Chapter Summaries

Jiang Han left a Witch Cards game to use a private summoning-and-communication rune, then contacted the Storm Giant Cat. The cat recognized her as Grand Lord Cat Lina and greeted her with extravagant flattery.

• Jiang Han admired Cat Yeta’s prosperous territory and exchanged intelligence with her through a communication rune used by Cat Lamps.
• Jiang Han told Elifia she was going to use a summoning-and-communication rune, and Elifia borrowed Jiang Han’s Cat Lamp deck.
• Elifia praised the Cat Lamp cards but lamented that the deck lacked a Sleeping Cat Lamp archetype, making Jiang Han angry.
• Jiang Han entered her private witch’s nest, activated a silence ward, and used her phone to open a magical communication link.
• A chubby Storm Giant Cat appeared through the link and addressed Jiang Han as Grand Lord Cat Lina.

Jiang Han finalized a contract hiring Doyastin and fourteen other Storm Giant Cats, then welcomed them to camp as allies. She and Doyastin agreed the cats would receive forty percent of battlefield spoils, leaving the group ready to join the coming fight.

• Jiang Han recorded the hiring fee for fifteen Storm Giant Cats and prepared copies of the reimbursement form for the Sovereign Palace and the Witch Agency archive.
• Jiang Han sent Li Li to mail the documents with instructions to request confirmation and return mail.
• Doyastin arrived at Jiang Han’s camp with a procession of armed Storm Giant Cats.
• Jiang Han agreed to give the Storm Giant Cats forty percent of the battlefield spoils, and Doyastin accepted.

Jiang Han watched Cat Lola defeat Luowa and assessed the battle-hardened Storm Giant Cat Cat Doyastin as a valuable recruit. After Cat Doyastin demonstrated her abilities and transformed into her Witch form, Jiang Han privately decided she wanted her on her side.

• Cat Lola defeated Luowa in a duel and won cat-tail maintenance oil.
• Jiang Han praised Cat Doyastin, who grew larger and happily ate stew while they talked.
• Cat Doyastin explained that she had developed Cat Lamp spells using thunderbird feather fibers and runes.
• At Jiang Han's request, Cat Doyastin flew into thunderclouds and transformed into a petite Witch with snow-white hair, large cat ears, and a fluffy tail.
• Jiang Han admired Cat Doyastin's abilities and privately resolved to recruit her.

Jiang Han brought Cat Doyastin to inspect the witches’ preparations for an imminent departure, while the battle-hardened Storm Giant Cat entertained them with stories of her long life. The witches showed their packed supplies and eagerly fussed over Cat Doyastin, and Jiang Han’s suggestion that a giant cat might favor them sent the Fox Witch rushing to join them.

• Jiang Han invited Cat Doyastin to accompany her as she checked how the witches were preparing to leave.
• Cat Doyastin told Jiang Han and the others about her travels, legendary wars, and encounters with great witches.
• Jiang Han and Cat Doyastin reached the witches’ dormitory, where Jiang Kewen worried that brewing Gurgle Potion Soup was not allowed.
• The witches brought out their packed backpacks for Cat Doyastin and the other giant cats to inspect, then petted Cat Doyastin’s fluffy hair.
• Li Li accused Jiang Han of implying that the Storm Giant Cats might form contracts with the witches, and Jiang Han said it was possible.
• The Fox Witch hurried over to explain the witches’ preparations to Cat Doyastin after Jiang Han suggested she might earn a giant cat’s favor.

Jiang Han briefed the witches and sorceresses on a secret mission from Lady Anjie to rescue Fallen Angel Maronos, who had destroyed an Anse arsenal and breached the second wall. The group finalized a plan to enter through the battlefield mines during Du Lingxuan’s artillery barrage and escape with support from Siwa Vini.

• Jiang Han told the witches and sorceresses that their mission was to rescue a Fallen Angel servant army member behind enemy lines.
• Jiang Han revealed that Maronos had detonated an arcane nuclear bomb in an Anse military-industrial zone, destroying an arsenal and breaching the second wall.
• The witches checked battlefield reports and learned that their forces had advanced rapidly, while Jiang Han noted that Lady Eleanor had benefited from the breach.
• Jiang Han explained that Du Lingxuan’s artillery regiment would disrupt the battlefield’s energy layers so the team could enter through underground mines and reach Maronos in the radiation zone.
• Jiang Han assigned Storm Giant Cat Lamp to lead the assault and planned to contact Archwitch Siwa Vini for a satellite-cannon escape route.

