Even at this very moment, he still wanted to squeeze out her last shred of value. This man... was no lion, much less her king; he was a literal devil from hell, a demon in human skin!
"Enjoy it to the fullest,"
"This is your last chance. I've prepared a massive number of corpses for you on the deck of this Freighter, which will allow the ouroboros virus in your body to be absorbed to its limit. Success or failure depends entirely on your genes and your will."
"If you succeed, you will become the first human to successfully fuse with the ouroboros virus. When that time comes, never mind sharing the new world with me—your own power might very well surpass mine."
"But if you fail, you can help gather the final experimental data. Let me see just how powerful the ouroboros virus becomes when absorbed to its limit. So, don't say I'm cold-blooded and heartless; after all, I've already given you your chance."
Looking at Excella, who was half-kneeling on the ground with a pained expression,
Wesker slowly crouched down and spoke softly into her ear. Then, no longer caring whether Excella lived or died, he picked up the white briefcase dropped on the ground and prepared to leave.
"Wesker...!!!"
Excella watched the man who had abandoned her, her eyes filled with hatred and rage. She couldn't help but scream hysterically at Wesker's departing figure.
Unfortunately...
Wesker's back had already vanished without a trace; he had long since headed toward the bottom of the Freighter's hold.
Inside was a b2 bomber loaded with the ouroboros virus at Wesker's disposal. Excella... was merely the last pawn Wesker used to stall the progress of Javier, Chris, and the others.
*Step, step, step...*
As it happened, Javier, Chris, and the rest arrived just then. The moment they opened the doors of the Institute base, they rushed toward the Freighter's deck.
They then saw Excella half-kneeling on the ground, letting out a wretched, hysterical scream.
"Wesker...!!!"
"Ugh... Aaaah...!!!!!"
Excella's hatred for Wesker had been pushed to the absolute limit. As the saying goes, the deeper the love, the sharper the hate. However much she had adored Wesker before was exactly how much she detested him now.
Regrettably...
Excella could not control the power of the ouroboros virus within her body. The dosage Wesker had injected was simply too high, making it impossible for Excella to resist the virus's erosion through sheer will alone.
However, that towering hatred,
Helped drive the power of Excella's virus to its peak. Although she could not complete the fusion evolution, she could use this hatred to transform herself into the most terrifying monster—!
"Ugh... Blech..."
*Splurch... Gurgle... Rumble...!!!!*
In the next second,
Black masses began to writhe beneath the skin all over Excella's body. Her mouth snapped open as she vomited, and dense, snake-like ouroboros virus strands rapidly erupted from within.
A massive amount of "black noodles" spewed from Excella's mouth, and the ground was almost entirely covered by these ouroboros virus fission products.
Finally, Excella's own body began to decompose.
Upon sensing the living matter placed on the Freighter's deck, these black Ouroboros fission products rapidly spread and crawled toward the piles of corpses.
These corpses provided the Ouroboros fission products with a vast amount of nutrients, helping them grow robustly and become even more powerful.
*Slither...*
*Hiss, hiss, hiss...!!!*
There were about fifty or sixty corpses on the Freighter's deck, all sacrifices meticulously prepared by Wesker to help Excella reach her limit. After devouring these corpses,
Sure enough...
The ouroboros virus fission products began to swell and grow countless times larger. As if undergoing gigantism, they twisted and tangled together, directly defying the laws of conservation of energy.
Like a gargantuan octopus, the massive black tentacles grew without limit, immediately coiling around, suctioning onto, and enveloping the entire Freighter.
There were four of those massive Ouroboros tentacles in total, while the rest tightly wound around the ship itself. The only thing at the very center was a protruding, enormous bud.
It bloomed like an orange-red gemstone; that was the ouroboros virus's core vesicle, and one of its most fatal weaknesses.
And this...
Was the Ultimate Ouroboros (Uroboros Aheri)—!!!
Standing forty to fifty meters tall, it was like a literal skyscraper—a true giant monster, the kind that could fight Ultraman.
The aquatic insect monster that Black Market Dealer Ervin had transformed into was already huge, but the monster Excella had become was twice its size.
The difference in size was evident;
It was at a level capable of swallowing the entire Freighter. A monster this massive was no longer something conventional weapons could deal with.
Even repeated bombardment from an RPG would be useless; specialized anti-materiel heavy weaponry was required to kill it!
"Roar——————!!!!"
The moment the evolution was complete,
The Ultimate Ouroboros monster transformed from Excella immediately let out a deafening roar and hiss.
The massive black octopus tentacles began to frantically attack the entire Freighter. The deck shook violently, and the ship's hull began to rock precariously.
It felt as if it would be completely destroyed in the next second; there was no difference at all from being attacked by Godzilla...
"Dammit...?"
"Are we dreaming? What on earth is this thing...?!"
"Is a monster this massive really something humans can deal with? And how did this big guy get so huge?"
Upon seeing the massive Ultimate Ouroboros monster, the late-arriving Javier, Chris, and the others were all involuntarily stunned, muttering to themselves in a tone of disbelief.
