Recaps

After South City Mandrake lost to Greedy Umbrella, Angelite said she wanted to train after the Anse battle and develop traits of Alesha Wellington’s heavy casting. Jiang Han grasped the beginnings of the casting trait, while Du Lingxuan envied her talent.

• Alesha Wellington’s powerful performance could not overcome Greedy Umbrella, and South City Mandrake lost.
• Angelite said she wanted to train after the Anse battle because she had glimpsed the source of Alesha’s strength and hoped to develop heavy casting.
• Jiang Han recognized that Alesha’s spells carried exceptional weight and grasped the beginnings of the heavy casting trait.
• Anjie advised Jiang Han to modify the immature trait to suit her own casting.
• Du Lingxuan complained about Jiang Han’s talent, then said she would rather her sisters benefit than herself.

Jiang Han, Du Lingxuan, and Angelite spent time together before Jiang Han and Du Lingxuan booked a room at a floating witch bar in Bridge Country. The chapter ended with them settling in to watch a cat documentary.

• Sleepless Giant Cat Witch Angelite and Du Lingxuan hung Jiang Han from a mushroom lamp, where she ate lobster and pudding before freeing herself with her tail.
• Du Lingxuan supported Jiang Han's chin with her chest, prompting Angelite to consider whether Cat Lamp Witches' flexibility could be cultivated or spread.
• Jiang Han and Du Lingxuan left Angelite's tower and booked a double room on the second floor of a floating barrel bar.
• Du Lingxuan admired the room's spacious interior, and Jiang Han suggested playing Cat Lamp sumo on the bed.
• Du Lingxuan sprawled beside the video player and proposed watching The Cat-Seeking Documentary together.

Jiang Han watched Cat-Seeking Record with Du Lingxuan and learned that Du had installed televisions in cat trees to encourage Giant Cat Lamps and cat lamps to spend. The two Giant Cat Lords began discussing how movies could stimulate trade between their worlds.

• Du Lingxuan persuaded Jiang Han to watch Cat-Seeking Record, and Jiang Han deliberately withheld questions to make Du reveal why she had chosen it.
• Du Lingxuan grew angry when Jiang Han ignored her, so Jiang Han stopped teasing her and suggested they exchange experiences as Giant Cat Lords.
• Du Lingxuan explained that she wanted to encourage Giant Cat Lamps and cat lamps to spend money.
• Du Lingxuan said that screening You Chase, I Flee had inspired giant cats to import red bean paste buns and conical cat-ear hats, showing that movies could encourage trade.

Jiang Han discussed how trade, prestige, and the cat olive tree could help develop her territory, then revealed that she was building the Cat Sea Grand Cathedral. She agreed to let Du Lingxuan use the wonder in exchange for a tax, giving Jiang Han a way to curb Du Lingxuan's territory's rapid growth.

• Du Lingxuan explained that she wanted to confirm Anjie used cat olive tree butter so she could trace its source, grow it, and add an industry to Cat Island.
• Jiang Han decided to plant cat olive trees in her territory and considered how prestige among Giant Cat Witches affected their influence.
• Jiang Han told Du Lingxuan she was planning a tree-planting garden, then changed the subject and revealed she was building a wonder.
• Jiang Han described the Grand Cathedral's benefits and planned to build the Cat Sea Grand Cathedral using rivers, flowing water, and seashore elements.
• Du Lingxuan asked to use the wonder, and Jiang Han agreed to charge her a wonder tax.

Jiang Han reflected on fair competition in Giant Cat Territory, then spent a day with Du Lingxuan before they parted ways. Back at Moon Bay Camp, she learned the witches had gone to Sourcefire City and asked Cat Doyastin to help her find an experienced sea-tide giant cat.

• Jiang Han accepted that the Sleeping Witch would allow healthy competition among the cats in Giant Cat Territory, despite the advantages her own project already enjoyed.
• Jiang Han and Du Lingxuan spent the day eating, watching dramas, and playing Witch Cards before saying goodbye at the Bridge Country bus station.
• Jiang Han returned to Moon Bay Camp and found that the witches and female sorcerers had left, while Giant Cats remained behind.
• Cat Doyastin told Jiang Han that the witches had gone to Sourcefire City, a prosperous mobile Sky Island city belonging to Denise.
• Jiang Han asked Cat Doyastin to help her find a battle-hardened giant cat connected to the sea tides.

