The explosion threw Marcus across the cell, his body slamming against the reinforced glass wall hard enough to crack it. His cultivation abilities surged through him, healing the damage instantly, but the shock of what he had just witnessed left him momentarily paralyzed.
Detective Sarah Chen moved with impossible speed, redirecting Viktor's energy blast away from them and toward the ceiling, creating a massive hole through which they could escape. But what shocked Marcus most wasn't her speed or her power. It was the fact that her cultivation markings were completely different from Viktor's and the other soldiers.
Where Viktor's marks glowed with a cold blue light, Sarah's marks shimmered with gold and silver, colors that shifted and changed like liquid metal flowing across her skin. Th
