From the moment Duanmu Huai landed to the moment he dealt with the two Disobedient Gods, less than five minutes had passed. Duanmu Huai himself remained remarkably calm about it. He carefully inspected the surrounding damage, then contacted Rumiere.
"Rumiere, it's done. Take me back."
"Understood. I'll send Lamus to pick you up right away."
Before long, a red space fighter descended from the sky and retrieved the landing pod. Duanmu Huai looked up at the distant horizon, then withdrew his gaze and boarded the fighter. Immediately afterward, the fighter changed course and vanished into the sky with a roar.
"...It looks like the Inquisition really wasn't exaggerating."
As they watched the fighter disappear into the sky, three figures emerged from the side. They were none other than Michael the Angel, Fallen Angel Governor Azazel, and Sirzechs the Demon King.
Although Duanmu Huai had stated during the previous meeting that the Inquisition would handle the Disobedient Gods, the three factions had remained somewhat skeptical about whether the Inquisition could actually destroy them. Duanmu Huai was undeniably powerful, but they knew very well that gods and other beings were on entirely different levels.
Without sufficiently powerful weapons, it was even impossible to inflict any damage on a god. A god's majesty alone could directly force humans into submission. In many myths, those who rebelled against the gods were demigod hybrids, because ordinary people simply could not resist divine will.
Therefore, they had also wondered whether the Inquisition truly had the ability to deal with the Disobedient Gods. That was why they had come in person: partly to observe the Inquisition's battle, and partly to clean up the aftermath if things got out of control.
However, the result had far exceeded their expectations.
Neither of these two was a particularly famous Disobedient