Recaps

Jiang Han oversaw Agatha’s plans for a giant cat furnace factory and eagerly paid for its increasingly elaborate construction. The costly project won praise and major orders, while Olivia promised to prepare a new wick that could let Jiang Han add another Cat Lamp Witch.

• Agatha showed Jiang Han the completed first phase, a vast Mountain-Making construction with platforms, mines, cableways, and Cat Lamp homes.
• Jiang Han paid Agatha 100,000 for the foundation and approved a specialized oversized furnace design for the second phase.
• Jiang Han chose costly alchemical secret ore and the finest pure-ore refining method, then paid Agatha 350,000 upfront.
• Jiang Han committed to the remaining factory phases, bringing the Giant Cat Furnace Factory’s total cost to over 1.5 million.
• Olivia praised Jiang Han’s factory and promised to prepare a new wick so Jiang Han could add another Cat Lamp Witch.
• Cat Yeta and the Fel and Storm Giant Cats placed large orders, helping Jiang Han recoup nearly half the factory’s cost.

Jiang Han reviewed the materials, blueprints, and patents needed for the factory project, then used the trip to Angelite’s hidden shop to assess gaps in her spell arsenal. The chapter left her inside the shop, where Angelite asked why she had come.

• Agatha needed to order alchemical minerals from Eileen for the project’s second phase.
• The project’s third and fourth phases required witch-designed factory blueprints, leyline routes, and alchemy patents, which Jiang Han had ample time to arrange.
• Jiang Han realized that her spell system lacked reliable direct damage and shield-breaking power.
• Jiang Han rode to Angelite’s hidden shop in Snow Phoebe and gave the Cat Lamp driver a strip of golden cod meat.
• Angelite recognized Jiang Han, softened her greeting, and asked why she had come.

Jiang Han visited Angelite’s shop to buy stronger combat spells and learned about Angelite’s incarnation, Anjeliya, and her creator’s personality. Anjeliya offered her [Angelite’s Calamity Blade, Type IV], which Jiang Han chose before asking to see the remaining spells.

• Jiang Han visited Angelite’s shop and was served tea and pastries by Anjeliya.
• Anjeliya explained that Angelite created many incarnations to separate qualities from herself, including maturity, which Anjeliya possessed.
• Jiang Han said she needed stronger close-range, mid-range, long-range, and shield spells for arena fights.
• Anjeliya presented [Angelite’s Calamity Blade, Type IV], a spell that enchanted a quasi-legendary weapon with the effects of [Lightning Ring] and [Knock Shield].
• Jiang Han accepted the Calamity Blade and asked Anjeliya to show her mid-range, long-range, and shield spells.

Jiang Han bought four expensive Angelite-style spells from Anjeliya and learned why witches were holding onto mithril despite its falling market price. Anjeliya offered to help her obtain mithril ingots if Jiang Han conducted a market survey.

• Jiang Han chose Angelite's Seven-Attribute Spells, Angelite's Element Manipulation Disk, and Angelite's Damage Deflection Spell, then Anjeliya quoted her a total of 1,150,000.
• Anjeliya showed Jiang Han her Meow Ao Claw spell, and Jiang Han paid for the spells despite the steep price.
• Jiang Han asked whether the shop sold mithril, and Anjeliya explained that witches were withholding mithril ingots while the Witch Agency drove prices down.
• Anjeliya offered to help Jiang Han find mithril ingots if she conducted a market survey.

Jiang Han and Anjeliya dressed in cute outfits and went to the Witch Market to investigate Eileen’s Secret Mithril Market. They planned to buy mithril in Eileen’s territory, but Eileen appeared and said she did not mind.

• Jiang Han and Anjeliya changed into cute outfits before heading out to investigate.
• Anjeliya explained that the Witch Market’s most valuable commodity was information about goods and their circulation.
• Anjeliya told Jiang Han they were going to Eileen’s Secret Mithril Market so Jiang Han could buy mithril there.
• Anjeliya said Eileen would not mind them taking advantage of her through Jiang Han, and Eileen appeared behind them and agreed.

Jiang Han toured Dragonbud Grass Street with Big Eileen and Anjeliya, learning about its trade and the Witch Associations’ influence over resources from other worlds. At the mineral market, Jiang Han spent all her remaining spare funds on mithril.

