11-Dungeon(2)

Time-Unknown , Location- Underwater Maze , Third Pov

Moreover, when he looked down, he saw a knight wearing a aromour with the color of bronze which was holding a sword with right hand and a crossbow with his left hand which was pointed towards him.

He realized a second later that he shot the arrow towards him 

'Fuck!!!'

The arrow was aimed towards his Head, right between his eyes, Fortunately, his Instincts from the skill activated, he tried to stick his foot to the wall with a lot of mana, but as expected he got blasted off, the arrow going over his neck, just an inch above.

When he also 5 meters away from ground, the knight shot another arrow at his Head, this time no wall was there to help him propel in different direction.

However, Noah Suddenly had a wild idea, he placed his one hand over his face and another hand over it , such that both palms were touching each other, and his face or more specifically forehead was touching his left arm.

He released a lot of mana from both palms, such that after reaching a limit, they were forced to compress. Just as He was going to get his brain pierced, they was a explosion between his palms which propelled both of his palms away, indirectly moving his head away from trajectory of the arrow.

By that idea, he did receive some damage from his own explosion, but he atleast was able to change his orientation.

After landing on the ground he started moving in a random way, to prevent getting pierced again while maintaining a distance from the sword user.

[You have infilicted a status Minor Bleeding, You will lose 50 Hp per second, Current Hp- 13K/15K]

'I just lost 2K just from that explosion' thought Noah while moving like a dog on steroids.

His bleeding status was due to a small hole on his right arm when he was on apex of the wall and lost his sword.

'Damn, I really have to get a inventory from the shop, this system is so stingy' Noah thought while wrapping his T- shirt around the hole, hoping to lessen the blood loss.

His Hp regeneration is 150 per minute , but now due to bleeding it has been reduced to 100 per minute, so He was trying to get his Hp to full.

The system has a unique function that as long as Hp reaches full, even a lost arm could be grown. He was stalling for 20 minutes to pass while thinking about next course of action 'Run or Confront'.

However, his worries were all for naught, just as he jumped slightly to get in a better position, a blue ray of light pierced his left lung, making it unusable.

[You have Lost a lot of Hp, current Hp-10K

Your right lung is damaged, status effect has updated, Major Bleeding- 650 Hp loss per Minute]

'No, I literally now have 20 minutes to live' He thought, while increasing his speed , to dodge, however due to panic, one more shot passed through his right shoulder making a bigger hole than the one in lungs. This was done by another Bronze knight with just a bow on him. He was creating Magical arrows or more like Magical beams.

[1150 Hp loss per minute, current HP-7K], 

'7 minutes' His eyes became bloodshot , he was panicking like a rabid animal, this also caused a few arrows from the crossbow, reducing his Hp to 6K.

'6 minutes', His heart rate was spiking, at this rate he might die from panic attack rather than the Knights.

'Eleventh Form: Dead Calm', Suddenly all of the panic left him, he just stood there with his eyes close, his heart rate retuning to normal.

However, this didn't stopped the archer to shoot and Swordsman to close the distance, However, each shot of archer was easily evaded.

Dead Calm, it's basically a defensive technique created in the manga to counter any attacks use faces. To learn this while in battle, one has to be calm as the name suggest and Noah has trained it such that it will act as a switch to make him calm, so that he can analyze the opponent and form strategies to deal with the situation in hand.

'Let's see, I don't have a sword, my right arm is practically useless, I might use it as a shield or a deceiving card as I can afford to lose it at the moment, I have blocked the blood to flow in my right arm using magic, I have around 6 minutes to live, my mana reserves are half at the moment, I can try to use my mana to stop the bleeding effect ,however that will require my full attention and the mana consumption would be very high, so dealing with these two and getting 600 stat points would be the right choice, I don't think I would be able to suck vitality of these as they are basically puppets powered by a energy source.'

[Ding!, You have created a skill internal mana control level 1- mana consumption reduced by 1 percent for a certain amount of mana.]

'Maybe, I could get the new stat points to level this up, so that I could buy enough time for my natural regeneration to Heal me before my mana reserves empty out.'

'Now, how to deal with these two, the knight is 50 meters away from me and Archer is 500 meters away, sticking on the wall, I don't even have a sword in hand, to deal with this shit, well, It's really irritating for people to deal with me just because I don't have a sword, I feel like Zoro'

He suddenly had a thought which made him grin, he started running towards knight which was 30 meter away, he circled around him while dodging the arrows, and the sword strikes.

'now that the archer is disabled, as the knight will get injured ' thinking that he started his plan of action, he guided a portion of mana towards his tip of left middle finger and aimed it towards the wrist of knight.

