The Big Drum Demon Returns?

"Rumble—"

When Hewei's footsteps landed on the stone floor of the courtyard, the ground—which had only sunk under the Asylum Demon's repeated smashing—actually collapsed.

It had not collapsed when he passed over it earlier. It had not collapsed when he reached the edge. Yet it just had to collapse when he was rushing back, right as he ran to the very center.

It was hard to say there was no behind-the-scenes manipulation here!

"So sometimes the ground is as hard as alloy, and sometimes it's as brittle as tofu? I see through you, Sain!"

A victim of shoddy construction, Hewei vented his fury at the sky as he fell into the dim underground.

[Let me tell you, based on my understanding of Sain Underground City, a courtyard this large is definitely going to collapse in the end. Once we fall down, we'll be surrounded and attacked by monsters!]

As he fell, the words the Starfire Knights had once spoken inexplicably resurfaced in his ears.

Sorry, partners. I shouldn't have laughed at you. Your prediction was too accurate.

The Starfire Knights' prophecies had all come true at this very moment.

The only problem was that they had come true one at a time.

Thud!

"Crash—"

A great mass of shattered bricks and stones crashed into the underground space, splashing up faint ripples of water. A large red sphere fell after them, smashing into the ground hard enough to crack it.

The sphere gradually split apart into scales of nearly identical size. It turned out that, just before hitting the ground, Hewei had wrapped himself in Strangling Dragon Fang, forming a spherical protective barrier.

Countless dragon scales slipped back beneath his flashy armor. No one knew how so many scales could possibly fit inside it.

"The environment here is even worse than