I'm a Stingray?

Chapter 146: Exploring the dark mist

"I don't want to bring this up but you told us that a squid has killed your mother." Timothy got straight to the point, he had already bought many upgrades but not even a single system given task had been completed.

"A colossal one, yes." The shark assured and then got close enough to invade personal space, locking eye contact. "And you promised me that one day we will kill that squid."

"Today isn't the day, we're still too weak." He assured and by now figured out that such a promise had been completely forgotten.

It felt tremendously stupid to make such a promise because a colossal squid isn't an easy kill even if all his primary levels were above 10.

But this kind of situation could still be used for benefits, so he worked up an excuse. "I want to kill smaller squids for now though, just for practice."

It would be a tremendously stupid idea to explain that the system demanded such a task, that was a secret that no one should know about. So this situation could be easily used to form a few lies.

Although he was a fish, the large shark knew where this conversation was going and cited. "There are squids near the border but you need to go down the mist for a little while. I don't know how much of that you can handle."

The attitude of this great-white shark has met a drastic change. From what Tim could remember, in the beginning he was filled with rageful energy and bumped around.

But now the only thing that this boy rocked was depression, a cold dead look in his eyes equal to that of a ruthless killer. The underwater life could do that, but the hero just ignored it.

And wanted to speed things up a bit, "Where exactly in the mist? I can give it a shot."

"After you leave this den, just follow a straight path and then go straight down to the mist." It was a simple guide and it seemed like the shark wanted to end this topic swiftly so such a wish was granted.

The little stingray had greeted a few of the fish here and made it out of the reef, only by now he had noticed that Haze and the other siblings weren't here.

It felt a bit harsh to forget about his own blood but a thought was quick to follow, "Maybe they're still busy gathering up fish on the west side."

Leaving the thought as just that, the system given task grew as a main thought, therefore he continued following a straight path with the stubborn aim of finding the border that split light from darkness.

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Timmy hovered above the border for a good minute now and tried to use his limited vision to figure out if any squids could be spotted around here. It was a pale attempt because his vision wasn't good enough to seek something far away in broad daylight, not to mention darkness.

The reality stood all around hesitancy. It didn't go so well last time when he accidentally sunk deep in this dark mist, that day could be counted as one of the worst in the reef.

Wanting to attain a bit more confidence, he asked. "System, how deep can I sink again?"

[Right now, your body can withstand water pressures of up to 240 meters deep]

Gazing at the water's surface, it didn't seem like it was 200 meters away but paranoia still struck strong. Worse case scenario, the water surface could be up to 100 meters away from the point where he was floating on.

"Okay, I'll go down there. But please yell as much as you can when the water damage thingy starts kicking in." The plan was sealed after this point, the only other step would be to go down.

Wanting to reap a bit more bravery, his eyes were shut to avoid looking at the darkness. By now it was also decided that the moment he can't see anything but darkness, the best idea would be to reach back for the surface.

Sinking about 30 meters deep, he noticed that a third of the overall illumination in the area had been cut. This wasn't exactly traumatic but it felt pressuring how no squid had appeared yet.

When reaching about 50 meters deeper, the first sign of life appeared here. But the scary part was that this life was carrying a dot of light, which gave a great hint of just what might be approaching.

Getting ready for battle, he heard the same living being, uttering out a shout. "The holy-tar demands your soul!"

This reference felt tremendously familiar but it can't be that crazy old hag whom seemed to have an important position through the overall sect. It can't be her, she was ripped in 3 pieces!

Regardless of what identity this enemy carried, it didn't stop the fact that it was attacking, once more shouting. "Give in to the tar!"

"Both the tar and you can kiss my ass!" Timothy yelled out after noticing that along with the colourless light, this species had a pair of eyes that were glowing in green.

This gave a hint that this enemy's soul has long been surrendered to the tar, so this fact made the young boy prepare a bit better for battle, this fight will be intense.

The enemy charged straight towards the hero. Once noticing that this male sounding menace was getting too close, he dashed towards the left which in exchange made the enemy bite water instead.

Attaining a golden opportunity, he followed behind the enemy and got close enough to have a peek at its tail - finally being able to unleash a vicious bite too.

It all happened in a second so how the very tail seemed, was a big blur. He felt utterly shocked once coming into realisation of just how soft that flesh was: biting through it was child's play.

The enemy began howling in pain and gave out a bit of a cry too. Able to catch up, he noticed that this big bad light carrying fish was actually not-so-big and had no attack power whatsoever compared to others in the reef's environment above their head. This was a flashlight fish.

The hero broke into laughter after figuring this out and assured, "With you as a sacrifice, I'm guessing that the holy-tar sect is making desperate choices. But don't worry, I'll put you out of your misery."

Even though the young one gave a little speech, the enemy was crying out in the process and it was quite annoying. So the hero just went ahead and took a bite.