Chapter Summaries

Jiang Han learned that the dragon calamity involved Void Dragons and prepared to hunt them with the other witches. The witches set out into the storm toward Snow Phoebe Lake, with each responsible for her own prey and any damage she caused.

• Xiya explained that the Void’s Great Demons had invaded repeatedly and that the Void Lords sent Void Dragons to delay them when rifts opened.
• Jiang Han and Chen Ligu learned that the calamity involved Void Dragons, and they equipped themselves with spells and combat gear.
• Xiya warned Jiang Han that witches had to compensate for property damage and explained that rival witches hoped to profit by cleaning up after them.
• Chen Ligu urged Jiang Han to hunt high-level dragons for materials, and Jiang Han agreed.
• Kerkohes ordered the witches to head to the northern side of Snow Phoebe Lake, where each witch would keep her own prey and handle her own trouble.
• Jiang Han and Xiya mounted their brooms, warded themselves against the storm, and flew into the rainy night.

Jiang Han hunted a Void Red Dragon through a leyline-fueled storm, using magic to widen the Void rift and draw out more dragons before pursuing her chosen prey. She caught up to the fleeing dragon and prepared to give it only a brief head start.

• Jiang Han heard a dragon's roar and raced toward its source as Histeria and Chen Ligu flew off to hunt.
• Jiang Han found a shrinking Void rift held open by lightning and spotted a Void Red Dragon adjusting it with a Void roulette wheel.
• The Void Red Dragon fled when Jiang Han appeared, and she locked onto its coordinates.
• Jiang Han cast Fused Flame Orb into the rift, prompting the Witch world's will to stabilize it with lightning and several Void dragons to emerge.
• Jiang Han let the other witches handle the newly emerged dragons, then abandoned her broom and accelerated after the fleeing Void Red Dragon.

Jiang Han killed a Void Red Dragon, harvested its valuable materials with the Cat Lamps, and continued hunting as the Witches drove the dragons out to sea. By dawn, the Rainy Night Club had earned a rich haul from the night’s hunt.

• Jiang Han froze the Void Red Dragon, broke its spine with a Heat Wave Breath, and finished it with ice lances.
• Jiang Han summoned the Cat Lamps, who swiftly stripped valuable materials from the dragon’s corpse and reported that its remains were inedible.
• Jiang Han burned the useless remains and sensed that the Witches were keeping void rifts open to draw more powerful dragons into the region.
• Jiang Han rode her broom back into the storm and searched for more Void Dragons as the Witches drove the hunt away from land and over the sea.
• The Witches of the Rainy Night Club unleashed their destructive methods over the open sea and ended the night with a rich harvest.

After Kraken defeated the Void Dragons, Jiang Han and the Cat Lamps dismantled the corpses and gathered valuable materials. They discovered an ancient message hidden in a sachet, leaving Jiang Han unsure how to handle it.

• Kraken drove the Void rifts away after defeating the legendary Void Six-Color Dragons, and Jiang Han joined her to collect the fallen dragons.
• Jiang Han offered Kraken on-site dismantling services, and Kraken signed a contract before leaving for South City.
• Jiang Han's Cat Lamps dismantled the corpses, while Gray Mist Cat Lamp praised Kraken's precise attacks for preserving valuable materials.
• Jiang Han burned the unusable remains into nutrient ash and cleared additional corpses.
• Big Orange Cat Lamp showed Jiang Han a sachet containing an ancient message, which Jiang Han recognized as a Witch drift-bottle message that could get the Cat Lamp punished for hiding it.

Jiang Han met white-robed Constantine at the Witch Agency after recovering an otherworldly message, while Angelite challenged the Agency’s secrecy and Constantine explained the message’s importance. The chapter ended with Jiang Han handing the sachet containing the message to Constantine for inspection.

