at a newly built cabin. Priscilla revealed that she had known Dinesha only at ghost Witch school and invited Jiang Han to become a ghost Witch, which Jiang Han politely declined.

• Jiang Han and Priscilla killed Corpse-Bearing Deer, and Priscilla absorbed one deer’s flesh and blood.
• Priscilla’s ghost dragons turned a deer into a moving corpse and built a cabin that linked to the castle camp.
• Priscilla revealed that her stomach pouch could store about 1,200 cubic meters and brewed coffee for Jiang Han.
• Priscilla explained that a ghost Witch was a ghost who had undergone Witchification and described her life after death.
• Priscilla said she had lived in Lordran and had studied at ghost Witch school with Dinesha, then offered to help Jiang Han become a ghost Witch.
• Jiang Han declined Priscilla’s invitation.

Priscilla accompanied Jiang Han through the rain, lending her moisturizing lotion and observing her rapid resistance to its irritant. After an awkward conversation about forms of address and Anjie, Jiang Han decided to continue exploring the mountains to find a dragon whose aura she had sensed.

• Jiang Han stopped to ask Priscilla for moisture-proof skincare lotion, and Priscilla gave her a bottle of lotion meant for Elizabeth and Isabella.
• Jiang Han's reddened skin quickly returned to normal as she developed resistance to the lotion, while Priscilla watched with interest.
• Jiang Han asked why Priscilla called her Miss but called Lin Qiang and Qin Shunying Ladies, and Priscilla explained that she called cute people Miss.
• Jiang Han compared Priscilla to Anjie, and Priscilla remembered the pain of her old injury while acknowledging Anjie's reputation.
• Jiang Han chose to keep exploring the mountains because she had sensed a trace of a dragon's aura there.

Jiang Han and Priscilla explored Snowmelt’s poisonous mist and collected specimens as they searched for dragons. After detecting a likely level 9 dragon, Jiang Han decided not to pursue it yet and continued looking for the level 6 or level 7 dragon they had originally sought.

• Jiang Han used the Sovereign Scepter’s Copy Trait spell to explore beneath a fissure with Priscilla and discovered the source of the hot poisonous mist.
• Priscilla analyzed the mist as a weak corrosive poison, collected a sample, and Jiang Han suggested Lin Qiang would be interested in it.
• Jiang Han and Priscilla gathered more specimens and continued toward the mountain range with their ghost dragons.
• After hearing a dragon roar, Priscilla used a soul compass to estimate that a roughly 200-meter dragon in the area was likely level 9.
• Jiang Han rejected the temptation to hunt the dangerous dragon immediately and asked Priscilla to mark its territory while they continued pursuing a level 6 or level 7 dragon.

Bridget returned to her hidden dragon nest and began packing after encountering two powerful Witches, prompting her and Edwina to decide to leave together. As they discussed the Witches and their civilization, Bridget suggested that the two ancient dragons join them.

• Bridget returned to her underwater-hidden nest, where she and Edwina shared the mountain with a boundary between their hoards.
• Bridget told Edwina she was moving to another dimension or world because she had seen two Witches with immense magic power.
• Edwina began packing too, and the dragons discussed the Witches’ history, timeline protections, and destructive civilization.
• Bridget proposed that she and Edwina join the Witches, and Edwina was impressed by the idea.

While Jiang Han sorted samples from her adventure, Priscilla proposed having students from the undead witches' school help in exchange for access to the research data. After Jiang Han got Qin Shunying and Lin Qiang's approval, Priscilla summoned the students, who arrived as an assortment of young ghost, ghoul, and stitched-monster witches.

• Jiang Han sorted her adventure samples while waiting for Lin Qiang and Qin Shunying to return, and she received a cryptic message from Angelite.
• Angelite's magic power erupted nearby, and Priscilla told Jiang Han that she had once faced Angelite on the European battlefield.
• Priscilla offered to bring students from the undead witches' school to help sort the samples in exchange for shared access to the data.
• Jiang Han consulted Qin Shunying and Lin Qiang, received their approval, and agreed to Priscilla's proposal.
• Priscilla opened a summoning portal, and several young ghost witches, ghoul witches, and stitched-monster witches floated through.

Jiang Han and Priscilla prepared and ate dishes made from Giant Pincer Ant eggs at their campsite. Their meal was interrupted by Angelite, who brought the ancient dragon witches Bridget and Edwina to stay with Jiang Han.

• Jiang Han and Priscilla cracked Giant Pincer Ant eggs and cooked ant meat, egg tarts, and a pan-fried yolk dish.
• Priscilla revealed that she had fitted herself with a second stomach pouch so she could digest food faster and eat more.
• Angelite arrived with Bridget and Edwina, two ancient dragon witches whose magic power exceeded seventy thousand each.
• Jiang Han welcomed Bridget and Edwina to stay at the campsite and asked Priscilla to prepare rooms for them.
• Angelite explained that the newcomers would receive identities and that forty percent of the value of their provided samples, seeds, and ores would be taken as the price of joining.

