Recaps

Jiang Han brought Liang Cuoyu to District D and introduced her to Chen Ligu’s witch agency, impressing the newcomer with its polished appearance. Chen Ligu greeted them and asked whether Jiang Han had brought her business, while the author’s closing note announced plans for a new novel with a female protagonist.

• Jiang Han took the anxious Liang Cuoyu up District D’s aerial escalator and eased her nerves by explaining the society she had formed with her friends.
• Jiang Han showed Liang Cuoyu the Past Telephone Booth and hurried her past its advertisements, including one featuring Jiang Han.
• Jiang Han brought Liang Cuoyu to the office building where Chen Ligu’s agency operated and recalled how the Wings members had furnished the office cheaply.
• Liang Cuoyu admired the agency’s impressive corridor and official-looking signs, which made her trust Jiang Han and the organization.
• Chen Ligu came out dressed in black and asked Jiang Han whether she had brought her any business.

Jiang Han brought Liang Cuoyu to Chen Ligu, who agreed to help the undocumented, untrained young witch find a solution. While Chen Ligu took Liang Cuoyu to bathe and change, Jiang Han read the annotated alchemy book she had brought along.

• Jiang Han introduced Liang Cuoyu to Chen Ligu, who handled witch affairs and offered services such as intelligence liaison and document processing.
• Jiang Han explained Liang Cuoyu's difficult circumstances, including her lack of identification and witch certification, her father's death, and her lack of magical training.
• Chen Ligu agreed to help and took Liang Cuoyu to bathe and change into spare pajamas from Jiang Han.
• Jiang Han stayed in the reception room, ate a biscuit, and read Vanishing Matter—A Brief History of Alchemy, laughing at the famous witches' arguments in its annotations.

Jiang Han and Chen Ligu arranged a way for Liang Cuoyu to obtain legal witch documents, schooling, and a place to stay. Jiang Han then detected that Liang Cuoyu had unusually high magic power that was still increasing.

• Chen Ligu said Liang Cuoyu had secrets, and Jiang Han proposed helping her obtain a witch certificate, legal identity, and work.
• Chen Ligu explained a loophole that would let Liang Cuoyu enroll in a weekly witch school and use the school records to apply for a qualification certificate.
• Jiang Han offered Liang Cuoyu a free guest room and said her younger sister could help provide identification.
• Chen Ligu arranged the paperwork for 50,000 yuan in interest-free installments and sought subsidies, tuition coverage, and meal allowances for Liang Cuoyu.
• Jiang Han scanned Liang Cuoyu and discovered that her magic power was around 3,000 to 3,100 and was slowly increasing.

Jiang Han brought Liang Cuoyu home and arranged for her to stay with the family while she recovered her identity documents. Jiang Zhenling warned Jiang Han to be cautious about her new friend, then offered her a possible magazine modeling job for a publication issued by the Southern Province police department.

• Jiang Han took Liang Cuoyu home by Griffin Carriage and introduced her to Jiang Zhenling as a friend who needed identity and residence documents.
• Jiang Zhenling welcomed Liang Cuoyu and asked Jiang Han to prepare the guest room for her stay.
• Jiang Zhenling cautioned Jiang Han about trusting someone she had known for less than eight hours, and Jiang Han said they shared a similar illness and pity.
• Jiang Zhenling asked how to arrange magazine photos, and Jiang Han directed her to contact Chen Ligu about the work.
• Jiang Zhenling offered Jiang Han a modeling opportunity for a new magazine called Deduction, published by the Provincial Capital and Territorial Waters Police Department of the Southern Province.

Jiang Han arrived at the South City Police Department to model for a magazine shoot commissioned by Major Crimes Unit 7. As preparations began, she learned that makeup artist Yan Yunfei was actually a police forensic examiner.

• A detective brought Jiang Han to the Police Department, where Chief Song Kexin and her staff joked around and struggled to maintain a formal reception.
• Jiang Han steered the meeting back to work and confirmed she could begin the magazine shoot.
• Song Kexin explained that Unit 7 wanted professional photos featuring sponsored SWAT equipment and a G-v2 armored airship.
• Jiang Han met makeup artist Yan Yunfei, who explained the magazine's Gothic styling and introduced herself as a forensic examiner.

