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Chapter 178

Two of Lydia's soldiers lunged at Alex in a synchronized move, each trying to knock him off balance with a "forceful kick aimed at his knee.

The blows landed, but Alex didn't budge an inch.

It felt, to them, like their legs had just collided with a slab of solid iron.

One soldier let out a strangled cry as he crumpled to the ground, clutching his shattered shin.

The other toppled over next to him, howling in agony.

"Y-you monster!" another soldier snarled, leveling his weapon at Alex's head. Several more followed suit, forming a ring of gun barrels pointed straight at him. Suddenly, one of the men who'd been aiming at Alex turned his rifle away from its target.

Without warning, he pulled the trigger-twice-blowing the heads off two of his own comrades in a grisly, explosive spray.

"What the hell just happened?" someone shouted, horror-stricken.

"I-I don't know!" cried the shooter, eyes wide with panic. "My hand... it moved on its own!"

"Drop that damn gun!" barked another soldier, voice trembling.

The moment the shooter tossed his rifle aside, he yanked a hunting knife from his belt and lunged at the nearest comrade, stabbing viciously.

"Stop!" the comrades yelled.

One soldier fired his pistol in desperation, the bullet ripping through the assailant's chest.

The attacker collapsed, but in a grotesque twist, his body kept moving-like a mindless puppet-driving the blade deeper into the soldier he'd tackled.

"Shoot him again!" someone else screamed, voice shrill with terror. "He's not going down!"

Several rifles went off at once. Bullets tore into the attackers torso until he finally slumped over, lifeless.

While the soldiers reeled from this nightmarish scene, Alex stood with a faint, chilling smile curving at the corner

of his mouth.

within fifty meters with

of the carnage, Lydia, the head of security for the Kingston family, stared at the killing with shock

anything like this

each other, and most had been slaughtered in

moments.

riddled with bullets but still twitching, staggered in front

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head was blown off, yet it

Lydia shouted, emptying her entire

of its skull. I stumbled, yet somehow kept going, letting out at guttural groan as it

finally drawing the gleaming word strapped to her

slash severed the puppet's arms; another cut took both legs at the

quivering one last time before going still. Lydia stood panting,

pride of the Kingston family-lay dead. Her

to die,"

rushed him, sword raised

a calm expression, Alex sidestepped her blade at the last second and slammed his fist

sent Lydia hurtling backward until she crashed

agony coursing through her body, Lydia refused to submit. She tried to stand, only to have Alex blur forward and clamp a hand

her life slipping away as her lungs burned

let her go-she's my family!" Jasmine

plea. "If you kill Lydia, there'll be hell to pay! The Winston family doesn't let things

a contemptuous glare. "Go on, do it," she rasped, spitting blood.

think you can try to kill me, but I'm not

you murder me!" she hissed, clinging to the last vestiges of her

cold smile. "Then let's

tightened his grip. Lydia's eyes

Her body went limp, then dropped

Silence.

rooted in place, jaws slack, minds barely processing

killed her!" one guard finally gasped, eyes wide as if he'd seen

at Alex. "You've

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an inconvenience "She went straight for my

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