The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge.

2389, Alexia vs. Hydra

Alexia Ashford glanced at the ice sculpture and sneered, "You brought these idiots here just to waste my time?"

Hydra still had no expression on her face. She looked at Alexia and said seriously, "Their death allowed me to see your ability to some extent. This can be considered a worthy death."

"Oh... now I admire you a little bit." Alexia smiled slightly, bent down and touched her chest, and performed a noble salute. "Dawn Kingdom, Ashford Family, second daughter, Alexia Ashford."

Hydra frowned slightly, but still replied: "Hydra, Imperial Tribunal, Grand Judge..."

Bang! ! !
Before the Hydra could finish her words, Alexia had already flashed in front of her and punched her hard! However, the Hydra had foreseen that an ice wall was blocking in front of her. This punch directly smashed the one-meter-thick ice wall into pieces, and countless ice fragments flew everywhere like bullets, but they were no longer a threat to the Hydra.

"You should know that such a surprise attack is meaningless to those who are sensitive to the Force." Hydra said calmly, "I already knew it when you had this idea."

"This is very interesting." Alexia narrowed her eyes slightly, and then her figure disappeared in an instant. She suddenly flashed in front of the Hydra, and countless fists smashed down on its head!

After the perfect integration of the T-Veronica virus, Alexia's physical fitness is even more terrifying than most advanced robots! She was able to kill an Imperial Inquisitor with one punch, completely breaking all his bones! Such strength is simply unimaginable for ordinary people.

However, facing such an attack, Hydra showed no fear at all. She kept retreating, always dodging Alexia's attacks at the right position. Every fatal blow was just a hair's breadth away and didn't even touch the corner of her clothes.

But Alexia didn't care at all, she attacked madly, punching and kicking madly. Her attack was not just a savage attack, as she was a genius, she had already learned various fighting skills, and even when the priestess Depa-Bilaba visited her planet, she even asked the priestess for advice on the Iron Hand Kung Fu for a few days.

Facing a Force-sensitive person, Alexia would not be at any disadvantage except for the unpredictability.

Even those who are not strong enough in the Force, in the face of her super-fast speed and super-strong power, foresight is useless! Just like the Imperial Inquisitors who were beaten to death by her just now.

But this does not apply to Hydra!

She calmly dodged every attack from Alexia. Just before the next attack came, her eyes flashed, and she suddenly raised her hand and waved it. Endless ice immediately spread out from around her. At this moment, Alexia stepped on the ground to gain leverage!

The left foot wrapped in mutant armor was suddenly frozen completely. At the same time, Hydra raised its hand and pushed hard towards Alexia's chest.

Alexia's body was instantly frozen by the extremely cold ice, and she turned into an ice sculpture within a few seconds!
"You should understand that no matter how strong you are, the Force is the chasm between you and me that can never be narrowed." The Hydra said coldly. She raised her jade-white fingers and lightly touched the ice sculpture's forehead.

However...the shattering that should have occurred did not occur!
The Hydra leaped back almost at the same time. At that moment, an endless stream of flames burst out, completely engulfing the space around Alexia! Even the extremely cold ice could not stop it and melted away. The entire incubation room was suddenly shrouded in countless white mists, and it was almost pitch dark!
There were dense sounds coming from all around, and no one knew what they were. However, through the Hydra's perception, it could sense extreme danger!
Without any pause, she dodged backwards. Almost at the same time, an extremely sharp claw passed by her less than two centimeters away! If it weren't for the foresight of the Force, this claw would have killed her!

She still couldn't see anything around her, but in Hydra's perception, there were dozens of targets that threatened her! Not only around her, but even in the air!

Alexia seemed to have hidden herself among these targets, and it was unclear which one was her true self.

Suddenly, those dozens of targets all moved at almost the same time! They swooped down like lightning and grabbed directly from every direction!
There was no way to dodge such an attack, so the Hydra immediately squatted down, and a layer of extremely hard ice wall suddenly appeared around her body, completely covering her. With a series of light sounds, those things densely pierced the ice wall.

