Just as Aurora and Maleficent were dueling, Rhine followed the information provided by the magic mirror and went to the Middle Eastern Witch's location alone.
He still remembered Aurora's promise before parting:
"I will defeat Black Witch Maleficent, or at least do my best to hold her back!"
Rhine's task was to find the Middle Eastern Witch who cast the curse while the two were engaged in their fated battle, and have her lift the curse on Oz Country!
As for how to get that Middle Eastern Witch to actively lift the curse, Rhine had his own way.
The surrounding scenery changed rapidly.
In the blink of an eye, Rhine had arrived near a magnificent palace, right in the middle of a peaceful and beautiful garden.
"This is the Alamaide Kingdom. King Maihamud has just passed away not long ago, and the young prince has ascended the throne, marrying his cousin as queen."
"And his cousin, the new King's Queen, is actually practicing powerful witchcraft in secret. She is the Middle Eastern Witch of the Witch Society!"
Rhine quickly reviewed the information the magic mirror had given him.
He transformed into a small flying insect and easily sneaked into the palace.
Rhine, as a small flying insect, flew into the bedroom and saw two palace maids chatting softly in a corner, bored.
One palace maid said to the other:
"Our King is young, talented, virtuous, and capable, but it's a pity he married such a bad woman!"
The other palace maid was also indignant:
"May the gods curse that unfaithful bad woman! Our King is also very careless, never checking what the Queen is doing behind his back."
The two palace maids exchanged glances halfway through their conversation and stopped talking tacitly, knowing that this was a very sensitive matter.
Those who didn't know the inside story would definitely not be able to understand the cause and effect of the two palace maids' conversation, and could only guess something from a glimpse.
However, Rhine had already read this bizarre story from One Thousand and One Nights, so he naturally understood what the two were talking about—
It turned out that the Middle Eastern Witch, as a witch, naturally knew how to concoct anesthetic potions. Every night, she would put medicine in the young King's wine, making her husband fall into a deep sleep.
After the King fell asleep, the Middle Eastern Witch would put on heavy makeup and sneak out, not returning until dawn.
During this time, she was actually secretly meeting with her lover, an ugly black slave.
The Middle Eastern Witch was gentle, refined, knowledgeable, and reasonable in front of the King, and also a generous and decent Queen in front of others.
But in front of that black slave, the Middle Eastern Witch was extremely humble, obeying his every word and serving him with a good temper. She had no complaints even if the black slave beat her, scolded her, and made her drink soup dregs and bones.
Rhine also knew what happened after the story:
Finally, one day, the young King discovered the affair between the Middle Eastern Witch and the black slave. In a fit of rage, the King slashed the black slave to the brink of death. Unexpectedly, his wife took care of her lover every day for three years without abandoning him.
Until the end, the conflict completely erupted, and the Witch learned that the person who injured her lover was actually her husband.
She used magic to curse the young King, turning his lower body into stone, and used a terrible curse to distort the kingdom, turning the entire kingdom's people into fish.
The people of four different faiths turned into four different colored fish.
It wasn't until many years later that a fisherman who salvaged a devil's bottle offered the four-colored fish to the neighboring King, which exposed the matter. The righteous neighboring King found out the truth and tricked the Witch into lifting the curse.
"No matter how you look at it, this story is too bizarre!"
Rhine couldn't help but mutter in his heart as he quickly recalled the story.
"A witch, married to a cousin she doesn't like, secretly meets with a lowly lover, and has to worry about being discovered."
"Uh, this is a witch who is powerful enough to instantly erase an entire kingdom…"
Rhine's heart was filled with the urge to complain.
However, judging from the current situation, the timeline is still at the stage where the King has not yet discovered his wife's secret, the conflict has not yet erupted, and the catastrophe that swept the entire kingdom has not yet arrived.
At this time, Rhine, who had turned into a fly, flew through the corridor and saw a woman in expensive silk clothes and heavy makeup walking by in a hurry.
Her face was exactly the same as the one the magic mirror had shown before, it was the Middle Eastern Witch!
The Middle Eastern Witch didn't notice Rhine, who had turned into a fly, and slipped out of the palace.
"Good luck, I just happened to run into her going to meet that black slave."
Rhine found a corner, changed back to his original form, took out the crystal ball, and quickly divined, and learned that the black slave was now in an abandoned and dilapidated castle.
"Hehe, eager to see her lover, but too bad I'm faster than you!"
Rhine tapped the heels of his magic silver shoe together, and his figure disappeared in a swirling whirlwind, and in the blink of an eye he arrived at the dilapidated castle where the black slave was.
The big black man was lying on a thin layer of reeds, snoring loudly.
His face was fierce, with thick lips, the upper lip like a dangerous peak covering the lower lip like flat ground, and his snoring sounded like thunder.
"I don't know what the Middle Eastern Witch saw in him…"
Rhine knew that designing the Queen's adulterous lover as an ugly black slave was mostly intentional by the story's creator.
But now that he was personally in this story, he couldn't help but mutter to himself.
Seeing that the black slave was still snoring, Rhine raised his right hand and stroked the ring on his index finger.
This ring was loot seized from Maglido, and it possessed magical power, capable of summoning a ring genie.
Although the ring genie was not good at fighting, he possessed many skills and was a weaker version of the Lamp God of the Godly Lamp.
In the original story of Aladdin and the Lamp God, Aladdin relied on the power of this magic ring to get out of danger after the Godly Lamp was lost.
A majestic giant spirit phantom appeared in front of Rhine, it was the genie residing in the ring.
As soon as the genie saw Rhine, he respectfully said:
"Great Legendary Magician Rhine, what are your orders?"
Rhine ordered the huge monster phantom:
"I order you to move this sleeping black man elsewhere, and prevent him from waking up for a period of time."
"Great master, everything will be as you wish." The majestic giant spirit phantom nodded and bowed to Rhine, answering respectfully.
A gust of wind swept past, and the black slave on the grass mat disappeared.
Rhine took the giant spirit back into the ring, and then took out a bottle of pink miniature perfume.
[Mistaken Love].
This perfume once helped Aurora disguise herself as the Queen of the White Kingdom, and now it will come in handy again.
Rhine lay down on the straw mat where the black man had been sleeping, dripped a drop of perfume on himself, and quietly waited for the Middle Eastern Witch's arrival.
Rhine knew that the four-colored fish curse that Oz Country had suffered could not be ended even if the caster was killed, and could only be lifted by the Middle Eastern Witch herself.
And in this world, the only person the Middle Eastern Witch was submissive to and obeyed was that black slave lover!
Just a minute or two later, the door of the dilapidated castle was pushed open, and a gust of cool wind struck.
The Middle Eastern Witch, wearing heavy makeup, walked in, and as soon as she saw Rhine lying on the straw mat, she recognized him as her lover:
"My master, your humble servant has arrived."