Chapter Summaries

Jiang Xuan explained how a powerful witch’s blood triggered a catastrophic outbreak of witch’s disease in Gray Township, and Jiang Han studied the disease’s effects and the creatures it created. The chapter ended with the revelation that some inferior Witches had evolved into Monster Witches and now lived in witch society.

• Jiang Xuan gave Jiang Han her exploration logbook and directed her to the reports about witch’s disease.
• Jiang Xuan recounted how Miao Hongyu’s blood contaminated Gray Township after a Demonic Beast injured her.
• Jiang Xuan described how the disease spread through five days of blue rain, transforming local life and draining witches’ magic power.
• Jiang Han read the cleanup records and learned that infected creatures became dangerous, energy-hungry inferior Witches.
• Jiang Han learned that more than a hundred inferior Witches had evolved into Monster Witches and joined witch society.

Jiang Han visited Chen Ligu’s expanded commission agency after being invited to take a quick commission, taking time to dress and outfit herself along the way. She found the agency had grown to two floors and recruited more Witches, and Chen Ligu greeted her with a new commission.

• Jiang Xuan praised Chen Ligu, and Jiang Han went upstairs to change before leaving for the agency.
• Jiang Han dressed in an orange outfit and concealed her weapons, potions, and other tools beneath her clothes.
• Jiang Han took a Griffin Carriage to All-Things Trade Street and went to Chen Ligu’s agency.
• Jiang Han met Qiao Rou, who had been recruited by Chen Ligu, and received greetings from the agency’s Witches.
• Chen Ligu welcomed Jiang Han into her expanded office and said she had arrived just when she was needed.

Jiang Han reviewed a potential modeling commission for Qiao Rou’s academic book, Witch Formula Book, which studied witch spines and Witch Disease. She accepted the commission and considered inviting Rosa Rosa as an editor to create opportunities for Mentor Cheng Yu.

• Chen Ligu showed Jiang Han a potential commission and explained that its value came from the project’s promise rather than its low payment.
• Jiang Han read the Witch Formula Book commission and discovered that Qiao Rou was the client and that the second author would receive academic influence.
• Qiao Rou explained that the Witch Association had funded her research and that Mentors Cheng Yu and Cen Jing had agreed to edit the book.
• Qiao Rou described her plan to study witch spine types and Witch Disease, including extracting and activating Witch Disease embryos.
• Jiang Han accepted the commission, thinking that she might invite Rosa Rosa to edit and help Mentor Cheng Yu.

Jiang Han visited the Goodnight Girls lounge with her team and met the famous idol Rosa Rosa. After discovering Rosa was a devoted fan who had been messaging her constantly, Jiang Han began to suspect the reason for Rosa’s attention.

• Jiang Han and her colleagues toured Goodnight Girls’ lavish, demiplane lounge, where manager Meng Yu introduced the group’s facilities.
• Jiang Han admired Rosa Rosa’s magazine cover and judged the idol exceptionally beautiful.
• Rosa entered the lounge, greeted Jiang Han warmly, and revealed that she had sent her messages days earlier.
• Jiang Han slipped away to check her phone and found Rosa’s account, named [Only Nasha Fan], filled with greetings and 303 Stage Witches magazine stickers.

At the Goodnight Girls reception, Jiang Han tried to enjoy the buffet while networking with idol witch Rosa, whose real name was Xin Lan. Cheng Yu asked Jiang Han for advice about approaching Rosa, and Rosa later asked Jiang Han for a signed poster, leaving Jiang Han still unable to eat.

• Jiang Han returned to the reception and approached the smoked meat, but Rosa interrupted her to discuss Qiao Rou’s writing and ask for guidance.
• Jiang Han praised Rosa’s ecological research and Ship of Theseus until Rosa happily moved on to mingle with other guests.
• Cheng Yu asked Jiang Han whether she could get Rosa’s phone number, and Jiang Han encouraged her to take things step by step.
• Jiang Han finally reached for the buffet, but Rosa stopped her again and apologized for leaving earlier.
• Rosa recalled Jiang Han’s debut performance and asked for a signed poster, which Jiang Han offered to give her.

