Su Ming did not know whether the three Vishanti had some means of silent communication, but he assumed they did. Seeing that Oshtur and the others remained silent, he had to work even harder to sell them on the Upside-Down Man.
He had already learned something from Diana—for instance, Constantine believed that Nabu might return with his underlings.
Back then, Zeus, Nabu, and a group of Horde leaders had formed Prometheus, the earliest organization of sorcerers, in order to steal power from Hecate.
Once they succeeded, naturally, they went their separate ways.
Leaving aside how each of them established their own pantheons, Nabu had also kept something in reserve beyond his Egyptian Pantheon. That was the Lords of Order, a group of powerful sorcerers who had once attempted to regulate magical power through order.
Through the Soul Forging Technique, they preserved their wills and souls within various artifacts, thus achieving immortality. At critical moments, they could even possess later users of those artifacts.
Those artifacts were Nabu's Golden Helmet, Gloves of Myrra, Sera's Cloak, Khouri's Breastplate, and Delphi's Golden Boots.
In other words, the Lords of Order consisted of five people, all unkillable old monsters who had lived for millennia, forming the very concept of "order" in the DC Universe.
Needless to say, Su Ming had defeated Nabu once and killed his favorite host, Kent V. Nelson. That grudge had long been set, and he had no expectation that the other Lords of Order could persuade Nabu to stop.
They had only recently learned that Hecate's power had also been stolen from the Upside-Down Man. By the same logic, Nabu would not expect the Upside-Down Man to spare him.
In other words, the hatred between both sides was basically locked in place, with no room to turn back.
There was