At the one-ten-thousandth instant before the scarlet cage closed!
Countless finer, darker blood-colored chains, so dense they seemed almost tangible, as though forged from the souls of hundreds of millions of dead!
Like a swarm of enraged venomous snakes, like lightning-shaped ghost claws!
With shrill screams sharp enough to pierce space and a soul-chilling cold, they shot madly from every rune node along the cage's inner walls!
Their targets were the several hundred demon lords within the scarlet cage...
"Pshht!
Pshht, pshht!!"
They were so fast that they exceeded the limits of Divine Sense's reaction!
The dense chains met no resistance. Like hot knives slicing into congealed lard, they easily and precisely pierced through the protective astral force surrounding each demon lord—force capable of withstanding strikes from Nascent Soul Magic Treasures...
Through bodies and scales as tough as refined gold and mysterious iron, and even through the heavily protected... origins of their demon souls!
There was no suspense whatsoever!
In less than the blink of an eye!
Within the space shrouded by the scarlet cage, the web-dense blood-colored chains had completely filled it, forming a forest of light that coiled, pierced, and ran through everything!
And those several hundred powerful Black Spirit Tiger Shark Clan demon lords who had just been clamoring to tear the desecrator to pieces...
All of them were like exquisite insects pinned dead within specimen cases!
Every vital point on their bodies had been thoroughly pierced by at least one, or even dozens, of blood-colored chains!
It was not merely their flesh that had been pierced. The other ends of those chains were nailed firmly into the scarlet inner walls like venomous stingers!
The dark red radiance flowing across the chains carried a powerful force of confinement...
It completely locked down their demon power, the vitality