Eden looked toward the fleeing crowd and witnessed the chaos unfolding. Some panicked individuals jumped into the lake, while others, trampled underfoot, lay bloodied on the ground. Those too slow to escape were rendered unconscious by the sheer pressure of the situation.

Fortunately, the thousand soldiers Eden had brought managed to escape to a safe distance. He breathed a sigh of relief, murmuring, "Thank goodness I got away. The consequences would’ve been unthinkable."

Just as Eden finished sighing, the transformed Lenny suddenly halted his pursuit of Barlow.

"You bastard..." Eden gritted his teeth, consumed by hatred.

However, even as Eden cursed, another strange transformation occurred. The monster that Lenny had become began to swell, his body expanding from its somewhat normal form into a spherical shape exceeding ten meters in diameter.

His hands, still resembling their original form, started to twitch and elongate rapidly, thickening as they twisted. In moments, his arms