Chapter Summaries

Jiang Han joined Tan Yue's team to inspect the witches' undead assembly line in Katero Castle, where they discovered a corpse infected with witch disease. She tracked the creature responsible and revealed that she was Histeria's student, Ghost's Second Chair.

• Blue-Clad Union Company's witches struggled to defeat the rebels, while Saintess Vera and her holy sword frustrated their attacks.
• Jiang Han accompanied Tan Yue's team through the underground passages beneath Katero Castle to inspect the undead production system.
• Tan Yue found a thigh bone, and Kang Xuezhen and Yang Daijun recognized it as evidence that the machinery had revived a corpse infected with witch disease.
• Jiang Han used Hunting Mark to reveal the creature's footprints, then cast Sensory Synchronization so the team could see them.
• Tan Yue asked about Jiang Han's training, and Jiang Han said she was Histeria's student, prompting Tan Yue to recognize her as Ghost's Second Chair.

Jiang Han learned about Witch Disease while Tan Yue’s team pursued a mature-stage patient through the sewers and into an underground cavern. The team prepared to contain a possible G-type strain, but Jiang Han discovered that witch rights meant they had to capture the Inferior Witch alive.

• Tan Yue’s team sealed the cavern entrance and another sewer route while preparing for a lengthy pursuit.
• Tan Yue and Yang Daijun set up camp and a communication device, and Tan Yue complained about overtime and hazard pay.
• Kang Xuezhen explained the Alpha, Beta, and G-type strains of Witch Disease to Jiang Han.
• Kang Xuezhen told Jiang Han that Inferior Witches were troublesome because the law protected them and required their capture and re-education rather than killing.
• Jiang Han asked Tan Yue about the law, and Tan Yue said it had been that way since ancient times.

Tan Yue's group explored a frost-covered cave and discovered a huge mana marrow mine surrounded by bones tainted with witch disease. They tracked the newborn lesser witch to her nest, where the skeletal figure noticed them and looked ready to attack.

• Kang Xuezhen warned Jiang Han that killing an inferior witch could bring the Witch Agency's attention, while Lin Shu said the first offense usually led to surveillance.
• Tan Yue's group descended deep into the cave and found bones covered in witch disease.
• Tan Yue illuminated the bone thicket with Cat Lamps, revealing a large mana marrow deposit and prompting her to estimate that its owner had at least ten thousand mana.
• The group followed a glimpse of white through the dense bones and found a black-haired skeletal witch in a nest of bones.
• The skeletal witch sensed the group, turned toward them, and fixed them with confused, hostile green eyes.

Jiang Han and Tan Yue met the newly awakened Bone Witch, explained that she had become a witch, and recruited her to their group. The Bone Witch agreed after questioning them about her new body and learning that they intended to challenge Allison’s rule, though Tan Yue made no promises about punishing the queen.

• Jiang Han gained inspiration for a new wonder blueprint while observing the Bone Witch.
• Tan Yue gave the Bone Witch her cloak, and the Bone Witch asked whether they were kindred.
• Tan Yue explained that the group had come to save Guregs and described their plan to protect the land as a scenic reserve.
• The Bone Witch reacted with resentment toward Allison and asked whether the witches would punish her.
• Tan Yue offered to recruit the Bone Witch, who asked questions about her new body while eating magic marrow ore.
• The Bone Witch was recruited by the end of the conversation.

Solna offered Queen Allison a choice between Witch Blood and immortality medicine, and Allison chose the dangerous Witch Blood. In a dream at Hamster Hole, Jiang Han tried to persuade Vera to leave the rebel army and join their side.

• Solna explained that the red Witch Blood could turn Allison into a witch or transform her into living slime, while the green medicine could grant her a century of life and ease her madness.
• Allison chose the Witch Blood, and Solna handed it to her before leaving the inner hall as Allison injected herself.
• Jiang Han and Vera made tea cakes together in Vera's dream, and Vera described how brewing tea helped calm her after battles.
• Jiang Han asked whether Vera was unhappy with the rebel army and invited her to join their side.

