Cycles.
Perhaps if Iris Borough was any more sharp and knowledgeable, maybe she would have seen the signs. From a so-called Hero she'd read named Tadashi to the treatment that he had received and such.
Maybe if she had shared her reading to Walter and he actually recognized the true nature of his Master, then maybe he would have figured it out.
The signs were there, some overlap between the cycles.
But the Vampire Lord did not know anything about it.
"Cycle?" Cassius Blackwell stared at the mists and tried to see clearer. He didn't whisper the spells aloud but they activated and made his eyesight clearer.
[World Clarity Vision]
[Truesight Vision]
Closer and closer, he passed through the mists that obscured the goddess and could finally see the outline of her being.
"I do not recommend what you're doing if I were in your shoes." the goddess spoke.