Recaps

Jiang Han and the witches examined a magical message from the Void and discovered coordinates alongside a plea for help from a witch named Xu Fangying. Although Xu Fangying was absent from the Lost Witch Archive, the coordinates appeared likely to be genuine, so Anjie prepared to investigate them.

• Constantine offered Jiang Han a generous set of possible rewards for helping uncover a lost witch or Void coordinates.
• The demon hunters unsealed the sachet, revealing a bamboo slip with a plea for help, coordinates, and the name Xu Fangying.
• Anjie speculated that the message used an ancient, primitive adaptation of a modern short-message spell.
• Constantine checked the Lost Witch Archive and found no record of Xu Fangying or any lost witch surnamed Xu.
• Constantine judged the coordinates likely to be real, and Anjie decided they would learn the truth by going there.

Jiang Han received her Witch Association honorary title and returned to Xiya’s club, while Angelite asked Amabel to assess what made Jiang Han seem otherworldly. Amabel confirmed Jiang Han was a witch but warned that her unstable, time-linked powers made her dangerous to ordinary witches.

• Jiang Han received her medal and title from Amabel, underwent measurements and a health check, and was promised a new spell each month for four months.
• Jiang Han left with a Demon Hunter after arranging to meet Angelite at Xiya’s club the next day.
• Amabel questioned Angelite’s concern for Jiang Han, and Angelite insisted they were only friends.
• Amabel told Angelite that Jiang Han was definitely a witch, but that her powers resembled Eve Harkins’s condition after the Ghost Turmoil and made her an evil thing to ordinary witches.
• Amabel warned that Jiang Han’s poorly controlled power and ties to the rivers of time could harm other witches, and Angelite realized she had smiled at the assessment.

Jiang Han trained her tail sword technique with Xiya, then received a rare protection spell from Angelite. The chapter ended with Jiang Han preparing for a packed afternoon of magical bullet control, tactical theory, and combat training.

• Jiang Han and Xiya clashed light swords until Xiya ended their swordsmanship training, saying Jiang Han's tail sword could seriously injure a witch.
• Angelite explained that the tail sword targeted vital points, warned that witches could develop temporary resistance, and advised Jiang Han not to rely on such attacks unless she could inflict major damage.
• Angelite gave Jiang Han the level-five protection spell Alice's Dispel Barrier, and Xiya and Jiang Han persuaded Angelite to share candies with them.
• Jiang Han's schedule continued with magical bullet control, tactical theory, and a swordsmanship battle focused on witch-level killing moves.

Jiang Han studied Spell Countermeasures and Trophy Appraisal with Xiya while the Rainy Night Club’s witches relaxed and mocked their teammates during a match. Xiya began teaching Jiang Han mineral identification, explaining that Cat Lamp-line witches needed to learn how to use and make magical items to improve their combat ability.

• Histeria mocked Jiang Han’s poor spell recognition, and Xiya showed her the course material while the club’s witches joked about Lin Zhaojun and Angelite.
• Angelite and Xuan Bao watched Rainy Night Club’s match and teased A Lin after she fumbled in the opening match.
• Xiya cast a soundproofing spell so Jiang Han could focus on their lesson despite the commentary.
• Jiang Han asked whether spells could identify trophies, and Xiya explained why appraisal spells were unreliable and why witches needed to identify items themselves.
• Xiya began teaching Jiang Han about minerals and explained that Cat Lamp-line witches needed to learn how to make and use magical items.

Xiya taught Jiang Han about identifying minerals so they could recognize valuable resources during future adventures. She presented six samples of brass as practical hard currency found in many worlds and prepared to begin the lesson.

• Histeria described Eileen’s extraordinary ability to identify and count minerals by sound, and Xiya called the skill unscientific.
• Jiang Han imagined Eileen lounging among treasure, then changed the subject to mineral-identification training.
• Xiya explained that her mineral knowledge had improved after Alice once earned nearly seventy times more loot by recognizing valuable ore.
• Histeria produced six sample boxes and revealed that every sample contained brass, a widely found form of hard currency for Witches.

