Chapter Summaries

Chancellor Evelyn Morton’s blood-fueled ritual began opening a door to the abyss as Queen Allison’s pain worsened. At Blue-Clad Union Company, Andrea prepared a disguised witch vanguard and a secret weapon to invade Guregs through the portal.

• Evelyn watched wizards use blood and runes to open the door while Queen Allison demanded to know when the ritual would be ready.
• The door released black radiance, heat, sulfur, and powerful magic, and Evelyn sensed the abyss beyond it.
• Blue-Clad Union witches disguised their teleportation chamber as an abyss and worked to convert its magic into abyssal magic.
• Andrea learned the portal could soon transport twenty witches or one hundred and sixty demons, and planned to lift the siege of Guregs before conquering the kingdom.
• Andrea said a prepared demon army and an ultra-high-capacity battery would help stabilize Testnango’s portal and send troops across in an endless stream.

The rebel army attacked the Tuse Watchtower, where Saint Vera led the assault with the holy sword Vivaldo. As the royal capital’s defenses faltered, Roa James brought the defeat report to Evelyn Morton and discovered that she had opened a gate to the abyss, filling the palace with demons.

• Amos ordered the rebel soldiers to counterattack the watchtowers despite their heavy losses.
• Saint Vera cut through the defenders and defeated a knight of Guregs with Vivaldo.
• Roa James received news that the royal capital’s army had been defeated and brought the report to Evelyn Morton.
• Evelyn refused to flee and told Roa that Queen Ed would remain queen even if the world ended.
• Roa entered the palace hall and saw Evelyn’s monstrous abyssal form, other demons, and the open gate to the abyss.
• Queen Ed welcomed Roa and told Evelyn that their guest from the abyss had been telling jokes.

Jiang Han and the study group struggled with the severe lack of magic power in the new world while preparing their supplies and assessing their weapons. Caroline discovered a small magical forest in rebel territory, giving them a reason to secure the portal and deal with the rebels.

• Jiang Han and the witches rested in the palace side hall after arriving, complaining about the sulfur smell and the world's lack of magic power.
• Kang Xuezhen tested the weakened Fireball Spell ammunition, and Jiang Han recharged it to nearly its original strength at much greater cost.
• Tan Yue checked their emergency supplies and warned Jiang Han that the rations were meant for emergencies.
• Caroline returned from scouting and reported that a small magical forest lay in territory controlled by the rebels.
• Jiang Han suggested eliminating the rebels quickly and bringing more witches over.

Jiang Han and Tan Yue attended Queen Allison’s court, where they intimidated Guregs’s ministers and heard the kingdom’s requests. While Tan Yue negotiated with Chancellor Evelyn Morton, the court mistook her for the power behind a foolish leader.

• Jiang Han accompanied Tan Yue and ten tyrant demons to Queen Allison’s palace for a court assembly.
• At Tan Yue’s instruction, Jiang Han used a spell to kill a minister after confirming that the ministers were corrupt.
• Tan Yue frightened the ministers with Abyssal speech, and Jiang Han asked Queen Allison what she wanted.
• Evelyn Morton requested help against four rebel forces, the return of lost territory, and immortality for Allison.
• Tan Yue and Evelyn began discussing the details while Jiang Han and Allison watched, leading the ministers to assume Tan Yue controlled the queen.

Maronos was taken to the Blue-Clad Union Company, where its powerful president offered to reward her for service and asked what she wished for. When Maronos asked for freedom, the president warned her that she had nowhere safe to go and proposed that she earn contributions toward becoming a witch instead.

• A black-haired Witch used a bell to subdue Maronos and brought her to a peaceful Sky Island research base.
• Maronos was brought before the Blue-Clad Union Company president and saw treasures beyond those of her former Abyssal Lord.
• The president explained that Maronos would receive compensation for commissions, though it would be reduced because the company had bought her.
• Maronos asked for freedom, and the president warned that she could be recaptured in the Abyss if released.
• The president offered Maronos the chance to become a witch by earning contributions and repaying the currency spent to buy her.

Jiang Han strengthened the portal to the abyss while maintaining her demon disguise and learned that Evelyn intended to sacrifice the royal city's people to fulfill their supposed bargain. After answering Evelyn's question about souls and memories, Jiang Han avoided discussing the deeper philosophical questions that followed.

