"Eh?!"
"Eh?!"
"Huh?!"
"Six times?!"
The girls Cole was pointing at all widened their eyes.
What the hell?
Why was he targeting them again?
Where was Jugram? He couldn't beat Cole, so he was just going to ignore it now?
Then what were they supposed to do?
They couldn't beat this monster!
Thinking that, the girls swallowed hard and looked up toward the Sternritter in the sky like they were begging for help. Everyone was on the same team—how could they be this heartless?
Faced with their pleading looks, the Sternritter members hesitated, torn.
Should they help… or not?
Cole had already shown his strength. If they really fought him head-on, he might actually smash the entire Wandenreich apart.
With their thin bodies, they probably couldn't withstand it.
But if they didn't help…
Just as they were struggling inside—
Cole raised an eyebrow, looked up at the Sternritter in the sky, and smiled.
"Oh right—almost forgot about you guys."
"The Military Police was just rebuilt. Any of you interested in joining my Military Police?"
The Sternritter instantly felt their scalps go numb.
What?!
Why was he eyeing them too?!
They'd thought Cole was just a horny bastard—otherwise why would he humiliate Bambietta like that and even try to "collect" the whole Quincy girl squad?
But now…
They were wrong.
Not just women—
This bastard didn't even spare the men!
Driscoll gritted his teeth and shouted, "Military Police Legion Commander, give up already! I'm a Sternritter member—no matter what, I won't leave!"
Cole went silent for two seconds, stared at his face, then spoke with complete disbelief.
"Who told you I wanted to recruit you?"
"With that wailing, ghastly face of yours, you're still a long way from being human—but you're already pretty close to being a werewolf."
"If you joined the Military Police, I'd lose my appetite for three straight days just looking at you. So stop being so narcissistic."
Driscoll's face turned bright red from rage.
His fists clenched until they crackled.
A thousand thoughts of "I'm going to kill this bastard" exploded in his mind—
But when he remembered Cole's terrifying strength, that courage instantly shrank back down.
He could only grind his teeth and say, "Keep being arrogant. When His Majesty wakes up, I'll report everything to him!"
"Then you'd better not wait for His Majesty to wake up."
A cold glint flashed through Cole's eyes. His right index finger tapped lightly in the air.
A small, blue Seinaru Metsuya (Holy Destruction Arrow) formed instantly.
Whoosh!
The blue arrow shot out like a laser.
Driscoll's expression changed drastically—he clearly hadn't expected Cole to dare attack at this moment.
No time to hesitate.
Inside his body, a huge amount of reishi surged into his blood vessels—veins, arteries, capillaries.
The flowing blood froze in an instant.
His defense shot to the maximum.
But the moment the small Seinaru Metsuya (Holy Destruction Arrow) arrived, even the terrifying defense of Buryūto Vene (Blood Vein) was like nothing at all, as if it didn't exist.
The arrow pierced straight through flesh.
In a flash, Driscoll's left arm—raised in front of his chest—was blasted off at the root.
Flesh sprayed everywhere.
A large amount of blood scattered down from the sky.
And the blue arrow didn't slow at all—clearly heading straight for Driscoll's heart.
Even though modern Quincies were different from the Quincies a thousand years ago…
The heart was still a vital point.
If it hit—
Death.
Just as Driscoll fell into despair—
Cang suddenly thrust out a hand. His steel-hardened arm clamped down on the blue arrow, forcibly stopping it in midair.
Beside him, the one wearing a black mask—dark lips, and distinctly feminine features—As Nödt swiftly drew his bow, nocked an arrow, and fired.
Cole hadn't really wanted to bother with that arrow.
But this "ordinary" reishi arrow made him feel a trace of danger.
So he shot an arrow at it.
The moment the two arrows collided—
As Nödt's arrow seemed to exist in a different space entirely, completely ignoring Cole's Seinaru Metsuya (Holy Destruction Arrow).
It struck Cole's left arm.
The tip sank in.
Yet it left no wound at all.
Just as Cole felt something was off—
The unease in his heart surged.
A strange, inexplicable fear rushed up from deep inside him.
Countless fearful thoughts flooded his mind.
What if I keep messing around here and Yhwach wakes up?!
He's the Soul King's son.
Can I really defeat him?
What if he kills me?
What about Zero Division—will they join hands with Yhwach to kill me?!
Aizen too.
That kind of sinister, genius-level villain… has he really done nothing during this time?
Is he plotting to kill me?
And then there's the expanding Hell—gathering every powerhouse since the Three Realms were established.
All the captains across the ages.
The ancestors of the Five Great Noble Clans.
The great Hollows that were born in Hueco Mundo.
Maybe there's even something comparable to the Soul King.
When will they appear?
Can I survive against them?
Seeing Cole's dazed expression, Driscoll—who had barely picked his life back up—burst with killing intent and roared:
"I'm going to kill this guy! Even if His Majesty comes, it won't matter!!! I said it!!!"
