Recaps

Angelite told Jiang Han about her hatred of Eileen, the First Witch, then hired her as a temporary maid to sort valuable blueprints. While Jiang Han worked alone in Angelite’s office, Angelite monitored her and called Qin Shunying to propose cooperation with the Witch House.

• Angelite explained that Eileen was a powerful, unmutated human witch who had created the eight schools of arcane arts, and admitted she had been born with the purpose of defeating her.
• Jiang Han assured Angelite that her era would not end, and Angelite led her to an office crowded with valuable blueprints.
• Angelite hired Jiang Han as a temporary maid, gave her a technological maid uniform, and left to handle an urgent matter.
• Jiang Han discovered Angelite had vanished and began sorting the blueprints, while Angelite watched her through a crystal screen and continued collecting data.
• Angelite called Qin Shunying of the Witch House and proposed cooperation, asking to cut in line.

Jiang Han organized Angelite’s blueprints at the Sovereign Palace, then spent the next afternoon chatting with Du Ningzhuang and Chu Yujun at the Witch House. She revealed that Lin Zhaojun’s casting speed was nearly at the theoretical maximum, leaving her friends eager for more details.

• Jiang Han rested on Angelite’s sofa while sorting through her complicated mechanical blueprints, then finished organizing them before Angelite returned.
• Angelite had Jiang Han model for painting practice, gave her two ice-blue artificial night-blooming cereus flowers, and returned her freshly washed clothes.
• Jiang Han went to the Witch House and joined Du Ningzhuang and the sleeping Tang Wen behind the bar counter.
• Du Ningzhuang discussed a magazine’s tank and league predictions, while Jiang Han challenged its claims about Yu Sitong and Lin Zhaojun.
• When Du Ningzhuang and Chu Yujun asked about Lin Zhaojun’s trial results, Jiang Han whispered that her casting speed was 0.0232.

Jiang Han and Du Ningzhuang discussed Witch House’s employee culture and learned about its new livestreaming business, where Tang Wen played Marite for viewers. The venture also included alcohol delivery, which might soon require Jiang Han and Du Ningzhuang to help launch it.

• Jiang Han and Du Ningzhuang ate in the back kitchen and discussed how they had become long-term Witch House employees.
• Du Ningzhuang explained that Tang Wen had been exhausted because she was working as a Camera Witch and streaming Marite on the membership site.
• Du Ningzhuang admitted that she had played Marite with Tang Wen during a long stream, while insisting it was for work.
• Du Ningzhuang revealed that the new venture included alcohol delivery and that she and Jiang Han might have to help launch the service under an agreement with Ms. Final Witch.

After finishing her shift and leaving development-rights information for the Feather Society, Jiang Han went to the Sea Shepherds Club for a training session with Kraken. Kraken assessed Jiang Han’s abilities and began teaching her how to use her unconventional staff for conceptual casting.

• Jiang Han, Du Ningzhuang, and Tang Wen handed over their shift to Lu Jieshan, Lin Liwan, and Chai Ying, then Jiang Han left key cards for her private development website in the Feather Society activity room.
• Jiang Han spent Sea Shepherds points to book training with Kraken and traveled to the Sea Shepherds Club.
• Kraken tested Jiang Han’s mana, casting speed, accuracy, and reflexes, and found her performance exceptional.
• Jiang Han summoned Lake Light, and Kraken identified it as an instrument-type sword-bow staff and suggested how she would modify it.
• Kraken explained four staff-use methods and began teaching Jiang Han conceptual casting.

Jiang Han trained with Kraken to use Lake Light, the unusual sword-violin Angelite had made for her, and discovered its hidden magic-node orchestra. She learned that the instrument could rapidly create and assemble spell nodes through music, leaving her with a powerful new combat method and Kraken suspecting Angelite had used it to fool girls.

• Kraken taught Jiang Han the basics of unusual wands and had her practice casting spells through Lake Light’s sound, but Jiang Han repeatedly drenched herself with misplaced Create Water spells.
• Kraken suggested Jiang Han might need to play music before the wand could cast, so Jiang Han began playing The Four Seasons, and they noticed the instrument emitted strange magic particles.
• Jiang Han and Kraken realized Lake Light had produced a piano sound, and Jiang Han asked Kraken how many major categories of magic nodes existed.
• Jiang Han triggered Lake Light’s core and discovered that its forty-six categories of spell nodes were stored as instruments in a magical orchestra.
• Jiang Han played several instruments at once and learned that Lake Light used music to create spell nodes at casting speed 0.023, store them in spatial stone fragments, and release spells anywhere covered by sound waves.
• Kraken watched Jiang Han master Lake Light and remarked that Angelite must have used the trick to fool quite a few girls.