Jiang Han asked Cat Doyastin to recruit the powerful Giant Cat Lamp Cat Laxin, offering her territory and other rewards. She then visited the fallen angel Maronos, who was reading a book that praised witches, and recommended a different history book as a guide to becoming a witch.

• Cat Doyastin described Cat Laxin as capable but vain and suggested she could be captured by force, while Jiang Han decided to recruit her without using violence.
• Jiang Han offered Cat Laxin a territory, ten cat trees, three cat hot springs, fifty cat settlements, and joint rule over a cat town with Cat Nesting.
• Cat Doyastin set out to contact Cat Laxin after Jiang Han learned that Maronos was reading in a room prepared by the Giant Cats.
• Jiang Han found Maronos reading Eileen's On the Superiority of Witches and Other Races and recommended <A1 International Witch Standards, The Ruthless History Volume> instead.

Jiang Han prepared to transform Maronos using the Deprivation Sacrament, explaining that Witch rituals were not necessarily bloody sacrifices. After temporarily taking Maronos’s sight and hearing, Jiang Han summoned Anjie Cavera to perform the transformation.

• Jiang Han prepared ritual tools and cooked meat patties while Maronos mistakenly expected fresh sacrificial materials.
• Jiang Han explained that Witches used rituals to capture false gods and reshape ritual effects, and that rituals could also channel magic directly.
• Jiang Han performed the Deprivation Sacrament, depriving Maronos of sight and hearing while leaving her other senses intact.
• Jiang Han opened Angelite’s scroll and summoned Anjie Cavera to transform Maronos.
• Jiang Han gave Anjie peeled shrimp and crab meat, and Anjie agreed to begin the ritual.

Anjie Cavera used her magic power to transform Maronos into a Crow-Feather Witch, while explaining that Jiang Han’s magic could have produced a different angel breed. The conversion succeeded, and Anjie gave Jiang Han instructions and supplies for Maronos’s recovery.

• Anjie Cavera explained that using another witch’s magic power could cause a fallen angel’s transformation to mutate, but Jiang Han declined to use her own magic.
• Anjie Cavera opened the ritual scroll and began converting Maronos as Jiang Han watched uneasily.
• Jiang Han learned that Anjie Cavera and Angelite were close and often talked about her.
• Maronos completed her transformation into a Crow-Feather Witch and fell asleep.
• Anjie Cavera told Jiang Han to give Maronos magic-infused beer and daily injections for twelve days to help her develop magic blood vessels and form a spinal cord.

Jiang Han avoided researching incarnation spells because she feared what an incarnation might reveal about her changing identity and attachments. She then questioned the newly transformed Maronos, who explained that she welcomed her Witch body for its immortality, eternal youth, and magic.

• Jiang Han said goodbye to Angelite and Vera, then reflected on her fear of creating an incarnation that might threaten her sense of self.
• Jiang Han set aside her worries and helped Maronos rise after her conversion into a Ravenfeather Witch.
• Jiang Han assessed Maronos's magic potential and asked why she seemed satisfied with her new body despite being weaker than before.
• Maronos explained that eternal youth and immortality made becoming a Witch a joy, especially compared with the short lifespans of Angels and Fallen Angels.
• Maronos named gaining miracles and magic as another reason she was pleased with her Witch body.

Jiang Han gave Maronos a stack of witch textbooks and dried cod to enlist Giant Cat Lamps as tutors. After Maronos left, Jiang Han investigated an unfamiliar presence in the room and discovered a glowing cat-eared girl whose magic identified her as an unknown lifeform.

• Jiang Han showed Maronos the A1 General Standard textbooks and said she only needed to read the witch language, incantations, and runes manual, but Maronos vowed to finish them all.
• Jiang Han suggested Maronos trade dried cod for lessons from Giant Cat Lamp instructors, and Maronos took the books and fish downstairs.
• Jiang Han detected an unfamiliar life in the room, sealed spatial fluctuations, and scanned for living beings after Maronos had left.
• Jiang Han used a Needle Prick spell to flush out the presence, and a girl with glowing cat ears and a tail tumbled out of the wall, yowling that her butt had been poked.
• Jiang Han recognized that the girl was neither a witch nor a cat lamp, and her magic identified her as an unknown lifeform.

Jiang Han discovered that the catgirl in the room was an evil thought attached to a blank scroll, brought to life by magic from Anjie and Jiang Han. She named the spirit Cat Lin, spared her, and took the scroll away to keep and reinforce it.

