This was no longer the past. Now that the Eight Gods' churches had essentially spread their influence across the entire map, even if the Loen Kingdom authorities stepped in to make people disappear, they would not dare make too much of a disturbance.
Over so many years, across all of Loen, the Loen Royal Family and the Witch Cult had only smuggled a few hundred thousand people in total.
A considerable portion of those people had been social outcasts, the kind whose disappearance truly would not prompt anyone to investigate.
Another considerable portion had been people who had left their hometowns for some unfamiliar city. If such people disappeared, anyone who paid them even a little attention would assume they had returned home, while those back home would assume they had not returned yet.
Once scattered apart, such people truly would arouse almost no suspicion.
But a plague obviously could not specifically target and spread among people matching those characteristics across the entire country.
Even if it could truly be done, a disease that would not cause even the slightest ripple nationwide could hardly be called a plague.
Starting from the higher Sequences of the Witch Pathway, apart from the Ageless Witch, not a single advancement caused only a small commotion. Even a Sequence Four advancement ritual that drew out a Sequence Two would not be considered overkill.
Thus, Medici raising this question showed that he remembered the contents of the Blasphemy Slate and could see the information behind Triss's advancement, yet could only see that much and could not connect it to anything more.
In short: he had a brain, but not much of one.
Watching Medici, who had realized something was wrong but still had not figured it out, Sastiel sighed and looked toward Delasion.
"Is this what