Jiang Han returned from training with a new understanding of Lake Light and the wisdom templates it contained, then felt a vast, gentle power awaken within her. In the Sovereign Palace, Agatha Langdon told Angelite that Eileen was about to break free, though she would still need Angelite’s help.

• Jiang Han reviewed Lake Light’s high-cost casting style and the Kraken and Angelite wisdom templates that enabled powerful spell alteration and counter-magic.
• Jiang Han accepted Angelite’s gift as a priceless debt she intended to repay, then sensed immense, gentle magical power descending from the sun.
• Agatha Langdon watched the sun from the Sovereign Palace’s Throne Hall alongside Lilith, Kraken, Eleanor, and Angelite as she considered their histories with Eileen.
• Agatha told Angelite that Eileen was about to break free, but clarified that it would not happen immediately and that Eileen still needed Angelite’s help.

Jiang Han prepared to develop the camp on Whiterun Island as a research site for the Feather Society. After Qin Shunying agreed that the camp should be put to use, Jiang Han realized she needed Cen Jing to help make sense of her plans.

• Jiang Han admired Lake Light’s sword-bow and messaged Angelite to ask whether it could fight dragons in Folded Space.
• Angelite replied that the sword-bow was meant for close combat against witches, not dragons, and Jiang Han decided to ask her more questions the next day.
• Jiang Han and Qin Shunying showed off their sponsored gear while Lin Qiang discussed access to top-tier custom clothing through society treasuries.
• Jiang Han proposed using the camp for soil collection, cultivation, and restoration, and Qin Shunying agreed that it should be developed.
• Jiang Han noticed that she could not remember where she had pointed while explaining her plan and thought Cen Jing would need to help her organize it.

Jiang Han shared dinner with Edwina and Bridget, learned about dragon cuisine, and gradually turned the friendly conversation toward Whiterun Island. Edwina agreed to tell her what she knew, though she warned that she and Bridget rarely went out.

• Jiang Han surveyed the wilderness beyond the castle and decided that its soil and climate would need to be replaced or simulated by more specialized Witches.
• Jiang Han dined with Edwina and Bridget, who praised the beef and showed little interest in the dragon steak until Edwina tried it.
• Edwina explained that dragon meat was tough and difficult to flavor, while Bridget shared that she had once brewed Ash-Burning Wine.
• Priscilla joined the table after dessert, joked that ghosts often dined after the living, and joined the relaxed conversation.
• Jiang Han asked Edwina and Bridget about Whiterun Island, and Edwina offered to share what she knew while noting that they rarely went out.

Jiang Han learned more about Whiterun Island from Edwina and spent the evening chatting and walking with Priscilla. Priscilla shared her memories of Eileen, and the walk ended with Jiang Han adopting Priscilla’s idea for a plant-growing pavilion.

• Edwina described hunting grounds on Whiterun Island and told Jiang Han about a vast underground mushroom forest southeast of camp.
• Edwina carried the reluctant Bridget back to their room and promised to read to her and teach her witch habits.
• Jiang Han asked Priscilla about Eileen, and Priscilla recalled meeting the First Witch at school and described her as gentle and decisive.
• Jiang Han invited Priscilla for a walk after dinner, and Priscilla opened an umbrella to shield her from the moonlight.
• Jiang Han and Priscilla discussed transforming a patch of land into a rainy-season garden with a semi-open coffee pavilion, and Jiang Han decided to use Priscilla’s design.

Jiang Han and Priscilla oversaw construction of a transportation corridor across Whiterun Island while Jiang Han studied the unusual rainwater. Qin Shunying revealed a likely mushroom ore vein beneath the Mushroom Kingdom and secured Jiang Han’s agreement to sell the resulting food exclusively to her shop.

