When Lucas was licked by the wave that fell on him as the smaller platform beneath him moved, the seemingly light slap made him feel as if his bones were about to break.
He felt them cracking under the weight of the blood-like water, something that had never happened before, not since he became something almost indestructible.
Even the explosion that had melted his flesh and shaken his organs into getting small tears all over them had felt like its shockwaves had passed through his bones without getting to them. Even his body, after all the fights he had been through, had hardly gotten any wound.
His breath stopped, blocked by the weight of the blow. He was thrown back, pushed into the source of the red color pervading the underground world. It felt less like water, and more like jelly.
He encountered resistance that blocked him, sandwiching with the water pushing him down and making the nascent fissures in his bones grow like snakes. Then…
*Plop*
