Chapter 228: The Witches’ Queen
The moment Dorothy said this, the Great Witches present fell silent for a while. However, no one showed a shocked reaction. They frowned and exchanged glances with one another, displaying more confusion and incomprehension than anything else.
Arachne also frowned, then gave Dorothy a derisive laugh: “Dorothy, this hearsay intelligence of yours is certainly detailed enough. Did you really not seriously think about it before bringing something like this to report at Her Majesty’s tea party?”
The reactions in the hearts of most of the Great Witches present were more or less the same. When such a blatantly counterintuitive element appeared in someone else’s retelling, an ordinary person would naturally begin doubting the authenticity of the intelligence itself.
They were all Great Witches, outstanding Transcendents blessed by Moilai. They all possessed an understanding of Moilai’s Blessing far beyond that of ordinary people and were experts in this field. When it came to their knowledge of Moilai’s power, each of them possessed a considerable degree of confidence.
Since ancient times, Moilai’s Blessing had never appeared on a man, nor had there ever even been any records of such a thing.
Rumors in the Underworld were already a mixture of truth and falsehood, inevitably embellished in the retelling, while the intelligence network they had established in the Empire was also extremely limited. Sometimes, the intelligence gathered by the personnel they had planted there had already been retold through several intermediaries, and combined with the limitations of long-distance correspondence, the information was inevitably incomplete.
At first hearing, it indeed sounded very much as though Dorothy had mistaken some inexplicable rumor for genuine intelligence.
Only Dorothy herself, who had directly overseen the collection of this intelligence, knew how reliable the sources actually were. She calmly explained:
“At first, I also treated it merely as an unrealistic rumor, but the intelligence I gathered from several independent sources showed an unusually high degree of consistency on this particular point. Moreover, when combined with the incident you previously mentioned creating in Old Ailand City, Arachne, Werewolves appeared in both incidents. That seems a little too coincidental.