Chapter 323 323: A Villian
Cole\'s body began to corkscrew itself in the air as he rushed down, he fell into the water with a big splash, a huge wave announcing his arrival as sunk down right to the bottom of the underground lake. Right in the middle of what seems to be a village carved out of coral reefs.
He pulled back the bolt on his rifle and flooded it with Chaos energy, shock waves and ice spikes came flying in his direction but Cole held his ground as he took all of the attacks head on. Not moving a step as the water churned around him, then he fired off a shot, but one that was completely unexpected.
[Sapphire Sniping]
His weapons a part of him, and the more he got stronger the more Cole realized that there was more his new reality than just simply using skills mechanically. Ultimately everything was connected, coming down to being the thing that makes up the total sum of your character.
Everything is connected through him, so why wouldn\'t he be able to use his Revolver\'s skill with a Hand gun if they were compatible. Or better yet use tho skills with a bolt action gold ranked rifle. Gospel was not a growing weapon like his others, but it was made with gold rank materials and cause damage to gold ranked beings. It had the frame the others needed, but lacked the soul and ability to grow like the rest. Which was why it\'s own skills were so generic.
A beam of light blasted out of the rifle, a deep blue that lit up the underwater cavern, showing more of the marine town that had been built at the bottom. And the hundreds of frog people living in it, an entire village filled with people, old, young, male and female, an entire civilization in the second floor of a dungeon.
*CrashhhhhhHHHHHH!*
A powerful shot that could carve a hole the size of a little league baseball court. It tore through the village like a razor through paper, a hot knife through butter. There was a massive wave as the water in the direction of the shot had crystallized into sapphire ice that rapidly swelled to encompass the entire village. Ripping apart every single living thing with the exception of the remaining four frogmen party.
Gospel felt cold to the touch in Cole\'s grip, he looked down at it to notice symbols on it that he had never noticed before, then he felt a resonance as both Blue Obsidian and Black Sapphire showed attached to his hip. But Cole had to pry his attention away from the weird actions of his weapons as he faced the party.
The mage was on his…..err her knees, cradling the head of another frogman…..a child that was in the midst of swimming away, probably to her direction. He was caught in the blast and frozen, with the ice invading his body and tearing him apart from the inside out. His panicked head was the only thing that survived as it was sliced clean through and relived from the rest of his frozen body.
"Jesus I really am the bad guy here aren\'t I? fuck this is freaky."
To say he was not shocked would be the lie of the century, Cole was panicked, as he felt as if he had been pulled into some sort of narrative he couldn\'t understand. What was this damn place anyways, this second floor was really messing with his mind.
Cole took a look at the carnage, the entire village was caught in the blast, and he had to be honest, it was somewhat beautiful. All of it frozen in blue eyes, art from the hands of a psychopath…..a tyrant….a monster. Cole sighed, he looked at the broken boss adventurers, their destroyed village and turned away idly wondering to himself.
"I wonder if I should go down there and smash all those Ice like Godzilla. I should at least complete the whole rampaging monster outlook…..and the stats…..I guess if that\'s the role I\'ve been given to play, I should play it to the beast of my ability."
[Shadow Dance]
Cole showed up behind the grieving mother, grabbed her head and smashed it into the massive chunk of ice that had become half the underground lake, well not half but still a sizable chunk. Blood splattered onto the icy blue crystal, right over the frozen corpse of her son.
[Sin Eater]
Cole left her desiccated body to hand on the ice, ironically enough her head ending up in a stop above her child\'s headless frozen corpse. The remaining two turned around to run, from the look of things it looks like Cole had sufficiently broken their spirits, and they no longer had any intention of fighting.
But Cole could not let them go just like that, why else would he have done all this for in the first place. He used [Spectral Rover] to cross the distance and wrap his hands around the necks of the two frog people. They almost slipped out, their skin was quite slippery, and Cole could even begin to feel the palms of his skin getting burnt even though he was wearing Gloves.
[Sin Eater]
Cole held on to them as Corona of golden lights spilled out of their bodies and into himself. In quite a few seconds all that was left were husks as Cole let their bodies fall to the lake bed. He sighed once again then gave a small bow in the direction of the Party….they fought well, now it was on to the next floor.
All of a sudden there was a sudden flash of light and Cole found himself standing in a well furnished reception hall. Everywhere he could see was well collected representation of the colors, blue, light green and the occasional gold here and there. Everything was mostly blue though, Cole remembered where he had seen a similarly colorful sight.
The red dragon\'s reception hallway. Which means…
"Mr Cole Night? Mistress Nimue will see you now."