I'm a Stingray?

Chapter 232: Compliments

Clearly, this small critter could provide more perks than expected, but consuming it wasn't necessarily an option after considering that he couldn't even move a muscle around here!

It was difficult to understand how a mere small shrimp had been entangled in the net, and got to the point of being dragged all the way up here, but it didn't sound impossible.

Yet regardless, such an odd result felt like a blessing, even though it appeared small when attention was given to the system points.

Regardless of that fact, this kill was a blessing because it had finished the system given task. And that achievement came along with more than a single advantage!

And the system helped break those perks down, by asking a question in an awfully timed matter. She even had the audacity to keep a casual tone.

[Your primary bars have met with an upgrade, they are now bigger by a tenth compared to what you had earlier on]

[Would you like to hear out the details?]

"No!" The boy thundered, he didn't even have the motive to be sassy.

After a few more minutes of light bruises and a handful of cuts from the other fish, that didn't exactly cause any damage; the hero began seeing his vision clearing up.

It felt massively relieving. Because even though they were underwater, he thought that suffocation was just around the corner. All thanks to the fact that he was so constricted, even a muscle couldn't be moved upon will!

Dana had not left his mind through this chaos, even though the situation could have forced other thoughts to roll in; so after he got a brief ability to see what was around him, the hero continued to look for the bony-lady.

She was likely still knocked out, so he didn't want to allow the good woman to be lost around here. It would be tremendously inconvenient, if she got dragged away by some shark - that could likely guarantee death even for her fleshless body!

Before he could even attain a lead to follow, his vision was blessed by a certain black fish who was approaching at full speed.

Once it arrived, a feminine tone managed to shake drowsiness away from him. "Let's get out of here Tim!"

It only took a second to realise that this was Osira. Her being able to find a single marine animal in between the hundreds, was admirable itself.

But she wasn't accepting compliments today or any other form of dialogue. And Gerlach who was on her back, didn't seem to have a different thought as he was giving the hero a deadly stare!

She lightly held the stingray by the fin afterwards, and began dragging him down towards the bottom of these shallow waters.

Throughout this procedure, he tried to break free in order to look for the skeleton lady, but it seemed rather impossible! Worse yet, the stress that such a failed attempt inflicted, had spiked anxiety higher than ever!

The last thing of which the sea-pancake expected, was for Dana to appear at the bottom of the ocean!

Such a result gave an image that she was never caught in a net to begin with, the lady seemed healthy as a newborn child. Well at least as healthy as a swimming skeleton could be.

Although he was shocked for a few seconds, the boy could still express. "I'm so glad that you're safe!"

"What happened?" The bony-lady asked, feeling that her soul was a bit overworked.

"You were caught in a net, Osira had to sink the ship to save both of you." The mantis shrimp answered, being capable to remain calm even after such a disaster.

"Should have known that you sank it!" Timmy shouted out, joy was evident in his tone which made this statement feel like a praise.

Although she had desperately tried to stand out until now, the skeleton could notice a good deed and decided to push jealousy aside.

A sense of calmness was enveloping her soul. And she could not remember what had happened, but neither of these friends had reasons to lie: so it seemed like a good option to trust their word.

So with a calm and yet genuine tone, she locked eyes with the grouper and said. "Thank you."

"Both of you are welcome." She answered and then just began swimming towards the west.

The couple of stingrays were sure to follow their friend right away, because they understood what the main motive was.

Osira was quick to vocalise another bit of her thoughts, which aided the overall conversation. "It was fun to sink an entire ship."

"How did you do that anyway?" Timothy asked, and brought in more reasoning. "No offense but that thing was too big for you to sink."

"It was big, but Gerlach is a genius." This might have been the first and most genuine compliment that the lady gave towards this geezer.

Of course she shed more light to that statement by continuing, "He told me to just keep attacking the middle of the ship. So that caused a big hole and sank it all!"

"Smart!" Tim was the second to continue with such a compliment and the skeleton nodded in agreement as well.

"Indeed." The praised geezer answered, brushing off the life-saving ideas as unimportant.

And he even sealed the topic by adding, "We have to keep moving though, it's barely been a day and we almost died twice."

"You have a point, this place is extremely dangerous!" The black-grouper agreed right away, as they continued swimming.

Since that tremendously dangerous situation was put behind them now, it was easy to state that a moment of peace was given to the group of friends.

Likewise, Timothy was given a few moments to check other statistics, and requested for the system to list a portion of them out. So of course, the lady in his head was quick to grant the request.

[Your primary bars that decipher your state of being, have been upgraded by a tenth of their previous size]

[Now, your current state is the following...]

[Health bar = 121/121]

[Hunger bar = 13/19]

[Sleep bar = 35/43]

[Stamina bar = 12/19]

This proved to be an evident advantage. Because in any situation where he would need to eat food for health, a bigger hunger-bar can aid to recover quicker.

Not to mention, health along with every other bar was raised as well. So in many aspects, he felt a bit more powerful and became more confident that any task would be easier to handle now!