Back in the Floating City, Li Wei met the Holy Maiden again, only...
"You don't look any different from before?"
Li Wei looked the Holy Maiden up and down and voiced his confusion.
"I thought you'd change somehow once the seal was broken."
"If you mean my combat strength, I'm afraid you'll be disappointed. I'm an alchemist. Fighting head-on was never my specialty."
Fair enough. Her specialty was making a huge army of Dolls, then hitting F2 and A.
"That doesn't mean I'm completely powerless, though."
Li Wei seriously wondered whether the Holy Maiden could read minds. Why did she always seem to hear his unspoken quips? She extended a hand and traced a strange gesture in the air. Then Li Wei and Katie saw images appear out of thin air all around them, like feeds from surveillance cameras.
And what they showed was the City of Flowers.
Only now, what they saw had nothing whatsoever to do with the city's name. Thick, black, twisting fog covered more than half the city, and countless grotesque monsters could be seen darting through it. The surviving Cront soldiers raised their weapons, firing at the monsters as they rapidly retreated.
They had sent Chimeras to attack, of course, but shortly after charging into the black fog, the creatures collapsed in agony. Then their bodies began to twist and transform into other bizarre, terrifying shapes.
"So does this mean Hell’s Gate is open now?"
"Not completely, I'd say."
"As I told you before, because our worlds are different, it isn't easy for demons to enter this world."
The Holy Maiden began explaining to Li Wei.
"The demon army that attacked my castle could only manifest by possessing followers of the Holy Lord Church. Once the Gates of Hell truly open, the boundary between the