Next, Shien acted together with Oz and Mafy.
However, as the three of them moved together, preparing to venture deeper into the temple and face the incoming evil creatures, they suddenly discovered that those creatures were actually ignoring them. Some howled as they brushed past them, while others slaughtered each other without a care, no longer pouncing on strangers the moment they saw them as before.
It was as though they could not see Shien and the other two at all, leaving them astonished.
"What's going on?"
Oz deliberately threw a punch at one of the evil creatures. Even after its head exploded on the spot, it had not glanced at Oz once, leaving him deeply surprised.
"They really can't see us?"
Shien also waved himself around in front of several evil creatures. Yet they likewise did not even spare him a glance, instead charging at one another and beginning to kill each other.
The situation was truly bizarre.
Only Mafy, after frowning for a moment, spoke thoughtfully.
"Could this be the work of the Old Demon Faction?"
Mafy said such words.
"The Old Demon Faction?" Oz asked in confusion. "How did they do that?"
How had they done it?
Mafy could not answer that question either.
But Mafy knew that this was definitely related to the Old Demon Faction.
The reason was simple.
"Actually, I've always found it strange. Why would the Old Demon Faction want to use evil creatures to guard the temple?" Mafy said. "Evil creatures are crazed fiends who have lost their reason. They only know how to destroy everything before them, and they will not even spare other equally crazed evil creatures."
Under such circumstances, once they released the evil creatures, the first targets of those creatures should have been the Old Demon Faction.
Yet