The ploy was old, but it worked.
Even if this scene was deliberate and foolish, and many people would see through their scheme, as long as the proportion of people who believed in the Fallen Angel reached a certain level and continued to rise, the Fallen Angel's plan would succeed. To that end, the demons still had to precisely pick out and kill those clever people, lest the plan fail unexpectedly.
Therefore, when someone took away those "clever people" who could see through the deception, it was actually a good thing for the Fallen Angel's plan—for it meant that the potential resistors were taken away as well!
If these resistors had not been taken away, the demons themselves would have had to come deal with them later.
Demons were selfish beings—even their teammates and companions could be abandoned, so naturally, they would avoid doing such things whenever possible.
The best outcome was to complete the Fallen Angel's mission without any danger at all and obtain their own Great Sin Imprint!
I just don't want to work and still want to get a huge sum of money. Is that a problem!?
That was probably what they were thinking.
"...So that's how it is!"
This perspective suddenly enlightened Zhu Tang.
He had always viewed demons as terrifying, incommunicable otherworldly beings who appeared in the Material Realm solely to invade and destroy. He had never considered that demons also had their own society and individual needs...
"Demons are intelligent life-forms. They have their own society as well. If they had not been deprived of their adaptability to most paths, they might even possess a 'civilization' unique to them."
Iver shook his head slightly.
He ordered everyone, "Leave two Pope Guards behind to guard the ship. The other two guards... and Zhu Tang and