There weren't too many mutants. The zombies, clad in tattered clothes, shed their stiffness the moment they spotted a living person.
They sprinted straight ahead with arms wide open, seemingly wanting to pull Javier and the others into a tight embrace to feast upon them frantically.
The number of zombies was vast.
Javier took a quick glance around.
There were roughly eighty or ninety zombies in the first-floor lobby alone. The sheer number was terrifying; no survivor would ever want to attempt breaking through this hellish horde.
However, Javier simply dragged his long steel blade across the floor, quickened his pace, and proactively charged toward the zombie pack.
From his posture... it looked like a tiger entering a flock of sheep.
No... it felt more like a sheep entering a pack of wolves, making one wonder if he was looking for a death wish.
Unfortunately for the doubters, only Ada and Sherry knew that Javier was only doing this because he possessed absolute confidence and strength.
Furthermore...
There were no Beauty Beasts here.
These C-Virus Zombies were incapable of infecting others, so there was no need to worry about the conflict of viral fusion. Javier could go all out!
Step, step, step—!!!
Javier's footsteps grew faster and faster.
In the next second, he plunged into the zombie crowd, dragging his long blade. The nearest zombie didn't hesitate for a moment.
It opened its foul-smelling mouth and bared its claws, aiming to bite down hard on Javier's arm. Javier could even smell the thick, nauseating stench of blood; there was no trace of reason left in those rolled-back eyes.
Shing...!
Splurt—!!!
Seeing this,
Javier simply tightened his grip on the long blade and suddenly jerked it upward with great force. In an instant, a white flash of blade-light flickered.
A sharp upward slash was unleashed.
The sharp edge of the long blade tore through the zombie from its crotch all the way up to its head in an instant, the cut exceptionally smooth and clean.
Even the spinal column was easily severed. The entire body was nearly split in two, falling to the ground as two halves of a corpse.
Thud...!
With one upward slash,
The first zombie was split in two, blood flowing onto the ground like a spring. A second zombie quickly approached, its hands reaching for Javier's thighs in an attempt to pin him in place.
However, Javier raised his foot.
His heavy steel-toed boot whipped out like a lash, instantly whipping up a surge of white air currents.
Javier's toe flickered like an afterimage, and in the next moment, it slammed into the zombie's head.
With such speed combined with terrifying power,
The result was predictable. With a "splurt," the head shattered like a watermelon, and red and yellow brain matter splattered across the floor...!
Volume 9 Resident Evil 6: Chapter 42 Semi-Mutation
The strength of the C-Virus Zombies was very weak...
Much weaker than imagined, that was beyond doubt.
After all, they were no different from T-Virus zombies. Their only means of attack were tearing, biting, and spitting stomach acid.
Consequently, these zombies were no different from grass waiting to be mowed down before Javier; they were living targets!
Bang—!!!
With a kick,
The sharp and swift strike of the heavy steel-toed boot slammed into a zombie's head with terrifying force.
The already fragile skull stood no chance.
It immediately shattered into countless pieces, splattering blood and brain matter.
The entire head burst like watermelon juice. The headless zombie quickly collapsed to the ground, motionless.
Of course,
This was only the second zombie.
Following closely behind were dozens of densely packed C-Virus Zombies, constantly lunging and biting at Javier in an attempt to devour him.
After all, they had no intelligence.
They did not fear death. As long as there was a living being before them,
These zombies would charge headlong to their deaths. This was the only troublesome thing about zombies.
When the number of zombies was large enough,
These creatures that did not fear death could cause considerable trouble. A single zombie wasn't scary, but an endless tide of corpses was truly terrifying.
Even Javier would have to temporarily avoid such a brunt.
Of course...
That would be a tide on the scale of thousands or tens of thousands. Against the hundred or so before him, Javier could still handle it with ease.
"Slash—!!!"
With a low shout,
Facing the zombies surrounding him, Javier didn't hesitate and pulled out another weapon. It was a bizarre long blade.
The handle was normal,
But the blade at the front looked like segments of an insect's tail joined together, with a sharp pointed blade standing upright at the very tip.
That was a trophy seized from Executioner Verdugo—the perfect evolution of the Plaga parasite, the biological weapon Tail Tip Blade from the Right Hand.
It was formed from a special bone-like composition.
The exterior was exceptionally sharp and hard, truly reaching the level of cutting through hair or slicing steel like mud. It could cut through floor tiles and steel plates as easily as tofu.
Because of its terrifying sharpness,
Javier had always kept it as a backup weapon. This time, he finally had the chance to fit a handle onto this Tail Tip Blade; the overall appearance was quite alien.
