What the Saints of the Rose School had not expected was that this was an attack by the devotees of the Lord of Evil Desires.
This surprised them somewhat. According to their intelligence, the Lord of Evil Desires seemed to have only one devotee, Raphael. Although Raphael appeared to be a senior member of the Aurora Order, he should not have been able to mobilize all of its forces.
In that case, the forces the Lord of Evil Desires could mobilize should have been fewer than those of the Temperance Faction.
Yet three Saints had already appeared at the three outposts under attack, and judging by what the Mother Tree of Desire had said, the enemy still had forces it had not deployed.
That was already a fairly powerful force.
More importantly, how had so many Beyonders appeared on the Southern Continent without them noticing?
But this was no time to investigate the reasons. Since the Mother Tree of Desire had issued an oracle, they had to gather their forces from across the region as quickly as possible and reinforce the outposts where fighting had already broken out.
The Saints scattered across the region swiftly received orders to assemble.
When a secret organization gathered its forces from different locations, the Saints generally assembled first to agree on a battle plan. They would then return to their respective areas and mobilize their subordinates to send reinforcements in batches.
This time, the meeting point was an outpost in a rainforest. It was extremely well hidden; even within the organization, few people knew about it.
The Saints gathering here included Lejia and another Saint who had already begun worshipping the Lord of Evil Desires. A third Saint had already gone to "reinforce" the three outposts under attack.
Lejia arrived at the outpost and