As He-El casually tossed Tao Bai Bai's corpse to the ground, the entire world seemed to fall into pallor and silence.
Inside the Red Ribbon Army command room.
Commander Red, his adjutant Black, and every communications officer stared blankly at the monitor, frozen before it.
The world's greatest assassin—Tao Bai Bai, whom Commander Red had hired for fifty million to kill a single person—had now been reduced to nothing but a sheet of human skin filled with shattered bones and blood after He-El's attack. His form was so grotesquely twisted that Commander Red could not recognize him as the proud, imposing Tao Bai Bai from moments ago.
"Tao... Tao Bai Bai... Bai Bai..." Commander Red began to tremble inside. Fear seeped into the blood in his heart and spread through his entire body. He could not stop shaking. Instinctively, he reached into his pocket for a cigar, but his fingers were too weak to hold it, and it fell to the floor.
All he could think of was He-El, like a cruel and terrifying black shadow, leaping toward Tao Bai Bai and turning him into a cloud of blood in midair in an instant. By the time he landed, Tao Bai Bai had been reduced to skin wrapped around pulverized bones and blood, his skull crushed in He-El's grip.
That horrifying scene was seared deep into the minds of everyone who had seen it.
"Commander... Commander..." Adjutant Black had forgotten even how to breathe as he stared at the monitor. Tao Bai Bai had died far too absurdly.
One exchange, and he was gone the moment he appeared.
As though Tao Bai Bai had merely been an extra.
But Adjutant Black knew that Tao Bai Bai could catch bullets with his bare hands. He was the world's greatest assassin, his