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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.

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

for the Kingston family,

never seen anything

each other, and most had been slaughtered

moments.

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

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blown off, yet it charged forward with a blade

her entire magazine

its skull. I stumbled, yet somehow kept going, letting out

the gleaming word strapped

single, lightning-fast slash severed the puppet's arms; another cut

a broken heap, quivering one last time before going still. Lydia stood panting, surrounded

squad, once the pride of the Kingston family-lay dead. Her chest rose and fell with ragged breaths, fury

die," she

rushed him,

sidestepped her blade at the last second and slammed his fist

sent Lydia hurtling backward until she crashed into a tree trunk

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

her life slipping away as her lungs burned

family!" Jasmine Kingston cried, voice

echoed the plea. "If you kill Lydia, there'll be hell

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

voice low and mocking. "So you think you can try to kill me,

murder me!" she hissed, clinging

a cold smile. "Then let's

Lydia's eyes

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

Silence.

rooted in place, jaws slack, minds barely processing the

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

at Alex. "You've no idea what you've

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his shoulders, as if shaking off an inconvenience "She went straight for my throat. If I'd let

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