What am I afraid of? Right, there doesn't seem to be anything to fear... Xu Le thought.
He felt an endless stream of power flowing into his body from beneath his feet. It was the power of darkness-not the night, nor a Guyinduo Creature like the Night Demon, but energy with the nature of annihilation.
Darkness.
"Is this your power, Lord Night Fiend?"
"It seems you've already prepared to choose the Path of Darkness, so this power belongs to you as well."
Xu Le felt himself growing taller and taller. Of course, he wasn't actually growing taller; he was standing on Night Fiend's head.
The darkness that obscured the light, the source of death and disaster, the destroyer of the world, the World-Devouring Giant Wolf-Night Fiend, who held so many folk titles, was now actually standing beneath his feet.
And he also knew that Night Fiend was actually a dog, not a wolf.
"Don't think about such irrelevant things."
"Oh..."
Xu Le gave a guilty "oh" and turned to look at Night Fiend's true body. He finally saw what Night Fiend's complete form looked like.
Glossy white fur, a massive body, and a pair of somewhat narrow ears standing erect. Night Fiend really did look rather like a wolf.
One particularly distinctive feature was the black jewel in the center of Night Fiend's forehead.
Darkness spread from it, and Xu Le sensed a familiar presence. Black Sheep?
"Lord Night Fiend, what should we do now? It..."
Xu Le pointed at the Red Moon staring at him from the sky. For some reason, he kept feeling unable to look directly at it. It was fear, but also a sense of lowliness.
It was probably like the lowliness that naturally arose when there was a gap between levels of life.
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