Lin Hai had already considered taking his teammates and running if things went south, but that was only the worst-case plan. He would only do that after confirming that the Destroyer Armor before him possessed all the abilities it had in the comics.
For now, though, it was clearly time for him to act. As for how to fight, he looked at the steel behemoth nearly two stories tall and already had a plan in mind.
He extended both hands and skillfully formed a Daoist Tai Chi Seal. He had made this hand seal countless times—in the living room in Brooklyn Heights, in the meditation chambers of Kamar-Taj, and by the lake at Ta Lo. Every meditation session and every cultivation practice began with this seal.
At that moment, dark green light burst from his body and spread outward, enveloping an area several meters around him.
Beneath the glow, the asphalt in front of him cracked open, and something pushed its way up from below.
A light brown wooden strip emerged from the crack, growing thicker and longer beneath the dark green light. It grew from the thickness of an arm to the thickness of a waist, then from waist-thick to wide enough for a person to wrap both arms around, yet it did not stop there. It kept growing.
Patterns began to appear across its surface—not the grain of wood, but neatly arranged diamond-shaped wooden scales.
At the same time, branches sprouted from its trunk and continued growing, forming horns, whiskers, and claws. Its body began to curve, coiling around Lin Hai and the other three again and again.
At last, a Wood Dragon appeared before everyone present.
It was nearly twenty meters long and two meters thick, its entire body covered in light brown wooden scales. Its head