"None of them are."
Hearing Hilia's denial, High Priest Dylan's face darkened a bit.
The people below, and all the pile of polluted things around them.
No matter if they really are heretics or not, this would be a great achievement, maybe even a shot at getting promoted to Archbishop.
For the possible promotion to Archbishop, they had to be heretics.
A remote village, a bunch of people gathered around unknown polluted materials, something weird even happening at the nearby lake.
If that's not heretic behavior, what is?
But Hilia's arrival shattered Dylan's hopes of promotion.
Of course, he conveniently ignored that if Hilia hadn't sought him out, he wouldn't even have had this "opportunity".
Still unwilling to give up, he pondered for a moment, then said:
