Chapter Summaries

Jiang Han brought Liang Cuoyu to Li Li for an assessment and training, where Li Li diagnosed why Liang Cuoyu could not use magic and tried fox-ear headphones to help her sense its flow. The testing continued as Li Li searched for a pair of headphones suited to Liang Cuoyu.

• Jiang Han brought Liang Cuoyu to Li Li’s home and explained that Li Li specialized in training dragons and occasionally witches.
• Li Li introduced Jiang Han and Liang Cuoyu to her family, including her mothers Li Mei and Xin Xin and her grandmother Li Ni.
• Li Li tested Liang Cuoyu and confirmed she was a witch whose abundant, constantly replenished magic prevented her from sensing magic outside herself.
• Li Li gave Liang Cuoyu fox-ear headphones made from Li Mei’s ears, but their magic conduction was too weak to help.
• Liang Cuoyu tried another pair made from Xin Xin’s ears, but the sound was painfully intense, so Li Li removed them and searched for another pair.

Jiang Han visited Li Li’s home after training Liang Cuoyu, where Li Li criticized a book about sorceresses and Jiang Han met Li Li’s dragon-blooded grandmother, Geng Shaoyao. The family’s flirtatious attention left Jiang Han wondering whether staying for dinner had been a mistake.

• Jiang Han put Liang Cuoyu through two rounds of strenuous training to help her sense and absorb magic, then sent her home to recover.
• Li Li called Ten Million Kinds of Witches an inaccurate but valuable firsthand account and asked Jiang Han to move the enormous book to her library.
• Jiang Han met Geng Shaoyao, who described her passion for racing and explained that her family’s dragon blood drew them toward dragons and excitement.
• Geng Shaoyao asked about Jiang Han’s attendance at the Witch Invitational drawing ceremony and her magazine photography.
• Li Mei offered to do flexibility exercises with Jiang Han, who regretted staying for dinner.

Jiang Han visited Agnes Leblanc for homemade South City cheese and told her about her friend Lili’s family, prompting Agnes to eagerly ask about Lili’s Fox Witch mothers. Later, Agnes recommended a magazine about witch research and offered to lend Jiang Han her collection until October.

• Jiang Han visited Agnes and watched her prepare South City cheese and cream corn while they talked about Agnes’s training and Lilian.
• Jiang Han described Lili’s Fox Witch family, and Agnes eagerly asked about the size of Lili’s two mothers’ chests.
• Jiang Han recounted how she had picked up a witch and then fled after being teased at Lili’s home, insisting she was exceptionally kind.
• Jiang Han borrowed Agnes’s study to read and asked about books concerning research on witches.
• Agnes told Jiang Han about Chesterna Pharmaceuticals and its magazine, The Mystery of Burgundy Witches, then offered to lend her the collection until October.

Jiang Han discussed Liang Cuoyu’s emerging magic power and course choices, recommending that she study the Transmutation School because of her exceptional reserves. Liang Cuoyu considered the advice as she prepared to begin classes on September 1st.

• Jiang Han studied alchemy and practical runology at home, then went downstairs intending to check Ice Bear’s weight.
• Jiang Han encountered Liang Cuoyu after she came out of the bathroom and reassured her about accidentally exposing herself.
• Jiang Han asked Liang Cuoyu about her magic power, and Liang Cuoyu described faintly sensing omens in the weather after one training session.
• Liang Cuoyu told Jiang Han that Chen Ligu had recommended Evocation, Conjuration, and Abjuration as majors, with Herbalism and Plant Care as minors.
• Jiang Han explained that Liang Cuoyu’s strong magic power made the Transmutation School a better major and described its principles and uses.

Jiang Han rode Ice Bear through Pet Street to buy feed and discovered that her photo had appeared in the popular police magazine Deduction. As she prepared to leave, she spotted a familiar Sea Shepherd approaching with an ice phoenix.

