Recaps

Jiang Han and Li Li explored an undefended Anse Elf settlement, gathering plants and using the Disguise Orb to identify their properties. Jiang Han explained the Anse Elves’ unusual physiology, and the exploration continued as the Giant Cat Lamp collected fruit and bark.

• Jiang Han directed the Giant Cat Lamp to uproot evil-repelling flowers, while she and the witches gathered resources from the settlement.
• Li Li used the Disguise Orb to identify Guya Root and learned that it could disrupt the Anse Elves’ vitality circulation.
• Jiang Han explained that Anse Elves had three hearts, dense muscles, and blood vessels connecting their hearts.
• Li Li asked about Anse Elves’ spines, and Jiang Han explained that their hearts produced magical essence in place of the witches’ spines.

Jiang Han and Lilian looted the Anse Elves’ territory, collecting magical plants and capturing Clockwork Cats. They encountered a group of Cat Dollfolk, and Jiang Han prepared to question them with a rainbow-colored sack.

• Jiang Han and Lilian roasted sausages with wheat bread powder while their Giant Cat Lamps helped gather leyline-grown wheat.
• Jiang Han and Lilian divided up golden fruits that could increase magic power, with Jiang Han storing her share to trade for Witch Gold.
• Jiang Han found a village of Clockwork Cats and ordered the Oni Dragon Giant Cat Lamp to capture them all.
• A Cat Dollfolk girl named Fayaya scolded Jiang Han for bullying cats, then realized Jiang Han was a Witch.
• Jiang Han surrounded the Cat Dollfolk with her Giant Cat Lamps and asked what color sack they liked.

Jiang Han captured a group of Cat Dollfolk and questioned their leader, Fayaya, about how they lived alongside wild cats. She learned the Anse Elves had mistreated the Cat Dollfolk, but the group could make sweet crystals to trade with cats.

• Jiang Han and Li Li watched giant cats capture the Cat Dollfolk, and Jiang Han warned the cats to keep them alive.
• Jiang Han released Fayaya from a sack and threatened her companions to make her cooperate.
• Jiang Han used magic to identify the Cat Dollfolk and discovered that the Anse Elves had stunted their growth and forced them to live by night.
• Jiang Han ordered the giant cats to release Fayaya's companions and keep them under watch as they guided the cats to valuable resources.
• Fayaya explained that the Cat Dollfolk made sweet crystals from plants for cats in exchange for goods.

Jiang Han learned about the Cat Dollfolk’s dependence on the Anse Elves and their Clockwork Cat Knights while gathering Clockwork Cats. By paying Fayaya and explaining witch currency and employment, Jiang Han won her trust and left her eager to join the witch system.

• Jiang Han learned that the Anse Elves had sheltered the Cat Dollfolk and helped their population grow, though the race remained economically dependent on them.
• Fayaya explained that Clockwork Cat Knights gained rune-like powers by strengthening their Clockwork Cats, which had the courage to fight much larger creatures.
• Jiang Han questioned Fayaya about Clockwork Cats and learned that they had high morale but were lazy on two days each week unless contracted as partners.
• While collecting Clockwork Cats, Jiang Han paid Fayaya Witch Gold and explained how witches used currency, earning her growing trust.
• Fayaya became eager to join the witch system and asked about buying clothes and employing Cat Lamps; Jiang Han told her Cat Lamps could generally be hired for food and drink.

Jiang Han rescued Elifia from the snow and learned that Yu Yuxin, Song Ying’s group, and a colleague were fighting a mutated monster caused by a Witch’s Disease leak. She set out with Elifia and the giant cats to investigate.

• Jiang Han questioned Fayaya about the Cat Dollfolk’s unusually large food and water needs while the Giant Cat Lamp cleared a path through the snow.
• Elifia fell out of the snow after using a Hat Escape Spell, and Jiang Han pulled her free and warmed and cleaned her with magic.
• Elifia explained that she had used the spell after forgetting what she was doing while reading a comic, then told Jiang Han that Yu Yuxin and Song Ying’s group were fighting a mutated monster.
• Jiang Han asked Elifia to lead her to the monster, and the two giant cats eagerly prepared to go with them.

Elifia brought Jiang Han and the others to a battlefield where witches were holding back five minotaur girls created by inferior witchification. After the minotaurs battered a giant cat, Jiang Han entered the fight and demonstrated that she could overpower them.

