Chapter Summaries

Jiang Han and her intelligent Ice Golem argued over meals and played around while Angelite demonstrated a spell that let them drift through the air. The chapter ended with Jiang Han and the Ice Golem signing a contract for meals in exchange for obedience and help with Jiang Han’s work stress.

• Jiang Han and the Ice Golem squabbled over how many hotpot meals she would receive whenever summoned.
• Angelite used Cat Lamp Dive to make Jiang Han and the Ice Golem float, then explained the spell’s traits.
• Jiang Han learned that the Ice Golem had an independent sense of taste and could not be separated from its spell by resetting her build.
• Angelite said she could sever the bond, but Jiang Han chose to keep the Ice Golem because its intelligence helped with tasks.
• Jiang Han and the Ice Golem tussled until Angelite ruled that Jiang Han would provide three meals a day whenever she summoned it, while the Ice Golem would obey orders and help relieve her work stress.

Jiang Han’s Ice Golem rapidly improved the residence by insulating it, expanding its garden, and building an underground lake fish farm while Jiang Han lounged on a wave-filled sofa. Seeing how hard everyone else was working, Jiang Han reluctantly went out to help.

• The Ice Golem lined the walls with dragonhide, covered the carpets with rabbit-fur blankets, and used Spatial Expansion Spells to turn Jiang Han’s garden into a landscaped space with trees and a lake.
• Jiang Han relaxed on her new wave-filled sofa while Zhenling questioned whether their family had really produced an Archwitch.
• Jiang Han remembered how Zhenling and Du Lingxuan had teamed up to make Kraken lose her Marit rank, and admitted she had secretly taken points from Kraken herself.
• The Ice Golem returned with supplies and told Jiang Han that she had built an underground lake fish farm and added fry to an EasyBuy cart.
• Feeling self-conscious as she watched Zhenling, Liang Cuoyu, and Cleya work hard, Jiang Han put on her witch hat and went out to help.

Jiang Han and Miss Ice Golem transformed Jiang Han’s garden into a vast snowfield with hot spring lakes and a functioning weather cycle. The work finished near dawn, while neighboring Witches watched the rapid renovation.

• Jiang Han expanded and sealed the garden, then shaped its magic cycles to create an icefield environment.
• At Miss Ice Golem’s direction, Jiang Han cast rain while Miss Ice Golem formed lakes and added heating pebbles to create hot springs.
• Jiang Han turned the rain into snow across the enclosed space, completing the snowfield and its water cycle.
• Jiang Han noticed her Ice Bear exploring the new landscape, while building-faction Witches gathered outside to observe.
• Jiang Han and Miss Ice Golem finished the snowfield near dawn.

Jiang Han returned to her snowfield home and planned to build rooms for her family and a nest of her own. She began shaping a canyon in the snow, leaving her witch nest under construction.

• Jiang Han dismissed her Force Dragon Wings and used Anywhere Doors to return to the house in her expanded snowfield.
• Jiang Han explained that she could register cheap virtual land and promised to make houses for the others from their designs.
• Cleya took Miss Liang Cuoyu outside to play in the snow while Jiang Han announced the housing plans to Miss Zhen Ling and Jiang Miao.
• Jiang Han decided to build her own witch nest on the icy plains because she could not afford a ringworld.
• Jiang Han called over the Ice Golem and shaped a canyon in the snowfield to prepare her nest.

Jiang Han enjoyed her new home, spell studies, and lucrative work for Blue-Clad Union while the company’s costly campaign stalled against increasingly organized rebels and Saint Vera. Blue-Clad Union then called in a favor owed to Eileen, now Ailian Victoria Habsburg, and sent Jiang Han to ask her for help.

• Jiang Han made a snowfield home for her family, learned an introductory Fisher Maiden spell, and earned money doing varied assignments for Blue-Clad Union.
• Comrade Natalia’s heavy artillery use and the witches’ supply habits drove Blue-Clad Union’s campaign expenses sharply upward.
• The rebels held key lines, and Saint Vera killed dozens of witches, including Tan Yue, who was revived after her group recovered her spinal fluid.
• The Tan Yue Group suffered heavy losses, making the witches more cautious in battle.
• Blue-Clad Union used its backing to claim a favor owed to Eileen, now Ailian Victoria Habsburg, and asked Jiang Han to carry the request for help.

