Alvin was like a little pebble swept along by the current, hurled hard toward a hill...
A desperate roar came from underground and reached Alvin's ears the instant he charged into the hill...
Only then did Alvin relax, clasping his hands over his head as he braced for impact...
To his surprise, the orange chain that had bound Taowu suddenly burst out of the ground and lunged fiercely toward him...
Sensing danger, Alvin instinctively twisted in midair and swung his hand, trying to fend off the chain, which looked unbelievably powerful.
The chain seemed almost alive. It slipped around his arm and coiled around his neck...
The instant it touched him, Alvin felt as if his whole body had been shackled...
That helpless feeling made Alvin afraid for the first time...
"Don't shoot! I'm one of you!"
Alvin had no idea how he'd managed to shout something so embarrassing...
But this instinctive reaction actually worked...
The orange chain slithered around Alvin once...
Then, as if taking revenge for Alvin's meteor bombardment, it seized him just as he was about to crash into the hillside and swung him through the air hundreds of times, like a ball on a chain...
Only after Alvin nearly threw up inside his helmet did it finally seem satisfied. It swung War God 4 and slammed him into the hill...
Alvin was close to passing out. Maybe he was imagining it, but as he crashed into the hill, he thought he heard a haughty snort...
An image flashed through Alvin's mind...
An old man with a head of white hair gathered strands from the Immortals, then braided them into a rope of immense power.
Once the rope had gained sentience, it took on the role of jailer after the Immortals burned themselves to activate Earth's core