I'm a Stingray?

Chapter 142: Ket

As planned, he headed for the hole he had spotted in the midst of battle earlier. The overall layout of this cavern was still a mystery. A grand hint was that this place is wide but that's all it could be understood.

Considering this place's darkness, the one thing he wanted to upgrade right now was vision but that goal was a far fetch. According to the system, it was in the bottom of the list as primary upgrades before the same list would be taken back from the top.

Although he missed the hole and bumped on the side, which managed to release a couple of curses... he managed to go down and tried with his utmost ability to look through the darkness a bit better in order to figure out if life was down here.

The area here was anticlimactic. A separate hole in a cavern should mean that a bigger species was living in it. But here it was difficult to follow the tunnel, nonetheless find life.

One thing that stood evident was the tunnel's length. It stretched over 15 meters long so far and an end was yet to be found. But what began coming in as a shock, is a simple name called illumination.

The hero had tried to get used to the darkness here for the sake of seeing better, but that effort was slowly proving worthless.

Because the deeper he went towards the tunnel, the brighter it became. For a second he felt crazy but a bright light could have quickly flashed on the other side of the tunnel.

This caught all of his attention and he expected an anglerfish to charge forward. Feeling confident about withstanding the attack, he shouted. "Face me, toothy bastards!"

Such a shout had managed to work over-time, because he didn't see a single light this time but a handful of them instead. His heart sunk down the boy's stomach thanks to that sight because facing another pack of fast moving anglerfish would be troublesome. Especially since he was alone.

But nothing had faced him yet. And when recalling those handful of lights that were close to each other, the image they portrayed was that of startled fish.

So of course, from that he managed to reap confidence which at the end led to another shout. "I'm coming for you!"

After that point the little hero charged straight forward and followed the tunnel at full speed, although the overall illumination was still dim.

Throughout travelling another 20 meters in, he noticed that the overall tunnel was filled with a lot more light. Not good enough to aid the vision work to its full capacities but enough to see what was underneath him and on the sides too.

Such a strong ray of light managed to damage his confidence, therefore the sea pancake stopped the heavenly pace and asked. "System, is it a good idea to fight all those anglerfish?"

[Typically I'd say that it would be a horrible idea. But it doesn't look like these marine animals are anglerfish, they aren't the only species that can illuminate under water.]

"Then I should be careful." The hero decided, he surely wasn't going to back away. Especially with a sense of discovery glowing stronger than the potential threat.

Fate demanded it for this tunnel to be explored so he continued following the path, only to notice that the tunnel was only attaining more and more light. Finally he found an end of this very tunnel that was mostly covered with hardened dirt, and what stood in front of the young boy was fascinating to the point of scepticism.

There was a massive source of life swimming back and forth. It was hard to make up an accurate measure but this light stretched at least 5 meters wide!

The most impacting fact was that this source of life wasn't attached anywhere, be it on this new-found cavern's walls, ground or ceiling. It felt like an entity that was floating and shining in the middle of the smaller cavern who eventually moved in any direction.

Thanks to this massive colourless light, it was difficult to see as the effects weren't so easy on the eyes. He was given enough time to work against the light and attain a better view of just what the hell was going on here!

Whatever this thing was, it hasn't attacked yet so that was a great advantage. Out of a sudden, a tiny portion of the same light had separated from the big one and was approaching Timmy.

Surprisingly the same piece of light could talk, which led to a shock bigger than the actual problem.

The dot of light asked, "Why are you in our home?"

Swiftly, the hero feared that if he answered that question truthfully, the massive light on the other side of the stick would come for his ass.

So instead he answered with a question, "What are you?"

"I'm Ket." The dot of light answered somewhat peacefully, feminine by tone. "Me and my friends over there are flashlight fish."

This species' name felt like a joke and although the little sea-disk wanted to behave, the only sentence he could chirp was. "What the fuck?"

Hearing such a reply, the same light rushed into a backflip and ran her tail across the flat sea-disk's face. It felt like a tail and now he realised that the light's size was a bit under estimated.

After regaining senses, the hero pointed the obvious with a shout that resembled shock. "Did you just slap me?"

"Behave." The fish demanded and that's when the hero realised that the huge patch of light behind the lady was glowing a bit harder now.

Feeling quite intimidated, the blue-dotted menace actually agreed to behave and answered a former question. "I'm here just to explore, also thought that rotten anglerfish are here."

"I'm guessing that you're their friend, they've let you pass." Ket asked for the sake of reaping out information.

But the next sentence had forced the entire crowd behind the lady, into a strong gasp. "No, I killed those hump-back bastards!"