And almost the very instant he finished speaking.
Tentacle after tentacle abruptly latched onto the dozens of bodies in the room already under deep anesthesia. He gazed intently at Messiah opposite him and lightly raised his fingers.
He snapped them.
Snap-
In an instant.
The ceiling above the basement exploded, leaving a massive hole.
Amid the cascading rubble and earth, Lynn leaped upward with the dozens of paralyzed humans in tow.
"This is bad!"
Every Exorcist in the corridor blanched. Braving the collapsing walls, they immediately rushed forward.
"Lady Messiah! This is no time to think! Act now! If you don't, he'll escape right under our noses!"
Amid their shouted warnings.
Messiah's brows knitted. Her gaze fell on the slime-filled containers rapidly being buried beneath the rubble. Finally steeling herself, she seized her enormous cross and sprang through the opening like a cheetah.
"Protect those containers! They hold crucial evidence of the Flesh God Cult's crimes. I'll deal with him!"
Humm-
Blazing golden light instantly flared around her, and she began reciting a holy prayer.
Almost at the very moment Lynn burst out from underground and pierced the roof like an arrow loosed from its bow, under the stunned gazes of the soldiers and police inside the factory, Messiah shot upward amid roaring flames. The immense cross in her hands seemed to embody divine wrath.
The vast wings of a seraphim unfurled behind her once more.
"Judgment!"
With that prayer of divine wrath, the enormous cross thundered toward Lynn from below.
Airborne, Lynn kept the dozens of human bodies wrapped in his tentacles. Looking down at her attack, he extended a hand and said:
"Messiah, do you think anyone who comes from Hell must be a devil?"
At that moment.
The Night Demon Blade instantly appeared in his hand.
He