Kro's good friend, a scholar of the Secret Magic Society, a formal Wizard...
These were the three identities Lynn had bestowed upon himself, able to dissolve most of the potential troubles into insignificance.
It wasn't easy to expose these lies. For the people of Wizard Land, Kro's experiences after going to the Sekas Empire were completely unknown. Even with magic communication, it would be impossible to cover everything, and claiming to have only recently met was perfectly plausible.
After all, his mentor had already been captured by the Church and taken to the Holy City. By now, he was either being tortured or undergoing trial, and how long he could survive was hard to say; in any case, he certainly wasn't in a position to correct Lynn's words.