They could hardly believe what was happening before their eyes.
After all, it was too inconceivable. A monster larger than a Freighter—was this really not a sci-fi movie? Where was Ultraman? Where were the superheroes? Where had they all gone?
Against a monster of this caliber,
Without an air force unit coming to support them, Chris and Jill could not imagine any other way to kill it!
"..."
"I'll handle it. Javier, you guys hide in the Freighter's cabin first. Don't rush to find Wesker. He left this monster here to stall me and drain my strength. Once I've dealt with this octopus, we'll go down together."
Looking at the behemoth before her,
Lisa did not show fear or retreat; instead, she spoke calmly. Lisa could deal with the giant octopus monster herself.
However, she was afraid that Javier and the others would fall for Wesker's scheme. If she, their only trump card, stayed here to deal with the Ultimate Ouroboros monster,
While Javier and the others ran off to face Wesker, they would most likely be wiped out by him. After all, without the threat of Lisa, Wesker could fight on equal terms with a woman like Alexia...
The size of the Ultimate Ouroboros was certainly terrifying,
But in terms of strength, it was no match for Lisa.
This was because Lisa possessed the Blood Flames of the nemesis, the T-Veronica Virus. If Lisa wanted to... she could completely transform into a person of flame out of thin air,
Using a vast amount of Blood Flames to incinerate the Ultimate Ouroboros into nothingness. But this would take a bit of time.
After all, the opponent's size was too great.
Even incineration would take a long time, and that was what Lisa was worried about. She feared that during this time, Javier and the others would go looking for Wesker alone, falling into his trap and being picked off one by one!
After all,
The Ultimate Ouroboros before them,
Was very likely a bait Wesker had intentionally created specifically to draw Lisa away. As long as the threat of Lisa was gone,
Wesker had no fear of Alexia, that arrogant woman; the strength of the two was basically at a fifty-fifty stalemate.
And based on that point alone, Wesker could carry out his Ouroboros Virus Project as he pleased!
However,
They also overlooked one problem.
That was that time waits for no one. Wesker had already entered the bottom of the Freighter's hold, and it was now ten o'clock at night.
Wesker's estimated takeoff time had already arrived.
If they didn't go to stop him now and instead waited for Lisa to finish off the Ultimate Ouroboros monster before going down, Wesker would have long since flown the b2 bomber away from this Freighter.
So,
This wasn't some hidden conspiracy,
But a blatant scheme meticulously prepared by Wesker—a difficult choice to make!
"..."
"Don't worry, Lisa. Alexia is still here. Trust us, and trust me. We will stop Wesker. Besides... I can't possibly rely on you alone for everything, right?"
Javier saw the concern in Lisa's heart, so he stepped forward, reached out, and squeezed Lisa's arm, speaking with a very firm tone.
And this was Javier's choice.
He would still go down to the bottom of the hold to stop Wesker from leaving. They had no other choice, and just as Javier said himself,
He had relied on Lisa too much along the way.
Almost every time they encountered danger, he had her help. So, let him try to face this final hurdle on his own!
Besides,
In the original timeline, Chris, Jill, and the others didn't have an extra person like Lisa to help, yet they still managed to deal with Wesker. Now that they had so many people, why couldn't they handle Wesker just the same?
"..."
The confident look on Javier's face made Lisa daze for a moment.
Yes, she had almost forgotten one thing: before she was rescued by Javier from the Mansion Villa, and even before she regained her sanity,
Javier was an elite S.T.A.R.S. officer. He wasn't some child still in diapers who needed a mother's care.
Javier had always been a man capable of standing on his own. She should trust this man, and trust her own intuition.
"Alright!"
"I'll leave Wesker to you. But if something really goes wrong, stall for as much time as possible. I'll rush over immediately, because it won't take me long to destroy this monster. Wait for me...!"
Ultimately,
Faced with Javier's persistence,
Lisa nodded heavily and let him go for it. She chose to believe in Javier's ability, while giving him one last piece of advice.
That was, if they really couldn't defeat Wesker, they should switch to a stalling tactic. Lisa would come to deliver the finishing blow and bring Wesker down.
*Hum...*
*Crack, crack...*
In the next second,
Lisa, standing where she was, immediately began her transformation.
A wave of energy surged through her body, and all her long-accumulated viral power was released. Her black-and-red hair fluttered, her eyes turned completely crimson, and the whites of her eyes turned black.
The white coat on her back instantly burst into fragments, and dense, black parasitic tentacles erupted forth.
At her shoulder blades, a bat wing and a thin insect wing grew out—mutations stemming from the T-Veronica Virus and Vampire blood within her body.
Looking from afar...
Lisa's form resembled a Ghoul with both Ukaku and Bikaku kagune. Purple veins began to bulge on both sides of her cheeks.
This signified that Lisa had entered a state of rage. She was going to destroy the Ultimate Ouroboros monster before her with the utmost speed—!
*Boom—!*
*Swoosh...!!!*
In just the blink of an eye, Lisa vanished from her spot,