Dalaran's leaders were deeply frustrated by the mage hunters' poor performance.
The Council of Tirisfal, their strongest force, had already been wiped out by Medivh, who was controlled by the Fallen Titan Sargeras.
Those highly capable mage hunters had all died in that battle.
The quality of the mage hunters Dalaran had hastily trained was easy to imagine!
But if they did not use them, was there a better choice?
In truth, leaving the human nations to handle things themselves would not have been much better.
They were all fumbling in the dark, knowing only to seize suspicious people and torture them.
Even Stratholme, which had achieved excellent results, had only maintained basic stability in the city because the Church of the Holy Light had poured vast amounts of manpower and resources into it.
The Kingdom of Stormwind in the south, meanwhile, had only recently experienced defeat and exile.
There were limits to what its people could withstand psychologically.
Although the mage hunters' results were embarrassing, Dalaran's archmages still found reasons to console themselves.
As long as they did not feel embarrassed, the embarrassment was someone else's.
Still, the archmages made some changes.
They ordered the mage hunters to focus on the most threatening cults, then uncover who was pulling the strings behind them.
Upon receiving the archmages' orders, the mage hunters moved quickly.
The cults that usually made the biggest fuss were destroyed one after another in the mage hunters' surprise raids.
The Church of Flesh and Spirit, the Church of Joy, the Church of Ultimate Bliss.
There were no qualms about destroying cults whose very names sounded disreputable.
The masterminds behind these disreputable cults were mostly clever commoners or nobles.
To satisfy their own greed, these clever people had seized the opportunity to establish cults, amassing wealth and