Recaps

Jiang Han reached a preliminary agreement with Cat Yeta over an idol-related contract and accepted her invitation to eat together to strengthen their relationship. Cat Yeta led Jiang Han and Chen Ligu through her urbanized territory to a strange dining hall where Cat Lamps watched a Witch-world show.

• Jiang Han presented Cat Yeta with the idol commission and contract, and Cat Yeta agreed that the terms were fair.
• Cat Yeta said she wanted to rest, but Jiang Han invited her to eat together, and Cat Yeta accepted to build their friendship.
• Jiang Han considered how closer ties with Cat Yeta could help Olivia's faction, though she knew little about Cat Lamp politics.
• Cat Yeta led Jiang Han and Chen Ligu through corridors filled with resting Cat Lamps and a garden used to produce Cat Lamp materials.
• They reached a dining hall where Cat Lamps ate in cave-like booths while watching a cat-golf show from the Witch world.

Jiang Han negotiated an alliance with Cat Yeta in Cat World and secured a high-level Giant Cat Covenant that let her summon Cat Yeta and the cats under her command. After assuring Cat Yeta that Chen Ligu could be trusted, Jiang Han revealed she was a Cat Lamp Witch and raised the matter of the foxes.

• Cat Yeta served Jiang Han and Chen Ligu food and explained that Cat World traded minerals with witches for drinks.
• Cat Yeta questioned whether Chen Ligu could be trusted with their secrets, and Jiang Han vouched for her.
• Jiang Han told Chen Ligu she was a Cat Lamp Witch, and Chen Ligu agreed to keep the secret.
• Jiang Han signed a high-level Giant Cat Covenant with Cat Yeta, allowing her to summon the Giant Cat Lamp and her forces for a fee.
• Jiang Han brought up the foxes, and Cat Yeta agreed to settle the matter despite her reluctance.

The Witch Agency announced that the Witch Alliance Championship would begin, and Kraken planned the Sea Shepherds Club’s lineup for the tournament. Jiang Han learned she would compete, while the others recalled Angelite’s unusually early championship debut.

• The Witch Agency announced the first Witch Alliance Championship after negotiations ended the suspension of matches.
• Jiang Han served tea wine to Eileen, Kraken, Angelite, and the visiting An-Ek trio, while Kraken discussed recruiting Giant Cat Lamps as couriers.
• Eileen asked which Sea Shepherds Club players would compete, and Kraken selected five players and two substitutes for the championship.
• Jiang Han asked whether she could compete, and Angelite encouraged her by recalling her own first match.
• Kraken revealed that Angelite had won her first career championship at six, while Eileen recalled her early visits to the Grand Council.

The club prepared for the tournament’s promotional dinner, discussing qualifiers, player representatives, and the event’s finances. After Kraken gave Jiang Han a clothing budget, Jiang Han and Olivia relaxed in a newly built cat-steaming room, and a notice announced that a cat poet would soon visit to perform.

• Eileen asked Kraken about the club’s qualifier group, and Kraken guessed they would face Forest People and four newly formed teams.
• Angelite assigned Histeria and Lin Zhaojun to attend the promotional dinner as player representatives alongside Eileen and herself, while Kraken requested wine and pastries.
• Kraken and Eileen explained that the dinner promoted the club to investors and fans, and Kraken issued a formalwear budget of twenty thousand per attendee.
• Jiang Han and Olivia lounged in the cat-steaming room, where Olivia activated its warm Dragonwood shower and Jiang Han enjoyed the treatment.
• A site notice announced that a cat poet had been added and would soon come to sing, play, and perform.

Jiang Han learned about Cat Lamp enhancements and heard Olivia explain Cat Yeta’s unusual origins and status among the Giant Cats. The chapter left Jiang Han wondering whether Cat Yeta was truly sane.

• Jiang Han and Olivia used the cat-spinner, which made their bodies lighter and improved their reactions.
• Olivia described the Golden-Silver Cat Wishing Pool and warned Jiang Han not to reveal every secret to Cat Yeta.
• Olivia explained that the Giant Cats were split into factions and that Cat Yeta belonged to a one-cat ultramodern conservative reformist faction.
• Olivia told Jiang Han that Cat Yeta had originated as the ancient god Thousand Mirrors, which went mad after Olivia fought it and it transformed into witch and Cat Lamp forms.
• Olivia said she had brought the newborn Cat Yeta to Cat World, where Cat Yeta became a powerful Giant Cat concerned with the future of the Cat Lamp race.