Jiang Han helped Vera in her dream and devised two tea-tree wonder blueprints before questioning the Righteous Army’s noble-led structure. The chapter ended with Jiang Han arguing that its citizens and nobles had joined the rebellion for rewards beyond mere pay.

• Jiang Han found inspiration in Vera’s tea-tree fields and designed preliminary blueprints for the Crystal Tea Tree and Lightbug Tea Tree.
• Jiang Han helped Vera gather tea leaves, then teased her for hunting a deer in her dream instead of simply imagining dinner.
• Vera explained that her great-uncle had left her a hamster hole, a mountain, and nearby pastures and tea fields.
• Jiang Han described the Righteous Army’s class-based composition and compared its tactics to classic Witch strategies.
• Jiang Han argued that the citizens and nobles risking their lives for the Righteous Army must be seeking more than money.

Jiang Han and the witches kept the rebels at bay while enjoying the pay, spoils, and comforts of a prolonged war. At a March 21 meeting, Natalia proposed taking command and breaking the encirclement within three days using trenches, artillery scrolls, engineers, and armored vehicles.

• On March 19, Jiang Han, Tan Yue, and the witches used cannons, muskets, and spells to repel Vera’s cavalry, then sent buffed demons to fight while they withdrew without casualties.
• Jiang Han and the other witches returned to the city, where they enjoyed hotpot, mahjong, wartime supplies, and profits from captured and secretly collected magic marrow ore.
• The witches continued making sorties, and Jiang Han’s group killed citizen knights who confronted them while fishing near River Valley Town.
• On March 21, Solna convened a research meeting, which Tan Yue’s group and Jiang Han attended with hotpot and fruit.
• Natalia declared that she could break the encirclement within three days by concentrating forces, digging advancing trenches, using artillery scrolls, and deploying armored vehicles built by her engineers.

Natalia boosted the Witches’ morale and organized a more fortified battlefield strategy, then Tan Yue’s squad was assigned to build frontline bunkers. At the engineering workshop, the squad learned that their new Bastion Vehicle could unfold into a fortified shelter, improving their chances of surviving the advance.

• Natalia rallied the Witches with food, songs, and a tour of locally built tanks, then ordered them to advance with trenches, bunkers, and heavy weapons rather than charge recklessly.
• Natalia’s staff allowed Witches to use the Demon Summoning Ritual as an escape measure, drawing on the Blue-Clad Union’s prepared reserves.
• Tan Yue’s squad accepted its assignment to build frontline bunkers while Jiang Han worried about the rebels and the Saintess.
• Tan Yue led the squad to the engineering workshop, where Putalia introduced the Bastion Vehicle she had been assigned to oversee.
• Putalia explained that the vehicle stored compressed spell scrolls and could deploy into a small bastion with room for fifty people and five Witches.

On March 20, Natalia changed the witches’ tactics and seized the initiative in the battle around the royal city. The rebels escaped with the Saintess at their head, but the witches began a campaign of attrition from their new star forts, while Tan Yue blamed Solna for their earlier failure to break through.

• Jiang Han and the other witches endured two cannon volleys before headquarters ordered them to charge the rebel spearmen.
• Jiang Han, Tan Yue, and the demon riflemen advanced in chained formations, using coordinated volleys to wear down the rebel cavalry.
• Natalia sent Solna’s succubus guards against the rebel left flank after Witch vision showed their mobile forces were pinned down.
• Natalia’s troops pushed forward, built field fortifications, and rotated fresh reserves onto the line while encircling the rebel cavalry.
• The rebels broke out behind the Saintess but left many citizen and noble cavalrymen behind, and the witches began a campaign of attrition from their star forts.
• At the front-line star fort, Tan Yue played cards and declared that Solna’s inadequacy had prevented their breakthrough.

Jiang Han turned her stable dream plane into a server-like world, using runes and details drawn from her experiences to make it feel real. The dream shook as the Saintess entered, leaving Jiang Han ready to meet her there.

• Blue-Clad Union Company rewarded its witches after Natalia’s arrival helped push the front forward and break through the rebels’ defenses.
• Jiang Han considered why the rebels’ land seizures and economic policies had turned the gentry against them, then went to her suite to sleep.
• Jiang Han used a rune magic array and a pacifier to enter her dream, where she found herself in a familiar landscape with succubus horns.
• Jiang Han arranged runes and drew on research by Angelite and Kraken to make her stable dream plane work like a server connected to reality.
• Jiang Han spent most of the day adding realistic details to the dream, and the plane shook when the Saintess entered.

