He considers, while also relaying the words through his Telepathic Bond, and makes the call.
They are in fact underneath Asmodeus's main temple in Ostenso - not wanting to move Sevar outside the noninterference zone to somewhere that gods could get at her - but an army to resist the Padishah Empire, that is not. And the point about the action having no visible product except their own response action is giving him a bad gut feeling too.
"All right. Let's go to Hell. Abarco, you're first through the door."