Survival Game: The Witch Era

No romance, strong female lead, survival in another world, information broker, slow burn, ensemble cast

Lin Wan is the only person behind the Gray Network.

That is, until she realizes she's been missing more and more details. There is too much information, and a one-person verification process isn't sustainable. She needs help. But she can't recruit openly: being a witch makes “trust” something that must be verified again and again.

So she starts watching.

Old Song, the copyist at the stone-slab notice board. Every day, he checks each character against scraps of cloth, marks unclear spots with question marks, and wraps his copies in oilcloth when it rains, leaving half of himself to get soaked.

Old Wei, the note-taker in the corner of the tavern. He started tracking the Church's patrol routes three months ago and never sends messages over the public channel, only passing notes.

Stoneclaw, the dwarf who carves runes at the entrance to the mining district. He carves one stone every day and has done so for three years. If someone says they want to learn, he carves. If no one comes, he carves anyway.

Lin Wan has been watching them for a long time. What she doesn't know is that they've been watching her, too.

This is the story of a witch and her companions. There is no romance, no hero rescuing a damsel in distress, just a woman building an intelligence network and a group of people each walking their own path, who happen to be headed in the same direction.

And the Church's witch-hunting array has already begun scanning toward the Free Territories.