I'm a Stingray?

Chapter 263: The confrontation

Apparently life was an option thanks to an unhealthy amount of luck! The explosion had hit everywhere except against Timothy.

He was at a pocket of water where the light didn't hit. It had specifically gone around that pocket, therefore allowing the hero to escape unscathed!

This streak of luck lasted for a good second, but it felt quite like an entire millennia because the scene was just too beautiful. Timothy had utterly underestimated how many shades the white colour could have!

The scene was so magnificent, that he forgot to be stressed or scared about this whole dilemma. Those emotions had gone quite below the sand. The hero felt as if his soul had been ripped off his body, in quite a nice and comforting way so to say.

It was an odd result at least, but thankfully he was still alive - so that was one thing less to worry about.

However, his marvelously good luck met an end. Because although the explosive light had painfully failed to send him towards the afterlife; there were other aspects that attained a good footing in this disaster.

The best example, was what the explosion had done to these cavern's walls. They were shaken to the core! And in exchange, they had created a massive dust cloud that had managed to become blinding, in a split of a second!

Since these walls were shaken beyond comprehension, it wasn't a surprise how no amount of silver patching, would be enough to keep this place in tact!

Shortly said, the entire cavern was collapsing and there wasn't nearly a thing anyone could do about it now!

Vision was something he didn't posses right now due to the numerous dust bits that had covered his eyes, but he still could hear.

Likewise, it wasn't difficult for the hero to hear a tremendously loud crash!

It was located about thirty-meters away from where he was rushing, and the grumbling sound that came along with it - made sure that a large portion of the ceiling had just collapsed!

Right after that crash, he heard another misfortune that was far louder in comparison!

It sounded like a squealing whale at first, but then developed a thicker sound that would shake a living being's organs! This gave a good hint that another white-gem had exploded!

The thick-brown atmosphere that was surrounding the hero, was swiftly replaced by a layer of white light that was equally painful to his closed eyes!

This eruption wasn't strong enough to shred him into pieces, likely because its original source was tens of meters away; but it was strong enough to flip him like a pancake a few times!

He was tossed over ten-meters from his original position, and right now he simply waited for death to come.

Sure his attempts to destroy this place were firmly rooted to good-will, but sometimes that wasn't enough for one to preserve their life.

He felt absolutely certain that the afterlife was near, because right after: not one, but two more explosions reverberated through what was left of this cavern!

Which had directly led to young Timmy, hearing another large chunk of dirt falling right near him! And within a moment, more dirt had fallen as well!

Ultimately, all of this commotion had managed to envelop him worse than a body bag!

And of course, quite unapologetically, the system decided to add a few of her notifications at the worst time possible.

[You are indirectly related to precisely one-hundred-sixty-seven deaths right now]

[Thanks to that, you will get a reward that solely features system points. But since the method of massacre is indirect, your reward is reduced by thirty-percent]

[Four of the numerous species in this pile, were task related and were completed all in those few seconds. So those tasks are marked as done and you get rewards from them as well]

[These additionals will be included in the total sum of rewards]

[Calculating...]

"I really don't care about points right now, system!" Timmy yelled out, feeling absolutely certain that death was just around the corner.

Yet regardless of that firm grounded statement from the stingray, the system continued her own work.

[From these kills, you have received a reward of 2,358 system points]

[Total system points = 2,458]

After hearing out such numbers, even throughout this tremendous chaos, he calmly cited. "Oh really? I'm rich!"

Before this joy could have been fully comprehended, he felt a shocking pain that took his head hostage! At first, it was difficult to figure out where this infliction was coming from; but then he figured that some heavy rock had just stricken his head.

[Health, -11 bars]

[Total health = 93/121]

And before anything could have been done about this fate, his world went entirely dark again!

...

"Ah you ugly creature, you're finally awake." A heavy tone was heard, and Timmy could guess that the fish who said it, was quite close by.

Of course the hero had taken this comment as a wild offense, so he swiftly leaped up and tried to seek whom had let out such a foul phrase.

His eyes met with a round looking creature that had silver coloured skin. Now this skin wasn't spotless, as there were countless pointless bumps that surrounded the creature.

This thing made it certain that it wasn't just a silver statue, by moving around a little bit; which had given a good sign of life.

He easily figured that this was just some dumb guard, and therefore became ready to unleash a mouthful of foul comebacks.

And the first thing the sea-pancake said, was. "You're the last one to talk about beauty, metal ass!"

After such a mock had been set loose, he expected for the enemy to completely freak out. That was why he braced for battle, and stretched his tail a few times for the same sake.

And just now he had noticed that the surroundings here were quite different. They were surrounded by a one-piece-layer of the same gems that had brought the whole cavern down a moment ago!

It was easy to say, that seeing nothing but white-light no matter which direction he turned towards, was disturbing. But thankfully the enemy helped him lose focus towards such an unskippable detail.

Because a thick male tone from that same round-shaped fish, echoed. "How dare you offend me, the silver god?"