• Jiang Han rode Ice Bear around Pet Street while studying encrypted witch handouts.
• Jiang Han bought several bags of food for Ice Bear from a shop clerk who recognized her magazine photo.
• Jiang Han read Deduction and saw that its police reviews, illustrations, and her modeling photos had made the magazine popular.
• Jiang Han learned that South City Police Department wanted to negotiate a short-term portrait-rights collaboration through Chen Ligu's agency.
• Jiang Han spotted a familiar, crimson-eyed Sea Shepherd approaching with a floating ice phoenix.

Jiang Han met Kraken’s daughters, Lorna and Rena, and invited Kraken for coffee while the girls played with Ice Bear. Kraken agreed and left the children and pets in the care of Loya, the ice phoenix.

• Jiang Han greeted Kraken and met Lorna and Rena, who admired her Ice Bear.
• Kraken joked that the girls were her Horcruxes before explaining that they were her daughters.
• Lorna and Rena played on Ice Bear while Kraken watched with an unreadable expression.
• Jiang Han invited Kraken for coffee and offered to let the girls keep playing with Ice Bear.
• Kraken summoned the ice phoenix and told it to look after the girls and Ice Bear, with the cost of any snacks charged to them.

Jiang Han met Kraken at a Witch Market internet café and questioned her about her past espionage. Kraken explained why she had acted and offered Jiang Han a commission to refine a special material, hoping to assess her talent as an alchemist.

• Jiang Han and Kraken discussed Jiang Han’s overweight Ice Bear, and Kraken explained that the nature magazine Jiang Han had relied on contained errors.
• Jiang Han asked Kraken why she had personally carried out an act of espionage, despite her status as a prominent academic.
• Kraken said the act had been necessary and welcomed Jiang Han’s willingness to point out her mistake.
• Kraken offered to hire Jiang Han to refine a special material, but Jiang Han hesitated because she lacked an A2 license and had studied alchemy for only a few months.
• Kraken reassured Jiang Han that alchemical talent mattered more than age or years of study.

Jiang Han accepted Kraken’s commission to make Twin Solution after drinking a memory gel containing its formula and production method. Kraken asked her to deliver the finished alchemical product within a week and promised to send three sets of materials to her friend’s agency.

• Kraken gave Jiang Han a memory gel containing the formula and materials needed for her commission.
• Jiang Han dissolved the gel in ice water, added sweetener, and drank it, receiving Kraken’s memories of making Twin Solution.
• Jiang Han learned that Twin Solution strengthened the bond between two witches and let them share and combine magic power.
• Kraken asked Jiang Han to make Twin Solution and deliver it within a week, and Jiang Han agreed.
• Kraken said she would send three sets of materials to Jiang Han’s friend’s agency, and Jiang Han accepted the limited supply.

Jiang Han went to Alchemy Street to find a workshop where she could complete her formula, witnessing the witches’ unusual alchemy culture and a spectacular flying-craft crash along the way. She reserved a place at 3D Love Workshop.

• Jiang Han picked up Kraken’s materials bag from Chen Ligu’s agency, left Ice Bear in Chen Ligu’s care, and headed to Alchemy Street to find a workshop.
• Jiang Han surveyed Alchemy Street’s workshops and strange ghost trains as witches and police moved through the busy district.
• A short-haired flight technician’s craft crashed after its jet bottles detached, and police witches rushed to help the injured witches and reassemble the victims.
• Jiang Han considered the wreck from an alchemist’s perspective while other witches discussed how the craft could be improved.
• Jiang Han chose and reserved a workshop called 3D Love Workshop.

After a night of drinking for a lucrative commission, Jiang Han slept through the day and later helped Liang Cuoyu study magic. She explained the principles of Divination and other spell schools, leaving Liang Cuoyu with lessons and recordings to study.

• Jiang Han accepted another commission from Manager Qin Shunying, drank with a table until dawn, and Du Ningzhuang sent her home by teleportation.
• Jiang Han fell asleep after returning home and woke at sunset to find small snags in her stockings.
• Jiang Han joined Liang Cuoyu in the garden and discussed her studies of Detect Magic and Detect Poison.
• Jiang Han explained that Divination revealed what already existed rather than predicting the future, then taught Liang Cuoyu about Transmutation and alchemy.
• Jiang Han lent Liang Cuoyu Transmutation combat recordings and told her to ask Jiang Zhenling or Jiang Han if she had questions.

