Chapter Summaries

Jiang Han arrived at Sovereign Palace and found the Stage Witches transformed by Angelite’s Fox Transformation Potion and brainstorming indoor shows. Angelite gave Jiang Han a custom spatial staff shaped like a violin and bow, which Jiang Han named Lake Light.

• Jiang Han found Leah and the other Stage Witches brainstorming after drinking Angelite’s Fox Transformation Potion had given them fox features.
• Leah told Jiang Han that Angelite was waiting for her in her private room.
• Angelite gave Jiang Han a custom sword-like staff and explained that she had designed it around Jiang Han’s body and abilities.
• Jiang Han opened the box and discovered a rune-inscribed violin staff that could store spells and items and use her perception to control objects.
• Angelite explained the staff’s spatial abilities, and Jiang Han named it Lake Light.

Jiang Han’s brainstorming session with Angelite ended without a practical solution to the challenge of training the 303 stage witches. She visited Lilith afterward, delivered Angelite’s letter, and discovered Lilith had a 303 magazine featuring her.

• Cui Yuzhen insisted that the 303 dance keep a tiptoe jump in every section, while Angelite struggled with the witches’ lack of professional training.
• Jiang Han left Angelite early and silently invited her to go out together next week; Angelite agreed.
• Jiang Han visited Lilith at Mysterious Industries and asked about her research with Xuelun Curie, which seemed to have tested Lilith’s patience.
• Jiang Han delivered Angelite’s rune letter, and Lilith opened it to receive legendary dragon blood and scales.
• Jiang Han spotted a 303 Stage Witches Special Issue featuring her in Lilith’s drawer and pretended not to notice.

Jiang Han picked up evening gowns for Jiang Miao, Jiang Zhenling, and Liang Cuoyu, then gave Liang Cuoyu her dress on behalf of Ye Keshu and Jiang Xuan. Liang Cuoyu accepted the gift as family, while Jiang Han’s words hinted she would not be able to stay with them much longer.

• Jiang Han visited Qi Mei’s dress shop and learned that the discontinued V3 Alchemy Core she wanted for Jiang Zhenling was still unavailable.
• Qi Mei showed Jiang Han three evening gowns she had tailored for Jiang Miao, Jiang Zhenling, and Liang Cuoyu.
• Jiang Han carried the dresses home and gave Liang Cuoyu the gown that Ye Keshu and Jiang Xuan had helped pay for.
• Liang Cuoyu became emotional and embraced Jiang Han after hearing the gift was a gesture of kindness and gratitude.
• Jiang Han told Liang Cuoyu that she was family and urged her to accept and wear the dress without worry.

Jiang Han spent the evening with her family, arranged time for outings, and read a stack of invitations. Later, she began designing a spell WiFi system to transmit her abundant magic power to her home remotely.

• Ye Keshu cooked dinner with Liang Cuoyu and prepared a lunch box for Jiang Xuan, who was working overtime.
• Jiang Han learned that A Miao and Zhen Ling had gone to sleep before their morning aquarium outing, then arranged to join Ye Keshu and them at Mist Sea Pass the week after next.
• Jiang Han read invitations from Ji Haijun, Lin Qiang, and Kraken, and planned to clear the greenhouse with Cen Jing on Thursday.
• Ye Keshu returned after delivering Jiang Xuan's lunch, and she, Jiang Han, and Liang Cuoyu used spells to clean the kitchen.
• After two o'clock, Jiang Han entered her portable space and began designing a spell WiFi system to send her magic power to her family remotely.

Jiang Han tried to forge a magic-isolating copper box, but accidentally strengthened the metal with an expensive Purified Metal Potion until her cutting machine could barely scratch it. She spotted a risky workaround in the laboratory and went to investigate it.

• Jiang Han hammered copper and crushed quartz into a heavy ingot, then tried to cut it into pieces with a workshop machine.
• The cutting machine barely scratched the ingot, so Jiang Han checked the potions used in the crucible and realized she had used Purified Metal Potion.
• Jiang Han mourned the costly potion she had mooched from Sharon and considered asking Anjie to cut the metal, but rejected the idea.
• Jiang Han noticed the laser collection machine and considered increasing its power to cut the purified copper ingot.

Cen Jing sold six flawless mandrake grasses to her old friend and investor, Mu Yongqi, for 240,000 yuan. She exchanged the payment for gold and Eternal Crystals, planning to grow Icefruit Trees for a newly adult friend.

