2024-11-25 17:59:53The team of seven stingrays were on the move. Marlo directed them to a spot, which was a whole kilometer away from the hidden lair, and it was laid out on a stretch of sand. Originally this spot would be really unassuming, but Marlo taught them how to find the good stuff!
He told them to follow the edges of the reef, in a very straight line, until they couldn’t anymore. This, in turn, would lead them directly towards the designated area. After separating themselves from the reef, the team were to look out for holes in the ground. The place which may contain mana roots was very well hidden, so they had to check on every noticeable hole on the sea-ground, in order to find the place. Of course, they also had to be careful, because an animal could be living in any one of the random holes, and swimming into them could be dangerous! Marlo described that they should be searching for a shrine-like, hidden temple. Religion was a thing across fishkind, apparently, and oftentimes, religious sites were built around magical items of great value, such as powerful mana roots! In a sense, mana wasn’t such a bad thing to worship, as this world revolved around magic, after all. The site which the group was trying to find was rarely visited, and almost forgotten too, which also meant that any seed of mana root had the opportunity to grow there! Tim was counting on that, he was really enthusiastic! However, he also got a bit irritated by now. Half of the stingrays in his team swam very slowly, just about as fast as a stingray could swim, so the one-kilometer trip had stretched for over an hour now. If Tim was alone, he would've gotten here in ten minutes, but for the time being, he simply couldn't separate himself from the rest of the group! "Can't believe that I'd swim that slow too, if my fins weren't magical…" Tim thought to himself. Anyway, they separated from the reef by now, and as the other stingrays were poking their heads in random holes, he felt entitled to advise them for the better. Tim knew from experience that eels loved to live in holes on the sea ground, in holes much like the holes they were seeing here! With that considered, he didn’t want his group members to be brutally pounced on. He yelled out, "Watch your head, flat asses! You wouldn't believe how many animals could hide in holes in the sand." Tim wasn't their leader by a stretch, but he still felt responsible for them! Also, he really didn't want to report any casualties back in the sect, especially since he had the feeling that he'd be the sole survivor, if any real fight occurred! That latter part wouldn't be so easy to explain, without being called a murderer in exchange. He was right to be cautious. Five minutes later, a rather unlovable creature emerged out of one of the holes which were scattered across the sand. It was a blue sea-snake, and it bit a light-brown stingray, right on and over the face! "Holy shit!" Tim yelled out, "I told you to be careful, god damn it!" The unfortunate stingray was killed. He had been a bit bigger than Tim, but he didn’t necessarily have enough endurance to withstand a bite from a one-meter long snake! That one stingray was dead, but it was important to protect the rest of the group, so Tim went into action! He knew that it would take a lot of effort to kill this thing with lightning strikes or fireballs, and he didn’t have enough mana for that kind of an approach either, as the snake was simply too big! Instead, he depended on the next best thing, which was to freeze the enemy's blood. Tim acquired this power only recently, by killing Harold the eel. He hadn't used this magical power all that much, since it was expensive to do so, however, this situation called for drastic, and efficient measures! The snake in front of them wasn't too fast, which was relieving, but if he gave it enough space to attack the group, then it might kill off the rest of the stingrays one by one, and that was less than ideal. Tim didn't want that to happen, so he approached the snake. He approached slowly at first, just to study its moves a little bit, as he didn’t want to rush towards it just yet. Ortana the stingray noticed what he tried to do, so she joined in. She said, "We have to divert its attention, kid, don't do this alone unless you want to get your face chewed off. Listen to me… I may have been a plant before, but that doesn't mean I don't know how to fight!" "We don't need to fight it," Tim answered back, "But yes, we need to confuse it, so swim that way, to the right. Use your extingus breath if you suddenly have to protect yourself, but try to keep your distance at all times! This'll be quick." With that little plan in mind, they approached the snake together, and took two different directions. Ortana approached it first, and got all of its attention, the snake wasn't so smart! Tim found a blind spot, about five seconds later, so that was when he charged forward with every bit of speed he could muster! He used his flaming fins ability to speed up, and the blood freezing ability gave him a bit of a boost too! He approached the target, at 10 km/h! The water itself started freezing up in exchange, as Tim's fins unleashed a steam-like substance, because he had activated the latter ability! Whole chunks of ice started sinking towards the sea ground, and when Tim met with the target, that icy wave clashed on the target and beat it shitless! He froze the snake's blood, quite literally! It was a three second job, and within these three seconds, he managed to paralyze the snake severely! The abrupt halt of blood flow restricted most of its movements, and in return, a bunch of its organs started failing as well. Its heart got damaged the quickest! The system later announced, [You just spent 24 mana points in three seconds, slow down! As of now, 240 points of mana remain in your bodily mana pool.] Tim heard that, but he didn’t care about the expenses right now. He then left the snake alone, and just watched it suffer for a while. In about five minutes time, it died off, and he reaped every benefit that came with killing a far bigger opponent! The system said, [You successfully killed a blue menace sea-snake, and won 350 system points in exchange! This snake is powerless, as it's just a normal sea snake, so you won't be able to steal any magical powers from it.] Furthermore, she added. [In total, you now have 550 system points at your disposal.] Tim was a bit upset that he couldn't steal any powers from this snake, but yet again, he had too many powers to begin with. He didn’t need a new ability, so he humbly started celebrating instead. He thought, "Hah, look at all those points! I didn't even have to use my rotter bite… it was totally worth the mana!"