• Big Eileen led Jiang Han and Anjeliya through Dragonbud Grass Street and explained that it was a major source of minerals for Eileen and herself.
• Jiang Han saw South City’s growing alchemy, magic-scroll, and liquor businesses, and thought about the value of her unicycle shares.
• Anjeliya and Big Eileen explained that France lacked resource-rich production sites in other worlds because its Witch Association had no Great Witch ranked among the top three.
• Big Eileen brought Jiang Han to a mineral market where witches sold leyline-tempered gemstones, ore-bearing stones, and mithril.
• Jiang Han invested all her remaining spare funds in small mithril chunks.

Jiang Han visited the Foxfolk Tavern and met Cat Katalia, an exceptionally large Echo Giant Cat seeking work as an artisan on Giant Cat Island. Cat Katalia asked to inspect Jiang Han’s factory before discussing employment.

• Jiang Han admired the newly completed Giant Cat Furnace Factory, which refined Eileen’s gold and silver ore into ingots.
• Jiang Han floated toward the Foxfolk Tavern and met Cat Carl, a lively Storm Giant Cat, along the way.
• At the tavern, Jiang Han recognized Cat Katalia as a rare Echo Giant Cat and the most skilled artisan among cat lamps.
• Cat Katalia applied for work and told Jiang Han she wanted to see the factory before deciding whether it was suitable.

Jiang Han took the eager artisan Cat Katalia to the Giant Cat Furnace Factory and gave her the Cat Cup to improve. Cat Katalia promised to make at least fifty cups and sent Jiang Han away until the next day.

• Cat Katalia impatiently asked Jiang Han to take her to the factory, while Jiang Han finished lunch and showed her the Cat Cup.
• Cat Katalia inspected the Cat Cup and claimed that copying it was easy for an intermediate artisan cat lamp.
• Jiang Han led Cat Katalia to the Giant Cat Furnace Factory, where cat lamps were refining Eileen's gold ore.
• Cat Katalia admired the factory's tools, took the Cat Cup to enhance, and told Jiang Han to return the next day.
• Jiang Han asked Cat Katalia to make at least fifty Cat Cups, and Cat Katalia agreed.

Jiang Han attended the Great Witch Council’s Upper Council, where witches were discussing the Nether Festival program. She arrived without a proposal and worried she might be questioned, while Eileen said Angelite wanted to hear suggestions from the witches under her rule.

• The Upper Council convened at Angelite’s Sovereign Palace, with Jiang Han seated among the middle-tier witches and given two chances to speak.
• Jiang Han reviewed the council booth’s amenities and considered the political importance of earning support for proposals.
• Jiang Han prepared for questions about Cat Lamps and Giant Cat Lamps, then brought out her Cat Cup and lunchbox.
• Eileen joined Jiang Han, explaining that she also counted as a middle-tier witch because she lacked top-tier and Great Witch certification.
• Eileen said she had proposed hunting giant dragons as entertainment, but Angelite preferred hearing suggestions from her subjects.

Jiang Han watched Angelite’s Great Witch High Council debate proposals for the Nether Festival while Eileen negotiated for giant-cat support. After Myra Archer’s plan for a day of killing was rejected, Jiang Han relayed Olivia’s offer of cats for Eileen’s faction and the Silver Knights.

• Angelite opened the council and announced that it would discuss Nether Festival activities across thirty-eight districts.
• Eileen explained that Myra Archer was a super hawk and discussed with Jiang Han the possibility of arranging a Great Hunt with giant cats.
• Myra Archer proposed using an alternate-world space for a day of killing, but Kraken countered her proposal and Angelite prevented it from going to a vote.
• Jiang Han called Olivia, who offered roughly fifteen hundred giant cats for Eileen’s faction and about five hundred for the Silver Knights.
• Jiang Han told Eileen that Olivia could send fourteen hundred cats to her faction and four hundred to the Silver Knights.

During the council dinner break, Jiang Han met Priscilla and negotiated with Eileen over the employment of Giant Cat Lamps. Eileen proposed assigning them to the Coastal Faction and Silver Knights, and she and Jiang Han agreed on how they would be used and cared for before returning to the council chamber.

