Recaps

Ovi's team lost its lead when Cat Milo's spectacular shot tied the Cat Golf score at 9:9. At the rest station, Hildenet recognized Jiang Han as a Witch known for finding Giant Cat partners.

• Hildenet's team used an extra-time thinking card before choosing Cat Milo to take its shot.
• Cat Milo launched the ball onto Cat Ridge with a powerful, electrically charged strike, earning a cat-bird ball and tying the score at 9:9.
• Eileen ordered premium meals for the Witches and Giant Cat Lamps at the rest station's Foxfolk Tavern.
• Hildenet excitedly recognized Jiang Han and asked if she was the Witch who could find Giant Cat partners.
• Jiang Han said she had a special talent for contacting Giant Cats.

Jiang Han explained how witches could apply to partner with a Giant Cat Lamp and checked Hill's reputation, finding her eligible for the waiting queue. After Hill offered Jiang Han a complete collection of her books, Jiang Han agreed in principle to let her meet the giant cats early.

• Jiang Han told Hill that she could review witches and arrange partnership interviews, but could not simply guarantee someone a Giant Cat Lamp.
• Hill asked whether she could partner with a Giant Cat Lamp, and Jiang Han checked her profile in the cats' witch-opinion app.
• Jiang Han found Hill had a 7.6 rating and a reliable reputation, so she added Hill to the waiting queue.
• Hill asked Jiang Han if there was a way to move faster because she and her best friend wanted a giant cat to cuddle while watching movies.
• Hill offered Jiang Han a complete collection of her books, and Jiang Han agreed in principle to give Hill early contact with the giant cats.

As the thirty-first Cat Hole resumed under a bright moon, Jiang Han relaxed in the Griffin Carriage while Eileen joined her, and the two talked about family, books, and education. Eileen admitted she had loved someone before but refused to say who, leaving Jiang Han curious beneath the starry sky.

• The Giant Cats resumed the match at a difficult long Cat Hole while Jiang Han settled into the Griffin Carriage for the night.
• Eileen joined Jiang Han in the carriage, and they joked about their ages and Jiang Han’s absent-minded care of Cleya.
• Jiang Han showed Eileen the signed, gilt-edged books Hildenet had given her, and Eileen explained that On Governance had been written to secure funding and a library named after Hildenet.
• Eileen offered Jiang Han the chance to earn a genuine World Tree University diploma at Theseus Academy’s Snow Phoebe Lake branch.
• Jiang Han asked whether Eileen had ever loved someone, and Eileen said yes but evaded the question of who it was.

Jiang Han woke up in the Griffin Carriage and tried to get Ovi ready to play golf, but Ovi would not get out of bed. After Jiang Han used Sha'er Lamp to wake her, Ovi grabbed Jiang Han and lifted her into the air.

• Jiang Han woke to the car’s alarms and greeted Eileen and the referee Witch as they slowly got up.
• Jiang Han washed and bathed while Ovi, Vera Lamp, and Sha'er Lamp continued sleeping.
• Jiang Han tried calling to Ovi and scratching her chin, but Ovi remained asleep.
• Jiang Han lifted Sha'er Lamp and dropped the sleeping cat onto Ovi’s stomach to wake her.
• Ovi grabbed Jiang Han beneath the arms and lifted her up while Sha'er Lamp perched on her head.

Jiang Han cooked fish noodles for Olivia while the two discussed their team’s five-point deficit in Cat Golf. Olivia proposed using the Panda Lamp’s secret art to turn the match around, and Jiang Han discovered that it meant getting the opposing giant cat drunk.

• Jiang Han prepared fish noodles without using magic while Olivia waited for breakfast.
• Olivia ate the noodles and told Jiang Han that their team trailed by five points in Cat Golf.
• Olivia announced that the Panda Lamp’s Panda Secret Art would help them catch up.
• At the tee-off point, Jiang Han saw Cat Lisi making the opposing team’s giant cat drink super cat baijiu and realized the secret art was getting their opponent drunk.

After the Wave Cat Golf Course championship, Jiang Han joined Olivia and Hildenet at the desert course to watch the final match, where Olivia became upset over Sha'er Lamp's bad shot. Olivia told Jiang Han she would attend the Giant Cat Representative Conference, which began in two days, as a Giant Cat who could communicate with witches.

