Chapter 1341
The Obsidian Core hadn’t made any real progress.
They were still recycling the same pathetic, predictable tactics.
But for her, this was actually a massive tactical advantage.
Mordecai clearly thought this gas would force the Augments into an unstoppable, lethal frenzy.
But he had grossly miscalculated.
These five Apex variants were already balancing on the razor’s edge of total chemical collapse, meticulously herded there by her kinetic manipulation.
Now, with the sudden influx of hyper-stimulant gas in their lungs.
The secondary chemical spike completely shattered whatever microscopic stability they had left.
The five massive abominations’ eyes bled a violent, toxic crimson. Like rabid beasts completely bereft of logic, they thrashed and smashed into each other in blind, chaotic fury.
In other words p>
This toxic gas was actually doing her dirty work for her.
The hyper-frenzy caused the heavily unbalanced chemical cocktails in their blood to violently implode.
Their terrifying combat pressure vanished entirely.
Putting them down was going to be an absolute joke.
Serena’s gaze turned frosty. Moving with ethereal, lethal grace, she drifted through
the toxic green fog and the wildly thrashing monsters.
She didn’t waste an ounce of energy engaging them in direct, kinetic brawls.
Instead, she exploited their blind rage, expertly baiting them into catastrophic structural failures.
She dismantled them. One by one.
Their synthetic biology finally hit its absolute breaking point.
One Augment lunged so violently its muscles seized, locking its joints into a rigid, paralyzed state.
Another’s chemical overdrive spiked so aggressively that its equilibrium shattered entirely, sending its massive bulk crashing lifelessly to the steel floor.
A third missed a wild swing, allowing her to effortlessly press down on its overextended arm, utilizing its own horrific momentum to violently shatter its remaining functional joints.
The more chaotic they became.
The more flawlessly she moved.
The more rabid they grew.
The more it looked like she was simply taking out the trash.
One after another, they locked up, spasmed wildly, their hyper-inflated muscles bulging and collapsing erratically.
Until, one by one, they slammed into the blood-soaked floor like dead weight.
Never to rise again.
When the final Augment hit the steel grate with a deafening thud.
The entirety of Pod 10 fell dead silent.
Shattered surgical equipment.
Mangled consoles.
Pools of dark blood.
And amidst the suffocating, impenetrable green smog, only a single, slender silhouette remained standing.
She casually raised a pale hand, brushing away the fresh trail of blood leaking from the corner of her lips.
She was clearly battered.
Her tactical uniform was torn in multiple places.
Yet her breathing was perfectly even the battlelust in her eyes
radiant and utterly euphoriet
Burn
hing brighter than ever, her smile
She practically radiated the terrifying, suffocating aura of an apex predator.
Like a queen rising from the ashes of a battlefield.
Slowly, she lifted her gaze, locking eyes with the security camera mounted in the corner.
Her crimson lips parted.
And she silently mouthed a single word:
“Pathetic p>
On the other side of the screen.
Mordecai, pinned under Serena’s contemptuous, mocking stare, felt all the blood
drain from his face.
“This is impossible p>
He was violently trembling, his
hands digging into the edge of the console. His eyes bulged at the screen as if his brain was,
fundamentally refecting the reality before him. His voice cracked in sheer hysteria. “Those were Apex variants… How is it possible… How could they end up like that p>
“How did she know their exact biological response patterns p>
“Why didn’t the nerve agent melt her nervous system p>
“What kind of fucking monster is she p>
At that exact moment, Mordecai’s entire psychological foundation shattered.
Gone was the arrogant, untouchable mastermind who believed he was holding all the cards.
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All that was left was suffocating terror, along with the utter despair
and humiliation of having his pride.
6ntly crushed Beneath Serena’s
boot.