• Cen Jing visited Mu Yongqi at her potion ingredient shop and presented six exceptionally high-quality mandrake grasses.
• Mu Yongqi inspected the grasses and offered 40,000 yuan for each, which Cen Jing accepted.
• Cen Jing asked to receive the payment in gold and exchange the remainder for Eternal Crystals.
• Cen Jing told Mu Yongqi she planned to grow Icefruit Trees because her newly adult friend needed to take care of her body.
• Mu Yongqi explained that Ice Cleansing Fruits improved ocean-aspected Witches' health and skin, and said the shop's Eternal Crystals produced delicious Icefruits.

Agatha investigated Angelite’s suspicion that a witch carried an otherworldly scent and concluded it was harmless, then learned Eileen was returning and that some Great Witches were willing to fight her. Meanwhile, Cen Jing found Jiang Han building a laser cutter and reminded her that she had originally set out to make home magic Wi-Fi.

• Agatha met Angelite at the Evening Frost Bar and questioned her about a possibly otherworldly witch.
• Agatha examined the clues and concluded that the scent was a common effect of dreaming about another world, not evidence of a spy.
• Angelite told Agatha that Eileen was coming back, and Agatha wondered whether anyone would give up a seat for her.
• Angelite said some Great Witches were willing to fight Eileen.
• Cen Jing found Jiang Han operating a laser cutter in the alchemy laboratory and asked what she was making.
• Jiang Han remembered that she had started out to make home magic Wi-Fi and had already cut the copper plates she needed.

Jiang Han attended a private lecture by the great witch Agatha Landon, joining the 303 Witches and learning about the elite witches’ connections and expertise. Agatha began her lecture on alchemy by arguing that it was the art of creating miracles and that ethical restraint kept alchemists from winning awards.

• Jiang Han installed a power-hungry Wi-Fi device at home so her mothers could freely use magic, then went back to sleep as they tested spells.
• Jiang Han dressed for the afternoon and traveled to the Red Square Opera House, where she joined Leah and the other 303 Witches for Agatha Landon’s lecture.
• Leah said Mary had a private lesson with Great Witch Eleanor Holsted, while the others discussed their tutoring arrangements and the top witches’ specialties.
• Mary Qiong and Annie discussed Agatha Landon’s planned lecture topics, including the Dimensional Anchor and the Fused Flame Orb, as Jiang Han listened and took in their knowledge.
• Agatha Landon opened her lecture by defining alchemy as a miracle-making art, and Jiang Han took notes as Agatha argued that alchemists who obeyed moral and ethical rules had never won even minor awards.

Jiang Han attended Agatha Landen’s private lecture, learned five spells, and stayed afterward for tutoring. After Agatha answered her questions, Jiang Han planned to use a newly free day for potion ingredients and study.

• Agatha Landen taught the 303 Witches five spells and theoretical material, with the spellbooks and donation sponsored by Angelite von Ludwig.
• Agatha kept the 303 Witches behind after the lecture and answered their questions in the small library.
• Jiang Han asked Agatha about the spells, especially Drain Life, and recorded the explanation and insights in her notebook.
• Leah teased Jiang Han by asking whether she was newly of age, and Jiang Han changed the subject while Leah misunderstood her embarrassment.
• After the tutoring ended, Jiang Han found a meeting canceled from her schedule and planned to go shopping for potion ingredients the day after tomorrow.

Jiang Han visited the Night Watcher Camp to meet Angelite, but the newly commercialized tourist attraction drained her money with tickets and merchandise. After reaching Sovereign Palace, she heard from Nancy about Angelite’s suspicious habits and past overreactions, leaving Jiang Han convinced that Angelite’s paranoia could be dangerous.

• Jiang Han rode a Dragon Bus to the Night Watcher Camp and paid for sightseeing tickets to reach White City and Sovereign Palace.
• Jiang Han saw Angelite’s extensive tourist merchandise, including overpriced mascot drinks, Witch collectibles, and products featuring the 303 Witches.
• Jiang Han reached Sovereign Palace, where Nancy led her inside and complained that Angelite had ordered a painstaking audit of every ledger.
• Nancy told Jiang Han that Angelite had once searched Monarch City repeatedly for a lost cake box and had pursued Dinesha for months over a suspicion.
• Jiang Han agreed that Angelite was intensely suspicious and worried about what that meant for a Witch with her power.

Angelite told Jiang Han about her hatred of Eileen, the First Witch, then hired her as a temporary maid to sort valuable blueprints. While Jiang Han worked alone in Angelite’s office, Angelite monitored her and called Qin Shunying to propose cooperation with the Witch House.