• Jiang Han watched the Champion Meow Invitational and received a signature and gemstone statue souvenir from the legendary Giant Cat Mao Mao Erta.
• Jiang Han entered the Sand Sea Cat Golf Course with Hildenet and the Wave Cat Golf Course team, whose two teams had fallen too far behind to earn a ranking.
• Olivia returned from scouting the course, angry because Sha'er Lamp had hit the ball into the sand and lost two points.
• Jiang Han read Hildenet's books while Olivia told her that the Giant Cat Representative Conference began the day after tomorrow and that she would attend as a Giant Cat capable of communicating with witches.
• Jiang Han agreed to attend the conference.

Jiang Han traveled to Chen Ligu’s office after receiving an urgent message and discovered the Witch Market’s conveniences along the way. She arrived to find Chen Ligu and the office witches struggling to catch a flock of flaming chickens.

• Jiang Han took a Griffin Carriage to Chen Ligu’s office, where the driver explained that Chicken Parking Towers now served every district.
• Jiang Han saw two witches use a Leave Machine to apply for paid leave and draw a prize.
• Jiang Han noticed a Giant Cat Lamp running a steam-cleaning shop in the office building and considered creating an app to help Cat Lamps share business advice.
• Jiang Han reached the fifth floor and knocked on Chen Ligu’s office door.
• Chen Ligu opened the door in protective gear and asked Jiang Han to help catch the flaming chickens causing chaos inside the office.

Jiang Han and the witches captured the rampaging, fire-producing turkeys that had wrecked the office, then learned Du Ningzhuang had created them while using nightmares to power a space-expansion machine. Du Ningzhuang revealed that Jiang Han was expected to help clean up the nightmares.

• Jiang Han and Chen Ligu led the witches in capturing the turkeys as the birds set fire to geese and paperwork and bombed the office with eggs.
• Du Ningzhuang collected black glass shards from defeated turkeys while the witches spent over two hours restoring the damaged office.
• Chen Ligu arranged steam cleaning, meals, and pay and leave bonuses before ordering the staff to repair the office and reconstruct lost documents.
• Jiang Han followed Chen Ligu to Gu Bao's private office, where Du Ningzhuang and Chu Yujun were killing more turkeys beside a machine.
• Du Ningzhuang explained that her machine converted nightmares into power to expand a folding-space fragment, but it had manifested nightmare creatures, including the turkey flock.
• Du Ningzhuang told Jiang Han that she understood she would have to enter the machine and help clean up the nightmares.

Du Ningzhuang demonstrated that nightmare crystals could be used to summon real food, then explained that her spatial expansion was growing by drawing in witches’ nightmares. Jiang Han learned that state affairs officers were already helping investigate, and Du Ningzhuang asked for her help resolving the situation.

• Du Ningzhuang used nightmare crystals and a burger card to summon a burger, astonishing Jiang Han.
• Du Ningzhuang claimed her spell [Wish Come True] revealed that the witch world was redundant code that could be exchanged using nightmare energy.
• Jiang Han realized Du Ningzhuang had independently reached an insight Anjie had achieved, then ate the summoned burger.
• Jiang Han offered to find powerful witches to handle Du Ningzhuang’s situation, but Du Ningzhuang said the spatial expansion was successful and needed to be studied.
• Du Ningzhuang explained that the expansion was drawing in witches’ nightmares and that state affairs officers were already assisting her and Gu Bao.

Jiang Han met Qiao Rou, the Witch Agency affairs officer assigned to accompany the group during their exploration of a Level-Two Malicious Folded Space. The group agreed to limited documentation and interference, leaving Qiao Rou to consider their conditions as the expedition approached.

• Jiang Han recognized Qiao Rou at the reception desk, and Qiao Rou explained that she worked an easy, part-time job for the Witch Agency.
• Qiao Rou formally asked Chen Ligu to consent to her recording and accompanying the group’s exploration, and Chen Ligu agreed.
• Chu Yujun bluntly agreed to the procedures, while Jiang Han argued that the Agency’s interference and documentation should be limited.
• Chen Ligu invoked Jiang Han’s position and Du Ningzhuang’s lack of objection to argue against full documentation, prompting Du Ningzhuang to notice the wording.
• Qiao Rou said she would consider their suggestions and offer hints when she could not state her position directly.

The witches prepared protected liquid-doll bodies for an exploration combining a real folded space with a nightmare space. As the dolls were tuned, Lin Qiang explained the Witch Agency’s resurrection technology and hinted at Jiang Han’s immense magical power; the group was about to enter the combined space.

