[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-armed-witch":3,"chapter-armed-witch-armed-witch-chapter-22":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Armed Witch",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2353562,4604,"Chapter 22","armed-witch-chapter-22",22,"\u003Cp>In this world, ordinary witches always engrave personal or family emblems on their belongings, just as people often write their names in notebooks—and the more prestigious the witch, the more likely this is true.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, this ultra-luxury carriage parked on the family’s floating island bore such a clear emblem: a crest depicting a giant dragon roaring with wings spread wide.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This emblem was famous throughout the witch world—anyone who wasn’t illiterate would surely recognize it, for it belonged to a highly esteemed witch family, one that held a pivotal place in witch history and was mandatory material for history exams.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was the symbol of the Dragon Witch clan, a top-tier noble house that had once produced a Witch King.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although the highest decision-making body in the witch world was the Council of Sages, and no official position of Witch King had ever been formally established, in truth, Witch Kings did exist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were the First of the Thirteen Sages, the leader of the Council of Sages, the Chief Sage—the very title for the most powerful witch in existence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The witch world had a history spanning hundreds of thousands of years, yet in all that vast time, only three true Witch Kings had ever appeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were the First King—the Divine King, the Eternal King—the Dragon King, and the current End King—the Demon King.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Divine King led the witch race from obscurity to rise, the Dragon King guided them from ignorance to glory, and the Demon King cemented the witch race’s unshakable status as the supreme power among all heavens and worlds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From the honorific titles of these three kings, one could already discern the templates of their powers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Divine King took angels as her template; she gathered the strength of all living beings and launched a counterattack on Heaven, forcing the haughty angels to submit to her will.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Dragon King took dragons as her template; she dominated Dragon Island with absolute violence, making even the most unruly dragons bow before her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Demon King took demons as her template; she conquered the Abyss through desire and contracts, forcing the chaotic, lawless demons to obey the witches’ order.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Through the succession of these three kings, the witch race’s status as the strongest race beneath the gods became utterly unshakable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet after such vast spans of time, the Divine King and the Dragon King, having long since fulfilled their missions, had vanished for tens of thousands of years; no one knew where they were now. Had the current Demon King not occasionally appeared in public, flashing her presence in the news media, the legends of the Three Kings might have been relegated to myth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though the Three Kings were rarely seen, the families and factions they left behind were deeply rooted in the witch world—and the Dragon Witch clan was the legacy left by the Dragon King.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even now, after the Dragon King’s disappearance, this family still ranked second among the Thirteen Sages, its power surpassing even the Angel Witch clan descended from the Divine King, second only to the Demon Witch clan under the Demon King’s direct rule.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, calling it a “family” is misleading—it’s more accurate to call it a territory, for witch society is structured as countless small and large witch domains.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Haiyue Witch’s domain was merely a floating island city, but the Dragon Witch domain was a vast alliance nation formed by the combined territories of many family members.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Such a massive power structure could not function without sufficient personnel to manage it, so the Dragon Witches continuously recruited new members: any witch who evolved using the dragon template could apply to become a subject of the Dragon Kingdom, and if lucky enough, might even catch the eye of some free-spirited, wealthy, beautiful heiress carrying the Dragon King’s blood—and ascend to the pinnacle of life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This might sound unrealistic, fantastical, like something out of a novel, but reality is often absurdly illogical. Doris knew this legend was true—even more bizarre and exaggerated than the tales claimed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ask her why she was so certain?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ha, her very existence was proof.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Legends at least claimed only witches could aspire to marry a Dragon Witch heiress, but in reality, if your luck was good enough and your face handsome enough, even a mortal mage might have a shot—some overly free-spirited, beauty-obsessed heiress might just take a fancy to you.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, upon seeing this emblem of the Dragon Witches, Doris immediately understood who this unexpected visitor must be.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Who else could it be? Only her mother—the one she’d seen only a handful of times in her entire life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As an ultimate race, witches are born with innate knowledge, remembering everything from birth. Though Doris, as a half-witch, lacked the full power of a pure-blood witch, her reincarnated soul granted her greater maturity than even the pure-bloods.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet even so, she could recall meeting her mother only once. After giving birth, this wildly free-spirited Dragon Witch had simply abandoned her child, leaving without even a single feeding, and rushed straight to the battlefield to expand her territory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ha, of course—what else could you expect from the Dragon Witch clan, where every member is armed? Is conquest and battle truly more important than one’s own daughter?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Doris had been an orphan in her past life; now, for the first time, she had both parents—but she’d drawn this mother. To expect her to harbor no resentment was impossible. Her fierce resistance to becoming an Armed Witch might well stem from hatred toward this battle-obsessed mother.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So now, seeing this emblem—both familiar and alien—Doris’s face darkened instantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If you’ve been gone this long, why not vanish forever? What’s the point of reappearing and disrupting my peaceful life?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She thought this, and for a moment, resisted going home—she didn’t want to open the door and face someone she didn’t want to see.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But in the end, she sighed and pushed the door open.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Avoiding you makes it seem like I’m afraid. I owe you nothing—you owe me. The one who should be nervous is you. It’s time to settle this.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the sisters had left earlier, the house had been empty—both her father and stepmother were at work—but now, the house was unusually lively.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Well, not exactly lively—the atmosphere was icy. As the sisters entered, they saw two figures silently facing off on the spacious sofa in the living room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the sofa facing the door, visible the moment they walked in, sat a handsome, refined middle-aged man, beside whom sat a petite, cute-looking witch with mature makeup and an overpowering aura.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These two were Doris’s father, Adam, and her stepmother, Anne.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Father, Mother, you’re home early today? I just finished buying school supplies with my sister—is someone visiting?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alice, completely unaware of what had happened, cheerfully greeted her parents.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Doris’s gaze went directly to the two figures seated on the sofa with their backs to the door—the ones who had been silently confronting her parents.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The white-haired one she didn’t recognize and ignored—but the black-haired one…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Euphelia, what are you doing here?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She asked bluntly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At her question, the figure facing away from them stood up and turned around.\u003C\u002Fp>",1202,"2026-06-21T03:49:44.850Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","5505d298e67e21b9ca762d1aa746e29225ee0f1775b3efb85b27ff382462d498","armed-witch-chapter-23","armed-witch-chapter-21",1000,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Farmed-witch-cover.jpg"]