As per his expectations, the knight lost the grip of sword and he got the hold of a new sword in his left hand.

He has trained himself to be ambidextrous , so having one hand works for him.

However, everything didn't go as planned, his left foot got pierced with a magic arrow, which also pierced the left hand of the knight.

'5 minutes' He thought, but his grin didn't left his face, as he was falling towards the ground, he balanced himself with his right foot, 'First form: Water surface Slash' 

The knight was cleanly cut between in two pieces, Noah used the momentum to stand straight with his right leg. However, knight's downfall didn't affect the archer, a barrage of shots made his way towards Noah as opposed to previous one shots with a considerable long interval in between shots.

'Put all the 300 points in that mana control skill'

[Affirmative!]

[100 stat points have be consumed for upgrading internal mana circulation- mana consumption reduced by 5 percent for a certain amount of mana ]

[200 stat points have be consumed for a upgrading internal mana circulation - mana consumption reduced by 10 percent for a certain amount of mana]

'Nice' He thought while waiting for the barrage to reach him, actually his though process has become faster than when he was a mortal.

'Tenth: Constant Flux X Seventh: Drop Ripple Thrust X Ninth: Splashing Water Flow, Turbulent' He affirmed in his mind and started heading towards the archer while stopping the beam of magical power aimed at him by thrusting, each momentum of the attack he had to block was used to stop another in a unique way, he was doing that while running on either the ground or the wall while exchanging between those depending on the energy conservation and reducing the accuracy of shots.

Constant Flux is the tenth form of water style he taught himself with the memories of 'Demon Slayer', initially he can't even copy any so he instead focused on essence of water and understanding that, after progressing in that somehow the techniques came naturally to him, however they were different from their canon counterparts at varying levels.

Constant Flux basically is him using a dance or more specifically each strike connects with the next one, making it continuous in usage and more the mometum of the user, more deadly he can be. Noah uses the opponent's mometum to help or connect to next attack making him expend less energy, in his case SP and MP.

Drop Ripple Thrust is very similar to it's canon counterpart, it basically slows down or completely stop the mometum of the target via a thrust. Noah has also made a offensive move which sends a concentrated ball or arrow? of water by thrusting it to the opponent, for now he can only use it when he is in a water body.

Splashing Water Flow, Turbulent - A footwork technique that allows users to land and launch off surfaces without taking too much time or effort. He has improved it considerably with his understanding of water.

As he moved closer to the archer, the shots he had to confront increased, so did the mana consumption, he only had like 2 minutes to defeat this guy or he actually might die.

Unfortunately for him, the archer was not brainless, that guy started moving up the wall while aiming his shots towards him which was directly downwards a few seconds later.

Noah with one foot usable was barely able to at one stable position without dropping down at the ground. He suddenly had an idea, so he crouched on the wall for a moment and launched himself at the archer, 'Second : Water Wheel', all the magical bullets headed towards him were now redirected or more specifically deflected away from him, still going towards ground, unlike the previous form in which he had to either expend his own energy to stop the mometum of the bullets or use the backlash to somehow use to stop another one ,this time he went for a costlier approach as this was only way possible, he didn't used it before coz he won't be able to defend his body properly, however at the moment he just crouched dash at the opponent quickly, so he was able to avoid the damage.

However just as he was a blade's distance away, the archer surprised him by firing a more concentrated beam or magical bullet at him which was directly aimed at center of the part of water wheel aimed towards him/her. 

Noah, lost his footing and started free falling with his head faced with archer who was standing on the wall.

'30 seconds' He thought while mentally looking at his health bar.

He knew that He won't he able to reach the archer in that timespan.

His initial plan was to buy Mana potion with the 300 Stat points he will gain from killing this guy, to stop the bleeding while his natural regeneration helps him. Why he didn't did that with the stat points he earned by killing the knight was due to him unable to hold on for his natural regeneration while His mana reserves got emptied again.

So, now he was completely hopeless, however, this time he didn't panicked and just thought of a solution.

Just as he was free falling in the same position, archer started gathering energy and aimed it towards Noah's left lung, not wanting to miss the shot like Knight did with the crossbow earlier.

Just as he shot, He was a bit late to notice that, he was not the only one who shot something.

Noah threw his sword which was in his left arm with all his leftover mana to propel it and timed it in a manner that will coincide with the archer fired. The recoil twisted his body in mid air, and the magical shot missed him.

However, the archer was not that lucky, the sword pierced that guy's heart and giving 300 Stat points to Noah.

He dropped to the ground with a thud, however, he quickly drank a mana potion and stopped his bleeding.

He was at least alive.