I'm a Stingray?

Chapter 141: Food situation, light (end)

It was evident that this particular enemy was faster, and a bit bigger compared to the other enemies whom had perished in this very cavern. So the young man didn't have an option of escape this time, and was unfortunate enough to be run over by the charging enemy.

The angler's head bashed against his stomach which resulted to getting dragged away thanks to the momentum. Surprisingly even though the collision was rough, no damage was inflicted on his body - at least not anything the system had notified about.

Thankfully he wasn't stuck on the enemy and his flat body managed to help him slide away from the danger zone. He toppled across the water a couple of times and took a few seconds to regain orientation.

Although this battle proved tougher than the previous one, he was still clear minded enough to ask. "How come that crash didn't make me lose health, system?"

[Your bodily durability has 20 points. In this environment there are only a few more species who could kill you with a bite. It's different from the beginning when everything could kill you.]

[Most species around here, can only scratch the surface of your skin now. The damage they can deal isn't deadly]

This managed to boost the young hero's confidence by a blue whale's size, even though before it was the weight of an Orca's. So he cut the conversation and charged directly towards the only remaining enemy who was almost double his size.

The humpback hasn't yet turned around due to the momentum it had built up earlier, so this was the perfect time to launch a counter attack!

Young Timothy charged straight towards the menacing anglerfish, and used his level 3 speed to its furthest extent just for the sake of using this opportunity to strike at a blind spot.

Finally, he decided to sacrifice balance and pushed the stinger as forward as possible. Such a move was a tad risky because he could lose enough balance to do a little backflip, which would totally ruin the attack.

By now sliding across the water while being upside down, he finally reached the enemy who just now had started turning around.

This led to the stinger colliding against the lower waist of the enemy, which was a tad muscular but not impenetrable!

Like a raging bumble bee, the hero had impaled his stinger through and through the enemy and felt the immense struggle that came from the damaged fish afterwards. The extra struggle it put up was directly related to the pain but thankfully this species' body is stiff enough to prevent the mouth from reaching too far back.

Giving in a bit of effort, with a few strong flaps against the water, the sea pancake managed to escape. Simply because pulling out his barb from any piece of flesh was easier now, thanks to the find working harder now due to the upgraded body strength.

He made a good distance away from the enemy and noticed how it was struggling to swim away. Instead it just continued to shake left and right, which seemed more like a shiver.

This upper hand in battle gave the hero a bit of time to observe more of the surroundings. Which in exchange gave a sight of another group that solely contained marble shrimp. This pack was about 10 meters across, and they were all crawling and moving around, close to each other.

Such a size doesn't seem much but in numbers, it should equal to about 10,000 marble shrimp crawling around all in one place. This continued to seem heavily unrealistic, it was hard to believe that this cavern could contain so much life, but the stronger truth was that there were more groups to discover.

His gaze focused on the enemy once more and he witnessed the last fight it put up. That's when the system notified, [Hump-back anglerfish killed. 20 system points have been given to you as a reward]

[Total system points = 150]

The battle was over, there wasn't any enemy that would put up a fight. And that's when one of the western rock lobster appeared, announcing. "Your majesty. We have killed the enemies that tried to attack you."

Sadness managed to make the enemy's tone crack, but another portion had to be added. "We've also lost 3 more men, those anglerfish have a nasty bite."

That's when the hero's confidence jumped over the moon and pooped in a lake up there. These lobsters are bigger than him yet bites from those bastards had managed to kill a handful of these subjects. The system was definitely not exaggerating when she explained the boy's bodily durability.

Trying to lift up the overall mood, he had to explain. "Well their sacrifice has helped a lot. This cavern has thousands of marble shrimp!"

The lobster's eyes widened up a bit, although it wasn't noticeable in this darkness. But by tone it was easy to notice the surprise this subject experienced, "Thousands? That can feed our community for a month!"

"Damn only a month?" Timothy asked, heavily unsatisfied although he had to admit that the work required for such a gain wasn't drastic.

The only problem was that he might need to come here again in order to keep this community alive, and he didn't want to do that. "What fish can we hunt for our community to be fed for a year?"

"Probably a few sharks." The buff lobster answered but then assured, "We don't need to do that though. Our men have gained experience in this hunt and I think we can handle another big hunting session like this one."

Wanting to convince his beloved highness that his people were capable, the brown one had to add another piece of thought. "The elder you spoke with had sent 100 other men outside of the reef to hunt, we will have a lot of food soon. It's just that the beginning is rough."

Timothy had to admit that these lobsters were quite grateful and heavily self dependent. When something went wrong, they blamed their selves and seek a solution. While the white-legged shrimp he also had under governing, blame the young man for everything that goes wrong.

Feeling a hint of gratitude towards them, the boy spoke out a plan. "Have the men kill and grab as many of these shrimps as they can carry and send them back home. They are to bring 300 more men here who can walk a long distance and carry a lot of shrimp, this cavern needs a lot of work."

The esteemed highness didn't want to stay idle either, so he pitched. "I will go down that hole over there, alone. If there is food down there then the whole community will eat well for a while."

Seeing just how much damage those anglerfish had caused, the brown one offered. "Let me come with you."

Noticing what it is about, the brave sea pancake added. "No no, I can kill anything that threatens me, but the rest of you can't. We lost enough men today so leave this to me."

Although the lobster felt uneasy about it, nothing in their blood would prefer going against the king's words. So he answered, "As you wish, I'll order the men right now."