[For what it's worth, Jake isn't going to draw attention to it. Small favors, probably.]

...Maybe we're not thinking about it from the right angle. Yeah, Cyrus has gods on his side, but that means we don't have to beat the gods, necessarily. That means we have to beat the guy they're listening to.

Cyrus is a human. Or at least he was. If we're careful about it, we can beat a human.