[Bonus thanks to BobTheEngineer <3]
The Hydra burst into laughter. It was grating, and terrible to deal with given his current headache, but Sylas still weathered the storm, standing firm.
"You speak of the S-tier like it is something you can just reach because you feel like it."
For once, the Hydra seemed to sound intelligent. Sylas wondered if it was really that the creature was so stupid, or if it had had no choice but to give up a lot of its wisdom in order to survive to this point.
Of course, this wasn't related to the stat itself—all of that was certainly gone. Instead, it was more related to its memories, its understanding, aspects of itself that were tied to pieces of its soul that were now forever gone.
The fact it had to fuse with a kernel of Greed in order to survive had probably corrupted even more of it.
The Hydra had already seemed a bit goofy at first, and now it was amplified several times over.
