Fear Demon

The black-armored warrior walked through the streets of Kyoto, leaving a trail of footprints on the snow-white road.

The people of Kyoto fell into panic once more. Everyone remained inside their homes, casting terrified glances toward the street through cracks in their doors and windows.

Under everyone's watchful eyes, the black-armored warrior left Kyoto and headed toward Peach Blossom Mountain.

The sky was a dull gray, and light snow drifted down in a steady flurry, turning the whole world gray and white.

The black-armored warrior began climbing the mountain. At the foot of Peach Blossom Mountain, he found a narrow path through the snow and followed it toward Peach Blossom Pavilion at the summit.

Along the way, the black-armored warrior saw countless corpses on the ground. They were all warriors!

They had been thoroughly slaughtered, their limbs torn and scattered everywhere. Some warriors had had their innards ripped out, painting a crimson picture across the snow.

The corpses of three thousand Kyoto warriors carpeted the mountainside. Not one was whole.

Terror still hung on their faces. Clearly, they had suffered inhuman torment before death.

The black-armored warrior swept a glance over the mangled corpses, then continued striding up the mountain.

As he neared the summit, he saw another field of corpses. This time, however, they did not belong to humans, but to the Big Monsters!

Like the three thousand massacred warriors, these Big Monsters had been torn to pieces!

The remains of over two hundred Big Monsters had been ripped into fragments and scattered everywhere!

Their huge, twisted heads were frozen in shock, panic, and disbelief.

They seemed to have suffered inhuman torment before dying, or perhaps witnessed something they simply could not comprehend.

The black-armored warrior paused briefly amid the pile of demon corpses, wondering what had happened. All