I'm a Stingray?

Chapter 220: Uninvited guest

It was fair to say that he had tried harder to finish these tasks. The unwillingness to have his options locked, was the prime motivator and still continued to be. But the overall situations have not allowed him to focus solely on these tasks.

Now it was obvious that he wouldn't be able to buy anything for a while, but that can work to his advantage since a few more system points could be piled up. But regardless of that blessing, he still wanted to upgrade anything as fast as possible.

That was why he asked, "Okay then tell me what my next task is?"

[Confirmed]

[Task 18 = Find and kill a fine-spotted moray eel]

"Not another eel, I hate those overgrown worms!" He thought out, clearly unhappy.

[These specific species barely grows as big as you, it will be easy to kill one]

"Okay okay, I have no other option anyway." Timothy followed along with a yawn.

And then cited, "I will hunt for one tomorrow. Now I want to sleep, precious good sleep."

...

As the hero opened his eyes, the first thing that blessed his vision was a big, smooth-looking nose. Such a thing had enveloped the big entrance and showed no fear whatsoever, along with curiosity.

He peeked at the other friends and noticed that neither of them were awake. Until now he didn't have the faintest idea regarding how Dana slept, but she wasn't conscious either.

A cruel idea creeped in the boy's mind as he peeked at the big nose. And obviously he wanted to put it into motion, so the little stingray tried his best to slowly float towards the nose, for the sake of remaining undetected.

And after he got close enough, the boy yelled. "Activate eruptive heat!"

Afterwards, he barged towards the nose and latched on it with the aid of his fins and jaws - behaving much like a jellyfish who was entangled with some random fish.

As expected, the marvelous heat arrived and inflicted its madness against the species who couldn't keep its nose out of their business.

Wild commotions in the waters were heard right after, as the sudden heat was enough to leave a slight burn mark on the fish's nose. It seemed more like sushi now, but it wasn't exactly a terrifying wound because this heated power could only reach a rate of 50C.

Timmy wasn't the brightest one around here, but he knew when to back off from a situation for the sake of avoiding any unnecessary damage.

Likewise, he had instantly latched off after delivering the blow and could feel that the water was heating up right where he had dealt the damage.

But yet regardless of the attack, this blasted nose had returned just a moment after and it was seemingly angrier now, as it was easy to see a row of razor-sharp teeth trying to make its way through the entrance.

Regardless of such circumstances, he did not want to give up. And unsurprisingly, that was when another sinister plan rolled into his noggin.

The boy wasn't evil if such things were measured, but he didn't spare any other animal; be it predator or prey, they will die if destiny cited it so.

So with a bit of more carefulness, he floated towards the enemy and then swam across the entrance from the left side to the right. Through that second, he tried to swim as high as possible to avoid those teeth, but also left a little gift behind.

His marvelous barb had struck this fish against the nose, and left a long cut as a grand wound: which was also coated with all five-points of tail venom that the hero had on his disposal.

The enemy flinched, and a dog-like whimper could almost be heard as an aftermath as well. Venom surely burned on its own, and the hero carried a special kind of venom thanks to the system's help.

But within a few seconds, the same nose returned and bashed against the entrance in a rate that shook everyone awake.

An old man's tone shone throughout this chaos, citing. "You did good so far but it won't kill our uninvited guest, let Osira do this for us."

This geezer was Gerlach the mantis shrimp of course. He had been asked to come with, in this revenge filled adventure for a couple of noticeable reasons. The man was both powerful and well informed.

Unwilling to offend this man any longer since they were friends now, kinda. The hero tried to search for other words in his dialect for the sake of self expression, and actually managed to find reasoning.

That was why he admitted, "Yeah you're right, this nose looks too big for me to kill."

"Sure is." The fine black-grouper lady followed up. She was awake like everyone else and became well observant of the situation.

So the good lady swam towards the entrance and used her body-mass to push the little stingray aside, which was easy since the boy was horizontally thin enough to slip below anyone.

Afterwards she began generating a ball of black-light, it showed a few levels of transparency that any light would show but its shade remained thick.

It was easy to see that the lady was putting all her focus on this ball, and her friends were waiting in anticipation for the attack to unleash itself.

And finally, the shot barged forward and smacked the nose so hard that no other option but pain was given to it. They could hear quite a crack from this very blow, and the best guess is that a bone of the enemy had been eradicated.

The same nose was pushed about ten-feet away, it gave clear hints that the impact was massive as the body-size of this enemy stretched around four-feet-long!

It was easy to spot that such a fish was none other than a shark. It's bulky back and thin tail-bone gave it all away, easy to spot.

Gerlach peeked at the young lady and stated, "You see, that attack is far more powerful now thanks to the godly-tar."

Such a sentence came with a motive, and he wasn't hesitant to state it. "You must keep your power pure like this, because it lowers the chances of you exploding, by a lot."

"Noted." Osira answered with a small sigh, she had heard this over and over now.

"Let's get out of here, we have work to do." Tim cited and exited through the hole without even the slightest worry.

The team followed along with such an idea, but that was when they saw another shark who was equal in size to the one that just got killed; and it was charging directly at this little group!