• Chen Ligu stopped Jiang Han from entering a liquid doll before explaining that it would copy her body, and Du Ningzhuang showed how the protective suit adjusted to different heights and builds.
• Qiao Rou, Chu Yujun, and Chen Ligu transferred their spiritual bodies into their prepared dolls while Du Ningzhuang, Li Yun, and Lin Qiang supported the exploration.
• Li Yun compared the dolls’ return-to-body function to demons’ rebirth in the Abyss, and Lin Qiang explained that the Witch Agency had developed similar technology.
• Du Ningzhuang said Jiang Han’s doll was taking longer to prepare because her magic power had grown stronger, and Lin Qiang described Jiang Han’s power as exceptionally high quality.
• Li Yun finished calibrating the equipment, and Lin Qiang told them to put the dolls into the nightmare space for tuning before the exploration began.

Jiang Han and three witches entered a vast nightmare space in puppet bodies to destroy its high-energy units and help the folded space grow. Li Yun briefed them on the mission and introduced the armed backup wands as force-field rotary cannons.

• Jiang Han woke at a canyon exit with Chen Ligu, Chu Yujun, and Qiao Rou, and discovered she could still use magic despite the puppet body and the space’s low magic supply.
• Chen Ligu explained that destroying the nightmare’s core device would make the folded space wake up and become a small world with an ecosystem.
• Lin Qiang warned the witches that their puppet bodies would cost 3,599 yuan each to replace and asked Li Yun to brief them.
• Li Yun said the mission’s primary objective was to destroy high-energy units whose collapse would nourish the folded space.
• Chen Ligu opened the equipment crate, revealing Alice’s Dreamland Company force-field rotary machine cannons that fired 150 rounds per second.

Jiang Han and the other witches entered a nightmare that manifested as a numb, neon-lit city ruled by endless overtime. As they prepared to face its hostile creatures, an evil being resembling Angelite appeared and accused them of not working.

• Jiang Han and the other witches equipped their weapons and discussed the limits of transporting magic ammunition between worlds.
• An air-raid siren sounded, the surroundings went dark, and Li Yun warned that the nightmare's consciousness had noticed them.
• The darkness gave way to a neon-lit street filled with numb female lifeforms and a broadcast threatening employees with more overtime.
• Chen Ligu protested the nightmare's cruel overtime rules, while Jiang Han noticed a billboard announcing that alcohol service was suspended.
• Li Yun warned the witches of an approaching hostile creature, and an evil being resembling Angelite appeared, dragging a safe and accusing them of not working.

Jiang Han and the other witches fought Nightmare Anjie and waves of nightmare creatures, then faced nightmare manifestations of Greed Eileen and Blind Alesha. As the new enemies’ power threatened to crush them, flames whisked the witches away, leaving the nightmare creatures to complain about the destruction and threaten to make them pay.

• Nightmare Anjie emerged from a safe surrounded by human-faced centipedes, and Jiang Han opened fire while insisting that the creature was not the real Anjie.
• Qiao Rou, Chen Ligu, and Chu Yujun joined Jiang Han in attacking the nightmare, while Lin Qiang warned them not to believe or argue with its words.
• Two centipede-like trains released hordes of nightmare creatures, and the four witches used Fireball Spell ammunition to destroy them.
• Li Yun warned that two more nightmare progenitors had appeared: Greed Eileen and Blind Alesha, whose presence restored the nightmare and filled the witches with dread.
• A burst of flames enveloped the four witches and transported them away as Nightmare Anjie and Greed Eileen complained about the damage and threatened to squeeze them for money.

Jiang Han and the other witches were rescued from a nightmare by an undiscovered breed of Nightmare Cat Lamps, which offered to help them fight nightmare monsters in exchange for sixty percent of the nightmare energy. The witches began documenting the breed and its abilities while considering the proposed partnership.

• Jiang Han and the other three witches arrived in a strange void, where Miss Lin Qiang explained that they had been transferred to another dimension and their doll bodies remained intact.
• Nightmare Cat Lamps emerged from a hut, revealed that they had saved the witches, and demanded sixty percent of the nightmare energy in exchange for helping them.
• Jiang Han negotiated to record the Nightmare Cat Lamps in the Cat Lamp Handbook, and the Nightmare Cat Lamp readily agreed because registration could bring access to the Cat Lamp Market and witch funding.
• With Chen Ligu's help, Jiang Han recorded the Nightmare Cat Lamps' breath attack, ability to unite into a giant form, and morale talent against much larger enemy forces.
• The chapter described several powerful Cat Lamp talents, including Bully the Weak, Cat Paw Strike, and Storm Shine.

Jiang Han negotiated the Nightmare Cat Lamps’ share of the spoils with Qiao Rou and learned that the cats could provide magic power and had emerged from the nightmare during a duel between Eileen and Anjie. The cats also explained that the nightmare gift packs borrowed popular figures’ appearances, leaving Jiang Han outraged that A Lin had lost out in popularity.

