The Queen of Scrolls never admits defeat

“Yes, I was feeling a bit guilty about causing trouble for the goblins over this, but letting it go felt a bit frustrating. This is just right,” Sylph and Lilith added.

"Of course we feel aggrieved! Our reactions were all within the goblins' calculations. They leaked the information in advance not to prepare us, but to prevent us from pursuing them!"

Moran sighed.

The witches were so reasonable that they would never make things difficult for others because of their own inner turmoil.

This is why the goblin dared to do it even though he knew that spreading the news about the Fireworks Witch would offend the witch.

The goblins risk their lives to make money, but their belts are tied very securely!

My friends are too kind.

"Is that so?" Vasita and the other two suddenly realized, then said smugly, "But they could never have imagined that we also have a goblin witch who is even more cunning than the goblins!"

Moran sighed, "That damned title! How come people still remember it after all these years?!"

"Pfft!" Lilith said, "Soon this title will spread throughout Valen along with your announcement and the friendship reward and punishment system."

"..." Moran protested, "Shouldn't everyone call me the Lord of the Dawn Society, the Rising Star of the Wilderness, and the Great Card Witch Moran?"

Sylph looked at her with pity: "Moran, do you know? When I was in the Elf Forest, many members of the Dawn Society privately suspected that the witch's name on the contract was fake."

The pure-blood elves have always thought that our witches are just as noble as them, and that our business acumen is not much better. The Dawn Society's terrifying propaganda campaign, which has spread throughout Valen in just a few years and made all spellcasters dependent on it, is something that witches could not have come up with.

But the name was indeed written in witchcraft; no one but a witch could recognize it, so it could only have come from a witch. Finally, the elves came to a conclusion…”

"What?" Moran asked curiously.

“The elves believe that the founder of the Dawn Society took a goblin as a pet, and that all the rules of the Dawn Society were devised by the goblin pet,” Sylph said.

"..." Moran said dejectedly, "I haven't even seen a real goblin yet! The elves' imaginations are probably bigger than the energy vortex of the Sky Well!"

She's starting to worry about her reputation.

Despite my worries, I still have to do what needs to be done.

Thanks to the goblins, the old orc prophet's prophecy has spread throughout Valen without his knowledge!
As she expected, there was no movement from the angels. On the dragon side, only Knotak, the master of Delicious Island, was actively persuading the gourmet witches to upload their exclusive gourmet recipes using the {Knowledge Scale Card}. When they encountered resistance, they threatened them with "Anita can no longer protect you." The other dragons remained silent.

On the human side, members of the academy kept "tipping off" each other, "inadvertently" revealing things they had recently seen in chats with friends. Some said that the Imperial Mage Council had bought up all the food cards on the market; others said that the academy had launched a new activity to exchange gem coins for points, encouraging students to meditate more to accumulate mental energy to exchange for gem coins; still others said that Grand Duke Kra, who was on good terms with the witch, had been secretly transferred to the capital by the council, and that a new leader had been parachuted into the mage corps on the southern border of the Duchy of Lance; some said that they had seen a large number of saints from the northern diocese gathering in the southern diocese; some said that a large number of students in the preparatory saint training class had undergone their third blessing and been promoted to saints ahead of schedule; and still others said that they had seen human mages offering high rewards to brave warriors to venture into the Witch's Wilderness in the Chaotic Realm.

Privately, the rumors of Lady Anita's death have changed the attitudes of the witches around her, and even caused many conflicts. But it seems that only humans truly have designs on the entire Witch Wilderness.

Both the Magic Empire and the Yara Empire have designs on this fertile land in the south.

The nobles of the Magic Empire want to acquire new territories here sufficient to establish duchies and kingdoms, while the nobles of the Yara Empire want to raise more ordinary people and cultivate more saints on this land.

Moreover, after Moran publicly sold all the magical knowledge she had learned from the Imperial Magic Academy in the form of {magic cards} and {knowledge cards} in the Dawn Academy's card shop to maintain her rule, their position became even more precarious.

In recent years, more and more talented commoner mages in the Magic Empire have become unwilling to sign harsh contracts and sell their freedom to join the Noble Mage Tower to acquire magical knowledge.

Even the common people in the Yara Empire gradually began to doubt the temple because of the common sense cards and magic talent appraisal cards (one-time use) secretly spread by members of the Dawn Society. Many common people began to secretly let their children avoid the temple's blessings and baptisms and embark on the path of orthodox mages through the Dawn Society.

At this point, knowing that the Fireworks Witch, the witches' most powerful protector, had fallen, they naturally wanted to target the wilderness.

Moran even saw a temple mage from the Yara Empire say that they would find the owner of the Dawn Society, secretly take control of the Dawn Society, and turn all members of the Dawn Society into believers of the temple. He didn't know where they got their confidence from.

Little did they know that most of the ordinary mages who relied on cards from the Dawn Academy's card shop to acquire magical knowledge and resources were unwilling to see the witch behind the Dawn Academy get into trouble.

After all, it was the Dawn Academy that broke the status quo of magical knowledge being controlled by nobles, giving them a clear path to advancement where they could gradually acquire resources by simply accumulating gem coins.

What the Dawn Academy gave them was far more than what the Magic Empire and the Yara Empire gave them.

Their interests are now completely tied to the Dawn Society.

However, most of them are not very talented, or have not yet grown to the point of openly confronting the top nobles who originally controlled most of the resources in the empire.

After all, the Dawn Society has only been developing for a little over a decade. In that time, it's simply not enough for a commoner mage to go from apprentice to a peak level where they can wield influence, or even surpass the peak level.

But they didn't just sit and wait to die; they tried all sorts of ways to secretly "send a message" to the witch.

It was also because of these people that Moran and her team had much less difficulty gathering information and keeping track of the situation.

Now that both the Magic Empire and the Yara Empire are making their moves, it's time for Moran to release what he's prepared. (End of Chapter)