• Jiang Han followed Eileen to the dining hall and listened to witches debate proposals for the Nether Festival.
• Jiang Han greeted Priscilla, who told her about playing a Witch Hero in another world and considering a part-time Hero job in Eastern Japan.
• Eileen proposed assigning thirteen hundred Giant Cat Lamps to the Coastal Faction and five hundred to the Silver Knights.
• Jiang Han insisted the Giant Cat Lamps receive middle-class wages, food, lodging, cat trees, and cat houses, and Eileen agreed to arrange suitable work for them.
• Jiang Han and Eileen settled the deal, finished their meal, and returned to the council chamber.

Jiang Han and Eileen discussed how to influence Anjie, while the council approved a hunt to demonstrate the witches’ power. Eileen asked Jiang Han to arrange for clever Giant Cat Lamps to secretly steer prey into Dinesha’s hunting grounds, and Jiang Han began considering a witch who could transform into a giant cat.

• Jiang Han asked Eileen how they could influence Anjie, and Eileen described appealing to the secretarial corps or offering Anjie wealth and power.
• Catherine Komiman proposed rounding up star pirates and mercenaries for a witch-led hunt, and Anjie opened the proposal for discussion.
• Eileen explained that the hunt had been settled and asked Jiang Han to arrange Giant Cat Lamps to secretly send more prey into Dinesha’s hunting grounds.
• Jiang Han considered Cat Carlo, Cat Xiumei, and Yuequan, then thought of a witch who could turn into a giant cat.

On the day of the Nether Festival, Dinesha hesitated to compete for prizes because she feared her new status as Great Witch had been gained through improper means. Eileen reassured her, and Dinesha agreed to participate, leaving Jiang Han to congratulate her as a Great Witch.

• Jiang Han, Eileen, and Dinesha arrived at the hunting ground, while Jiang Han stayed out of the competition to avoid exposing her rare giant-cat form.
• Jiang Han introduced Dinesha to Cat Nesting, a powerful Time Giant Cat Lamp who refused to take part in witches’ schemes or give special treatment.
• Dinesha told Eileen she feared that winning prestige through methods outside the rules would taint her achievements.
• Eileen assured Dinesha that the votes and her character made her a Great Witch beyond dispute, and urged her to sweep the Nether Festival prizes as a good omen.
• Dinesha accepted Eileen’s proposal and agreed to discuss arrangements with Cat Nesting, while Jiang Han left to get a drink and congratulated her on becoming a Great Witch.

Jiang Han chatted and ate with Priscilla while witches rushed into the hunting grounds, then learned that Priscilla planned to hunt with Histeria and Roxanne. Priscilla suspected Jiang Han had brought the Giant Cat Lamps to guard the grounds, and Jiang Han played ignorant.

• Jiang Han filled her Cat Cup and joined Priscilla at the food table, where they talked about hunting and Ghost Witch professions.
• As the hunting grounds opened, Jiang Han helped steady a witch in the crowd while Priscilla explained that the first witches inside gained a small advantage.
• Dinesha and Cat Nesting left the VIP room, and Jiang Han asked Priscilla about Dinesha and their past closeness.
• Jiang Han and Priscilla continued chatting until the third wave of witches entered, while the Ghost Witches still waited.
• Priscilla said she would hunt with Histeria and Roxanne and asked whether Jiang Han had brought the Giant Cat Lamps guarding the grounds; Jiang Han pretended not to know.

Jiang Han smuggled the Ghost Witches through the hunting ground’s employee passage, outfitting them in cat-ear cloaks and explaining how the Cat Lamp staff operated. She brought them to the hunting ground ahead of the other witches, ready to register their team and open the hunt.

• Jiang Han gave the Ghost Witches cat-ear cloaks and lanterns, explaining that red cloaks filmed visitors while blue cloaks handled supplies.
• Jiang Han offered to arrange extra supplies for the Ghost Witches and discussed disguising her fee through Eve Harkins.
• Jiang Han led the cloaked Ghost Witches through the employee passage, where they pretended to be Cat Lamps and meowed to avoid suspicion.
• Jiang Han explained that the secret route would get them to the hunting ground about ten minutes before Dinesha and the other witches.
• Priscilla and Histeria discussed the Eileen-funded hunting prize pool as Jiang Han reached the exit and prepared to register their team.

