I'm a Stingray?

Chapter 269: Look what I can do!

That thought alone was enough to be labelled as terrifying. He didn't want to think about such a topic any more, but his little noggin disagreed!

For a moment he hadn't even noticed any of the pain, that sea-pressure was inflicting against him! However, as time passed this same pain grew higher in volume to the point where it begged for attention.

[Health, -2 bars]

[Health, -3 bars]

It made quite a bit of sense how the losses here were just a bit big. The young man was over four-hundred-meters below water, so normally the damage was higher.

He did not have the chance of upgrading his depth durability recently, due to the numerous events. If he did, receiving damage right now would have been almost impossible.

However he was just tens of meters away from escaping any pain that came from these crushing depths, so this dilemma can be forgotten quite soon, it wasn't too serious.

[Health, -2 bars]

[Health, -1 bar]

It was a bit hilarious how sea-pressure was one of the only things that managed to cause him health loss. A moment ago,

Timothy had faced the silver god who managed to blow up tons above tons of debris, yet that same puffer had not been able to cause any damage.

Anyone who would be given the chance to hear about such a fate, would crack their libs in laughter; but right now the little sea-pancake could not think of anything else apart from his friends.

This strong worry that made his heart feel as if it was bearing rocks, made him recount a few values. He was slowly but surely, valuing his friends the more he knew them.

At the beginning it was difficult to click with anyone, since he didn't really know any fish here for a long time; but now such emotion was slowly growing its branches.

It made him ignore pain once more, because he was swimming upwards at full speed for the sake of finding his friends!

[Health, -1 bar]

[Total health = 84/121]

After that point, he had escaped any damage that water pressure could give. The system indirectly confirmed it by not informing about any health losses.

Well that was one worry to forget about after this point, but his anxiety still experienced a few spikes.

The travelling felt like it took forever, but he eventually managed to reach the very high border that split shallow waters from the deep ones.

With a glance to his left, he noticed the sunken ship about forty-meters away. It was close to sinking towards the depths of these marvelous oceans, and it didn't take much thinking to figure out the reasons behind it.

The collapse that came from the blast, had managed to shake that contraption to its core ~ even the silver coating it had, seemingly proved useless in terms of savouring the ship's position.

He wondered a little bit why all that silver was wasted on a ship to begin with, perhaps it was to attract any random fish?

It was something interesting to ponder over, however right now he was heading towards that ship at full speed. He was lucky enough to appear tens of meters near it, that cavern was quite expansive, not to mention its tunnel.

Right now, the young stingray hoped with all of his heart, that his friends were smart enough to move away from the ship, after such an explosion had erupted across the waters, far below them.

Any normal fish would do so, Gerlach likely enforced such a decision; but the hero still couldn't help but feel that something had gone wrong, maybe his friends haven't proven smart?

Before he was even half way to reaching the ship, it had already fallen towards the ocean's bottom. Following it was a dumb idea due to obvious reasons, but he still wanted to reach the spot where the sunken object used to reside on.

And just before he was about to reach it, a familiar figure popped up in front of him!

It took little effort to realise that it was Osira, as her dark features were impossible to miss in the midst of these blue waters!

Following the good lady, was another splendid woman that carried nothing but bone with her. Surely, that was Dana!

And where these two ladies were, it was easy to predict that Gerlach would be a part of them ~ everything was proven to be exactly so, right after they finally re-met!

Osira ended up head-budding the hero a little bit, but thankfully it didn't cause any damage. She was just too happy that Tim was alive!

And so were the other friends, they were bustling with joy and almost meowed like cats, because they couldn't really find a full sentence to utter out.

They all were just unleashing high-pitched, half words that made absolutely no sense but still allowed them to fully understand each other.

From all the odd behaviours that the sea-pancake usually had, this was not one that he expected to experience, at all.

The amount of joy between all of them was tremendous, even Gerlach had broken many of his self-set limits! But eventually, they managed to calm down.

They were all good and healthy, although the hero was more injured than most; so there wasn't anything to worry about.

The group whom had been stuck up here through all of the commotion, surely had a ship-load of questions. Not only because their friend was gone throughout most of the day, but also because a large damn explosion had shaken half of the big island that was a few kilometres away!

But Timmy didn't answer enough questions, and even created a bigger one by deciding to bring up a valuable discovery.

He yelled a bit more as well, for the sake of gaining the most attention. "I'll tell you everything soon, but look what I can do!"