Chapter Summaries

Jiang Han watched the battle for Anse’s outer ring city before accepting a commission to deliver supplies to Fate’s isolated legion. Her convoy crossed the battlefield and reached Fate Highlands, where the witches unloaded the supplies.

• Agatha and Eleanor destroyed sections of Anse’s city wall, while Dinesha’s undead surged through a breach and Lilith fought six Anse elves.
• Lili told Jiang Han that Fate’s legion had driven deep into enemy territory and needed supplies, while nearby allied forces refused to support her.
• Jiang Han agreed to transport the supplies to a forest near Fate’s highlands, with Lilith’s magic cannons covering the convoy’s passage.
• Jiang Han’s convoy forced its way through the ruined wall, crossed dangerous outposts, and slipped through the encirclement underwater.
• Jiang Han and her exhausted, soaked convoy reached Fate Highlands and delivered the supplies.

After completing Fate's transport mission, Jiang Han and Lilith loaded the spoils and prepared to leave before Fate could recruit their team for the battle. Fate opened a breach in the Anse defenses, and the convoy raced through it under concentrated fire.

• Jiang Han read an obscene Anse Elven book until Lilith snapped it shut and warned her that Fate was approaching.
• Jiang Han and Lilith steered Fate toward seeing the transport team off, and Fate gave them a signal scroll to use when they were ready to break through.
• Jiang Han ordered the giant cats and servants to load 8,500 books, 120 crates of valuables, artworks, and captured Anse servant soldiers.
• Jiang Han activated the signal scroll, prompting Fate to unleash a storm that tore a roughly six-and-a-half-kilometer breach through the Anse forces.
• Jiang Han's convoy raced through the breach as the Anse forces turned their fire on Fate.

Jiang Han’s convoy fought through a storm and escaped the Anse servant troops’ encirclement, reaching a canyon route toward Outer Ring City. The team completed its first transport mission with modest losses and planned to return to the witch base before resting at Moon Bay Camp.

• Ancient Ray Witches summoned torrential rain and howling winds as Jiang Han’s convoy advanced under fire, with Giant Cat Lamps drawing much of the enemy’s attention.
• Li Li reported that the convoy had entered canyon terrain, and Jiang Han checked the map and confirmed they were on the route toward Outer Ring City.
• Bonnie discussed the Ancient Ray Witches’ storm powers and said Lady Fate was a true Dragon Witch.
• Jiang Han ordered the witches to count their losses, which included about sixty servant troops, six skeletons, one zombie girl, and many of Li Li’s pterosaurs; most witches and other creatures were unharmed.
• The convoy completed its first transport mission and planned to unload its cargo at the witch base before returning to Moon Bay Camp to rest and collect another mission.

After the convoy returned its spoils to the witches’ base, Jiang Han observed how the witches, witchlings, servant armies, and Giant Cats chose their shares. The convoy reached Moon Bay, where Jiang Han rushed off to take a bath.

• The administrative officers appraised and stored the spoils, while Jiang Han and the convoy stayed just below the acceptable loss limit.
• The convoy received payment and additional payment, then returned to Moon Bay to rest and clean up after breaking through the rain.
• Li Li showed Jiang Han Anse spellbooks and was teased by the witches for also taking expanded-edition publications.
• Jiang Han recorded her observations and found that witches favored knowledge and high-quality goods, witchlings chose materials and wealth, servant armies received about 13% of the loot’s value, and Giant Cats preferred gemstones.
• As the convoy arrived at Moon Bay, Jiang Han hurried off to bathe.

After returning from the battlefield, Jiang Han received a transport commission from Li Ai, a wealthy True Dragon witch. The job sent her team to Sulfur River Bay, where the fighting was fiercest.

• Jiang Han left the bathhouse and learned from Li Li that a witch wanted to meet the transport team’s person in charge.
• Jiang Han met Li Ai, a powerful True Dragon witch, who requested transport for Dragon-Summoning Flutes, dragon-calling talismans, and emergency military rations.
• Li Ai named Sulfur River Bay as the destination, and Jiang Han demanded three thousand, five percent of the spoils, and four extra battlefield points.
• Li Ai accepted the terms and began issuing the mission.
• Jiang Han told Li Li to prepare the Cat Spider and Dragon Turtle for the new job.