• Jiang Han collected samples of rainwater with an unusually low ignition point and considered using it to improve Rain of Omniscience.
• Priscilla, the Ghost Dragon Witches, Qin Shunying, and Lin Qiang helped clear land and rapidly build a rune-enhanced wooden road intended to span at least three hundred kilometers.
• Qin Shunying told Jiang Han that she and Lin Qiang suspected a mineral vein lay beneath the Mushroom Kingdom.
• Jiang Han researched mushroom ore and learned it could be ground into powder and mixed with water to grow edible mushrooms.
• Qin Shunying offered to buy the mushroom product at seventy percent of market price in exchange for exclusive sales rights, and Jiang Han agreed.

Jiang Han repaired her uncomfortable camper and arranged mineral extraction and monster-nest exploration, while Angelite and Eleanor traveled toward the Sun to bring Eileen home. The chapter ended as a message reported that Eileen was hatching on Day 5.

• Lin Qiang and Priscilla criticized Jiang Han's rough camper after testing it, and Jiang Han later repaired its broken parts and added shock absorbers.
• Jiang Han hired Ghost Castle for mineral-extraction support and asked for adventure teams to explore nearby monster nests.
• Angelite aligned Night Watcher Camp with Sea Shepherd Camp as both floating cities entered closed mode on their way toward the Sun.
• Eleanor teased Angelite about having an important new friend, and Angelite admitted that she was important.
• Angelite and Eleanor discussed bringing Eileen back to Earth, and a message from within the Sun announced that Eileen was hatching on Day 5.

Jiang Han entered the mushroom mine to map its depths and encountered a strange ecosystem and hostile monsters. She defeated the creatures, widened a hidden passage, and shaped it into a grand staircase, leaving the way deeper into the mine ready to explore.

• Lin Qiang explained that Jiang Han needed to place signal transmitters underground so the camp could determine the mine’s size and depth.
• Jiang Han entered the mine, reached a warm mushroom tunnel filled with glowing vegetation, and recorded observations about its conditions.
• A four-armed monster hurled stones at Jiang Han, but she blasted them aside, weakened it with spells, and killed it with Despair Stranglehold.
• Jiang Han continued deeper and killed the monsters she encountered with Despair Stranglehold.
• Jiang Han found a narrow passage beneath a huge crystalline mushroom tree, widened it with spells, and formed its interior into a smooth Baroque-style staircase.

Jiang Han explored a strange mushroom-filled cavern, prepared mushroom soup, and set up a signal transmitter to contact the camp. She reported that the cavern was safe and asked Priscilla to bring coffee.

• Jiang Han entered the cavern and found towering mushroom trees, unusual creatures, steam lakes, and rich mushroom-ore deposits.
• Jiang Han sampled a roasted piece of mushroom tree, ground mushroom ore into powder, and made a stove and a marble statue modeled after Angelite.
• Jiang Han cooked mushroom soup and set up the signal transmitter, while secretly memorizing its design and disguising the statue's face.
• Jiang Han contacted Qin Shunying and said the cavern was safe, then asked her to have Priscilla bring coffee.

Jiang Han helped install an automatic mining machine in the mine, where Qin Shunying revealed that Jiang Han’s Sea Siren hair could be used to make rare magical materials and warned that powerful witches might seek it. Meanwhile, Angelite prepared to use the Philosopher’s Stone to rescue Eileen from the sun, and Eleanor volunteered to wield it.

• Jiang Han charged the automatic mining machine while Qin Shunying explained that it could mine the entire vein using its high-capacity battery.
• Qin Shunying identified Jiang Han’s long hair as valuable Sea Siren hair that could be used to make Witch Stones, Tranquility Runes, and Wish Potions.
• Qin Shunying warned Jiang Han that witches might pursue her for her hair, prompting Jiang Han to suspect that it was connected to the Philosopher’s Stones owned by powerful witches.
• Angelite examined the Philosopher’s Stone in her treasury and briefly communicated with its devoted, flattering personality.
• Angelite told the waiting Great Witches she needed someone to use the Philosopher’s Stone to pull Eileen safely out of the sun, and Eleanor volunteered.

After returning from Gaia with mushroom powder and other specialties, Jiang Han read a new commission from the Chen Ligu Office and met the client, Ailian, at a restaurant. The supposed one-day real estate sales job began with Ailian revealing that she wanted to see Hat-Wearing Cat’s properties in person.

