I'm a Stingray?

Chapter 109: Destiny laid out

[Correct] the system added, pulling away the young hero from the amazement and continued her explanation. [A level 12 vision typically requires a stingray a few years to acquire and costs a fortune too, most don't even live that long.]

[You've taken advantage of a species who isn't so popular and doesn't seem so useful either. A great percentage of your species never even ate a silver belle because they don't appear interesting or useful. Not to mention, they aren't even in the list of species you need to kill as a task.]

[As a system, I typically make any guest avoid perks like this one. It's a trick to filter out dumber and less curious fish and instead allow the wiser ones to prosper.]

[Since you've proven yourself quite a prodigy and painfully curious too, I will give you a free tip.]

[Eat the other 2 silver belles so you can use this advanced vision for 3 hours instead of 1.]

"I take back any complaint about you!" Timothy yelled out and charged straight towards the closest silver belle whom had swam about 10 meters away now.

He gave in an extra attempt to not focus on them and avoid horror itself, it only took a bite to end one of these species and he quickly chased the third.

True to her words, the system notified. [Your level 12 vision can now be used for a time span of exactly 3 full hours.]

[Total system points = 401]

"Awesome!" Tim celebrated, swam in circles for a while as well before he turned to the carcass and began munching it down to the bone.

Soon after he ate the other 2 corpses and asked the system about the only statistic he cared about. The lady was more than willing to reply, citing. [Hunger bar = 12/15]

"This is good enough, I will eat a white-legged shrimp once I get there and hunger will no longer be a problem." A decent plan at best, he even began following the same direction.

Gazing straight forward, he was able to see a pointy thing in the middle of the route he had to take. It seemed more like a dot considering that the little boy was a kilometer away from the next checkpoint, but with one attempt of focusing, he managed to obtain great detail.

A pointy coral was standing in the middle of the route, stiff near the border line with no signs of falling down in this absolute mist. This made the little man smile as it determined that he was in the right way.

Casually giving a glance to the mist, specifically to the lower portions, something rather bizarre managed to catch his eye.

Green, the colour he began hating the most out of any other. It dimly shone deep in the abyss of a mist that most weaker fish didn't dare to go into unless they were suicidal.

The green colour was darker in comparison to what he had seen so far but one particular aspect about it was more alarming than ever. Henceforth the young man decided to put it into word, "Where the fuck did that huge pile of green come from? This isn't normal in the ocean is it?"

[It's not normal at all, this is hard to understand]

With such weight put on after the system's assurance, the young man cited. "If that's holy tar then we are completely fucked. The whole reef wouldn't be able to battle even their weakest fish, that is if they have an army too down there."

The young man carried a point. But one thing that stood both as an advantage and disadvantage was the distance. This green substance was at least 4 kilometers deep and even with Timmy's level 12 vision, it appeared like a blur.

Even when he decided to zoom in, the details and secrets about this tar were unwilling to show their selves thanks to the complete darkness that coated most of the glow.

But a couple of facts became far more transparent than this weird glow. Today he couldn't even think of trying his luck by going down there. But in the far future, he will have to go there for the sake of disabling any possible attack against the reef.

It will possibly be the hardest battle of his life, the tar stretched 500 meters wide in a circular shape and the enemies down there are likely worth 500 meters of holy tar.

The sea pancake can't go down there until the little body of his could withstand at least a 4 kilometer deep water pressure. There was an excruciatingly long way to go.

Shifting his focus away from what could quite possibly be holy-tar, the young man continued his route towards the targeted task and just decided to put this future dilemma to the back of his little mind.

...

It took a bit of effort to get all the way to this pointy little coral, he had to stop a couple of times just for the stamina to replenish but now he was closer than ever to finishing task 8.

Recalling the information of what the reef shark told him took a while, especially since the half a kilometer long holy-tar had taken a lot of his focus and situation processing capabilities. But after 10 minutes, he remembered that the next portion of this journey can be followed just by swimming towards the mist.

About 50 meters deeper, he found the tunnel that is supposed to lead to this den of white-legged shrimps and thankfully: the system did not alarm of any pressure damage.

Timmy doesn't really know how deep he had sank until now but his guess is a bit above 150 meters. Shouldn't be any trouble at all as his endurance is a quarter larger than that.

The first thing he saw once syncing 10 meters down the tunnel was a marine animal so white in colour that it made the little boy think that he saw a ghost!

Typically, he wouldn't be able to see anything down here where darkness had swallowed most of the area but with a level 12 vision, everything here seemed brighter than the sea surface in midday.

He easily realised what this species was and charged directly towards it, biting it's belly and taking off a chunk with ease all thanks to the level 3 jaws. It shouldn't be a hard kill considering it's half his size.

But!