• Angelite explained that Eileen was a powerful, unmutated human witch who had created the eight schools of arcane arts, and admitted she had been born with the purpose of defeating her.
• Jiang Han assured Angelite that her era would not end, and Angelite led her to an office crowded with valuable blueprints.
• Angelite hired Jiang Han as a temporary maid, gave her a technological maid uniform, and left to handle an urgent matter.
• Jiang Han discovered Angelite had vanished and began sorting the blueprints, while Angelite watched her through a crystal screen and continued collecting data.
• Angelite called Qin Shunying of the Witch House and proposed cooperation, asking to cut in line.

Jiang Han organized Angelite’s blueprints at the Sovereign Palace, then spent the next afternoon chatting with Du Ningzhuang and Chu Yujun at the Witch House. She revealed that Lin Zhaojun’s casting speed was nearly at the theoretical maximum, leaving her friends eager for more details.

• Jiang Han rested on Angelite’s sofa while sorting through her complicated mechanical blueprints, then finished organizing them before Angelite returned.
• Angelite had Jiang Han model for painting practice, gave her two ice-blue artificial night-blooming cereus flowers, and returned her freshly washed clothes.
• Jiang Han went to the Witch House and joined Du Ningzhuang and the sleeping Tang Wen behind the bar counter.
• Du Ningzhuang discussed a magazine’s tank and league predictions, while Jiang Han challenged its claims about Yu Sitong and Lin Zhaojun.
• When Du Ningzhuang and Chu Yujun asked about Lin Zhaojun’s trial results, Jiang Han whispered that her casting speed was 0.0232.

Jiang Han and Du Ningzhuang discussed Witch House’s employee culture and learned about its new livestreaming business, where Tang Wen played Marite for viewers. The venture also included alcohol delivery, which might soon require Jiang Han and Du Ningzhuang to help launch it.

• Jiang Han and Du Ningzhuang ate in the back kitchen and discussed how they had become long-term Witch House employees.
• Du Ningzhuang explained that Tang Wen had been exhausted because she was working as a Camera Witch and streaming Marite on the membership site.
• Du Ningzhuang admitted that she had played Marite with Tang Wen during a long stream, while insisting it was for work.
• Du Ningzhuang revealed that the new venture included alcohol delivery and that she and Jiang Han might have to help launch the service under an agreement with Ms. Final Witch.

After finishing her shift and leaving development-rights information for the Feather Society, Jiang Han went to the Sea Shepherds Club for a training session with Kraken. Kraken assessed Jiang Han’s abilities and began teaching her how to use her unconventional staff for conceptual casting.

• Jiang Han, Du Ningzhuang, and Tang Wen handed over their shift to Lu Jieshan, Lin Liwan, and Chai Ying, then Jiang Han left key cards for her private development website in the Feather Society activity room.
• Jiang Han spent Sea Shepherds points to book training with Kraken and traveled to the Sea Shepherds Club.
• Kraken tested Jiang Han’s mana, casting speed, accuracy, and reflexes, and found her performance exceptional.
• Jiang Han summoned Lake Light, and Kraken identified it as an instrument-type sword-bow staff and suggested how she would modify it.
• Kraken explained four staff-use methods and began teaching Jiang Han conceptual casting.

Jiang Han trained with Kraken to use Lake Light, the unusual sword-violin Angelite had made for her, and discovered its hidden magic-node orchestra. She learned that the instrument could rapidly create and assemble spell nodes through music, leaving her with a powerful new combat method and Kraken suspecting Angelite had used it to fool girls.

• Kraken taught Jiang Han the basics of unusual wands and had her practice casting spells through Lake Light’s sound, but Jiang Han repeatedly drenched herself with misplaced Create Water spells.
• Kraken suggested Jiang Han might need to play music before the wand could cast, so Jiang Han began playing The Four Seasons, and they noticed the instrument emitted strange magic particles.
• Jiang Han and Kraken realized Lake Light had produced a piano sound, and Jiang Han asked Kraken how many major categories of magic nodes existed.
• Jiang Han triggered Lake Light’s core and discovered that its forty-six categories of spell nodes were stored as instruments in a magical orchestra.
• Jiang Han played several instruments at once and learned that Lake Light used music to create spell nodes at casting speed 0.023, store them in spatial stone fragments, and release spells anywhere covered by sound waves.
• Kraken watched Jiang Han master Lake Light and remarked that Angelite must have used the trick to fool quite a few girls.