• Jiang Han brought Gaia specialties home, and Jiang Xuan mailed some mushroom powder to their relatives.
• Jiang Han opened Chen Ligu’s letter and accepted a commission to fill in as a saleswoman for Hat-Wearing Cat for one day.
• Jiang Han waited at a restaurant for a client interested in buying a home and reviewed Hat-Wearing Cat’s Sky Island residences.
• A petite Witch named Ailian introduced herself as Jiang Han’s client and ordered a whiskey drink.
• Jiang Han described Hat-Wearing Cat’s properties, and Ailian said she would rather see them in person and move around.

Jiang Han showed Ailian around Snow Cedar Lake Sky Island and explained the local housing and the status of witches. Ailian revealed that she knew little about witches and asked Jiang Han what Gaia Space was, leaving Jiang Han to explain further.

• After lunch, Ailian invited Jiang Han to share a griffin carriage, and Jiang Han accepted while still a little tipsy.
• During the ride, Ailian said she had once sold a demon servant army in China and described her current search for a sheltered harbor.
• At Snow Cedar Lake Villa District, Ailian lent Jiang Han her cape as they arrived, and Jiang Han introduced the luxurious sky-island community.
• As Jiang Han explained the district's amenities, Ailian asked what a witch was, and Jiang Han described witches and their status in different regions.
• Ailian asked Jiang Han what Gaia Space was, and Jiang Han's explanation remained unfinished.

Jiang Han showed Ailian how homes were built and explained modern real estate services, then learned that Ailian intended to buy Snow Cedar Lake Sky Island. The chapter ended with Ailian asking whether the entire island was sold as a single property.

• Jiang Han explained the house construction methods and real estate services to Ailian.
• Ailian praised Jiang Han’s knowledge and gave her a business card bearing the name Irene.Victoria.Habsburg.
• Ailian decided to buy the property and asked Jiang Han to note her renovation plans, including a palace, ski resort, and dragon ranch.
• Jiang Han asked whether Ailian meant to buy the entire Sky Island, and Ailian revealed she had assumed it was sold as a whole.

Jiang Han received a huge reward for selling a Sky Island, including an advanced rune, and showed it off to Kraken. She also confirmed she would enter the witch-dueling tryouts and learned she would begin in the E-Class Public League.

• Chen Ligu brought Jiang Han a lavish sorcery chest from the company that commissioned her, and Jiang Han revealed she had sold an entire Sky Island.
• The chest burst open and spilled gold coins, leaving behind an advanced ruby rune that could store spells and strengthen necromancy magic.
• Jiang Han took the rune to Kraken at Sea Shepherd Camp, where she relaxed in Kraken’s office and showed off her new treasure.
• Kraken explained that Jiang Han would need to compete in the E-Class Public League because she lacked professional training and a license.
• Jiang Han worried her power would make the Public League unfair to her opponents, but Kraken argued that her inexperience balanced the matchups.

Kraken explained Sea Shepherds Club's plan to secure Jiang Han in the witches' draft by using a delayed tryout report and allies' picks, while also pursuing a Japanese witch with stronger immediate combat potential. She then showed Jiang Han around the club, leaving Jiang Han with a favorable impression of its food and workplace.

• Kraken told Jiang Han that Sea Shepherds Club had arranged for the Horsehead People and Absolute City Team to help with draft picks, but warned that Absolute City might try to take Jiang Han if it learned their target.
• Kraken described Sea Shepherds' Japanese prospect, whose magical power was 25,600 and who practiced the One-Breath Style Morishita School, and said the club planned to use its final traded pick on Jiang Han.
• Kraken explained that Anjie would keep Jiang Han's tryout report stuck in review until the final pick, preventing other clubs from acting on it sooner.
• Jiang Han ate with Kraken in Sea Shepherds Club's revolving restaurant and approved of the food, which she could enjoy without registering.
• Kraken toured Jiang Han around Sea Shepherds Club, and Jiang Han rated its environment and colleagues favorably.

Jiang Han visited the Sovereign Palace to meet Angelite and encountered Ailian leaving the throne hall. After Ailian departed, Angelite brought Jiang Han inside and asked how she knew her.

