Chapter 151: A wifes ambition. (1/2)
Ruby Side.
”Are you crazy...?” Madam asked after hearing Ruby's proposal.
Ruby just flashed a big smile that sent shivers down Madam's spine.
”...Yes, you're crazy...” Madam put her hand on her face and spoke in a tired voice:
”As expected of that woman's daughter, I think...?”
”...” Natalia, who had listened to the entire conversation in silence, just had her mouth hanging open in absolute shock...
'This... This is crazy! If this plan works, the whole supernatural world would be turned upside down… Wrong, the whole world would turn upside down, it will turn into chaos!'. Natalia can't help but think of disbelief.
”Why are you so shocked? It's a simple thought process. If you can't fix something, you shouldn't waste time trying to fix it, just destroy everything and rebuild from scratch. It's simple, practical, and faster, right?”
”...Don't take this so lightly; what you said could throw the three factions into chaos.”
”And isn't that great?” Ruby's smile grew, ”The more chaos there is, the more I can take advantage of it.”
”...You really are crazy...” Madam sighed, then she asked, ”What do you want to do all this for?”
”It's for my family, of course,” Ruby replied, as she continued:
”As I was growing up, I learned a lot from the experiences I had and my mother's teachings, and one of the things I'm sure of… Is that I hate the current situation, the present Status Quo. If you will, I despise it.”
”Hunters hunt innocent vampires for no reason, simply because we're a 'demonic' species, and of course, they do not discriminate. To them, even a baby vampire who hasn't committed any crimes is still a target for elimination… And they say they're doing it all for God'. A bunch of hypocrites.”
”Then there's Younger vampires and their useless pride; they're worse than garbage, they're useless... Even the most useless human is more useful than this current generation of vampires. They disgust me.”
”And do not get me started on the werewolves; always being so passive. They never interfere with anything and never progress at all, so their entire society never seems to have evolved... A bunch of barbarians.”
”And at the top of my list are the Witches. I despise witches... Specifically the Queen of Witches, that woman stinks.”
”What do you mean...?” Madam asked curiously.
”Don't you find this situation strange?” Ruby continued.
”Huh…?” Madam didn't understand what Ruby was implying.
”Witches are a 'neutral' faction; they are like a group of merchants who sell anything as long as someone has money.”
”These women are connected to all factions, and because of that connection, they have a great deal of information available at their fingertips. Yet, what do they do with this information? Purely use it to make more money? Even though they are already wealthy? Just being greedy doesn't explain it.” Ruby was quite skeptical about this.
”Information is power. Knowing or not knowing certain information can change the situation in the blink of an eye. Even an idiot knows that.”
”Werewolves, Vampires, Hunters... She has information on all of these factions, but... We don't know anything about her... Didn't you ever find it weird?”
Madam didn't respond for a second and then just said, ”…I don't get your point. The Queen of Witches never hid her society from all factions.”
”Seriously?” Ruby smiled, and then she asked a question:
”So answer me this: who is the Queen of Witches? What does she look like? What is her name? How old is she? Did she have sex to have her daughters? Or did she just adopt? Does she have a mother? If she has a mother, then who is the father?”
”...That's...” Madam was silent. After all, she didn't know that either.
”We know about the Queen's daughters. We know their names, what their physical appearances are, but we know nothing about the Queen of Witches, and this woman is the ruler of an entire race; she is the Queen.”
”We don't even know if the Queen was replaced over time with another Queen, we don't know the exact location of the Queen, we don't know her plans or how she thinks.”
”…” Madam was silent.
”Isn't that weird? How is it that a woman who holds the power to interfere in all factions is not known to the masses? And why is it that no one cares about that?”
”Maybe she's just shy?”
Ruby's eyes twitched. ”...Are you serious?”
”…” Madam didn't know what to say. She had never thought about it before, and, for some reason, she just found it all natural.
She found it natural that the Queen of Witches was not known. She found it natural that she herself had never seen the appearance of the queen... After all, the Queen is strong, right? Strong people like to stay hidden...
'Wait... That's weird.' Madam placed her hand on her chin and started thinking: 'Everyone in the supernatural world knows the king of vampires and king of wolves, but no one knows the queen of witches. In all my life, she's never been out in public. She's always isolated in her castle… And the day I won my title, I just saw her silhouette behind a cloth…'
Madam opened her eyes wide as she seemed to have understood something:
”That Bitch…Don't tell me she did what I think she did…” Then, wanting to test her hypothesis, she made a magic circle with her hand and placed her hand on her head.
Crack!
Suddenly everyone heard the noise of something breaking.
”...?” Ruby didn't understand what happened, she looked to Madam for answers.
”…a suggestion spell…” Madam's face twisted in anger. She didn't like knowing someone was messing with her head.
A suggestion spell, what does it do? It's a pretty simple spell; it slowly affects an individual's mind, similar to Vampyric Charm but more discrete.
One could use this spell even in conversation to slowly influence the individual's opinion in the user's wanted direction.
In this case, the magic was: Treat everything as if it were something natural.
”Oh?” Ruby showed a slight smile, ”What did you do?”
”I was under the influence of a suggestion spell. I probably acquired it through products sold by witches or through living in their society for a long time? I do not know.”
”Interesting.” Ruby started thinking about several things, and in less than a few seconds, she said:
”This is weird.”
”What is?” Madam asked.
”Would the Queen of Witches be so stupid as to use a spell that even you can identify? Not wanting to belittle you, but you're not one of the strongest witches.”
Madam ignored what Ruby said, ”...You're thinking wrong, Scarlett.”
”Hmm?”
”All witches worship our Queen. The Queen of Witches is like a mother to all these women, meaning...”
”All witches are allies of the queen...” Ruby opened her eyes wide.
”Yes, and, because of that, she didn't mind using a spell that even I can identify.” Madam snorted in disdain.