• Jiang Han asked Angelite why the Witch Agency kept its entrances and exits secret, and Angelite criticized witches for relying on secrecy and invisible influence.
• Constantine defended the Agency’s secrecy as protection for its hierarchy and plans, and Angelite mocked her and the four demon-hunters accompanying her.
• Constantine recognized Jiang Han as the witch who recovered the otherworldly message and thanked her for helping welcome back a witch lost beyond their world.
• Angelite revealed that recovering the lost witch was also a major political achievement that could boost the Agency’s public standing and bonuses.
• Jiang Han gave Constantine the sachet containing the otherworldly message so she could inspect it.

Jiang Han and the witches examined a magical message from the Void and discovered coordinates alongside a plea for help from a witch named Xu Fangying. Although Xu Fangying was absent from the Lost Witch Archive, the coordinates appeared likely to be genuine, so Anjie prepared to investigate them.

• Constantine offered Jiang Han a generous set of possible rewards for helping uncover a lost witch or Void coordinates.
• The demon hunters unsealed the sachet, revealing a bamboo slip with a plea for help, coordinates, and the name Xu Fangying.
• Anjie speculated that the message used an ancient, primitive adaptation of a modern short-message spell.
• Constantine checked the Lost Witch Archive and found no record of Xu Fangying or any lost witch surnamed Xu.
• Constantine judged the coordinates likely to be real, and Anjie decided they would learn the truth by going there.

Jiang Han received her Witch Association honorary title and returned to Xiya’s club, while Angelite asked Amabel to assess what made Jiang Han seem otherworldly. Amabel confirmed Jiang Han was a witch but warned that her unstable, time-linked powers made her dangerous to ordinary witches.

• Jiang Han received her medal and title from Amabel, underwent measurements and a health check, and was promised a new spell each month for four months.
• Jiang Han left with a Demon Hunter after arranging to meet Angelite at Xiya’s club the next day.
• Amabel questioned Angelite’s concern for Jiang Han, and Angelite insisted they were only friends.
• Amabel told Angelite that Jiang Han was definitely a witch, but that her powers resembled Eve Harkins’s condition after the Ghost Turmoil and made her an evil thing to ordinary witches.
• Amabel warned that Jiang Han’s poorly controlled power and ties to the rivers of time could harm other witches, and Angelite realized she had smiled at the assessment.

Jiang Han trained her tail sword technique with Xiya, then received a rare protection spell from Angelite. The chapter ended with Jiang Han preparing for a packed afternoon of magical bullet control, tactical theory, and combat training.

• Jiang Han and Xiya clashed light swords until Xiya ended their swordsmanship training, saying Jiang Han's tail sword could seriously injure a witch.
• Angelite explained that the tail sword targeted vital points, warned that witches could develop temporary resistance, and advised Jiang Han not to rely on such attacks unless she could inflict major damage.
• Angelite gave Jiang Han the level-five protection spell Alice's Dispel Barrier, and Xiya and Jiang Han persuaded Angelite to share candies with them.
• Jiang Han's schedule continued with magical bullet control, tactical theory, and a swordsmanship battle focused on witch-level killing moves.

Jiang Han studied Spell Countermeasures and Trophy Appraisal with Xiya while the Rainy Night Club’s witches relaxed and mocked their teammates during a match. Xiya began teaching Jiang Han mineral identification, explaining that Cat Lamp-line witches needed to learn how to use and make magical items to improve their combat ability.

• Histeria mocked Jiang Han’s poor spell recognition, and Xiya showed her the course material while the club’s witches joked about Lin Zhaojun and Angelite.
• Angelite and Xuan Bao watched Rainy Night Club’s match and teased A Lin after she fumbled in the opening match.
• Xiya cast a soundproofing spell so Jiang Han could focus on their lesson despite the commentary.
• Jiang Han asked whether spells could identify trophies, and Xiya explained why appraisal spells were unreliable and why witches needed to identify items themselves.
• Xiya began teaching Jiang Han about minerals and explained that Cat Lamp-line witches needed to learn how to make and use magical items.

Xiya taught Jiang Han about identifying minerals so they could recognize valuable resources during future adventures. She presented six samples of brass as practical hard currency found in many worlds and prepared to begin the lesson.

