Chapter Summaries

Jiang Han learned that the Witch Agency would tighten draft oversight after a final round of shady, high-powered picks, then discussed the Sea Shepherds Club’s plans for the coming season. The chapter ended with the club preparing for intensive training at Gaia and the Sleeping Cat Lamps causing trouble for Lilith’s dragon plushies.

• Jiang Han watched powerful, previously unknown witches get selected in the draft and learned that the Witch Agency would review future draft regions more strictly.
• Jiang Han checked social media, avoided improper posts about herself, and asked Angelite what training she would undergo after being drafted.
• Angelite said the Sea Shepherds Club would focus on developing talent and practicing small-scale 3v3 coordination rather than pursuing a championship.
• Angelite told Jiang Han she would join 3v3 matches as reinforcements, though the Witch Agency had not shared the specific rules.
• Olivia Lamp and Vera Lamp pounced on Lilith’s dragon plush tail, and Lilith retrieved and charged her tiny dragon plushies while Eileen and Anjie kept the cats and plushies in order.
• Angelite said the club would undergo intensive training at Gaia and decide on the location later.

Jiang Han cooked lunch while caring for Olivia Lamp and Vera Lamp, then shared the meal with them. When the bell rang at the Snowfield entrance, she went to see who had arrived.

• Jiang Han prepared veal, broccoli, rice, and other dishes while boiling the cat lamps in olive oil.
• Olivia Lamp and Vera Lamp tried to steal food with their tails, and Jiang Han scolded them before transforming them into human form.
• Jiang Han ate with Olivia and Vera; Olivia praised Cen Jing's cooking, while Vera said she liked Caroline's cooking.
• The bell rang at the Snowfield entrance, so Jiang Han cleaned her paws and headed to answer it.

Jiang Han met Sha’er, a traveling witch and part of Ovi, who had returned from the Frost Demons’ world. Sha’er introduced Frost Cat Lamps she had created, and the story left Jiang Han learning about her experiments and travels.

• Jiang Han found Sha’er and her enormous cat lamp waiting outside the gate, and Sha’er said she wanted to meet the witch who had released her sisters.
• Olivia appeared and explained that Sha’er was one of nine Meows, while Sha’er described herself as a distinct part of Ovi.
• Sha’er told Jiang Han and Olivia about visiting the Frost Demons’ world and its drifting floating cities.
• The giant cat lamp shook, releasing dozens of small Frost Cat Lamps, which Sha’er said could be used as air conditioners.

Jiang Han welcomed Olivia and the Frost Cat Lamps to her snowfield, where Olivia explained the Cat Lamp Council and offered to renovate the land. Sha'er accepted Jiang Han’s invitation to settle there too, leaving the two Longsleep Meows under the same roof.

• Frost Cat Lamps swarmed into Jiang Han’s and Olivia’s hair, and Olivia suggested they could be mass-produced for witches.
• Jiang Han guided Olivia’s touring carriage into the snowfield through the gate, avoiding Olivia’s spell that caused flying creatures to lose their magic and fall.
• Sha'er joined Jiang Han and explained that the Cat Lamp Council represented the Cat Lamps; Olivia said her split selves drew magic from Cat Lamps and had increased her power.
• Olivia offered to renovate the snowfield into island weather, and Jiang Han agreed while asking for more space.
• Jiang Han told Sha'er she could choose any place to live, and Sha'er decided to settle down there.

Olivia transformed Sha'er's cave into a luxurious Cat Lamp nest while Sha'er prepared to move in, and Jiang Han reflected on Cheng Yu's spell advice. Four hours earlier, Cheng Yu had assembled a spellcasting system for Jiang Han while watching idol livestreams, convinced it would work.

• Sha'er chose a cave beneath Jiang Han's nest, and Olivia used her cat-paw book to renovate it with layered spells.
• Olivia explained that her nine-core drive let her cast spells far faster than ordinary witches, while Sha'er began unloading cat holes and other supplies for her Cat Lamps.
• Jiang Han thought about Histeria incubating Ghost Dragon eggs and recalled that Cheng Yu had promised her a supposedly optimal Big Bus spell framework.
• Four hours earlier, Cheng Yu rushed home to watch the Weekday Girls collaboration livestream and opened several other idol channels at once.
• After reading Jiang Han's letter asking about spellcasting systems, Cheng Yu improvised a Big Bus system and sent it to her, assuring herself that it would work.

