It stared at him
Unable to meet its eyes, Soren stood up
Then he winced
"Damn it"
He could only pant as he leaned on the cold walls of the labyrinth
His ankle rested in a makeshift splint he had fashioned from the bones of the horror that just tried to mauled him
It kept staring
"Don't you have anything better to do?"
Soren was, for a lack of a better word, pissed
The first dive, easy?
My ass.
The only one he could blame was himself
He limped forwards, trudging past the body of the horror he was desperately running from a few minutes ago
His eyes locked on the path ahead, Soren stabbed a needle of clear liquid into his leg
Wincing as the effects began, Soren had yet another reason to curse himself; his frugalness
Then it started again
Soren instantly became alert
The voices had stopped
"Again???"
He attempted to start running, to get away from-
"Clack"
Soren froze
go away
"Krrhh"
please
"Splish"
It slithered(?) past him, seemingly not noticing the slab of meat beside it
c-class 3 lifeform...
Soren had never seen much of the outside of his family owned shop, let alone a being classified as class 3.
He racked his brains for something, anything, that could save him.
"Class 3 lifeforms, dangerous, but not unmanageable." A monotonous voices sounded in his mind.
Soren cautiously looked up
It was a mass of....something
Dark viscous liquid made up its body, dripping on the ground as it went
Red Pearls(?) seemed to make up its eyes, as they maneuvered around its gross mass of a body, seemingly looking around it
Soren knew, knew that that THING knows he is here somewhere
"Class 3's are a weird classification. Why? Some could have capabilities of Class 2's or even 1's, but the one defining factor that makes then Class 3, is that they all have 1 or more major weaknesses."
Weakness?
He scrutinized the mass, not daring to miss a single detail
There
Soren almost cried tears of joy
A hole, which the dark liquid that made up its body seemed to flow into, on the opposite sides of wherever its eyes moved
Soren knew this was his only chance
When the hole once again appeared before Soren, he made his move
Ripping the piece of bone from his splint, Soren "leapt" towards it, bone in hand
As in, he stumbled forwards, due to the overwhelming pain from putting weight on his hurt ankle
However, that was enough
Jamming the bone in, Soren felt that the "liquid" that made up its body was actually quite solid
Soren triumphantly stared into the red eyes of the creature
Wait, eyes?
Soren looked down
The hole, its "weakness", certainly had been hit
It didn't even seem to be bothered
Soren felt his blood run cold, and before he could even turn and run,
"Crack!"
Smashing into the wall, Soren felt his ribs cracking
Sharp pain followed the wind being knocked out of his lungs
The thing was fast, too fast
It had smashed its whole body into Soren, its speed surpassing even the templars Soren saw in that roadshow
"Damn it, F**K!"
Soren screamed
"Class 3's however, are among the trickiest to kill."
"Due to the nature of having a glaring weakness, most Class 3's adapt."
The mass was approaching
"Some learn to defend their weakness, some work around it."
And Soren could only watch, helpless
"And the trickiest type?"
"GRAAHH!"
Soren screamed, pain consuming every inch of body
"Those that cover up their real weakness with a false one."
He started smashing the wall behind him in anger
"F**K! F**K! WHY! ALWAYS! ME!"
The thing charged up again, preparing to crush Soren once and for all, with the same fast attack Soren couldn't even react to
"F**K! WHY! WHY! Why....are you so foolish?"
Soren dived out of the way, biting down on fabric to brave the pain of his ankle, and now, his whole body
The thing crashed into the stone wall...
And an entire upper section of the wall crumbled down on it
Soren dived out of the way, using the body of the horror he had previously killed as cover from the huge dust storm the collapsing section of the wall caused.
"That hole was never it's weakness, was it?"
Clutching on the side of the wall for support, Soren trudged forwards.
"The true weakness is that it can't see, or at least it can't see things that aren't moving."
Soren trudged over to what's left of the mass, pulling out the "Bone splint", and tying it back on his ankle.
"It didn't make sense that it didn't immediately crush me when it got near me,"
Soren shakily got back on his feet, his entire body still hurting from the ordeal
"To be perfectly honest, it's false weakness did indeed trick me,"
Soren pulled out another needle, jabbing it into his body
"Seriously, if that wall wasn't weakened enough, I really would have been done for."
Soren started trudging forwards, determined to make it to the end of this horrible labyrinth
"Damn it, I am seriously going crazy, why the hell am I talking to YOU?"
Soren spat bitterly at the floating eye
"This all would have been easier if I got a useful codex..."
And it continued staring