Is this a battle you can win?
The Inner Demon had hit Alex where it hurt the most. From the very beginning, the chance of victory had been ridiculously low. However, he had still come all this way for Hannah, for Pearl, for Yao Ning.
In fact, the entirety of the battle depended on Hannah and Zhou Linfan. He had never been part of any sort of planning where he was the one that would beat the Dragon Emperor.
At the very least, he would be someone who would keep the Dragon Emperor busy while the others killed them. Due to his teleportation powers, it became somewhat safe for him to engage the Dragon Emperor, which was why he had even chosen to do something like that at all.
In the case that the others could not do it, he had prepared the pill that he would eat and deal with him.
Now, the people who were supposed to beat the man had failed to do so, and the pill he had prepared had failed to serve its purpose.