• Qiao Rou outlined the Witch Agency’s four tiers for distributing spoils, and Jiang Han translated as the Nightmare Cat Lamps argued over their share.
• Jiang Han persuaded the Nightmare Cat Lamps to accept the witches’ terms and then restated Lin Qiang’s requests for their help.
• The Nightmare Cat Lamps said they could provide about five hundred points of magic power per person, though doing so consumed nightmare energy they needed to grow and evolve.
• The Nightmare Cat Lamps recalled being born from extraterrestrial creatures’ fears of Eileen and Anjie during their duel in the nightmare.
• The Nightmare Cat Lamps explained that the gift packs took popular figures’ appearances because of their current popularity, prompting Jiang Han to protest that A Lin should have been more popular.

Jiang Han and the other Witches learned that Tomorrow Hope City’s nightmare creatures had built an organized society that processed nightmares into energy. The Nightmare Cat Lamp proposed destroying the Underground Labor Facility to weaken the city’s defenses and free creatures who could help the Witches.

• The Nightmare Cat Lamp showed Jiang Han, Chu Yujun, Lin Qiang, and Chen Ligu the city and explained that three powerful nightmare entities ruled it.
• The Nightmare Cat Lamp used a kin’s eyes to scout a factory, where workers processed black nightmare slimes into energy.
• The Nightmare Cat Lamp revealed that the three leaders planned to gather energy, create ten thousand collective nightmare entities, and explore folded nightmares.
• The Nightmare Cat Lamp recommended attacking the Underground Labor Facility, whose energy powered the city’s defenses, and using freed creatures to make more Nightmare Cat Lamps.

Jiang Han and Chen Ligu infiltrated Tomorrow Hope City's underground workhouse by riding a nightmare train, disguising themselves with cloaks and Nightmare Cat Lamps. They waited underground for Chu Yujun and Qiao Rou to begin their surface diversion.

• The witches approved an infiltration plan that sent Jiang Han and Chen Ligu underground while Chu Yujun and Qiao Rou caused a distraction aboveground.
• Jiang Han and Chen Ligu climbed onto a nightmare train and used scrolls to conceal and protect themselves.
• Jiang Han explained that her doll body could not withstand even one percent of her magic power, and Chen Ligu described the Agency's more capable but costly Model 95.
• Jiang Han and Chen Ligu entered the underground workhouse, defeated the two guards, and took their cloaks.
• Two Nightmare Cat Lamps hid inside the cloaks to disguise the witches, who waited for Chu Yujun and the others to start their diversion.

Jiang Han and Chen Ligu infiltrated an underground labor facility disguised as nightmare creatures, where Jiang Han killed a guard and her Cat Lamp turned the corpse into nightmare coins. Jiang Han then glimpsed two vague scenes through inspiration, and a huge explosion and alarms interrupted their progress.

• A nightmare boarman stopped Jiang Han and Chen Ligu for being late and demanded that they write a report.
• Jiang Han shot the boarman, and her nightmare Cat Lamp consumed the corpse and produced two nightmare coins.
• Jiang Han used a coin to create a loaded magazine and glimpsed two mysterious scenes through inspiration.
• Chen Ligu warned Jiang Han not to let her vague inspirations consume too much of her attention.
• Jiang Han and Chen Ligu entered the underground labor facility, where a tremendous boom and alarms sounded aboveground.

Lin Qiang explained how nightmare crystals could be eaten to generate energy for destruction, and Jiang Han and Chen Ligu prepared to use the method inside the underground labor camp. After swallowing a nightmare coin, Jiang Han discovered that she could release its electricity by smashing into the floor and eyed the factory below.

• Lin Qiang explained over the communications channel that eating a nightmare crystal let someone gather its energy and unleash it in a destructive breath.
• Chen Ligu calmed Jiang Han by rubbing her tail and scratching her chin, then joined her in preparing to cause destruction.
• A Nightmare Cat Lamp swallowed a nightmare coin and demonstrated that it gained a surge of energy.
• Jiang Han swallowed a nightmare coin, felt its energy transform into electricity, and figured out how to release it by smashing into the floor.
• Jiang Han watched the operating factory below and prepared to test her attack, insisting that she had no bad intentions.

Jiang Han destroyed the Underground Labor Facility with a massive electrical attack, leaving the Witches to continue sabotaging the nightmare creatures’ power supply. Chen Ligu noticed Jiang Han had entered Cat Lamp charging mode and told her to expend her stored leyline energy before they went aboveground.

