And it wasn't just his body being twisted.
An even stronger, corrupting power was also tearing madly through his mental world under that eyeball's gaze, leaving him unable to issue any effective commands to his body.
"Before absolute power, all your schemes are useless. You and I aren't even on the same level now, and you possess no power that could threaten me. What makes you think you can defeat me? Those childish curses of yours? What an utter joke."
Lynn's body twisted and tore horrifically, but he bared his teeth in a grin.
"Heh heh... not necessarily... have you forgotten how I... toyed with that Mechanical God...? As far as I'm concerned... there's no difference between you two!"
The First Apostle tilted his head, his eyeball writhing.
"Oh? You mean this? A toy bomb?"
As his eyeball focused, Lynn's chest slowly split open. An invisible force pulled a metal sphere engraved with countless patterns out of his body, dripping with blood.
Lynn struggled to form the words, laughing. "No. The other one."
In an instant.
The light on the remote in Messiah's hand underground switched from green to red, then began flashing rapidly.
Without a moment's hesitation, Messiah gritted her teeth and slammed down on the button.
Bzzzt-
Inside Lynn's already grotesquely distorted body, in the deepest reaches of his chaotically flowing muscles and blood vessels, on a scale even microscopes could barely discern, countless densely packed Gene Missiles within the nucleus of every cell detonated the instant the signal arrived.
Lynn's controlled body swelled instantly, then erupted in a massive explosion at tremendous speed.
BOOOOM-!!
The deafening blast sent unprecedented tremors through even Messiah underground.
Because that body had only ever been bait he had thrown out. Because he had never expected this sneak attack to succeed in