"Did you think you could keep hiding forever?"
"Did you think the Judgment Squad really wouldn't arrive for another three days? That was just false information I deliberately spread."
Marshall stepped forward. A golden sheen surged like a tide, its pressure twisting even the air slightly, and a faint, amused smile appeared on his face.
"To make sure you walked into the trap, we didn't just falsify the information. We mobilized every available force from the surrounding cities and sealed every route out. Now, even if you sprouted wings, you couldn't escape."
Lu Ku added calmly from beside him.
"I forgot to tell you: Miss Nora of the Gloam Club should be 'talking' with our people right now. I never expected an Extradimensional Creature who had only just arrived to get mixed up with the Eye of the Dead's cultists so quickly.
Did you think that would let you keep hiding forever? Against the Judgment Squad's countermeasures, your Miss Nora can't even save herself. As for you, you're certain to die today."
"Of course, if you surrender willingly, you might suffer a little less."
Lu Ku adjusted the glasses on his nose and spoke slowly.
His voice was calm but brimming with confidence, as though the man before him were already a turtle trapped in a jar, his fate decided.
"Surrender?" Lin Sheng slowly raised his head and looked straight at Marshall and Lu Ku. His tightly knitted brows gradually relaxed. Black-purple flames quietly rose around him, and his upright figure slowly swelled. Vivid black-and-red patterns surfaced on his skin, twisting and writhing. Within a single breath, a massive humanoid monster over ten meters tall appeared before them like a demonic god.
Lin Sheng stretched his body. The dense patterns on his skin intertwined ceaselessly, and an intensely vigorous presence