I'm a Stingray?

Chapter 215: Spike

Collision became an inevitable fate, as this new fish managed to reach Timothy in a second or so; and the impact thanks to it, wasn't so shabby either.

Because the hero was tossed a couple of feet behind, and had a bit of trouble shaking away all the blur that can be categorized as an aftermath. Yet regardless, it wasn't a death assuring blow so the hero could put in efforts to fight back.

[Health, -7 bars]

[Total health = 103/110 bars]

He could only imagine that the damage would have been a lot higher if he did not upgrade bodily durability. So at the moment he felt blessed for taking such low damage.

Yet his noggin was still under a bit of pain, so it could not be counted as a complete blessing. But now was not the time to focus on that, as this weird fish was attacking again and it was clapping its jaws this time for the sake of inflicting damage!

So with the aid of battle experience, the young boy first slapped the waters with those tiny fins, to move a bit backwards for a couple of reasons. The first one was to buy more time, even if it was a quarter-second more.

But the second reason was far more sinister! As his tail had curled upwards and was trying to push towards that direction with every bit of power it had!

Like he had expected it, the enemy had arrived at the very moment of which the barb had been launched upwards. So in exchange, this foot-long fish had attained the displeasure of feeling a venomous barb bashing against its neck, and bursting through the top side of the collar!

It was painful without a doubt. It made the enemy throw its weight up and down in pain, so Timmy pulled back before such panic could have hurt his tail.

The weird-fish swam away a few feet and tried to recover from the pain, or at least gather up enough stamina to suppress it. But what the naked eye could see at the moment, was rather interesting.

This fish's wound was not puking out blood, but bits of sand instead; which rolled down from its neck and landed on the ocean flooring that was close by.

The sea-pancake was close to figuring out just what the hell was going on, but he couldn't quite get there. It was difficult to put all the pieces together, even though he had a few patterns to use.

It only led to mumbling while under a sigh, "Are fish supposed to be like this?"

[Gerlach the mantis shrimp had mentioned that the collector you just killed, attains all souls from the sect members to create stronger fish who would dominate in the newly claimed territory]

[This fish was likely created out of desperation. And since the collector had lost most of its body before using this method as a last option, my guess is that: this fish is much weaker compared to any truly strong fish, that the collector could create]

[Perhaps a tenth in comparison to what powers these weird-fishes could usually have]

Noticing that the system was massively intelligent and well observant to this extent, considering that it could link everything together in excellent decency, the hero felt at luck. His confidence was rising, and he thought that the source of such emotion should be rewarded.

That was why he answered, "What would I do without you? Everything here would be harder if you weren't around."

Afterwards that sweet emotion was transformed into rage. And he did not want to wait for the system's reply either, and charged against this fragile enemy at full speed instead.

And the first thing he did was land another bite against its neck. From there he moved along to the spine, and jagged his teeth in there but had no plan of taking a bite off just yet.

Instead, he used it as a balancing point; for the sake of holding on to this enemy as the other side of the weaponry, flew in to deliver its own work!

His barb bashed against the enemy's lower back, over and over. It felt like each attack was forcing the enemy to submission, as its tolerances to pain were surprisingly low.

Until now, the sea-disk had managed to deal a total of seven-stabs against this enemy. It was rather plentiful, so the hero decided to finally latch off for the sake of attaining some safe distance.

But as he turned around, it was easy to see that the enemy was charging towards him at full speed. And before the slightest reaction could have been made, the enemy bit this little boy right against the fin!

It was difficult to understand what those jaws were made of, but it sure hurt like boiling hell! Such pain was almost difficult to withstand but at least it wasn't strong enough to take a chunk off his just replenished body.

[Health, -10 bars]

[Total health = 93/110]

The last thing he wanted, was to float around doing nothing when the enemy had caused such damage with a single bite. So without even a slightly developing thought of hesitation, his tail embraced the C-formation and curled under the belly!

Which in exchange had gotten closer to the enemy, and the tip of it had managed to stab this bastard right where the gut was supposed to be.

It wasn't the best attack, since the sea-disk couldn't move enough to inflict a deeper stab. But it was enough to force the enemy away, as it had let go of the boy's right fin!

Now both of them were trying to recover from pain. The weird-grey-fish was shivering to a certain extent which might be a method to push pain away.

While Tim was just flapping his fin, and the salt-water aided to a certain extent although it burned below the levels of hell!

All and all, the enemy was faster in terms of recovery even though it was more fragile in comparison. Likewise, it used that advantage to charge against the hero who was still a bit distracted because of the pain.

That was when Timothy saw a long, thin and pointy bone piercing against the water as if it came out of nowhere!

Such a bone, managed to strike the weird-fish right against its back; and the momentum was strong enough to drag the fish down towards the sand.

Just then, the hero saw an entire skeleton plunging down against the sand along with this wretched freak of nature!