Jiang Han visited Angelite at the Sovereign Palace to ask about buying spells from her magic shop. Angelite revealed that she had emailed Jiang Han about her obscure-spell membership system, and Jiang Han ended their conversation by pouncing on her and demanding the catalog.

• Jiang Han finished the refreshments in the waiting room and followed Melissa to meet Angelite.
• Melissa introduced herself as the Lady's chief domestic affairs secretary and showed Jiang Han into Angelite's reception room.
• Angelite explained that she ran a small magic shop selling obscure spells through a membership subscription system.
• Angelite reproached Jiang Han for overlooking her emails, and Jiang Han pounced on her and demanded the catalog.

Jiang Han learned that Eileen had used a loophole in their Black Source Matter agreement to prepare for commercialization, and Angelite arranged for her to negotiate with Eileen over spell rights. Melissa took Jiang Han through the waterways to Snow Phoebe Lake, where she revealed that her loyalty was to whichever side won.

• Angelite explained that Eileen had bought up Black Source Matter-producing ores and could distribute goods as gifts, potentially bypassing their non-commercialization agreement.
• Jiang Han realized that buying spells from Angelite would require negotiating with Eileen over their shared patent and commercialization rights, and proposed a dessert-box condition for Angelite's approval.
• Angelite sent Jiang Han with Melissa to meet Eileen at Snow Phoebe Lake.
• Melissa explained that her grandmother had served Eileen and said she would stand with the victors, regardless of past loyalties.

Jiang Han visited Eileen through the Sovereign Palace’s formal reception system and listened as domestic affairs secretaries Davlin and Melissa complained about administrators and foreign affairs witches. Eileen had already prepared a contract for Anjie’s proposal, and Jiang Han added her own demands before it could be typed up.

• Jiang Han met Davlin and Melissa in the waiting room, ate the desserts, and overheard them discuss protecting their authority from new administrators and foreign affairs witches.
• Davlin and Melissa escorted Jiang Han to Eileen’s reception room after dismissing a Silver Knights witch who had come to guide her.
• Jiang Han and Eileen discussed their formal visit and the palace staff, and Eileen explained why she had previously kept such staff away from young witches.
• Jiang Han relayed Anjie’s proposal and request for a price, prompting Eileen to complain that Anjie prejudged her.
• Eileen produced a prepared contract offering Anjie commercialization rights while reserving production of Black Source Matter ingots to the three witches.
• Eileen set limits on Jiang Han’s additions, and Jiang Han wrote her extra demands onto the contract in fishfolk-style script.

Jiang Han and Qin Shunying strolled with their Dragon Turtles through Snow Cedar Lake’s new garden belt, discussing Dragon Turtle raising and enjoying the lively sky-island scenery. They discovered a hidden cave labeled “Clawmark Shop” and went inside to investigate.

• Jiang Han reflected on the challenges of managing the thousands of people who had relocated to Whiterun Island with her family.
• The Witch Agency put Eileen’s administrative proposal into operation, launching a botanical park belt and plans for seven sky-island connecting belts around Snow Cedar Lake.
• Jiang Han and Qin Shunying walked their Dragon Turtles through Meyersgrel Food Street’s garden belt after dining at Qin Shunying’s family restaurant.
• Qin Shunying explained that witches who raised Dragon Turtles were common because the creatures produced high-grade ingredients.
• Jiang Han and Qin Shunying found an amber-water spring beside a glowing cave, and Jiang Han entered the cave labeled “Clawmark Shop.”

Jiang Han and Qin Shunying visited a reclusive cat witch’s shop, where the shopkeeper displayed rare magical curios and an Exquisite Dragon Heart with a daunting mana requirement. The shopkeeper revealed that Meow-yi-ao had told her to lend the heart to Jiang Han.

• Jiang Han and Qin Shunying met the cat-eared shopkeeper in her hidden, comfortable shop.
• The shopkeeper showed them strange curios, including a teacup that empowered three witches of different races for twelve hours and a doll that randomly evolved a witch.
• The shopkeeper presented an Exquisite Dragon Heart that enhanced spellcasting and strength but could drain witches with less than fifty thousand mana.
• Qin Shunying and Jiang Han questioned the heart’s extreme mana requirement, which exceeded what ordinary witches could manage.
• The cat shopkeeper told Jiang Han that Meow-yi-ao had instructed her to lend the Exquisite Dragon Heart to her.

