They immediately prepared themselves and knew that the evil lord would be strong and that they were in a critical situation. The villagers were also frozen in fear after seeing the leader of demons who started to wreak havoc in the early days, and trying to conquer the entire Dark Forest and later the entire Planet. As the dark lord's hidden demon aura was at its weakest, the nearby lesser demons around him, excluding the high-ranking demons received a power boost as they were exposed to the dark lord's influence.
The barrier also started to react against the emitted dark magic coming from the dark lord, and as the areas where the barrier was not able to protect but was cleansed from the dark lord's influence before then started to receive the dark lord's infection which makes the extende
