The armor on the armored knight had been clawed full of cracks by Meng Nan. Several spots looked especially precarious; with just a little more force from Meng Nan, they would probably have shattered. However, most of the armored knight's vital areas remained undamaged.
At that moment, a black figure as tall as the armored knight slowly emerged from the darkness. It was the Beast-Headed Bone Demon!
"Whose side are you on?" Meng Nan immediately roared at the Beast-Headed Bone Demon.
"The beastfolk are the most loyal race!" The Beast-Headed Bone Demon's answer delighted Meng Nan. The two were actually about equal in strength. With the Beast-Headed Bone Demon's help, the armored knight would certainly be unable to harm Layla.
"Bone Demon!!" As though something had provoked him, the armored knight charged madly toward the Beast-Headed Bone Demon. The Beast-Headed Bone Demon merely sneered and swung the flail in his hand. With a single strike, he sent the armored knight's head flying, along with the helmet containing the burning light of the knight's soul.
The flail fell again. With a boom, bone fragments scattered everywhere. Meng Nan could scarcely believe what he saw—nearly half of Meng Nan's body had been smashed into pieces by that strike from the Beast-Headed Bone Demon.
The Beast-Headed Bone Demon stood before the remains of the armored knight and Meng Nan. "What an idiot. So dragons become just as stupid after turning into undead?"
"Could it be..."
"Hahahaha, that's right, I did it all. I deliberately made this fellow think that you and I were planning to rebel while that skeleton idiot was cultivating, so he hurried over to deal with you. By the time I got here, he'd already taken care of most of you, hadn't he? There was no real need to do