[TWD x Resident Evil] — Chapter 738 - A Difficult Opponent

Leon's will lanced out toward Dr. Hanson, whose eyes were vacant and hollow.

This Hanson was his first masterpiece after arriving here. A tamed dog.

Now, he would make that dog bite through its own throat in front of everyone.

"Lift your hand."

Leon issued the simplest command on the psychic level.

No response.

Dr. Hanson remained unmoved. Didn't even blink.

Leon's heart sank.

That wasn't resistance, it was a complete disconnection.

Like dialing a dead number. Nothing on the other end but the silent drone of an empty line.

He refused to believe it.

His psychic power surged again, spreading like an invisible net toward all the scientists in the banquet hall he had "marked."

"All of you, stand up."

"Pick up your dinner knives."

"Stab through your own throats."

A series of commands went out.

Still, nothing answered him but that despairing silence.

The genetic beacons fused into these elites' blood were still there, but he had lost supreme control over them.

A stronger will had severed all his commands.

T-Veronica.

He had lost.

In this domain of psychic control, the ability he had always prided himself on had been utterly defeated for the first time.

Since obtaining this extraordinary power from Murphy, this was the first time something so absurd had happened.

The T-Veronica Virus... on the level of psychic erosion, it could actually surpass his Genetic Assimilation?

"What's wrong?"

Alexia's voice carried a trace of languid amusement.

She took a step forward, and that scent mixed with plant fragrance and something dangerous surged forth again.

"My actor, your performance seems to have frozen up?"

She leaned in very close. Leon could even see himself reflected in her ice-blue eyes.

Hm?

That scent...

Something was off.

Leon's pupils contracted sharply.

He finally realized a detail he had overlooked.

From the first time he met Alexia, this scent had been lingering in the air.

He thought it was some kind of special perfume.

But now, he understood.

This wasn't perfume at all!

Leon instinctively held his breath, but it was already too late.

"Only now realizing it?"

Alexia's red lips nearly pressed against his ear, her exhaled breath carrying deadly temptation.

"Does my scent smell good?"

She laughed softly.

"That's no perfume, Leon."

"Those are my children."

"Billions of spores invisible to the naked eye, they entered your body with every breath you drew while greedily drinking from me."

"Right now, they should have already made a home in your lungs."

Damn it, he'd actually been played.

These invisible plant spores were disgusting.

From the very beginning, he had been dancing in her palm.

Rage erupted.

Fuck this.

Then let's fight!

The last trace of reason in Leon's eyes was completely burned away.

He jerked his head up, those black eyes churning with madness that would destroy everything.

WOOM—

An invisible, terrifying force suddenly exploded outward with Leon at its center!

Telekinesis!

The air compressed violently, groaning under the strain.

The smile on Alexia's face finally froze.

She felt like she was being gripped tightly by an invisible giant hand, with terrifying pressure from all directions threatening to crush every inch of her bones!

Beneath her feet, the smooth marble floor cracked inch by inch with her high heels at the center, spiderweb-like fissures spreading madly in all directions.

That blood-red form-fitting gown was torn into strips under the terrifying pressure, exposing the jade-white skin beneath.

"So this is your trump card?"

"Looks like nothing special."

Alexia's voice grew ragged for the first time, strained with the effort to endure. She was in pain too.

She hadn't expected Leon to still be hiding this move!

"Break for me!"

Leon roared, pushing his Telekinesis output to the limit.

CRACK!

Alexia's entire skeleton groaned with brittle snaps under the strain.

The intense pain drew a muffled grunt from her.

But that was all.

She wasn't crushed directly into a cloud of blood mist as Leon had envisioned.

Her body, transformed by the T-Veronica Virus, possessed toughness far beyond the scope of normal humans, enough to withstand Leon's Telekinesis, which lacked secondary enhancement.

For Leon, this was the first time encountering such a thing, and his heart sank once again.

She had actually tanked it through sheer force!

A direct crushing blow from pure Telekinesis couldn't deliver a fatal strike.

This woman...

This Alexia Ashford was the first, and only opponent so difficult he had encountered since coming to this world!

A monster that made all his methods seem utterly powerless!

Sensing the limit of that force, Alexia's mouth twisted into a crazed smile once more.

"Very interesting power, Leon."

"But it's not enough!"

"Let me teach you what true power really is!"

The instant her words fell, her ice-blue pupils suddenly ignited into a burning, blood-red glow!

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