Jiang Han brought Histeria, Priscilla, and Roxanne through a portal to register for a hunt in the Cat Hunting Grounds, bribing Cat Fast with cod strips to get them set up. After arranging their equipment and a guide, Jiang Han slipped into the restricted hunting area and met Cat Nesting, who proposed exchanging things they each wanted.

• Jiang Han and the ghost witches entered a lush crater world, where Cat Fast confronted them after unleashing Divine Cat Descent.
• Jiang Han gave Cat Fast a bag of cod strips and asked her to prepare a vehicle, guide, and hunting-area attendant for the three guests.
• Jiang Han registered the ghost witches for a hunting area suited to them and gave Histeria a communication cat lamp.
• Jiang Han openly slipped into the hunting area despite the rules and found Cat Nesting waiting for her.
• Cat Nesting told Jiang Han that they each had something the other wanted, and Jiang Han agreed.

Jiang Han negotiated a contract with the Legendary Time Giant Cat Cat Nesting, granting her territory and other benefits in exchange for her partnership. After they sealed the deal, Cat Nesting teased Jiang Han, and the two left the hunting zone together.

• Jiang Han explained the Legendary Time Giant Cats’ powers and invited Cat Nesting to become her partner.
• Cat Nesting requested territory, provisions, a salary, and a share of the spoils, and she and Jiang Han negotiated the terms.
• Jiang Han and Cat Nesting sealed their contract, adding Cat Nesting’s broken alarm clock token to Jiang Han’s contract space.
• Cat Nesting greeted Jiang Han by touching noses, and Jiang Han set limits on how they would greet each other.
• Jiang Han teased Cat Nesting about the Moon Spring Giant Cat, then reassured her that her neighbor was lazy.
• Cat Nesting asked Jiang Han to join the Nether Festival, but Jiang Han said she had plans to practice spells and left the hunting zone with Cat Nesting.

Jiang Han skipped the hunting trip, visited the Witch Market, and arranged to meet Angelite to bring Cat Cup samples and practice a legendary spell. Angelite also asked Jiang Han for her first impression of Dinesha, leaving their meeting ahead.

• Jiang Han avoided the hunting ground because shotgun blasts could harm cat witches’ ears and traveled by bus to the Witch Market.
• Jiang Han messaged Angelite, who sent her a picture of an elf figurine she had sculpted for a planned Elf Era Park.
• Angelite asked Jiang Han to bring Cat Cup samples, and Jiang Han asked to use Angelite’s training room to practice [Colorful Seabed Howl].
• Angelite asked what Jiang Han thought of Dinesha, and Jiang Han described her first impression as that of a pure Ghost Witch, like Roxanne.

Jiang Han arrived late at Angelite's Sovereign Palace after chatting with Cat Katalia, then gave Annie von Menuhin a Cat Cup to test. In Angelite's workshop, she found the Final Witch working on a new honeycomb-style Folded Space storage unit.

• Jiang Han learned that Cat Katalia knew the legendary spell [Nuclear Fusion's New Age], but did not take advantage of her drunkenness to obtain it.
• Jiang Han gave Annie von Menuhin a gray-cat-colored Cat Cup as an early-access trial and asked her to write a report.
• Jiang Han entered the throne hall and used the concealed staircase behind the throne to reach Angelite's private quarters.
• Jiang Han found Angelite in a workshop with a honeycomb-shaped machine, and Angelite explained that it could manage more than fifty Folded Spaces.

Jiang Han visited Angelite’s mechanical hive, brought her a Cat Cup sample, and asked about the training room. Angelite showed her a High-Energy Training Device that limited spell power while still allowing witches to gain casting experience.

• Jiang Han scanned Angelite’s Folded Spaces and found no intelligent life inside, while Cat Lamps helped seed the developing worlds.
• Angelite explained that witches could gamble on or launder resources through Folded Spaces, and Jiang Han said she would not gamble.
• Jiang Han gave Angelite the Cat Cup sample, and Angelite considered mass-producing it before accepting Jiang Han’s objection to a blue-and-red color scheme.
• Angelite carried Jiang Han to the training ground and told her to cast a Fireball Spell; the device reduced it to a tiny spark.
• Angelite explained that the device simulated worlds that restricted outsiders’ magic and let witches practice without causing much damage.

Jiang Han practiced her legendary spellcasting and struggled to control the seeds created by Colorful Seabed Howl. Angelite identified the gap in Jiang Han’s knowledge of plants as the source of her problem, leaving Jiang Han with a clearer direction for improving the spell.

