Sucker Worm

More than that, another set of muscles began to pulse and mould to suit what he was doing. His original muscles relaxed back but the new muscles ached as they kept adjusting to the buoyancy. 

This was called Initiation, the ability to understand and comprehend something profound and then enact it. It's a first Trait Master needs to develop and throughout the Knight journey, they have to improve it further to have a breakthrough.

Noah achieved the maximum adjustment a person can have in the air to reduce the falling speed by 12.5 factors in a 50-speed factor

That means he can glide in the air and travel for a considerable distance, however, the impact on the landing will be as hard because one needs to reduce the speed to the very minimum 30 to 45 factor.

Ultimately, they will reach the ground and they did. Noah saw that it was water, dark water as light doesn't reach there very much. He gulped down and looked up, there was no one coming to rescue them.

He calculated, up and down and he confirmed there was nothing his Shifting Steel could do.

"Haha, it's water. We are saved!" Elya shouted.

"Idiot. It doesn't make any difference. At this speed, land and water are the same. You will be shattered and broken as if you hit the land!" Noah said

"You are lying!"

Slap

Noah shut the kid up with a good slap. Well, mostly because he called him a liar. Thank that Noah has a stupid and great idea.

"RELAX!" Noah shouted in Elya's ears. 

The boy tried to do as he was told and then Noah observed well, and then relaxed his buoyancy which increased their falling speed now that they were a couple of hundred meters above the water.

When they were 90 meters before hitting the water, the plan was initiated. Using the belt on their bag Noah wrapped it around his legs and also he wrapped his belt around Elya's legs.

Then he hugged Elya and they began to spin, faster and faster. As their speed increased so did their spinning, right as they were just 5 meters away from the water, Noah released Elya with great strength.

The momentum of spin threw Elya back in the air and as the belt that connected them wasn't that long, Noah was jerked up too but the momentum wasn't strong enough to negate the falling force momentum completely. Noah knew that very well and he planned to reduce the impact.

He Shifted his strength to his legs and he slammed at the water with them. A shock travelled through his feet.

Elya fared better as he was thrown up and with less momentum when he fell down the second time.

"You said, it will be hard as the solid ground!" Elya said as he floated. Noah glared at him but didn't say a thing. 

His legs were aching now, and his feet felt as if they were peeling out with a knife. If not because he has a strong will he would have cried by now.

Strange thing was that the backpack was the reason they were floating on the water. Because it swelled to prevent them from drowning.

"Don't forget the feeling of falling!" Noah said to Elya.

"We are feathers, hahaha. I can't believe we fall from high above. Do you think it is part of the test…!" Elya froze as he looked above Noah with horror and fear.

Noah was about to turn around when he felt his feet being kissed and then he felt something sucking his big toe and then his other toes were being sucked and then the whole foot.

That was when he thrashed around trying to extricate himself from the sucker and then he also looked back. A giant snake-like thing came out from the dark water and it was now looking at them from above.

"Damn. I'm being devoured by something!" Elya shouted as he grabbed Noah's hand.

And both of them were dragged down before the anaconda-like thing descended on them. Nevertheless, it was smaller anacondas that were pulling them down.

They were Sucker Worms. 

In no time, both of their legs have the Sucker Worms that were devouring them. And when their legs reach their stomachs, they can feel as if their legs were put in hot water.

Noah panicked as he tried to remove the worm but it was slippery and their body was like rubber. At the same time, the giant Sucker Worm came toward them, opening its toothless giant maw that can swallow both Noah and Elya.

However, water undercurrent washed over and pulled them all except the giant Sucker Worm. 

As they were being pulled down Noah tried to pull the Sucker Worm that was sucking his legs and he found it easier to do. He pulled the belt that connected him with Elya and he found all the Worm had released him too.

It's that the worms became weak in that water current. But sadly, Elya was out cold. His mouth was wide open. Meaning he drank some water.

Noah frowned, he then closed the mouth, hugged Elya from the back and then pressed his stomach but he found a thick something coming out from his stomach. A Worm has slithered through Elya's mouth to hide from the water pull. Noah pulled it out and then breathed all his air into the kid.

But Noah was helpless, what can he do now exactly? They were being pulled down and rotating in the water, and then a massive Sucker Worm was following them. As it was not being affected by the pull at all.

The Worm opened its maw and passed Noah and Elya and then intercepted them and with ease, they were swallowed.

The rubbery inside of the worm compressed and made them vomit all the water they drank and Elya woke up, however, the inside had not enough oxygen and the idiot breathed in and passed out again.