I'm a Stingray?

Chapter 224: Bag of bones (2)

Unlike what any of them had expected, the gem didn't do something tremendously drastic, such as exploding and taking everyone with it as a foul aftermath.

On the contrary, it arose upwards faster than the eye could blink, and then just beamed away through the little hole in speeds that were too fast to comprehend.

Timothy glanced at the exit and noticed that the water itself was being pierced because of the gem, it almost seemed like an air-filled tunnel was being constructed, wherever the item went.

But what was even more interesting, the dungeness crab was dragged along with the gem; because for whatever reason, they were embedded with each other.

But the sheer speed that this glowing-rock had, created an effect that was rather horrid. The crab had exploded into a bloody mist, and its smaller body parts were littering across the sea under a short radius.

Such raw power made the hero feel a chill down his spine. He understood that these crabs are one of the toughest in the crustacea family, yet here this creature proved incompetent to resist.

"That takes care of one problem." He muttered, as such a kill ended up being easier than expected.

Although shocking, the show did not last long so the stingray began paying attention to his skeleton-friend, right after.

And the situation on this side felt a lot more shocking, as the lady was shaking in an uncomfortable matter, as if something wanted to come through her mouth ~ but that would be a bad way to describe this situation, because she didn't have the required organs to keep anything in.

Everyone around her wanted to help; but they were all aware that this lady was rather radioactive, so intervening could be suicidal. They had the time to discuss such matters before this happened, and Dana had specifically requested to not intervene.

That might have been the best decision they had made, because how could they even help her at the moment? The whole topic about this weird gem is just too fresh.

So she continued to rumble in that matter for a couple of minutes, but afterwards she had mostly calmed down. Which gave a hint that the worst part was already over, but one's eye could lie more than the devil.

As what erupted through this confined space right after, was enough to render someone blind - all thanks to the explosion that solely featured grand illumination.

Everyone within the hole were forced to close their eyes, as the glow was strong enough to be noticeable from the outside. Any passerby who was above the water's surface, could see this phenomenon too.

Such illumination had managed to keep their eyes shut for a couple of minutes now, and what they could see after opening them, was difficult to comprehend!

Dana was still surrounded by a layer of green light, but it seemed much more refined now, noticeably stable. One could look at its transparent features without hurting their pupils.

This light was thin and embraced the skeleton stingray's form, as it took numerous turns to stay a perfect two-inches away from her every bone.

And the first thing of which Timothy could think of, was. "Nice, she has a shield now."

Although such a sentence was spoken out, the rest couldn't exactly say anything as they were gazing with a grand level of admiration. The transparent ray of green that was surrounding her, was beautiful to say at least.

It carried a massive amount of sparkles, and the illumination was unleashing some strings of light; that stretched a foot long away from its source, often curled too, but always returned to its source.

And now, the lady was finally able to speak. But the bony-reactions she had, seemed dier.

Yet her tone was too calm as she stated, "We're in a lot of trouble right now."

"What do you mean?" Gerlach was the quickest to question, fearing that the lady will explode.

With a strong level of incompetence to explain, she took her time to mumble through a sentence. "This gem has increased my senses by a lot... well I can see a bit better too, but I can sense the vibrations around us, a lot better now... and there are about a hundred big fishes coming for us!"

"They've been attracted by the light!" The mantis shrimp was quick to catch up, and crawled towards the exit for the sake of observation.

Cursing the idea of how this day was just getting worse, Osira suppressed her urge to cuss and just behaved calmly thanks to stress. "Well, this isn't good."

The first thing that busted through the entrance, was a creature that could actually fit: it was rather elongated and its appearance had managed to throw Gerlach off balance.

It thankfully couldn't manage to bite through the old man, but the disturbance was enough to get everyone to higher their senses. Most of them were ready to launch an attack, but only the hero was capable of inflicting it.

He barged forward and violently flapped his slightly grown fins against the waters to reverse his route. He swum backwards, which allowed his barb to poke forward for the sake of lethality.

It led this foul enemy, to bash it's bulky head right against the weaponry. The strike was enough to puncture its skull, which almost always guaranteed a quick death - but it didn't nearly solve the problem, since there were tens of other enemies outside!

[Fine-spotted moray eel killed, so 2 system points have been given to you as a reward]

[Since this is a system given task, you also get an additional 2 system points]

[Total system points = 336]

Arousal enveloped the boy's mind by at least a hunch, and he had motivation to speak out. "Killed one!"

That was when the shrimp intervened once more, expressing. "That's all nice and dandy, but I saw at least fifteen great-whites coming our way."

After such a statement was made, everyone began believing a bit more that death might be sooner than any of them expected. But it was easy to pick apart, who was thinking of something rather different.

It was Timmy of course and he expressed it too, "This place has too many sharks! How are we going to move around like this?"

Before anyone could have answered that question, they felt a rather strong rumble that was coming from above. And it became apparent that the exit was covered by an external weight!