Xiya taught Jiang Han how magical minerals could reduce power loss in transmission and demonstrated how magical brass was made. The lesson ended with Xiya giving Jiang Han a lifelike brass statue of herself before moving on to magical silver.

• Xiya explained that ordinary brass lost nearly 0.90 units of magic power over five kilometers and proposed magical minerals as a way to reduce transmission losses.
• Xiya and Jiang Han discussed Witch Gold, and Jiang Han reminded Xiya that it belonged to Eileen and that she compensated those who refined it.
• Xiya questioned Jiang Han about her alchemy credentials, and Jiang Han insisted that she had properly passed the A2 exam.
• Xiya used magic to create a miniature brass workshop and explained the materials and universal formula used to make Witch Brass.
• Xiya shaped the brass into a detailed statue of Jiang Han, gave it to her as a lesson sample, and began explaining magical silver.

Jiang Han enjoyed a long bath with a Cat Lamp before sitting down to work on her spell theory paper, which was due soon. The Cat Lamp tempted her to play, and she ended the chapter trying to motivate herself to write.

• Jiang Han soaked in the Sunshine Rain Bath with a Cat Lamp and joked about cats drifting with the current.
• Jiang Han finished bathing, dried herself, and talked about wanting Cat Spider silk bandages and Cat Spiders for her room.
• Jiang Han sat at her desk with mechanical blueprints and tried to encourage herself to work.
• The Cat Lamp urged Jiang Han to play Cat golf and Witch Cards instead of working.
• Jiang Han admitted that her spell theory paper was due tomorrow or the day after and that she had not written anything.
• Jiang Han added a new work slogan to her desk, telling herself to write today.

Jiang Han struggled to decipher her spell blueprint and sent it to dozens of witches, who helped her work out its construction. She left with several pages of formulas and ideas for the spell, while continuing to juggle replies from her academic contacts.

• Jiang Han discovered that she could not understand the spell blueprint she had drafted for her A3 qualification assignment.
• Jiang Han sent the blueprint to Kraken, then mass-sent it to sixty contacts on her Academic Contact List.
• Roxanne recognized the diagram as a simple Luo spiral and suggested a formula, which Jiang Han recorded.
• Eileen said the blueprint had 670,000 possible combinations and offered another way to solve it.
• Jiang Han filled three pages with calculations while answering the other witches who had replied.

Jiang Han studied the spell theories shared by renowned Witches and combined them into a draft of her own composite-spell paper. She finished the draft and tried to charm Xiya into helping revise it the next day.

• Jiang Han reviewed competing spell theories from several Witch schools and admired the scholars' willingness to challenge established ideas.
• Jiang Han chose Lilith's flexible transmutation model as the prototype for her paper and incorporated ideas from Eve Harkins and Nanazawa An.
• Jiang Han reflected on Umbrella of Greed's formidable lineup and stopped herself from imagining joining them before facing them in competition.
• Jiang Han finished her paper and planned to ask Xiya to revise it the next day.
• Jiang Han sent Xiya a photo of her feet, received a suggestive bed photo in reply, and hurried to cultivate their master-disciple bond.

Jiang Han explained why she had hired a construction crew to repair her house, then told Histeria about a political crisis among undead witches sparked by a game magazine's voting rules. Histeria said she had missed the news because she had been too busy running around.

• Jiang Han met Histeria in the Rainy Night Club lounge and offered her a drink.
• Jiang Han explained that compressing her house after moving to Snow Phoebe Lake had caused repeated problems, so she had hired a renovation company.
• Jiang Han invited Histeria to play Fox Fox Soul, and Histeria was surprised the game had already been released.
• Jiang Han told Histeria that The Good-for-Nothing Wanderers!'s game ranking had caused a dispute over whether undead witches' votes counted.
• Jiang Han explained that Angelite had managed the crisis by announcing a study by undead witch civil servants, and Histeria said she had been too busy to follow the news.

Jiang Han and Xiya played Fox Fox Soul and discussed whether Jiang Han should start a gaming channel despite the risks to her idol career. Xiya helped her submit a debut agreement with Histeria, leaving its approval to Angelite.

