I'm a Stingray?

Chapter 255: The beam

"I'll decide to trust you, but know that I will never touch anything radioactive for you again." It felt a bit random to remind such a case now, but trust had gone through his head when he had cited that sentence.

And unsurprisingly, the case where he had gotten cancer had gone through his mind; it made sense.

The system didn't have much to say about that, she knew that Timothy had to complete the task one way or the other. So she just decided to remain silent, and just let the boy vent out a little bit of anger.

Because after all, he had skin cancer right now and one of his fins was bleeding thanks to the most recent event.

It took a short moment for the stingray to forget about the task, because his main focus itched to be health related.

For the sake of finding that big fat eel he had killed, the hero found the exit of the little cavern that he had been stuffed in - and unsurprisingly, he had to cross a big tunnel in order to successfully leave this portion of the structure.

What proved as quite a convenient result, was how easily he found the main cavern that pieced everything together. Sure this place had many tunnels, but they seemed to be short as the main focus remained on the biggest portion of the cavern.

This helped to avoid getting lost in the semi-natural structure, but he still didn't have the slightest idea of where the eel carcass was.

At least he didn't for a little while, but the surroundings began making sense after he had rejoined the masses of fish, that commonly crossed paths through the middle of the large cavern.

The cavern he was in, wasn't shaped like a sphere so that helped a lot in terms of orientation. As the structure was shaped just like a short and fat stick: a bit wide, but also abruptly long.

After recalling a bit of memories, he remembered that the eel carcass was on one end of the cavern; for now he just had to figure out which end was that.

Luck was by his side for once, as the first corner of the cavern that he had checked, indeed contained the eel carcass!

The fact that no one had bothered to move the body, gave a good hint of just how horrible the governing or managing team of this cavern was!

Obviously this place had ranks, and seemingly anyone in a slightly upper position here was either clueless or just didn't give a damn! Because it wouldn't take much work to just command slaves to pick up the body and store it somewhere, yet no one did so.

Anyways. After he had contemplated such a detail, he began preparing to eat this eel. The other fish around here were minding their own business too, so this can be considered a feast where he doesn't have to look out for enemies.

What worked as an advantage, was the fact that he was quite hungry before re-finding this carcass. So he managed to eat a bit more, and necessarily gain a couple more points of health.

[Health bar = 111/121]

If we look at this feast in a statistical point of view, his rise in health was not drastic. Because he had gotten just ten points of health out of this, and he felt bloated like a balloon due to the feast.

Most of the eel carcass was still unscathed, so in any demanding situation he could come back, and feast upon this body for the sake of health.

But right now, he expanded the third-person-view map for the sake of observation. He felt how a decent portion of his pain had fiddled away, but also wanted a more visual compression regarding such a topic.

And the scene he managed to witness, was satisfactory to say for the least. His wounds on the right fin were mostly closed now, and this was good enough even though a bit more blood was dripping out of it.

After he observed the wound a bit more, it was easy to notice that it wouldn't completely go away even after his health bar was fully replenished.

Meaning that he would have to get hurt somewhere else, eat health raising foods again, and allow the fin wounds to heal. It was quite an endless and vicious cycle, and it was weird how the system worked in such a matter; but at least the pain was more bearable now.

So with those statistics, he began inching out of the tunnel again and tried to develop a good plan.

It was difficult to think of anything useful right now, as handling this overall situation would require an advanced pace of thinking. Even though he was a creative genius, logical aspects were still lacking so he couldn't put anything stable together.

Well apart from the idea of stalking this area longer. He didn't feel confident to plan anything right now, it would feel easier to be prepared if he had more information.

That was why he headed towards the main cavern, and noticed something that was strong enough to capture all of his attention.

There was some random fish, who was just over a foot long and was a little chubby as well. This fish was rushing in all directions, screaming something in gibberish.

It didn't take much thinking to figure out that this marine animal was freaking out, but what was the reason behind it? Any individual could not be scared for nothing.

Before this situation could have been comprehended better, the unthinkable exploded in this scene! Well it was not an eruption that would bring the cavern down, but it was equally terrifying!

A thin and elongated beam of light, which carried a thick grey colour ~ had shot out from somewhere in the cavern, and had hit the panicking fish with admirable pin-point accuracy!

However, that was not the most terrifying part. Because what happened next, was what Timothy had considered strictly impossible!

The fish who had been hit, was instantly transformed into a heavy chunk of silver! The scene was so instant, that any observer could just see the stone-like body of the fish; instantly falling towards the cavern's flooring!