Lightning Style: Electric Current Drive - Thunder Blast

"Heh, so you've started begging for mercy?"

Lynn looked down at Brando, who was pinned beneath his foot, his expression devoid of emotion.

The mockery Brando had displayed earlier was still vivid in his mind.

Compared to the pleas for mercy before him, it seemed utterly ridiculous.

"Don't kill..." Brando gritted his teeth as he begged.

But before he could finish his sentence, his body was pulverized into a pulp of flesh and blood by Lynn.

With that, everyone in this laboratory had been wiped out by Lynn.

Lynn surveyed the blood-drenched laboratory.

The pristine white walls were splattered with blood, and the air was thick with a pungent, metallic stench; it was nothing short of a living hell.

The number of mutants these people had killed, or who had died indirectly at their hands, was countless.

And this was merely one experimental base.

What was most detestable was this damn America.

Why should mutants be discriminated against, or even held in lower regard than Black people?

In the Marvel Universe, every human possessed the X-Gene; some had simply awakened it, while others had not.

Yet, why were mutants who had awakened their X-Gene being slaughtered by those who hadn't?

Lynn couldn't quite wrap his head around it.

What kind of logic was this, anyway?

But he knew that simply escaping from here was not enough.

It was far from enough!

Beep! Beep! Beep!!!

Piercing alarms blared from every corner of the base.

Countless heavily armed prison guards rushed toward the laboratory where the incident had occurred.

Each of them wore body armor and held assault rifles, along with various grenades and other explosive devices.

"Move! Move! Move! That damn mutant is heading toward the prison block!" the squad leader in the lead shouted urgently.

Inside the prison block.

Seeing Lynn escape toward them, the expressions of all the mutants changed instantly.

"He actually escaped? Run, Lynn, hurry!"

"Heh... so what if he escaped? The guards will be here any second, not to mention the base's heavily armed military forces."

"Yeah, even if he gets out, he'll be hunted down relentlessly."

"..."

Seeing Lynn escape, the mutants reacted in various ways.

Some urged Lynn to flee immediately, while others believed he would soon be captured and killed.

But Lynn didn't take their words to heart.

He simply smashed the doors of every cell into scrap metal, one punch after another.

Then, he opened every single cell.

Witnessing this, the mutants' faces were filled with shock.

"A... a Level 3 mutant? When did he become a Level 3 mutant?"

"Is he really a Level 3 mutant? Can we actually survive this?"

"No, I can't run. If I escape, I'll definitely be killed. At least staying here, I can live for a while longer!"

"..."

In the darkness, Lynn looked up at all the imprisoned mutants.

His face was shrouded in deep shadows, revealing only his sharp, profound facial contours.

"I have opened your cell doors. If you still have the courage to live, or the will to stand up, then follow me and destroy this damn base together!"

"..."

The entire prison block fell into a dead silence.

But immediately after, it erupted with countless roars.

"Fine! We'll follow you and escape together!"

"Screw this! Living like a coward here is no different from the pigs and dogs those guards call us! We're getting out of here!"

"He's right! Only by escaping is there hope!!"

Countless mutants rushed out from their cells one after another, arriving before Lynn.

They were all gaunt and emaciated, their bodies covered in scars left behind by previous experiments.

Yet, the eyes of every single one of them were filled with a desperate hunger to survive.

They might have been a child, a husband, or perhaps just an ordinary person before.

They were dragged here simply because they had awakened the X-Gene.

Lynn cast his gaze into the cages and discovered that quite a few people were still huddled inside, watching them with expressions as if they were witnessing a show.

It seemed they did not believe these people could escape from this place.

"Very well, then we shall destroy this damned base!"

As his voice fell, countless fully armed prison guards rushed in from the corridor outside the cages.

Upon seeing Subject 52 who had escaped, they raised their rifles in unison.

Rows of pitch-black, cold gun barrels were aimed at Lynn and the mutants ahead.

Clearly, the mutants causing the riot were already considered major threats that had to be executed immediately.

"Fire!" the lead guard shouted.

But before they could pull their triggers, a pattern resembling a kaleidoscope appeared within the dark shadows ahead.

Immediately after, everyone's eyes began to glaze over, as if they had fallen under Lynn's genjutsu.

However, in the next second, the bracelets worn on their right wrists released stimulating electric currents, directly helping them break free from Lynn's illusion.

Seeing this, Lynn raised an eyebrow slightly.

He was not surprised that the base possessed such countermeasures.

As the illusion was dispelled, the prison guards pulled their triggers one after another.

Tongues of fire spat continuously from the muzzles, and countless torrents of steel tore through the air, shooting fiercely toward the mutants ahead.

Seeing the guards open fire, the mutants following behind Lynn were instantly stunned.

Horror appeared on their faces, their hearts filled with fear.

After all, they were only Level 1 and Level 2 mutants; they had no means to withstand these bullets.

They hadn't even had the Mutant Controller on their necks removed.

The Mutant Controller was a metal collar worn around the necks of these mutants.

As long as a mutant used their mutant ability, the collar would discharge electricity to attack them.

The moment the prison guards pulled their triggers and fired, Lynn narrowed his eyes.

He quickly formed hand seals, simultaneously opening his Mangekyou Sharingan wide.

Terrifying flames of Amaterasu suddenly ignited among the prison guards.

"Lightning Style: Electric Current Drive - Thunder Blast!!"

As the lightning-attribute chakra and the power of the electric current drive were concentrated in his throat, Lynn opened his mouth wide and spat out a massive golden lightning spear.

The moment the terrifying lightning spear appeared, it swallowed the bullets mid-air.

Following that, the lightning spear tore forward with thunderous momentum.

Squelch! Squelch!

The roaring lightning spear continuously shredded the prison guards who were being swept up by the Amaterasu flames.

A moment later, all the prison guards had been reduced to piles of charred remains on the ground, unrecognizable as human.

Just as they had treated these mutants.

Seeing this, the mutants who had been panicked just a moment ago were instantly stunned.

Even the mutants hiding in the cages who hadn't dared to come out widened their eyes, staring at the charred remains outside in utter disbelief.

This... this kind of power... could he really be a Level 3 mutant?!

"Move!"

Lynn did not hesitate in the slightest, striding forward.

The mutants behind him looked at one another, seemingly still gripped by the fear of the countless bullets from moments ago.

But thinking of the destructive, terrifying power Lynn had just displayed, someone among them shouted out.

"Follow the Mutant Leader to the death!"

And so, countless people joined in the shout, rushing out of the cages to follow Lynn outside.

"Follow the Mutant Leader to the death!!"