• Jiang Han questioned the catgirl, who explained that she was a spirit attached to the blank scroll and had awakened through magic from Anjie's Nurture and Jiang Han's Proliferation.
• The catgirl warned Jiang Han that spiritual objects could absorb ritual magic and give rise to spirits.
• Jiang Han identified the creature as a spirit vessel and banished her into the scroll, threatening to destroy her.
• Jiang Han spared the catgirl after she pleaded for her life and named her Cat Lin.
• Jiang Han took the scroll from Maronos's room, intending to keep it safe and use her alchemy skills to reinforce it.

Jiang Han confirmed that Cat Lin was an ordinary bound-spirit item and learned that she could cook, gain abilities from giant cats, and use spell formulas if her material could contain them. Jiang Han then rebuilt Cat Lin as a thick, fluffy book, leaving Cat Lin protesting that she was supposed to live in a painting.

• Jiang Han examined the hanging scroll and found no runes, leyline circuits, spell formulas, or spell seals, confirming Cat Lin had not lied.
• Cat Lin explained that she could cook and gain basic abilities from giant cats under her lord, and that she could use spell formulas when charged with magic and leyline power.
• Cat Lin told Jiang Han that the strength of spells she could contain depended on the capacity of her bound-spirit item's material.
• Jiang Han used fur and other materials to make Cat Lin a 3,140-page fluffy book.
• Cat Lin complained that she was meant to live in a painting, but Jiang Han insisted a book was much the same.

Jiang Han developed Spirit Cat Claw, a sustained leyline-powered spell designed to let the physically weak bound spirit Cat Lin handle tasks and escape danger. Cat Lin successfully summoned the spell’s blue cat paws, while the note said the dinner budget had gone toward equipment.

• Jiang Han prepared rare materials in an alchemical cauldron to create a new spell for Cat Lin.
• Jiang Han designed the spell around Cat Lin’s spirit nature, using leyline energy because Cat Lin struggled to use magical power.
• Jiang Han modified Giant Cat Claw into a weaker, two-meter-range spell that consumed leyline energy gradually and could last a day.
• Jiang Han added Spirit Cat Toss, which could hurl Cat Lin away from danger so Jiang Han could pull her back into the fluffy book.
• Jiang Han named the spell Spirit Cat Claw, and Cat Lin successfully summoned two large blue spirit-like paws.

Jiang Han and Cat Lin made a huge pot of mushroom, potato, and meatball soup, which Jiang Han praised and shared with the witches, sorceresses, and giant cats in camp. After the group gathered to eat, Jiang Han brought soup to the Trade Giant Cat Lamp who was teaching Maronos.

• Cat Lin cooked a pot of soup, and Jiang Han tasted it and declared it excellent.
• Jiang Han asked Cat Lin to make three more pots so they could share the soup with the witches and sorceresses.
• Jiang Han carried the pots outside, where she found Elifia, Song Ying, Maronos, sorceresses, and giant cats gathered in camp.
• Jiang Han invited the witches, sorceresses, and giant cats to eat, helping the nervous sorceresses join the group.
• Jiang Han took half a pot of soup to the Trade Giant Cat Lamp who was answering Maronos's questions.

Jiang Han accepted Henrietta’s large transport commission to deliver a fleet of airships and their separate power systems and weapons to the front lines. Henrietta explained the shipment’s scale and the workshop’s reasons for transporting the components separately.

• Jiang Han installed Cat Mist Devices on the Cat Spiders and heard from Henrietta about the costly fighting against the Anse Elves and the disrupted supply routes.
• Henrietta hired Jiang Han to protect and transport a large order for Henrietta Workshop after accidental insurance for witch battlefields was canceled.
• Henrietta revealed the shipment included one super-carrier-class airship, two capital-ship-class airships, and six destroyer-class airships.
• Jiang Han asked why the airships would not fly to the front under their own power, and Henrietta explained the workshop wanted to avoid losses and responsibility by shipping the components separately.

Jiang Han gathered her witches, witchlings, and giant cats to plan the transport of Henrietta’s unfinished airship. Li Li’s proposal to use the Cat Rivers was rejected, but Jiang Han saw potential in adapting it, while Cat Tami’s careless disclosure left her with a problem to deal with.