The moment they were blocked by the ice wall, two blood-red sword lights suddenly appeared!

Everything around was instantly chopped into pieces by two lightsabers, one long and one short! Countless broken limbs, claws, cicada wings, and carcasses fell from the air. These things were all flying insects!

BANG!!! In an instant, the Hydra was hit hard by Alexia's fist. The opponent's speed was too fast. Even if she had foreseen it, the Hydra only had time to cover her wrist with a layer of ice armor to block the blow! She was hit and flew backwards.

With a click, her left forearm was twisted and fractured.

The power of this punch was so great that the strong wind that erupted even completely blew away the surrounding white mist!
However, the scene of crashing heavily into the wall of the incubation chamber did not happen. Instead, the Hydra's body just attached to the wall strangely and then floated down.

Looking at her broken left hand expressionlessly, Hydra raised her hand and restored the broken arm. With a slight click, even her expression, which had been frozen for thousands of years, was distorted, and it was obvious that she was in extreme pain. But then, her left arm was completely frozen, and the ice replaced the bone supporting the structure of her left arm, allowing her to regain mobility.

However, the price I'm afraid is that after I return this time, my left arm will be frozen and necrotic, and will have to be amputated.

"The Force? Precognition?" Alexia asked sarcastically at the person standing on the other side of the incubator, "Why didn't I notice?" "You know how to use the Iron Hand Technique." Hydra said, "Sure enough, it's not an ordinary mutant mother."

"Who gave you the illusion that I'm ordinary?" Alexia tilted her head and sneered.

"It's my fault." Hydra nodded seriously.

Then, she bent her body slightly, crossed her two lightsabers in front of her chest, and made a strange sword gesture.

If someone like the priestess who was familiar with the lightsaber skills of the Jedi Knights saw it again, she would definitely recognize it immediately. This is the fifth style of lightsaber skills, Xien/Djem-Saw! There is no doubt that Hydra was once a Jedi Knight, and it is very likely that he was a Jedi Master before he fell to the dark side and became the Grand Inquisitor!
The sword technique of Sheen/Djem-Saw, which is both offensive and defensive, combines the two into one. It is also the most difficult sword technique to master. The Jedi Knights who can use this sword technique are either those who are too ambitious but lack the skills, or they are unparalleled geniuses like Anakin Skywalker!

"Since it's your fault, then eat the fruit of your mistake!" Alexia's feet suddenly exploded, and she shot towards him like a bullet. As she moved, endless flames ignited around her! On her fists, there was also a burning fire!
However, faced with such a powerful attack, Hydra did not retreat but advanced. She flashed forward and passed by Alexia in an instant, avoiding all the attacks.

Alexia moved extremely quickly and punched continuously, but none of her could hit the Hydra at all. The countless flames she released seemed to be caught by invisible hands, and were driven by the lightsaber to constantly spin and tear, and finally completely extinguished and disappeared without a trace.

However, Alexia's physical fitness has already exceeded the limit of ordinary people by many times. She is far superior to Hydra in both speed and strength. If the latter had not used the force to predict the direction of attack, it would have been beaten into a pulp long ago.

Bang! Alexia finally realized that the Hydra had slowed down. She rushed forward and punched the Hydra directly, hitting the ice armor that appeared on her arm. With a muffled sound... countless flesh and blood scattered everywhere!
However, it was not the Hydra's body that was shattered, but Alexia's left fist that was supposed to be indestructible and could even destroy a tank! !

At this moment, the Hydra's lightsaber was already piercing towards her! This was a trap! Alexia had no time to dodge and was pierced through the chest by the sword!
The extremely high temperature of the lightsaber burned Alexia's body, causing her to wail in pain. She frantically flapped her wings and flew to the middle of the incubator. Then a tentacle extended from the incubator and connected directly to her back, and began to inject her with high concentrations of nutrients and the Veronica virus.