• Jiang Han, Histeria, and Xiya defeated Fox Fox Soul’s tutorial boss and praised the game’s models and combat animations.
• Xiya suggested that Jiang Han start a gaming livestream channel, and Jiang Han worried that poor results could damage her reputation as an idol.
• Xiya explained that the club could merge Jiang Han’s channel with Du Lingxuan’s show if it failed, and promised to help her experiment.
• Jiang Han and Xiya submitted a channel host debut agreement requesting 35,000 yuan, naming Jiang Han and Histeria as personnel and Angelite as guarantor.
• The entertainment department approved the agreement notice and said it would be shown to Angelite before dinner.

Cun Shangyou tried to avoid being burdened with a risky task when Tajima Chinatsu asked her to deliver an application to Lady Anjie. She found a safer time for the document to be presented and arranged for Claire Baker to handle it on the midnight shift.

• Tajima Chinatsu praised Cun Shangyou and asked whether she was scheduled to work as Lady Anjie's secretary with Claire Baker.
• Tajima gave Cun Shangyou an application to submit to the Final Witch, and Cun worried that delivering it at the wrong time could harm her standing.
• Cun suggested presenting the application after Lady Anjie finished bathing, when she would be in a good mood.
• When Cun said she would be attending a gathering instead of working late, Tajima asked her to recommend someone for the task.
• Cun recommended Claire Baker, and Tajima approved the choice.

Jiang Han toured Rainy Night Club’s lavish training grounds with Histeria and learned about the resources elite witches could access. She settled in to revise a paper with Histeria, while Lin Zhaojun and Chen Ligu continued their training nearby.

• Jiang Han followed Histeria into Rainy Night Club’s high-end training room, where Histeria explained how clubs invested in promising witches.
• Jiang Han asked about training fees, and Histeria told her competitors could use the club’s best facilities for free.
• Histeria showed Jiang Han Lin Zhaojun sleeping in the training room’s resting area, and Chen Ligu praised Lin Zhaojun for training and studying there for days.
• Jiang Han and Histeria took a recessed bookshelf desk after finding the popular members’ room occupied.
• Jiang Han began revising her paper with club-provided materials and asked Histeria for help, while Histeria clarified that she would not revise the entire paper for her.

Jiang Han made a fireplace cat lamp swear not to leak her research, then showed Xiya her paper and a blueprint for a device that could store and restore a witch’s magic. Xiya agreed to join the research as a second author and proposed gathering materials during their upcoming search for giant-cat transformation materials.

• Jiang Han forced the fireplace cat lamp to swear that it would not leak her research documents or records, and promised it ten dried fish for good behavior.
• Jiang Han asked Xiya to revise her paper and explained her idea for a Cat Lamp device that could store a witch’s magic and return it later.
• Jiang Han described the device’s proposed storage unit and conduit, while the fireplace cat lamp listened from the bookshelf.
• Xiya asked to join the research as a second author, and Jiang Han agreed to seek materials with her during their upcoming collection trip.

Jiang Han and Xiya repeatedly failed while trying to develop a potion that restored magical power, destroying communal cauldrons and paying for replacements. They persuaded Lin Zhaojun to test the remaining formulas that required a White An steed.

• Jiang Han tested another potion formula, but the cauldron exploded and the solvent splashed over her before her body healed.
• Lin Zhaojun warned Jiang Han that Christine would object to the repeated damage, and Xiya and Jiang Han paid fines for the cauldrons they had broken.
• Lin Zhaojun recorded that Xiya had broken six cauldrons and Jiang Han nine as they explained their ongoing effort to invent a magical-power-restoring item.
• Jiang Han and Xiya asked Lin Zhaojun to test every remaining formula requiring a White An steed, and Lin Zhaojun agreed on the condition they pay if a cauldron exploded.

Jiang Han, Histeria, and Xiya struggled to develop a material that could store leyline energy and magic power, and Jiang Han worried the project would bankrupt them. Xiya proposed seeking research funding, and the chapter left Jiang Han realizing she already owed Eileen a great deal after learning about the expensive homes her friends had bought nearby.