• Elifia transformed trees into a pumpkin-drawn car and flew with Jiang Han, Li Li, the Cat Dollfolk, and two giant cats toward the battlefield.
• Elifia explained that Bonnie and Ma Yeling had held off a dangerous monster, and the group arrived to find witches containing five minotaur girls behind a repulsion barrier.
• The minotaurs struck the Flame Dragon Giant Cat Lamp with an axe and pummeled it, while the other giant cat pretended to be injured.
• Jiang Han asked the witches to open the barrier, taunted the minotaurs in Anse Elves, and drew their attack away from Ma Yeling and Bonnie.
• A minotaur's axe broke a rib in Jiang Han's left waist, but Jiang Han grabbed two minotaurs by their horns, smashed their heads together, and tossed them aside.

Jiang Han subdued the minotaur girls and decided to test their resistance to Witch Disease by exposing the strongest survivor to highly concentrated Witch Blood. She left the minotaur to endure the transformation, hoping she would survive and reveal more about her species.

• Jiang Han defeated the minotaur girls, and the witches entered to find that five of the six had undergone inferior witchification.
• Jiang Han ordered Li Li to heal the minotaurs and agreed with Elifia that their apparent resistance could be valuable to the Witch Agency.
• Jiang Han rejected the strongest minotaur girl's request and dripped Witch Blood containing a virus concentration three thousand times stronger into her eyes.
• Elifia warned that the minotaur might not survive the exposure, but Jiang Han said there were four more chances.
• Jiang Han told the suffering minotaur that she could become a true witch or die, and said they could talk if she endured.

Jiang Han explained the value of the City of An’s coordinates to Fayaya and Dolly Lily, then reported the discovery to the Witch Agency. The Agency approved a reward of about three million Witch Gold, which Jiang Han calculated would cover the Cat Dollfolk’s basic needs.

• Jiang Han told Fayaya and Dolly Lily that the City of An’s information could earn roughly three million Witch Gold after taxes.
• Dolly Lily fainted after Jiang Han converted the reward into Anse gold pounds and white coins.
• Jiang Han reported the City of An to the Witch Agency, whose administrators issued approval documents despite the distance.
• Jiang Han estimated that the reward would give each of the 5,600 Cat Dollfolk about five hundred Witch Gold, enough for basic housing and supplies.

Jiang Han’s extremely concentrated witch blood transformed the minotaur test subject into Luowa, who attacked her in a rage. Jiang Han subdued Luowa with magic, punished her, and then ordered some golden wine shared with her before the group prepared to return.

• Li Li assumed the minotaur girl had died during witchification, but the girl transformed into a minotaur witch and destroyed the Oni Dragon Giant Cat Lamp.
• Jiang Han introduced herself to the newly transformed witch, who called herself Luowa and attacked her with powerful physical blows.
• Jiang Han used Temporary Banishment to survive Luowa’s attacks, then restrained her and explained that she needed to learn magic.
• Jiang Han burned Luowa with Flame Shroud, gave her fire resistance, and told Li Li to share some spare golden wine with her before they headed back.

Angelite arrived in the wilderness after being delayed by the Anse Elves, then questioned the minotaur Witch Luowa about her people’s resistance to witch sickness and magic. Luowa agreed to share information about her tribe’s plane in exchange for support for her five sisters, and Jiang Han promised to arrange a price.

• Jiang Han asked whether the Anse Elves had fallen, and Angelite explained that her incarnation, the Lord of Azure Thunder, had kept her occupied.
• Angelite asked Jiang Han for an introduction to an incomparable Giant Cat so she could obtain a Cat Lamp like Ovi Cat’s.
• The witches unpacked their Cat Dollfolk and Clockwork Cats while the Cat Spiders began their return journey, and Ma Yeling hired Cat Dollfolk and Clockwork Cats.
• Angelite questioned Luowa about how minotaurs resisted witch sickness and magic power through their innate physique and training.
• Luowa asked what would happen to her former companions, and Angelite said they would undergo inferior witch transformation and receive care.
• Luowa offered to share information about the plane where her tribe’s other minotaurs lived, provided her five sisters’ future needs were paid for, and Jiang Han agreed to arrange compensation.

Angelite commended Jiang Han and her companions, explaining that the main reward recognized their discovery of the Giant-Horn Witches’ resistance to witch disease. The group received a cash award and spells, while Jiang Han gained priority hiring rights for the Cat Dollfolk, pending an agreement with them.

