"Mm? Mm???"
Fu Zeyu had thought this would give them better odds, but Shattered Soul clearly did not think they could win at all.
"You can't beat it either?"
"Huh? Me?" Absolute Boundary pointed at himself.
Fu Zeyu hurriedly shook his head. "I wasn't talking about you, Lord Absolute Boundary."
Shattered Soul held his blade. "I'm S-rank. You want me to fight a Doomfate Class Weird across two whole ranks? If I could win, I wouldn't be S-rank."
Shattered Soul looked at Fu Zeyu as if asking, Are you trying to get me killed?
"Newbie, I heard you contracted a Fierce Fiend Class Weird?"
"Yeah. The one I contracted is the Everchanging Demon Lord."
"So? Fierce Fiend Class Weirds are powerful, right? Don't you still feel like you can't bring out its full strength?"
Fu Zeyu nodded. He did not ask how Shattered Soul knew. Perhaps he had faced the same problem himself, or perhaps he had seen it in other newcomers.
"It's simple."
"With Weirds, almost every time they rise by a rank, the difference in strength undergoes an earth-shaking change. Against lower-ranked Weirds, those a rank above can generally crush them outright."
Shattered Soul paused. "Except for some Weirds with special abilities."
"Especially at the dividing line between Blood Robe Class and Fierce Fiend Class. A Fierce Fiend Class Weird holds an overwhelmingly dominant advantage over a Blood Robe Class Weird."
"And once you reach Fierce Fiend Class, every rank above that is the difference between heaven and earth."
"Fierce Fiend. Calamity. Doomfate."
"The scale of their increases can no longer be described as merely doubling, tripling, or even quadrupling."
"I think I understand what you mean." Fu Zeyu pondered for a moment. "You mean that below Fierce Fiend Class, the outcome might still be decided by differing