The Holy War Arrives

Shadow Demon? Zhang Tie had only heard that term in legends. It was a Devil Race that had once brought immense disaster upon humanity. Shadow Demons were called Shadow Demons because they possessed the most powerful ability to transform. They were like chameleons, even more like certain octopuses beneath the sea, born with the ability to turn themselves into something else. But a Shadow Demon's ability was many times stronger than that of chameleons or octopuses. This was one of the strangest and most dangerous abilities possessed by the Devil Race. So long as they wished it, they could assume anyone's appearance.

Master Abian was a Shadow Demon. This was a fact shocking enough to leave countless people's minds utterly blank. It was unexpected, yet perfectly reasonable. Throughout human history, those Shadow Demons who had taken human form had inflicted immense and terrifying disasters upon all mankind. When Shadow Demons appeared as human elites, becoming presidents, leaders, and powerful figures who wielded enormous authority in human nations, the harm a Devil Race member bent on destroying humanity and keeping it forever beneath the Devil Race's order of rule could inflict from humanity's pinnacle of power far surpassed that of a Devil Race legion.

Besides freely changing their appearances, Shadow Demons possessed another ability that inspired the greatest fear: plundering and merging the genes of others. They were terrifying gene plunderers.

Shadow Demons were synonymous with deceit, conspiracy, terror, and disaster.

So the Devil Race that made everyone blanch at the mere mention of it had been right beside him all along, right here in Black Flame City—and had even been one of Black Flame City's most prominent figures.

Master Abian, having revealed his Devil Race identity, strode step by step toward Zhang Tie. Zhang Tie did not know what purpose