Chapter 1340
“Serena Lancaster, I don’t care if they call you the Demon, or if you think you’re immune to everything. Just one breath of this, and your bones will melt into nothing p>
“Even if you were a god, you’re dying in that pod today p>
He braced both hands against the console, his eyes manic as they stayed glued to the screen.
He was practically salivating at the thought of watching Serena violently choke on her own blood as the toxin hijacked her nervous system.
He couldn’t wait to see her desperately clawing at the bulletproof glass, begging for a way out.
He wanted to watch her muscles lock up, paralyzing her completely as she collapsed to the floor in suffocating agony, completely helpless as the chemically- enraged Augments tore her flesh from her bones.
But a second later.
The psychotic grin on Mordecai’s face slowly, agonizingly, froze once again.
On the security feed.
The suffocating green gas had completely enveloped Pod 10.
Yet the girl standing dead center in the toxic fog hadn’t even bothered to cover her mouth and nose.
She didn’t so much as flinch.
Instead, she slowly tilted her head up.
Her breathtakingly gorgeous, icy features were faintly visible through the churning emerald smoke.
Staring directly into the security lens.
It was as if she could see right through the camera, her gaze locking perfectly with Mordecai’s.
Then.
Her red lips parted.
The wicked, bloodthirsty smirk on her face crept higher, dripping with absolute contempt.
Mordecai’s brows slammed together.
He stared, utterly unblinking, at the slender silhouette standing casually in the center of the kill zone.
He couldn’t comprehend it.
She was moments away from a gruesome death, yet she had the audacity to smile at him? To openly mock him p>
That synthetic gas was designed to be instantly fatal to normal humans. A single breath would violently short-circuit the nervous system, aggressively corrode the respiratory tract, and induce absolute paralysis.
It didn’t matter how skilled Serena was.
Once she inhaled that vapor, her motor functions would critically fail, leaving her paralyzed and completely at the mercy of the ravenous Augments.
And for the Apex Augments, that gas wasn’t toxic at all.
It was an extreme hyper-stimulant.
It was engineered to completely shatter their internal limiters and send their aggression off the charts.
Mordecai had only deployed the gas because Serena had been
systematically dismantling the net
monsters’ biological stability, catching the attention of The Overlord himself content
The suffocating threat to his own life had forced his hand.
He had to ensure she died as brutally and quickly as possible.
But now p>
This bitch was actually smiling.
Mordecai felt his absolute authority being violently spat upon.
His face turned a sickly shade of violet and he hissed through
want to see how
elenched teeth, want
arrogant you are when the gas fully saturates your precious little lungs p>
Inside Apex Simulation Pod 10.
Serena watched the green vapor rapidly consume the room, letting out a soft scoff that dripped with mockery.
The second she had stepped foot in the pod, she had clocked the modified ventilation shafts in the ceiling.
She had also detected the incredibly faint, synthetic chemical residue lingering in the sterile air.
As the Ghost Doctor, her mastery over toxins and biological agents was unparalleled. Her sensitivity to chemical compositions was practically woven into her DNA.
The exact millisecond she smelled the vapor, she had fully analyzed its toxic profile and intended physiological effects.
Not to mention p>
Her unique physiology was inherently immune to a vast array of lethal neurotoxins.
Combine that with the broad-spectrum antidote pill she had swallowed prior to entering the arena.
This supposedly lethal green vapor was about as dangerous to her as a cheap smoke machine.
In fact p>