Matt almost felt bad for the guild members Waters killed; their deaths were brutal and slow. Duke Waters locked the water around them, so they could only look back at him while they struggled their last. Drowning with the surface inches above you seemed like a special torture to him.
In the movie, he had only killed those who had directly wronged him, but Matt well knew that history was only written by the survivors. If the movie was only half-accurate, Matt understood how the duke alone could hold off the other Tier 50 Great Powers.
The man was as cold as his namesake, and as unforgiving. Matt could easily imagine the duke biding his time until drowning entire planets of any enemy dumb enough to attack the Empire.
Matt wasn’t sure how much was propaganda but, in the movie, Waters had r
