Dense, disgusting, and sticky tentacles grew from beneath his neck, carrying Wesker's head like pairs of spider legs as he scrambled up a pillar in the cabin. He was attempting to flee this dangerous environment and reach the outside.
After all, the power of Javier's Electromagnetic Particle Cannon was too terrifying; it could destroy most of his body in an instant.
Now, only a head remained.
The energy contained within was nowhere near enough to allow the mutated Wesker to restore himself to his original form. Therefore, with only a head left, Wesker had to hurry and find a host body to parasitize and absorb.
But Javier was faster.
Upon realizing the mutated Wesker's head had this intention, he immediately raised the Electromagnetic Particle Cannon and pulled the trigger. A ball of violent electricity gathered at the muzzle once more.
"Zizizi—!!!!"
"Boom, boom, boom, boom——————!!!!!"
A deafening explosion rang out in their ears.
A powerful surge of azure electricity quickly enveloped everything, and a condensed, mighty electromagnetic beam blasted out with a roar, once again emitting that blinding white light.
In a flash of vision,
the beam, carrying an aura of destruction, blasted ruthlessly toward that single head. If this hit connected,
Javier was one hundred percent certain that even though Wesker had fused with the ouroboros virus, he would still be completely annihilated!
After all,
this wasn't simple damage.
It was destruction... carrying a power that could obliterate everything. If hit, he would be burned to ash until not even a speck remained. This would deal a devastating blow to the various bio-viruses known for their regenerative properties.
Why were some bio-virus monsters so troublesome to deal with? Was it really because they were strong?
Actually, no.
They simply possessed extremely powerful regenerative abilities, making them exceptionally annoying. Without that regeneration,
these bio-monsters would be no different from the tanks and planes in a war; a single hit would subject them to terrifying, catastrophic damage!
As the daylight-bright beam shot out, and it looked as though this Electromagnetic Particle Cannon shot was about to hit the remaining head of Wesker,
a sudden anomaly occurred.
The mutated head seemed to sense the danger. It hurriedly manipulated the tentacles beneath it to spring away with great force.
In an instant, it dodged the attack of the Electromagnetic Particle Cannon.
It managed to narrowly evade the strike at the critical moment. It was unbelievable, like the legendary Nukekubi monster; even though only a head remained, its reaction speed was exceptionally agile!
"Bang—!!!"
After this shot of the Electromagnetic Particle Cannon passed,
a large hole was completely blasted through the top of the cabin. The surrounding deck was glowing red from the heat, and the opening was over a meter wide.
It was a massive hole,
large enough for many objects to pass through freely, including the mutated head of Wesker. The reason it had jumped onto the cabin pillar
was to draw Javier's attack. After the powerful Electromagnetic Particle Cannon blast, it had created the fastest escape route for Wesker's mutated head.
Currently, its energy reserves were extremely low.
Being able to grow a few tentacles to escape was already no easy feat. Therefore, expecting this head to spontaneously regrow a strong body was completely impossible. Thus, with no other choice, Wesker's head had to find a new target to parasitize as quickly as possible.
But on this vast cargo ship in the middle of the ocean,
what creature could provide Wesker's head with a body to parasitize and draw energy from? Without a doubt... it was the Ultimate Ouroboros body of Excella, which Lisa had yet to defeat.
That massive body, standing twenty to thirty meters tall, could provide enough energy for Wesker's head to recover, and perhaps even achieve a perfect fusion.
So, from the start, the target of Wesker's mutated head was the Ultimate Ouroboros out on the cargo ship's deck.
He wanted to absorb this kin to strengthen his own body and evolve himself into the most unrivaled ultimate lifeform—!!!
"This is bad..."
"His goal is the Ultimate Ouroboros outside. We're in trouble now. If Wesker's head can undergo a second fusion with the Ultimate Ouroboros,"
"I'm afraid even this Electromagnetic Particle Cannon will be useless. I must obtain an even more powerful weapon!"
As he looked at the large hole blasted through the cabin roof by his own cannon and the fleeing Nukekubi-like head of Wesker,
Javier's expression shifted slightly. He immediately realized what the mutated head of Wesker was trying to do.
He was eyeing the physical body of the Ultimate Ouroboros outside.
That massive body was enough for him to drain dry to restore his own form, and he could even use the Ultimate Ouroboros's body to fuse and evolve to the next stage!
Even more frustrating was that
the Ultimate Ouroboros's body was so massive
that it simply couldn't be destroyed by the Electromagnetic Particle Cannon. After all, the cannon in Javier's hands was, at the end of the day, only an individual soldier's weapon.
Its power could at most kill bio-monsters with the bodies of Tyrants or Parasite Giants. For bio-monsters even slightly larger than that, it would be very difficult to wipe them out completely.
Because the beam's area of effect wasn't large enough. Even if he blasted a bloody hole in the Ultimate Ouroboros's body, it would be to no avail.
With a massive body dozens of meters long,
the opponent could easily regenerate such a wound. Unless Javier could upgrade the Electromagnetic Particle Cannon from an individual soldier level to a fortress level, it would be very difficult to kill the new form fused from Wesker and the Ultimate Ouroboros...
...
Meanwhile—
At this moment, on the deck of the cargo ship, Lisa was still locked in a final struggle with the Ultimate Ouroboros. The battle between Lisa and the Ultimate Ouroboros had reached a fever pitch.
Although a victor had yet to be decided,
the two were not far from a conclusion. The Ultimate Ouroboros was completely helpless against the agile Lisa.
