Chapter 13 – The Crimson Terror Dungeon Part – 2.

Meanwhile, Cyrus was still trying to burn the chest to see what is inside.

"Why is this chest not burning? AHHHHHHH," he was mad and was sending out flames without a stop.

Cyrus's flame started to decrease, he was losing his stamina and generating flames continuously for the past half hour, and increasing its heat did not bode well with his body.

As he was doing this, he turned in the direction where the sound came from. And stopped for a few seconds and turned to the pirates who were standing away from a distance of 100 meters and yelled.

"WHAT IS GOING ON? IDIOTS GO LOOK, GET THE KEYS BY DIGGING THEIR CORPSES!!! YOU TWO TAKE A FEW OF THEM AND GO SEE WHAT IS HAPPENING!!!!" Cyrus ordered with madness.

All the pirates who heard him were scared shitless. The two that he mentioned were commanders of his Crew and they took a few of the pirates and started to move.

In the distance, Andrew and another one of the commanders named Rob were fighting, the pirates under Rob were already dead as Andrew ended them first.

They both were moving fast and covering meters in a single step but Rob was faster than Andrew.

Andrew was only able to dodge attacks from Rob.

"If you can't keep up, you will die faster, kid"

"I might not be able to keep up with you, but none of your attacks will hit me"

"Is that so?"

Rob increased his speed more and his fist hit Andrew's shoulder.

Andrew staggered and Rob used this chance to attack him in all directions. He was flickering in the sides and hitting Andrew in his hands, chest, back, and legs. Andrew was being thrashed around by him and only because of his Armament Haki was he able to hold on.

"You might know Haki but how long do you think you can use that to protect yourself," commented Rob as he was beating down Andrew.

He then appeared in front of him and attacked at his chest with very high speed, Andrew moved his arms forward to take the impact of this attack. Andrew was kicked at his back. Rob was playing around with Andrew.

"Shit," Andrew cursed as he felt the pain, he was continuously being pushed back. He could not keep up with Rob even with his Observation Haki and even with Armament Haki, he was bleeding all over.

Rob was able to cover that distance of his Observation Haki range easily due to his Devil Fruit. After every attack, he disappears out of his range and attacks the next second.

"If this goes on, I will be defeated easily, I need to wait for a chance and use it to end it in one strike, can only hope he slips up before I die," thought Andrew as he was fell on his knees panting for breath. Rob seeing this slipped up as Andrew could sense him in his field and Andrew knew he got the chance he has been waiting for.

"You gave me a chance to use my powers like this after a long time, now die," Rob said as he thought he had won.

Suddenly Rob disappeared and was in front of Andrew, Andrew moved his head left as Rob's fist passed through, it was just centimeters away from his face.

Andrew quickly grabbed his hand and used Armament Haki and broke his hand.

"AHHHHHH," before Rob could do anything, he was crushed to the ground by Andrew.

Andrew then blasted him with a kick to his chest, Rob flew like a rocket, destroying anything that was in his path.

Rob could not register what had just happened in his mind and was trying to get up, and just to see Andrew in front of him.

"Die," said Andrew as his fist came to Rob's face.

His head turned to a mist of blood and flesh and his headless body slopped to the ground.

Andrew was on the ground catching his breath.

He could sense pirates entering his range. He then took the bottle Laura gave and chucked it down.

"I have only two left, he was fucking strong and knew how to use his powers," uttered Andrew as he was drinking.

He called the status of the quest.

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[Protect the Villagers: 176/236]

[Kill the Pirates: 83/124]

[Kill the Pirate Commanders: 5/7]

[Kill Cyrus Terror: 0/1]

[Collect Key Fragments: 6/10]

[Rewards: ???]

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Andrew was able to kill 2 commanders in the last place.

They were easy as one of them was a doctor and the other a navigator, they had no Devil Fruit abilities or knew Haki. They had close to 40 pirates guarding them. Andrew walked in and used Conqueror's Haki and that alone helped him in taking them all down, they were knocked out cold due to his will. After that Andrew just burned them with the alcohol they had and the ones who got up he killed them with his sword.

Andrew could sense 17 of them coming to the place where he is.

"He is there"

"3 groups with 6 in two and the last 5 in one,"

They grouped themselves and Andrew could see these guys were a bit experienced.

1 group was in front of him, the other 2 groups are on each side.

Andrew used his Conqueror's Haki and it covered all of them, they all felt the pressure increase and a few of them fainted directly and some were on their knees and the two who spoke were standing as if nothing happened.

"The others might not have been able to resist the Conqueror's Haki, you see our captain he trained us by inflicting his will upon us for months, he loved seeing us in pain and yours doesn't even match to his, kid," as he said that he started to walk towards me as he drew the two axes behind him.

"Then why are you following him?" Andrew questioned. He could see that these two hate their captain.

"We have no choice in this, we will die if we don't follow his orders"

"You can help me in killing him"

"Show me your power and then we will decide," said the other one.

Andrew turned towards him.