Jiang Han delayed the convoy’s departure so witch Yu Yuxin could sign a companion contract with Cat Jielin. The successful contract impressed the witches and Li Ai, while Jiang Han anticipated more customers for her Giant Cat introduction shop.

• Jiang Han organized the convoy and told witch Qian Jiayi to change into her combat gear properly.
• Cat Delade and Cat Inis told Jiang Han that Cat Jielin wanted to sign an employment contract with Yu Yuxin, a witch in the convoy.
• Jiang Han prepared the contract and told Li Ai that departure would be delayed by about ten minutes.
• Yu Yuxin signed a contract with Cat Jielin and gained the [Chaos True Word] ability.
• Jiang Han noticed the witches’ envy and expected interest in her Giant Cat introduction shop to grow.

Jiang Han questioned the True Dragon Witch Li Ai about her unexpected presence aboard the Cat Spider, discovering that Li Ai had come to observe Giant Cat Lamps. Li Ai stayed with the group as they prepared to leave, while Jiang Han considered how she might handle the powerful witch.

• Jiang Han asked Li Ai why she had boarded the Cat Spider and taken Miss Lilith's fox nest.
• Li Ai said she had come to satisfy her curiosity and watched the Giant Cats outside the cargo compartment.
• Song Ying announced that loading was complete, but Li Ai refused to leave and said she wanted no payment or recompense.
• The Giant Cats moved farther from the Cat Spider because they were nervous around Li Ai.
• Jiang Han reflected that Li Ai would be difficult to defeat and considered asking Olivia and Boss Cat for help against dragon witches.

Jiang Han and the other witches advanced toward a camp near the Anna River, crossing a battlefield devastated by Anse artillery. Li Ai revealed that the river had been blasted into Aina Lake, and the witches continued onward.

• Jiang Han examined the griffin-drawn heavy cannons and suspected the attendant cavalry were bait meant to draw Anse artillery fire.
• Li Li told the witches to dismount and prepare as they entered the artillery-shelled Sulfur River Bay.
• The witches crossed a high earthen slope and saw a vast, scorched pit amid the battlefield wreckage.
• Li Li said their target was a camp near the Anna River, and Li Ai explained that Anse had blasted the river into a lake now called Aina Lake.
• Jiang Han told the group to keep moving past the pit and surrounding shell craters.

Jiang Han led the convoy through Anse’s artillery bombardment, protecting it with the Witches’ spells and redirecting the magic-seeking flames. The convoy survived the first barrage, but Li Ai warned that Anse had enough shells for a year as another, wider barrage approached.

• Jiang Han ordered the Witches to keep three protective spells ready as the convoy advanced under the threat of Anse’s artillery.
• When hundreds of blue-flamed shells descended, Jiang Han struck a fleeing servant troop to snap the stunned Witches into action.
• The Witches cast reinforced protective spells, and Jiang Han redirected the magic-burning flames underground, leaving ordinary fire for the barriers to withstand.
• After the barrage, the Giant Cat Lamps emerged from their craters, praised Jiang Han, and collected valuable alloy and shell fragments.
• Li Ai admired the giant cats, then warned that Anse had enough shells to fire for a year as an even wider barrage approached.

Jiang Han used Heat Wave Breath to destroy an Anse assault, but more badly burned and dehydrated servants emerged from the craters and charged. Suspecting something unnatural was driving them, she ordered Li Li to capture an Anse spellcaster alive.

• Li Li organized the witches and servant army as Anse goblins and dragon goblins attacked from three directions.
• Jiang Han unleashed Heat Wave Breath, destroying the incoming shells and burning the Anse servants to ash.
• Li Ai sent a flying avatar to draw the Anse cannons away from the group.
• More severely burned and dehydrated servants surged from the hot craters and charged, prompting Jiang Han to order Li Li to capture a spellcaster alive.

Jiang Han and the witches defeated the Anse servant troops with spells and the giant cats’ charge, while Cat Jielin captured a dragon-demon warlock. Jiang Han hypnotized the prisoner into revealing what the Anse Elves had done, then put it to sleep.