• Jiang Han and her companions spent nearly twenty thousand yuan and destroyed dozens of crucibles without developing a useful material.
• Jiang Han considered abandoning the project, but Xiya argued that its difficulty could qualify it for research funding.
• Jiang Han suggested funding might come from witches interested in Cat Lamps, and Lin Zhaojun recommended approaching Eileen or Eve.
• Histeria explained that she and Lin Zhaojun owned costly homes in Snow Phoebe, where Eileen had greatly improved the leyline energy infrastructure.
• Jiang Han remembered that Eileen had given her family their plot of land and realized she had incurred another enormous debt of gratitude.

Jiang Han reflected on Rainy Night Club’s loss and the Duel Witch standings before returning home to settle in with her Cat Lamps. She ended the chapter startled to find Olivia asleep in her chandelier.

• Jiang Han and Chen Ligu lost their match against Blind Treasure, who led South City Mandrake to another victory.
• Jiang Han reviewed the Duel Witch rankings, where Alesha led the standings and Lin Zhaojun placed second.
• Jiang Han brought a rare Swordsman Cat Lamp home and warned her to follow the rules on Giant Cat Island.
• Gray Mist Cat Lamp and Big Orange Cat Lamp praised Jiang Han’s rules and shared Marg Barrel with her.
• Jiang Han looked up and discovered Olivia dozing inside the chandelier.

Jiang Han returned to find Olivia eager for attention and hoping to go out, but she explained that the other witches were busy. Olivia called Eileen and arranged to attend the Cat Lamp Championship with Jiang Han the day after tomorrow.

• Jiang Han returned and tried to appease Olivia, who complained that she had been neglecting her.
• Olivia asked Jiang Han to play cat golf and register for the Cat Golf League, but Jiang Han explained that Olivia needed an accompanying Apex Witch to go out.
• Jiang Han listed the witches who were busy with work, research, sponsorship, and competition training.
• Olivia called Eileen and arranged to see her the day after tomorrow for the Cat Lamp Championship.
• Olivia asked Jiang Han what she had been saying, and Jiang Han realized she had unexpectedly gained an opportunity to speak with Eileen.

Jiang Han assembled a Catolf team with Olivia, Cat Lisi, Eileen, and several Cat Lamps for the Witch Invitational Deciding Tournament. As they left Eileen’s nest, they reached the throne hall, where administrators and Silver Knights faced off in a tense dispute.

• Olivia insisted Sha'er Lamp would compete so she could disguise herself as Sha'er Lamp and take part in the tournament.
• Jiang Han recruited Cat Lisi as the team’s strong player, and Cat Lisi said she had narrowly lost to Cat Yeta in a previous tournament.
• Eileen joined Jiang Han and Olivia with Cat Xilia, a Volcano Leyline Cat Lamp eager to play at a professional venue.
• Jiang Han, Olivia, Eileen, and the cats traveled to the throne hall, where three administrators and five Silver Knights were engaged in a standoff.

Eileen coordinated preparations for an event while Silver Knights and affairs officers competed to win her favor. After settling their dispute, she reminisced with Olivia about knowing her as a child, and Jiang Han offered Eileen her cat ears to touch.

• Eileen asked the Silver Knights and affairs officers whether the supplies, procedures, and publicity for the event were ready.
• A Silver Knight revealed that Ovi had helped correct the food list to include cod, while an affairs officer blamed the Silver Knights for the newspaper writers’ unfavorable opinions of Eileen.
• Eileen gently sent both representatives away to prepare the vehicles, and Jiang Han praised her skill at handling their rivalry.
• Eileen asked Jiang Han how she would deal with two sisters who disliked each other, but Olivia changed the subject by recalling Eileen’s childhood interest in her cat ears.
• Jiang Han learned that Olivia had known Eileen when she was very young, then let Eileen and Olivia rub or poke her cat ears.

Jiang Han, Eileen, and Olivia waited for the cat golf competition while Olivia explained her plan to use the cats’ stamina to win. After Eileen questioned whether the team could score enough, Olivia used a Wonder to energize Cat Lisi and Cat Xilia, leaving the team ready to compete.

