The White-robed Mage's Understanding

In Azterlan's imagination and plans, the bargaining chip he had thrown out at the end should have guaranteed success. One reason, of course, was the sincerity and goodwill he had brought with him.

To be honest, as a Good alignment spellcaster with no ambitions beyond tending to his own little patch of land, Azterlan was indeed far more suitable as a friend than "madmen" like Punk and Kane.

On the other hand, even if Smile, this Evil alignment deity, had no appreciation whatsoever for his goodwill, Azterlan believed that the benefits he had offered should still have been enough to move the maiden goddess before him, who was trapped in a "certain-death situation."

After all, within this unbreakable Magic Lock, the level-thirty-five White-robed Mage was undoubtedly the Legendary spellcaster with the highest casting level Smile could find. And unlike Punk, a mage who was particularly poor at Enchantment School spells, the White-robed Mage excelled most at all kinds of Enchantment School spells.

At the very least... when he told Smile that he could "construct an effective array to assist in the recovery of divine power and greatly delay the punishment brought by divine office," he was not merely making empty promises. Azterlan truly possessed that ability.

In fact, in order to win Smile's trust, the forward-thinking White-robed Mage had already constructed a simplified model of a Legendary Recovery Array in advance. All he needed to do now was wait for the New God of Red Sands seated before him to ask eagerly, and he would present the array model as his most compelling proof.

When it came to "negotiation," Azterlan, a Legendary powerhouse after all, had never naively expected to sway a self-interested person with values clearly different from his own through rhetoric or empty words. On the contrary, he