• Jiang Han altered the portal's runes, redirected a hidden banishment spell, and stabilized the gate so it could withstand a large demon legion.
• Evelyn said she planned to gather 150,000 souls from the royal city, and Jiang Han concealed her shock while pretending to honor their deal.
• Evelyn gave Jiang Han an abyssal question about whether memories represented the soul, and Jiang Han used Comprehend Languages to understand it.
• Jiang Han explained that the soul drove a creature's meaning and that memories were part of that meaning, not the soul itself.
• Evelyn pondered whether life and memory existed for a purpose, and Jiang Han avoided answering her next philosophical question.

Jiang Han used the portal to bring Blue-Clad Union Company's demon army into Guregs, where Solna took command and enlisted Chancellor Evelyn Morton. As the ministers celebrated the regime’s renewed prospects, Evelyn watched them and saw Roya James return to his usual submissive manner.

• Jiang Han poured magic into the gate and adjusted its runes, allowing Blue-Clad Union Company to connect its portal to Testnango.
• Blue-Clad Union Company sent 4,400 lesser demons and 400 greater demons through the portal with orders to conquer.
• The demon legion seized the royal city’s major routes and palace district, then Solna arrived and promised Evelyn Morton a reward in exchange for further assistance.
• Evelyn agreed to help the Abyss while fearing the power of Solna and the demon army.
• In the palace study, Evelyn watched the ministers regain their confidence and saw Roya James return to his humble, flattering behavior.

At the royal city side palace, Jiang Han shared a hotpot meal with Solna and studied the Infernal Witch’s powerful, remarkably soft tail. After indulging Jiang Han’s curiosity, Solna continued their gathering, while Jiang Han was left comparing the Infernal Witch’s innate weapons with her own Sea Siren abilities.

• The witches settled into the royal city side palace, where Tan Yue and Lin Shu prepared black pepper pork shank and oxtail soup.
• Solna borrowed Jiang Han’s group’s room to study a map and thanked Jiang Han for the magic power she had contributed.
• Jiang Han admired Solna’s tail, and Solna offered to let her touch it.
• Jiang Han examined and kneaded Solna’s tail until her hands reached Solna’s tailbone, prompting Solna to protect herself and Jiang Han to let go.
• Solna’s tail coiled back around her body as Jiang Han privately lamented that Sea Siren Witches lacked innate weapons.

Solna organized the witches’ specialty records and ordered investigations and combat tests as the rebels advanced toward their base. Jiang Han registered her specialties and watched Solna discover Kang Xuezhen’s and Tan Yue’s unusual martial abilities.

• Solna ordered Tena to collect non-spellcaster specialties, Keqing to investigate ley line records, and Lan to test local soldiers.
• Jiang Han loaded and maintained her rune breech-loading gun while Solna explained that the witches needed to prepare and train in this world.
• Solna introduced a machine that printed each witch’s non-witch specialties, and Jiang Han pressed her paw onto its tray.
• Solna read Kang Xuezhen’s sheet, which listed spear throwing, heavy shield proficiency, and other combat specialties, and Kang explained her Spartan training.
• Solna read Tan Yue’s sheet, noticed her warhammer and heavy-armor abilities, and learned that Tan Yue’s maternal grandmother was a gray dwarf Witch.

Solna and Jiang Han prepared to defend the royal city while the rebel army camped nearby, judging Chancellor Evelyn to be intelligent and possibly aware that the demons were witches. After weather witches forecast magical winds and heavy rain, Solna ordered a surprise attack on River Valley Town for the following night.

• Solna explained that Evelyn had drawn the demons into her world because she sought something beyond what it could offer, and that she might have guessed they were witches.
• Solna said the witches had promised to repel the rebel army and grant Queen Allison immortality through a vial of Witch Sickness solvent.
• Solna and Jiang Han inspected the terrain, dug defensive tunnels, and waited for the rebels' morale to weaken before making their move.
• Li Siqi reported that magical winds and heavy rain would arrive the next day, creating an opportunity to attack River Valley Town.
• Solna ordered the squads to prepare rain-repelling barriers and brown oil fire for a surprise attack, while Jiang Han and the Idol Witches were assigned to maintain weapons and distribute vodka.