Jiang Han took part in a police magazine photo shoot outfitted with heavy protective gear and weapons, while the police team’s unusual methods left her bewildered. After a day of staged gunfire, equipment tests, and safety notices, she glimpsed reports of witch-related crimes and escaped monsters, suggesting the world remained dangerous.

• Police forensic examiner Yan Yunfei did Jiang Han’s makeup, making her look younger while discussing the shortage of Witch forensic specialists.
• Jiang Han found a heavily armored hazmat suit instead of a police uniform, put it on, and recognized that its runes gave it powerful but mostly sealed abilities.
• At the shoot, photographer and negotiator Zheng Xiu prompted Jiang Han to fire a loaded rifle, and police officers rushed in after Zheng Xiu gave the signal.
• Jiang Han’s shoot included testing several weapons, a grenade, a police airship, and emergency kits before she posed with safety notices.
• Jiang Han saw Cheng Jiemei writing about witch fraud, illegal conversion experiments, and a bank robbery, then finished the shoot.

Jiang Han repaid Li Li the money she had borrowed and went out to lunch with her, where they discussed the expensive alchemy textbook and research documents Li Li had bought. The chapter left them enjoying a seafood meal and fishing together at Fish Delight.

• Jiang Han paid Li Li the 6,000 yuan she had borrowed, plus 100 yuan in interest, and the two teased each other about her credit.
• Li Li invited Jiang Han to celebrate with a meal, and they took a Griffin Carriage taxi to the restaurant Fish Delight.
• Jiang Han told Li Li she had borrowed hundreds of thousands of yuan to buy an old alchemy textbook containing notes and insights from Great Witches and master alchemists.
• Li Li described the research documents she had bought about dragons, witch genes, and dragon blood, explaining her interest in human scholars' perspectives.
• Jiang Han and Li Li ordered a seafood feast and began fishing in the restaurant's artificial river.

Jiang Han sampled the dishes Ye Keshu and Liang Cuoyu cooked, then asked Liang Cuoyu whether she wanted to become a witch. Liang Cuoyu agreed to start learning magic, and Jiang Han planned to have Chen Ligu register her at the school.

• Jiang Han returned home and found Ye Keshu and Liang Cuoyu dressed as witches and preparing food for her.
• Jiang Han tasted both dishes and judged Liang Cuoyu's egg-and-meat patties better than Ye Keshu's overly sweet, charred dish.
• Ye Keshu insisted on trying again, but her second batch of scrambled eggs was also charred and cloyingly sweet.
• Jiang Han asked Liang Cuoyu whether she would accept magical education and become a witch, and Liang Cuoyu firmly agreed.
• Jiang Han said she would contact Chen Ligu to arrange Liang Cuoyu's formal registration at the school.

After arranging Liang Cuoyu’s enrollment at Southern City Witch United Academy, Chen Ligu brought Jiang Han to meet the school’s mysterious principal. Jiang Han learned the principal was Kraken von Kolkraft, a powerful witch who owned the academy’s World Trees.

• Chen Ligu arranged Liang Cuoyu’s tuition subsidies and explained the academy’s course options.
• Chen Ligu told Jiang Han that the principal wanted to meet her, and Jiang Han agreed to go.
• A maid led Jiang Han and Chen Ligu through the academy’s grounds and explained the legend of its two Loren Ancient Trees.
• The maid revealed that the Doctor owned the trees and was the principal who had requested the meeting.
• Jiang Han and Chen Ligu entered the principal’s villa, where the silver-haired witch introduced herself as Kraken von Kolkraft.

Jiang Han and Chen Ligu met the Great Witch Kraken, who asked Jiang Han to model for her academic journal, Trickcraft. Jiang Han accepted for generous pay and a chance to learn from Kraken, and they left with gifts and a new connection.

• Kraken revealed that she wanted Jiang Han to pose for a photoshoot promoting Trickcraft.
• Kraken offered to pay thirty percent more than Deduction, and Jiang Han accepted while Chen Ligu agreed to handle the contract.
• Kraken made a business card for Chen Ligu and promised to send the photoshoot details by letter.
• Kraken gave Jiang Han and Chen Ligu limited-edition books before her maid escorted them out.
• In the Griffin Carriage, Chen Ligu praised Kraken, while Jiang Han reflected on Kraken's manners and the sense of closeness she felt from her Eternal Ice Eyes.

