For that to make sense, maybe Dante has been convinced that it has been a portal to the gods or perhaps that it was made to seal a ancient secret and for some reason he raised a lesser army to face the daemons, after all Dante is the strongest famous living person of the empire, (one of godlike nature), it is natural to underestimate a unknown force no? Even with his wisdom.


It is idiotic because it is our first or atleast still early encounter with an unknown force? :)