Jiang Han’s convoy reached a hidden cavern near the breach in Anse’s second city wall and began opening an underground route into the war zone. They rested and prepared to move on while Jiang Han kept watch for the planned meeting with Du Lingxuan.

• The convoy traveled quickly through the Ring Zone, though its crumbling roads and spoiled canned rations made the journey difficult.
• Mao Guola found a thick rock layer, and Jiang Han detected that spells had concealed a naturally formed cavern beneath it.
• Jiang Han explained that the star ring’s materials came from nearby otherworlds and asked Cat Doyastin to collect a sample of the unusually dense stone.
• Jiang Han ordered the Giant Cats to dig through the rock while the witches set up an underground fire pit and vented its smoke into a pool.
• The witches prepared resting places and shared safety advice with the less experienced witches as Jiang Han spread her magic to keep watch.

Jiang Han used the Mold Earth, Build Tower spell to create a sturdy road down the hidden cavern. She prepared the witches and Storm Giant Cats to open the mine tunnels and enter the radiation zone once the bombardment began.

• The Storm Giant Cats revealed a cavern they had dug and admitted it was at least two hundred and sixty meters deep.
• Jiang Han cast Mold Earth, Build Tower and shaped a winding road down the cavern, adding glowing cat-lamp statues along its guardrails.
• Jiang Han spent nearly six or seven thousand points of magic power to finish a broad, sturdy platform at the cavern’s bottom.
• Li Li tested the road with her pathfinding staff, and it held against the impact.
• The Storm Giant Cats climbed onto the road to test its strength, while Cat Doyastin secretly floated above it.
• Jiang Han told the witches to prepare for the giant cats to open the mine tunnels so they could enter the radiation zone after the bombardment began.

Du Lingxuan visited her artillery camp, where her clumsy jokes got her thrown out by artillery master Amanda, and she ran into Du Xianghe. The chapter ended with a massive explosion breaching Anse's Second Wall, though Du Lingxuan's artillery had not fired.

• Du Lingxuan tried to joke with Amanda about the bombardment in her room, and Amanda threw her out of the observation room.
• Du Lingxuan met Du Xianghe, who invited her for tea and billiards before remembering that her servant army still needed gathering tasks in Sea Abyss Valley.
• Du Lingxuan offered to lend Du Xianghe artillery, then let her hurry away without reminding her about the twenty-five thousand she owed for the observation room.
• Du Lingxuan reflected on the artillery camp's losses and headed downstairs after healing her leg.
• A blast erupted beyond Anse's Second Wall, tearing open a huge breach and alarming Du Lingxuan because her camp's artillery had not fired.

Jiang Han secretly scouted the mine exit, then used her enormous mana to keep an explosion from collapsing the tunnels. After recovering with help from Cat Doyastin, she ordered the witches to seize the opening and set out before the Anse Elves could react.

• Jiang Han used the Mist Immortal Giant Cat’s Dark Lake ability and silent-casting techniques to scout the exit without being detected by the Anse Elves’ gargoyles.
• A massive blast shook the mine, and Li Lanqi warned that its yield could bury the team.
• Jiang Han unleashed her Eternal Ice Eyes and reinforced the cavern with ice and mana until the tunnels stopped collapsing.
• Jiang Han repaired her injuries, while the Fox Witch wondered at her rapid recovery and Cat Doyastin used lightning-charged leyline energy to heal her further.
• Jiang Han called the explosion an opportunity, ordered the others to set out, and prepared to move before the Anse Elves could respond.

After Anse’s second city wall was struck by a devastating blast, Du Lingxuan enlisted Amanda to use her artillery expertise and demolish the wall with two arcane nuclear shells. Amanda agreed to prepare the shells for a bombardment in one hour, with Vernadna’s help.

• Du Lingxuan and Amanda watched three mushroom clouds rise behind the Anse Elves’ city wall, and Amanda praised the blast’s precision and destructive force.
• Du Lingxuan remembered that she owned two arcane nuclear shells, and Amanda eagerly asked to use them to destroy the wall.
• Du Lingxuan agreed to lend Amanda the shells, while Amanda promised to maximize their damage and range.
• Du Lingxuan altered the reimbursement description to claim the shells at the top-tier rate and insisted that the bombardment begin in one hour.
• Amanda agreed to prepare the shells and told Du Lingxuan to bring Vernadna to help fire them quickly.