Jiang Han visited Eileen to ask her to help the Blue-Clad Union defeat and capture a troublesome Saintess in Testnango. Eileen agreed, and Jiang Han stayed to share another drink.

• Jiang Han enjoyed Eileen's wine and traded a modern gold coin for an Eileen Commemorative Coin.
• Jiang Han showed Eileen a golden-horn token, and Eileen recalled promising its original owner six generations of glory and wealth.
• Eileen summoned the spirit Cat Lamp inside the token and confirmed that her benefactor or their descendants were still alive.
• Jiang Han explained the Blue-Clad Union's request to defeat and capture the Saintess in Testnango, and Eileen agreed to help.
• Eileen invited Jiang Han to stay for another drink, and Jiang Han accepted.

Jiang Han asked Eileen how she planned to deal with the Saintess, and Eileen explained that she would send Silver Knight witches and her incarnation, the Daughter of the Golden Land. She brought Jiang Han to the Silver Knights’ training ground, where a duel demonstrated their dangerous swordsmanship and time-manipulating abilities.

• Jiang Han asked Eileen how she would handle the Saintess, and Eileen said she would send ten Silver Knight witches with her incarnation, the Daughter of the Golden Land.
• Eileen explained that incarnations helped witches complete their Authorities, then described the Daughter of the Golden Land’s swordsmanship, spellcasting, and resistance to physical damage near gold.
• Eileen brought Jiang Han to the Silver Knights’ training ground and explained that the knights practiced swordsmanship there while spellcasting took place outside.
• Two Silver Knight witches fought with light blades and shields, using their ability to speed up and slow down time to create swift, intricate attacks.
• Jiang Han watched the duel and understood why the witches believed Silver Knights could deal with the Saintess.

Jiang Han watched Eileen reveal her lavish Daughter of the Golden Land incarnation and learned how witches created incarnations as independent possibilities. The chapter ended with Big Eileen teasing that she and Eileen fought weekly before escaping the room.

• Jiang Han observed Eileen chatting warmly with the Silver Knights, then followed her into a luxurious private training room.
• Eileen cast a spell that revealed her adult form as the richly adorned Daughter of the Golden Land, and Jiang Han tried to punch her for being so glittery.
• Eileen explained that witches created incarnations by spending immense magic power and costly materials, producing new consciousnesses that embodied possibilities rather than being bound by divine offices.
• Eileen described how incarnations could develop toward omnipotence and said that omniscience was also needed to complete it.
• Jiang Han asked whether Eileen and her incarnation quarrelled, and Big Eileen claimed they fought once a week before skipping away as Eileen called after her.

Jiang Han toured a black market for top-tier witches with Eileen and considered buying equipment that could grow with her needs. She narrowed her choices to keeping her Ventrue combat suit, buying full armor, or choosing a customized battle-skirt outfit, but had not decided what to purchase.

• Jiang Han used a favor token to secure an extravagant Silver Knight squad and an incarnation for a request involving a Saintess.
• Eileen brought Jiang Han to an underwater black market and said someone, possibly Lin Zhaojun or Loya, had been buying up fortuitous encounters.
• Jiang Han saw the market’s rare goods and Eileen spend more than fifty Witch Gold Bars, then asked what Eileen intended to buy.
• Jiang Han reviewed her equipment options and decided not to replace her Ventrue combat suit because its base attributes were excellent.
• Jiang Han considered full armor and customized battle-skirt outfits, but worried that full armor might exceed her budget.

Jiang Han asked Eileen for advice on buying combat equipment, but Eileen revealed that an upcoming war could provide a way to obtain legendary gear. The chapter ended with Eileen offering Jiang Han a borrowed Golden Land equipment set in exchange for working as her battlefield intelligence agent.

• Jiang Han told Eileen she had about 100,000 to spend, and Eileen explained what quality of equipment she could afford.
• Eileen told Jiang Han that Witch Agency points could be exchanged for rare equipment but required wartime service.
• Jiang Han learned that Eileen had pushed for a coming, relatively low-intensity war to earn merit for herself and Anjie.
• Eileen recruited Jiang Han to gather intelligence from different battlefields, citing her suitability for solo combat.
• Eileen offered to lend Jiang Han a Golden Land equipment set until she completed the task and revealed that she had given Anjie the same set as a birthday gift.