• Angelite rode in a cargo container carried by a Cat Spider and inferred that the creature had been modified through genetic splicing and hormonal stimulation.
• Ma Yeling joined Angelite outside the container, performed a curtsy, and kissed her hand before Jiang Han sent the witches away to let Angelite rest.
• Jiang Han pinched Angelite’s cheeks for luck, and Angelite tugged her cat ears in retaliation.
• Angelite explained that the Witch Agency’s commendation primarily honored the discovery that Giant-Horn Witches could resist witch disease and replenish the witch population.
• Angelite awarded Jiang Han and her companions fifty thousand in cash and two fourth-level and three third-level spells each.
• Angelite told Jiang Han that she had priority hiring rights for the Cat Dollfolk, but would need to negotiate with them first.

Angelite assigned Jiang Han a secret transport mission after explaining how Eleanor had asked her to give a Servitor a dangerous assignment in exchange for a Witch transformation. The Servitor had survived planting an Arcane Nuclear Bomb behind enemy lines, so Angelite needed to arrange its return despite hoping Jiang Han's convoy would quit the job.

• Angelite told Jiang Han to give her transport convoy two days off and made her swear a secrecy oath before revealing a secret mission.
• Two days earlier, Eleanor admitted she had promised the same Witch slot to two different people and asked Angelite to help resolve the problem.
• Eleanor asked Angelite to give her Servitor a dangerous mission, promise it a Witch transformation, and offer it a bonus and honors.
• Angelite sent the Servitor behind enemy lines to plant an Arcane Nuclear Bomb, but it succeeded and survived.
• Angelite decided to use a Giant Cat Lamp Witch's transport team to bring the Servitor back, expecting the team to quit and accepting a fine of 1,000.

Angelite asked Jiang Han to rescue Maronos from an exploded radiation zone inside Anse’s second-level city wall, and Jiang Han enthusiastically accepted. After Angelite left to relieve Lord of Azure Thunder on the main battlefield, Jiang Han decided to call for reinforcements.

• Angelite gave Jiang Han a secret mission to find and rescue the fallen angel servant-army member Maronos from an exploded radiation zone in Anse.
• Angelite hinted that Jiang Han should bring more Cat Lamps, while imagining how their convoy might delay the rescue and excuse Maronos’s death.
• Jiang Han misread Angelite’s motives but confidently agreed to complete the mission with extra cats.
• Angelite left to replace Lord of Azure Thunder, who was being kited by Anse’s twin Ranger princesses.
• Jiang Han called for reinforcements to help with Angelite’s mission.

Maronos, a fallen angel working for the witches, survived the radioactive wasteland after destroying Anse No. 6 Arsenal with an arcane nuclear bomb. Worried that the witches might not reach her, she prepared to create another opportunity for them.

• Anse servant troops searched the ruined arsenal for the saboteur while radiation mutated their bodies.
• Maronos hid nearby, relying on witch-made sunscreen as radiation crystallized her feathers.
• She recalled how she had smuggled an arcane nuclear bomb through the second city wall and destroyed Anse No. 6 Arsenal.
• Maronos worried that the witches would be stopped on the nearby battlefield and searched for her map and a stolen Anse Magic Essence Nuclear Bomb.
• Maronos decided she had to create an opportunity for the witches herself.

At Moon Bay Camp, Jiang Han rested with the witches after dividing their spoils and considered Angelite's mission to rescue someone while sending more giant cats. As the group discussed their plans and the witches’ ambitions, Cat Yeta messaged Jiang Han.

• Jiang Han weighed the dangers of Angelite’s rescue request and wondered why Angelite had also demanded more giant cats.
• The Fox Witch told Jiang Han that the arrangements were complete, the Mail Witch would visit before their departure, and the Cat Dollfolk wanted to use the camp while they were away.
• Jiang Han offered the Cat Dollfolk free use of the camp, prompting Bonnie and the other witches to tease her about having a hidden motive.
• Li Li reported that most witches were content with their earnings, while a few hoped to gather enough resources to become witches.
• Jiang Han’s phone vibrated with a message from Cat Yeta.

Jiang Han left a Witch Cards game to use a private summoning-and-communication rune, then contacted the Storm Giant Cat. The cat recognized her as Grand Lord Cat Lina and greeted her with extravagant flattery.