With dual blades in hand,
Javier quickly entered a dual-wielding state, the muscles in his arms bulging with power.
The two weapons in his hands acted like high-speed rotating meat grinders, slashing at every zombie lunging from all directions, effectively forming a circular wall of blade-light to protect himself.
Shing...!!!
Clang... splurt splurt splurt...!!!!
The long steel blade and the razor-sharp Tail Tip Blade whistled through the air, the wind from the blades easily piercing through the bodies of the surrounding zombies.
In an instant, severed limbs and broken arms went flying.
Blood stained the ground, and various bits of minced meat were like husks and impurities blown out of a rice harvester's blower,
Constantly spewing out behind him.
Before the arms and fangs of these zombies could even touch the hem of Javier's clothes, they were butchered. The scene was a complete slaughter, an almost entirely one-sided affair.
But unfortunately,
The number of zombies in the first-floor lobby was indeed vast.
After Javier's whirlwind of blade techniques, he had only slain nearly fifty zombies, yet the marble floor of the lobby was already covered in a pool of blood.
One might slip if they weren't careful, and severed limbs were piled like mountains. Even so, nearly half of the zombies in the lobby remained uncleared.
This made Javier feel quite helpless.
He could finally understand why those martial arts masters didn't want to face the imperial army. Although their personal strength was high,
The fodder was truly endless.
Human wave tactics could drag things out for a very long time. As the saying goes,
Never mind thirty thousand people; even if it were thirty thousand pigs stretching their necks for you to chop, you couldn't finish them in three days and three nights!
"No choice then..."
"In that case, I'll have to speed things up a bit."
Seeing that nearly half of the C-Virus Zombies were still uncleared,
Javier shook his head decisively and put away both the steel blade and the Tail Tip Blade. In his unarmed state, Javier immediately activated the powers of his T-Virus and G-Virus.
"Splurt... crack...!!!"
The sound of skin tearing quickly rang out.
Javier's hands snapped open, and his originally slender arms immediately underwent a transformation. Enhanced by the power of the G-Virus,
The muscles under his skin rapidly hardened, and sharp bone spurs and barbs even grew from the back of his arms. At the front of the back of his hand,
A sharp Bone Sword extended out.
It looked just like the Claws and Blade states of Alex Mercer from Prototype, and was also very similar to Krauser back then—both were semi-mutations brought about by viral enhancement.
"Gurgle gurgle..."
Not just his arms,
But also the area around Javier's shoulder blades quickly bulged, sprouting a row of dense spikes, much like the back of a Stegosaurus.
"Heh heh heh..."
Entering this state,
Purple veins throbbed on both sides of Javier's cheeks, blood-red vessels became prominent, his eyes turned slightly bloodshot, his teeth grew sharp, and his breathing began to grow heavy.
This was one of the side effects,
He would become more bloodthirsty and aggressive than usual. Fortunately, Javier's mind remained clear.
Aside from being a bit combative,
There was no feeling of being uncontrollably frenzied.
As long as Javier wished, he could revert from his current state at any time, and those sharp claws and blades could be retracted to normal.
This was the difference between perfect fusion and mutational fusion. Javier could drive these powers at will, whereas those who were infected by chance found it very difficult.
After all, their fusion methods were different. Javier used the most stable and gentle method of fusion,
Which was the virus slowly injected with Lisa as the carrier.
The physical body and the virus could achieve the most perfect fusion, and the adaptation time was long enough, so it was unlikely for a backlash to occur.
Entering the semi-mutated state,
Gave Javier the most intuitive feeling of physical power, similar to a Tyrant releasing its coat limiter.
Squandering all the strength bound within his body without restraint felt great, which was why Javier's emotions became so combative; he wanted to quickly release this surge of power within him.
"Step... Boom—!!!"
In the next second,
Javier's large foot stomped forward, instantly shattering the marble floor tiles. Using this propulsive force,
Javier's figure exploded forward with incredible speed, leaving a trail of fleeting afterimages on the ground.
This already approached the speed Wesker had with the progenitor virus. As his speed increased like a ghost, Javier quickly raised the sharp Bone Sword on his arm.
This was a skeletal weapon grown after the G-Virus and T-Virus accelerated his metabolism. It was mostly composed of calcium,
But its hardness was no less than steel, and it was extremely sharp, no different from the weapons of bosses like the Tyrant when they entered their second stage after bursting their clothes.
"Swoosh—!!!"
"Splurt splurt splurt...!!!!"
The sharp Bone Sword glided forward in a straight line, like a long sword-light.