Before the priest's punishment was carried out, the matter of Val being poisoned was indeed brought up, but it wasn't explicitly stated that the poison used was the Whitemore Bloodline Suppressing poison.
This meant that most still saw Val as a defect, a normie.
The fact that Val was a Bloodline User was privileged information known to only a select few, and Elias was not amongst them!
His understanding of Val was still stuck in the past. Ignorant of the fact that Val was a level 2 Bloodline User, an entire level above him, he still perceived Val as a mere normie.
That's precisely why he, a mere level 1 Bloodline Warrior, had the audacity to target him, a Level 2 Bloodline User!
