One of the galaxy's most famous urban legends, the Thorn Witch was notorious enough to scare children into silence. She was known to the public as an utterly vile outlaw and a powerful psychic criminal. Her age, name, and species were unknown, so naturally, so was her gender. The only thing anyone knew for certain was that her legend dated back two or three thousand years, almost to the very beginning of the Empire and Alliance's age of interstellar exploration. Her fearsome reputation had kept her in the top five of the most-wanted lists of all the major powers for more than a dozen centuries. For a considerable stretch of that time, she had been the undisputed number one.
If there really were a contest for the most notorious fugitives, the Count of the Black Moon would be a rising star, while the Thorn Witch was an old and established powerhouse.
There were indeed species in the universe that lived for ages, but no one had ever heard of a thousand-year-old monster like the Thorn Witch. That only lent the urban legend an even more fantastical and eerie quality. There were any number of cosmic horror stories featuring her as the ultimate villain.
In short, most ordinary people—and even most professionals and psychics—had never heard of the World Serpent, but everyone had heard of the Thorn Witch.
Feifei was no exception. When she was little, her bald father had told her plenty of ghost stories about the witch, which she then went and told Yu Lian.
Feifei shuddered as she watched Major Popas speak in a woman's voice. She could already sense that another source of information had taken root inside him, completely suppressing his body's original soul.
"So this is the Thorn Witch? You dragged me here just to