I'm a Stingray?

Chapter 150: Exploring the dark mist (5)

Although tad hesitant because this urchin's points seem longer and more painful, Timothy understood that there was no other option but to try his luck and hope for the best.

Swimming forward, his jaws sunk on the enemy and managed to break down a few pointy arms before reaching the prey's core. It felt painful at least but his durability has been increased enough to make it quite difficult to receive damage from these species.

With a couple more bites, he managed to chew through the rest of the carcass and heard the system announce.

[Red sea urchin killed. 2 system points have been given to you as a reward]

[Since this is a system given task, you earn an additional 2 points]

[Total system points = 283]

[You're in an overall state favourable enough to start task 13, would you like to hear it out?]

"Maybe later." Tim answered and felt devastated how this kill didn't give any good effects. At the same time, a big chunk of dirt fell right in front of him but it wasn't big enough to block the path.

[You've eaten a full grown red sea urchin so the effects are stated in the following...]

Smiling, the hero's heart met with a spike of joy as he uttered. "Oh yes! Here it comes."

[Effect on health, non existent]

[Effect on hunger, +1 bars]

[Effect on sleep, non existent]

[Effect on stamina, non existent]

[As an additional effect, your jaws have been upgraded to level 25 for an hour]

"What!?" The blue-dotted menace hollered like a wild baboon, feeling damn sure that this was the biggest temporary upgrade he had ever faced.

[You heard me]

And that's when a wave of pain struck the boy against the face. It felt like a hammer had smashed his jaws in for the ironic sense of progress. The pain was almost enough to knock the boy cold but he held on.

The hero didn't even have the faintest idea regarding how powerful these jaws could be now. But there was only one way to figure it out.

Gazing at Drake who continued smashing against the tunnel, he noticed that under a specific half second, the enemy had its nose exposed to a plausible bite. An opportunity. Well he wanted to use it and unleash all fury with it for the sake of getting out all frustration that was built up against this enemy.

Out of a sudden, the very ceiling fell down from this bruised tunnel, blocking the entire path. This felt like a tremendously unfortunate faith, this was no different from being buried alive.

After the dust from the collapse had calmed down, he noticed a vertical crack right above a pile of dirt. It was glowing in a thick green colour so it necessarily portrayed an escape route.

Without waiting for Drake to block that exit too, the little one charged straight forward and squeezed his fins closer to each other for the sake of escaping flawlessly through the crack.

Gazing down, Timothy noticed that the enemy was bashing against the very same spot, trying to cause trouble. Unwilling to wait for this shark to regain proper senses, the hero charged forward!

Within a second, his jaws met with the very middle back of this enemy. The bite was so clean that it became difficult to determine, regarding if he had touched flesh or not. Better yet, the built up momentum wasn't damaged and he eventually met with sand from the very floor of this cavern.

Tremendously unaware of what was happening, he just charged to the left and tried to make a good distance from the shark who most definitely could land a deadly bite.

[Short-fin mako killed. 170 points have been given to you as a reward]

[Total system points = 453]

Although the massive spike of system points was shocking and at the same time exciting. He still just couldn't understand how a 2 meter long shark had just been killed with a single bite!

Swimming higher, he began understanding why. In short words, Drake was melting. But if taken the time to properly explain, we'd figure out that this big enemy had a foot wide hole right through the middle back. And this hole was expanding thanks to some weird green goo that was spread on each side of the hole.

The little hero wanted to ask just what the hell was going on but the system continued with her rant of information.

[This is only a half grown mako, so likewise the benefits and points are also split in half. If this carcass was full grown, you would have been able to reap 340 points]

Such an amount was no doubt tempting but right now he was just happy that this tremendously powerful enemy, was dead.

[This carcass is contaminated and at the same time melting because of your properly upgraded venom. So system recommends to avoid eating it]

It was just mentioned that venom had managed to cause a ruckus this big. But venom splattered out from jaws? It didn't feel normal whatsoever.

Before the situation could be thought of further, his senses tingled because of an eruption from above. The pack of fish whom had chased him out earlier, had returned.

From this point of view, it felt like a cloud of fish had stormed the area but now was not the time to panick about it. The odds have only one fish to its favour.

Without even waiting for a split second, the brave boy charged towards the crowd and began swinging his tail left and right once reaching the crowd. Stabbing everything even if it was without the aid of tail-venom.

Using the new found gift from the urchin, he took one bite after the other against these enemies ~ only to notice that foot-long fish would be completely obliterated by a bite. Most of the times their bodies along with the ashes would be melted down because of the venom. Sometimes only a portion of their tail would remain.