Jiang Han reviewed the shooting limits and portrait-rights contract for a Trickcraft magazine feature with Chen Ligu, agreeing to consider showing her thighs if she wore stockings. After signing, she read Kraken’s collector’s edition and learned about the editor’s practical approach to spellcraft and the origins of her work on casting speed.

• Chen Ligu explained the South City shoot, the proposed bunny-hop shot, and the clothing limits, and Jiang Han said she might show her thighs in stockings.
• Chen Ligu outlined the portrait-rights categories and Kraken’s 1,500-copy authorization, and Jiang Han accepted the terms and signed the agreement.
• Jiang Han praised Chen Ligu’s professionalism, then opened the collector’s edition Kraken had given her.
• Jiang Han read Kraken’s preface defining spell techniques as efficient ways to kill and studied the book’s casting-speed experiments.
• Jiang Han learned that Anke Gaby Jackson had nearly reached a 0.026-second casting speed before losing to Kraken, inspiring Kraken to write the book.

Jiang Han prepared for a photo shoot and a luncheon on Kraken’s behalf, then arrived at Wilhelm Pharmaceuticals’ volcanic headquarters with Chen Ligu. There she discovered that Kraken was disguised as a lookalike named Bai Enqiu and that the Sea Shepherds were working undercover as the photography crew.

• Jiang Han reflected on the unusually generous photo-shoot arrangement and learned that Kraken wanted her to attend Wilhelm Pharmaceuticals’ formal luncheon as her representative.
• After discovering she had gained 0.2 jin, Jiang Han met Liang Cuoyu in the morning and left to meet Chen Ligu.
• Jiang Han and Chen Ligu reached Wilhelm’s headquarters, a disc-shaped building suspended inside a volcano, and rode an enclosed escalator into the facility.
• At the photography room, Jiang Han greeted Qiao Rou, who introduced a new coworker named Bai Enqiu.
• Jiang Han recognized that Bai Enqiu looked exactly like Kraken except for her hair and eye color, and realized the photography crew consisted of the Sea Shepherds.

Jiang Han joined a photography crew led by Qiao Rou and accompanied by the Sea Shepherds squad to film at Wilhelm Pharmaceuticals. The crew reached Advanced Laboratory Twelve, where Jiang Han met the German witch Este Rudolf and marveled at the laboratory’s equipment.

• Jiang Han recognized Xu Wenji and Kraken among the temporary crew members, while Qiao Rou warned her not to clash with the hires.
• Kraken told Qiao Rou that she had come from Canada to join the war effort in China, and Qiao Rou asked whether she knew Great Witch Kraken.
• Xu Wenji asked whether Jiang Han could accept a maid outfit and makeup, then described the planned shoot in the pharmaceutical laboratory.
• The twenty-four-person crew passed through Wilhelm Pharmaceuticals’ tight security, where Jiang Han noticed the Sea Shepherds checking isolation doors.
• The crew arrived at Advanced Laboratory Twelve, and Jiang Han admired the expensive alchemical equipment, especially its Gamma Flame Vials.
• Este Rudolf introduced herself as the team’s company liaison, and Jiang Han’s magic-power radar ranked her eleventh in the room.

Jiang Han joined a staged photo shoot while Kraken and the Sea Shepherds secretly infiltrated the laboratory under a spell that made people speak candidly and overlook their actions. Kraken offered Jiang Han work and training in her Eternal Ice Eyes, leaving Jiang Han to weigh the mysterious offer.

• Jiang Han changed into a French maid outfit and emerged to find Sea Shepherds and the laboratory staff preparing a photo shoot.
• Jiang Han saw Kraken secretly unlock filing cabinets and copy documents while magic kept the security personnel from noticing.
• Kraken froze a concealed Burning Fire Curse in the documents and told Jiang Han that her Eternal Ice Eyes could counter such spells with training.
• Kraken asked Jiang Han to create a changing room, and the Sea Shepherds entered with combat gear while the shoot continued.
• Kraken explained the Childlike Candor spell and offered Jiang Han work, a beginner's guide to her eyes, and lessons in using them.

Jiang Han explained to Liang Cuoyu why she could not sense magic and offered to ask her friends for help. Their conversation grew warmer, leaving Liang more at ease and willing to hint at her life before becoming a witch.

