In fact, after the battle that wiped out the King of the Black Throne's fleet, Klein had come close to earning half of his 500,000 target in one go. Having tasted success, he occasionally used Teleportation to visit the sea, find some unfortunate pirates to shake down, and practice Acting as a Bizarro Sorcerer by creating a few horror stories.
To that end, he always left one or two survivors...
It was precisely because those "witnesses" existed that the stories Danitz later made up were so convincing.
He had to admit, combining the abilities of a Bizarro Sorcerer and a Marionette created an atmosphere of weirdness and terror far beyond anything Klein could have managed alone in the original story!
What was more, indulging their malice in moderation greatly helped Sharron's Acting as a Marionette. She had originally expected it to take years to digest her Sequence 4 Potion, but now, perhaps one year would be enough.
As Tolzna had said, the Prisoner Pathway ought to be one of Indulgence first and Temperance later. That was why the Indulgence Faction was stronger than the Temperance Faction in the early stages, but the balance gradually reversed after they became Demigods.
Given all the Acting Sharron had done before becoming a Demigod, she should have been able to digest the Potions of the subsequent Sequences quickly... The reason she had thought it would take years was precisely that she lacked an appropriate measure of Indulgence.
Without Indulgence, Temperance had no meaning.
Meanwhile, the members of the Tarot Club had different reactions to Gehrman Sparrow's words.
Cattleya the Hermit and Alger the Hanged Man reflected that the two months of bloodshed and turmoil at sea were finally coming to an end.
After all, what pirates feared most now was neither Nast, the King