The deception targeting Saint Lejia was only the beginning. Once the Saint of the Rose School had truly become a believer in the Lord of Evil Desires, recruiting other Saints would be much easier.
The staggering deception devised by Raphael and the Demon Personality exploited a loophole.
The Mother Tree of Desire was indeed immensely powerful. No one would question that, but there was a problem: the power she could project onto Earth was still extremely limited.
The Chained God had been trapped by her primarily because of her influence over the characteristics and Uniqueness of the Chained pathway. The power she could manifest on Earth had not reached the level of a King of Angel.
In other words, the Mother Tree of Desire's strongest "enforcer" on Earth was the Sequence 1 Abomination, Suah.
Meanwhile, the Lord of Evil Desires could now manifest angel-level power. With the additional help of his successful union with the Dao, this deception could easily fool a Sequence 1.
Thus, even after Raphael had recruited three Saints of the Rose School as believers in the Lord of Evil Desires, the Rose School's upper ranks-the three angels, including Suah-had yet to realize what was happening.
Raphael's next step, therefore, was to spark a civil war within the Rose School.
Of course, that was not how he described it to Lejia and the other two Saints. Instead, he called it a planned assault.
To make the most of those three Saints, Raphael intended to hold a prewar conference.
This conference, in fact, was also part of the deception.
Before the conference, however, Raphael called on every connection he had to assemble a coalition, ensuring that his subsequent plans could proceed smoothly.
The coalition's main forces consisted of two groups. The first was the three Saints of Sorn