Divination spells were the foundation of deception. Those tricks with no technical substance, no guaranteed success rate, and nothing but a set of patter to wait for dim-witted targets to take the bait were truly the lowest form of fraud.
Excellent deception should involve gathering information, meticulous planning, targeted design, and the execution of art-like operations against targets that had long been watched and investigated.
Anyone who could rely on some strange divine authority to become a god must have achieved something extraordinary in this field.
And the first step of excellent deception—the foundation for gathering, processing, and judging information—was divination magic.
The God of Deception could be said to be exceptionally proficient at it. Over the course of his divine life, he had almost never failed.
Of course, this was not because he was better at divination than every other god. It was mainly because whenever he judged that the odds of divination producing a reliable result were low, he simply chose not to divine at all, thus giving his followers the impression that his prophecies were always accurate.
Wisdom!
If an evil god did not use his brain, he would remain nothing more than a roadside evil god for the rest of his life.
Before formally beginning the divination for the baptized one his old friend wanted identified, the God of Deception made a brief assessment and felt it would not be too difficult.
Although the target was practically serving other gods with his cards face-up, precisely because of that, he would not pay much attention to disrupting divination detection. That was experience accumulated from the past.
Those hypocritical Orthodox Gods were mostly arrogant to the extreme, carrying the attitude of, "So what if you divine it?"
Thus, the God of Deception began the divination with