I'm a Stingray?

Chapter 213: Collector (5)

With the aid of full speed of which he could achieve thanks to pure rage itself, Timothy was rather close towards reaching the beloved reef. And even though vision still wasn't his trump card, the young man could still sense which way to go.

Although it was somewhat bizarre, he could also sense the smell of death itself; which gave another great hint! As he didn't have a great sense of smell, so it could only mean that the fragrance of which the enemy unleashed, was great and difficult to ignore.

He finally reached the reef, and spent a good few seconds to annalise his surroundings. The scent here felt much stronger, but it made the situation more confusing because he couldn't even see the faintest sign of the enemy.

That fact regardless, the hints of death here were higher than anywhere else. He could see a bunch of skeletons spread around the place: it was clear that their soul and body were stripped out of contents just recently, because they sparkled in a noticeable way and were mostly intact.

Apart from such destruction, he could also notice that the coral had attained a heavily grey colour, blank would be the most splendid way to describe it. He couldn't see well enough to measure how much of this reef had been stripped out of life, but the radius had to be a hundred meters wide at least!

Just as he tried to figure out which way to go next, something exploded in size with a pace that would almost render someone blind.

It was that creature of which only consisted of black-sand. And from the clear looks of it, this monstrosity behaved angrier than ever. The crackling vibrations it unleashed were becoming stronger, and it managed to raise the hero's anxiety more and more.

Ignoring its size, Tim unleashed a shout. "You killed my friends!"

The enemy thundered a bit more afterwards, and the tone it was unleashing could manage to shake the soul of anyone present. As it was filled with a gravely texture, along with the fact that it was uncomfortably loud!

Although a bit fearful, he did not want to back down whatsoever, especially after considering what lifely aim this beast had.

So he charged directly forward and actually swam fast enough to land a bite against the enemy. It was a tad easier because this opposer did not have a sea-animals shape.

The material that constructed this enemy's body, indeed felt like sand; the only difference stood that the material felt crunchier and rather solid. So it gave the same result one would have if they chewed through stone.

But what was more bizarre in comparison to the bite, was how a part of the enemy's body was shifting in colour: right where the little hero had bitten.

That dark colour changed towards what shade of which true sand would have, and fell to the ground. Although it didn't seem like major damage, at least a tenth of the enemy's body had been detached and absolutely crumbled.

His motivation to attack this bastard, had grown stronger than ever at this golden moment. So he spat the mouthful of sand, that he had ripped through just a short moment ago, and barged towards the enemy once more.

It was noticeable that the boy was losing all fear, because he had charged in a portion where the enemy seemed bigger. Although such a move gave more places to bite, the chances of the collector launching a successful attack was much larger.

Regardless of all odds, he managed to land another bite against this wretched enemy. And at the same time, that marvelous barb had poked forward and over his back; which in exchange, landed against the enemy's wall of black sand.

He did not know if tail-venom would be of any help here, but instinct made the boy unleash it anyway. And since he knew that the enemy would take damage either way, he didn't stick around to check the results.

But flashed towards another portion of the monster, which made him dwell deeper into trouble in a rather literal manner. Because right now he was inside the enemy, all he could see was darkness along with occasional flashes of bright green-light.

But what could be identified as even more bizarre, was how the enemy didn't seem to attack right now. The prime intent visually originated from the idea of trapping this little stingray, who was fairly attacking left and right.

That was when he heard the loudest rumble yet. The entire body of this collector was shaking in an abruptive manner, it didn't seem as balanced as before.

Just a second later, Tim noticed the entire left side of these walls opening up; whatever material the enemy had as a body, was crumbling into plain sand!

Logic still refused to be the hero's speciality, but he could still spot a wide and screaming opportunity. So within a blink, he charged towards the opening and curled his tail as high as possible for the sake of landing another strike.

Unsurprisingly, it worked well enough as he had managed to inflict a foot-long cut across the enemy's body, before making it out of there!

What he heard afterwards was a commotion that was so thick, that it almost felt like the water's density physics had been altered upon will. He didn't even have to turn around to know that the enemy had launched an attack, likely with the aid of coral bits that it had harvested through this plague-like attack against the reef.

Nevertheless, it was ineffective because the stingray had fled the trap he was in a short moment ago. And once he turned around now, the sea-disk could see a pile of plain sand under the monster.

While at the same time, another tenth of body-mass that this accursed enemy had carried, was in the process of violently dissipating.

A quick moment of observation was enough to figure out that half of the enemy's body had been slaughtered, destroyed! It didn't eliminate the entire threat but it was a tremendous start.

Yet he still failed to understand how all of this was possible. Surely a simple bite wouldn't be enough to cause such damage against a powerful monstrosity.

It was difficult to comprehend this whole situation, but thankfully the system found an inappropriate time to throw her thoughts in, again.

[You are carrying a couple of substances that are working together, to destroy this enemy]

[My best guess is that radiation could be the main culprit, that strange worm mentioned it too]

[Use it to your utmost advantage, kill this freak!]