"P-please… m-make it stop… Arrgh!!" Port'hov's voice cracked as he writhed on the ground, his body convulsing due to each wave of venom coursing through his veins.
The pain was unimaginable, tearing through his insides relentlessly like wild fire.
Alex stood over him, his lips slowly curling into a dark smile.
"Hehe." Alex chuckled, relishing in the sweet wave of despair oozing from the man.
Watching how the man struggled helplessly, filled him with a strange excitement.
It was intoxicating… the raw fear seeping out from Port'hov's very soul.
It was like he could 'taste' that fear… and it was one of the best things he had ever experienced in his entire life.
'I didn't expect this though… that I can secrete venom from my claws.' He thought, staring at the colourless liquid dripping down his claws.
'But I guess it isn't so bad.' He mumbled inwardly, finally retracting them.
He slowly stood back on his feet, ignoring Port'hov, who was still screaming in pain.
The poison he injected into him was very slow, yet extremely lethal.
It would continue wreaking havoc inside his body for about twenty more minutes, before his heart finally stopped beating, and he died.
It was a really cruel method of taking someone's life, one very befitting for a person like Port'hov.
"Q-Quira…" Port'hov suddenly mumbled, causing Alex's steps to freeze in shock.
Although the man's voice was low, and could barely even be called a whisper, he still heard him clearly, due to his sharp ears.
"How dare you… mention her name?" Alex muttered, his eyes shining with a bright red glow.
Whoosh!
Within an instant, he closed the distance between them, grabbing Port'hov by his neck before flinging him towards the wall.
Thwack!
Port'hov's back slammed into the hard surface, sending a sharp jolt of pain through his spine.
The shock of pain rippled through his bones, drawing out a low grunt of agony from him.
"Argh… Kukh!" He grunted, blood suddenly spewing out of his mouth, splattering on the ground.
His kept coughing violently, each tremble of his body causing more blood to spew, and his body weakly fell down to the ground.
"You're annoying… forget waiting till the venom kills you, I'll just do it myself." Alex muttered, his eyes glowing with a fierce red light.
He suddenly brandished his claws at his sides, his expression turning cold on anger.
"Y-you… can kill me… but… you c-can't escape i-it…" Port'hov mumbled again, a slight smirk appearing on his bloodied face.
That smirk on his face made Alex's blood boil with rage, and he swiftly pulled his hand backwards, deciding to end Port'hov once and for all.
Crack!
However, a loud cracking suddenly came from the pods hanging down the ceiling, causing Alex's eyes to narrow in surprise.
He quickly turned towards the pods behind him, and a slight frown appeared on his face at the sight before him.
Crack!
Thin cracks were rapidly spreading across the surface of the pods, stretching out like spiderwebs.
Crack!!
Suddenly, one of the pods burst open with a sharp crack, sending a weird red robot crashing to the ground, accompanied by broken pieces of the pod.
Bam!
Broken shards of the pod scattered around the laboratory as the robot landed with a heavy thud, a small crater appearing beneath it.
Szzz!!
The robot slowly raised its head to face him, thick smoke rising up from its body.
"W-what…?" Alex muttered, taking in the sight in front of him. He subconsciously staggered backwards, his eyes widening in shock.
The robot looked quite different from the ones that had attacked him in the other laboratory.
Its body was thicker, more human in its proportions, but there was something deeply unsettling about it.
It had long black hair, streaked with thin strands of blonde falling from its head. However, the most terrifying part of the robot was its face, which was that of a beautiful young girl.
The expression on the face was disturbingly detached, frozen in an eerie stillness.
Alex felt like his breath was caught in his throat as he stared at the creepy robot, his gaze trembling in shock.
"Quira…" He muttered, looking at the human faced robot in disbelief.
Crack!
The other pods started breaking also, unleashing different kind of strange creatures upon him.
Whirr!
Screee!!
Different kind of creatures crashed down to the ground, making different kind of strange sounds.
A few of them had robotic features, while the rest looked like the amalgamation of different animals all together.
They had weird scales all over their body, along with claws and ragged wings jutting out of their back.
Some of them even had beaks jutting out of their mouths, giving them a nightmarish appearance, like they were pulled out of an horror movie.
Due to the unfamiliar parts of their bodies, most of them struggled to maintain their balance, however, they somehow managed to stay on their feet.
Growl!
One of them growled at Alex, stretching its thin, pallid arms while flashing a pair of short green fangs at him.
They numbered over twenty in number, swiftly gathering around the human-faced robot, with their heads twitching erratically.
Meanwhile, Port'hov watched everything with a strained smirk on his face.
These were beings created from his experiment to create a perfect soldier!
At first, he had thought of combining the strengths of different animals to see if he could create a 'perfect being', but unfortunately, that plan failed woefully.
While he succeeded in fusing the animal traits, the hybrids bodies were very unstable, resulting in a chaotic mess.
However, he didn't give up, and instead continued the experiments, merging different organisms in hopes of overcoming this flaw.
Though he never succeeded in creating that 'perfect soldier', these creatures were the results of his painstaking hard work and research over the years.
While they were all failures with little to no intelligence of their own, their strength still couldn't be underestimated, and would surely pose a huge problem for Alex.
Out of all of them, the one he was most confident in was the human-faced robot at the center… a robot he created using the heart of Quira, the most talented psychic ever seen by the world, as its core.
He called it "Quira 101", a still developing project, that was meant to draw out the latent psychic abilities of the girl.
While it was still incomplete, it was capable of displaying the strength of a rank ten psychic at full power!
'I might die here… but I'll make sure you die along with me!' He thought, his gaze shifting to Alex who stood frozen in shock at his creations.
'Yes… that's—' Blood suddenly sprayed out of his lips once again, cutting him off his words.
The pain surged through him, and his eyes narrowed in agony.
Kyahhhh!!!!!!
While Alex was still in a daze, the robot suddenly opened its mouth, sending out a powerful sonic scream at Alex.
Boom!
The sound waves from the attack spiralled through the air at rapid speed, slamming into him within an instant.
Bang!
Bang!
Bang!
The force behind the scream immediately sent him flying, crashing uncontrollably into the walls.
Thwam!!
"Argh…" Alex let out a light grunt as his back smashed into another wall, making a deep crater on its surface.
However, despite the crash, there was no injury on his body, except for the dirt which stained his clothes.
'Port'hov…' He thought, his eyes glowing brightly from within the dust. 'Disrespecting her body like this… how dare you?'
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