Chapter Summaries

Jiang Han repaired her uncomfortable camper and arranged mineral extraction and monster-nest exploration, while Angelite and Eleanor traveled toward the Sun to bring Eileen home. The chapter ended as a message reported that Eileen was hatching on Day 5.

• Lin Qiang and Priscilla criticized Jiang Han's rough camper after testing it, and Jiang Han later repaired its broken parts and added shock absorbers.
• Jiang Han hired Ghost Castle for mineral-extraction support and asked for adventure teams to explore nearby monster nests.
• Angelite aligned Night Watcher Camp with Sea Shepherd Camp as both floating cities entered closed mode on their way toward the Sun.
• Eleanor teased Angelite about having an important new friend, and Angelite admitted that she was important.
• Angelite and Eleanor discussed bringing Eileen back to Earth, and a message from within the Sun announced that Eileen was hatching on Day 5.

Jiang Han entered the mushroom mine to map its depths and encountered a strange ecosystem and hostile monsters. She defeated the creatures, widened a hidden passage, and shaped it into a grand staircase, leaving the way deeper into the mine ready to explore.

• Lin Qiang explained that Jiang Han needed to place signal transmitters underground so the camp could determine the mine’s size and depth.
• Jiang Han entered the mine, reached a warm mushroom tunnel filled with glowing vegetation, and recorded observations about its conditions.
• A four-armed monster hurled stones at Jiang Han, but she blasted them aside, weakened it with spells, and killed it with Despair Stranglehold.
• Jiang Han continued deeper and killed the monsters she encountered with Despair Stranglehold.
• Jiang Han found a narrow passage beneath a huge crystalline mushroom tree, widened it with spells, and formed its interior into a smooth Baroque-style staircase.

Jiang Han explored a strange mushroom-filled cavern, prepared mushroom soup, and set up a signal transmitter to contact the camp. She reported that the cavern was safe and asked Priscilla to bring coffee.

• Jiang Han entered the cavern and found towering mushroom trees, unusual creatures, steam lakes, and rich mushroom-ore deposits.
• Jiang Han sampled a roasted piece of mushroom tree, ground mushroom ore into powder, and made a stove and a marble statue modeled after Angelite.
• Jiang Han cooked mushroom soup and set up the signal transmitter, while secretly memorizing its design and disguising the statue's face.
• Jiang Han contacted Qin Shunying and said the cavern was safe, then asked her to have Priscilla bring coffee.

Jiang Han helped install an automatic mining machine in the mine, where Qin Shunying revealed that Jiang Han’s Sea Siren hair could be used to make rare magical materials and warned that powerful witches might seek it. Meanwhile, Angelite prepared to use the Philosopher’s Stone to rescue Eileen from the sun, and Eleanor volunteered to wield it.

• Jiang Han charged the automatic mining machine while Qin Shunying explained that it could mine the entire vein using its high-capacity battery.
• Qin Shunying identified Jiang Han’s long hair as valuable Sea Siren hair that could be used to make Witch Stones, Tranquility Runes, and Wish Potions.
• Qin Shunying warned Jiang Han that witches might pursue her for her hair, prompting Jiang Han to suspect that it was connected to the Philosopher’s Stones owned by powerful witches.
• Angelite examined the Philosopher’s Stone in her treasury and briefly communicated with its devoted, flattering personality.
• Angelite told the waiting Great Witches she needed someone to use the Philosopher’s Stone to pull Eileen safely out of the sun, and Eleanor volunteered.

After returning from Gaia with mushroom powder and other specialties, Jiang Han read a new commission from the Chen Ligu Office and met the client, Ailian, at a restaurant. The supposed one-day real estate sales job began with Ailian revealing that she wanted to see Hat-Wearing Cat’s properties in person.

• Jiang Han brought Gaia specialties home, and Jiang Xuan mailed some mushroom powder to their relatives.
• Jiang Han opened Chen Ligu’s letter and accepted a commission to fill in as a saleswoman for Hat-Wearing Cat for one day.
• Jiang Han waited at a restaurant for a client interested in buying a home and reviewed Hat-Wearing Cat’s Sky Island residences.
• A petite Witch named Ailian introduced herself as Jiang Han’s client and ordered a whiskey drink.
• Jiang Han described Hat-Wearing Cat’s properties, and Ailian said she would rather see them in person and move around.

