381 Run, Fool!
That day, so many Cleaners died. The little creatures' dying shrieks filled the entire lake, yet they didn't retreat even once. To them, a feast was worth dying for! They cleaned the entire place of its "Residue of the Deep", turning the whole place upside down. They were unstoppable! The citizens of Mermaid City would forever shiver as they remembered this day, especially that one man's voice as he "controlled" the swarm. "Look there, food!" That's all Jack ever said. He'd point at whatever he wanted to be destroyed, calling it the new food scavenging location. The entire City going down was actually collateral damage. "Please, go away! We don't have any more food, I swear! You won't find anything, please!" The mermaids would beg with tears in their large beautiful eyes, even the ex-Empress. Usually, their looks alone would have been enough to get any man to forgive them, they looked so pitiful after all, but Jack was entirely frigid for them. Mercy?! Bloody mercy?! He had so many reasons to get revenge against them, a thousand of them! 1. They had hurt Pumpkin Girl 2. They had hurt Pumpkin Girl 3. They had hurt...
They had also betrayed his trust, but that was a mere detail. He could easily forgive everything else, but attacking his people? Hell no! He kept ordering his new army, decimating everything those bastards held dear. Cleaners = Hungriest Invincible Sword! Water-Pearl = Best Survival Tool (Especially when underwater and focusing everything on avoiding) Cleaners + Water-Pearl = Temporarily Unstoppable Combo! As for the innocent victims in all this....well, this was war. It was all worth to see Gargan's despair as deep regret filled his soul, the man shouting non-stop. "Tch— Bastard, I should have killed you when I had the chance!" "Stop fleeing, you coward! Honor-less wimp, fight me!" "Stop hiding behind your minions already!" Each of his shouts revealed how unrepentant he was. Not once did he ever show regret for antagonizing Jack in the first place. Nope, it was all about him, him, and him! Fight fairly? What did the idiot expect? That Jack would just stand there and let him hit him? The world sure was fair. What he had gained in power, he had lost in self-awareness. At the end of the day, Jack left behind a pile of rubble and a completely traumatized population. A single look at them triggered an instant wave of PTSD. [Successfully Razed Mermaid City Down!] [The Mermaids Hate You to the Bone!] [Still, They Fear You Even More!] [Title: Demon King of the Lake!] His title had updated? How was a random peer-given title evolving so much?! Not only did it help for intimidation, but from now he'd even be used to scare misbehaving children...
He could already hear her shouts from behind... "Why are you running? You can run, but you can't hide!" She kept playfully shouting over his shoulder. It would have almost seemed cute if she wasn't covered in blood.... actually was that a severed finger in her long blue hair?! Pushed by desperation, Jack somehow reached point 2 of his mightily improvised plan, reaching a dark bottomless hole. [Enter the Abyss Again?!] [Warning! Extremely Dangerous!] So what if he was low mana? He'd have just enough to throw himself into another mirage cluster. It would be deadly, but so what?! "Sigh. Here goes nothing." He dived to his sure death, a blue blur quickly following after... That moment when you scare away the big bad guy, only to find yourself chased by the mid-boss. Talk about an opportunist Mermaid! Still, all hope wasn't lost, for I still had one trick up my sleeve,... ClasslessAscension
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