• Jiang Han accepted Henrietta’s high-paying airship transport job and decided to pay her workers full wages because the dangerous task could cause problems without a substantial reward.
• Jiang Han convened the giant cats, witches, and witchlings to review transport plans, and dismissed a suggestion to make spatial jumps along the Anse Elves’ city wall.
• Li Li presented a plan to move the airship through the giant cats’ Cat Rivers, revealing that Cat Tami had shared information about them.
• Jiang Han rejected the plan because using a Cat River required a close relationship with the giant cats, and Cat Doyastin warned that curious cats might damage the cargo.
• Jiang Han decided Li Li’s idea could still be adapted, then realized that Cat Tami had not yet gone on a date and asked for recommendations.

Jiang Han chose Lilith’s tunneling plan for transporting the airship supplies, while pretending to defer the decision to a vote by giant cats. She redirected Cat Doyastin from the promised vote by offering her valuable fishery land in exchange for developing a game for giant cats.

• Jiang Han listened to the witches’ proposals, including Cai Lu’s plan to divide the airship components among separate transport teams, but decided to use Lilith’s tunneling plan.
• Jiang Han announced that six experienced Giant Cat Lamps would discuss the proposals and the giant cats would vote on primary and backup plans within two days.
• Cat Doyastin entered Jiang Han’s nest domain, and Jiang Han explained that she planned to use Ghost Witches’ tributaries as transport routes.
• Cat Doyastin reminded Jiang Han about the promised vote, so Jiang Han offered her a share of valuable fishery fields if she completed an important task.
• Jiang Han tasked Cat Doyastin with developing a game that would entertain giant cats and attract witches’ attention.

Jiang Han secured support for the Ghost River passage and gathered giant cat votes for Li Li’s proposal and her own. At Mill Air Harbor, the transport team arrived to find an enormous unfinished airship awaiting them.

• Jiang Han agreed to open the Giant Cat Territory’s convenient passage to the Ghost Witches and arranged to depart from Eleanor's Mill Air Harbor the next afternoon.
• Jiang Han summoned Cat Nelly and obtained her anonymous ballot, then collected sixty ballots that would pass Li Li’s proposal and her own Ghost River proposal.
• Jiang Han and Li Li traveled with the transport team toward Mill Air Harbor, where Li Li questioned the proposal’s unanimous support and Jiang Han concealed that she had influenced the vote.
• Jiang Han’s team reached Port 023 and saw six large airships gathered around an unfinished mechanical colossus more than eighty football fields long.

Jiang Han, Du Lingxuan, and Xiya charged the airship by running inside a harmful magic-conversion Hamster Ball, bringing its energy reserve to fifty percent. Xiya recalled Eve Harkins’s failed plan to make Ghost Castle move like a plane, then revealed that Anjie had followed it by spending another two and a half billion Witch Gold of her own.

• Jiang Han reported that the airship had reached fifty percent charge after Du Lingxuan and Xiya ran inside the Hamster Ball.
• Du Lingxuan collapsed beside Xiya, and Jiang Han took her place, enduring the ball’s painful conversion of magic power into leyline energy.
• Xiya admired the airship as a rapidly moving fortress and asked whether Jiang Han knew Ghost Castle’s similar plan.
• Jiang Han guessed that Ghost Castle had wanted to make the entire castle move.
• Xiya explained that Eve Harkins had wanted to imitate the Void by making a plane move at high speed, but the plan cost sixteen billion Witch Gold and earned Harkins severe punishment from Angelite.
• Xiya revealed that Anjie had then spent two and a half billion Witch Gold of her own on the same idea.

Jiang Han, Xiya, and Du Lingxuan traveled through Ghost River while discussing plans to develop their territories. Du Lingxuan unveiled a canal-and-inn project designed to attract cat lamps, leaving Jiang Han impressed by how much it could accelerate her territory’s growth.

• Xuan Bao complained about the cold in Ghost River as Jiang Han and Du Lingxuan traded barbs.
• The group saw cat lamps, Raccoon Dumplings, and Arcane Manatees riding aboard the airship, and Jiang Han and Du Lingxuan chased the curious cats away with spray.
• Xiya explained her plans to create a river desert, buy coconut cat trees, and raise their living altitude.
• Du Lingxuan announced plans to dig twenty hot spring rivers and twenty cold spring rivers, with Angelite investing and providing a witch construction team.
• Du Lingxuan described adding fish nests, Lazy Sea Dragons, River Lord Dragons, and cat-lamp inns to turn her canals into a fishing and drifting route, impressing Jiang Han.

