Therefore, his acts of sabotage could not be carried out openly. He could only use Charles's hand to sabotage things in secret.
But he surely never imagined that Charles's sabotage would itself be thwarted by Dark Demon, who had stumbled into the matter.
Nor could he have imagined that all eleven major species had awakened that time, rather than Hermes alone.
By now, the "Twelve Heavenly Gods" had already become an established force.
The god behind Austin had essentially lost the means to contend against them.
So what would he do next? Would he make one grand outburst before giving up, or find another point of entry and start over? The Duke's Mansion conducted an analytic investigation into this.
The investigation centered primarily on someone most people had already overlooked.
That person was Charles, the Eldest Prince who had lost the struggle for succession.
The investigation showed that
Charles had indeed vanished from the place where he had been recuperating.
The one continuing to lie sick in bed in his place was merely a Substitute who was not him.
What the god behind Austin intended to use Charles for remained unknown.
Charles's movements were extremely secretive, and his whereabouts had yet to be discovered. But from all the information above, it was clear that Austin's low profile was not an admission of defeat, but rather a temporary retreat and endurance.
The future situation in the kingdom was not entirely impossible to predict.
Dark Demon believed unilaterally that a direct conflict between gods was impossible.
Now, the "Bolobos Twelve Heavenly Gods" had swept up the tide of the times.
Countless gods had joined the "Magic Guidance Divine Path" in search of swift resurrection. Though these gods who had joined the "Magic Guidance Divine Path" were not necessarily bound to the "Bolobos