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The water kicks up and explodes with every hypervelocity MAG Slug blowing into it, to anything under the water it probably feel like being in the center of a rave right now with so much pounding going on. The entire squad lighting up all around the opening, firing at the water.

It was apparently finally enough for whatever was down there, as the whole ruin rumbled, kinetic force hitting the water having heated it up some, and in seconds, many large tentacles bursts out from the water, each ramming at the stone floor, trumping it under your feet but the strength wasn't quite there to break it yet. You can see many of the tentacles are injured from MAG wounds, but with water being amazing cover against gunfire, it could be much worse.

With what Tentacles that made it through the opening, it tries to sweep the floor, but only managed to flop uselessly as the entire square shreds the tentacles that made it up top with heavy MAG fire.

Vigil had managed to cut himself free, slicing off the Tentacle that was coiling around him and allowing him to drop onto his feet on the other side of the floor with the twitching, bleeding Tentacle still on him.

There's rippling in the water, this seems to have upset whatever is down there.

The serene valley of snow is then promptly disturbed as Kaito's MAG crackles out, spitting out metal at supersonic speed that puncture the dense water surface. Some more blood shows up on the dark surface before everyone's teeth shook as Stella fired her Gauss rifle, the shockwave from the tungsten stake the width of a soda can suddenly achieving Mach 4 the moment it exited the barrel blew nearby snow and dust away, several bricks of the ruin was shaken loose and the sound echos through the Valley like an explosion. Your suits whirrs and whines as it fought against the push, Priscilla's unpowered form was pushed to the ground from the force and rolled like a stiff ragdoll until the wall stopped her.

Then the metal slug made contact with the water surface at Mach 4, it might as well have been hit by solid concrete as the water surface and the slug positively explode as if Danh threw a grenade in there, the explosive force collapses another section of the floor, near where Vigil is standing and did manage to blow him onto his back from the contact shockwave and some Tungsten Fragment travelling at supersonic speed.

Boiy can't even see Vigil but tries anyway, Vigil feels the gravity changes, but the Tentacle around him remain strongly gripped.

Too strongly, in fact, that it cuts itself on his blade and instinctively let go of him! allowing Vigil to fall sideways in the water away from the opening and into the darkness.

The water seemed quite deep, as your lights did not shine to the bottom and you just see the reflective surface. Heat signature doesn't have any heat differences in the water show up, and you only detect the ruffling of water from the dropped stones and boulder.

Other than that, sensors detects fluctuations in the castle effect underwater. Similar to the Rigel Device artifact that you've retrieved and got Boiy his Psionics.

The floor crumbles in the 5 by 5 meters square that Frazz cut, stone bricks falling a short distance, about roughly a story or a story and a half in height before it splashes into the dark water below. Tense seconds pass and nothing seems to be immediately bursting out yet.

Every stomp you took on the stone brick floor sounded hollow.
Every. Stomp.

Priscilla's Sensor readings reads that the surrounding temperature is about as warm as Florida in Summer. And that absolutely nothing is out of the ordinary here. Yep. Totally normal. Mmmhmmm, nothing weird at all, nada.

Boiy reaches in and touches himself, feeling around for that Psionics of his as if trying to open a third eye that have never opened before. [56]
He reached out as if stumbling in the dark, Then feel as if the floor underneath him collapses entirely away, making him free-fall for long minutes, his screams came out silenced. His hands reaches out for the surface, but it's not there. He fell and fell, everything so slow and dark until he feels as if he landed in warm, sunny water. But there was no sun, he still could not see, his hands clawing upwards for the surface that was not there, the water feeling like it was choking him, and under it he could feel a pair of eyes watching.

Eyes with fierce intelligence in it, but feral. Circling him under the warm water, watching. Stalking. It's growling sent vibrations through his whole body. He could feel it testing his mind, probing, feeling it with Psionics. Searching for gaps and weaknesses,

But before the thing pounces, he was able to pull himself together and essentially 'Close his Third eye'. To him it feels like he had just went through quite an experience that could've easily taken 10 minutes.

To everyone else, it just looked like Boiy was standing around one moment, closes his eyes then immediately collapses on his back, have a brief stroke then comes to coughing up a bit of.. water? right inside his helmet.