Chapter 245: Dorothy's Tea Party with the Queen
A short while later, Dorothy watched Leon and his group depart, then returned to the woodland, where her attendants were already waiting for her.
“Prepare the passage, don't disturb me from here on.” Dorothy issued the order, then gave a whistle.
The Manticore, which had been standing by in the form of a dog, transformed back into its true form, though its body was much smaller than before, not much different in size from an actual lion. Dorothy mounted its back directly, and the Manticore carried her deeper into the woodland.
At the very center of the woodland lay a vast swamp. Back when this land still belonged to Ireland, there had originally been a temple here dedicated to Moylai, the Earth Mother Goddess.
When Princess Isis led her army in flight back then, priests throughout the land conducted rituals to expand the dungeonization of their temples, causing the terrain around the temples to change and thereby concealing their locations.
The temple on Allende Island was thus sealed inside the mountain, while this temple in the Oz Wilderness sank underground as monsters continuously excavated beneath it, and under the influence of groundwater, a swamp formed.
Now, this temple was completely hidden within the swamp, impossible to discover and difficult to excavate.
Dorothy stood at the edge of the swamp and raised her hand, causing a stitch line to split open as she dripped her blood into the swamp.
Several dozen seconds passed. Accompanied by a series of bubbling sounds, bubbles rose across the swamp's surface, after which a gigantic Sandworm emerged from the swamp and opened a blood-filled maw large enough to swallow a horse toward Dorothy.