The Goddess and Mr. Fool were on friendly terms? They even shared Authority? Are you sure that isn't blasphemy?
Wait... the Goddess is the Queen of Calamity and Fear, while Mr. Fool is the King of Yellow and Black who wields Good Luck... They seem opposed, but both symbolize aspects of Fate. Could they share Authority in that domain?
And the Earth Mother Goddess sent her blessed to serve Mr. Fool... Given Closia's attitude toward Doctor Strange, could he have been talking about himself?
Those two brief statements left Daly and Dunn shaken. They almost regretted letting Doctor Strange tell them. Merely knowing such divine secrets made them feel they were in grave danger.
Daly was especially stunned. She had never imagined that a Secret Art using a Grade 2 Sealed Artifact could be traded for information at this level. She had thought Doctor Strange might, at most, offer a veiled hint about how the gods regarded one another.
Neither of them suspected Doctor Strange of lying. As both a blessed of the Earth Mother Goddess and a believer in Mr. Fool, he would hardly speak carelessly about the gods.
Abner, meanwhile, had considered adding something like "My Lord is a friend of the Lord of Storms and wields the Authority of Thunder in his stead." But on reflection, the Lord of Storms had never shown him—the Transmigrator brought here by the Pure White Eye—the same clear goodwill the Goddess and Lilith had. If he got carried away, a Lightning Strike might come down on his head...
He had revealed something of the relationship between the orthodox gods and Mr. Fool to put Daly and Dunn at ease, lest their wariness of Mr. Fool lead them to make an irreversible mistake...
After some hesitation, Abner decided not to keep borrowing