章 102: Three birds one guy...

Reima contiues to walk through the decrpit rooms, the wood comprising the floor is weak and rotten, it's only emphasised by his foot going through the floor boards, alerting those in the room below of his presence. He pulls his foot out in time to punch the giant white rat hurtling towards his face, it gives out a weak squeal as it collapses to the floor and dropping a humanity for his trouble. He looks towards the stairs and sees another couple toxic bloating hollows waddling up the stairs, he tosses a Great Chaos Fireball at them that causes lava to roll down the stairs and incinerate anything else trying to attack him... He's slightly worried that the wood would ignite from the fire but finds that it's so damp and rotten that not even lava could light it.

He eventually finds himself outside on the wall again and looks at a long bridge with a "Dead" dragon laying across it... He decides to ignore it for now as he'll deal with it eventually. Looking to his left he sees the entrance to a seemingly roman inspired tower, he walks inside and sees... Bird women? Women birds? They half the lower body a women complete with all the "Organs..." that one would have, their upper body resembles a crow or raven, instead of arms they have large black wings and instead of humans heads they have beady eyes, beaks and feathers... One spots him and starts squawking at him, unfortunately he doesn't know how to talk to birds... Literally and figuratively, it runs down the steps that encircle the inside of the tower before swinging it's wing at him, it's power is nothing to scoff at as it would probably break a few bones on contact. He backup while minding his step on the stairs while materialising Arcell, it brings it's wings back and jumps at him, it tries to sit down on his shoulders but he frantically dodges out of the way... Having "That" rub against him as it tries to peck his eyes out would not be a fun experience.

He slashes it's torso but finds that it's skin is a lot tougher than the normal hollow's he fights against, looking closer it's wings have metallic shimmer as well. It tries to strike him with it's wing again but is blocked by Arcell, causing a metallic "Clank" to ring out. He senses with Observation Haki that two more are flying towards him from the top of the tower, he shoves his opponent away and brutally stamps on it's knee cap causing it to invert, it falls to the ground giving a pained squeak as it's friends land either side of him, blocking all exits. He casts Quen to protect from any wayward strikes and starts defending from both attackers, using Armament Haki on his hand to block one wing while using Arcell to block the others. The one standing higher on the stairs next to it's crippled companion rears it's wings back, indicating it's going for that infamous grab attack. Reima is prepared and dodges under it before performing a pirouette and severing it's spinal cord. It stumbles as it losing control of it's limbs and plummets to the floor below, all while it's companion squawk in fury at him. He boots the crippled on still lying on the stairs off to join it's fallen friend before laying his predatory eyes on the last one.

It seems to shudder under the weight of his glare before taking off to the skies, somehow flying away on it's weird arm wings...

Reima looks up at it's pale ass as it escapes, "The laws of Aerodynamics are being spit on..." He says as it bobbles up and down in a weird flight pattern. He shakes his head and acends to the highest point before looting the Red Soapstone, why did he take it? Not even Reima knows, it's not like he intends to invade people.

He looks down at the fort and sees a large frozen huddling man that kinda resembles Andre... Bingo, he blinks down to it before snapping his arm to reveal the Dark Ember in his grasp he takes it and gets goosebumps on his skin as he examines it. It's like a black hole, absorbing all light, Reima's medallion goes crazy at it's presence. He stores it away, intending to gift it to Andre so he can eventually upgrade his weaponry. There are only a few things left to do before visiting "Her", he hops down the building and eventually finds the entrance point to the sewers, he looks down the ladder and into the darkness... The smell coming from it is comparable to the depths, he wonders whether he can just skip this. Deciding he'd rather kick the door down than wade through shit while fighting those bloody wheel skeletons, Reima blinks down into the courtyard where the Jelly Spartans all turns their attention to him. One throws it's spear at Reima, he catches it and throws it back instantly killing the creature, he finds it amusing that they refuse to throw anything else at him.

He throws a couple Great Chaos Fireballs at them and silently watches as they groan and moan in pain as they all slowly burn to death... Rather morbid yes, but Reima would rather die than be an amorphous mass made from many different people.

After finishing them all off and "Stealing" their souls Reima walks up to the statue that revolves when you press the switch in the sewers... "Nah, fuck that!" He shouts as he gets a firm grip on it and starts manually turning it, the mechanism is too heavy for him despite he already huge strength making him have to utilise Armament Haki. It slowly starts turning under the enormous force Reima is putting on it before locking into place after being completely turned around. A click is heard as the gates that lead to "Her" swing open and reveal the path ahead.