Jiang Han returned from training with a new understanding of Lake Light and the wisdom templates it contained, then felt a vast, gentle power awaken within her. In the Sovereign Palace, Agatha Langdon told Angelite that Eileen was about to break free, though she would still need Angelite’s help.

• Jiang Han reviewed Lake Light’s high-cost casting style and the Kraken and Angelite wisdom templates that enabled powerful spell alteration and counter-magic.
• Jiang Han accepted Angelite’s gift as a priceless debt she intended to repay, then sensed immense, gentle magical power descending from the sun.
• Agatha Langdon watched the sun from the Sovereign Palace’s Throne Hall alongside Lilith, Kraken, Eleanor, and Angelite as she considered their histories with Eileen.
• Agatha told Angelite that Eileen was about to break free, but clarified that it would not happen immediately and that Eileen still needed Angelite’s help.

Jiang Han prepared to develop the camp on Whiterun Island as a research site for the Feather Society. After Qin Shunying agreed that the camp should be put to use, Jiang Han realized she needed Cen Jing to help make sense of her plans.

• Jiang Han admired Lake Light’s sword-bow and messaged Angelite to ask whether it could fight dragons in Folded Space.
• Angelite replied that the sword-bow was meant for close combat against witches, not dragons, and Jiang Han decided to ask her more questions the next day.
• Jiang Han and Qin Shunying showed off their sponsored gear while Lin Qiang discussed access to top-tier custom clothing through society treasuries.
• Jiang Han proposed using the camp for soil collection, cultivation, and restoration, and Qin Shunying agreed that it should be developed.
• Jiang Han noticed that she could not remember where she had pointed while explaining her plan and thought Cen Jing would need to help her organize it.

Jiang Han shared dinner with Edwina and Bridget, learned about dragon cuisine, and gradually turned the friendly conversation toward Whiterun Island. Edwina agreed to tell her what she knew, though she warned that she and Bridget rarely went out.

• Jiang Han surveyed the wilderness beyond the castle and decided that its soil and climate would need to be replaced or simulated by more specialized Witches.
• Jiang Han dined with Edwina and Bridget, who praised the beef and showed little interest in the dragon steak until Edwina tried it.
• Edwina explained that dragon meat was tough and difficult to flavor, while Bridget shared that she had once brewed Ash-Burning Wine.
• Priscilla joined the table after dessert, joked that ghosts often dined after the living, and joined the relaxed conversation.
• Jiang Han asked Edwina and Bridget about Whiterun Island, and Edwina offered to share what she knew while noting that they rarely went out.

Jiang Han learned more about Whiterun Island from Edwina and spent the evening chatting and walking with Priscilla. Priscilla shared her memories of Eileen, and the walk ended with Jiang Han adopting Priscilla’s idea for a plant-growing pavilion.

• Edwina described hunting grounds on Whiterun Island and told Jiang Han about a vast underground mushroom forest southeast of camp.
• Edwina carried the reluctant Bridget back to their room and promised to read to her and teach her witch habits.
• Jiang Han asked Priscilla about Eileen, and Priscilla recalled meeting the First Witch at school and described her as gentle and decisive.
• Jiang Han invited Priscilla for a walk after dinner, and Priscilla opened an umbrella to shield her from the moonlight.
• Jiang Han and Priscilla discussed transforming a patch of land into a rainy-season garden with a semi-open coffee pavilion, and Jiang Han decided to use Priscilla’s design.

Jiang Han and Priscilla oversaw construction of a transportation corridor across Whiterun Island while Jiang Han studied the unusual rainwater. Qin Shunying revealed a likely mushroom ore vein beneath the Mushroom Kingdom and secured Jiang Han’s agreement to sell the resulting food exclusively to her shop.

• Jiang Han collected samples of rainwater with an unusually low ignition point and considered using it to improve Rain of Omniscience.
• Priscilla, the Ghost Dragon Witches, Qin Shunying, and Lin Qiang helped clear land and rapidly build a rune-enhanced wooden road intended to span at least three hundred kilometers.
• Qin Shunying told Jiang Han that she and Lin Qiang suspected a mineral vein lay beneath the Mushroom Kingdom.
• Jiang Han researched mushroom ore and learned it could be ground into powder and mixed with water to grow edible mushrooms.
• Qin Shunying offered to buy the mushroom product at seventy percent of market price in exchange for exclusive sales rights, and Jiang Han agreed.