"—Perhaps it will work."
In response to Professor Emma's question, the young wizard gave an ambiguous answer.
Then he briefly described his comparative experiment and his final guess. "—When I killed that Dementor the first time and got no prompt, I thought Dementors weren't on the mission list, so there was no reward. When I obtained the unicorn tail hair, there was still no prompt... It was only after the barrier was lifted and the mission completion notice appeared that I realized something was strange."
"Strange? What was strange about it?"
Dumbledore had not taken part in the First University legends' group meeting, so he did not understand what Zheng Qing was trying to say.
Professor Emma, however, understood at once.
Her expression immediately turned grave.
"—Do you think He doesn't know, or that He's pretending not to know?"
Zheng Qing pondered for a moment.
"I don't know."
He shook his head slightly. The moment the words left his mouth, he realized they were ambiguous and hurriedly added, "What I mean is, I'm not sure whether He knows or not... But I think that whether He knows or doesn't know, the strategy we formulated before ought to be changed..."
Before the First University legends intervened in this world, every contingency plan had been based on the premise that the main god was an Ancient One-level existence, "omniscient and omnipotent" within the Mission World—meaning that the legends who came to this world had to keep a low profile and do everything possible to conceal their presence.
But what if that premise had changed?
For instance, if the main god was not omniscient and omnipotent in this world, or if He was not a true Ancient One, then First University's strategy for dealing with the Mission World should change accordingly. At the