I'm a Stingray?

Chapter 254: Bloody wound

He had managed to swiftly slip away from the danger, and self-insured that the attacker was indeed the other shark! It made perfect sense for such an enemy to attack, because after all Timothy had caused them pain and humiliation!

Regardless of how the situation ended up with losing twenty points of health, it still hurt worse than a hundred needles! He did not expect for a shark bite to hurt like this.

And likewise, he wanted to return the favour. That was why he decided to face the enemy head on. They were a few feet away from each other, because the hero had leaped forward due to pain before.

But now that gap was swiftly filled, and the hero began spinning for the sake of attaining an advantage in battle once more!

It was supposed to work like a charm, but this shark proved itself tremendously fast! So Timmy ended up just crashing against the fish's head, while being half way through a spin!

Thankfully he didn't end up suffering another bite, but he got dragged along the waters instead; because obviously one body was heavier than the other.

A tremendously bad trait that these sharks had, was that they just continued to charge forward even after the clash - regardless if they succeeded through that commotion or not.

So this gave the sea-pancake an opportunity to simply roll away from trouble. He flapped a couple of times, and just leaped a bit upwards; which in exchange had forced him to crash against the enemy's dorsal fin!

Such an impact, had not caused any pain that the system registered, but it was still troublesome. Because Timothy ended up being disorientated for a few seconds, as the crash had made him spin across the salty-waters, quite like a disk.

Once the hero had regained the slightest control, the enemy had already crashed against the little cavern's dirty walls.

Normally, the dust cloud that such a crash would cause, could spook any random perceiver who saw everything happen.

But Timothy wasn't scared! On the opposing contrary, he saw this as a golden opportunity and immediately charged towards the enemy.

Within a blink, they collided again; and the hero didn't plan to hold back in the slightest. Because although he was fighting in a strategic way right now, rage had still enveloped most of his consciousness!

He latched on the reef shark's back, by landing his fins over it; and then began forcing this opposer into submission, by making that marvelous barb work harder than the devil!

A couple of stabs were enough to piss the shark off beyond comprehension, and a couple more were enough to slow down that burning battle intent ~ and before this marine animal could retaliate from the attack, enough stabs had been landed to embrace paralysation!

The battle was quite over after that portion. Both of these opposers had been paralyzed, and rendered fairly useless for anything else in life.

As a way of recovering from this fight, Timothy began moving his right fin a bit more for the sake of stretching any pain away.

That helped to a certain extent, but it didn't get rid of the problem. He was bleeding a little bit too, which was never a good thing in places where other predators resided. He could be attracting many other enemies.

After a bit of contemplation, he decided that these sharks had no use to him any longer. They don't have any new information to give, and not to mention, one of them had caused him so much pain!

After pondering those key-points, he approached the shark who had caused him to bleed, and cited. "Bet you didn't expect me to win now, did you?"

If the shark could speak, it would likely have said anything stupid, but it couldn't thanks to paralysis. So Timmy just went on with it, and killed this opposer with a simple strike against the head.

The other shark faced the same fate afterwards, but death felt like a good relief for that one; because he had been paralyzed for a bit longer, and to receive the gift of death was satisfying.

After these couple of slaughters, the system came along with a handful of information that solely revolved around these kills.

[You have attained eighty-system-points from these couple of kills]

[Total system points = 100]

It felt like a little reward after considering how difficult it was to kill these things, but it also made sense. This species only grew half a meter long, and wasn't chubby either.

However, what he was the most focused on at the moment, was what these couple of fish could provide as carcasses. So of course he waited for the system to lay out such information.

[Eating a full-grown shark of this species, can cause the following effects...]

[Effect on health, +5 bars]

[Effect on hunger, +100 bars]

[Effect on sleep, +40 bars]

[Effect on stamina, +120 bars]

Such statistics definitely seemed new, and unusual to say for the least - but in this situation they proved quite useless. Because as a start, they would practically prove useless in terms of raising health.

He cussed out a couple of times, but then an idea ran across his noggin. "That eel I killed earlier, could help me heal."

And with such a thought, a plan was decided upon. But he couldn't focus enough because of the bleeding pain on his fin.

As if the situation wasn't bad enough, another problem revealed itself. He had no idea where he was at right now!

Sure he was in the cavern somewhere, but this whole structure had many tunnels and smaller caverns that make the thing whole!

Such a fate, had managed to cause him quite a headache right now, which made it a tad more difficult to think of a solution.

Unapologetically, the system began a whole different topic right at that moment. [Although hurt, you are in a state good enough to start the next task]

[Task twenty-two = locate and kill a yellow-tail barracuda]

Even though his headache was advancing, he could still notice what stuck out like a sore thumb. Something did not feel right.

And of course, he instantly asked about it. "Isn't it early to hunt barracudas? I'm supposed to do small kills right now."

[But yet you just killed two reef sharks, you will be okay]

[Besides, this species of barracuda is the smallest type of which I have discovered. They barely grow two feet long, and you will have it difficult to tell it apart from a needlefish]