[The demon is easy to deal with as long as you're going along with what it wants. It will also throw you under the bus as soon as things stop going its way. Or when it gets bored.]

I think this is a pretty good sample so far, that both a war ritual and a non-antagonistic ritual got the same response. The Cult are zeslots and as long as it's heresy, it's met with violence.

[There's only so many resourses he wants to put into this.]

There's only so many times I'm willing to get stabbed for this particular line of research. I'm fairly sure that a few Hail Marys and Our Fathers would get similar results, though.