Jiang Han vented to Cen Jing about being unable to eat at a reception, then enjoyed a feast while reviewing Angelite’s plans for recruiting the second generation of 303 Stage Witches and collaborating with Goodnight Girls. The chapter ended with Cen Jing bringing her cheesy chicken noodles as Jiang Han declared she was always hungry.

• Jiang Han admitted that she had been upset at the reception because someone kept her from eating meat.
• Cen Jing prepared hotpot and promised to make cheesy baked chicken pasta and ten fried eggs for Jiang Han.
• Jiang Han ate plates of meat while watching a replay of the Eileen Cup and reading Angelite’s emails.
• Jiang Han learned that Angelite wanted her to recruit Mei Ying, Tang Wen, and Li Yun for the second generation of 303 Stage Witches, which might focus on gaming livestreams.
• Jiang Han reviewed the three-month collaboration between 303 Witches and Goodnight Girls, then stopped working when Cen Jing brought out cheesy chicken noodles.

Jiang Han and Cen Jing ate together and discussed renting a holiday gathering house, balancing friendship and costs. Jiang Han became captivated by an affordable villa on Flame Valley Sky Island beside Snow Phoebe Lake.

• Jiang Han praised Cen Jing’s spicy ramen and hotpot broth and finished the meal.
• Cen Jing explained that she was researching holiday rentals to make gatherings with friends less expensive.
• Jiang Han suggested using the house at Snow Phoebe Lake, but Cen Jing said those visits used up favors and that friendship with Eileen still needed time to grow.
• Jiang Han asked Cen Jing for every dessert in the house, and the two traded teasing remarks while Cen Jing prepared them.
• Jiang Han browsed the rental magazine and grew enamored of a cheap valley villa on Flame Valley Sky Island with an inner river, hot springs, and space for fishing and gatherings.

Jiang Han attended the witches’ resource allocation and used her reward points to order demon heads and their intracranial source matter for research. The chapter ended with her presenting her wish list to the Witch at the exchange counter.

• Cen Jing discovered that Liang Cuoyu’s witch certificate listed Archwitch Jiang Han as her referrer and Great Witch Kraken as both her nominal and actual mentor.
• The witches waited as a crow called their numbers, and Ouyang Feiyan hurried into Room C after the crowd heard her name.
• Murong Feiyan fell silent when the crow called her number and rushed into Room D.
• Jiang Han’s number was called, and a black cat at the Room A counter scanned her certificate and reported her total of 1,726 reward points.
• Jiang Han handed over her memo, requesting heads and intracranial source matter from several kinds of demons for her research.

Jiang Han borrowed Caroline’s garden to dissect demons and research a potion that could let witches use demonic abilities. After comforting Caroline about failing her A2 assessment, Jiang Han began collecting the demon materials needed to develop the potion.

• Jiang Han visited Caroline’s garden with demon heads from the South City branch and asked what food Caroline could make.
• Caroline told Jiang Han that Luowa had passed the A2 Witch and Witch Kitchen Skills assessment while she had failed, and Jiang Han cheered her up by suggesting examiners had their preferences.
• Jiang Han encouraged Caroline to cook a meal using her A2-level skills, and Caroline went inside to prepare it.
• Jiang Han recalled Lin Zhaojun’s recent A3 exam failure, then opened a berserker demon’s skull and extracted its intracranial primordial matter.
• Jiang Han consulted Histeria’s research records and found a proposed potion formula that could let witches use demons’ specialized abilities.
• Jiang Han resumed extracting intracranial primordial matter and gathering demon skull materials for her potion experiments.

Jiang Han revised her failed Abyss potion formula and used Caroline’s blood alongside her own to brew a new potion. The potion succeeded, and Jiang Han sensed its power before she had tested it.

• Jiang Han’s first attempt to make an Abyss potion using demon cerebrospinal fluid failed and caused a brief mental shock.
• Jiang Han concluded that the potion needed a specific target to simulate and recalculated the formula using Angelite’s fox-transformation potion as a reference.
• Jiang Han asked Caroline for blood, and Caroline drew it from her chest with a syringe.
• Jiang Han performed a clock-rune ritual, added her own blood, cola, and fifty grams of Caroline’s blood to the potion.
• The mixture transformed into a cyan-blue liquid, and Jiang Han sensed that she had succeeded.

