"My purpose in coming here? I didn't come here with any particular purpose. I simply didn't know what I should do."
Night Fiend looked straight at Chi Xiao, her gaze calm, betraying neither joy nor anger.
Black Sheep, however, was rather surprised.
This little girl actually had the courage to look Night Fiend in the eye. That was not something just anyone could do.
It was not merely a matter of withstanding the suppression of her strength. She also had to resist the erosion of darkness.
With prolonged exposure to Night Fiend, even through eye contact, one would silently be eroded and contaminated by the power of darkness. With this ability steadily weakening one side and strengthening the other, almost nobody dared confront Night Fiend for long.
Staring at Night Fiend for so long, as Chi Xiao was doing, was extremely risky.
"Doesn't looking at her like that make you uncomfortable?"
Black Sheep might have been rather talkative, but it really was not unkind to people it knew.
Chi Xiao should have been someone Xu Le knew. Their own relationship... probably counted as passing acquaintances?
In any case, it rather admired Chi Xiao. It would be a real shame if she died here at Night Fiend's hands before she could grow.
Black Sheep's warning was well-intentioned, but Chi Xiao would not take it that way.
Night Fiend's presence here was far too dangerous for the entire human world.
If Night Fiend clashed with the gods of the Red Moon Holy Temple at this particular juncture, it could very well cause the Red Moon Holy Temple to erupt ahead of time.
If that really happened, things would be terrible...
While humanity had yet to free itself from the Red Moon's power, those among them who harbored doubts would extract their own