Jiang Han showed Ailian around Snow Cedar Lake Sky Island and explained the local housing and the status of witches. Ailian revealed that she knew little about witches and asked Jiang Han what Gaia Space was, leaving Jiang Han to explain further.

• After lunch, Ailian invited Jiang Han to share a griffin carriage, and Jiang Han accepted while still a little tipsy.
• During the ride, Ailian said she had once sold a demon servant army in China and described her current search for a sheltered harbor.
• At Snow Cedar Lake Villa District, Ailian lent Jiang Han her cape as they arrived, and Jiang Han introduced the luxurious sky-island community.
• As Jiang Han explained the district's amenities, Ailian asked what a witch was, and Jiang Han described witches and their status in different regions.
• Ailian asked Jiang Han what Gaia Space was, and Jiang Han's explanation remained unfinished.

Jiang Han showed Ailian how homes were built and explained modern real estate services, then learned that Ailian intended to buy Snow Cedar Lake Sky Island. The chapter ended with Ailian asking whether the entire island was sold as a single property.

• Jiang Han explained the house construction methods and real estate services to Ailian.
• Ailian praised Jiang Han’s knowledge and gave her a business card bearing the name Irene.Victoria.Habsburg.
• Ailian decided to buy the property and asked Jiang Han to note her renovation plans, including a palace, ski resort, and dragon ranch.
• Jiang Han asked whether Ailian meant to buy the entire Sky Island, and Ailian revealed she had assumed it was sold as a whole.

Jiang Han received a huge reward for selling a Sky Island, including an advanced rune, and showed it off to Kraken. She also confirmed she would enter the witch-dueling tryouts and learned she would begin in the E-Class Public League.

• Chen Ligu brought Jiang Han a lavish sorcery chest from the company that commissioned her, and Jiang Han revealed she had sold an entire Sky Island.
• The chest burst open and spilled gold coins, leaving behind an advanced ruby rune that could store spells and strengthen necromancy magic.
• Jiang Han took the rune to Kraken at Sea Shepherd Camp, where she relaxed in Kraken’s office and showed off her new treasure.
• Kraken explained that Jiang Han would need to compete in the E-Class Public League because she lacked professional training and a license.
• Jiang Han worried her power would make the Public League unfair to her opponents, but Kraken argued that her inexperience balanced the matchups.

Kraken explained Sea Shepherds Club's plan to secure Jiang Han in the witches' draft by using a delayed tryout report and allies' picks, while also pursuing a Japanese witch with stronger immediate combat potential. She then showed Jiang Han around the club, leaving Jiang Han with a favorable impression of its food and workplace.

• Kraken told Jiang Han that Sea Shepherds Club had arranged for the Horsehead People and Absolute City Team to help with draft picks, but warned that Absolute City might try to take Jiang Han if it learned their target.
• Kraken described Sea Shepherds' Japanese prospect, whose magical power was 25,600 and who practiced the One-Breath Style Morishita School, and said the club planned to use its final traded pick on Jiang Han.
• Kraken explained that Anjie would keep Jiang Han's tryout report stuck in review until the final pick, preventing other clubs from acting on it sooner.
• Jiang Han ate with Kraken in Sea Shepherds Club's revolving restaurant and approved of the food, which she could enjoy without registering.
• Kraken toured Jiang Han around Sea Shepherds Club, and Jiang Han rated its environment and colleagues favorably.

Jiang Han visited the Sovereign Palace to meet Angelite and encountered Ailian leaving the throne hall. After Ailian departed, Angelite brought Jiang Han inside and asked how she knew her.

• Jiang Han returned to Chen Ligu's office, where Chen Ligu appraised her gold at roughly 900,000, and Jiang Han said her debt to the Final Witch amounted to two lifetimes of a normal witch's earnings.
• Jiang Han visited the Night Watcher Camp, where Mei Fenghua escorted her through the underground river and the dark passage into the Sovereign Palace.
• Mei Fenghua led Jiang Han to the throne hall, where Night Watchers asked her to wait because Angelite was meeting someone else.
• Ailian left the throne hall with ten Night Watchers and greeted Jiang Han, who explained that Angelite had hired her as a 303 Stage Witch and that she could also be hired through the Chen Ligu Office.
• After Ailian left, Angelite brought Jiang Han into the throne hall and asked whether she knew Ailian.

