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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.

control over everyone within fifty meters with his internal energy-like an unseen puppeteer tugging at

security for the Kingston family, stared at the killing

never seen anything

trained soldiers-were turning on each

moments.

solitary soldier-turned-puppet, riddled with bullets but

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off, yet it charged forward with

her

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

bastard!" Lydia roared, finally drawing the gleaming word

single, lightning-fast slash severed the puppet's arms; another cut took both legs at the

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

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

die," she

him,

blade at the

until she crashed into a tree trunk with a

her body, Lydia refused to submit. She tried to stand,

dangling uselessly. She could feel her life slipping

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

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

rasped, spitting blood. "But you'll die too.

think you can try to

committing suicide if you murder me!" she hissed, clinging to the last vestiges

in a cold smile. "Then let's find

his grip. Lydia's eyes bulged, her struggles

crack. Her body went limp, then dropped in a boneless

Silence.

seemed rooted in place, jaws slack,

really killed her!" one guard finally gasped, eyes wide as if

shouted at Alex.

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rolled his shoulders, as if shaking off an inconvenience "She went straight for my

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