His furious shout shook the heavens.
In that instant just now—
He had truly tasted death.
It was terrifying, dreadful—so close he almost pissed himself.
All the emotions between life and death, in that moment, twisted into rage and brutality, making him want to kill Cole right now.
But As Nödt didn't indulge him at all. He grabbed Driscoll by the hair and flew away into the distance.
"You can't beat that guy."
Driscoll struggled wildly and shouted, "Then isn't that what you're for?! You already made him fall into fear!"
He knew As Nödt's Holy Script was Fear.
It could make anyone fall into terror.
Back when As Nödt sparred with Jugram, he'd used this move to make Jugram suffer quite a bit.
As Nödt said flatly, "Do you really think that level of fear can control that monster?"
"No matter how outrageous an ability is, the only thing that decides strength is reishi."
Just like back then—when he used Fear on Jugram, Jugram burst his reishi and shattered the fear by force.
Cole right now…
He just didn't understand the ability yet.
Once he got hit again—
The reishi he erupted with would instantly crush the fear.
Driscoll was still roaring and struggling, but his body suddenly stiffened.
Because he heard a voice behind him.
"So this is what fear at the extreme feels like?"
"Heh heh heh… it really pisses me off."
"Right now… I'm a little angry."
Cole's calm voice echoed through the sky.
But anyone could hear it—beneath that calm tone was rage being forcibly suppressed.
Just now, an enormous amount of fear had risen inside him.
All kinds of scenes he'd never even imagined before played on repeat in his mind.
Until anger crushed fear.
And only then did the fear born from the heart finally dissipate.
As Cole spoke—
Hundreds, even thousands, of hexagonal spirit bows appeared in the sky.
Among them were even ten gigantic great sacred bows.
Driscoll's face turned purple.
The rage, the pain of losing his arm—everything vanished into thin air.
All that remained was boundless fear of death.
Now As Nödt didn't even need to drag him—Driscoll turned and ran, wishing he had two more legs.
The other Quincies also went numb and immediately entered their Complete Holy Form and fled.
This guy had gone insane.
He had started indiscriminate slaughter.
Even as they ran, they couldn't help cursing As Nödt in their hearts.
If you knew your ability was that absurd—
Don't use it on him!
Now look what happened.
You pissed the monster off.
In the sky—
Azure arrows fell like rain.
Those once-high-and-mighty Sternritter became nothing but stray dogs fleeing for their lives under the arrowstorm.
Among them, As Nödt had it the worst.
Cole "took special care" of him, nearly pinning him into a hedgehog of blue arrows.
But fortunately, their strength wasn't weak. They couldn't beat Cole, but escaping wasn't a problem.
In the blink of an eye, the sky became empty—only droplets of blood fell down.
Cole snorted coldly, stopped attacking, then turned to look at Liltotto.
"Glutton, what's with that guy's ability? Why could it ignore my attack and directly hit my true body?"
In Cole's view, As Nödt wasn't that strong—about Byakuya's level.
But his Holy Script was seriously disgusting.
If it weren't for Cole, most people wouldn't be able to break free from that fear so quickly.
"Don't call me Glutton. My name is Liltotto…"
Liltotto corrected him softly—until Cole glared at her, and she hurriedly continued:
"As Nödt's Holy Script is Fear. He can create and control cone-like blue light arrows out of nothing, attacking enemies around him."
"And any defense in a physical form can't block his light arrows."
"Once someone is hit, everything in their heart turns into fear. They become suspicious of everything around them, and can't even concentrate to think."
At this point, Liltotto secretly glanced at Cole and added in a small voice:
"If someone with weak mental endurance gets hit… they'll scream and go mad from sheer terror. They won't be able to withstand the torment—their heart will be burned away, and they'll suffocate to death in the end."
After hearing Liltotto explain As Nödt's ability, Cole instinctively cracked his knuckles, gritting his teeth.
"Next time I see him, I'm definitely going to make him understand what real, despairing, supreme fear feels like."
Making him fear to that extent—
He would never forgive that bastard.
As for As Nödt's ability, Cole already had a countermeasure.
As long as—before the Fear arrow was used—
He protected his body with extremely powerful reishi, he could block that Fear arrow.
He didn't believe in any "absolute defense-piercing" nonsense.
If that kind of ability really existed, then As Nödt should've been the strongest in the Wandenreich.
That so-called "absolute defense ignore"—
Was just because his strength still wasn't enough.
Pulling his thoughts back, Cole turned the thousands of spirit bows in the sky around and stared at the girls with a hostile look.
"I've given you plenty of time."
"You've made your decision, right?!"
The girls exchanged looks, on the verge of tears.
At this point…
How could they dare say no?
So they all nodded, aggrieved.
Only then did Cole look satisfied. He turned to the only male Quincy left and said:
"You're Cang, right?"
"Why didn't you leave with the others?"
(End of Chapter)
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