Chapter 1285
A soft chuckle escaped her lips, but the amusement in her eyes vanished in a heartbeat. With a flick of her wrist, several silver needles shot from her fingertips, embedding themselves violently into the suite’s massive floor-to-ceiling window.
A heavy, muffled thud echoed from outside.
In the dead silence of the night, the sound was bone-chilling.
Nicholas’s gaze turned instantly lethal. Without a second thought, he pulled Serena behind him and fixed his eyes on the glass.
Under the pale moonlight, several twisted, grotesque faces were pressed against the tinted surface.
They were on the thirty-seventh floor of the Skyline Seven-Star Hotel.
Yet these things clung to the exterior wall, their limbs suctioned to the glass, their cloudy, erratic eyes locking onto the two people inside.
The one Serena had hit with her needles had already plummeted into the darkness below.
Six remained.
They were the Obsidian Augments, the biological weapons engineered by the Obsidian Sun.
With their distorted features and bloodshot eyes plastered against the glass, it was a scene straight out of a nightmare.
Nicholas narrowed his eyes, his expression darkening into something utterly predatory.
He had flown all this way just to see Serena, and now these freaks were ruining his night.
He had been mere seconds away from kissing her.
These suicidal pieces of trash.
They actually dared to interrupt his precious reunion.
They were going to pay.
The glass shattered with an explosive crash as the lead Augment smashed its fist right through the reinforced pane.
A violent gust of wind howled into the room, carrying shards of glass as the mutated monsters roared and lunged forward.
Their speed and power were far beyond human limits.
But as fast as they were, Nicholas was faster.
Serena didn’t even need to lift a finger.
Nicholas was already moving, his face a mask of absolute freezing rage.
His strikes were merciless and terrifyingly efficient.
The violence was so precise it bordered on a massacre.
The moment the first Augment lunged, Nicholas seized it by the throat and slammed it into the wall. The sickening crunch of shattering” bone echoed through the suite.
Another attacked from his blind spot. Nicholas casually sidestepped, grabbed a heavy metal sculpture from the table, and crushed the creatures shoulder with a single, devastating swing.
He knew exactly where their weak points were.
But he didn’t care. He was using them to vent his profound annoyance.
A rapid succession of brutal impacts rattled the room.
The entire slaughter took less than three minutes.
Nicholas planted his custom leather shoe on the chest of the last twitching Augment.
The room looked like a graveyard of dismantled machinery, bodies scattered in broken, unnatural angles.
Nicholas stood amidst the carnage. The sleeves of his dark dress shirt were casually rolled up, revealing the strong, pale lines of his wrists.
Serena leaned against the wall, her arms crossed. A lazy, appreciative smile touched her lips Looks like your trip wasn’t a total wa
waste after
all p>
Nicholas turned to look at her. The lingering bloodlust in his eyes immediately softened into something infinitely warmer.
Serena shifted her gaze to the mangled Augments, her smile sharpening. “The Prescotts are playing their final hand. They must be truly desperate p>
It made sense.
Earlier that day, Elyndor had dominated the competition arena.
Desmond Prescott had been stripped of his position, and the Prescott family’s grip on Severia was rapidly crumbling.
If they completely collapsed, they would lose all their value.
And the Obsidian Sun would dispose of them without a second thought, just like
they had done to the Doyle family in Vaelion City.
So the Prescotts had panicked. In a desperate bid for survival, they had unleashed the Augments directly.
They weren’t even trying to hide anymore.
Serena’s lips curled into a cold, ruthless smirk.
She pulled out her phone and dialed a number.
It rang twice before a deep, guarded voice answered, “Who is this p>