"Seducer's Whisper doesn't work on you, so try this!"
The Ark Gang's leader snorted, and the air around her suddenly grew cold, with ice flowers forming in the air, defying the laws of physics.
"Thunder!"
The Ark Gang's leader shouted,
A pale lightning bolt suddenly tore through reality, twisting its body as it stabbed towards Alexander, so fast that only a streak of white light was seen.
Alexander's figure flickered, disappearing from his original spot.
The lightning was fast, but the Ark Gang's leader's casting wind-up was too long.
Alexander noticed that she seemed more adept at using mind-controlling psyker powers like Seducer's Whisper, while psyker spells like lightning, frost, and fire were cast with unfamiliarity and clumsiness.
Alexander instantly appeared behind the Ark Gang's leader, the mechanical hand on his head pointing directly at her.
A powerful torrent of telekinetic energy slammed into the Ark Gang's leader's back.
The Ark Gang's leader quickly turned around, concentrating her will and releasing psyker power, forming a shimmering psychic barrier.
The invisible telekinetic energy collided with the psychic barrier, stirring up gusts of wind in the air.
Alexander once again opened his robe, revealing the gourd beneath his clothes.
"Pocket Tornado!"
A five to six-meter-tall grey-black Pocket Tornado was released from the gourd, sweeping up dust, trash, and bricks from the ground, aggressively pushing towards the Ark Gang's leader.
"No psyker reaction at all!"
The Ark Gang's leader raised a hand, manipulating psyker power into an invisible hand to block the Pocket Tornado.
Her eyes filled with confusion.
Telekinesis, instant movement, air bullets, and this hurricane —
every attack from the man with Lager's face seemed to come from a well-trained psyker, yet there was no psyker reaction from him at all; he was even a non-psyker.
Alexander didn't give the Ark Gang's leader time to think.
His figure flickered again, instantly appearing behind the Ark Gang's leader.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
He mimicked gunshots with his mouth, his fingertips aimed at the Ark Gang's leader.
Invisible bullets, strong enough to instantly knock out an ordinary person, shot out rapidly.
The Ark Gang's leader turned her head in anger, grabbing the Pocket Tornado and throwing it at Alexander, the invisible bullets swallowed by the Pocket Tornado.
Alexander's gourd at his waist moved, and he drew the hurricane back into the gourd.
"Love the Emperor, for He is the savior of humanity!"
"Obey His words, for He will lead you into a bright future!"
The Ark Gang's leader took a deep breath, injecting the power of the Warp into her voice.
This time, she released not Seducer's Whisper, but a pure psyker shriek:
"Heed His wisdom, for He will protect you from evil!"
"Recite His prayers, for He can save your soul!"
Hymns to the Emperor poured from her mouth, instantly transforming into sound blades that stabbed towards Alexander.
Alexander was shaken by the psyker-infused sound, and a sharp pain shot through his nerves.
The Ark Gang's leader seized the opportunity, violently swinging her arm again, and a lightning bolt tore from the Warp into reality.
"Thunder!!!"
The lightning transformed into an arrow, surging towards Alexander.
Alexander's figure once again became an afterimage, disappearing from his original spot.
Her spellcasting indeed revealed unfamiliarity and clumsiness; the wind-up was too long, making it almost impossible to hit Alexander, who could move instantly.
Alexander guessed that she might be more skilled in mind-controlling psyker powers, after all, only a few people in the Lower Nest could resist Seducer's Whisper.
Here, a psychic's psyker power was far more practical than controlling lightning, fire, and frost.
"Your spells are so slow, and your aim is terrible. If you're bad, practice more!"
Alexander appeared behind the Ark Gang's leader, taunting her.
At the same time, he focused his consciousness on his eyes, trying to use x-ray vision to see the Ark Gang's leader's body structure.
Since her appearance was hard to judge, he would look from the inside out —
Then Alexander saw an extremely flat plain.
"Damn, it's so flat!" Alexander couldn't help but blurt out.
"Huh?" The Ark Gang's leader was stunned on the spot.
Of the three superpowers—telekinesis, instant movement, and x-ray vision—Alexander was least skilled at x-ray vision.
He had originally intended to look at the Ark Gang's leader's internal organs to determine if she was a Gene Stealers,
but he didn't expect to only see through one layer of clothing.
Noticing Alexander's gaze, the Ark Gang's leader blinked, then instantly reacted:
"X-ray vision? You bastard!!!"
The Ark Gang's leader roared in shame and anger.
Psyker power surged into her flesh, and her figure instantly became an afterimage, closing in on Alexander.
Her fist swung at Alexander, and Alexander reached out to block—
Boom!!
The fist struck the Body Clay covering Alexander's body, causing the clay-shaped skin to twist and deform.
Alexander was startled, his body turning into an afterimage and disappearing from his original spot.
Mind control, lightning control, flesh enhancement...
This guy knew quite a few psyker spells, though they were unorganized and revealed clumsiness and unfamiliarity.
That punch just now clearly enhanced her flesh, turning her fist into a deadly weapon.
If it weren't for the Body Clay on Alexander's surface providing some defense, especially against blunt force, Alexander would have broken at least a few bones from that punch.
Noticing that after hitting him with a punch, only strange wrinkles appeared on Alexander's skin, twisted like clay squeezed by a child.
"What kind of monster are you?!" The Ark Gang's leader gasped, taking a cold breath.
Resistant to Seducer's Whisper, instant movement to dodge lightning, strange skin to defend against punches...
The Ark Gang's leader couldn't help but feel fear. What kind of monster was this?!
She swung her arm again, forcibly pulling a lightning bolt from the Warp and stabbing it towards Alexander.
Alexander, however, flickered, disappearing from his original spot again.
"If you're bad, practice more; if you can't lose, don't play."
Alexander's figure appeared not far from her, saying mockingly.
"You bastard, if only you couldn't resist my Seducer's Whisper—" The Ark Gang's leader gritted her teeth.
"The past is the past, and the present is the present." Alexander shrugged, focusing his thoughts on his eyes.
The Ark Gang's leader concentrated her mind and energy.
Mind control was useless, Warp lightning couldn't hit him, and pure physical attacks were hard to cause damage.
She took a deep breath, psyker power surging into her flesh.
The Ark Gang's leader swung her fists, reaching Alexander in the blink of an eye.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
Alexander uttered three bangs, air bullets shooting from his fingertips.
The Ark Gang's leader neither dodged nor flinched, enduring the dizziness from the bullets and rushing to Alexander's front.
Alexander, meanwhile, held his breath and concentrated, using his x-ray vision on the Ark Gang's leader.
A lightning bolt rose from the Ark Gang's leader's fingertips.
This was not Warp lightning, but bio-electricity released by an enhanced nervous system, so fast that Alexander had no time to dodge.
The Bright Feather school of the Thousand Sons, famous for controlling flesh with psyker power, also used this method to release psyker lightning; the Ark Gang's leader's move achieved the same result through a different path.
The lightning-wrapped fist heavily struck Alexander's face, scraping off layers of Body Clay.
Alexander staggered back a few steps, his gaze at the Ark Gang's leader filled with a hint of bewilderment.
Not because of the tingling sensation from the bio-electricity on his face, but because—
"You're not a mutant, you're human??" Alexander blurted out, looking at the Ark Gang's leader's internal organs.
The Ark Gang's leader blinked in confusion, looking at the Body Clay falling from Alexander's face, revealing his human face underneath.
"How are you also human?? You're not a minion of the interstellar demon??" The Ark Gang's leader couldn't help but blink.