Chapter 1600 - 1072 Mutual Scheming
Since Duanmu Huai had already guessed it, the Old Pope stopped pretending and laid his cards on the table. In fact, the notion of the Creator God summoning them was utterly nonsense, just as Duanmu Huai had said earlier. With the seal of the Demon King released, the Demon Clan led by demons launched a massive attack, and the Angels were late to assist. The Old Pope had somewhat guessed their intentions.
But what could he do?
As a religious leader of this world, would he go out and tell others, "The Deity has abandoned us, even plans to kill us all to eliminate the Demon Clan, let’s go home and wait for death"?
That was certainly impossible.
Luckily, during the previous eternal battle that sealed the Seven Demon Kings, the gods had summoned heroes from an Isekai world. So, he resorted to repeating the ritual from back then — of course, outwardly claiming it was the Deity’s mandate.
By this time, the Old Pope didn’t care about forging divine orders anymore, whether real or fake, as long as they arrived it was good. If they couldn’t come, it would mean informing others that humans had been abandoned by the Deity; they would probably collapse before the Demon Clan invaded.
Originally, the Old Pope didn’t intend to tell these things to anyone, but Duanmu Huai wouldn’t take any nonsense, with an attitude of "if you try to fool me, I’ll wreck this shabby Temple." Thus, he had no choice but to reveal the truth.
"So, our teleportation here has nothing to do with what’s-his-name the Deity, we’re just unlucky, right?"
Upon hearing the Old Pope’s confession, everyone looked at each other, while Duanmu Huai sneered. The Old Pope had already stated he didn’t know whether the ritual would succeed or whom it would bring to this world. Seeing it this way, it was plausible that the Creator God was just pretending to be dead and not home — perhaps he really was playing possum.
"Then let’s just settle this for now, it’s late..."
Duanmu Huai said while glancing at the sky; it was already nighttime, and the students were exhausted.