"Kill... everyone?"
"No, killing everyone; there's a difference. Talia, Dominique, and her gang are still in the process of cleaning out Typhon's Island."
The prison has experienced dark times before. Riots due to supplies not arriving on time, conflicts between gangs, taking turns raping or torturing the newly convicted pedophile or child killer. There have also been deaths before, many.
But killing everyone in prison? What sort of insanity is that? Mike had initially thought that now that their guards and their warden were gone, it would be easier to go ahead with their plan; of course, Mike had already thought that it was more dangerous now that Talia was their new supervisor.
But at most, Talia would cause them to die in exhaustion by doing whatever the hell she wanted them to do. But he was wrong, Talia wasn't their overlord at all — it was the fish who had barely swam their pond.
No, he wasn't a fish at all, but a malignant dolphin that was getting ready to play with all of their lives.
"Why... would you do this?" Mike once again bellowed; his armor, throbbing and growing veins almost as if it was alive.
"I already told you my reason," Rhys only let out a small sigh as he started approaching Mike while pushing away the corpses littered across his path like they were literal trash.
"And I told you that you're a fucking hypocrite!" Mike let out a roar as the cannon attached to his arms shot out a beam which almost instantly beamed a laser straight toward Rhys, "If you really want justice, then you should have killed yourself!"
"I've already tried," Rhys, however, just casually tilted his body to the side to avoid the violent laser, and good thing he did, as the violent beam practically ate its way through the walls of the prison—no, it ate its way straight through the sky, evaporating all the clouds like a ripple.
Rhys turned his head to look at the large crevice now lingering in the prison, once again being reminded of how abnormally strong Nobles are,
"But it would seem that the gods have other plans for me. I fully intend to use all the strength and abilities I've received for my own benefit — and right now, killing you benefits me."
"Do you really think that killing us was the right decision?" Mike let out a scoff as his armor continued to throb, "Talia is crazy, but she was right when she said that an army would quickly be on its way here as soon as they realized she'd taken over and killed all the guards. You needed all of us, Lowborn!
Mike's barrage of attacks all abruptly stopped as he heard Rhys suddenly whispering by his ear. He looked to where he was shooting, only to see that Rhys was not there anymore — of course, in less than a second, he already started turning his body around; turning his rifles and cannon into blades as he violently waved his arms to completely tear Rhys into pieces.
"I'm sorry."
But once again, all that welcomed his weapons was the humid air now flowing along inside the prison; Rhys's voice, still lingering in his ear as he was once again behind Mike. This time, however, before Mike could move, Rhys wrapped his arm around his neck armor.
"But—"
"Wait, wait. I... I could be one of the survivors, I will—"
"No."
And with those words, a deafening thunder echoed through the now-opened hall as Rhys tightened his wrap around Mike's neck to the point his armor began to dent. And then, with another thunder, Rhys moved his entire body, completely twisting Mike's neck in a way that shouldn't be possible.
And almost instantly, the light that was pulsing across Mike's armor faded away along with his life.
Rhys took in a very deep breath before just releasing it at the same time his arm released Mike, just letting him drop along with the rest of the inmates' corpses; the light he had in his hair as a Noble, gone.
In death, he was just the same as any other inmate lying on the floor — just a common criminal. And surely one day, Rhys would also find himself along the rubble...
...but today is not that day.
Rhys looked at Mike's corpse for a few more seconds before just letting out a sigh and shaking his head while making his way back to the Hole.
"Well then, time to see what's on the other side."