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Chapter 374 - How many feet did Gussy grow?
Gustav continued sacrificing his levels for the sake of upgrading his body. He wanted to be bigger, point being that he wanted to be a bigger giant, or anything else that he shapeshifted into, so he came to the shores of the reef fully ready to sacrifice seven levels of his mana quality!For the time being, he didn’t care much about his mana quality, since he had won it recently without suffering through painful, slow upgrades all that much, but furthermore, he knew that he was amongst the weakest in his group in terms of mana quality. It was difficult to value something that was third to last in terms of friendly ranks, so he sacrificed seven of his levels without thinking about it twice!Now, he shared the last-place with Lena, who had barely put in a couple of months into reaching the first level within the fifth realm of mana. He wasn’t worried about this, because he could get his levels back by simply poking at one of the many mana roots that Timothy had stashed within the needle
Chapter 373 - Gustav's ambitions
Out of every member in the team, Gustav may be the most ambitious one. Unlike Timothy, he didn’t have a system to carve a portion of his path to greatness, and he definitely didn’t have a great IQ to support greater means, or greater goals, but that didn’t stop him. What he lacked in intelligence and everything else, he made up with ambition, a common urge for power, and this great need to kill the monsters that he had a deep-rooted hate towards!Due to recent events, Gustav despised dragons, and he had every reason to despise them. This deep-rooted hate was the source of his ambition!While the rest of the team carried out their work, or research inside or outside the city, he flew back to the coral reef. He felt great comfort when he was in the proximity of the reef, and furthermore, he found comfort in the fact that hundreds of goblins could protect him if anything went wrong. It was the best place to carry out experiments, and since he could shapeshift into greater species of eagl
Chapter 372 - Pure lava
Garry was led to the burrow of the groundhog he befriended. The burrow was close by, several meters away, and it didn’t quite look appealing from the outside, which was expected, as the burrow only had a couple of holes that they considered entrances.Well, one entrance was a fake one. It led nowhere, and it was used to keep predators busy, such as foxes.The other entrance led to the deep interior of the burrow, and quite frankly, Garry was astounded when he squeezed into it. This was no mere home with weak, dirt walls to hold it up, no, as everything within the burrow was enhanced by a six-inch layer of carved stone! The stone walls within the burrow weren’t placed randomly. They weren’t bumpy, but rather, they were smooth, and had these rows of symbolic words carved into it with a language that he could not understand. Nevertheless, he was impressed.“Woa…” Garry sighed, as he looked at the walls around him.“Why are you loafing about here?” The guiding groundhog asked. “This is o
Chapter 371 - AAAAA!!
As of recently, Garry was at the pinnacle of his life! He became an Arch Mage at a fairly young age, young for a demonic basilisk, at least, and ever since he got to this rank, he had eased up on a lot of his beliefs or principles, and was just enjoying his life.In hindsight, he didn’t care much to progress into the following rank, which was that of an Arch Magus. He figured that such a title was years away from him, if not decades, so he simply didn't think about it much. He wasn't worried that he stumbled into another mana bracket as soon as got to the third level of the seventh realm of mana. He was okay with it.Initially, one of the main reasons he chose to stay in this universe rather than going back to the universe of hell, was because he wanted to help Timothy, his former summoning master, progress. He felt indebted to help Timothy, because he had saved him from deadly wounds back in those old ruins, so he chose to stay.However, he couldn’t help Timothy progress all that muc
Chapter 370 - Dark Moon
“Freedom… it outweighs everything in the world, be it mana or gold.” She thought, as she breathed in the crisp air at the crack of dawn.Fortana was up in the sky, along with her dragon, and she was now about forty-kilometers away from the City of Fik. She decided to leave the city for a short while, for two reasons.Firstly, she and her team were stuck in the city for an undetermined amount of time. Timothy said that they’d be stuck in the City of Fik for around a month, but she figured that they’d be stuck there for several months, and she could not remain stationary for that long. She spent most of her life stuck in the Dungeons of the Old, and now that she had gotten a taste for freedom, she could simply not remain in one place for long, otherwise she would either sink into depression, or suffer through wave after wave of anxiety. She didn’t like it.The second reason why she left the city was primarily related to her self-absorbed need to improve her arsenal. Most Expert Mages ha
Chapter 369 - Bored
The eight-hundred Expert Mages that joined the frontline were quite capable. They were very useful on the count that Timothy and his team spent a few hours nudging them in the right direction, and once they got a hang of what to do, there was no stopping them!Ten more shapeshifted Ancient Sea Orcs had tried to attack the city before sunset, and the Expert Mages, otherwise known as the city's soldiers, had killed them all! They killed them without losing a single man or woman in the exchange of attacks.They discovered that the giant orcs had this odd ability to toss exploding fireballs around almost randomly, but they worked around it. Ten mages shot fireballs at the giants to overwhelm them, essentially blind them, and then twenty mages snuck below the line of fire, and froze the giants solid! This method worked like a charm, and Timothy had helped them develop it, so the mages didn't lose arms and legs during their many fights.The dark giants helped them. Fortana insisted for the
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