Once Solam had fully returned to human form, the others were easy enough to deal with. They had come to save Solam in the first place, and now that he had regained his human body, it could not have been a better outcome. But it was different for the angels. They were lost. They had come to fight evil.
But what exactly was Solam? A human who had crawled out of a demon's body—did that make him evil? They had no idea what attitude they should take toward him. Kill him? That seemed a little forced. Angels could naturally distinguish evil creatures, yet they could not see the slightest trace of one in Solam. He was an ordinary mortal. Well... perhaps not quite ordinary, but so what? He was undeniably mortal.
But leaving him alone did not seem right either. Especially after witnessing Solam's horrifying entrance, they could not simply turn a blind eye.
Fortunately, someone stepped forward to speak up for Solam. As a participant in Solam's grand plan, Mystra finally emerged after slacking off for so long, putting on a mystical act and leaving the gathered gods thoroughly bewildered.
The reason Mystra had not stopped the gods from acting at the start was that she had wanted to guard against Solam as well. She knew everything about the redemption ritual and was certain it worked. But whether it worked was never the heart of the matter. The real question was whether Solam truly wished to be redeemed.
That was right. Mystra feared that everything Solam had said before had been a lie. No matter how nicely Solam spoke, he was still a demon! A demon lord at the level of a major power, no less. A demon of that rank entering the Material Plane would be an absolute