• The witches and servant troops blasted the weakened Anse forces while boasting about Jiang Han’s spell and Li Ai’s ancestor, Li Vernado Willsby.
• The eight Giant Cat Lamps charged through the Anse troops, saving ammunition and time as Cat Jielin fought especially fiercely.
• Cat Jielin captured a dragon sorcerer, broke its kneecaps, and brought it before Cat Lina.
• Jiang Han hypnotized the dragon-demon warlock and asked it to tell her about Anse and what the elves had done to it.
• The warlock revealed its memories to Jiang Han, who told it to sleep.

Jiang Han analyzed a dragon warlock’s memories and uncovered an Anse Elf spell that forcibly brainwashed servant armies. She left Li Ai with the suggestion that the Great Witches might already have a plan, while keeping her darker suspicions to herself.

• The True Dragon Witch praised Jiang Han’s soul-contract spell as Jiang Han examined the dragon warlock’s memories.
• Jiang Han and Li Ai discussed Histeria, the credit practices of witches, and the Anse Elves’ use of wicked mushrooms to feed their servant armies.
• Jiang Han found that the dragon warlock’s memories were sparse and that Anse servant armies were denied education and ordinary emotional lives.
• Jiang Han reconstructed a spell that used magical stimulation, pleasure-inducing anesthetics, and machines to forcibly brainwash servant soldiers.
• Li Ai warned that the spell could turn Anse servant armies into an army that knew no pain, but Jiang Han suggested the Great Witches might already have a plan.

Jiang Han and Li Ai’s convoy crossed a dangerous battlefield and mountain caves while the witches and Anse Elves fought a vast aerial war. After the giant cats dug a safe route through the mountains, the convoy reached Aina Lake.

• The convoy encountered a fierce aerial battle in which Anse dragonhawks and witch gunboats and carriers brought down one another’s forces.
• Jiang Han watched the fighting with the Eye of the Giant Cat as the convoy hid in caves to avoid artillery fire.
• Li Ai used her true dragon blood to let the giant cats carve through rock without causing cave-ins.
• Jiang Han considered the difference between giant cats and true dragons, wondered what kind of dragon Li Ai was, and apologized after Li Ai caught her staring.
• The giant cats dug through the mountain, and the convoy ate lunch before arriving at Aina Lake.

Jiang Han and Li Ai reached the hidden witch camp with their transport convoy, learning how Anna had died and delivering supplies to the threatened outpost. As Jiang Han prepared to leave with the spoils of war, a more rewarding offer replaced the plan.

• Li Ai showed Jiang Han the concealed camp’s location by teaching her to see the leyline camouflage, and explained that she had invented the spell.
• Anse attacks and a demon-summoning trap struck the convoy on its journey; Li Ai protected them, while Jiang Han healed the wounded and increased the servant soldiers’ loyalty.
• The convoy reached the hidden castle, where Li Weiya welcomed them and thanked Jiang Han for delivering the supplies needed to keep the camp concealed from the nearby front line.
• Li Ai asked about Anna, and Li Weiya explained that the jealous mind flayer Boroliaste had encouraged the giant to reveal her true form, making her an easy target for the Anse Elves.
• Jiang Han proposed taking the spoils of war back, but someone replaced that plan with an offer of richer rewards.

Jiang Han agreed to keep her transport team at the Li Dragon Witch Clan’s castle for a day, with regular transport fees and a seven-percent accidental-loss share. After smoothing over her companions’ concerns, she arranged for them to rest and promised to distribute their earnings after the next day’s work.

• Li Weiya offered Jiang Han’s team eight-hour transport fees, no combat commissions, and a seven-percent share for accidental losses while they waited for Gold and Silver Island to arrive.
• Jiang Han accepted and followed Li Weiya to the castle, where she learned about the clan’s meal arrangements and was shown the team’s campsite.
• Jiang Han explained the benefits of staying to her companions, resolved their concerns, and recorded the incident in her observations.
• Jiang Han asked Yu Yuxin to calm the tense female sorcerers and ensure everyone rested before transporting cargo the next day.
• Jiang Han told Yu Yuxin that the team would settle its split every two days and distribute the money after the next load was transported.