Jiang Han received a powerful but incomplete inspiration from Vera’s presence in the dream and spent over 8,000 magic power to preserve it until she could learn what it required. She later teased Vera in the Hamster Hole, where the saint denied missing her but seemed increasingly conflicted.

• Vera entered the dream, stirring Jiang Han’s magic power and triggering a powerful inspiration that ended as an incomplete design.
• Jiang Han used over 8,000 magic power to preserve the inspiration and identified a long list of knowledge she would need to complete it.
• Jiang Han recalled Angelite’s similar experience, when she mistook an inspiration for a spaceship before discovering it was a Runic Dyson Sphere.
• Jiang Han found Vera in the Hamster Hole and teased her about appearing in her dreams because she missed her.
• Vera denied that she missed Jiang Han, but paused when Jiang Han puffed out her cheeks.

Jiang Han visited the imprisoned Guregs Chancellor, Evelyn Morton, to persuade her, but Evelyn remained wary of the Witches. The chapter ended with Jiang Han presenting herself as a doctor and describing death as the beginning of another great adventure.

• The Blue-Clad Union struggled to make Testnango's people obey and learned from Roa James that Evelyn Morton had been imprisoned for spreading the Witch Threat Theory.
• Jiang Han learned that Evelyn had refused to cooperate with the Witches and was taken to the Stargazing Tower, where nobles were held under guard.
• Jiang Han entered the tower's observatory and met Evelyn, who recognized her as someone from beyond the heavens.
• Jiang Han denied being a lobbyist, called herself a doctor, and explained that Witches viewed death as the beginning of another great adventure.

Jiang Han tried to lower Chancellor Evelyn’s guard by acting like a lazy witch who had come to the human world for an easy job. She left after casually sharing a little about the battlefield, planning to continue their conversation the next day.

• Jiang Han asked Evelyn whether she was still seeking answers about the soul and body, then claimed her purpose was to slack off.
• Jiang Han told Evelyn that witches invaded worlds as part of their work and that she had come for free special-supply food and a comfortable environment.
• Jiang Han argued that reporting her would bring Evelyn no benefit and warned that other witches might try to dig secrets out of her brain.
• After more than an hour, Evelyn asked about the battlefield, and Jiang Han said the witches had reached the Blue Mountains and occupied the Blue Plain Hills.
• Jiang Han triggered her alarm, declared herself off work, and left the observatory tower after telling Evelyn they would talk again tomorrow.

Jiang Han and Caroline left work together and went to a Witch-style restaurant for dinner and drinks. They settled into a hanging-basket table and ordered a large meal.

• Jiang Han waited for the high-speed cloudway and greeted Caroline in the waiting room.
• Caroline invited Jiang Han to dinner, and Jiang Han accepted.
• Jiang Han suggested they have a drink while they browsed Camellia Food Street.
• Jiang Han and Caroline chose the Tea Meat Shop and relaxed in a hanging-basket sofa.
• Caroline ordered tea wine and several dishes, and Jiang Han added more food to the order.

Jiang Han and Caroline relaxed over food and tea wine while watching witch idol news and a replay of the Eileen Cup. Caroline invited Jiang Han to stay at her place for the day.

• Caroline explained the special seasoning to Jiang Han, who joked that it made her hungry.
• Jiang Han watched news about Angelite’s expanding idol generations and learned she would also join the 707th generation’s gaming streams.
• Jiang Han and Caroline ate grilled meat and drank bamboo-tube tea wine while watching Angelite face Lin Zhaojun in the Eileen Cup.
• Caroline noticed Jiang Han looking at her and asked whether she wanted to stay at her place for the day.

Jiang Han entered a mysterious dream realm and met a younger Angelite von Arlovs, who explained the Sea of Balance and the mark Ludwig had placed on Jiang Han. Arlovs described how she, Hawkins, and Ludwig were created and complained that Ludwig had taken nearly all her private Dream Essence.