Jiang Han met Histeria and Lin Zhaojun in South City to discuss how to spend the club’s twenty-thousand-per-person bonus. The three planned purchases and renovations while enjoying their paid leave.

• Jiang Han met Histeria at the station, and they joked around while waiting for Lin Zhaojun.
• Lin Zhaojun arrived, and the three went to a nearby coffee shop for milk tea.
• Jiang Han showed them the club’s twenty-thousand-per-person checks, which Histeria and Lin Zhaojun happily put away.
• Lin Zhaojun explained that the bonus came with three days of paid leave and amounted to about two months’ salary for many witches.
• Histeria planned to spend her money on her Fisherwoman Furnace Forge, Lin Zhaojun on restricted papers and research, and Jiang Han on renovating her home.

Lin Zhaojun, Jiang Han, Histeria, and Xiya went dress shopping and discussed their unusual ways of making clothes. Xiya then brought them to a ghost witches’ trading post at Snow Phoebe Lake, where Laura let them in without a password.

• Lin Zhaojun paid the bill after the group finished eating, and the witch clerk excitedly asked for her autograph.
• Lin Zhaojun, Xiya, and Jiang Han each described a skilled group or creature that could make clothes from design drafts.
• Xiya led the group to a ghost witches’ trading post at Snow Phoebe Lake, which required a ghost witch sponsor to enter.
• Laura complained to Xiya about an expedition that had captured only three personality pseudo-gods.
• Laura dispelled the trading post’s layered defenses and invited the group inside.

Jiang Han learned how the witches captured and recruited false gods while visiting their market with Lin Zhaojun and Xiya. Lin Zhaojun then revealed she wanted Druid divinity to grow a magic-power-boosting seed.

• Jiang Han saw false gods held in sealing shackles at the witches’ trade complex, and Lin Zhaojun explained that witches considered them mortals who had wrongly separated themselves from humanity.
• Lin Zhaojun described how witches bombarded false gods’ divine kingdoms or killed their followers to weaken and capture them, while Xiya said powerful false gods could be recruited and educated as witches.
• Jiang Han heard about the witches’ impossible standards for gods and their education system, including the difficult A3 exam and A Lin’s disputed wish-spell answer.
• A Lin sought Druid divinity at the false-god market, and Xiya cast an anti-divination spell so Lin Zhaojun could reveal her plan.
• Lin Zhaojun said she had obtained a seed that grew fruit capable of increasing magic power and wanted to use Druid methods to cultivate it.

Lin Zhaojun failed to find a demigod and placed a preorder with the Ghost Expedition Team, then learned that Jiang Han and Xiya might have access to both ghost and Cat Lamp expeditions. She asked them to obtain a share of druid divinity in exchange for a legendary spell.

• Lin Zhaojun could not buy a demigod because prices had risen and nature-aligned demigods were scarce, so she placed a preorder with the ghosts.
• Histeria brought Jiang Han and Lin Zhaojun to a tavern for the Ghost Expedition Team and explained how ghost witches searched ruins.
• Jiang Han and Histeria argued over whether Cat Lamps or ghost witches were more destructive and effective at finding treasure.
• Lin Zhaojun realized Jiang Han and Xiya had connections to the Cat Lamps and the Ghost Expedition Team.
• Lin Zhaojun asked Jiang Han and Xiya to find her druid divinity and offered a legendary spell as payment.

After returning home, Jiang Han watched Cat Falian make a dress while Olivia teased her and helped her tackle A3 homework. The chapter ended with Olivia calling Jiang Han stupid after she got distracted instead of listening to the lesson.

• Jiang Han hired the Sephiroth Cat Lamp Cat Falian to make a dress from her design sketches, and Cat Falian rapidly embellished the garment while criticizing the designs.
• Jiang Han argued with Olivia, who blamed Jiang Han for choosing the dress design and called her an idiot and a pervert.
• Jiang Han opened her Dream Garden A3 preparatory homework and struggled with a question about interrupting a spell through an anti-multiple-spell shield.
• Olivia explained that 142 Illusion School spells could interrupt Erica Eradication under the question's conditions and advised Jiang Han to memorize spell effects.
• Jiang Han became distracted by Olivia's closeness, bit her tail, and was moved aside as Olivia called her stupid.

