"But if rumors about the Apocalypse and the so-called Salvation Ark had spread so far that even Xio and Fors knew about them...
"Then the ritual the Hidden Sage had spent half a year preparing was about to begin!
"The news came from the Church of Combat? And the only True God's blessed one who hadn't disappeared was also from the Church of Combat...
"The Hidden Sage and the God of Combat really had formed an alliance!
"But that didn't mean the Hidden Sage had told the God of Combat this world existed... Hmm, he was probably keeping that option in reserve, as a way out.
"If his ritual was disrupted, the God of Combat could still back him up..."
In an instant, Abner had gained Insight into most of the Hidden Sage's arrangements.
After a moment's thought, he used the Land of Unknown as a relay to send the Evernight Goddess and Lilith in the main world an account of the situation here, along with this world's coordinates.
Replies from both True Gods soon arrived.
The Evernight Goddess's message was brief. She told him only to go to the abandoned city-state in the Forsaken Land of the Gods that worshiped Gregrace, the Phoenix Progenitor, when the Apocalypse came to this world.
Lilith's reply revealed considerably more...
Just as Abner had expected, Lilith would descend into Miss Plant of this world, but she would do so in the guise of the Earth Mother Goddess.
That would give the Hidden Sage the mistaken impression that she was not his real enemy, but had come to this world in pursuit of the Evernight Goddess. It would make him less likely to flee immediately.
So Abner needed to arrange an "opponent" for her, someone who could pretend to hold her up for a