Jiang Han drank the transformation potion and became a towering Demon Worm Witch, gaining powerful combat abilities at the cost of losing some of her usual traits and magic efficiency. Caroline saw the transformation and praised Jiang Han’s magical power.

• Jiang Han chose to drink the potion, endured its effects, and cast Attached Transformation Spell on her clothes.
• Jiang Han transformed into a Demon Worm Witch and discovered her new traits, including resistance to death curses and the ability to produce inferior witch-transformed eggs.
• Jiang Han examined her new form, found herself over 4.2 meters tall, and tested the speed and agility of her blade-like limbs.
• Jiang Han reflected that the form could serve as her demon form, though evolving it further would require more magic power.
• Caroline entered with floating stew pots and praised Jiang Han’s colossal half-Witch form and magical power.

Jiang Han learned to control her demon form and visited Caroline, who eagerly asked about her transformation and treated her to a blood-replenishing salad and Abyss ham. Back in her Portable Space, Jiang Han showed off her lip makeup to Cen Jing, who complimented her.

• Caroline taught Jiang Han [Control Demon Form] and prepared a potion that let her shrink her demon form to one meter eighty.
• Caroline asked Jiang Han about her demon form, praised her potion, and said it could be patented; Jiang Han asked for more of her blood.
• Caroline served Jiang Han a blood-replenishing salad and Rossi ham from the sixth layer of the Abyss, which Jiang Han enjoyed with rice.
• In the Portable Space reception room, Cen Jing noticed Jiang Han's smoky scent and complimented her lip makeup.

Jiang Han read a guide to invading other worlds, spent the night at Cen Jing’s home, and studied the book while waiting for Blue-Clad Union’s mission assignment. The company’s email announced its study groups and the final period for withdrawing before the invasion preparations advanced.

• Jiang Han read Bertha Gertrude DeForest’s guide to invading other worlds, a costly book Chen Ligu had secured for her.
• Cen Jing found Jiang Han awake before dawn, invited her to stay the night, and cooked her a large meal.
• Jiang Han took notes from the invasion guide and planned copies for Jiang Miao, Jiang Luanxin, and the family library.
• Jiang Han received an email from Blue-Clad Union’s Human Resources Department announcing that it had recruited 560 witches and formed 112 five-witch study groups for sixteen days.
• Blue-Clad Union told the witches to apply for group transfers before the final withdrawal deadline.

Jiang Han reviewed the training commission for a mission to conquer or destroy Testnango, then met the four witches in her study group at the Murloc Village Tavern. The group assembled, ready to prepare for the mission.

• Jiang Han read the commission outlining the Testnango objectives, the restrictions on high-level spells, and the rewards for completing mission goals.
• Jiang Han fell asleep on her sofa and woke in the afternoon to find Cen Jing had covered her with a blanket.
• Cen Jing pointed out that Jiang Han’s calendar reminder was approaching and mentioned the fragrant hot spring she had prepared.
• Jiang Han arrived at the Murloc Village Tavern just before five and greeted the dragon witch proprietress.
• Tan Yue introduced Jiang Han to the study group members Kang Xuezhen, Lin Shu, and Yang Daijun.

Jiang Han joined Tan Yue, Lin Shu, Yang Daijun, and Kang Xuezhen for a drinking gathering as their new teammates, growing comfortable with Lin Shu while staying wary of the group’s boisterous customs. The chapter ended with everyone urging Jiang Han to practice drinking with them.

• Jiang Han sat nervously in the tavern’s private card room while Tan Yue drank with Yang Daijun and Kang Xuezhen.
• Lin Shu and Jiang Han bonded over fruit-flavored beer, with Lin Shu pretending she also liked it before admitting she was practicing because she could not hold her liquor.
• Jiang Han noticed Lin Shu’s flirtatious manner and recalled warnings about women with certain hobbies, but continued enjoying their conversation.
• Tan Yue, Yang Daijun, and Kang Xuezhen collapsed drunkenly onto the sofa, and Jiang Han secretly stroked their soft hair.
• Tan Yue explained that Witches traditionally celebrated meeting by drinking, and the three women insisted that Jiang Han practice with them.

