Preparations for the operation against the God of Pain began to proceed in an orderly fashion.
By nature, this was a private operation.
Although it involved Jia Xiu and his computer team, Master Larven—the most famous living caster—the Caster Association's mysterious Space Maintenance Department, and the three divine pantheons of the God of Knowledge, the Fairy God, and Holy Light, it was still unofficial.
They were not acting under the banner of any nation or association, nor had any pantheon truly informed its followers that this was an operation their godhood was about to undertake.
On one hand, the counteroffensive against the Devil Race was the highest priority right now. Taking action against an evil god at a time like this meant opening a second front. They did not even have a complete grasp on the first front yet, so opening two at once was clearly not a wise move.
Naturally, then, none of the people involved in this operation were particularly "wise." Every one of them had a touch of madness about them. To be fair, scientific research was the kind of profession that needed a touch of madness; even normal people would be "assimilated" after doing it long enough.
On the other hand, the odds of success did not look particularly high. From the Association's overall perspective, back when those chief gods had still been active and the evil gods had still been in this plane, they had failed to wipe them out completely. Now that the chief gods would not be joining the battle directly, and they had to travel to the distant Exile Plane besides, it did not look like an undertaking with high odds of success.
Large organizations tended to be conservative, so it was understandable that the Association would not officially participate.
But the