Back in the jungle, when Silvanus was hesitating, unsure of whom to abandon, he initially wanted Jack to be the one to perish there.
He knew the man—a cruel dark esper. Compared even to his group, Jack was the most ruthless of them all, constantly coming up with wild ideas, torturing his kind to death just to experience the twisted pleasure he couldn't find outside the dungeon.
But then, the acting system suddenly intervened and told him to leave behind Leonard instead. By all accounts, Leonard was already the obvious choice to be abandoned. However, Silvanus was intrigued by the system's decision because it had never interfered with his choices until now.
[He will certainly survive. This will make him stronger. Moreover, consider Leonard if you seek a believer whose nature aligns with Nerio.
At the time, Silvanus couldn't understand the system. He couldn't see anything unusual about Leonard. Yet, despite his skepticism, he trusted it—the system he had always dismissed.