First Act of Corruption: Scam(End)

As the gears in his mind turned, one sect member after another entered the lake and tasted the baptism of pain.

Without fault, none of them managed to understand anything, but they still stood to the side in deep thought, as if they had comprehended something amazing and needed time to process it.

After all, no one had asked them to make those statements before.

Each sect member took around 2 minutes or so, so the line was moving quickly.

One option for Daneel was to reveal his identity, and make the kid prostrate on the ground to his "Senior Brother", or even his master.

However, he discarded this, as it was too risky.

No matter how the kid acted, there was no reason to trust him completely yet. Hence, exposing the fact that he had infiltrated the sect might bring him trouble so immense that he would have no time to regret later.

So, he had to do something else.

After a few seconds, Daneel hit on an idea.