• Jiang Han summoned Storage Giant Cat Lamps and cast Boundlessly Spreading Tide, while Angelite confined the rising water to the training area.
• Jiang Han swam happily in the water until Angelite drained most of it away.
• Jiang Han tried casting Colorful Seabed Howl, but the newly created seeds went out of control and formed tiny flecks of hazardous plants and viruses.
• Jiang Han recorded the failed attempt, believing the spell had failed during activation.
• Angelite asked whether Jiang Han had used a physical reference and explained that Jiang Han lacked the experience and knowledge needed to understand the plants she was creating.
• Jiang Han realized she knew almost nothing about the plants involved in the spell.

Jiang Han agreed to retrieve desserts from Angelite’s vault, which had been occupied by nightmare-producing wraith witches after Angelite’s horror-movie mishap. She encountered Donna Meyer, who mistook her for an agent sent to drive the witches away, and Donna fled into the wall.

• Jiang Han coaxed Angelite into offering her a book in exchange for retrieving five boxes of desserts from the vault.
• Angelite explained that nightmare energy had been produced by her fear of horror movies and that a race of witches had occupied her dessert storage.
• Angelite sent Jiang Han down in a private elevator and warned her to stay alert for witches’ tricks.
• Jiang Han’s tail smashed a shadow that tried to sneak past her in the dark corridor.
• Donna Meyer identified herself as an evil spirit witch and accused Angelite of taking her home and sending Jiang Han to drive her out before escaping into the wall.

Jiang Han explored a dark corridor, using Cat Lamps to expose Donna Meyer and discover that the Evil Spirit Witch relied on shadows to move. After Donna escaped, Jiang Han suspected Anjie was hiding something about the witches in the corridor and continued scouting with a glowing Cat Lamp tied to her tail.

• Jiang Han woke the Cat Lamps in the corridor, and Donna Meyer fled through the shadows as their light spread.
• Jiang Han intensified a Cat Lamp’s glow, causing Donna to tumble out of the disappearing shadows and fall.
• Donna threatened Jiang Han, then escaped into a patch of shadow with two young Vengeful Spirit Witches.
• Jiang Han examined Donna’s weak frost magic and wondered why Anjie seemed afraid to clear the corridor herself.
• Jiang Han tied a glowing Cat Lamp to her tail and continued down the corridor to scout ahead.

Jiang Han pursued Donna Meyer through the corridor of traps and found her guarding a shrine where four resentful spirit witches hid behind a stone coffin. Seeing how little magic Donna had left, Jiang Han tried to talk, but Donna demanded a fight, so Jiang Han drew her Bone-Eroding Light Sword.

• Donna Meyer attacked Jiang Han with cannons and flintlock pistols, but Jiang Han caught the cannonballs and was unaffected by the bullets.
• Jiang Han collected the antique weapons, tracked Donna’s shadow magic through the corridor, and followed it to a heavy wooden door.
• Jiang Han entered a circular hall and found four resentful spirit witches hiding behind a stone coffin in a shrine.
• Donna emerged in damaged armor and charged Jiang Han, insisting that she would drive the Cat Witch out.
• Jiang Han recognized Donna’s weakness and tried to reason with her, but Donna demanded that Jiang Han knock her down.
• Jiang Han warned Donna that she was coming and drew the Bone-Eroding Light Sword.

Jiang Han defeated Donna without killing her and met the four little resentful-spirit witches she was caring for. After Donna revealed her pride kept her from seeking help despite her desperate condition, Jiang Han offered to help, but they postponed discussing it to serve dessert.

• Jiang Han knocked Donna unconscious with the Bone-Eroding Light Sword, then assured Afuna, Laura, An, and Linna that she had not killed her.
• Afuna introduced herself and the other little resentful-spirit witches, admired Jiang Han's weapon, and asked Jiang Han to be her master.
• Jiang Han woke Donna, who invited her to stay for desserts after the little witches left the room.
• Donna accused Jiang Han of lying about killing witches, then nearly fell and revealed how malnourished she was from feeding the children nightmare energy.
• Donna refused to ask Angelite for help because she viewed her as an enemy, and Jiang Han offered her own help before changing the subject to dessert.