Saint Vera spotted a vast, unnaturally fast royal army launching a night raid and raced to River Valley Town to warn the rebel commanders. She prepared to defend the valley with a small garrison, smiling as the enemy approached.

• Vera noticed the royal city's gates opening and recognized that its forces were launching a night raid.
• Vera sent Allen to warn the commanders at River Valley while she rode ahead to confront the attack.
• Vera reached the valley entrance, ordered Allen to inform Amos and Julius, and stayed to face the enemy.
• Vera organized roughly six or seven hundred defenders to meet the royal army and fall back toward the valley's defenses.
• As Vera watched the dark jungle, she saw her own uncontrollable smile reflected in a puddle.

Jiang Han led the Witch vanguard through the rainy night toward a river valley, but the defenders’ legendary hero, Saint Vera, disrupted the demon assault. The chapter ended with Vera mistaking Jiang Han for the commander and charging toward her.

• Jiang Han hesitated at the forest’s edge, then followed Caroline and the demon vanguard into the forest after convincing herself the demons would expose any traps.
• Jiang Han and Caroline slowed down among the cannon fodder, and a dozen other Witches joined them in lagging behind the main force.
• The demon vanguard clashed with the rebels at the river valley, where Saint Vera tore through the demons and rallied the defenders.
• Jiang Han realized Vera was a legendary hero, and Caroline warned her that Vera seemed to be approaching.
• Saint Vera charged toward Jiang Han, whom she mistook for the commander, as nearby Witches shouted that an enemy was coming.

Jiang Han and the Witches unleashed coordinated spell barrages against Saintess Vera, but Vera awakened overwhelming ice powers and shattered their formation. As Vera advanced, Jiang Han overcame her fear and pounced at her.

• A Witch commander organized the Witches into a shield wall and ordered repeated Missile Storms, which Jiang Han replicated for them.
• Jiang Han used Hold Person on Vera, but Vera resisted the spell and pushed through the missile barrage.
• The Witches used Swift Burst and coordinated Fireball Spells, destroying Vera’s shield and engulfing her in explosions.
• Vera unleashed immense freezing magic, shattering the spells, freezing many Witches, and tearing apart their formation with hail and a freezing current.
• Jiang Han survived the freezing current using her agility and frost resistance, then pounced at the charging Vera.

Jiang Han fought Saintess Vera alone to buy time for the Witch Legion, using potions to gain close-combat skill until Solna and a larger demon-and-witch force arrived. Vera escaped by detonating explosives to collapse the river valley and block pursuit.

• Jiang Han drank feat and memory potions, then used her borrowed swordsmanship to confront Vera with a decapitating sword.
• Vera overpowered Jiang Han through their close-range exchanges, and Jiang Han used Flash Dust, mage armor, and a mirror image to keep fighting.
• Vera struck Jiang Han nearly fatally, but Solna arrived with fireballs and reinforcements, forcing Vera to retreat.
• Vera detonated explosives at the river valley mouth, collapsing rocks to block the pursuing legion, and her force disappeared before the rubble was cleared.

After a brutal close-combat defeat, Jiang Han recuperated at Kang Xuezhen’s home, where the two witches bonded over skincare and explored her lavish house. Jiang Han stayed with Kang Xuezhen to replenish her magic power, while regretting her melee build and deciding to switch to sniper.

• Jiang Han recovered from her abdominal injury and told Kang Xuezhen she wanted to change classes and play sniper.
• Kang Xuezhen treated Jiang Han’s scar with Taruha ointment and explained that she valued its skin-whitening benefits.
• Jiang Han and Kang Xuezhen exchanged skincare tips and discussed witches’ unusual, magic-based beauty treatments.
• Kang Xuezhen showed Jiang Han her elaborate home, including a hot spring lake filled with Cat Lamps and hot spring leopards.
• Jiang Han drank beauty tea at Kang Xuezhen’s home and arranged to stay there so she could replenish her magic power.

