Su Rou roared, her voice splintering into a dozen overlapping shrieks that echoed off the jagged edges of the broken terrace. Her physical form swelled past its previous limits, stretching upward until she stood twenty feet tall against the bruised purple sky. Layers of heavy black iron scales rippled across her chest and shoulders, overlapping like roof tiles forged in a demonic foundry. Along her neck and jawline, secondary mouths split open through her skin, weeping dark crimson fluid and chanting ancient, blasphemous syllables that made the air itself vibrate with nausea.
The sheer physical volume of her transformed body displaced the surrounding atmosphere, sending a wall of hot, sulfurous wind across the courtyard. Cultist guards who had stood too close to her flanks stumbled backwa
