Can he outrun lightning?
A body of flesh and blood, of course, cannot outrun lightning.
Viper was no fool either.
As Billy's former "companion," he knew the ins and outs of Billy's abilities all too well.
Therefore, he didn't count on escaping with two legs or four wheels.
Rushing out the back door of the bar, he headed directly for the nearest pier, where he managed to steal a dilapidated small fishing boat with a roaring engine. Now, he was pushing it to its limits, its bow fiercely cutting through the dark waves, speeding desperately towards the depths of the vast ocean.
He clutched the boat's rudder tightly, his palms slick with cold sweat.
While controlling the small boat, which was pitching in the wind and waves, he nervously kept looking back, anxiously staring at the gradually receding, dimly lit shoreline.
Almost there, almost there!
Viper's heart was pounding wildly in his chest.
Viper remembered that Billy, for some reason, was extremely afraid of water, especially deep water!
This was also why she had never left Australia for so many years.
As long as he got into a sufficiently distant sea area, she would be helpless against him!
Escape, then contact the boss...
Just as his taut nerves relaxed for half a second due to this perfect plan, and a twisted smile of post-escape relief even tugged at the corners of his mouth—
Splash!—!!!
Behind him, where there had only been the monotonous sound of waves slapping against the hull, a sudden, extremely discordant, huge, and rapid splashing sound exploded!
As if some colossal object was speeding through the waves!
Viper's whole body shook violently. He snapped his head around, his pupils shrinking to pinpricks in an instant!
Under the ink-black night, on the cold, undulating sea—
A figure wrapped in crackling purplish-blue electric arcs was striding wildly across the waves with an almost ghostly demeanor!
Each time her toe touched down, the seawater seemed to be fiercely stomped by an invisible force, exploding into circles of huge ripples enveloped in electric light.
Wherever she passed, purplish-blue electric light leaped and flickered on the wave crests, dragging out a brief but dazzling lightning trail!
"No… impossible—!!!" Viper's throat let out a distorted scream; for a moment, he was scared out of his wits, even two drops of urine escaped him. He frantically pounded the throttle lever, wishing he could push the engine directly into the sea! "Accelerate! Accelerate for me!!!"
The intelligence was wrong! Terribly wrong!
That monster… she wasn't afraid of water at all!
She could run on water!
The pursuer, of course, was Serie, who had just learned "Water Walking" with her newly acquired ability point.
Indeed, with her extreme speed, she could temporarily walk on waves using kinetic energy.
But once her speed slowed, there was a risk of falling into the sea.
For this foolproof sense of control, she unhesitatingly learned this ability.
Now, this ability brought absolute convenience and pressure.
For example, right now, Serie could be so fast that Viper wouldn't even have time to feel fear before he was annihilated.
But she chose not to.
Her speed was so slow that in Serie's eyes, it was like a leisurely afternoon stroll, enough for the desperately fleeing Viper, with every terrified glance back, to clearly see that purplish-blue figure, coming across the waves like a soul-reaping phantom, getting one step closer to him.
Looking at the small, broken boat struggling in her sight, especially the figure inside the cabin who was scared senseless, Serie's lips slowly curled into a cruel arc.
Her speed suddenly increased, and she raised her leg to step on the small fishing boat.
The moment Serie stepped on the stern of the dilapidated fishing boat, it seemed to be pressed down hard by an invisible giant hand.
The boat groaned under the strain and suddenly sank!
Cold, salty seawater instantly filled the depressions on the deck.
Viper was scared out of his wits by the sudden plunge and the seawater rushing up to his ankles!
He screamed and scrambled backward like a cat whose tail had been stepped on.
His back hit the cold iron door of the cockpit with a loud "clang"!
He slumped against the door, trembling like a fallen leaf in a strong wind.
In his eyes, which were wide open to the point of almost splitting, the "monster" walking on the waves was reflected.
"You… what the f*ck are you, human or ghost?"
If Serie was moving at high speed, perhaps Viper could still understand how she could move on the sea surface, but now Serie was f*cking standing still on the water like a ghost!
The constantly undulating sea was being stepped on by her.
Purplish-blue electric arcs moved like living things under her soles.
Sometimes licking the boat, leaving charred marks, sometimes darting into the seawater beneath her feet, illuminating a small area with an eerie blue glow.
"Me?"
Serie said, raising her hand and aiming her index finger at Viper, smiling sweetly: "I'm not human, nor am I a ghost…"
"I am—" As she spoke, a highly condensed purplish-blue electric light burst from her fingertip.
"A witch…"
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