"One of us dies in this fight, if I die, he will help you, if you die, well you can do nothing after that before we start my name is Alvaro and his name is Icarus, what's yours?"

"Roger (Andrew)"

Andrew and Alvaro vanished from their position.

The fight began, Andrew parried Alvaro's ax with his sword as it made the air around them disperse. Alvaro brought down his other Axe at Andrew which Andrew dodged using Soru.

Alvaro also used a speed technique and brought down his Axe straight to Andrew's head.

Andrew used his sword coated with Armament Haki and deflected it to his side as the Axe made a crater on the ground. They both jumped back and again rushed at each other.

Their clash was destroying everything around them. The trees, the ground they were fighting all of them were being destroyed.

As this clash was going on, in the distance Cyrus had stopped doing what he was doing as he saw this fight happening in the distance. He could sense the Conqueror's Haki though he was not able to do it before as he did not concentrate but now, he could. He stopped and took the chest in his hands and slowly started to head to where Andrew and Alvaro are fighting.

They did not know about this but Icarus who was watching the fight noticed this. His face morphed to that of a Griffon and he could see Cyrus heading here. Sweat started to form in his head.

The pirates who had fainted died without ever knowing how it happened and the ones struggling to stand were able to escape as Andrew's Conqueror's Haki stopped.

They were now standing close to Icarus. Icarus turned back to see the battle but this time he decided to fight as well. He started to change as he grew in height and width, the pirates near him moved back as this happened.

Andrew who saw this felt as if everything was crumbling down and Alvaro did not expect Icarus to suddenly transform.

"What are you doing?"

"He is coming" before the other pirates could register what he was saying, Icarus who was now a majestic griffon ripped them apart to pieces. Only Silence filled the area as both Andrew and Alvaro were shocked by what he did.

"Are you sure?" asked Alvaro.

"Get ready he is close by, kid, he has four keys with him and if I am not wrong you have the rest"

Before Andrew could reply, Alvaro started to talk

"You know kid, we both knew even if we battled against him together, we will die but you are the anomaly that we did not expect. Maybe we will live and if we do, the drinks on me, HAHAHAHAHA" said Alvaro as he laughed and continued.

"This was the island that I and Icarus were born in, we informed the people in the villages around here way back before Cyrus could come here, you should have seen many villages were already empty as they had evacuated even before we came here but only the Main Village and some of them thought they will be able to persuade him. But the moment Cyrus burned one of the other villages even though it was empty, they must have witnessed that and used the underground passages to escape. Cyrus doesn't know about that. He thought they were all hiding underground."

Andrew was shocked when he heard Alvaro say this. Now he was able to understand how all the villagers escaped, now he knew why some villages were empty and abandoned when he was searching for the pirates.

"Only the Main village had some of the villagers."

"Yes"

"Why does he want the chest?"

Alvaro took a deep breath and said: "One person can only eat one Devil Fruit as the heart can take only one but what if one had two hearts?"

No one could explain Andrew's expression. He did not know how this was even possible.

Andrew uttered in disbelief, "Two hearts?"

"Yes, even we don't know how but he has two hearts and he thinks he will be able to eat Two Devil Fruits and be the first man to have the power of Two Devil Fruits."

"How did he know there is a Devil Fruit here?"

"Before he accepted us his crew, he tortured us for months"

Andrew then saw the screen appear in front of him.

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[You have completed the Hidden Quest.]

[Rewards: Revive Card]

[Revive Card will be used upon your death automatically and you will come back to life at the peak of your strength. This card can also be used on others, you will have to say or think Revive and utter the name of the one you want to bring back to life.]

[Note: This card can only be used in the Dungeons.]

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[Final Part]

[Your death will lead to the destruction of the villages and island. Cyrus will get all the keys and will open the chest to consume the Devil Fruit. Then he will hunt and kill all the Villagers who have escaped.]

[Kill Cyrus Terror: 0/1]

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"Alright, here's the plan," said Andrew.

Andrew started to explain what they were going to do for a minute.

The plan started to get in motion.

Icarus was in his griffin form watching over from the sky.

Alvaro had his ax near Andrew's neck and Andrew was on his knees he had taken out the keys from his inventory and they were now lying next to Andrew.

"HAHAHAHAHA, Well done you both," all three heard Cyrus's voice, they all could feel the craziness and madness in his voice.

Cyrus was around 9 ft tall with a buffed muscle body, every part of his body was brimmed with Power, there were scars on his body, face and he had the chest in his hands.

When Andrew saw Cyrus, he realized that this was going to be a very difficult battle.

The man's presence brought a dreadful feeling around the whole area.

"Oh, SO YOU ARE THE ONE WHO HAS KILLED ALL OF MY CREW, and you two, good job you have found the remaining keys as well," Cyrus said as he had a crazed smile on him.

Andrew knew one thing at the moment, Cyrus was a monster and the Dungeon Description did no justice to this guy.

Cyrus walked towards us slowly, he had the chest in his hands.

There was only one thought in Andrew's mind, "Do or Die"