Jiang Han hosted Bridget and Edwina, two ancient dragons adjusting to life as witches, and watched the pair bicker while Bridget worked on their wands. Edwina asked Jiang Han to teach her about witches, leaving Jiang Han to answer her questions and conceal her amusement at Edwina’s sarcasm.

• Jiang Han found Bridget in the sitting room, where the dragon witch complained that her room had only one bed and worked through the night on a project.
• Bridget told Jiang Han that Edwina had not gone to sleep until after Bridget got up, then complained that she sometimes wanted to strangle her companion.
• Edwina came downstairs, traded teasing insults with Bridget, and thanked Jiang Han for taking them in.
• Edwina asked Jiang Han to help her understand witches and requested food from Priscilla.
• Edwina asked whether witches needed wands, and Jiang Han explained that staves aided spellcasting and could serve as weapons.
• Edwina questioned why Ludwig did not carry a staff, and Jiang Han claimed powerful witches kept theirs hidden or close at hand while Edwina smiled sarcastically.

Jiang Han arrived at Sovereign Palace and found the Stage Witches transformed by Angelite’s Fox Transformation Potion and brainstorming indoor shows. Angelite gave Jiang Han a custom spatial staff shaped like a violin and bow, which Jiang Han named Lake Light.

• Jiang Han found Leah and the other Stage Witches brainstorming after drinking Angelite’s Fox Transformation Potion had given them fox features.
• Leah told Jiang Han that Angelite was waiting for her in her private room.
• Angelite gave Jiang Han a custom sword-like staff and explained that she had designed it around Jiang Han’s body and abilities.
• Jiang Han opened the box and discovered a rune-inscribed violin staff that could store spells and items and use her perception to control objects.
• Angelite explained the staff’s spatial abilities, and Jiang Han named it Lake Light.

Jiang Han’s brainstorming session with Angelite ended without a practical solution to the challenge of training the 303 stage witches. She visited Lilith afterward, delivered Angelite’s letter, and discovered Lilith had a 303 magazine featuring her.

• Cui Yuzhen insisted that the 303 dance keep a tiptoe jump in every section, while Angelite struggled with the witches’ lack of professional training.
• Jiang Han left Angelite early and silently invited her to go out together next week; Angelite agreed.
• Jiang Han visited Lilith at Mysterious Industries and asked about her research with Xuelun Curie, which seemed to have tested Lilith’s patience.
• Jiang Han delivered Angelite’s rune letter, and Lilith opened it to receive legendary dragon blood and scales.
• Jiang Han spotted a 303 Stage Witches Special Issue featuring her in Lilith’s drawer and pretended not to notice.

Jiang Han picked up evening gowns for Jiang Miao, Jiang Zhenling, and Liang Cuoyu, then gave Liang Cuoyu her dress on behalf of Ye Keshu and Jiang Xuan. Liang Cuoyu accepted the gift as family, while Jiang Han’s words hinted she would not be able to stay with them much longer.

• Jiang Han visited Qi Mei’s dress shop and learned that the discontinued V3 Alchemy Core she wanted for Jiang Zhenling was still unavailable.
• Qi Mei showed Jiang Han three evening gowns she had tailored for Jiang Miao, Jiang Zhenling, and Liang Cuoyu.
• Jiang Han carried the dresses home and gave Liang Cuoyu the gown that Ye Keshu and Jiang Xuan had helped pay for.
• Liang Cuoyu became emotional and embraced Jiang Han after hearing the gift was a gesture of kindness and gratitude.
• Jiang Han told Liang Cuoyu that she was family and urged her to accept and wear the dress without worry.

Jiang Han spent the evening with her family, arranged time for outings, and read a stack of invitations. Later, she began designing a spell WiFi system to transmit her abundant magic power to her home remotely.

• Ye Keshu cooked dinner with Liang Cuoyu and prepared a lunch box for Jiang Xuan, who was working overtime.
• Jiang Han learned that A Miao and Zhen Ling had gone to sleep before their morning aquarium outing, then arranged to join Ye Keshu and them at Mist Sea Pass the week after next.
• Jiang Han read invitations from Ji Haijun, Lin Qiang, and Kraken, and planned to clear the greenhouse with Cen Jing on Thursday.
• Ye Keshu returned after delivering Jiang Xuan's lunch, and she, Jiang Han, and Liang Cuoyu used spells to clean the kitchen.
• After two o'clock, Jiang Han entered her portable space and began designing a spell WiFi system to send her magic power to her family remotely.

Jiang Han tried to forge a magic-isolating copper box, but accidentally strengthened the metal with an expensive Purified Metal Potion until her cutting machine could barely scratch it. She spotted a risky workaround in the laboratory and went to investigate it.