• Histeria described Eileen’s extraordinary ability to identify and count minerals by sound, and Xiya called the skill unscientific.
• Jiang Han imagined Eileen lounging among treasure, then changed the subject to mineral-identification training.
• Xiya explained that her mineral knowledge had improved after Alice once earned nearly seventy times more loot by recognizing valuable ore.
• Histeria produced six sample boxes and revealed that every sample contained brass, a widely found form of hard currency for Witches.

Xiya taught Jiang Han how magical minerals could reduce power loss in transmission and demonstrated how magical brass was made. The lesson ended with Xiya giving Jiang Han a lifelike brass statue of herself before moving on to magical silver.

• Xiya explained that ordinary brass lost nearly 0.90 units of magic power over five kilometers and proposed magical minerals as a way to reduce transmission losses.
• Xiya and Jiang Han discussed Witch Gold, and Jiang Han reminded Xiya that it belonged to Eileen and that she compensated those who refined it.
• Xiya questioned Jiang Han about her alchemy credentials, and Jiang Han insisted that she had properly passed the A2 exam.
• Xiya used magic to create a miniature brass workshop and explained the materials and universal formula used to make Witch Brass.
• Xiya shaped the brass into a detailed statue of Jiang Han, gave it to her as a lesson sample, and began explaining magical silver.

Jiang Han enjoyed a long bath with a Cat Lamp before sitting down to work on her spell theory paper, which was due soon. The Cat Lamp tempted her to play, and she ended the chapter trying to motivate herself to write.

• Jiang Han soaked in the Sunshine Rain Bath with a Cat Lamp and joked about cats drifting with the current.
• Jiang Han finished bathing, dried herself, and talked about wanting Cat Spider silk bandages and Cat Spiders for her room.
• Jiang Han sat at her desk with mechanical blueprints and tried to encourage herself to work.
• The Cat Lamp urged Jiang Han to play Cat golf and Witch Cards instead of working.
• Jiang Han admitted that her spell theory paper was due tomorrow or the day after and that she had not written anything.
• Jiang Han added a new work slogan to her desk, telling herself to write today.

Jiang Han struggled to decipher her spell blueprint and sent it to dozens of witches, who helped her work out its construction. She left with several pages of formulas and ideas for the spell, while continuing to juggle replies from her academic contacts.

• Jiang Han discovered that she could not understand the spell blueprint she had drafted for her A3 qualification assignment.
• Jiang Han sent the blueprint to Kraken, then mass-sent it to sixty contacts on her Academic Contact List.
• Roxanne recognized the diagram as a simple Luo spiral and suggested a formula, which Jiang Han recorded.
• Eileen said the blueprint had 670,000 possible combinations and offered another way to solve it.
• Jiang Han filled three pages with calculations while answering the other witches who had replied.

Jiang Han studied the spell theories shared by renowned Witches and combined them into a draft of her own composite-spell paper. She finished the draft and tried to charm Xiya into helping revise it the next day.

• Jiang Han reviewed competing spell theories from several Witch schools and admired the scholars' willingness to challenge established ideas.
• Jiang Han chose Lilith's flexible transmutation model as the prototype for her paper and incorporated ideas from Eve Harkins and Nanazawa An.
• Jiang Han reflected on Umbrella of Greed's formidable lineup and stopped herself from imagining joining them before facing them in competition.
• Jiang Han finished her paper and planned to ask Xiya to revise it the next day.
• Jiang Han sent Xiya a photo of her feet, received a suggestive bed photo in reply, and hurried to cultivate their master-disciple bond.

Jiang Han explained why she had hired a construction crew to repair her house, then told Histeria about a political crisis among undead witches sparked by a game magazine's voting rules. Histeria said she had missed the news because she had been too busy running around.

• Jiang Han met Histeria in the Rainy Night Club lounge and offered her a drink.
• Jiang Han explained that compressing her house after moving to Snow Phoebe Lake had caused repeated problems, so she had hired a renovation company.
• Jiang Han invited Histeria to play Fox Fox Soul, and Histeria was surprised the game had already been released.
• Jiang Han told Histeria that The Good-for-Nothing Wanderers!'s game ranking had caused a dispute over whether undead witches' votes counted.
• Jiang Han explained that Angelite had managed the crisis by announcing a study by undead witch civil servants, and Histeria said she had been too busy to follow the news.