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Alexia finally breathed a sigh of relief, raised her hand to look at her left arm that had lost its palm, and then raised her right hand to look at it. She saw that she didn't know when, but the lightsaber had cut countless tiny wounds on her right fist! These wounds destroyed the structure of her fist, turning her fist into a useless straw bag without her noticing.

Alexia's expression twisted with shame and anger. Her new left hand began to grow and take shape visibly. She looked at her right hand, which had not changed at all, and realized that there was a weak force that was preventing the wound from healing. The fire of anger ignited in Alexia's eyes. She opened her mouth and tore off her right hand!
Then, the new right hand began to grow gradually.

Seeing this scene, the Hydra did not stop. She suddenly jumped up and actually ran along the wall of the cavity. With every step she took, an extremely cold air spread, firmly fixing her feet on the wall of the cavity. The moment she raised her foot, the ice instantly disintegrated.

Such extremely delicate manipulation of the Force actually allowed her to move on the cavity walls and ceiling!

While Alexia's left and right hands have not yet fully grown, Hydra's two lightsabers are used at full strength. Sheen/Djem-Saw, who uses the fifth sword technique, is extremely skilled. The two lightsabers are like two poisonous snakes, appearing and disappearing at will!
Alexia, who was caught in the gap, kept retreating, but she could not get rid of it. At this time, countless terrifying mutant monsters crawled out from the cavity in the incubator. These monsters fearlessly pounced on the Hydra to buy time for Alexia.

Swish! The tube connected to Alexia's back was cut off by a sword, and countless nutrients and viral substances gushed out. Alexia's face changed again, and she had to continue to retreat.

Hundreds of mutants rushed over again, and the extremely wide incubator suddenly became crowded. These mutants rushed towards the Hydra. However, it was useless! The Hydra was serious, and those mutants could not get close to her at all. The two lightsabers in her hands, one long and one short, were waving at high speed like a hurricane, bringing gusts of extremely cold ice wind!
All the mutant monsters that came close to her were cut into pieces, frozen into ice, and then crushed into powder! Literally reduced to ashes!
This ice storm mixed with countless flesh and blood was approaching Alexia unstoppably, and Alexia had nowhere to retreat.

After losing the initiative, she finally began to face the desperate situation faced by all people who face Force-sensitive people like Jedi Knights - the predicted attack is unavoidable; the predicted defense is impeccable; the blazing lightsaber is indestructible!
No one can defeat such a combination, unless... they use the same power!
Alexia once again released a large sea of ​​fire in an attempt to stop the Hydra, but when she splashed her burning blood, she suddenly discovered something horrifying!

The flame was extinguished almost instantly!!
Alexia raised her hands in disbelief, only to find that she was covered with a layer of frost without knowing when! She was horrified and looked up at the Hydra, but the expressionless cold woman had stopped and did not pursue the victory. Instead, she stood there and looked back calmly, saying lightly, "It's over."

At this moment, if you look from the outside, you can find that more than half of the entire huge nest has been frozen! The frozen nest is motionless, the rhythmic wriggling, the continuous nutrient delivery, and the endless monster hatching have all stopped! !
"You..." Alexia was stunned. At this moment, something called 'fear' appeared in the depths of her heart!

Hydra said expressionlessly, "If you think that the use of the Force is just a few seconds of foresight, then you are totally wrong. The Force can see things much farther than you think. And I... have only been planning since I entered this nest."

She easily lifted two lightsabers and approached step by step. "I have planted frozen seeds in every place I passed by. When the time is right, they will all explode. Then..."

The cranked lightsaber that originally belonged to Count Dooku was raised high, facing Alexia, who was already moving slowly, "Accept death... calmly..."

Above the mother hive, a Victory II-class Star Destroyer was turning a turret and began aiming in the direction of the mother hive.

At this moment, the lightsaber in the Hydra's hand also fell instantly!

At the same time, this Star Destroyer opened fire! (End of this chapter)