"It's you!"
The Nine Pools Rat Demon finally burst up to the surface.
Though it had already guessed that the intruder was likely the same uninvited guest who had visited before, and that Dragon Flame was no match for this surface-dweller, it had never imagined that Dragon Flame would be overwhelmed so quickly.
After all, although Dragon Flame's power was volatile, he was by no means weak among the Nine Pools Elders.
After breaking through nine layers of protective barriers in succession, the elders of the Dark Valley Elder Council arrived. They lined up and stared toward the center of the thousand-meter stretch of scorching sky, where a figure toyed with a burning stone, his face filled with shock.
"Six Demon Kings, plus the one you just killed. This Dark Valley really is quite powerful."
Painted Skin murmured in Reilo's ear.
Only then did Reilo, toying with Dragon Flame Stone in his hand, look up toward the Barrier Tower a thousand meters away.
As for the lowly creatures that had died off by the thousands within several kilometers of him after he assumed his true form and drastically changed the environment, he simply ignored them.
This was not a matter of moral depravity or a taste for evil slaughter.
For higher beings, even the mere act of breathing naturally could wipe out hundreds or thousands of lowly creatures. To them, such creatures were no different from the bacteria humans saw with the naked eye. Morality had nothing to do with it.
Could the mere existence of higher beings itself be a sin?
By the same logic, in the eyes of higher civilizations, inadvertently destroying a lower civilization was just as natural an act.
"I need all the Dark Essence sealed beneath this place, along with the Mithril Dust Seal I