It couldn't be different. Erik was the blackguards' primary target, after all, and Volkov had to do as they said. It didn't matter he would Frant, because their real goal would be achieved.
Yet, the only thing they were going to find would be a mass of veritable demons hell bent on killing them all.
Of course, Erik wasn't sure about what would happen. He couldn't see the future, and what he predicted was just an assumption.
The main problem was that Zakir and people with more brain crystal powers were going to be there, at least in theory.
But despite a seemingly harsher situation, Erik doubted the Chimaeric Demons would fail.