Li Wei was not surprised. During the earlier witch incident, Lydia and Henry had encountered soldiers bewitched by a witch while searching the Outpost, and that witch had nearly bewitched them as well. Fortunately, Henry's wife fiercely protected her own. She had manifested as a vengeful spirit and sent the witch packing with a single furious roar.
Li Wei had barely fought the witch back then, but judging by his research and the information he had gathered from others, witches had never been good at direct combat. They dealt with people through deception, seduction, sneak attacks, and every other dirty, underhanded trick in the book.
Simply put, they excelled at schemes and harming people behind their backs. Force them into a head-on fight, however, and they were finished.
That was why witches had never caused much of a stir in that era. They might have been able to bewitch people with weak wills, but how far could people like that get? Could a witch enthrall someone as formidable as Arthur or Solomon? Now that would have been unbelievable.
The Holy Maiden had therefore described these witches as rats. They could not bite you to death, but they would gnaw on everything in your house and become an enormous nuisance. That made sense. Battles between powerhouses could shatter heaven and earth, but governing a country required plenty of subordinates. Even if you resisted temptation yourself, having a few idiots among your subordinates become witches' pawns was still a headache.
That was why Arthur had "offered himself to the tiger" and caught all those witches in one fell swoop.
Of course, that was the Holy Maiden's flattering version. According to her own account, Emperor Arthur had actually taken full advantage of the witches. He had pretended to be vigorous and insatiable, indulging