"Hah, hah, hah, hah...!!"
Phoenix Man, who could no longer remember how many times he had been reborn, gasped for breath, his eyes filled with despair.
Four wings now sprouted from his back. Half his body and wings radiated a holiness that inspired worship, while the other half was steeped in fallen, pitch-black darkness and distortion, as though he were a union of angel and devil.
This was Phoenix Man's ultimate reincarnation form, "Phoenix Overload Mode." The enormous infusion of God's power had brought him almost to the pinnacle of monsters, the legendary-
God-Level!
Yet even so, he still stood no chance against the man before him!
"So your last resort was God's corruption? Seems it wasn't much use, huh?"
Josen tore a mass of indescribably distorted power out of the void and snuffed it out as casually as tossing away trash. A soundless howl of pain erupted from it, then immediately dissipated into the void.
Watching Josen crush God's power as easily as squashing an ant, Phoenix Man swallowed and asked cautiously, "Lord Super Police, if I surrender now, is it still not too late?"
"Of course!"
To his surprise, Josen nodded readily and gave him a positively nuclear smile. "I happen to have a place that needs talent just like yours~~"
Phoenix Man: "...Huh?"
An unfathomably deep space-time vortex silently opened behind him. Dense, viscous darkness turned into supple yet tough eldritch tentacles and reached out through the torn Space-Time Portal!
The tentacles, dripping with dark fluid, first waved politely at Josen in greeting. Only then did one extend and give Phoenix Man's shoulder a mischievous little pat.
"Huh... Aaaaaaah!!!"
As the unsuspecting birdman shakily turned around, countless dark tentacles suddenly swelled, wrapping him in an unspeakable humanoid bundle in an instant. They dragged him back into the