Jiang Han led the witches and Storm Giant Cats through Anse territory, looting an abandoned camp and finding experimental records along the way. When they reached a radiation-blasted desert and the Anse army attacked, Jiang Han and Cat Doyastin raised a massive thunderstorm that hid the convoy.

• Jiang Han traveled through the frozen mine tunnels on the Cat Spider while a Storm Giant Cat sensed several cries ahead.
• The Treefruit Giant Cat Lamp wrapped frozen gargoyles and left a note marking the passage for future cat use.
• Jiang Han’s group defeated the auxiliary troops at an abandoned Anse Elf camp and stopped to loot it; Jiang Han and Cat Doyastin each secretly took experimental records.
• The convoy reached a desert beyond Anse Second Wall, where the witches and giant cats used magic and leyline energy to endure intense radiation.
• As Anse Elves and their servant army charged, Jiang Han summoned rain and Cat Doyastin called down lightning, creating a vast storm that concealed the convoy.

Jiang Han’s convoy used the storm, witch sickness, and Giant Cats to disrupt Anse servant armies and seize their supplies. As the convoy advanced toward a stranded force, Cat Yisha brought back a captured leader carrying a pack of Anse gold coins.

• Cat Doyastin and the Storm Giant Cats eagerly prepared to fight as the witches spread witch sickness through the rain and strengthened their allies.
• Jiang Han directed Cat Doyastin to send Cat Yaya, Mao Guola, and other allies to attack a stranded Anse servant army to the southeast.
• Jiang Han’s convoy raced across the flooded terrain while rain, mist, and lightning crippled the Anse forces’ movement, communications, and morale.
• The Storm Giant Cats, witches, and mages returned with plunder and spell scrolls, while Cat Yisha captured an Anse servant-army leader carrying a backpack of gold coins.
• Jiang Han’s convoy continued toward the location on her information tracker, dispatching teams to raid stranded Anse servant armies along the way.

Jiang Han and Cat Doyastin fought off an Anse Elf hunter squad during a storm, combining their strength to hurl devastating Gravity Spheres. The elves escaped under magic-isolating cloaks, leaving the witches and witchlings to continue through the rain.

• Jiang Han and Cat Doyastin discussed selling their enormous haul of Anse weapons and supplies to the Big Cat.
• Jiang Han sensed danger as the group traveled through the storm, and Cat Doyastin released a lightning attack that revealed five Anse Elf hunters.
• Jiang Han and Cat Doyastin teamed up to throw Angelite's Gravity Spheres at the hunters, who repeatedly transferred the explosions into the sky using a Hamster Ball.
• The Anse Elf hunters shouted that they would go for broke, then donned magic-isolating cloaks and vanished into the rain.

Jiang Han weighed how to protect her convoy and retrieve the fallen angel Maronos without giving up the Storm Giant Cats’ chance to loot. She chose to lure the Anse Elves into a swift battle, leaving the rescue and raid unresolved as she prepared her forces.

• Jiang Han ordered the injured Giant Cats and witches treated with treefruits from the Treefruit Giant Cat Lamp, which healed their wounds and restored severed limbs.
• Cat Doyastin argued that the Storm Giant Cats needed to keep raiding until their cargo hold was full, while Jiang Han considered the risks of splitting up or abandoning the rescue.
• Jiang Han decided to honor her promise to Angelite and chose a battle of intimidation to make the Anse Elves call for reinforcements.
• Jiang Han told Cat Doyastin to ready the two fastest Storm Giant Cats and asked Li Li to bring the prepared corrosive poison potions.

Jiang Han used a Corrosive Poison Potion and the Rain of Omniscience to make the Anse Elves believe the witch force was weakened, then chose a river valley for a decisive fight. The Anse Elves began preparing to attack, while Cat Doyastin returned from battle unharmed and gave Jiang Han a cursed arrow to study.

• Li Li gave Jiang Han a Corrosive Poison Potion, which Jiang Han drank to make herself look sick and her magic power seem listless.
• Jiang Han ordered Cat Doyastin to send Storm Giant Cat Lamps to search for Witch Flu remedies, hoping to draw the Anse Elves into investigating the convoy.
• Jiang Han chose a nearby river valley as the place to meet the enemy, where the Storm Giant Cat Lamps could wear down the Anse Elves in the air.
• Cat Doyastin ambushed an Anse scouting unit and survived a siege crossbow bolt and a cursed dragon-hunting arrow without serious injury.
• Cat Doyastin returned to Jiang Han and handed her the arrow as spoils, and Jiang Han promised to share her research results.

