A Divine Artifact that could deceive a god—what did that even mean?
Green narrowed his eyes. He did not examine the King of Faceless Men's Mask any further, instead sealing it as quickly as he could. Until he knew it was completely safe, he had no intention of releasing the Seal.
Then Green turned his attention to Watagel's soul.
"Quite a Divine Artifact. You almost fooled even me just now." Green signaled Talaga not to Devour the soul.
He opened the Nightmare Kingdom and swept Watagel's soul inside.
Watagel had to be hiding plenty of secrets. Green would need to interrogate him thoroughly.
If Green had not kept his guard up and used the Mechanical Spark to check himself at the crucial moment, the impostor Faceless might well have fooled him.
Then many of Green's secrets would have been exposed, leaving him to face unimaginable danger.
Because the Mechanical Spark had fused with the Mechanical God's Eyeball, it retained some of the Eye of God's power to pierce illusions.
The illusion created by the King of Faceless Men's Mask was so advanced that even the Eye of God could not dispel it completely. But with the Mechanical Spark, Green could break its hold on his own senses.
And when Green saw in the Graveyard's status panel that Watagel's true loyalty was not even twenty, he understood what was happening.
So he played along, then struck Watagel without warning.
Sure enough, Watagel thought he had fooled Green and let down his guard. Talaga caught him by surprise and killed him in one blow.
Otherwise, given Watagel's strength, even Talaga at the peak of High Calamity Rank would have had to pay a price to defeat him.
Only after putting Watagel's soul into the Nightmare Kingdom did Green breathe easier. Looking back,