Jiang Han bought a premium Liquid Sapphire and went to Caroline’s home for dinner after leaving Snow Phoebe Lake in heavy rain. Caroline asked about Jiang Han’s suitcase, and Jiang Han said it was an advance payment of her reward.

• Jiang Han bought a premium Liquid Sapphire to prepare to store gem liquid and runes.
• Jiang Han left Snow Phoebe Lake in the rain after Eileen explained she would not introduce her to high society until she was ready.
• Jiang Han lit a working Witch’s cigarette before Caroline arrived to pick her up in a Griffin Carriage.
• Caroline described the rebels at Testnango fighting undead skeletons as they rode to her home.
• Jiang Han suggested dinner dishes, and Caroline went to cook before asking what was in Jiang Han’s suitcase.
• Jiang Han told Caroline that the suitcase contained an advance payment of her reward.

Jiang Han accompanied Greater Eileen to the Blue-Clad Union Company, where Andrea showed them a miniature, block-shaped universe of Testnango. Andrea asked Greater Eileen to remodel it so that Level 5 spells could be used inside, paving the way for the company to conquer the otherworld.

• Jiang Han and Greater Eileen arrived at the Blue-Clad Union headquarters, and Greater Eileen explained the powerful spells and upgrade options of their Golden Land equipment.
• Andrea welcomed them and gave Jiang Han two boxes of ice cream before leading them to the central garden district.
• Andrea revealed that the sphere in the garden was a copied miniature universe of Testnango, whose inhabitants could not fly beyond its spherical surface.
• Greater Eileen asked whether the company wanted her to destroy or remodel the planet and explained that her favor could enable Level 5 spells while causing a mana resurgence.
• Andrea said the company wanted the planet remodeled because it believed access to Level 5 spells would make conquering the otherworld easy.

Big Eileen used Jiang Han’s immense magic to reshape Testnango’s magical environment, turning its Age of Dharma’s End back into the Age of Mystery. She was left preparing one final lock to detect creatures too powerful for the world to tolerate.

• Big Eileen cleared the other witches from Central Park and explained that interference spells would keep them from divining the process.
• Big Eileen asked Jiang Han to provide magic, and Jiang Han released her power while Big Eileen drew it into a ring.
• Big Eileen described the historical ranking of witches’ initial magic capacities and talent growth as she gathered Jiang Han’s magic.
• Big Eileen used Sun’s Protection and channeled a scorching breath into Testnango, weaving runes throughout the planet without damaging it.
• Big Eileen created locks that sealed magical power and raised Testnango’s power level, restoring its Age of Mystery.
• Big Eileen said she would add a final lock to detect any creature exceeding the world’s tolerance level.

After the witches stopped their artillery barrage, the rebel leaders at Begalo Mountain Fortress braced for another attack, but a series of supernatural explosions tore open the fortress walls. Amos and Julius saw the witches massacre the defenders, and Julius ordered a retreat as Begalo fell.

• Archie reported that the witches' artillery barrage had stopped, warning Julius and Amos that the enemy might be preparing something.
• Julius and Amos discussed sending mounted scouts to investigate as the heat and strange supernatural conditions worsened.
• A sequence of blasts shook Begalo Mountain Fortress, killing and injuring soldiers and leaving Amos temporarily unable to hear.
• Amos and Julius emerged from headquarters and saw that the fortress wall had been shattered and demons and witches were pouring through the breach.
• The witches used magic to slaughter the defenders and render their old countermeasures useless, while Archie lay dead beneath a table.
• Julius ordered a retreat as Begalo fell.

Jiang Han used Eileen’s Heatwave Breath to destroy the rebels’ inner fortress, leaving Vera and a few soldiers alive as the witches and demons stormed inside. Big Eileen sent Silver Knight Witches to pursue Vera and explained that the Way of Balance meant eliminating their enemies.

• Jiang Han froze much of the inner keep’s wall with the Eternal Ice Eye, then unleashed Eileen’s Heatwave Breath and melted through the fortress.
• Vera survived the blast behind an Eternal Ice Eye shield, while the witches and demons charged into the ruined stronghold to slaughter the remaining defenders.
• Big Eileen arrived in her Golden Land equipment and fired a controlled blast at the battlefield, drawing on Jiang Han’s mana.
• Big Eileen opened ten Anywhere Doors and sent Silver Knight Witches riding hovering vehicles to hunt down Vera.
• When Jiang Han asked what the Way of Balance meant, Big Eileen said it meant there was them and no one else.