• Jiang Han wrapped herself in Nightmare Cat Lamps and dove from the ventilation duct into the facility’s assembly line.
• Jiang Han unleashed a powerful electrical surge that killed nearby nightmare creatures and disabled the facility’s lights.
• Chen Ligu landed beside Jiang Han and told Du Ningzhuang over the comms to destroy the backup power while the others distracted three nightmare creatures.
• Chen Ligu warned Jiang Han to keep quiet because the nightmare creatures might be monitoring their communications.
• Chen Ligu pointed out that Jiang Han’s ears were glowing, and Jiang Han realized she had entered Cat Lamp charging mode.
• Chen Ligu told Jiang Han to use up the leyline energy inside her before going aboveground and exposing herself.

Jiang Han and Chen Ligu fought their way to the fourth floor of the underground labor complex, where they confronted the nightmare operation refining nightmare energy. Jiang Han’s puppet body neared collapse as the battle continued, while an appended excerpt from Juliet discussed Cat Lamp rumors.

• The Nightmare Cat Lamp said the fourth floor was the complex’s final level and that Ansha had hidden precious things in its offices.
• Jiang Han warned that her body could no longer withstand her power, then led the group onto the fourth floor and killed a Nightmare Tax Officer.
• Jiang Han used Cat’s Courage to rally the Nightmare Cat Lamps, who charged the laborers and tax officers but struggled to make progress.
• Jiang Han told Chen Ligu that her puppet body was beginning to collapse and that she was saving her true body’s magic for a critical moment.
• Juliet’s excerpt debunked the rumor that Cat Lamps slept fourteen hours a day, claiming they slept ten hours after spending their time on social gatherings and other activities.

Jiang Han and Chen Ligu advanced through the factory as Nightmare Cat Lamps overwhelmed the nightmare laborers and broke into Nightmare Anjie's office. While they searched the office for valuables, Chen Ligu teased Jiang Han about a saying concerning older witches, leaving Jiang Han to suspect she had heard everything.

• Cat Bo led the Nightmare Cat Lamps in driving the nightmare laborers back and capturing the smelting-furnace area.
• Jiang Han conserved her battered body by slacking off while the Cat Lamps fought, and Chen Ligu dodged a Cat Lamp that was flung across the battlefield before watching it return healed.
• A Nightmare Cat Lamp smashed open the office door and cleared the creatures inside, showing off the Cat Lamps' intermediate form.
• Jiang Han and Chen Ligu entered Nightmare Anjie's luxurious office and began searching its bookshelves for valuables.
• Chen Ligu teased Jiang Han with a saying about older witches leaving younger ones emotionally devastated, and Jiang Han asked whether Chen Ligu had heard everything.

Jiang Han agreed to let Cat Bo’s Nightmare Cat Lamps dismantle and take the smelting furnace after confirming it would not make residents fall into nightmares. She asked Chen Ligu to help conceal the haul from the Witch Agency so she could keep the furnace and materials for study.

• Jiang Han questioned Cat Bo about the Cat Lamps’ destruction of Tomorrow Hope City’s core district and learned they planned to take the smelting furnace back to Giant Cat Island.
• Jiang Han asked whether the furnace could make Witches, witchlings, or Cat Lamps fall into nightmares, and Cat Bo said it could be limited to avoid affecting them.
• Jiang Han agreed to let Cat Bo’s Cat Lamps dismantle the furnace and carry it home.
• Chen Ligu warned that a haul of this scale would need to be reported to the Witch Agency, so Jiang Han asked her for help keeping the furnace and supplies.
• Chen Ligu agreed to classify the supplies as privately seized spoils handled internally by Jiang Han’s territory, and Jiang Han thanked her.

Jiang Han and Chen Ligu joined Chu Yujun and Qiao Rou after helping the Nightmare Cat Lamps destroy the furnace and collapse the underground region. Jiang Han struck down Nightmare Anjie, but Anjie revived from a safe with a changed face, leaving the group facing the challenge of destroying the entire city at once.

• The Nightmare Cat Lamps compressed the furnace into a nightmare sphere and removed it, causing the region to collapse.
• Jiang Han froze the collapsing space with the Eternal Ice Eye, damaging her body, and Chen Ligu reshaped the underground passage so they could reach the surface.
• Jiang Han, Chen Ligu, and Cat Bo learned that Chu Yujun and Qiao Rou were being hunted by three nightmare consciousness aggregates and followed a Nightmare Cat Lamp to them.
• Jiang Han hurled an ice lance through Nightmare Anjie, apparently killing her, but a new Anjie emerged unharmed from a safe after a nearby skyscraper collapsed.
• Chu Yujun explained that Anjie could revive and that they needed enough power to destroy the entire city at once.