When Vivian plummeted from the sky and hit the ground with a thud, the blood-red moon overhead vanished right after. With the suppressive power of the blood moon gone, the undead armor surrounding them immediately became active again. The clatter of metal scraping against metal rang out in a chorus. Lily hurriedly raised her giant brick to prepare for battle, but the first to act was the demon that had nearly scared everyone half to death. The five-meter-tall creature raised a hand and grabbed at empty air. In the blink of an eye, the sea of flames and thick clouds in the sky vanished without a trace. At the same time, Vivian felt the demonic power filling the surroundings rapidly weaken. In the end, even the energy signature of the Demon Stone slowly disappeared.
The undead armor in the Underground Palace had only begun moving because it was stimulated by the Demon Stone. Now that the source of the stimulation had abruptly been cut off, it naturally lost its commands. On top of that, the Runes of Leta on the armor had burned excessively under the stimulation of the demonic power and were mostly damaged. Now that even the demonic power had disappeared, the guards completely lost their motive force. All the armor simultaneously let out a series of rapid vibrations, then toppled stiffly to the ground one after another and fell silent.
The undead guards that had given Hao Ren, Vivian, and Lily such a headache had been dealt with just like that.
The enormous demon nodded, seemingly quite pleased with its own handiwork. Then it lay down again, trying its best to bring its eyes level with Hao Ren's (though the enormous difference in height made that almost impossible). It looked at the metal plate in its hand,