After hearing the brief exchange between the two—especially Red Shroud's final words—everyone present felt as though they had wandered onto the wrong set... no, the wrong plane.
Hey, hey—if their brains had not yet been completely eroded and rotted away by chaos, then this was the Bottomless Abyss, wasn't it?
Then why was a Half-Dragon Gnoll so obviously descended from a Red Dragon talking endlessly about pouring everything he had into fatherly love and duty, gambling it all in a frenzy?
And why was the ever-mysterious, aloof succubus lord accusing the other of shamelessness and depravity in the name of sisterly affection, even calling him a thief?
Those two words were practically compliments in the Abyss. Intelligent beings like succubi, incubi, and Soul Eater Demons all loved hearing them.
Especially those Abyssal Drow on the sixty-sixth layer, the Abyssal Weave. If you sincerely praised them as shameless, vile, and lowly—the sluttiest, most brazen dirty bitches you had ever seen—she might transform on the spot into an aroused breeding beast, letting you whip the scrawny horse along the ancient road and journey together to an Abyssal volcano to lament your parting.
Of course, whether she would choose to eat the Male she had just mated with afterward, like an Abyssal wolf spider, was another matter entirely.
Wait, by that logic, had this gnoll actually ventured deep into Shendilavri, the legendary five hundred and seventieth layer of the Bottomless Abyss, and stolen a Radiant Sister's demon egg from the palace of Malkanth, the Succubus Queen?!
"This gnoll brother is way too fierce, isn't he?"
A Blood War mercenary could not help voicing the sentiment in everyone's hearts.
Only when Red Shroud revealed Li Weier's origins did some who had heard that name finally come to a stunned realization, while others cried out