Screams howled from the dark, but with the emperor spectators not being able to see what was going on within the metaphysical black that had enveloped their assaulting army, it made them nervous to see the results.
Gu Demon Emperor and Three-Eye Emperor looked frightened, suspecting the worse to have happened. The noises were squeamish and driven from agony, and they weren't the sounds of humans being mercilessly slain.
"What maddening power has been employed? Why cannot even the vision of our own eyes breach that black veil? Why can't we see what's happening?!" Gu Demon Emperor asked aloud, half-rhetorically with no genuine recipient of his cry in mind.
Three-Eye Emperor had no clue, either. All he could see were the curtains of darkness.
No God Emperor spoke to them both, saying, "They are the powers of Night Empress."
"I thought she became a demi-god." Three-Eye Emperor said.