Jiang Han prepared a fortified river-valley ambush to draw the Anse Elves into attacking, disguising Storm Giant Cats as mud clumps and setting traps throughout the valley. She left the Cat Spider behind, intending to intercept the enemy rather than fight a full battle.

• Jiang Han painted Storm Giant Cats with camouflage mud, made fake cats from their fur, and sent them out as bait after bribing them with cod strips.
• The Anse Elves let the fleeing cats go, prioritizing the capture of witches and failing to recognize the disguised cats as Storm Giant Cats.
• Jiang Han and the witches dug trenches and fortified the river valley with gunpowder barrels and automatic grenade launchers designed to counter the Anse Elves.
• Jiang Han used her authority to keep Cat Spider in a cave and told Cat Tami to watch it and feed it treefruit.
• Jiang Han positioned her forces to lure the Anse Elves into the valley, expecting their need for a quick victory to make them attack despite the defenses.

The witches and Witches used the river valley’s treacherous terrain to wear down the Anse Elves’ servant army, then lured the Anse Elves into the valley and turned the battle against them. Jiang Han’s ambush began as the enemy entered the valley, reversing Anse’s advantage.

• Li Li planted a mana tripwire trap at the valley mouth, and the Witches and witches retreated to their defenses.
• The Anse Elves drove their servant army into the valley, quickly overwhelming the first defensive line at heavy cost.
• Jiang Han ordered the third line prepared to hold for fifteen minutes, and assigned Cat Doyastin to reinforce it.
• Cat Doyastin fought on the front line, crushing servant troops with her warhammer and lightning until the Anse Elves entered the battle themselves.
• Jiang Han fired a signal into the rainy sky, and gray big-cat balls emerged from both sides of the valley and unleashed lightning on the Anse forces.

Jiang Han and the Storm Giant Cats fought the Anse Elves as an Anse mage unleashed a legendary fire spell, prompting Jiang Han to answer with her own legendary spell. Explosions at Anse’s second city wall interrupted their clash, and the Anse mage retreated, warning that the Witches were launching an all-out attack.

• The Storm Giant Cats disrupted the Anse servant army and forced Anse Elves out of their tanks to fight.
• An Anse Elf created a forged sun and unleashed a legendary fire spell that scorched the river valley, forcing Jiang Han, the witches, and the Storm Giant Cats to retreat into cover.
• Jiang Han summoned two Storage Giant Cat Lamps and cast [Boundlessly Spreading Tide] against the Anse Elf’s flaming torrent.
• Two explosions destroyed part of Anse’s second city wall, interrupting the legendary spells as Jiang Han and the Anse mage divined their source.
• The Anse mage retreated with her companions and warned that the Witches were launching an all-out attack, while Jiang Han suspected Jiebao had used arcane nuclear bombs to force an assault through.

After defeating the Anse Elves’ attack, Jiang Han led the witches into the radiation zone to find the fallen angel Maronos. They found her barely alive and began preparing to take her back to Anjie for treatment.

• Jiang Han ordered the witches to form raiding squads and head for the radiation zone after her legendary spell drove back the Anse Elves.
• Jiang Han and Cat Doyastin brought the Cat Spiders into the radiation zone, where the Cat Lamps collected remnants of the legendary spell.
• Jiang Han maintained Rain of Omniscience for two hours and detected a location southeast of the transport convoy.
• Jiang Han and the convoy found Maronos in a trench, badly injured and nearly blind.
• Cat Doyastin determined that Maronos would have died if they had arrived two hours later, and Jiang Han told Li Li to keep her alive until they returned to Anjie.

Jiang Han’s convoy met and traded with two witch convoys while traveling through the war zone, earning money and buying goods. The profitable journey spread her reputation across the eastern and western Ringbelts as the “Cat Witch Who Scraped Three Feet Off the Sky.”

• The Anse Elves withdrew behind the third wall, and Jiang Han’s convoy encountered Miss Dai Yu’s witch convoy on the road.
• Jiang Han’s giant cats marked the location of an Anse Elf watchtower for Dai Yu, and the convoys exchanged goods and spoils.
• Jiang Han’s convoy sold Anse artwork, expanded historical novels, and gold coins, while the other witches traded experimental notes and other goods.
• A European Continent witch convoy joined the exchange, and Jiang Han’s team spent part of its earnings buying goods to resell.
• Jiang Han’s profitable return journey spread her reputation across the Ringbelts as the “Cat Witch Who Scraped Three Feet Off the Sky.”