After waking from a drunken night, Jiang Han studied how witches viewed otherworldly races and visited Cheng Yu’s private library to learn rare spells. Cheng Yu offered her access to the collection, but only selected spells suited to her level and learning needs.

• Jiang Han woke at home with a hangover and resumed studying <Otherworlds, Folded Spaces, and Formula Book of Occupied Territories>.
• Jiang Han read that witches abandoned otherworldly bonds without hesitation and were accused of ignoring the multiverse’s balance.
• Jiang Han imagined meeting the Frost Demons, an allied all-female spellcasting race.
• Jiang Han visited Cheng Yu’s private library, where Cheng Yu warned that opening a spellbook could trigger an expensive purchase.
• Cheng Yu praised Jiang Han’s rapid learning and offered to teach her rare spells, while explaining that she could not freely choose every book.

Jiang Han narrowed down a room full of rare spells with Cheng Yu’s advice, then realized Anna’s Dyeing Spell would complete a set of three spells from Anna. The chapter left her poised to choose it and qualify for a prize drawing.

• Jiang Han selected Angelite’s Gentle Warning and Freezing Orb as possible choices before asking Cheng Yu for a hint.
• Cheng Yu advised Jiang Han to rule out powerful offensive spells because she could buy Angelite’s spells, and to skip protective spells because her Ventrue combat suit already provided strong defense.
• Jiang Han narrowed the options to Anna’s Dyeing Spell, Tang An Ke’s Taunt Incantation, and Madezhi Staff’s Mass Creature Shrinking Spell.
• Cheng Yu pointed out that choosing Anna’s Dyeing Spell would give Jiang Han three rare spells of the same type and let her enter a prize drawing at the Mage Authority.

Jiang Han received Anna's Dyeing Spell and learned how spellbooks were made before traveling by Griffin Carriage to the Old Factory District. There, she admired the airships and headed to the armory section to help her group settle an order for performance points.

• Cheng Yu made a spellbook for Jiang Han with a word-spirit spell and explained how its magic helped witches learn spells.
• Jiang Han asked Cheng Yu about difficulties with the spell, then left Dream Garden's fishing village by Griffin Carriage.
• Jiang Han rode with a fashionable witch driver to G Air Harbor in the Old Factory District.
• Jiang Han watched an airship take off, longed to own one, and headed to the armory section to help her group settle an order.

Jiang Han visited Hamster Brand Arms during a 35% sale, bought a customized chainsaw sword, and became captivated by the shop’s vintage breechloaders. After deciding to skim the discount difference from her procurement report, she stood ready to buy a firearm.

• Jiang Han joined the long queue at Hamster Brand Arms, where shop assistants set up conveyor-belt sofas and refreshments for waiting customers.
• A shop assistant introduced chainsaw swords, and Jiang Han bought a discounted custom version suited to her petite build.
• Jiang Han decided to report the 35% discount as 40% and keep the difference while considering purchases for the study group’s servant troops.
• Jiang Han admired the vintage breechloaders and learned they had once armed witches conquering the first layer of the Abyss, before wands replaced them as primary weapons.
• The shop clerk explained that witches still bought custom breechloaders as collectibles or for hunts, and Jiang Han was eager to spend her money on one.

As Queen Allison Aide VI’s bloody attempt to open a mysterious gate continued, the rebel leaders argued over whether to storm Guregs and who should inherit the throne. Amos found Saintess Vera at a watchtower, where she described a worsening headache and a voice calling to her from the royal city.

• Roya James watched the besieged royal city and feared it would fall, as the last resource-supplying territory had rebelled against Queen Allison Aide VI.
• Chancellor Evelyn Morton ordered Captain Charlie to arrest more people for the ritual at the gate, while the queen watched the executions with delight.
• At the rebels’ command center, Amos, Julius, and Alex the Brave argued over attacking Guregs and whether Aide VII could inherit the throne.
• Amos rode to the watchtower and found Allen keeping watch outside while Saintess Vera sat alone above.
• Vera told Amos that a faint voice from the royal city had grown stronger and her headaches were worsening, while her sky-blue eyes seemed to glow and grow lighter.