Over the past few months, apart from Erlin, who had died, the Saints of the Temperance Faction had all been helping Raphael search for a mummy he could use to advance to Marionette.
But without exception, every mummy they knew of, or had located through information they had just purchased, was either guarded by Saints of the Indulgence Faction or part of a trap those Saints had set.
They had originally discussed joining forces to seize one of the mummies, or simply leaving Raphael to solve the problem himself.
Sharron thought neither solution was particularly good. The former risked exposing them, while the latter made the Temperance Faction seem insincere.
Sharron had long noticed that Raphael seemed to have additional information on how to use the Prisoner pathway's abilities efficiently. She had been planning to trade with him again once the Temperance Faction had built up some reserves.
Then, about a week ago, one of the Saints received word that Loen had seized a mummy from the Indulgence Faction three years earlier. It was currently hidden in Backlund.
During its colonization of the Southern Continent, the Loen Kingdom had plundered not only wealth and resources, but also Sealed Artifacts and Beyonder characteristics.
Although a cursed mummy was not a particularly useful Sealed Artifact, other Sealed Artifacts or valuable burial goods were invariably found around it. To the colonial army, those were treasures.
The mummy Sharron had previously seized with Klein's help had been one such case.
Sharron immediately investigated the mummy in Backlund and found that it would be easier to obtain than those in the Southern Continent.
Under normal circumstances, the Loen Royal Family assigned several Saints to take turns guarding these things. Now, however, they were short of Saints and had left only one on guard.
More importantly,