Jiang Han recorded her observations of the Ghost Witches while Histeria, Du Lingxuan, and Xiya challenged her writing and discussed the witches’ battlefield strength. The group continued traveling through the Ghost River, and Jiang Han added Xiya’s account to her notes.

• Jiang Han noted that the Ghost Witches had spent nearly six million servant soldiers establishing a forward rest stop in the Ghost River.
• Histeria scolded Jiang Han for pinching her thigh, and Jiang Han obediently pinched Du Lingxuan instead.
• Du Lingxuan criticized Jiang Han’s dry writing, and Xiya advised her to acknowledge the emotions behind her opinions.
• Du Lingxuan accused Jiang Han of hypocrisy over her explanation for the Ghost Witches’ preferential treatment.
• Xiya explained that the Ghost Witches’ powerful necromantic warfare was no rumor, and Jiang Han recorded the claim in her notes.

Jiang Han learned that Cat Lamps spread witch culture through servant-army worlds and discovered she had fans there. With Cat Inis's help, she located a shop that could sell the airship parts and rerouted the ships for a detour.

• Jiang Han abandoned her idea of killing the protagonist after Du Lingxuan and a giant cat mocked it.
• Cat Inis offered to help Jiang Han find engineering equipment and explained that Cat Lamps traded witch culture with servant armies through their connections.
• Jiang Han, Xiya, and Du Lingxuan learned that Cat Lamps spread witch games, magazines, and other products across millions of servant-army worlds.
• Jiang Han learned she had fans among humanoid servant armies, including collectors who traded her postcards for valuable materials.
• Jiang Han marked the parts shop on the map and adjusted the airships' routes to make an extra hour-long detour.

Jiang Han oversaw the engineering Cat Lamps’ expensive equipment shopping and learned that Mist Spirits, a high-ranking servant army, wanted to join her forces. Xiya explained that Mist Spirits were allowed to fight under the Witch Servant Army Code, leaving Jiang Han to consider their request.

• Jiang Han told Cat Inis to ensure the engineering Cat Lamps bought only parts and tools usable on airships, but they spent over sixteen thousand Witch Gold and bought a six-layer drive gear.
• The engineering Cat Lamps also hired fifty Cleaning Cat Lamps to polish the airship before it was delivered to its recipient.
• Cat Tami approached Jiang Han and revealed that her friend Cat Marig, who sold witch magazines in the Ghost River, had heard that Mist Spirits wanted to join Jiang Han’s army.
• Xiya explained that Mist Spirits were a high-ranking servant army permitted to fight while their life boxes had uses remaining, according to the Witch Servant Army Code.

Jiang Han registered Geraldine and 159 other Mist Spirits as troops for her campaign and learned about their small, highly militarized community on the supply island in the Ghost River. The Mist Spirits boarded her airship, while twenty remained behind to work.

• Jiang Han stored the materials Xiya had given her and inspected the Mist Spirits assembled before her.
• Geraldine told Jiang Han that 160 Mist Spirits, organized into two battalions, were ready to serve under her command.
• Mist Spirits boarded the airship, and some tossed Cat Lamps away after the cats landed on their hats and guns.
• Geraldine revealed that the Mist Spirits lived in 112 households, then clarified that 180 lived on the supply island in the Ghost River.
• Jiang Han arranged guest rooms for the Mist Spirits and learned that twenty of the island's residents would stay behind to work.

Jiang Han visited the engineering cat lamps before Xiya showed her legendary Cat Spider silk bandages. Xiya explained that the bandages boosted nearby cat lamps’ morale and morale recovery, giving them a new degree of battlefield capability.

• Jiang Han checked the engineering section, where an engineering giant cat reported concerns about the data cables; she left the maintenance work to the cats.
• Jiang Han met Xiya in the upper-deck forest, where Xiya told her that legendary Cat Spider silk had been made into three bandages, one for Jiang Han and one for Du Lingxuan.
• Xiya showed Jiang Han the bandages and explained that their runes gave them a defensive enchantment that did not count toward normal equipment mana capacity.
• Xiya revealed that the bandages granted nearby cat lamps Cat's Morale Aura, increasing morale and its recovery speed.
• Jiang Han recognized that the aura could give cat lamps useful combat morale and help them return quickly after fleeing.