• Jiang Han complained that she and the others had arrived too early, while Eileen reminded Olivia that she had insisted on coming at noon.
• Olivia outlined her strategy of starting with the Wave Course and saving energy for the harder Forest Course, with Sha'er Lamp taking turns resting in human form.
• Eileen praised the plan but asked whether Olivia could make up for Cat Lisi and Cat Xilia’s poor condition, and Jiang Han warned that all three cats needed to contribute.
• Olivia pulled out the Power of Cat Claws Wonder and injected Cat Lisi’s tail with its leyline energy recharge agent.
• After Cat Lisi became lively, Olivia injected Cat Xilia, who said she felt like she was buzzing.

Olivia and the Cat Lamps chose an ultra-long-term strategy for Cat Golf, while Jiang Han and Eileen spent time testing games and discussing why Eileen planned to reject every demo. Olivia and Eileen collected the match’s starting pocket watch, and the story left them about to begin the timed competition with two referees aboard.

• Olivia assigned the Cat Lamps their tasks and announced that their strategy was to fight an ultra-long-term battle.
• Jiang Han asked Eileen why she had joined the trip, and Eileen said she wanted to come because Jiang Han was there.
• Jiang Han and Eileen tested game demos, and Eileen decided to reject the entire batch because none seemed worth investing in.
• Olivia and Eileen collected the pocket watch that would start their Cat Golf match, accompanied by a referee Cat Lamp and a referee Witch.
• Eileen prepared to drive the Griffin Carriage to the first teeing point as the two referees recognized Meow Yi Ao.

Jiang Han rode with Eileen and Olivia to the first stop of their golf outing, reflecting on the valuable land Eileen had given her. Eileen explained that she admired Jiang Han’s talent, honesty, ties to the Cat Lamps, and devotion to family, and they arrived at the first tee.

• The witch referee suggested that Eileen’s team start at Wave Cat Golf Course and explained the route and Cat Lamp rest station.
• Jiang Han considered how valuable her land near Snow Phoebe Lake was and wondered why Eileen had given it to her.
• Eileen told Jiang Han she valued her honesty, talent, Cat Lamp connections, and devotion to family, which made her reliable.
• Olivia pressed against Jiang Han as Eileen joked that Jiang Han was talented, reliable, and easy to keep in hand.
• The group arrived at the first tee, and Olivia glided out of the Griffin Carriage to begin the game.

Jiang Han and her companions arrived at a Cat Golf course, where Eileen reunited with Mimyas and met Hildenet, a Witch and author who had supported her claim to rule. The reunion grew tense when Hildenet and Olivia exchanged barbs, and Olivia joined Jiang Han as her golf partner.

• Jiang Han and her companions reached the seaside Cat Golf course and watched a Persian Cat Lamp send its opening shot near the green.
• Eileen greeted Mimyas, then introduced Hildenet as the author of several books about Witch evolution and disease.
• Hildenet praised Eileen as her sovereign, and Mimyas revealed that Hildenet's first article had defended Eileen's claim to rule the world.
• Hildenet acknowledged that she had backed Eileen early and criticized Olivia, who was present in a black dress and veil.
• Olivia and Hildenet traded pointed remarks about Olivia's defeat, and Olivia took Jiang Han's hand and agreed to partner with her for Cat Golf.

Ovi’s team and Hildenet’s team battled through the sixth Cat Golf hole as Jiang Han and Eileen discussed a new magazine and the value of useful connections. The match remained close, and Jiang Han wondered whether Eileen valued her in the same way she valued Hildenet.

• Ovi’s team held an eight-to-six lead, but Sleeping Cat Lamp’s crucial shot struck Cat Ridge’s club instead of going into the hole.
• Eileen told Jiang Han she planned to launch a weekly magazine and invited witches, including Sha’er, to submit work.
• Hildenet complained that she had not been paid and was running out of money for alcohol, so Eileen gave her an expensive Cat Cup and offered to help with her payment.
• Eileen explained that lasting relationships were built on mutual interests and said Hildenet was worth supporting as an outstanding author.
• Jiang Han asked whether Eileen valued her too, and Eileen said she did.