I'm a Stingray?

Chapter 177: Balls

Such a result made Timothy feel absolutely sure that this was the right path. So he mumbled, "I found you now, bastards!"

But for once he decided to use reasoning. Well more like the situation made the boy reach out for such options. Short said, he stopped crawling towards the just discovered light, and decided to allow stamina to regenerate.

It felt like an eternity, and one thing that was tempting, were the hints of life in this hidden-den. The green light on the far other side, flickered often which meant that numerous marine animals were swimming above the tar, regardless how high.

When one flew above such a source of light, it would be noticeable from out here, that the illumination would flicker up here where it's effects weren't as strong.

And so the temptations to swim forward and just check everything out, grew stronger by the passing second. But yet it didn't seem like energy had regenerated enough.

So the young one waited for a good 15 minutes more, and thankfully no enemy popped out of the other side. If it did, the situation would become tremendously troublesome.

Right after, he asked for a specific statistic and the system was quick to provide. [Stamina bar = 8/17]

"Good enough." He replied with a low volumed tone. And afterwards began to slowly swim towards the light.

After just about a short minute of swimming forward, the light around him was just increasing. The details of the tunnel here had revealed themselves, although there was nothing special about it, apart from the increasing width.

The tunnel here was about 10 feet across, rather bigger for an underground tunnel. But it also made the boy understand why he was sliding straight down for a while.

He had reached what seemed like the very entrance of the cavern that held the patch of holy tar. The pool itself was about 30 feet across, rather massive but not the biggest one had seen so far.

It was easy to puzzle together that the structures these hidden dens had, were tremendously similar to each other. Well at least the cavern that held the holy-tar, it seemed that a wider opening was mandatory, to make the den whole.

Regardless of these features, the hero was here to destroy everything rather than to appreciate it. No enemy was up here and with a peek down, he could see tens of fish swimming around the tar. And one of them was larger than the others, which gave a great hunch that this was the leader here. As being 4 feet long wasn't exactly common in the reef nowadays.

After quick inspection, it was evident that neither of them were looking up. So the young one used the opportunity to actually start swimming lower. Several feet later, he found a tunnel that pierced one of the cavern walls and swiftly swam towards it.

Since no enemy came up here to bite his ass, it was a good proof that no one had noticed the sea-pancake swoop in. This felt like progress, and better yet it seemed like the tunnel wasn't containing a dead end anytime soon.

So he began following it down as it had a couple of benefits. One would be the ability to regain more stamina, and the second would be the ability to explore more without the entire tribe chasing after him.

The tunnel curled downwards, which almost led to meet the pool that was at the very bottom. But another route was found before that, so he took it for the sake of exploration and regeneration.

Such an alternative tunnel was followed for a few feet, it was smaller and he eventually had to squeeze through for the sake of progressing forward. At the end, he popped in a wider opening but at the same time it was just a couple of feet across, shaped like a sphere.

Nothing in this room seemed particularly interesting for a short second. That is, it wasn't before the young one's eyes landed upon a small pyramid of balls.

That name was the best way to describe their forms. They were balls that stretched just a few inches big, and were almost dark green in colour. Or they could be a tad lighter in shade, it was difficult to figure out since this room lacked illumination.

Timmy had even accidentally touched these things, but thankfully no change was met with it. The first thought after seeing anything green down here, would be that it had relation to the holy tar. So for these balls to fail causing any painful effects or anything at all, felt like a great relief.

But at the same time it was thought provoking, what exactly were they? That's when he heard a flat, male tone coming from the small tunnel he had squeezed through just earlier. "I won't go in this time, you're smaller so go ahead."

Whatever this sect has planned, it was evident that they needed these green-balls, whatever they were for. And without any debate, a smaller fish that had dark-blue skin, poked its head through the entrance.

Without waiting, and tremendously unwilling to make any deal, the young hero perked his barb below and then forward. Which in exchange, had struck the enemy right through the noggin. To aid the chances of a quicker kill, he even unleashed a couple points of venom.

[Tail venom = 3/5]

[Blue reef chromis killed. 1 system point has been given to you as a reward]

[Total system points = 140]

[Would you like to hear out what effects this fish can give after its consumption?]

"No." Tim answered, finding it difficult to understand how an intelligent woman such as the system, had struggles figuring out when it would be a terrible time to lay out statistics.

[Good, it's contaminated anyway]

The kill was smooth, so the other enemy had it a tad difficult to understand what was going on. And just tail smacked the blue-fish against the bum, afterwards cussing. "Faster you moron!"