In addition to its pitch-black tentacle attacks and spitting Ouroboros Fragments, it basically knew no other moves.
Therefore, it put no pressure on Lisa.
It was just a bit large and had strong regenerative abilities. If she wore it down slowly, she would eventually win.
During this time, Lisa had used the blood-flames of the T-Veronica Virus no less than several times. The deep purple flames burned the Ultimate Ouroboros's body frantically,
compressing its originally thirty-meter-tall body down to about twenty meters. Many of the Ouroboros Fragments on its body had been burned away.
Furthermore, because of the high-temperature heat waves,
the Ultimate Ouroboros's attack frequency and speed had completely slowed down, much like a person suffering from heatstroke.
The massive, thick tentacles it swung could no longer stir up overwhelming waves; instead, their speed and strength were limp, making them easy for Lisa to dodge.
"Five more minutes..."
"In about five more minutes, this monster should be just about finished. Too much time has been wasted."
"I hope Javier and the others are okay. If an accident really does happen, Wesker... I promise I will hunt you to the ends of the earth."
Looking at the Ultimate Ouroboros still struggling before her, Lisa thought for a moment and came to a conclusion.
She only needed to continue roasting it for about five more minutes to end the battle and completely kill this behemoth.
Killing the Ultimate Ouroboros had wasted a lot of Lisa's time. She was now very worried about Javier and the others, her eyes glancing toward the deck from time to time, fearing some mishap.
If Javier were truly killed or harmed by Wesker, Lisa could guarantee that Wesker would never have a good day for the rest of his life.
She would hunt him until Wesker was completely destroyed, because Javier was her bottom line. Lisa would not allow anyone to harm Javier, her most precious treasure.
"Puchi..."
"Boom, boom, boom...!!!!"
As she spoke,
Lisa once again opened the palms of both hands. Accompanied by the seepage of blood, a mass of deep purple flames roared out once more.
Like two fierce dragon breaths, they spewed onto the Ultimate Ouroboros's body. The rolling heat waves swept over, causing the Ultimate Ouroboros on the cargo ship's deck to suffer in agony, and it hurriedly curled its body to resist.
Even the red pustules located in the center of the petals closed up for protection, fearing being scorched by Lisa's deep purple flames.
Because this was one of its self-preservation methods.
The reason Lisa had been unable to resolve this behemoth for so long was that she was blocked by the Ultimate Ouroboros's defensive huddling.
If she could damage the core red pustules, then the Ultimate Ouroboros could be destroyed at any time!
"Bang—!!!"
However,
at this moment, an azure, blinding electromagnetic beam suddenly pierced through the deck of the cargo ship and shot into the sky, blasting a huge hole in the sturdy deck.
And after the beam's residual power dissipated,
a black figure quickly darted out from the hole in the deck and crawled rapidly toward the Ultimate Ouroboros. And that was the mutated head of Wesker...!
In just a momentary lapse of attention,
a pitch-black shadow had already lunged toward the Ultimate Ouroboros. This left Lisa feeling quite surprised and puzzled, because just now she hadn't even had time to see clearly what that thing was.
"Heh heh heh...!!!"
And at this moment,
the mutated head of Wesker became exceptionally excited as it looked at the Ultimate Ouroboros body close at hand.
Panting heavily, he drove those pitch-black tentacles to crawl rapidly toward the Ultimate Ouroboros.
"Bang—!!!"
However,
the Ultimate Ouroboros also seemed to notice this little thing attempting to approach it. A massive tentacle swung violently,
and an Ouroboros Fragment projectile smashed down toward the mutated head of Wesker. But facing this Ouroboros Fragment projectile coming at him,
the mutated head of Wesker had no intention of dodging.
Instead, he met it head-on. With a "splat," the Ouroboros Fragment projectile smashed Wesker's head flat.
"Gurgle, gurgle..."
But,
the expected death did not occur.
On the contrary, by relying on these Ouroboros Fragments, Wesker's head forcibly absorbed them as nutrients to complete his own body.
In an instant,
Wesker, who had originally been left with only a head, rapidly underwent a change.
Like a rapidly inflating balloon, Wesker, having absorbed the Ouroboros Fragment projectile, was growing larger at high speed.
Like a thirsty fish leaping into a lake,
the mutated Wesker frantically and greedily absorbed all the energy. Soon, from his head-only state, countless crimson muscle tumors immediately grew beneath his neck.
These tumors condensed into a torso, and arms and legs grew out. In just a few seconds, Wesker had returned to his original human form.
And even more unbelievably,
Wesker's body was much smaller than the previous Tyrant body; it seemed to have shrunk to more closely resemble an ordinary human.
This was an incredible evolution.
Destruction leads to creation; without experiencing an absolute threat of death, it would have been very difficult for Wesker to evolve to this step. Now he was gradually able to control the power of the ouroboros virus and the progenitor virus within his body.
But...
whether the current Wesker was the consciousness of the ouroboros virus, his own consciousness, or a third kind of mixed consciousness,
Javier, Alexia, and Lisa had no way of knowing. This situation was too rare—so rare that no one could be certain who the Wesker before them actually was!
However, very soon,
they would know who the consciousness currently in Wesker's head was. Because Wesker, having just finished devouring the ouroboros virus spawns, was not satisfied.
Having restored his human body, not only did he not take the opportunity to flee, but he instead lunged forward, charging up the massive tentacles of the Ultimate Ouroboros.