It was as if mountains were rising from the ground!
An unprecedented, violent tremor erupted from the deepest depths beneath the earth. The roaring never ceased as cracks split across the vast plaza. Piercing screams rose and fell, and the crowd fled in terror. Winding fissures grew like living things, stretching across the entire plaza and climbing up the walls of the office buildings...
The distant helicopters urgently climbed higher. Through their aerial cameras, they saw the plaza, now utterly unrecognizable—and beneath those cracks, a hazy glow flowed like water, almost ready to burst forth.
Strings of question marks flooded the screens of countless livestreams.
[What happened?]
[An earthquake!]
[Wait, does Central City have shoddy construction too?]
[Hold on, don't tell me those damn people from East City used bunker-busters! What underground facility did they blow up?]
[Case solved, kids—Central City's urban legends are real. They really are kidnapping children!]
[Holy shit, is it just me, or do the clouds look a little like a giant snake? It even seems to be bleeding...]
[Earthquake clouds?]
[Look at the ground! What is that?!]
The storm rose without warning.
Amid the chaos, thunder suddenly erupted.
High in the heavens, the shadow of a great serpent, invisible to ordinary people, churned the clouds. Like an enraged dragon, it opened its maw and spewed forth a storm and lightning surpassing even natural disasters.
The power of a Celestial Being manifested here!
In an instant, a torrent capable of reducing every structure aboveground at East City Bank to ashes and instantly vaporizing every overconfident robber fell from the sky!
Then, it was as if it had crashed head-on into an invisible iron wall...
It scattered soundlessly.
Between the cracks, the bank—which was still belching smoke with wheezing huffs, as though it might completely collapse at