On planet after planet, in silent streets and distant wildernesses, countless people stared fearlessly up at the darkened sky.
When the nightmares swooped down, they met the fiercest resistance they had ever encountered.
Those lowly mortals showed not a trace of retreat or fear, fighting them to the death.
But they only found it amusing.
And too much amusement turned into tedium and irritation.
Bzz-
With nothing more than a thought, he reduced a planet of ten billion living beings to dust. He turned indifferently and sped efficiently toward the next world. To Nightmare Demons like them, those lowly creatures had never been anything more than ants on the ground, yet those ants dreamed of raising their voices to rival the heavens.
Everything was going far too smoothly.
At first, they still held themselves back. They kept suspecting a trap, that all of this was merely Lynn's plan to lure them in, and that made them wary.
But they soon discovered something.
Even after they had completely broken through the defenders' lines, Lynn still had not appeared.
And at that moment, they finally understood.
Perhaps it was not that he did not want to come, but that something had happened to him, preventing him from descending immediately to fight them.
Once they became convinced of that-
They changed their strategy almost at once. While the main force continued advancing toward Dark Night City, the remaining nightmares scattered in every direction, racing toward every planet and world in the Main Universe where life gathered, carrying out their efficient slaughter and extermination.
Because as long as they could wreak enough devastation throughout the Main Universe in a short time-
Even if Lynn eventually descended-
None of it could ever be undone!
And so, from that moment on-
The Main Universe became a