Jiang Han rented an alchemy workshop and prepared to brew Twin Solution using a high-temperature neutralizer she had extracted from cheap materials. She planned to test whether it could replace spell fire bottles and save her eighteen valuable bottles.

• Jiang Han rented a cubicle in a shared alchemy workshop and unpacked her materials.
• Jiang Han disinfected the cubicle and sealed six spell fire bottles in an airtight compartment.
• Jiang Han sorted her ingredients and extracted 150 milliliters of purple neutralizer from alchemical flowers, grasses, and mushrooms.
• Jiang Han tested the neutralizer and found that it reached a temperature slightly higher than a spell fire bottle.
• Jiang Han prepared to experiment with Twin Solution, hoping to replace spell fire bottles and keep all eighteen for herself.

Jiang Han successfully created a bionic Twin Solution using experimental materials, confirming that the substitute ingredients could reproduce the solution’s properties. After finishing her notes, she met fellow Witch Zhou Xue in the shared workshop, who became intensely curious about her.

• Jiang Han used bionic materials to synthesize Twin Solution, producing a low-quality batch that nevertheless had the correct properties.
• Jiang Han recorded her findings, cleaned the workspace, and left the sterile workshop for the shared hall.
• Jiang Han spoke with Zhou Xue, who discovered that her supposedly Button Flower specimen was actually Xiniu Flower.
• Zhou Xue continued watching Jiang Han as Jiang Han organized her experimental notes.

Jiang Han went out for dinner and chose an Italian restaurant, where she unexpectedly reunited with Qiao Rou, a witch who worked many part-time jobs. After Qiao Rou explained why she had hidden Jiang Han from her new boss, Jiang Han ordered an Italian meal.

• Jiang Han followed the smell of food into Penglasa, an Italian restaurant on Alchemy Street.
• Qiao Rou recognized Jiang Han and hurriedly led her into a private room.
• Qiao Rou explained that her new boss, an Italian witch-society member, would spend a long time chatting if she noticed they knew each other.
• Qiao Rou thanked Jiang Han for recommending her a part-time job, and Jiang Han asked for the menu.
• Jiang Han ordered tomato-braised meat with corn cream soup and pizza.

Jiang Han enjoyed a meal before returning to the [3D Love Workshop], where she prepared to mix Gemini Solvent. On the way, she heard that Wilhelm Pharmaceuticals was recruiting witches with generous benefits, but she did not treat the rumors as an immediate concern.

• Jiang Han ate beef stew, pizza, and mint lychee soda before heading back to Alchemy Street.
• Jiang Han overheard a witch describe Wilhelm Pharmaceuticals' salaries, benefits, and recruitment drive.
• Jiang Han recalled Kraken's espionage against Wilhelm Pharmaceuticals but decided not to dwell on the rumors.
• Jiang Han entered the [3D Love Workshop], greeted Zhou Xue and another witch watching a romance drama, and returned to her partition.
• Jiang Han disinfected herself and prepared to mix Gemini Solvent.

Jiang Han attempted to brew a solvent in a sterile alchemy workshop, but repeated dosing and heat problems made the mixture unpredictable. As the batch continued to change, she prepared to use her last set of ingredients and worried about explaining the missing Spell Flame Bottle to Kraken.

• Jiang Han disinfected herself and carefully prepared Spirit Sea Mind Mushrooms and other materials for the solvent.
• Jiang Han used a sapphire, ruby, Twin Ore Flower, Six-Colored Gold, and saltwater in place of the usual alchemical elements and water source.
• Jiang Han found the Mind Mushroom had not dissolved, so she added more neutralizer and stirred the mixture.
• Jiang Han saw the solution evaporating too quickly and added a second batch of materials, water, and some of the alchemical elements to the crucible.
• Jiang Han noticed the mixture might still end with insufficient dosage and turned toward her last remaining set of ingredients.

