Luck
Under the radiance, Pudek's body was annihilated outright.
On the ground, only a long, narrow, bottomless sword mark remained.
The criminals and supercriminals in the distance looked at the sword mark on the ground and began retreating swiftly.
They returned to Smallville District once again.
Dresden and Giant Arm did not pursue them.
It was not only because the criminals and supercriminals had retreated in an exceptionally orderly fashion, and pursuit would only have led them into a layered encirclement. Their hearts were also filled with shock, leaving them unable to think of anything else.
"What exactly happened?"
Dresden muttered.
Giant Arm wore the same puzzled expression.
Everything had happened too quickly.
So quickly that their minds had not had time to process it.
Sheriff Pudek, a man with an excellent reputation, had turned out to be a supercriminal lurking in the shadows—and he had laid out a whole series of plans.
Yet before those plans could even begin... no, they had already begun, only for Qin Ran to counter them step by step as though he had foreseen everything. Then, just like that, Pudek had been defeated and destroyed!
Without even the slightest ability to resist.
"How did you do it?"
Even knowing that he should not ask, Dresden could not stop himself.
"He was too clever for his own good and exposed too much."
That was Qin Ran's answer.
That was right!
The other party had exposed far too much!
After their first meeting, when Emma and Eddie had acted as bait, the owner of the Modin Statue had already drawn Qin Ran's attention.
That peculiar and Aberrant aura had been far too obvious to Qin Ran, who possessed Dawn Force and Holy Thorn Force.
Afterward, the other party had tried to deliver a killing blow, deliberately