Jiang Han received a fashionable new dress made by Cat Falian, while Olivia warmly rewarded the Cat Lamp for her work. Jiang Han took Cat Falian out to Xue Nan’s Witch House, where they encountered witches’ popular Rabbit Hole Wineries.

• Cat Falian finished Jiang Han’s starry-black dress, and Jiang Han happily admired it while Meow Yi Ao and Olivia commented on how it looked.
• Olivia praised Cat Falian, hugged her, and arranged for Cat Rina to take her to Xue Nan’s Witch House for Mushroom Bubble and a fashion magazine.
• Olivia told Cat Falian she understood what Cat Lamps liked and promised to share Green Fungus Grass and watch cat golf with her on a future visit to the Cat World.
• Jiang Han put on her down jacket, carried the ecstatic Cat Falian outside, and asked why she was so excited.
• Jiang Han and Cat Falian passed Rabbit Hole Wineries, where bunny-costumed witches solicited customers, and Cat Falian complained that witches loved cliché animal ears.

Jiang Han treated Cat Falian to a bottle of Mushroom Bubble at the bar, where the witches teased her about her closeness to Cat Lamps. After seeing Cat Falian enjoy the wine, Jiang Han planned to invest in small cat-steaming rooms for the Cat Lamps on Giant Cat Island.

• Tang Wen and Chu Yujun wondered whether Jiang Han had brought Cat Falian to the bar to buy her a drink.
• Jiang Han insisted she wanted to treat Cat Falian, and Lu Jieshan and Lin Liwan speculated about what kind of Cat Lamp girl she might become.
• Chu Yujun opened a bottle of rock-salt Mushroom Bubble and served it to Cat Falian in a cat-friendly barrel mug.
• Cat Falian eagerly drank the wine, easing Jiang Han's concern that she might be a poor host.
• Jiang Han asked Chu Yujun to tell Ningzhuang Bao Bao to develop a small cat-steaming box for the Cat Lamps, planning to invest her twenty thousand yuan in the facilities.

Jiang Han arrived at the Alliance Cup Banquet on Snow Phoebe Lake and navigated its strict social customs while waiting for the other witches to arrive. Histeria had come early to keep her company, and the banquet had not yet officially begun.

• Jiang Han arrived at the banquet entrance in a carriage, struggled in her high heels, and hid the Bone-Eating Sword, Adeline, beneath her dress.
• Lilith landed at the entrance with dragon wings that transformed into two tiny Dragon Ragdolls.
• Jiang Han presented her credentials to the ratfolk witch from the Witch Agency and was welcomed into the banquet hall.
• Jiang Han entered the hall, saw ghost Cat Lamps working as attendants, and found that few witches had arrived.
• Histeria came early to keep Jiang Han company while they waited for Angelite and the others.

Jiang Han and Histeria compared their concealed weapons and exchanged Bone-Eating Light Swords at the banquet. Their conversation drew in witches from the card-playing and Light Sword Research societies, who were also passing the time while waiting for the larger circles.

• Jiang Han asked Histeria why witches could not bring pocket spaces to formal gatherings, and Histeria said witches could manage with a wand.
• Histeria revealed pistols and Bone-Eating Light Swords hidden beneath her gown, then explained why witches favored the weapons as backups.
• Jiang Han showed Histeria her Type III Bone-Eating Light Sword, and Histeria lent her a Type II in exchange.
• Witches from the card-playing and Light Sword Research societies arrived and argued over which club had come first.
• Jiang Han and Histeria joined the smaller clubs in looking through card manuals and light swords.

Jiang Han learned why the Witch Agency was called the Mystery Agency while sharing a dinner with Xiya and tasting its dragon-tomato sauce. She and Xiya noticed a Witch Agency employee and a Meow Yi Ao spy watching them, then turned their conversation to Fisherwoman spells.

• Xiya led Jiang Han to dinner, where Jiang Han tried the Witch Agency's dragon-tomato sauce and eagerly asked for more.
• Xiya explained that the Witch Agency was known as the Mystery Agency because its headquarters, operations, and employees were difficult to identify.
• Jiang Han realized she knew almost nothing about the organization that ruled the witch world.
• Jiang Han used her cat ears to spot a horned rat Witch Agency employee taking notes and a Meow Yi Ao spy watching through a ghostly Cat Lamp.
• Jiang Han and Xiya changed the subject to Fisherwoman spells, which Jiang Han could learn quickly with her Cat Lamp abilities and Eileen's experience.