• Jiang Han explained that magic was part of everyday life for witches and that Liang Cuoyu’s difficulty sensing it did not mean she lacked talent.
• Jiang Han recalled accounts of trait-type sorceresses and described a gentler training method that could help Liang learn to sense magic.
• Jiang Han promised to ask friends for advice, and Liang thanked her and Chen Ligu for helping her.
• Liang asked about the headmistress, and Jiang Han described Kraken’s silver hair and eyes like her own.
• Liang speculated about witch genetics and briefly mentioned her father and witches’ unusual reproductive traits before apologizing for getting distracted.

Jiang Han brought Liang Cuoyu to Li Li for an assessment and training, where Li Li diagnosed why Liang Cuoyu could not use magic and tried fox-ear headphones to help her sense its flow. The testing continued as Li Li searched for a pair of headphones suited to Liang Cuoyu.

• Jiang Han brought Liang Cuoyu to Li Li’s home and explained that Li Li specialized in training dragons and occasionally witches.
• Li Li introduced Jiang Han and Liang Cuoyu to her family, including her mothers Li Mei and Xin Xin and her grandmother Li Ni.
• Li Li tested Liang Cuoyu and confirmed she was a witch whose abundant, constantly replenished magic prevented her from sensing magic outside herself.
• Li Li gave Liang Cuoyu fox-ear headphones made from Li Mei’s ears, but their magic conduction was too weak to help.
• Liang Cuoyu tried another pair made from Xin Xin’s ears, but the sound was painfully intense, so Li Li removed them and searched for another pair.

Jiang Han visited Li Li’s home after training Liang Cuoyu, where Li Li criticized a book about sorceresses and Jiang Han met Li Li’s dragon-blooded grandmother, Geng Shaoyao. The family’s flirtatious attention left Jiang Han wondering whether staying for dinner had been a mistake.

• Jiang Han put Liang Cuoyu through two rounds of strenuous training to help her sense and absorb magic, then sent her home to recover.
• Li Li called Ten Million Kinds of Witches an inaccurate but valuable firsthand account and asked Jiang Han to move the enormous book to her library.
• Jiang Han met Geng Shaoyao, who described her passion for racing and explained that her family’s dragon blood drew them toward dragons and excitement.
• Geng Shaoyao asked about Jiang Han’s attendance at the Witch Invitational drawing ceremony and her magazine photography.
• Li Mei offered to do flexibility exercises with Jiang Han, who regretted staying for dinner.

Jiang Han visited Agnes Leblanc for homemade South City cheese and told her about her friend Lili’s family, prompting Agnes to eagerly ask about Lili’s Fox Witch mothers. Later, Agnes recommended a magazine about witch research and offered to lend Jiang Han her collection until October.

• Jiang Han visited Agnes and watched her prepare South City cheese and cream corn while they talked about Agnes’s training and Lilian.
• Jiang Han described Lili’s Fox Witch family, and Agnes eagerly asked about the size of Lili’s two mothers’ chests.
• Jiang Han recounted how she had picked up a witch and then fled after being teased at Lili’s home, insisting she was exceptionally kind.
• Jiang Han borrowed Agnes’s study to read and asked about books concerning research on witches.
• Agnes told Jiang Han about Chesterna Pharmaceuticals and its magazine, The Mystery of Burgundy Witches, then offered to lend her the collection until October.

Jiang Han discussed Liang Cuoyu’s emerging magic power and course choices, recommending that she study the Transmutation School because of her exceptional reserves. Liang Cuoyu considered the advice as she prepared to begin classes on September 1st.

• Jiang Han studied alchemy and practical runology at home, then went downstairs intending to check Ice Bear’s weight.
• Jiang Han encountered Liang Cuoyu after she came out of the bathroom and reassured her about accidentally exposing herself.
• Jiang Han asked Liang Cuoyu about her magic power, and Liang Cuoyu described faintly sensing omens in the weather after one training session.
• Liang Cuoyu told Jiang Han that Chen Ligu had recommended Evocation, Conjuration, and Abjuration as majors, with Herbalism and Plant Care as minors.
• Jiang Han explained that Liang Cuoyu’s strong magic power made the Transmutation School a better major and described its principles and uses.

Jiang Han rode Ice Bear through Pet Street to buy feed and discovered that her photo had appeared in the popular police magazine Deduction. As she prepared to leave, she spotted a familiar Sea Shepherd approaching with an ice phoenix.

