Tiger's Roar Shook the Heavens, as Though an Earth Dragon Had Turned Over
Dog Second stared blankly at the scene before him.
Firelight, figures, blade edges, heavy crossbows.
No...
What the hell was going on?
According to Fox Third Lady's plan, shouldn't they have silently slipped to the core of the Demon Suppression Grand Array by now, joined forces to destroy it, then sent the signal to draw True Lord's army into Guannei and slaughter this mighty pass clean?
How had things suddenly become like this?
Why were this woman and the people behind her here?
It was as though... they had known from the start that they would emerge from here.
Just then, the effeminate young man stared fixedly at the girl in the chair, the color slowly draining from his face.
In an instant, he understood.
From the two utterly humiliating slaps at the city gate, to the clean, decisive severing of his hand later, to this prison that appeared impregnable but was actually completely unguarded...
This woman!
She had known they were demons from the very beginning!
"We... were played."
"What?"
Dog Second had yet to grasp what was happening.
"She knew! She knew from the very start that we were demons!"
The effeminate man whipped his head around. "She let us in on purpose!"
The moment those words fell, the dozen or so demons behind him were all struck dumb with horror.
Let them in on purpose?
What did that mean?
Catching turtles in a jar?
But...
But what gave her the right?
What made her think that, once they entered the city, she had the ability to wipe out all dozen of them?
Of the dozen or so demons, most had long since entered the Bone Resonance Realm, while the rest had reached the pinnacle