The candle remained unlit. But the stone, in that moment of pure, non-reactive presence, cracked. It did not explode. It did not shriek. It simply turned to grey, inert dust. The demon was not defeated; it was ignored into oblivion . The Heart-tree bloomed anew by dawn.
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The Scarlet Demon takes the form of a —an inverted clone with the scar on her right eye instead of the left, and speaking in a language that predates human phonemes. Its power is terrifyingly simple: Absolute Nullification . The candle remained unlit