In the end, Lind got extremely lucky. The Victory Sect had truly been nightmares but it was not from any Fiend influence.
There were agents to be sure but it was just a purely arrogant set of leaders that saw a chance and took it. They killed an entire village because they wanted no one to know what they had done.
It was their greed and cowardice that brought ruin to so many. His exposure of it so publicly gave the Eternal Flame Guild and their allies carte blanche to wipe them out and claim the prizes for themselves.
On top of that, the Eternal Flame Guild were close friends of the Sylvan Alchemy Guild. They had rescued who they could from their fall as well.
He had known none of that but exposing those vultures that stomped on their corpses and further harmed innocents tied to the lost guild were seen as the most vile creatures in the eyes of the 2 women he had invited to the teleportation platform.
So how could they not treat him and his 2 companions well afterward?