Jiang Han attended the Alliance Cup drawing banquet, where Angelite calmed the unruly witches and delivered opening remarks. The drawing placed the Sea Shepherds in the same group as the Forest People and four rookie teams.

• Histeria introduced Jiang Han to prominent witches and shared stories about them.
• Jiang Han joined the Ghost Witch circle, where Roxanne and the Ratfolk Witches started smoking and filled the banquet hall with smoke.
• Angelite quieted the guests, delivered a humorous speech against smoking, and restored the banquet’s cheerful atmosphere.
• Xiya told Jiang Han that Angelite disliked banquets despite her graceful manners and social skill.
• The drawing placed the Sea Shepherds in the same group as the Forest People and four rookie teams.

After the Alliance Cup banquet, Xiya asked Jiang Han about social invitations and learned that Jiang Han was planning a dragon-buying project. Jiang Han explained that she wanted to build a theme-park Sky Island beneath her Cat Lamp Island, and Xiya offered to help her find dragons cheaply.

• Xiya told Jiang Han that Duke Dulsong and Baroness Clara had asked about her, but Jiang Han remembered Clara as the witch who had nearly stepped on her cat tail.
• Jiang Han declined the after-party invitations, saying she needed to work on her dragon-buying plan.
• Jiang Han explained that she planned to build a theme-park Sky Island under Cat Lamp Island and stock it with dinosaurs and dragons for visitors.
• Jiang Han told Xiya that she had an agreement with several Giant Cat Lamps and was effectively their acting lord.
• Xiya praised Jiang Han's Cat Lamp Island and offered to connect her with friends who could let dragons go cheaply.

After receiving Histeria’s letter of introduction, Jiang Han visited Dragon Hall, a vast underwater ecological garden devoted to studying dragons. A Shrewmouse Witch maid welcomed her and explained the facility’s research into dragon species and evolution.

• Jiang Han arrived at AN1801 Skyreach Street and found the manor known as Dragon Hall.
• Two dragon witches checked Jiang Han’s letter of introduction and allowed her through the crystal passageway.
• Jiang Han entered Dragon Hall and saw its enormous hollow, segmented habitats, witch tower, and many dragons.
• A Shrewmouse Witch maid greeted Jiang Han and led her toward the tower.
• The Shrewmouse Witch maid explained that Dragon Hall housed 3,500 dragon species and that Witches hoped to learn from dragons’ evolution.

Jiang Han visited Rodjielin of Providence’s cramped, workshop-like witch tower and learned about the scholar’s reputation and connections. After Rodjielin introduced herself, Jiang Han used her knowledge of Rodjielin’s book to start a professional conversation.

• Jiang Han examined the tower’s unusual rooms, bookshelves, and automatic copying quills while waiting for its owner.
• Jiang Han reflected on the Witch Agency’s tax bureau, Eileen’s battles with it, and the coming millennium festival.
• Rodjielin came downstairs in a casual house dress and introduced herself as the witch of the tower.
• Jiang Han recognized Rodjielin as a celebrated dracology and witch ecology scholar who had won the Magic Web Crown sixteen years running.
• Jiang Han praised Rodjielin’s book Dragon Ecology and asked informed questions to build rapport.

Jiang Han persuaded Rodjielin to let her buy dragons from the Angelite-funded research base by presenting Xiya’s letter of introduction. As Rodjielin showed her the facility and explained Angelite’s research goals, she sensed an unusual fragrance in Jiang Han’s talent and compared it to Eileen’s.

• Jiang Han explained that she and Xiya wanted to build a dragon ecological park and promote dragon ecology while earning revenue.
• Rodjielin refused to sell Angelite’s assets privately, but accepted Xiya’s letter of introduction after seeing Angelite’s official seal.
• Rodjielin gave Jiang Han access to the enormous Dragon Research Institute and explained Angelite’s efforts to develop energy from dragons and Cat Lamps.
• Rodjielin described Angelite’s fear of ghosts and her determination to master necromancy, then spoke of sensing the fragrances of witches’ talents.
• Rodjielin told Jiang Han that her talent reminded her of Eileen, and Jiang Han lamented that she could not afford to buy many dragons.

After striking a lucrative dragon trade, Jiang Han returned home to find the Cat Lamps had wrecked the house during a drunken party. She cleaned up and questioned Olivia and Ovi Lamp, who defended their constant parties as a way for Cat Lamps to recharge.

• Jiang Han traded 49% ownership of Dragon Ecological Park for more than three hundred common dragon species and a large supply of dragon eggs.
• Jiang Han returned home and agreed to give Ice Bear five extra pieces of dragon jerky each day if it helped Cleya get to school.
• Jiang Han secretly fed leyline energy into the soil of her balcony garden to speed the growth of her plants.
• Jiang Han found snacks and beer strewn across the house while drunken Cat Lamps sang and Vera Lamp and Ovi Lamp fought with their tails.
• Jiang Han tossed the Cat Lamps out, summoned invisible servants to clean up, and pinned down Vera Lamp and Ovi Lamp.
• Jiang Han asked Olivia why the Cat Lamps partied every day, and Olivia insisted that parties charged them just like eating did.

Jiang Han struggled to find reliable information about Sea Shepherds Club’s first Alliance Cup opponent, OFA, until Olivia offered to gather intelligence from nearby Cat Lamps. Olivia promised to have it ready the next day, leaving Jiang Han with new hope for preparing for the match.

• Jiang Han studied the profiles of OFA’s witches and worried that the incomplete information could not reliably reveal their opponents’ abilities.
• Olivia took over Jiang Han’s sofa and insisted on watching catolf, while Jiang Han tried to keep studying.
• Jiang Han realized Olivia might be able to gather intelligence and asked her to review the materials.
• Olivia called the profiles garbage and threw them into the fireplace, then offered to get better intelligence from Cat Lamps near the contestants’ homes.
• Olivia promised Jiang Han she would have the intelligence by the next day.

Cat Lixiya, an ambitious Cat Lamp scout, wanted cats to learn farming and gain skills that would earn them a place in Witch society. Meow Yi Ao returned, encouraged her plan, and tasked her with gathering intelligence about the future of Cat Lamps.

• Cat Lixiya repaired a discarded computer with the other Cat Lamp girls and scolded lazy cats for nearly finishing the communal fish jerky.
• Cat Lixiya argued that Cat Lamps should learn to grow food, and she studied which kinds of Cat Lamps Witches valued most.
• Cat Lixiya prayed alone on the Sky Island, where Meow Yi Ao appeared and warned that cats gaining independence could unsettle Witches.
• Meow Yi Ao reassured Cat Lixiya that cats could gain access to education as more Cat Lamp Witches appeared and joined together.
• Cat Lixiya took Meow Yi Ao's old typewriter and returned to work as an intelligence scout.

Jiang Han returned from Anser Royal City with gemstones and read Cat Wei’s intelligence notebook, which recorded a witch’s training and spell development. Olivia revealed that the Cat Lamps’ research came from Cat Lixiya, whom she planned to introduce to Jiang Han.

• Jiang Han and the Cat Lamps retrieved gemstones from elven skeletons in Anser Royal City.
• Jiang Han brought the gemstones home and found Olivia gaming while Sha'er read a travel magazine and Vera slept.
• Jiang Han opened Cat Wei’s notebook and learned it contained detailed records and photographs of a witch’s training.
• Olivia explained that the gemstones would be exchanged for a book about cultivating Cat Lamps with planting abilities.
• Jiang Han praised the Cat Lamps’ intelligence work, and Olivia identified Cat Lixiya as the notebook’s author and offered to introduce her.

Jiang Han reviewed the Sea Shepherds’ lineup and the new match rules while weighing how to counter OFA’s technical duelist, Li Yanan. Olivia advised Jiang Han to use legendary spells, leaving her with a possible answer but no confirmed plan.

• Jiang Han assessed the Sea Shepherds’ roster and the new rules, which restricted mana recovery and changed how teams could reach overtime.
• Jiang Han identified Li Yanan as OFA’s main threat because of her rapid attacks, illusions, and Duel Guard expertise.
• Jiang Han considered whether to field herself or Chen Ligu first, since Chen Ligu was vulnerable to highly technical opponents.
• Olivia told Jiang Han to exploit Li Yanan’s lack of area attacks and use spells like Limited Wish, but Jiang Han explained that the spell was costly and difficult to learn.
• Jiang Han rejected using Heat Wave Breath because Li Yanan could counter it, and Olivia told her to use legendary spells.