Jiang Han and Qin Shunying visited cat witch Zhao Ying, who served them magical tea and explained the wondrous teapot’s ability to increase witches’ magic power. Jiang Han declined Zhao Ying’s offer to use one daily cup until she could consult Olivia, then learned that the teapot had been found beneath the whiskers of a colossal Cat Lamp in an alternate dimension.

• Jiang Han admired the items in Zhao Ying’s shop and drank lemon tea made with a magical teapot.
• Zhao Ying introduced herself and revealed that her teapot could increase the magic power of three witches each day.
• Zhao Ying offered Jiang Han one daily cup, but Jiang Han declined so she could discuss the offer with Olivia first.
• Jiang Han asked how the teapot had been unearthed, and Zhao Ying recounted finding it beneath a giant Cat Lamp’s whiskers in an alternate dimension.

Jiang Han agreed to train in ITWF spell dueling under Olivia Meow, who prepared a miniature demiplane for her practice match against Vera. The chapter ended as Olivia ordered Vera to teach Jiang Han a lesson.

• Olivia Meow and Vera Meow dueled with their tails while reciting ITWF rules, and Olivia accused Vera of breaking them.
• Olivia offered to train Jiang Han using a competition arena, and Jiang Han agreed despite worrying about the cost of a venue.
• Olivia had Vera transform back into her witch form to serve as Jiang Han’s opponent.
• Olivia activated a miniature demiplane sphere that transported Jiang Han and Vera into a grassland arena.
• Olivia told Vera to begin training by teaching Jiang Han a lesson for twisting Olivia’s whiskers.

Jiang Han repeatedly challenged Vera in training and learned that her slow, overcomplicated defenses left her vulnerable to Vera’s rapid spell combinations. After Ovi Meow explained how to build a high-resistance Mage Shield, Jiang Han asked whether stronger spells could replace its basic components and prepared to try again.

• Jiang Han opened the duel with layered defenses, but Vera overwhelmed her with a fast combination of spells and killed her before she could understand the full tactic.
• Ovi Meow advised Jiang Han to rely less on psionics, use Swift Burst, and withstand attacks with her high magic power; Jiang Han insisted on another round.
• Jiang Han launched several powerful spells, but Vera detonated a cat-shaped campfire beneath her and killed her again.
• Jiang Han tried a flame ward, but Vera used pinpoint bombardment to defeat her, while Vera and Ovi Meow laughed at the mistake.
• Ovi Meow explained that Stone Skin and Soul Armor could be combined with Mage Armor or replaced by stronger alternatives, and Jiang Han agreed to fight Vera again.

Jiang Han struggled against Vera in combat and learned that her potion toxicity could attract ghosts, so Olivia offered to alter her inherited factors in exchange for a future favor. Jiang Han accepted and tried to drink Olivia’s blood, but her bite drew far more blood than expected.

• Vera repeatedly defeated Jiang Han, whose beatings granted her Mage Armor spell feats, while Olivia treated her and warned that her growing potion toxicity could attract ghosts.
• Olivia revealed that she could remove the toxicity’s drawbacks by reshaping Jiang Han’s inherited factors and adding self-healing genes, but demanded one great favor in return.
• Jiang Han agreed to Olivia’s offer, and Olivia explained that Jiang Han could clear the medicinal effects by drinking her blood.
• Jiang Han awkwardly climbed onto Olivia’s lap and nearly injured her thigh, prompting Vera to laugh.
• Jiang Han bit Olivia’s neck, covered her face in blood, and left Vera laughing uncontrollably.

Eileen visited Jiang Han and Olivia, then asked Jiang Han to provide magic and relocate to the Snow Phoebe Lake Belt. Jiang Han was inclined to accept but said she needed to consult her family, leaving the move’s details for later discussion.

• Eileen visited Jiang Han and found Olivia recovering from a neck wound caused by Jiang Han’s poisonous bite.
• Jiang Han stayed wary of Olivia and kept Eileen between them while they watched the secondary-league matches.
• Eileen explained that the league’s simple arenas had been built widely under her centralized system, and Olivia teased her about the era’s ambitious construction projects.
• After they watched the matches and ate together, Eileen offered Jiang Han an island in the Snow Phoebe Lake Belt in exchange for providing magic to support its development.
• Jiang Han considered the move’s benefits, including better conditions for her Sea Siren power and a place for the cat witches to build Cat Village, but said she would ask her family first.

