Even though they had been prepared for it, when they truly saw the "Red Dragon Li Weier (2)" squeeze out of the portal, its back carrying almost the firepower of several new Dauntless-class ships, and heard its furious roar echo through the mountains, Garvin and Vina were still struck speechless with shock.
On the contrary, Darwin—the constructed automaton that possessed Garvin's evil personality—revealed unprecedented fanaticism in his electronic eyes. At the first moment, he dropped to one knee before the human-world weapon of destruction that had descended upon them.
Then, beneath Garvin's utterly mortified gaze and Vina's baffled stare, he prostrated himself in worship before the emerging "Li Weier," chanting in a frenzied, flamboyant tone:
"Yesss! This is—this is the incarnation of power, the substance of catastrophe! The Dragon of Destruction, Deathwing! Children! Pray! Worship! Your Creator has descended!!!"
Even if this alt account of Li Wei currently might not have any class bonuses, just as weapons of destruction like golems possessed an innate challenge rating in the eyes of certain beings from the moment they were forged, Darwin, as a construct himself, could sense the surging power of destruction within the other's body.
"YES! YES! Creator!"
"Slaughter! Destruction! Cataclysm!"
"RUA!!!"
Seeing their Holy Father so fanatical, the Cavens Ratmen, Cavennis included, all fell into blind worship of power.
It was so towering, so powerful, brimming with the strength to destroy everything!
Having just let out that roar, Li Weier suddenly saw a whole valley full of rat pups sprawled on the ground shouting "666," and he was genuinely stunned for a moment. He apparently hadn't expected these Cavens Rats to grow so well even after reaching a place as harsh as the Abyss.
But when he thought of that Blue Star news story about twelve rats multiplying into 1.64