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He seemed to want to say something, but in the end, he merely shook his head and turned to look at the subordinates following him.

"Anyway, since we've already arrived in Castel, let's be guests for once. We can visit the believers while we're at it. We've let them down far too much."

The priests of the Silent Temple had wanted to say something, but upon hearing Ignati mention the temple's believers, they all fell silent.

It was the believers of the White Crow Duchy who had made the greatest sacrifices.

They had lost their lands and could only wander through the Northern Territory, driven away from place to place by various lords. They had finally managed to gather the Resistance Army, only to be abandoned by the church once more.

No matter how many reasons these priests might have had, they knew they owed the believers.

The temple had failed to protect its people. All they could do was perish alongside the White Calamity. If Nora had not found Castel as a home for the Resistance Army, the believers' future would surely have been bleak.

The priests of the temple truly felt guilty. That guilt even made them feel that they would have been better off dying in that fog.

Not a single priest could refuse the reason of "going to see the believers."

Beyond that, though, the priests of the Silent Temple were somewhat unconvinced.

Ignati held great prestige within the temple, and they had not idled away these past days. They had made many efforts.

Yet according to Nora, those efforts had all been meaningless. The temple had merely repeated the sacrifices of the past again and again. That deeply wounded the priests.

They also wanted, to some extent, to prove themselves. Perhaps the temple had taken