Turning away from Max, Balthazar rose higher above the battlefield, his voice swelling with demonic energy until it echoed across the sky like thunder rolling through a storm.
"Hear me, all of you," he roared, his command directed at the thousands of demons now gathered, their wings blotting out the light, their bodies exuding hunger after millennia of imprisonment. "The Heavenly Lord Secret Domain will soon open, and within it the geniuses of the human race will gather. If any of you encounter them inside, you are to strike without hesitation. Kill Max. Kill every human genius that dares to step before you."
A chorus of snarls and howls answered him. The sky shook with the voices of demons who had been shackled for over ten thousand years, their hatred boiling over as his words fanned their fury into an inferno.
"They sealed us away!" one demon shrieked, its eyes glowing scarlet. "We will tear their flesh apart!"