Jiang Han recovered quickly from her injuries and accepted Kang Xuezhen’s offer of a seafood meal. Meanwhile, Angelite secretly replaced one vial of Witch Blood in the Blue-Clad Union’s vault before returning to Andrea, who offered to introduce the company’s new game.

• Jiang Han showed Kang Xuezhen how quickly she had recovered, then agreed to a seafood meal.
• The chapter described the Blue-Clad Union’s forbidden items and the properties of Witch Blood.
• Disguised as Miss Bai, Angelite froze the vault’s alarms and exchanged a Witch Blood vial for an inert one marked with the [I Am the Protagonist] rune.
• Angelite left the vault, changed back into her usual appearance, and told Andrea she had been in the restroom.
• Andrea welcomed Angelite back and asked whether she would like to hear about the company’s new game.

Jiang Han brought Solna a vial of dangerous Mana-Infused Witch Blood while learning that the witches’ campaign in Guregs had won ground at heavy cost. The chapter left Solna confused about why she had forgotten the vial as she prepared to plan the next stage of the conquest.

• Jiang Han arrived at the Blue-Clad Union teleportation chamber and received a vial from Andrea to deliver to Solna.
• Andrea explained that Mana-Infused Witch Blood could create a powerful concept-type witch and might destroy a world if it leaked.
• The witches drove the rebels from River Valley Town despite suffering forty-six percent casualties and restored Guregs Royal City’s defenses.
• The witches discovered River Valley Rice, a crop that could mature in six days when grown in shallow water.
• Solna calculated the campaign’s costs and told Jiang Han to wait for her team leader so they could discuss their next strategy.
• Jiang Han handed Solna the vial, and Solna wondered how she had forgotten it.

Saint Vera met Angelite Ludwig in a dream and was confronted with her conflicting desires for glory and a peaceful life. In Testnango, Mia recruited Jiang Han for a plan to use her dream to intensify the witch sickness affecting local troops.

• Vera dreamed of her hometown and met Angelite Ludwig, who described Vera’s longing for both heroic glory and a quiet pastoral life.
• Angelite explained that Vera’s dream arose from her pursuits, confusion, and missing memories, while Vera questioned why Angelite had appeared there.
• Mia told Jiang Han that Solna was struggling against the saint and that Blue-Clad Union would not pay to raise the world’s level enough to admit stronger witches.
• Mia revealed that roughly one or two hundred people had contracted Jiang Han’s witch sickness after being exposed to her blood.
• Mia explained that Blue-Clad Union planned to link Jiang Han’s dream to the patients’ dreams, trap their consciousnesses, and make their bodies mutate.

Mia used a ritual to send Jiang Han into Vera’s dream so she could build trust and gather intelligence. Jiang Han found herself in a magical mountain paradise, where her magic guided her toward the dream’s owner.

• Mia explained that the ritual would guide Jiang Han into Vera’s dream using Jiang Han’s magic power, which had been carved into Vera’s body.
• Mia put a pacifier in Jiang Han’s mouth, and Jiang Han fell asleep as Tan Yue’s group discussed making hotpot.
• Jiang Han awoke inside a dream filled with a ring-shaped mountain range, tea fields, a town, and an inner lake.
• Jiang Han recognized the terrain as a natural source of magical power and realized the lake might conceal valuable Hearts of the Mountain.
• Jiang Han followed a flash of inspiration toward the orchard hill as her magic led her to search for the dream’s owner.

Jiang Han entered Saint Vera’s dream and tried to use her magic to probe Vera’s mind, but Vera woke within the dream and mistook Jiang Han for a succubus. The dream ended before Jiang Han learned anything, and Vera woke at the Rebel Army camp believing demon blood had splashed into her eye.

• Jiang Han reached Vera’s dream home, ate the food there, and prepared to influence Vera’s thoughts.
• Vera woke in the dream and asked Jiang Han who she was, so Jiang Han used her magic to make Vera believe she was a succubus.
• Vera decided Jiang Han was an intruder and declared that she would send her and her Abyssal brethren back to the Abyss.
• The dream trembled and ended, and Jiang Han woke among the Witches and Mia as they ate hot pot.
• Vera woke on a campaign cot at the Rebel Army camp and rubbed her left eye, saying the demon’s blood seemed to have splashed into it.