"Heh, good thing I had a backup plan ready long ago. Now that I have a scapegoat to take the blame, even Zhu Meng would never dare lay a hand on me."
"Besides, I have people above me. As long as I'm alive, I have value. He definitely won't just stand by and watch something happen to me."
Luo Mian sat alone in the confinement cell, a particularly unrestrained smile on his lips.
But the very next second, the entire building shook violently.
It wasn't an earthquake.
Something unimaginably enormous was moving above the ground.
The alarms shattered before they could even sound. Every light went out at once, leaving only the sickly green glow of the emergency power.
Luo Mian's instincts as a Super Tier Magician sensed the threat to his life. He instantly completed the construction of a Star Palace.
The safe room's alloy ceiling was replaced by a gigantic azure snake eye.
Its vertical pupil was like an abyss, reflecting Luo Mian's tiny figure.
Rage, hatred, and an almost indifferent scrutiny filled it, like a human looking down at an ant by their feet.
Luo Mian's magic struck the snake eye. The curse flames could burn a Commander-level Demon to ashes, yet the instant they touched its scales, they melted away like ice and snow, leaving not even the slightest trace.
"Impossible... a Supreme Monarch?!"
Luo Mian finally realized what he was facing.
The Black Snake could not even be bothered to use magic.
It merely opened its mouth slightly—not to attack, but to make a simple swallowing motion.
Space twisted within its mouth. Before Luo Mian could even scream, an invisible force tore him from the ground and dragged him into that abyss-like throat.
The entire process took less than three seconds.
There was no fierce