Bang-
A deafening crash rang out.
"Fuck!"
"Whoa! Your head!! What happened to your head (ΩДΩ)! How did you get it stuck in there?!"
High up on the rock wall, Lynn's head was embedded in the stone, his body swaying below his neck like a feather sprouting from the rock.
Lynn hooked his tentacles onto the top of the rock wall and yanked his head out of the stone. Then, gritting his teeth, he quickly pulled a comb from his coat and fixed his hair.
"Someone fucking set up some kind of anti-evil-spirit array outside! It seems specifically aimed at me, and it's pretty high-level. Blue Star actually has stuff with that kind of power??"
Almost at the same moment.
A flurry of footsteps suddenly came from the stairway leading to the surface.
And not just there. The sound of ropes sliding down instantly echoed through the enormous vertical elevator shaft leading aboveground. With his soul vision, Lynn immediately saw through the walls and spotted special forces soldiers rapidly descending from above to surround the place.
Clatter-
A smoking flashbang dropped through the enormous opening of the elevator shaft and rolled across the floor.
Lynn froze.
Bzzzz-!
The flashbang detonated, its brilliant flash instantly illuminating the entire underground space and distorting everyone's vision.
Clinging to the rock wall like Spider-Man, Lynn irritably plucked out his eyeballs and wiped them back and forth with a handkerchief. He now understood that the troops had completely surrounded the place. Apparently, they weren't entirely helpless, either. If they dared attack a Flesh God Cult Branch, they probably had an expert backing them up.
"First squad, third squad, and twelfth squad have entered the target location. No resistance encountered, over."
"Warning! Unlocatable anomalous supernatural presence detected in the target area. All units, stay alert. There