A couple of days ago, he had just inferred that the Church was very likely the sinister force behind the scenes.
He worried that if his whereabouts were exposed, the Tribunal might come knocking, and here he had run headlong into this group of lunatics. Apart from instinctive hostility, how could he not be nervous?
The Religious Tribunal, also known as the Inquisition or Heretical Tribunal. It was the most powerful enforcer under the auspices of the ecclesiastical court, responsible for investigating, judging, and sentencing those the Church deemed heretics. During the Dark Millennium, it also imprisoned and burned at the stake countless Dissenters of the Church. Among them was the first Astronomer who proposed that the world was spherical and revolved around the sun.
In the Tribunal, Sun Crown Priests, Reformist Clerics, and Judgment Knights had committed countless horrifying atrocities, each one capable of silencing a child's cry.
