I'm a Stingray?

Chapter 148: Exploring the dark mist (3)

Looking down, he noticed a single bright green light, which made it easier to spot a couple of jaws that seemed all the more deadly.

Worse yet, with a gravelling tone it uttered. "The holy-tar demands your soul!"

These jaws were approaching closer by the second. The sticky arms that were tied around his fins and middle back, were working together to pull the boy towards those jaws.

He never saw a creature who had green light coming out of its mouth, but this wasn't a situation where one had time to observe the weird phenomena or study it.

Using his barb that wasn't at all constricted, he stabbed the enemy right near the mouth: allowed for the entire barb to bash in since he was almost intimately close to the enemy, and released the entire venom that was piled up at the very tip of his tail.

The enemy gave a low-toned screech and unleashed the young hero. But the blue-dotted boy wasn't going to let go of this weird species without a fight. He continued stabbing the enemy over and over, the soft flesh it had was an encouragement to keep going.

The sound of thudding flesh was released for a handful of times. Whatever this enemy was, this portion of the body it had, was completely mutilated by the rain of stabs that this panicking hero had released.

After feeling satisfied, he swam away from the enemy with a single flap against the water and heard the system announce. [European squid killed. 2 system points have been given to you as a reward]

[Since this was a system given task, you also get additional 2 points]

[Total system points = 237]

This time the system didn't give the statistics regarding effects and instead just stated. [This marine animal is contaminated as well, avoid consuming it]

"I'm not stupid." Timothy pointed out but after thinking the notifications over, he celebrated. "Wait this was a squid?"

[Yes. The right species too]

[You are also in a proper state to begin task 12, would you like to hear it out?]

It was a terrible time to think about a new task right now, but the enemies down there were busy yelling their heart out anyway. So the hero agreed, "Sure, tell me."

[Task 12 = find and kill a red sea urchin]

"For hell's sake, urchins again?" The sea-disk complained, knowing that there is no way to avoid this task.

But then after recalling the pain that came along with a great reward, he added. "It better have a great speed upgrade like the last urchin. Or anything good really. I don't want to get poked by an urchin right now, or ever."

[Since you have never eaten a species like that before, you can't get any information about the species]

"Fine fine fine fine." It was best to end the topic now, there were tens of marine animals underneath.

Turning his attention entirely towards the battle, he began pushing the dead squid towards the end of the tunnel and just now noticed how small it was, perhaps just a foot long.

Finally the carcass reached to the very edge of the tunnel and was pushed down. Slowly, it floated towards the very bottom of the cavern and landed in the midst of the holy tar.

As about what happened to the body, Tim didn't want to have a look at it to figure it out. The yelling had completely stopped in a matter of seconds, the fish down there all began raging in their own languages.

And it only took a short half a minute for someone to put everything together and shout out a command, "We have an intruder! Go search the entrance!"

A whole bundle of them rushed upwards like mindless sheep, their eyes glowing green with craze, eager to rip everything into shreds.

Once they reached the very tunnel of where the carcass had dropped from, they still haven't yet found anything and therefore could only head through it to seek where the enemy could be hiding.

Within a split second, the first few fish who had busted through the tunnel had first felt a sharp pain on their heads. They did, before that pain accelerated towards their spine and became an open wound.

The inflictor of such pain was a little boy who had just stretched down his tail and curled the barb forward. Several fish had died thanks to that simple attack, unaware of what the hell happened. They didn't have much time to think about it either, as death was almost instant.

After 13 bodies had dropped dead, some of the remaining enemies gained enough senses to figure out where the main problem stood. Therefore they stopped charging forward like maniacs and refused to go in the tunnel, even though they still couldn't see who was causing such damage.

There were over 20 fish floating near the entrance of the tunnel, giving the hole an awkward eye and being firmly unwilling to go in it.

Out of a sudden, something had leaped against a fish who was closest to the tunnel. This thing had clung on its face and used a weird tail to stab the said fish's face, several times before latching off and pouncing on the next close by fish.

This thing was of course, Timothy. He hasn't completely observed just what species could be roaming here but they were sure as hell, easy kills. Neither of them was attacking but instead were deep in shock.

Surprise attacks had such effects. But once he got to the 4th fish in this cavern, a small pain was felt at the bottom side of the fin.

[Health, -1 bar]

[Total health = 90/110]

Unwilling to receive more damage, he swung the barb to the left and stabbed the enemy away. Turning around, he noticed that the damage was dealt by a simple flashlight fish.

It was as good as dead now but the 15 other enemies were alive and ready. Once gazing underneath towards the holy tar, he noticed another group of fish bursting out of some tunnel located on the bottom portion of the cavern wall.

Amongst these enemies, one of them stretched a dangerous 2 meters across.