• Jiang Han admired Cat Yeta’s prosperous territory and exchanged intelligence with her through a communication rune used by Cat Lamps.
• Jiang Han told Elifia she was going to use a summoning-and-communication rune, and Elifia borrowed Jiang Han’s Cat Lamp deck.
• Elifia praised the Cat Lamp cards but lamented that the deck lacked a Sleeping Cat Lamp archetype, making Jiang Han angry.
• Jiang Han entered her private witch’s nest, activated a silence ward, and used her phone to open a magical communication link.
• A chubby Storm Giant Cat appeared through the link and addressed Jiang Han as Grand Lord Cat Lina.

Jiang Han finalized a contract hiring Doyastin and fourteen other Storm Giant Cats, then welcomed them to camp as allies. She and Doyastin agreed the cats would receive forty percent of battlefield spoils, leaving the group ready to join the coming fight.

• Jiang Han recorded the hiring fee for fifteen Storm Giant Cats and prepared copies of the reimbursement form for the Sovereign Palace and the Witch Agency archive.
• Jiang Han sent Li Li to mail the documents with instructions to request confirmation and return mail.
• Doyastin arrived at Jiang Han’s camp with a procession of armed Storm Giant Cats.
• Jiang Han agreed to give the Storm Giant Cats forty percent of the battlefield spoils, and Doyastin accepted.

Jiang Han watched Cat Lola defeat Luowa and assessed the battle-hardened Storm Giant Cat Cat Doyastin as a valuable recruit. After Cat Doyastin demonstrated her abilities and transformed into her Witch form, Jiang Han privately decided she wanted her on her side.

• Cat Lola defeated Luowa in a duel and won cat-tail maintenance oil.
• Jiang Han praised Cat Doyastin, who grew larger and happily ate stew while they talked.
• Cat Doyastin explained that she had developed Cat Lamp spells using thunderbird feather fibers and runes.
• At Jiang Han's request, Cat Doyastin flew into thunderclouds and transformed into a petite Witch with snow-white hair, large cat ears, and a fluffy tail.
• Jiang Han admired Cat Doyastin's abilities and privately resolved to recruit her.

Jiang Han brought Cat Doyastin to inspect the witches’ preparations for an imminent departure, while the battle-hardened Storm Giant Cat entertained them with stories of her long life. The witches showed their packed supplies and eagerly fussed over Cat Doyastin, and Jiang Han’s suggestion that a giant cat might favor them sent the Fox Witch rushing to join them.

• Jiang Han invited Cat Doyastin to accompany her as she checked how the witches were preparing to leave.
• Cat Doyastin told Jiang Han and the others about her travels, legendary wars, and encounters with great witches.
• Jiang Han and Cat Doyastin reached the witches’ dormitory, where Jiang Kewen worried that brewing Gurgle Potion Soup was not allowed.
• The witches brought out their packed backpacks for Cat Doyastin and the other giant cats to inspect, then petted Cat Doyastin’s fluffy hair.
• Li Li accused Jiang Han of implying that the Storm Giant Cats might form contracts with the witches, and Jiang Han said it was possible.
• The Fox Witch hurried over to explain the witches’ preparations to Cat Doyastin after Jiang Han suggested she might earn a giant cat’s favor.

Jiang Han briefed the witches and sorceresses on a secret mission from Lady Anjie to rescue Fallen Angel Maronos, who had destroyed an Anse arsenal and breached the second wall. The group finalized a plan to enter through the battlefield mines during Du Lingxuan’s artillery barrage and escape with support from Siwa Vini.

• Jiang Han told the witches and sorceresses that their mission was to rescue a Fallen Angel servant army member behind enemy lines.
• Jiang Han revealed that Maronos had detonated an arcane nuclear bomb in an Anse military-industrial zone, destroying an arsenal and breaching the second wall.
• The witches checked battlefield reports and learned that their forces had advanced rapidly, while Jiang Han noted that Lady Eleanor had benefited from the breach.
• Jiang Han explained that Du Lingxuan’s artillery regiment would disrupt the battlefield’s energy layers so the team could enter through underground mines and reach Maronos in the radiation zone.
• Jiang Han assigned Storm Giant Cat Lamp to lead the assault and planned to contact Archwitch Siwa Vini for a satellite-cannon escape route.

