After Li Wei finally managed to pry Aili off him and soothe her down—after she had cried a complete mess and smeared him all over with snot and saliva—and compensated Nessus for the tavern's reconstruction, the dog Boss, delighted beyond measure, immediately transformed into a shameless bootlicker with no bottom line whatsoever. He had nearly put on a melodramatic scene of bowing his head in submission with a pack of lackeys before the dragon body had even begun to tremble.
In the council hall of the Severed Domain Town Lord's Manor, Pallepheni, Li Wei, Bestna—the frost giant miss who had accompanied him this time as a "human positioning tool"—and Zariel, Daughter of Destruction acting as their bodyguard, took their seats.
Still, a group of "devils" coming to stir up trouble in the Abyss could not be too high-profile.
So Li Wei still chose the human form from ordinary polymorph, while Bestna and Zariel disguised themselves as two succubi.
At a glance, Li Wei's group probably looked to demons like a planar merchant with a bit of spare cash who had hired two succubus misses as "secretaries."
Planar merchants like that, who had tasted the marrow and still did not know when to stop—who courted death without realizing it—were actually quite common in the Bottomless Abyss.
Until they had been drained dry in both body and pockets, ordinary demons generally would not list them as hunting targets.
Once a succubus latched onto someone, it most likely meant that the demon Master behind those succubi had already set their sights on them.
In the Bottomless Abyss, rashly poaching the prey of powerful demons was a great taboo.
Demons might generally not have much going on in their heads, but they still instinctively followed the jungle law of the strong devouring the weak.