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Chapter 21 - Stance

Noctis gets up, takes a deep breath, and starts to look at the fireball. Thinking about a way to extinguish it. Noctis knows that he has a finite amount of time before it attacks. His new power, which he doesn't know how it works, makes everything more difficult.

Noctis decides to enter Daydreamer. While awake, he can see the different scenarios passed around him. Replaying one hundred scenarios till he reached the limit. Noctis could only see for a minute, and in ninety-nine of the one hundred scenarios, Noctis lost. The only one where Noctis could see that he survives the first minute, he decides to try it with some modifications.

Noctis dreams that the fireball is starting to lose its size, and the demons are getting weaker. Since he doesn't know their human form, he tries imagining how they would look like humans. 

The fireball starts to lose size, but the demons still maintain their form due to the lack of power that current Noctis has compared to them. 

Noctis realizes he only has thirty seconds before the attack, and the cooldown from seeing the different scenarios leaves him to try something else that worked in the scenarios.

Noctis dreams that he is as fast as the demons, to has all the abilities that the demons have. Noctis starts running towards them only to be stopped by a demon that Noctis didn't know was there. Noctis decides to improvise by throwing the ink falling out of his hands to cover his eyes. 

Other eyes start appearing out of the demon, making Noctis, in an act of desperation, use his imagination to expand the ink for it to cover his entire body. Leaving him with only ten more seconds.

The demons casting the fireball start circling the fireball. Time is about to end for Noctis; his imagination had little effect on the size. 

Noctis reaches below the fireball, using his imagination to create a large explosion of a fire extinguisher just above the fire.

Boom!

The fire extinguisher caused the fireball to start quickly diminishing in size; the sudden change alerted the demons falling down where Noctis was. The fireball started to slowly get its size back, giving Noctis more time to think of a way to defeat them.

With the demons on the same level as Noctis, his plan is now on set. Deciding to imagine a large puddle of ink swallowing the demons to the ground. Before Noctis' plan starts, he feels a large pain in his left arm. When Noctis looks to his left he sees one of the demons carrying his hands on their mouth swallowing it completely.

It was a blessing in disguise: it allowed Noctis to have control of his left arm inside the demon. Deciding to use his left arm to create an ink explosion in his stomach, however, before Noctis can do his plan, the demons all start attacking him.

Noctis can only run, dodge, jump, and move his body in impossible positions using his ability to see half a second into the future while the demons were just playing with him to prevent any more problems in the creation of their fireball. Noctis saw an opportunity where he could use his imagination to create that ink explosion.

Boom!

A large hole in the stomach of the demon is exposed, flowing out with ink. The other demons now started to take Noctis as a bigger threat, forgetting to play with him and now to kill him. Noctis now decided to imagine that he had another arm made out of ink. The ink it left out is the color to blend with the ground.

Noctis now can only create mini explosions with the ink he is creating; it is having minimal effect on the demons. They start getting very close to his neck. By pure luck, Noctis fell when a demon was about to have a clean cut.

The way Noctis ran created a large magic circle he saw in the books back in his home. All of the demons were ready to dive toward Noctis; the dive managed to grab Noctis's hair, making them all closer to the circle. 

"Ink!!!" 

Grrr, Grrr, Grrr

A large ink spartan figure spawned where the circle was the top end of its hat, splitting the demon in half while the rest of the demons retreated from suffering injuries. 

The fire once again reached its maximum size, and the demons now seeing the figure that they had no chance of beating Noctis; retreated and entered the large fireball. 

Boom! Boom Boom!

Shriek! Shriek! Shriek!

Noctis saw the fireball being used to combine the demons into one figure. A large figure starts to form while the size of the fireball decreases.

The whole town goes dark; Noctis, in between the legs of the ink spartan he summoned, could only see a small but bright red color in the sky. The thing opened its eye, revealing the color he was seeing as the eye of the monster.

Boom!

The whole sky illuminated by the explosion caused by the monster revealed itself as a demon in a form resembling that of a dragon. It is the shape of a dragon. The only thing differentiating them is the bat-like wings; aside from that, the dark dragon started to roam the sky.

Boom! Boom! Boom

A fireball the size of a house started to fall, aiming at Noctis. Using his ability, he commanded his ink spartan to create a shield to protect himself from the fireball.

Swish!

Boom!

Noctis, at the last second, managed to dodge a fireball that had penetrated the shield; the explosion caused him to fly, hitting his back on broken debris, and causing his entire spine to break from the attack. Noctis uses his ink to create an ink spine to continue fighting. 

"Go!!" Noctis orders his ink warrior to start throwing his spear.

The spears managed to hit their target, yet no visible damage was dealt. Noctis started to create more and more spears to throw at the dragon. 

Boom!

"Ahhh!" A large fireball landed close to Noctis, causing his legs to explode.

"How the hell am I going to defeat this demon? Ink, help me!!!" Noctis, recovering his legs in ink, starts to lose his sanity at how impossible the situation is looking for him.