He had something to take care of the situation right now.
While he thought about what he was going to do next, Amanda kept blabbering like a mindless robot who only knew one thing... answer her owner.
"I wanted your family to destroy themselves by their own hands. That's why I readily agreed when you said you wanted to go and hunt down the church on your own and it saved me a lot of trouble, else I'd have to bring in the fake priestess by myself. But I couldn't leave everything to chance, so I tried to take over your mind as well but for some reason, it didn't work... that's when I decided I needed to play along with you for a bit more...