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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.

them, he held complete control over everyone within fifty meters with his internal energy-like an unseen puppeteer tugging

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

anything like

turning on each other, and most had been slaughtered in

moments.

solitary soldier-turned-puppet, riddled with bullets but still twitching, staggered

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was blown off, yet it charged forward with a

her entire magazine

little remained of its skull. I stumbled, yet somehow kept going, letting out at guttural groan as it thrust the blade at

Lydia roared, finally drawing the gleaming word strapped

puppet's arms; another

time

Her chest rose and

have to die," she snarled at

him,

her blade at the last

backward until she crashed into a tree trunk with a

and the agony coursing through her body, Lydia refused to submit. She tried to stand, only

her life slipping away

go-she's my family!" Jasmine Kingston cried, voice stricken with

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

"Go on, do it," she rasped, spitting blood. "But you'll die

you

murder me!" she hissed, clinging to the

lips curled in a cold smile. "Then

Lydia's eyes bulged, her

moment later, her neck gave a sickening crack. Her body went limp, then dropped in

Silence.

guard seemed rooted in place, jaws slack, minds

one guard finally gasped, eyes wide as if he'd seen a

at Alex. "You've no idea

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if shaking off an inconvenience "She went straight for my throat. If I'd let her

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