After her initial intrusion, Maria decided to merely observe how the hunters would fare in their initial foray against the Denizens of the Wasted Dream. The huntress crossing her arms bellow her chest and leaned against the old water well, taking in how Donny, Paul, Kenji and Lillian conducted the battle.
“Not bad for a bunch of rookies, keep it like that and you may survive your first moon.” Maria tried to encourage them with some words, before turning to Highball and Sinthe, who seemed to be content with waiting on the side lines. Their reasons, however, seemed to be quite different, judging by the contents of their faces.
“Don’t you think that you should be joining them? How do you two plan to live on this world without money? Even if you beg, the dry husks that live here have nothing to give.”Maria shifted Pandora’s weight idly as she noticed that one of the God’s Hand had turned its obnoxious snot towards her.
“If you’re not taking it, I guess that I’ll help myself. Come now, stinky mutt, let’s dance!” Maria beckoned the stupid monster in, as if she were calling back a stray dog.
“Rrr!” The God Hand pounced at Maria, revealing a crude meat cleaver from under his cloak, and trying to chop at her with an overhead attack.
Maria sidestepped it, spinning on her heels, before using the momentum she built to smash the monster’s shoulder blade with Pandora.
“Take care where you swing that thing, or you might hit someone… just not me.”“UGHH!” The God Hand howled as the sickening sound of flesh and bone being smeared and the fresh spurt of crimson on its shoulder finally registered on his mind, as well as that damn woman’s mockery. It swung its blade moving to hack her neck clean off her body, yelling unspeakable curses on those who dared defy the Absolute’s will.
“Tsc!” Maria scoffed, irritated,
“Come now, that’s not even trying.” One more swing of Pandora, and she had all but severed the monster’s left leg of its body with the sheer force of the blunt impact. Blood splashed everywhere as the femoral artery burst and fragments of bone could be seen protruding off of the scraps of leather and tendon that still remained in place.
“GAHHH!” The beast cried, but there was nothing it could do now to avoid its fate as the specter of death loomed over it in the form of Maria’s purplish-crimson irises.
“The next time you try to kill someone, be sure to do it right!” As Maria said so, a distorted grin appeared at her face and she offed the monster sadistically, breaking its neck with her heel, after stomping it a couple times. If one didn’t knew better, they could think that the huntress was delivering some form of pleasure from the grisly display of violence.
Once Maria was done with the God Hand, its neck was but a smear on the muddy streets of Iredele and Maria casually ripped the beast’s head from the rest of its remains with one last yank of her hand.
“Come to think of it, I’ll give you this. Pay me back later, will you?” Maria said as she threw the severed head towards Highball, in an easy way to catch, before leaning against the well again, waiting for the other hunters to finish their, well… hunt.
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