Damian used another monster's ID to get some halfway through to the point of their maximum travelled distance from the Stone Mountain. If he extended his mana sense, he could sense the five powerful creatures and the Sun God from here. It was a bit away from the point where the Demon had initially started flying towards them, most likely sensing them.
Damian could sense the Demon flying back to his fellow lords. Now they just had to wait.
Everyone walked away alone or in pairs, doing the last bit of their pre-battle preparations. Damian stood still at the edge of the red mountain, his air shields blocking all the monsters from reaching them. Here, only King-rank monsters were in large numbers, and occasional Emperor-rank ones—but they were much weaker than what Damian and the others had made a daily habit of fighting hordes and hordes against. No one even acknowledged their presence.