• Jiang Han rode Ice Bear around Pet Street while studying encrypted witch handouts.
• Jiang Han bought several bags of food for Ice Bear from a shop clerk who recognized her magazine photo.
• Jiang Han read Deduction and saw that its police reviews, illustrations, and her modeling photos had made the magazine popular.
• Jiang Han learned that South City Police Department wanted to negotiate a short-term portrait-rights collaboration through Chen Ligu's agency.
• Jiang Han spotted a familiar, crimson-eyed Sea Shepherd approaching with a floating ice phoenix.

Jiang Han met Kraken’s daughters, Lorna and Rena, and invited Kraken for coffee while the girls played with Ice Bear. Kraken agreed and left the children and pets in the care of Loya, the ice phoenix.

• Jiang Han greeted Kraken and met Lorna and Rena, who admired her Ice Bear.
• Kraken joked that the girls were her Horcruxes before explaining that they were her daughters.
• Lorna and Rena played on Ice Bear while Kraken watched with an unreadable expression.
• Jiang Han invited Kraken for coffee and offered to let the girls keep playing with Ice Bear.
• Kraken summoned the ice phoenix and told it to look after the girls and Ice Bear, with the cost of any snacks charged to them.

Jiang Han met Kraken at a Witch Market internet café and questioned her about her past espionage. Kraken explained why she had acted and offered Jiang Han a commission to refine a special material, hoping to assess her talent as an alchemist.

• Jiang Han and Kraken discussed Jiang Han’s overweight Ice Bear, and Kraken explained that the nature magazine Jiang Han had relied on contained errors.
• Jiang Han asked Kraken why she had personally carried out an act of espionage, despite her status as a prominent academic.
• Kraken said the act had been necessary and welcomed Jiang Han’s willingness to point out her mistake.
• Kraken offered to hire Jiang Han to refine a special material, but Jiang Han hesitated because she lacked an A2 license and had studied alchemy for only a few months.
• Kraken reassured Jiang Han that alchemical talent mattered more than age or years of study.

Jiang Han accepted Kraken’s commission to make Twin Solution after drinking a memory gel containing its formula and production method. Kraken asked her to deliver the finished alchemical product within a week and promised to send three sets of materials to her friend’s agency.

• Kraken gave Jiang Han a memory gel containing the formula and materials needed for her commission.
• Jiang Han dissolved the gel in ice water, added sweetener, and drank it, receiving Kraken’s memories of making Twin Solution.
• Jiang Han learned that Twin Solution strengthened the bond between two witches and let them share and combine magic power.
• Kraken asked Jiang Han to make Twin Solution and deliver it within a week, and Jiang Han agreed.
• Kraken said she would send three sets of materials to Jiang Han’s friend’s agency, and Jiang Han accepted the limited supply.

Jiang Han went to Alchemy Street to find a workshop where she could complete her formula, witnessing the witches’ unusual alchemy culture and a spectacular flying-craft crash along the way. She reserved a place at 3D Love Workshop.

• Jiang Han picked up Kraken’s materials bag from Chen Ligu’s agency, left Ice Bear in Chen Ligu’s care, and headed to Alchemy Street to find a workshop.
• Jiang Han surveyed Alchemy Street’s workshops and strange ghost trains as witches and police moved through the busy district.
• A short-haired flight technician’s craft crashed after its jet bottles detached, and police witches rushed to help the injured witches and reassemble the victims.
• Jiang Han considered the wreck from an alchemist’s perspective while other witches discussed how the craft could be improved.
• Jiang Han chose and reserved a workshop called 3D Love Workshop.

After a night of drinking for a lucrative commission, Jiang Han slept through the day and later helped Liang Cuoyu study magic. She explained the principles of Divination and other spell schools, leaving Liang Cuoyu with lessons and recordings to study.

• Jiang Han accepted another commission from Manager Qin Shunying, drank with a table until dawn, and Du Ningzhuang sent her home by teleportation.
• Jiang Han fell asleep after returning home and woke at sunset to find small snags in her stockings.
• Jiang Han joined Liang Cuoyu in the garden and discussed her studies of Detect Magic and Detect Poison.
• Jiang Han explained that Divination revealed what already existed rather than predicting the future, then taught Liang Cuoyu about Transmutation and alchemy.
• Jiang Han lent Liang Cuoyu Transmutation combat recordings and told her to ask Jiang Zhenling or Jiang Han if she had questions.