• Jiang Han hammered copper and crushed quartz into a heavy ingot, then tried to cut it into pieces with a workshop machine.
• The cutting machine barely scratched the ingot, so Jiang Han checked the potions used in the crucible and realized she had used Purified Metal Potion.
• Jiang Han mourned the costly potion she had mooched from Sharon and considered asking Anjie to cut the metal, but rejected the idea.
• Jiang Han noticed the laser collection machine and considered increasing its power to cut the purified copper ingot.

Cen Jing sold six flawless mandrake grasses to her old friend and investor, Mu Yongqi, for 240,000 yuan. She exchanged the payment for gold and Eternal Crystals, planning to grow Icefruit Trees for a newly adult friend.

• Cen Jing visited Mu Yongqi at her potion ingredient shop and presented six exceptionally high-quality mandrake grasses.
• Mu Yongqi inspected the grasses and offered 40,000 yuan for each, which Cen Jing accepted.
• Cen Jing asked to receive the payment in gold and exchange the remainder for Eternal Crystals.
• Cen Jing told Mu Yongqi she planned to grow Icefruit Trees because her newly adult friend needed to take care of her body.
• Mu Yongqi explained that Ice Cleansing Fruits improved ocean-aspected Witches' health and skin, and said the shop's Eternal Crystals produced delicious Icefruits.

Agatha investigated Angelite’s suspicion that a witch carried an otherworldly scent and concluded it was harmless, then learned Eileen was returning and that some Great Witches were willing to fight her. Meanwhile, Cen Jing found Jiang Han building a laser cutter and reminded her that she had originally set out to make home magic Wi-Fi.

• Agatha met Angelite at the Evening Frost Bar and questioned her about a possibly otherworldly witch.
• Agatha examined the clues and concluded that the scent was a common effect of dreaming about another world, not evidence of a spy.
• Angelite told Agatha that Eileen was coming back, and Agatha wondered whether anyone would give up a seat for her.
• Angelite said some Great Witches were willing to fight Eileen.
• Cen Jing found Jiang Han operating a laser cutter in the alchemy laboratory and asked what she was making.
• Jiang Han remembered that she had started out to make home magic Wi-Fi and had already cut the copper plates she needed.

Jiang Han attended a private lecture by the great witch Agatha Landon, joining the 303 Witches and learning about the elite witches’ connections and expertise. Agatha began her lecture on alchemy by arguing that it was the art of creating miracles and that ethical restraint kept alchemists from winning awards.

• Jiang Han installed a power-hungry Wi-Fi device at home so her mothers could freely use magic, then went back to sleep as they tested spells.
• Jiang Han dressed for the afternoon and traveled to the Red Square Opera House, where she joined Leah and the other 303 Witches for Agatha Landon’s lecture.
• Leah said Mary had a private lesson with Great Witch Eleanor Holsted, while the others discussed their tutoring arrangements and the top witches’ specialties.
• Mary Qiong and Annie discussed Agatha Landon’s planned lecture topics, including the Dimensional Anchor and the Fused Flame Orb, as Jiang Han listened and took in their knowledge.
• Agatha Landon opened her lecture by defining alchemy as a miracle-making art, and Jiang Han took notes as Agatha argued that alchemists who obeyed moral and ethical rules had never won even minor awards.

Jiang Han attended Agatha Landen’s private lecture, learned five spells, and stayed afterward for tutoring. After Agatha answered her questions, Jiang Han planned to use a newly free day for potion ingredients and study.

• Agatha Landen taught the 303 Witches five spells and theoretical material, with the spellbooks and donation sponsored by Angelite von Ludwig.
• Agatha kept the 303 Witches behind after the lecture and answered their questions in the small library.
• Jiang Han asked Agatha about the spells, especially Drain Life, and recorded the explanation and insights in her notebook.
• Leah teased Jiang Han by asking whether she was newly of age, and Jiang Han changed the subject while Leah misunderstood her embarrassment.
• After the tutoring ended, Jiang Han found a meeting canceled from her schedule and planned to go shopping for potion ingredients the day after tomorrow.

Jiang Han visited the Night Watcher Camp to meet Angelite, but the newly commercialized tourist attraction drained her money with tickets and merchandise. After reaching Sovereign Palace, she heard from Nancy about Angelite’s suspicious habits and past overreactions, leaving Jiang Han convinced that Angelite’s paranoia could be dangerous.

• Jiang Han rode a Dragon Bus to the Night Watcher Camp and paid for sightseeing tickets to reach White City and Sovereign Palace.
• Jiang Han saw Angelite’s extensive tourist merchandise, including overpriced mascot drinks, Witch collectibles, and products featuring the 303 Witches.
• Jiang Han reached Sovereign Palace, where Nancy led her inside and complained that Angelite had ordered a painstaking audit of every ledger.
• Nancy told Jiang Han that Angelite had once searched Monarch City repeatedly for a lost cake box and had pursued Dinesha for months over a suspicion.
• Jiang Han agreed that Angelite was intensely suspicious and worried about what that meant for a Witch with her power.