Jiang Han’s transport team delivered its commission to Gold and Silver City, where she and the others gawked at Eileen’s vast, gold-filled vaults. Li Ai became fascinated by Eileen’s wealth and asked Jiang Han how she could get a job working for her.

• Jiang Han visited Gold and Silver City, the True Dragon Witch bank owned by Antoinette, who was away hunting with Angelite.
• Jiang Han saw the bank’s sixty teleportation corridors and learned that twenty-one corridors of vaults belonged to Eileen.
• A Tome Dragon Witch led the transport team to Li Ai’s vault, where they deposited the spoils and selected a seven percent loss.
• Li Ai stared so intently at Eileen’s pure-gold dragon that an Eastern Tome Dragon Witch had to use a spell to wake her.
• Li Ai asked Jiang Han whether she knew how Li Ai could get a job with Eileen and what compensation Eileen might offer.

Jiang Han decided to form a club and build connections through the Giant Cats, inspired by her ambition to amass wealth and curiosities. She began recruiting by approaching Li Ai, who declined to return to the battlefield and received Jiang Han’s business card instead.

• Jiang Han resolved to start her own club and stop charging for drink-companion work so other witches would respect her.
• Jiang Han reflected on her trust in Qin Shunying and considered how the store manager might help her establish the club.
• Jiang Han chose Li Ai, a formidable top-tier reserve witch, as her first potential recruit.
• Li Ai said she would authorize Li Weiya to handle wealth accumulation and needed to support Angelite, so she would not return to the battlefield that afternoon.
• Jiang Han gave Li Ai her business card and proposed future business collaborations, including recruiting Giant Cat Lamp companions.

Jiang Han persuaded Li Ai to hire giant cats and invited her to join a club for witches with giant-cat partners. The club’s plans depended on the Sleeping Witch’s interest, and Jiang Han left Li Ai expecting to meet her after the war with Anse.

• Jiang Han explained that she would recruit giant cats willing to accept Li Ai’s conditions, letting Li Ai choose whom to hire.
• Li Ai asked whether she could hire multiple giant cats, and Jiang Han described how Cat Lamps could grow into additional partners.
• Li Ai gave Jiang Han her business card, and Jiang Han invited her to gatherings with witches who had giant-cat partners.
• Jiang Han revealed that the planned club would include the Sleeping Witch, and Li Ai eagerly agreed to join after the war with Anse.
• Jiang Han outlined plans to establish the club with help from Chen Ligu, Eileen, Manager Qin Shunying, and Cat Yeta.

Jiang Han arranged for Qin Shunying to secure a downtown site for the club in exchange for shares tied to Qin’s future work managing its alcohol business. After five exhausting days of fighting Anse, Li Li told Jiang Han that the transport teams needed to rest and that Lady Eileen had issued a major commission for the next day.

• Jiang Han called Qin Shunying, who offered to handle the club’s location and paperwork for a fee or for fifteen percent of its shares.
• Jiang Han agreed to give Qin shares under a contract that made them conditional on Qin completing her duties, including handling the club’s alcohol business.
• Jiang Han surveyed the exhausted witches and learned that the fighting against Anse had cost millions of servants and left many witches and Archwitches in recovery.
• Jiang Han asked Li Li whether the next transport commission was ready and if the teams could set out that day.
• Li Li said the witches needed a break and told Jiang Han that Lady Eileen had issued a major commission for all transport teams the following day.

Jiang Han watched the witches shift toward fast raids and sabotage against the Anse Elves, while preparing transport creatures for the new tactics. She met her new employer, Ma Yeling, an Inferno Fortress witch whose fiery Giant Cat shared her dislike of Jiang Han’s name.

• Eileen announced increased front-line supplies and compensation, witch slots, spellbooks, and rewards for sabotage missions against Anse Elves production sites.
• Jiang Han watched Giant Cats being oiled and Dragon Turtles fitted with thrusters to speed up witch-led raids.
• Jiang Han met Ma Yeling, an Inferno Fortress witch born from a mobile castle in Purgatory, and reminded her to use Jiang Han’s name politely.
• Ma Yeling said she could not get used to Jiang Han’s name and summoned her Flame Dragon Giant Cat, which was immune to morale damage.