Viscount Hillwost

Even in her Xignos Giant Python form, the Six-Headed Snake Woman could only carry Green through the air for five minutes. After all, Evil Spirits had no physical bodies, and carrying a human in flight consumed enormous amounts of energy.

With time nearly up, Green descended. By then, the rain of psychic light in the sky had gradually stopped. He checked the Graveyard's psychic energy balance: over thirty-four hundred.

Green was fairly satisfied with that result. He had gained over three thousand psychic energy in just a few minutes, so exposing the Six-Headed Snake Woman's existence was no great loss. This had not been an impulsive decision, but a carefully considered one. He could not hide her existence forever; sooner or later, a powerful Formal-Rank enemy would force him to reveal her. Besides, he had already decided to join the Anomalies Bureau, and official status would give him another layer of protection. As for revealing his hidden trump card, he was not particularly worried. Once Old One-Eye returned in the near future, both the Xignos Giant Python corpse he had reserved and the ten cannons he had ordered could serve as new trump cards. Anyone planning to target him would certainly be in for a tremendous surprise.

Just then, a desperate howl suddenly rang out from beneath City Hall. "You! You damned creatures! Why... why did you destroy my last hope?!" It was an old, hoarse voice, as grating as iron scraping against stone. Thick black liquid began welling up from beneath City Hall and the surrounding sewers. As though alive, it immediately spread in every direction, devouring everything it encountered and leaving surfaces that looked as if they had been eaten away by strong acid.

**"If you won't let me live, then you can all follow me to the