Far away on Reef Island, Kroya was not particularly worried about whether they could escape, because the Mushroom Person on Ryan's back had already seen everything.
That strange flower vine was only trying to drive them away. It moved quite slowly, almost as though it were deliberately allowing them to escape.
What concerned him was the cup he had seen in the priest's hand.
The cup was made of gold and inlaid with tiny platinum-colored fragments that looked like shards of heavenly light.
"Void Luminary Shards?"
"Even people from the Church have come to the northern border."
Deep in thought, Kroya glanced at the people in the image, who had already escaped to safety and were talking.
"Greed. That infected cultist must have regarded the entire castle as his private property and refused to let anyone leave.
"Does he think a noble's power is tied to his castle?"
At that moment, his interest in what was happening there waned considerably.
He could already imagine how things would develop.
With the priest's help, they would simply kill the cultist after a difficult battle.
With that strange priest present, there was indeed no need to worry about anything going wrong. All he needed to do was wait.
The Mushroom Person could sense the priest's magic power... it was close to level four. Dealing with an infected cultist like that should pose no problem.
As for why he was doing this... honestly, Kroya did not quite understand either. According to what the Mushroom Person sensed, those flower vines were only level two to level three at most.
They should have been no match for the priest.
"Is he doing it deliberately? I really would like to meet him face-to-face. Why does that thing he's holding look so much like the Purification Grail?"
"Never