Kraken examined Jiang Han’s Three Sons Solvent and praised her as a gifted alchemist, mistaking her improvised measurements for sophisticated technique. As they talked over drinks, Kraken shared her fears about magic running dry and described plans to convert electricity into magic before the two witches fell asleep.

• Kraken examined Jiang Han’s solvent and estimated that it was three and a half times as effective as the original.
• Kraken attributed Jiang Han’s ingredient choices and methods to advanced alchemical principles, while Jiang Han privately admitted she had simply doubled and increased the amounts by guesswork.
• Kraken and Jiang Han moved to a reception room beneath the Twin World Tree, where they drank brandy with white chocolate and discussed magic and the future of witches.
• Kraken proposed converting magic into electricity and then using electricity to generate magic, and mentioned a potion intended to create high-level witches.
• Kraken and Jiang Han talked for five or six hours before falling asleep in the warm room.

Jiang Han woke at Kraken’s residence and discussed her society’s costly teleportation talisman with the great witch. Kraken offered investment and technical help in exchange for Jiang Han considering a role in the Sea Shepherds’ new force, leaving the proposal open for her nineteenth birthday in November.

• Jiang Han woke to find Kraken had covered her with a blanket and noticed she had pulled out strands of the great witch’s hair in her sleep.
• Kraken examined Jiang Han’s teleportation talisman and learned that its early versions consumed four thousand magic power per use.
• Jiang Han explained how her society had improved the talisman so witches with more than two thousand magic power could use it.
• Kraken described the Well-Digging Method as a way to reduce teleportation costs by creating magic network nodes linked to the River of Time.
• Kraken offered to invest in Jiang Han’s society and help with applied runes and alchemy if Jiang Han considered joining the Sea Shepherds’ new force.

Jiang Han waited at South City’s Cloudway Transit Central Station to help a legally entered Eastern Japanese witch settle in, carrying the documents Chen Ligu had arranged. She met Yamamura Chizuko and handed over the housing and identity paperwork prepared for her.

• Jiang Han waited at the station with Chen Ligu’s approved but unnamed permits, licenses, and lease documents.
• Jiang Han watched the crowds of witches arrive and saw a security witch stop a traveler whose lobster-shaped suitcase required inspection.
• Yamamura Chizuko approached Jiang Han, mistook her for Chen Ligu, and said she had booked the agency’s services and paid in advance.
• Jiang Han introduced herself and gave Chizuko the lease information and other documents Chen Ligu had prepared.

Jiang Han showed Yamamura Chizuko her new home at Sky Island and agreed to introduce her to South City. The chapter ended with Jiang Han describing local attractions, including places where witches hunted natives and displayed records of extinct species.

• Jiang Han showed Yamamura Chizuko around Sky Island and explained the residence’s amenities, rules, and available services.
• Yamamura Chizuko inspected the villa, turned on the heating, and told Jiang Han she was satisfied with the house and its documents.
• Yamamura Chizuko asked Jiang Han to introduce South City and offered to pay an additional fee, but Jiang Han agreed without charge.
• Jiang Han described Spirit Sea, Greenfield Oasis, the Southern Witch Tower, and Black Book Forest to Chizuko.

After returning home and making plans to watch the France-versus-China tournament match, Jiang Han traveled to Hot Spring Street with her neighbor Xun Wen. There, Du Ningzhuang introduced Jiang Han to her broom team’s captain, Fa Yumei, who asked her to help make promotional photos to recruit new racers.

• Jiang Han finished her errands, returned home, and went to sleep after starting a load of laundry.
• The next morning, Jiang Han asked Jiang Zhenling to collect her clothes and said she would return around eleven after watching the match with a friend.
• Jiang Han rode with Xun Wen to Hot Spring Street, where she met Du Ningzhuang, Chen Ligu, Chu Yujun, and their companions.
• Du Ningzhuang introduced Jiang Han to Fa Yumei, captain of her broom team, who asked Jiang Han to help create promotional photos.
• Fa Yumei listed the team’s demanding academic and racing qualifications, and Jiang Han agreed to discuss a promotional plan with Chen Ligu.