Jiang Han’s convoy reached a hidden cavern near the breach in Anse’s second city wall and began opening an underground route into the war zone. They rested and prepared to move on while Jiang Han kept watch for the planned meeting with Du Lingxuan.

• The convoy traveled quickly through the Ring Zone, though its crumbling roads and spoiled canned rations made the journey difficult.
• Mao Guola found a thick rock layer, and Jiang Han detected that spells had concealed a naturally formed cavern beneath it.
• Jiang Han explained that the star ring’s materials came from nearby otherworlds and asked Cat Doyastin to collect a sample of the unusually dense stone.
• Jiang Han ordered the Giant Cats to dig through the rock while the witches set up an underground fire pit and vented its smoke into a pool.
• The witches prepared resting places and shared safety advice with the less experienced witches as Jiang Han spread her magic to keep watch.

Jiang Han used the Mold Earth, Build Tower spell to create a sturdy road down the hidden cavern. She prepared the witches and Storm Giant Cats to open the mine tunnels and enter the radiation zone once the bombardment began.

• The Storm Giant Cats revealed a cavern they had dug and admitted it was at least two hundred and sixty meters deep.
• Jiang Han cast Mold Earth, Build Tower and shaped a winding road down the cavern, adding glowing cat-lamp statues along its guardrails.
• Jiang Han spent nearly six or seven thousand points of magic power to finish a broad, sturdy platform at the cavern’s bottom.
• Li Li tested the road with her pathfinding staff, and it held against the impact.
• The Storm Giant Cats climbed onto the road to test its strength, while Cat Doyastin secretly floated above it.
• Jiang Han told the witches to prepare for the giant cats to open the mine tunnels so they could enter the radiation zone after the bombardment began.

Du Lingxuan visited her artillery camp, where her clumsy jokes got her thrown out by artillery master Amanda, and she ran into Du Xianghe. The chapter ended with a massive explosion breaching Anse's Second Wall, though Du Lingxuan's artillery had not fired.

• Du Lingxuan tried to joke with Amanda about the bombardment in her room, and Amanda threw her out of the observation room.
• Du Lingxuan met Du Xianghe, who invited her for tea and billiards before remembering that her servant army still needed gathering tasks in Sea Abyss Valley.
• Du Lingxuan offered to lend Du Xianghe artillery, then let her hurry away without reminding her about the twenty-five thousand she owed for the observation room.
• Du Lingxuan reflected on the artillery camp's losses and headed downstairs after healing her leg.
• A blast erupted beyond Anse's Second Wall, tearing open a huge breach and alarming Du Lingxuan because her camp's artillery had not fired.

Jiang Han secretly scouted the mine exit, then used her enormous mana to keep an explosion from collapsing the tunnels. After recovering with help from Cat Doyastin, she ordered the witches to seize the opening and set out before the Anse Elves could react.

• Jiang Han used the Mist Immortal Giant Cat’s Dark Lake ability and silent-casting techniques to scout the exit without being detected by the Anse Elves’ gargoyles.
• A massive blast shook the mine, and Li Lanqi warned that its yield could bury the team.
• Jiang Han unleashed her Eternal Ice Eyes and reinforced the cavern with ice and mana until the tunnels stopped collapsing.
• Jiang Han repaired her injuries, while the Fox Witch wondered at her rapid recovery and Cat Doyastin used lightning-charged leyline energy to heal her further.
• Jiang Han called the explosion an opportunity, ordered the others to set out, and prepared to move before the Anse Elves could respond.

After Anse’s second city wall was struck by a devastating blast, Du Lingxuan enlisted Amanda to use her artillery expertise and demolish the wall with two arcane nuclear shells. Amanda agreed to prepare the shells for a bombardment in one hour, with Vernadna’s help.

• Du Lingxuan and Amanda watched three mushroom clouds rise behind the Anse Elves’ city wall, and Amanda praised the blast’s precision and destructive force.
• Du Lingxuan remembered that she owned two arcane nuclear shells, and Amanda eagerly asked to use them to destroy the wall.
• Du Lingxuan agreed to lend Amanda the shells, while Amanda promised to maximize their damage and range.
• Du Lingxuan altered the reimbursement description to claim the shells at the top-tier rate and insisted that the bombardment begin in one hour.
• Amanda agreed to prepare the shells and told Du Lingxuan to bring Vernadna to help fire them quickly.