But as they vanished, the atmosphere didn't lighten, it curdled.
A new presence surged into the vacuum they left behind. Four eyes snapped open in the darkness, unhidden and brimming with pure, suffocating malice.
Two of the eyes were a piercing, abyssal blue, radiating a supernatural chill so intense that the very breath of the Sixth-Tier beings turned to mist in their lungs. The other pair glowed a deep, sickly greenish-red. Under the weight of that dual gaze, these new higher beings felt their own bodies betray them, their flesh began to tremble and writhe as if it were trying to crawl off their bones to escape the stare.
The arrogance of the new Sixth-Tiers evaporated instantly, replaced by the realization that they have stepped too far.
