Darkness obscured their vision.
All that remained was the sound of heavy breathing in their ears.
Amid that breathing, the seeds of fear took root and sprouted.
Faced with the sudden change, the people of the Mystery Side in the banquet hall fared much better than ordinary people. They neither screamed nor fled blindly.
Instead, they slowly moved toward the banquet hall's doors.
The aberrant aura that had erupted from Qin Ran earlier was enough to tell them what a terrible mistake they had made.
They had misjudged both the situation and their opponent.
That meant... death.
Death watered the seedlings called fear.
As time passed, panic began spreading through the hearts of everyone in the banquet hall.
Quite a few people quickened their movements.
Distinct sounds began ringing out in the banquet hall.
But they could no longer worry about that.
They had to leave.
As for lighting the lamps?
At that moment, none of them had any thought to spare for that.
The darkness obscured their vision, but it should have obscured Qin Ran's as well. That made them believe they were safe.
Simply put, everyone knew that whoever lit a lamp might come under attack.
Even if that brief light could help them escape faster.
But who would sacrifice themselves for others?
The people of the Mystery Side in the banquet hall could not do that.
They were far nobler than ordinary people. How could they make a pointless sacrifice?
Greed, envy, pride...
Those three auras manifested in them to the fullest.
Nurtured by those auras, the Beast of Desire stretched its body out even further.
Hundreds upon thousands of arms and legs crisscrossed, constantly colliding and joining together.
At the intersections of those arms and legs, crimson eyes opened one after another.
They radiated multicolored light.