Ash had never considered the possibility of failing to escape, since the Void Realm had decreed that he could flee from Blood Moon. However, he did consider the worst-case scenario of his escape journey—blending in with a group of unfamiliar adventurers, breaking into a foreign domain perhaps even worse than the Kingdom of Blood Moon, being treated as an enemy by the natives, perpetuating the excellent tradition of passively taking the blame, and transitioning from a "Cult Leader" to an "invader from the foreign domain," thus leading a blissfully precarious free life...
He thought that the journey couldn't get any worse than that.
And then reality slapped him hard in the face—don't underestimate me, you layabout!