Just as Raphael was about to finish off the Many-Eyed Monster with the Curse Crystal, he suddenly realized that someone seemed to have his desire to kill in their grasp.
At that moment, his Main Account sent an image into Raphael's mind: a mass of pitch-black liquid was racing toward the battlefield.
Raphael recognized him!
This was the Demon the Mother Tree of Desire had sent when they were dealing with the Eye of Illusions.
Raphael had even monitored this Demon for a while, planning to take him down after advancing to Marionette and obtain his Demon Beyonder characteristic.
He had never expected the Demon to come knocking on his own.
At that moment, the projection of the Illusory Eye was locked in combat with Erlin, while Audrey, Pain, and Sharron were ganging up on the Many-Eyed Monster.
Afraid of getting caught in the fighting, Raphael had stayed over half a kilometer from the main battlefield. None of the Saints could reach him in time to help.
Inside the Dark Hut, his Main Account was about to descend into the real world to fend off the Demon for his real-world self.
Suddenly, he sensed an anomaly in the Spirit World. After glancing over at it, his Main Account smiled faintly and merely infused Raphael with another surge of power instead of intervening himself.
Raphael, who was in the real world, knew nothing of the change in the Spirit World and was still wondering why his Main Account had only stopped the Demon from detonating his desires. But the next second, a pair of enormous hands glowing with twilight suddenly tore open the Spirit World beside the Many-Eyed Monster, revealing a stern-looking man in a bishop's robe of the Church of the God of Combat, his orange hair standing on end.