• Jiang Han followed an inspiration through the gray fog and entered a furnished room overlooking a layered sea of living planets.
• Angelite von Arlovs appeared and identified herself as the eldest Angelite and mistress of the Sea of Balance.
• Arlovs explained that Ludwig's mark protected Jiang Han in dreams and helped her travel farther through them.
• Arlovs said a spell had created 150,000 Witch Eggs, from which she, Hawkins, and Ludwig eventually hatched.
• Arlovs explained that she maintained the Sea of Balance and collected Dream Essence, then complained that Ludwig had taken nearly ten kilograms of her stash.

Angelite confronted Arlovs in Jiang Han’s dream, then gave Jiang Han a commission tied to Testnango. She left Jiang Han with a test tube and instructed her to inject its essence into Queen Allison when the ritual began.

• Angelite entered the dream after sensing Arlovs complain about her assigned work and questioned her about the grand objective.
• Arlovs told Angelite she had spent nearly three months studying astral arts and had discovered that the multiverse shared one starry sky.
• Angelite told Arlovs to prepare for a trip and sent her away after Arlovs refused to involve herself and suggested asking Agatha.
• Angelite spoke with Jiang Han about her stay in Testnango and requested some local tea.
• Angelite explained that Testnango had once been a vacation resort for powerful witches and handed Jiang Han a test tube.
• Angelite instructed Jiang Han to inject the test tube’s essence into Queen Allison when the ritual began.

Jiang Han accepted Angelite’s secret commission after Angelite showed that her contracts with the Blue-Clad Union allowed it, in exchange for learning Kraken’s Ice Golem Spell. Angelite began teaching her in a dream made almost indistinguishable from reality, aiming to have her master the spell within two days.

• Jiang Han hesitated to accept Angelite’s commission because she still worked for the Blue-Clad Union, so Angelite showed her the Union’s equity agreement and a letter authorizing her to take commissions.
• Angelite explained that Jiang Han’s tasks were to inject an essence into a queen and escort a creature to the front lines and a designated location.
• When Jiang Han worried that she could not leave Tan Yue’s team, Angelite offered to teach her a golem spell, and Jiang Han accepted.
• Angelite explained that she had acquired the rights to copy Kraken’s spell archive through a contract with Eileen and offered Jiang Han the seventh-level Kraken’s Ice Golem Spell.
• Angelite used the Sovereign Scepter to create a realistic forest in the dream, briefly transformed it into a dazzling landscape of gold and gems, and began Jiang Han’s two-day spell training.

After work, Jiang Han traveled to Angelite’s palace on Crystal Lake Sky Island and discussed her plans to develop a cooling spell and improve the Ice Golem Spell. Angelite said Eileen had persuaded her to slow down some inventions, and she offered to teach Jiang Han her latest modification.

• Jiang Han declined Caroline’s invitation for a drink but agreed to go with her after work the next day.
• Jiang Han rode a Griffin Carriage to Crystal Lake Sky Island, where her necklace bearing Angelite’s insignia let her enter without paying.
• Jiang Han found Angelite reading in her office and asked her to develop a spell that would keep sky islands cool under strong sunlight.
• Angelite explained that Eileen had advised her to value a more natural pace after an experiment with housekeeping puppets led them to develop intelligence.
• Angelite offered to teach Jiang Han a new modification to the Ice Golem Spell.

Jiang Han attempted to create an ice golem after mastering the spell improved by Angelite and Kraken. Though the golem took her exact appearance, it immediately revealed her goofy behavior and appetite, leaving Jiang Han embarrassed before Angelite.

• Jiang Han reviewed the Ice Golem spell’s reduced cost and new abilities after studying it for several days.
• Jiang Han woke Angelite early and announced that she had mastered the spell, while Angelite teased her about yesterday’s failed snowman.
• Jiang Han played her Lake Light Zither and spent four minutes casting, using her Eternal Ice Eye to shape a large block of ice.
• Jiang Han molded the ice into a replica of herself and activated the golem.
• The golem grinned foolishly, sat at Angelite’s table, and ate two steamed flatbreads, embarrassing Jiang Han.