The serpentine world god is understandably distraught. The sage on the other hand remained nonchalant about the serpentine world god's insistence not to give up. He shrugged and said, "I know that victory will not be easy and that you are not so helpless in this situation. That is why I tried so hard to empower my champion."
The serpentine world god sneered. "We'll see if your champion is up to the task."
There is a large reason why the sage had to put a lot of things into action to win this bet. He can't be laid back like the serpentine world god. It takes confidence to bet a lot of wealth on a competition and the serpentine world god has a lot of it because of the divine ability of his race. Their divine ability isn't the absolute domain. That's just a technique. A technique that can be learned can not be the reason why the sages decided to wipe out the entire Viper race in the Virut plane.
Most of those in the Viper race are normal but the few that awaken their divine ability are monsters. They become paragons of their race. It is because of these few that the sages decided to wipe out all of them so that another paragon cannot rise up. The battle sage monkeys succeeded in doing so in the Virut plane. But the Virut plane is not the only plane in the realm of high heaven with the Viper race.
In the very beginning of the realm before the creation of planes, the realm of high heaven was a single landmass. Then chunks of it were torn away, separated, encapsulated, enlarged, and reinforced to create a plane. Some planes were without life and needed seeding but some planes had the original races that used to live on that piece of land.
Now, not all members of a race happen to be in the plane at the time of its creation. The original landmass was not separated based on race distribution after all. So sometimes, a race can be in more than one plane in the realm. The same happened to the Viper race. They were in the Virut plane and also in the neighboring plane beside the Virut plane.
The other plane that the Viper race is in succeeded in defeating the other races and subjugating them. They didn't need to wipe out the defeated races because they have confidence that nothing can threaten them. That confidence is the same one the serpentine world god had. Now the battle sage monkeys have to face the enemies that almost defeated them. They also have to face their dreaded paragons who are now stronger than ever.
The Viper paragons are the reason why the serpentine world god felt confident in winning the bet. He even bet at 6 folds his previous debts. The sage understands why he is confident and that is why he too must create his own paragon. Even with Soverick's current power, the scale has only been balanced. There's a 50/50 chance that the battle sage monkeys will still fail.
The sage sighed and said to himself. 'It will have to do.'
The chance would have been higher if the sage managed to edit the final boss of the arena of the Vipers. That will cut off a lot of the power of the paragons. The survival challenge is more than it seems just like this competition is more than it seems. Survival seems to be the aim of the challenge but those that are content with simply surviving will be mediocre.
It is very important to defeat the final boss. Its importance cannot be understated. If Soverick had failed to defeat the last boss, then the 50/50 chance will be reduced to 10/90. It is because Soverick will lose a lot of opportunities in the next challenge. The fate of the bet and the greater purpose of the competition will fall on the others but even with how powerful they are, none of them are paragons.
Of course, without Soverick there, the serpentine world god would not have decided to modify the last boss, and Arena 28 might not have had a problem defeating the last boss. Soverick's presence changed a lot of things. The sage ensured that he attended the competition with bait. The bait had to be something worthwhile for someone as powerful as Soverick. But it seems that the bait might be too powerful. So the sage has made some sacrifices just for him to create this 50/50 chance.
'To live is to learn and I have now learned to expect the unexpected from Soverick.' The sage thought to himself ruefully.
His suspicions might be incorrect. His law of order might not change Soverick too much. It is near impossible to fully utilize the law of order of a world god as a king of law. So the odds that his suspicions are incorrect are very high considering the difficulty of it coming true. But if there is something that the sage believes in, it is that if something is possible, then it can happen no matter how difficult.
So Soverick might do something unprecedented with the law of order. He just didn't expect it to happen when he was determining the bait because it couldn't be expected. It is supposed to be an impossible outcome but recent events have shown that it might be possible. That thing with Soverick's last move has shown him that there are a lot of things he doesn't understand about Soverick. That means he can't predict Soverick accurately anymore.
It is not a situation that can be helped anymore or improved in any way. It is already cumbersome to expect everything possible. That has already made the sage a terrifying force to be reckoned with. But that's the limit of prediction without using the Revelations of fate.
To add everything impossible to the mix is to expect anything. Then you might as well not plan at all because anything can happen regardless of your plans. The sage can't do that. But this situation has taught the sage something important. It is to expect the unexpected from Soverick.