[Shun is somewhat less concerned about the masked ayakashi, since they're just a bigger annoyance to kill, but the gods are definitely a point worth considering.]

I'm hoping so as well. Sotero and Votelli are formidable enough, so if they choose to fight against the cult outright, it's definitely an added advantage to us. And they've lost Talos as well even if she didn't defect. They can only have so many gods under their control.

[He can't imagine the Heavens would have been able to completely turn a blind eye to the creation of dozens or even hundreds of new deities, and Sensei's records, at least, indicated that his sect had only made the two. Assuming only one or two gods per sect of the cult, there's a good chance there's not that many of them overall.]