• Jiang Han returned to Chen Ligu's office, where Chen Ligu appraised her gold at roughly 900,000, and Jiang Han said her debt to the Final Witch amounted to two lifetimes of a normal witch's earnings.
• Jiang Han visited the Night Watcher Camp, where Mei Fenghua escorted her through the underground river and the dark passage into the Sovereign Palace.
• Mei Fenghua led Jiang Han to the throne hall, where Night Watchers asked her to wait because Angelite was meeting someone else.
• Ailian left the throne hall with ten Night Watchers and greeted Jiang Han, who explained that Angelite had hired her as a 303 Stage Witch and that she could also be hired through the Chen Ligu Office.
• After Ailian left, Angelite brought Jiang Han into the throne hall and asked whether she knew Ailian.

Jiang Han visited Angelite to repay her debt and learned that Ailian was actually Eileen, the First Witch. Angelite revealed her secret cooperation with Eileen to jointly develop Gaia, then hired Jiang Han as her dance partner for a February ball.

• Jiang Han told Angelite that Eileen had bought an entire Sky Island, and Angelite identified her as the First Witch, Eileen.
• Jiang Han returned 1,070,000 gold coins to Angelite, who showed her a vast treasure trove.
• Angelite explained that she and Eileen shared interests, earned royalties from spellbooks, and were secretly cooperating to develop Gaia.
• Angelite told Jiang Han she had once been selected in a draft but had unknowingly become a free dueling witch after her contract expired.
• Angelite offered Jiang Han 60,000 to be her dance partner at a February ball, and Jiang Han accepted.

Jiang Han borrowed Angelite’s VII-2 Blueprint Designer to create plans for a mobile construction vehicle that could deploy a campsite. Angelite agreed to coauthor the patent for fifty thousand, which she deducted from Jiang Han’s debt.

• Jiang Han searched Angelite’s vault and found the VII-2 Blueprint Designer, whose rude remarks tested her patience.
• Jiang Han described her requirements, and the doll produced a blueprint for a compact campsite construction vehicle.
• Jiang Han explained how the vehicle could travel across Gaia and establish campsites, while Angelite compared it with earlier witches’ designs.
• Angelite offered fifty thousand for second authorship and explained the design’s uncertain profits and its resemblance to her power-supply design.
• Jiang Han accepted the offer, and Angelite deducted the fifty thousand from the money Jiang Han owed her.

Jiang Han traveled to the Witch Market to find materials and parts for her mobile base, discovering how extensive the hardware district was. After accidentally drawing every witch’s attention in the shop, she tried to flee, but the shop owner stopped her and asked what she needed.

• Jiang Han rode a dragon bus and then hired a witch cart to reach the hardware district.
• She explored the district’s extensive industrial goods and found a shop that processed parts.
• Jiang Han hopped up to look across the crowded store, forgetting that the witches could all multitask and see her.
• Embarrassed by the witches’ attention, Jiang Han tried to leave, but the shop owner caught up and offered to help.

Jiang Han commissioned custom parts for her base vehicle, then searched for a comfortable rest wagon. A mistaken escort brought her to a gathering of little witches, where Comrade Xu kissed her hand and revealed that Chen Yu had mistaken her for a lost child.

• Jiang Han presented detailed blueprints for custom metal parts and paid 3,240 yuan after the hardware store manager applied a discount.
• The manager gave Jiang Han a pickup slip and told her to collect the finished order in three days.
• Jiang Han looked for a rest wagon where she could relax without being around smoky match watchers.
• Chen Yu mistook Jiang Han for a lost little witch and led her to a lounge for little witches and Archwitches.
• Comrade Xu kissed the back of Jiang Han's hand, then told Chen Yu that Jiang Han was an adult and that the missing child had already been found.

Jiang Han spent the afternoon reading comics aboard the copper-canopy carriage and met Yin Ling, a young witch whose family ran a bookstore. After Yin Ling sensed Jiang Han’s unusually powerful magic and offered books of witching experience, Jiang Han agreed to visit the bookstore.

• Jiang Han relaxed in the carriage, read more than fifty comic volumes, and met Yin Ling, who introduced herself and offered to sell her books.
• Yin Ling teased Jiang Han about needing books on egg-laying experiments, prompting Jiang Han to pull her into a booth and scold her.
• Yin Ling explained her family’s bookstore sold accounts of witch adventurers’ experience and books for controlling dreams and creating training scenarios.
• Yin Ling revealed that she had sensed Jiang Han’s powerful magic and warned that it could be difficult for her to conceal without training.
• Jiang Han considered Yin Ling’s offer and agreed to visit her family’s bookstore.