The Dark One was just finishing converting another person into a Denizen, a four-foot tall gray creature with no eyes and extremely sharp blades sticking out of every joint created for the express purpose of serving the Dark One, when he felt the emergence of a power that the ring on his finger knew very well, the very same power that caused it to hide itself on Earth.
The Dark One smiled when he realized that his army of Denizens meant that whoever held the powers would never be able to defeat him.
Wanting to give them a taste of what they would be up against, he sent a small squad of Denizens to find the source of the power.
Confident in the performance of his Denizens, he turned his attention to converting the next person the Denizens brought before him.