At the end of the ruined hallway, the members of the Cleaners Squad finally realized what kind of monster they were facing.
"All or nothing! Move!" the lead assassin roared.
The others held nothing back, unleashing their various powers in the hallway at once.
The burly man at the front swelled with muscle. A grayish-white layer of rocky armor instantly covered his skin, turning him into a human tank as he charged through the rubble and dust.
Another assassin behind him suddenly opened his mouth. His jaw dislocated and split open at a horrifying angle, his chest heaving as he prepared to unleash high-frequency sound waves powerful enough to shatter internal organs.
The others scattered simultaneously, cutting off Lucian's escape routes with flames, corrosive liquid, and two bone spikes from different directions.
Not bad teamwork.
First, disrupt the mind with Psychic Blast, then send in the tank, suppress and control the field with sound waves, and have the others finish the target off. An ordinary Supe, even one much stronger than them, might have been overwhelmed in the first round.
Too bad they picked the wrong person.
Lucian lightly stamped his right foot on the scorched floor.
The entire floor suddenly shook.
Magnetic force ripped the rebar out of the walls and floor, the sounds of snapping metal merging into one. The next second, hundreds of twisted steel bars pierced the concrete and stabbed toward the Cleaners Squad like wildly growing thorns.
Squelch!
The assassins whose bodies weren't tough enough didn't even have time to fully unleash their powers before wrist-thick steel bars pierced straight through their limbs, pinning them in midair like meat on skewers.
Blood streamed down the metal thorns, and agonized screams instantly drowned out every other sound.
A steel bar pierced the sound-wave assassin's jaw from