Prophecy... I remembered that apart from the few times Edwina had used the mirror bestowed by the Traitor Dragon herself, the so-called "prophecies" concerning major events had actually all been oracles received from the God of Knowledge and Wisdom...
So, was a God making arrangements this time as well?
On the surface, they were hunting the Admiral of Blood, but they actually had another purpose... Yet no one knew what that purpose was, using this to confuse that one?
This was somewhat similar to Daniel's method of rescuing the Chained God... Would that one fall for it again?
Hmm... Looking at it from another angle, that one was currently locked in a stalemate with the Shadow World. Having learned a lesson once, He would most likely think this was another diversion meant to trick Him into relaxing His erosion of the Shadow World...
So, He would most likely ignore it!
And that might instead be what the God of Knowledge and the others wanted... After all, I had previously guessed that the Shadow World was most likely a "trap"... The more trouble the Orthodox Gods stirred up, the more tightly that one would cling to the Shadow World without diverting His attention...
That should be the core calculation. As for the other incidental objectives... there was no way to guess them.
Of course, for that one to have His subordinates cooperate so thoroughly, He surely had plans of His own...
As thoughts raced through his mind, Abner followed beside Edwina and stepped through the Teleportation Gate, arriving in a vibrant little grove.
Bruna, Maria, Sharron, and Klein, who had arrived earlier, were also nearby, all looking up at a large tree close by.
Seeing this, Abner looked up as well. He saw a skinny old man with messy gray-white hair