The Dictators and Apostles might not make the first move to attack just to obtain the big source fruit sprout or the reward, but this would send a signal to the rest of the marsh world that there was a high chance that the experts from the Freedom Federation had discovered the big source fruit sprout and were trying to prevent others from stealing it.
This was exactly the misconception that Lin Yuan wanted the Apostles and Dictators to have.
Humans naturally wanted to exclude others. Hence, unless the experts from the Freedom Federation had members of royalty among them, there was no way they would communicate calmly with the Dictators and Apostles.
Thus, the misunderstanding would only grow.
It was just like a teacher asking a student if they had stolen someone else's phone, and the student in question suddenly grabbed hold of his bag tightly.
