Some knowledgeable, intelligent higher undead also sensed that something was wrong.
The Undead Demon Lord's soul fire trembled as he roared:
"Quick! Stop it! Don't let it hit the ground!"
With that,
he flashed into the sky, black ripples spreading wildly from his entire body.
In the blink of an eye, he destroyed half the black streaks of light.
Some were also destroyed by the Death Knights' flames.
But in the end, several black streaks of light struck the ground!
Even some of those destroyed midway were not entirely without effect.
The impacts above and below erupted almost simultaneously.
Whole swaths of space twisted.
Nearly ten mushroom clouds slowly rose from the ground and into the air.
The pupils of the demon who had just killed the little boy and wanted to make his mother's soul more delicious contracted violently.
He immediately held the boy's mother in front of himself as a human shield.
At that instant,
the mother showed no fear whatsoever. Instead, she laughed aloud:
"Demon! Your retribution has come! Die with me!"
Boom!!!
A deafening roar resounded.
The mother was instantly torn apart.
Then the impact struck the demon himself. He resisted with all his magic power, yet still felt like a small fish in a boundless ocean as he was blasted away.
He even lost the ability to think.
An unknown amount of time passed
before the demon regained consciousness. He felt as though every bone in his body had shattered, and his body was utterly weak.
Barely propping himself up, the demon discovered to his horror
that everything around him had become unfamiliar once again.
Dust filled the air.
Several enormous craters had appeared amid the already devastated ruins.
Each crater was dozens of meters deep and hundreds, almost a thousand meters across.
Inside the