Hornigold walked forward. His fave sweating as he generated gold, meaning he was in direct contact with water, sapping him of power.
"Hold it together, Rackam." Mar said from behind him. "I know what I am doing" He grit his teeth as he popped out of the top. A golden exit forming in the middle of the water. The rest stepping up and out onto the shining precious 24k platform
Gunshots broke through the air immediately! They bounced off the likes of Diva, and Mar-Syl. And Leroy's body not even distended despite being made of rubber. Hornigold on the other had the lead deform his face, and splinter it into craters of Gold. Reflexive intangibility activating on instinct preventing even pain from occurring
If only he had not spread himself so thin in the war, he might've won against Leroy.
He raised his hand and shot sharp wasps that were Familiar to Leroy! Slashing and Slicing through the Styxxian guards!
"Faraday Ballow!" Quinn picked up a piece of gold, and inflated it! Given it was under the effect of her Fruit ability, the bullets that bounced off the large flat piece of inflated gold dented and deformed it, leaving behind silver from the lead coating the dents!
"Piece piece round!" Bonney raised his finger, and shot his fingernail! Controlling the half inch shard through the air faster than a bullet! It sliced the throat of one! And then he whipped his hand through the air! Sending its trajectory into three other guards, a trail of blood giving the projectile a macabre contrail of ichor!
Danny on the other hand continued to 'Pull' things from beneath her shit and hand them to Quinn, who blew the bottom of them, but performed a unique ability of her Fruit, when she 'inflated' something, she could rocket them like how one would with an untied balloon!
"Gah!" Bonney screamed as a 7.62 lead round slammed into his shoulder! It did not pierce, but he it stung! Bad! And left a bruise! "Let get out of here!"
Leroy on the other hand! Was already Running! He leapt through the air and bounced off the walls! Clawing into them and leaping before kicking of the air! "Gum Gum! Titanic! Sling!" His leg stretched and grew to meters larger! And slammed into the ceiling! Just like the floor below that was now empty of water and left the level before flooded.
"Whats that Idiot doing?!" Bonney yelled as what looked to be…Gold?! And Diamonds! It was the level of greed! "Well don't just stand around like your legs are in tar! Get going!" Hornigold gripped his hand, clawing it and then shooting it into the air! Gold shot from his body and slammed into the walls! Lining the wall with golden stairs!
The groups foot steps slammed against the metal, Leroy snatched a few of the people that fell from the hole he made, and tossed them back into the level they came from! He zipped up to the level and landed within. It was like a cave…large and rocky within. Sacks of cash, coin and metals with jewels scared. There seemed to be spigots that flowed molten materials.
Greed was meant to punish those that stole from the government. There were some other crimes that resulted those to end up here. But it was always to punish greed by giving them all that they sought. And then crushing them with it.
"Ah ha ha!" Hornigold laughed from behind. "Well- We wont be stopped here long. We must go up another level!" He flexed, lowered his body and shot his hands into the sky!
"D'oro Totale Controllare!" In a moment. All of the gold around the hundreds of meters from the level of Greed turned to liquid, and as if like tendrils from an abyssal squid, shot into the sky, twisting into one large spire that pierced the ceiling! Rubble fell but it seemed less destructive than Leroys
The shining tendrils wrapped around all of the group and elevated them up into the air, Hornigold being pushed up by a separate platform "Hey! Watch what youre grabbin Goldie!" Quinn struggled. Bonney writhed, while Mar-Syl Screamed "I told you once already Hornigold! Don't grab me with your fuckin' gold!"
Diva, Leroy, and Rhico however. Accepted it readily, leaving the Level of greed and the prisoners locked behind vaults with only money to surround the, behind.
Their next surroundings was Erebus…
Surrounded by darkness with the only illumination being the faint glow of fire and torch pyres from before. There was slow shuffling that reported around the area. Just by the way it bounced it was clear that the Level was at most 40 meters tall…
"Mar-Syl? Would you kindly turn on the lights?" Rhico asked. "Of course." He rose his finger and shot a flare! Attaching it to the roof, white light slowly began to grow and expose all that was within.
"Oh…God…" Danny said, covering her mouth.
Around them were prisoners. Emaciated, starved. Covered in filth and stained clothes. Many of the were gaunt, with hollow cheeks and eyes that seemed to be milky. Scrally Matted hair. Men, Women, and others that weren't able to be discerned. Even those of different races were amongst the masses.
The moment the light illuminated however-
They began to scream! Deafening screams from all around…It was cacophonous, deafening. The pain of hundreds, if not thousands of people seeing light for perhaps the first time in ages filled their ears!
"Grah! Hornigold! Ready yourself!" Rhico suddenly screamed! He raised his fist, water beginning to form around his fist! "Fishman Karate Strike Technique: Anshō Bunretsu Tataku!"
Slamming his upward, the water shot out! Forming into a projectile that resembled an eel! Piercing the ceiling! More like began to faintly glow from above. The Screaming began to subside, all of the prisoners began to run for the hole beneath the group!
"Hmph!" Hornigold raised his hand, and commanded gold to form beneath them and raise them through the air! The small murky water fall that came in began to swirl, Rhico moving his hands through the air
"Fishman Sumo…Ansho Oshidashi!" The water cleared way! "Now!" Rhico commanded again! And the platform shot up through the air before dropping them in the murky waters of Gluttony…The Stench of rot filling their noses…