"Trickster" Lloyd could be known as "Puppet Master" for good reason.
In Puppetry Technique, possibly only one or two people in Old Lington could match him, but certainly, none were stronger than him.
Dark smoke enveloped the entire sealed space, and just when everyone was at their wits' end, black strings suddenly burst forth from the giant cross in the sky, spreading wildly.
Countless black strings touched anything they could coil around and immediately began to bind.
At that moment, someone shouted through the smoke, "Don't panic, this is Mr. Lloyd's puppetry trick, no one resist!"
The black strings, like tiny snakes, probed everywhere; they bound people upon contact and did the same to objects.
Even the corpses on the ground were manipulated like marionettes, as if they "came to life."
The black strings were innumerable, covering the entire space, making them unavoidable.