Jiang Han visited Angelite to repay her debt and learned that Ailian was actually Eileen, the First Witch. Angelite revealed her secret cooperation with Eileen to jointly develop Gaia, then hired Jiang Han as her dance partner for a February ball.

• Jiang Han told Angelite that Eileen had bought an entire Sky Island, and Angelite identified her as the First Witch, Eileen.
• Jiang Han returned 1,070,000 gold coins to Angelite, who showed her a vast treasure trove.
• Angelite explained that she and Eileen shared interests, earned royalties from spellbooks, and were secretly cooperating to develop Gaia.
• Angelite told Jiang Han she had once been selected in a draft but had unknowingly become a free dueling witch after her contract expired.
• Angelite offered Jiang Han 60,000 to be her dance partner at a February ball, and Jiang Han accepted.

Jiang Han borrowed Angelite’s VII-2 Blueprint Designer to create plans for a mobile construction vehicle that could deploy a campsite. Angelite agreed to coauthor the patent for fifty thousand, which she deducted from Jiang Han’s debt.

• Jiang Han searched Angelite’s vault and found the VII-2 Blueprint Designer, whose rude remarks tested her patience.
• Jiang Han described her requirements, and the doll produced a blueprint for a compact campsite construction vehicle.
• Jiang Han explained how the vehicle could travel across Gaia and establish campsites, while Angelite compared it with earlier witches’ designs.
• Angelite offered fifty thousand for second authorship and explained the design’s uncertain profits and its resemblance to her power-supply design.
• Jiang Han accepted the offer, and Angelite deducted the fifty thousand from the money Jiang Han owed her.

Jiang Han traveled to the Witch Market to find materials and parts for her mobile base, discovering how extensive the hardware district was. After accidentally drawing every witch’s attention in the shop, she tried to flee, but the shop owner stopped her and asked what she needed.

• Jiang Han rode a dragon bus and then hired a witch cart to reach the hardware district.
• She explored the district’s extensive industrial goods and found a shop that processed parts.
• Jiang Han hopped up to look across the crowded store, forgetting that the witches could all multitask and see her.
• Embarrassed by the witches’ attention, Jiang Han tried to leave, but the shop owner caught up and offered to help.

Jiang Han commissioned custom parts for her base vehicle, then searched for a comfortable rest wagon. A mistaken escort brought her to a gathering of little witches, where Comrade Xu kissed her hand and revealed that Chen Yu had mistaken her for a lost child.

• Jiang Han presented detailed blueprints for custom metal parts and paid 3,240 yuan after the hardware store manager applied a discount.
• The manager gave Jiang Han a pickup slip and told her to collect the finished order in three days.
• Jiang Han looked for a rest wagon where she could relax without being around smoky match watchers.
• Chen Yu mistook Jiang Han for a lost little witch and led her to a lounge for little witches and Archwitches.
• Comrade Xu kissed the back of Jiang Han's hand, then told Chen Yu that Jiang Han was an adult and that the missing child had already been found.

Jiang Han spent the afternoon reading comics aboard the copper-canopy carriage and met Yin Ling, a young witch whose family ran a bookstore. After Yin Ling sensed Jiang Han’s unusually powerful magic and offered books of witching experience, Jiang Han agreed to visit the bookstore.

• Jiang Han relaxed in the carriage, read more than fifty comic volumes, and met Yin Ling, who introduced herself and offered to sell her books.
• Yin Ling teased Jiang Han about needing books on egg-laying experiments, prompting Jiang Han to pull her into a booth and scold her.
• Yin Ling explained her family’s bookstore sold accounts of witch adventurers’ experience and books for controlling dreams and creating training scenarios.
• Yin Ling revealed that she had sensed Jiang Han’s powerful magic and warned that it could be difficult for her to conceal without training.
• Jiang Han considered Yin Ling’s offer and agreed to visit her family’s bookstore.