Jiang Han and Xiya played Fox Fox Soul and discussed whether Jiang Han should start a gaming channel despite the risks to her idol career. Xiya helped her submit a debut agreement with Histeria, leaving its approval to Angelite.

• Jiang Han, Histeria, and Xiya defeated Fox Fox Soul’s tutorial boss and praised the game’s models and combat animations.
• Xiya suggested that Jiang Han start a gaming livestream channel, and Jiang Han worried that poor results could damage her reputation as an idol.
• Xiya explained that the club could merge Jiang Han’s channel with Du Lingxuan’s show if it failed, and promised to help her experiment.
• Jiang Han and Xiya submitted a channel host debut agreement requesting 35,000 yuan, naming Jiang Han and Histeria as personnel and Angelite as guarantor.
• The entertainment department approved the agreement notice and said it would be shown to Angelite before dinner.

Cun Shangyou tried to avoid being burdened with a risky task when Tajima Chinatsu asked her to deliver an application to Lady Anjie. She found a safer time for the document to be presented and arranged for Claire Baker to handle it on the midnight shift.

• Tajima Chinatsu praised Cun Shangyou and asked whether she was scheduled to work as Lady Anjie's secretary with Claire Baker.
• Tajima gave Cun Shangyou an application to submit to the Final Witch, and Cun worried that delivering it at the wrong time could harm her standing.
• Cun suggested presenting the application after Lady Anjie finished bathing, when she would be in a good mood.
• When Cun said she would be attending a gathering instead of working late, Tajima asked her to recommend someone for the task.
• Cun recommended Claire Baker, and Tajima approved the choice.

Jiang Han toured Rainy Night Club’s lavish training grounds with Histeria and learned about the resources elite witches could access. She settled in to revise a paper with Histeria, while Lin Zhaojun and Chen Ligu continued their training nearby.

• Jiang Han followed Histeria into Rainy Night Club’s high-end training room, where Histeria explained how clubs invested in promising witches.
• Jiang Han asked about training fees, and Histeria told her competitors could use the club’s best facilities for free.
• Histeria showed Jiang Han Lin Zhaojun sleeping in the training room’s resting area, and Chen Ligu praised Lin Zhaojun for training and studying there for days.
• Jiang Han and Histeria took a recessed bookshelf desk after finding the popular members’ room occupied.
• Jiang Han began revising her paper with club-provided materials and asked Histeria for help, while Histeria clarified that she would not revise the entire paper for her.

Jiang Han made a fireplace cat lamp swear not to leak her research, then showed Xiya her paper and a blueprint for a device that could store and restore a witch’s magic. Xiya agreed to join the research as a second author and proposed gathering materials during their upcoming search for giant-cat transformation materials.

• Jiang Han forced the fireplace cat lamp to swear that it would not leak her research documents or records, and promised it ten dried fish for good behavior.
• Jiang Han asked Xiya to revise her paper and explained her idea for a Cat Lamp device that could store a witch’s magic and return it later.
• Jiang Han described the device’s proposed storage unit and conduit, while the fireplace cat lamp listened from the bookshelf.
• Xiya asked to join the research as a second author, and Jiang Han agreed to seek materials with her during their upcoming collection trip.

Jiang Han and Xiya repeatedly failed while trying to develop a potion that restored magical power, destroying communal cauldrons and paying for replacements. They persuaded Lin Zhaojun to test the remaining formulas that required a White An steed.

• Jiang Han tested another potion formula, but the cauldron exploded and the solvent splashed over her before her body healed.
• Lin Zhaojun warned Jiang Han that Christine would object to the repeated damage, and Xiya and Jiang Han paid fines for the cauldrons they had broken.
• Lin Zhaojun recorded that Xiya had broken six cauldrons and Jiang Han nine as they explained their ongoing effort to invent a magical-power-restoring item.
• Jiang Han and Xiya asked Lin Zhaojun to test every remaining formula requiring a White An steed, and Lin Zhaojun agreed on the condition they pay if a cauldron exploded.