Jiang Han’s family agreed to move to Snow Cedar Lake, but Kraken summoned her to Snow Phoebe for intensive training before she could consult Ovi. Meanwhile, Histeria infiltrated Snow Phoebe Sovereign Palace and joined the ghost witches’ feast, where Dinesha warned of a possible leak from Ghost Castle; Eileen learned about the feast and planned to join it.

• Jiang Han’s family unanimously approved moving to Snow Cedar Lake, and Kraken summoned her to the training base in Snow Phoebe.
• Histeria infiltrated Snow Phoebe Sovereign Palace by entering through a whirlpool painting and distracting Silver Knights with Cat Lamps.
• Histeria joined Priscilla and the other ghost witches for a feast, where Dinesha said witches and demon hunters had obtained information about Ghost Castle and suspected a leak.
• Eileen received Dinesha’s letter about the feast and planned to arrive at its liveliest point with more food.

Jiang Han toured the training base with Miyano Mona and met her teammates, learning about their unusual abilities and the club’s relaxed approach to training. The team was still missing one member, a mercenary hired to help them win at the opening and closing ceremonies.

• Jiang Han followed Miyano Mona through the training base while a burst of sunlight magic, likely from Eileen, rippled through her magical perception.
• Miyano Mona explained how witch clubs handled matches and training, and Jiang Han spotted Alesha Wellington at the base.
• Miyano Mona brought Jiang Han to the lounge, where she reunited with Chen Ligu and met Chai Ying and Chu Yujun as teammates.
• Miyano Mona explained that Chen Ligu had advanced to Witch Acolyte after hunting a level-eight dragon with Golia Teltrosko’s help.
• Chu Yujun revealed that she was an ordinary mage with sorcerer as a side job and an advanced path in Cloud-Climbing Monk.
• Miyano Mona said the fifth teammate had not arrived and was a mercenary hired to secure wins at the opening and closing ceremonies.

The Sea Shepherds Club welcomed Histeria as a new teammate, completing its five-witch Secondary League lineup. Mona explained that the club still needed more recruits and planned to prioritize team chemistry, leaving the team to consider an informal trip to the training grounds.

• Chen Ligu asked whether Histeria could guarantee victories in the Secondary League, and Mona said Histeria was about to arrive.
• Histeria entered the room, and Jiang Han realized that Eileen had arranged her as a superior replacement.
• Histeria introduced her Devil Master base class and revealed that she had the advanced classes of Legendary Fisherwoman and Legendary Scroll Mage.
• Mona explained that the club would focus on developing its newcomers and could still aim for the playoffs because Lin Zhaojun was on the roster.
• Mona said the club had found only five witches so far and was still recruiting for its fifteen-witch roster.
• Chai Ying suggested that the team visit the training grounds to see a top-tier witch's fighting strength.

Jiang Han watched Xiya face the three Witch House sisters in a training match, while she and Mo Na chatted on the sidelines. Xiya effortlessly defeated the trio, who demanded another round.

• Jiang Han and Mo Na sat out the fight and watched Chai Ying, Chen Ligu, and Chu Yujun prepare to battle Xiya.
• Mo Na asked Jiang Han what shampoo she used, then pulled out a strand of hair and decided her hair was in a life-or-death crisis.
• Mo Na started the first training round as Chen Ligu cast Dark Curtain and Chu Yujun attacked while Chai Ying cast protective spells.
• Xiya used Wall of Sand and Forced Damage Sharing, then fired a Flashbang and switched into ghost form, knocking all three sisters down.
• The Witch House trio recovered with unconvinced expressions and called for another round.

Jiang Han and Histeria watched Xiya overwhelm the Witch House’s three heroines, then left the training grounds for a meal. While Histeria ordered seafood, Jiang Han studied Eileen’s detailed notes on the legendary spell Boundlessly Spreading Tide and learned how its water currents gathered, transformed, and destroyed their surroundings.

• Xiya defeated Chai Ying, Chu Yujun, and Chen Ligu in several sparring matches, leaving the three witches stunned.
• Miyano Mona explained the heroines’ disadvantage in experience, magic, spell mastery, and level, and advised them to improve their spell identification.
• Jiang Han and Histeria left the training grounds after Mona described the club’s facilities, and Histeria said she used the Eye of Omniscience in place of a familiar.
• Xiya used her Ghost Bay membership card to order seafood rice and sugarcane wine at the buffet while Jiang Han studied Eileen’s legendary spell notes.
• Jiang Han learned that Boundlessly Spreading Tide gathered water from the air and transformed it into a destructive, purifying current.