"Red Dragon's" Epic Cross-Planar Mission
Reality was not a game. You could not rely on a temporary "cheat" to crush everything in your path and reverse victory and defeat in an instant.
What was more, they were using the same internal cheat issued by the same "Abyss GM."
Of course, Li Weier had not been without fantasies of merging with Aili into one body in an instant, railing against heaven, earth, and empty air alike, slaughtering their way through all opposition beneath the Abyss's gaze before swaggering away.
But after clashing with them again, reality swiftly slapped him awake with a resounding blow.
It turned out that when he had first fought Altinashi that day, that demon princess really had been "holding back as much as possible."
Otherwise, at the very instant their weapons met, he might already have been dismantled into a pile of parts.
Whether it was martial skill, combat experience, spellcasting technique, or judgment of the battlefield and timing, Li Weier—whose two lifetimes combined had not yet reached a hundred years—was mercilessly crushed in turns by two elderly female demon lords.
In fact, even the seemingly weaker Keeper of the Gate would have been the sort of hidden master who swept the floor in any plane. Yet Li Weier could clearly feel that, while fighting them, that fellow was deliberately going easy and dragging the demon princess down.
And Li Weier soon understood why.
Though Krurich was ostensibly allied with Altinashi through a demon contract, and though they had jointly challenged for the position of Severed Domain Lord in order to oppose the Red Shroud—the strongest among them on her home ground—
the Keeper of the Gate surely also understood that if he wholeheartedly helped Altinashi seize the position of Severed Domain Lord, then the day she