Wounded and weakened by Guregs' Gift, Vera was pursued by a force of silver-armored mad witches wielding sunlight swords. She fought her way into the underground passage and collapsed it behind her, escaping while her pursuers tried to dig through.

• Vera struggled with the pain and emotional numbness caused by Guregs' Gift, then fled the city wall as demons attacked.
• Two gold-shining mad witches summoned ten silver-armored witches, who charged after Vera.
• Vera blocked a sunlight blade and knocked its wielder away, then faced the others as they drew sunlight swords.
• Vera overcame her fear, used precise swordsmanship to fend off the surrounding witches, and hurled her cloak and daggers to force them back.
• Vera entered the underground passage, collapsed a support pillar, and escaped as the silver witches began excavating the blocked tunnel.

After the failed attempt to capture the Saintess, Jiang Han questioned Big Eileen’s part in the battle and learned the company planned to recoup its losses by turning the resource-rich mountain into a Sky Island. The witches cleared Begalo Fortress and transformed the mountain into their first large-scale Sky Island in this world, establishing a base there.

• The Silver Knights reported their defeat to Big Eileen, who explained the Saintess’s strength and sent them to rest and eat.
• Jiang Han suspected Big Eileen had deliberately held back, but Big Eileen brushed off her questions and invited her to dinner.
• Tan Yue told Jiang Han that the company had found magic marrow ore and an underground river in the mountain and planned to turn it into a Sky Island.
• Jiang Han and the witches processed the fortress’s dead, supplies, weapons, books, metals, and walls into useful materials, leaving Begalo Fortress erased.
• The witches used thousands of spells to cut apart the mountain, flip it into a Sky Island, and reshape it into a base with camps, a hot-spring lake, and a spell core.

After surviving a brutal battle with ten witches, Vera discovered that her right eye had gained extraordinary vision and her injuries had healed with alarming speed. Her hair and eye had turned a strange starry black, and her growing miraculous power left her wondering whether she was still human.

• Vera woke in the jungle after the fight and found that her right eye could see with extraordinary clarity, though using it quickly made her dizzy.
• She treated her severe wounds with supplies from her intact pouch and continued through the jungle in search of water.
• At a pool, Vera saw that her right eye and formerly black hair had turned a strange, starry black.
• Vera discovered that her waist wound had healed in little more than an hour and that her miraculous power had grown stronger again.

After testing her enhanced powers, Vera accepted that she was still human and fell asleep in the forest, intending to question the succubus later. At the temporary camp, Jiang Han learned she was to teach the Saintess magic power so the company could secure her guardianship rights after her transformation, then sensed the Saintess entering the dream realm.

• Vera found her strength, speed, strange power, and healing had greatly increased, and she froze a nearby forest with her breath attack.
• Vera decided to rest in a forest shelter before returning to the rebel camp and seeking answers from the succubus.
• Andrea and Big Eileen told Jiang Han that Angelite had sponsored the Blue-Clad Union to acquire research rights to the Saintess.
• Andrea explained that Jiang Han should teach the Saintess magic power so she would be less likely to become a degraded witch, allowing the company to transfer her guardianship rights to the Head of the Great Witches.
• Jiang Han sensed that the Saintess had entered the dream realm and hurried to sleep so she could meet her there.

Jiang Han entered Vera’s dream during a deadly rainstorm and made her way to the Hamster Hole, where she spoke with Vera over ham. Vera revealed that her right eye had changed after the Witches attacked her, leaving Jiang Han unsure whether the Witches were responsible.

• Jiang Han entered Vera’s dream, found herself in freezing rain as a succubus, and dressed warmly before setting out.
• Jiang Han crossed the rain-soaked wilderness toward the Hamster Hole, following the aroma of tea.
• Jiang Han knocked at the Hamster Hole, and Vera let her inside.
• Jiang Han ate Vera’s cured ham and corrected her, saying the group should be called Witches rather than mad witches.
• Vera told Jiang Han that her right eye had changed after the Witches attacked her, and Jiang Han said the cause might or might not be connected to them.