Jiang Han crossed the haunted Sky Island with Yin Ling and visited her family’s ancestral grounds, where Yin Ling introduced her to the Black Rose Bookstore. Yin Ling’s mother, Yin Zhiyun, welcomed Jiang Han and offered to help her find useful books.

• Jiang Han followed Yin Ling across a lake and through a graveyard crowded with undead witches and collectors.
• Yin Ling led Jiang Han to her family’s Baroque ancestral residence and explained her family’s history and noble title.
• Yin Ling took Jiang Han to the Black Rose Bookstore beside the ancestral residence.
• Yin Ling introduced Jiang Han to her mother, Yin Zhiyun, who offered to help her find the books she wanted.

Jiang Han visited the Yin family bookshop, where Yin Zhiyun introduced her to rare experience books and their history. Jiang Han bought two books on credit and accepted comic books from Yin Ling as a formal favor, leaving with a debt she would one day repay.

• Yin Zhiyun showed Jiang Han a rare experience book about Chinese gardens in Britain and explained how such books preserved their authors’ lessons and personalities.
• Jiang Han read the book’s account of Mary Zhongyi and the British empress, struggling to contain her laughter at their elaborate titles and history.
• Jiang Han received permission to buy on credit and purchased two experience books by Ma Zhongyi.
• Yin Ling gave Jiang Han a box of comics and formally declared that she would collect the favor when she grew up.
• Jiang Han acknowledged the favor, and the chapter explained how witches treated debts of gratitude and the limits on repaying them.

Jiang Han used her experience book to enter Mary Garland’s memories of developing a folded space under Queen Bell I. She learned from the expedition’s failures and Mary’s advice before waking with a desire to explore a folded space herself.

• Jiang Han fell asleep with the experience book Development and Exploration and entered a dream based on Mary Garland’s memories.
• Mary Garland welcomed Jiang Han into her memories and explained Queen Bell I’s ambitions and their effects on Great Britain.
• Mary Garland showed Jiang Han an early expedition to Green Weilin, where poor preparation and dangerous conditions caused repeated problems.
• Mary Garland explained how to manage servants’ morale and shared practical advice for exploring and camping in folded spaces.
• Jiang Han woke feeling she had learned a great deal and wanted to put the lessons into practice.

Jiang Han studied expedition reports while Eileen rapidly developed Snow Cedar Lake Sky Island and hired Fox Witches for her household. Li Li finished recruiting in Green Hill, then asked Jiang Han for access to Gaia so she could train through combat and hunting.

• Jiang Han used Mary Garland’s lessons to interpret Ghost Castle’s expedition reports and build her knowledge of folded spaces.
• At the Drowned Corpse Singing bar, Jiang Han admired Eileen’s wealth and the rapid growth of Snow Cedar Lake Sky Island.
• Li Li told Jiang Han that Eileen had funded an expedition to Green Hill to recruit Fox Witches as household staff.
• Li Li explained how Eileen’s past legal claim had helped the Fox Witches establish Green Hill near Jianye.
• Li Li revealed that her training had restored her tail and asked to borrow Jiang Han’s Gaia development rights for combat and hunting; Jiang Han agreed.

Jiang Han attended the lavish Eileen Habsburg Cup banquet, where Kraken and Angelite persuaded Eileen to invest heavily in the Sea Shepherds Club. The story left Jiang Han ready to flatter Eileen herself after Eileen asked her to procure alcohol for the next banquet.

• Jiang Han touched up her makeup, pulled Li Li out of the smoking room, and led her into the tournament banquet packed with top-tier witches.
• Jiang Han left Li Li with the 303 Witches and went to the great witches' lounge, where she found Eileen, Angelite, and Kraken discussing investments.
• Kraken pitched the Sea Shepherds Club and its natural-wonder blueprints, while Angelite and Jiang Han teased Eileen about being prudent.
• Eileen bought 35% of the Sea Shepherds Club and promised training facilities, grounds, a training center, and member apartments on Snow Cedar Lake Sky Island.
• Kraken continued selling Eileen stakes in her assets, and Jiang Han agreed to procure alcohol from the Witch House for Eileen's next banquet.