I'm a Stingray?

Chapter 247: Pumping throb

Just a blink later, his barb curled downwards with the aid of all those muscles that were hidden in that marvelous tail!

This led to leaving a gruesomely deep wound against the enemy's lower back!

And such a result, had allowed the sea-pancake to give a good glance at the enemy, and he became a bit baffled right away. This enemy seemed below average in some aspects, too slim so to say ~ and the natural weaponry it carried, didn't seem extraordinary either.

So what has motivated this black-coloured fish to attack so ferociously? Timmy could not wrap his head around this whole situation.

However, what aided this counter attack to the furthest extent, was the fact that they both crashed against the tunnel's walls! They had smashed against the same portion, that had been labelled as a dead-end, earlier on.

So ultimately, the enemy had been forced towards visual and mental blurriness; as a crash against such a strong dirty wall, was not so easy on the noggin.

This crash had given the advantage of time, because the hero had attained a few more seconds to further pressure the enemy towards a yield!

Likewise, he attacked once more and this time young Tim did not bother to latch on the enemy. Instead, he just floated close enough and began landing one stab after the other against this weirdly aggressive fish!

Since the size differences between these couple of combatants was not drastic, it wasn't necessarily difficult to kill this foul attacker!

Such a swift kill makes sense in a sort of way, since this heroic stingray was quite used to slaughter! So every strike from his side, was stronger in comparison to what any of the same species could deliver!

These circumstances had forced the enemy to reveal it's belly towards this tunnel's ceiling. Or short said, this fish was as good as dead! So likewise, the system came along with a handful of notifications.

[Dwarf-lantern shark killed, three-system-points have been given to you as a reward]

[Since this kill was a system given task, you also received an additional three-points] josei

[Total system points = 50]

"It was that easy?" He thought out, and was feeling a bit blessed thanks to this opportunity.

He knew that completing tasks faster, ultimately led to achieving a bigger health-bar in the future! So the sense of achievement after every completed task, felt quite marvelous.

And of course, the system didn't bother to engage in conversation, and instead deciphered. [Consuming this species will have a positive effect on your emotional intelligence, for a time-span of an hour]

"Really?" He questioned right away, feeling a bit sceptical about such a concept.

[Yes, really]

The system had never lied until now, so the sea-disk couldn't find any reasons to avoid trying such food out. And not to forget, eating a shark of any type was quite a boost to his ego.

Even though he had it difficult to comprehend that sharks can be this small, that thought was swiftly pushed aside as he got closer to take a chunk of meat off this carcass.

Although he was hesitant for just a moment, chewing through this enemy was not totally avoided. He eventually took a bite, and it almost felt like the effect was instant - because just a moment after, he felt an excruciatingly sharp pain on his head!

Unsurprisingly, pain of such a volume had managed to knock him out cold! And of course, such a result made it difficult to understand just how much this branch of intelligence had been raised.

Even if the system had described the specifics, it felt like an impossible deal for him to remember anything. The best option now was for him to wake up soon, and analyse later.

What came as unexpected, was the fact that he woke up just a few minutes afterwards. It was unusual to say at least, because such mental upgrades should take hours to recover from!

Regardless of how bizarre this situation was, the overall result was still advantageous; because such an upgrade had a short time-span. After all it was just temporary, so it's good that he woke up quickly.

But with such a great win, came a downside that was tremendously difficult to ignore. A headache along with a pumping throb, had spread across his forehead and it felt almost impossible to manage.

He couldn't really think straight, and it might likely take quite a long time for the effects of intelligence to be felt; which made such an upgrade feel a bit contradictory to its own intent. Because if it can't be even fully used, then what's the point of having it temporarily upgraded?

What helped understand this upgrade more, and at the same time unleashed a wave of amazement, was the system's reminder that deciphered specifics.

[Your emotional intelligence has been upgraded with an additional one-hundred-and-ninety points for a time-span of an hour]

[Your total emotional intelligence currently is two-hundred-and-sixty-five points]

Such numbers felt great indeed. Factually, this was the highest he had achieved in any type of intelligence, it almost made the pain seem worthwhile. But right now he could not notice where the benefits of this upgrade were, his head was just hurting too much.

So understandably, Timmy began focusing towards another dilemma, which was the holy-tar sect. It was not certain if this wretched organisation, was directly linked to whatever was happening in this cavern right now: but such a thought didn't feel illogical.

This little shark that had just attacked him, wasn't contaminated in any way. Such a fact was comfortable because it meant that a holy-tar pool, had not influenced such illogical and violent behaviour.

It was relieving to think about that, but then again this had managed to make everything even more confusing.

Timmy was in no condition to think, but one thing he knew for sure: wherever the sect poked its ugly head, insanely staggering trouble followed along.

So although he was still dumbfounded by this whole situation, he still had motivation to explore the problem. Those green-bricks had been found here after all, so there should be more trouble to explore before making a proper decision.

That was why he began leaving the tunnel, and peeked at the crowd of fish that simply seemed unbothered. They continued to work with whatever their minds were set up to, and firmly ignored the hero's existence.