I'm a Stingray?

Chapter 284: Void

The grouper lady had simply unleashed a ball of black-light, and had struck this wretched bastard right underneath the gills!

Such detail helped him understand, just why that attacking shark had suddenly changed routes just a moment ago; it simply had no other choice.

However. Since the good lady was charging towards this battle, and will likely aid in terms of turning the tides for her group's advantage - Timmy was given a bit more time, to observe this eyesore of a scene.

And unsurprisingly, his eyes dotted straight towards the first shark, that he managed to obliterate with such a raw and godly scream.

It felt like a perfectly timed decision. Because just now, the silver-coated carcass had begun shaking for some unknown reason!

Which was a rather extreme occurrence, after considering that this thing is supposed to be dead! Carcasses aren't supposed to shake or shiver.

But a few seconds after, the hero genuinely wished for the carcass just to continue shaking... because what happened next was far more shocking!

After just a simple blink, all of the silver that had contributed to this one shark's death: had swiftly turned into a thickly red colour!

One would expect that no horrid scene could shake their souls after that point, because the situation was confusing enough. But the bizarre pace did not stop there!

Every bit of red silver that covered, or was near the carcass ~ were suddenly enveloped by thousands of rivering cracks!

Those same cracks, just continued stretching out in size and eventually became quite wide too! Which ultimately led to all those bodies of crimson silver, to absolutely shatter into thousands of pieces!

And such a result, had somehow caused a massive blood cloud, which expanded in size faster than any eye could comprehend!

The cloud itself was big enough to envelop Timmy between it, but its total span stretched more than that. It was over ten meters wide, and shaped much like a sphere!

A simple shark was not supposed to have that much blood, so where exactly did such a result come from?

It was even more bizarre how such an amount of blood had erupted, right after that same carcass was covered with silver!

It was no surprise for anyone to think, that a victim's internal organs would be turned into silver as well, once they had been struck by such an attack - so with that considered, just where did all that blood come from?

Regardless of how tedious that question was, Timothy had not been given any time to even briefly ponder over it.

Because after these quantities of blood had fully spread across the waters, a dark void began appearing for some unknown reason.

It too seemed like some weird cloud, that prevented the hero from observing his surroundings.

This void managed to cover most of the surrounding waters in a matter of seconds!

All of the blood that mixed with this ocean's salt, was forced to be tiny in comparison to whatever was happening now; it was almost as if the blood was forced to succumb, disappear!

And afterwards this void... began attaining many different shades of black, if such a thing was even possible?

These shades began attaining even more diversity, after they embraced other colours; like darker shades of grey.

And afterwards within those seconds, these different shades began swirling in a circle.

Their speed was rapid, but Timothy was not exactly touched by its power, if this void had any.

But the scene itself was absolutely marvelous. Big chunks of soft, and dark clouds were dancing in front of his eyes.

Considering that over a hundred shades of the same colour were present, he could even make out random shapes, out of these rapidly spinning clouds.

Such a marvelously terrifying sight, continued to spiral for a few seconds... but afterwards, hints of red began spreading here and there.

These details had swiftly made themselves visible, by turning into long singular lines ~ and spinning by the void's will.

And as more of these bloody lines made themselves apparent, Timothy and everyone else in the surrounding area, could hear a thundering tone reverberating; with its source quite unknown!

"A soul has been sacrificed to Azelaq!" That strong female voice shouted only once, and managed to shake the hearts of everyone present.

That sentence was only hollered one time, and then it went away as if nothing ever happened.

Unsurprisingly, the void that had surrounded Timmy from every direction until now, began disappearing as well.

It went away after a few seconds, and all that remained was the cloud of blood, that was slowly dissipating across the waters - but also asserting dominance against the void.

Timothy gave a peek towards the actual battle, and noticed that the entire collision that was developing earlier, had been struck silly.

Both sides of the stick were quite dumbfounded. Timothy could see that a few sharks had their heads nailed against the sand; he could not figure out the reason behind such a scene, but it seemed convenient.

Other details of his view, helped him understand that most of the living sharks were utterly shocked and disoriented.

It was difficult to understand what was going on here, so he called out for his friends. "What happened here? I was only gone for a second!"

"You were. But a black-cloud has shaken our shit!" Osira yelled out from a few meters away.

Afterwards she willingly crashed against an enemy, and took a mouthful through the same process! Such damage wasn't enough to kill a massive shark, but it could be categorized as progress.

Before these enemies could retaliate, Gerlach decided to show them his arms as well.

Within a split second, he leaped off the sea-grounds that the void had tossed him against, and elegantly pierced through a shark's chest!

With such damage delivered, this was sure to be an instant kill - but it also had bought the team a bit more time.

Even a second could make a large difference, in such battles where they had to face against larger numbers.

However. That thought can be put aside right now, because other details began setting a firm foot.

It came in as quite a shock, really. But right now, Timmy was achieving a decent amount of concentration in a very short time!

It was difficult to link any recent occasion to such a result, but it was tremendously convenient. Because half of the cloud that occupied his mind, had disappeared as if it had never caused any burden to begin with!

Insane for sure! But he didn't have much time to appreciate this blessing, because the system decided to inform him about quite some unexpected information.

[Great-white shark killed, seven-hundred-system points have been given to you as a reward]

[But since this form of slaughter, isn't entirely based on what I as a system can provide... you've lost three-hundred of these same points]

[Total system points = six-hundred-and-twenty-three]

Such a deduction felt unfair up to a certain extent, but his focus was steered away from a possible tantrum, because another shocking scene began unravelling itself.

A few minutes earlier, he had killed not one but two great-white sharks. One of them had exploded into a darn bloody mist, and the other one had remained idle even after the void decided to assert some dominance.

But now, that same carcass that remained steady, began shaking at an uncomfortable pace!