I'm a Stingray?

Chapter 23: Supply pack

Arising from the hole he slipped into, Tim's vision was captivated by a familiar figure. It was none other than Alba, the same stingray lady who held an entire rant with Marlo.

"System?" Tim interrupted, tad spooking the lady and forced her to swim a meter away.

Once she turned around and spotted Tim, the first thing the lady hollered was. "The fuck do you want? Get out of my way, I will go get more recruits than you!"

Not weighing enough importance on that quest, Tim still stuck to the main point. "You mentioned system... I have one as well!"

"Boy I have no idea what you're talking about." Alba answered, her tone projecting a screech as she started waving around her tail.

[Sharing such information with another being is not recommended, change the topic.]

"But she has a system as well!" Tim yelled out, which from another point of view it would seem like he was talking to himself.

[You're revealing super sensitive information, it's never a good idea!] And this time Tim could hear how bad the situation is, as the system actually started yelling.

"Okay okay, I don't know what a system is." Tim finally gave in and gave out a little stingray sigh. "Could have progressed together but that's okay."

Afterwards the stingray lady swam away and Tim didn't fail to follow her right after, although still a bit low on stamina.

"We can get recruits together." Tim pitched, wanting to find an excuse to spend more time with this lady full of attitude.

Stopped on her spot, Alba used her left eye to glare at the boy and immediately after stated. "No thanks."

Afterwards, Tim felt a sharp sting near his tail, bashed on the fin.

Apart from that pain alone, he felt an additional raging pain around the striked spot, his tail began to feel numb as well.

Putting two and two together, Tim asked her. "Did you just sting me?"

Indirectly admitting it, Alba recited. "Don't put your nose in my business, or venom would be the least of your problems."

As the young lady swam away, Tim felt almost paralyzed! His entire left fin became too numb, impossible to move and his tail started sharing the same fate as well.

"What have you done to me?" Tim tried to speak, but his sentence was cut in half as the mouth felt heavy.

Without an answer, Alba swam away and continued her quest as if nothing happened, now the system started raging!

[Health -30 bars.]

[Health -3 bars.]

[Health -3 bars.]

[Health -2 bars.]

[Health -1 bar.]

[Health -1 bar.]

[Health -1 bar.]

[Health -1 bar.]

[Health -1 bar.]

As the system gave out those alarming statistics, Tim barely noticed where he had fallen into.

A few meters near the hole he took rest from earlier, stood a bigger hole, 5 meters wide, where any predator could swoop by and spot Tim.

One advantage out of it however, was the hole's depth. It possibly stretched around 25 meters deep and there aren't any known enemies on sight.

"System, I don't feel so good." Tim unleashed the thought, as his mouth still felt too numb to move.

[Total health = 20/100]

[You have been stung by a strong venomous tail, it's effects are dictated.]

[The venom has done it's full damage already, now it can't do anything more.]

[Since you are my servant, when an outer source inflicts pain on you, the damage is instant. Meaning, it won't take days until the damage reaches its full effect.]

Not even strong enough to panic, Tim stated. "Okay that's nice... but I'm dying."

[Yes you are.]

Afterwards Tim tried to swim but it was nearly impossible. After full efforts, the boy could barely swim half a meter away. "I can't heal myself like this, I can't move."

[Super critical state reached, guest has one chance of survival.]

Blazingly confused, Tim's first idea was that the system will summon marble shrimp here, illogical but intense pain all over his body didn't really allow the boy to think straight.

But a question can always clear things out. "What's the chance of survival?"

[You can use a health regeneration supply pack.]

[The pack can give you 50 points of health.]

[You can never use this again as you have only 1 supply pack.]

Not quite sure how that works but at least understanding the word health, Tim thought. "Okay, use that and save me please."

[Health supply pack used.]

[Loading...]

[Activating...]

[Health +50 bars.]

[Total health = 70/100]

At that same moment, the numbness that surrounded his body started vanishing quicker than the eye could blink.

That massive burning pain near his tail took a few more seconds to disappear but it's fate was no different from the rest of the effect.

Comprehending the one thing he hasn't felt these past few days, which is the lack of pain, Tim took one spin of a swim and started yelling in joy. "There is no more pain! I'm free!!"

[You still have doubled speed and hunger bar, use it to raise your health more.]

"Okay okay okay." Tim repeated, his joy reverting into super sharp focus as he stalked the perimeter for any living being.

In the close distance, he spotted what were heavily familiar to this point. "Leggy crabs!"

Spotting the marble shrimps, he charged towards them at maximum speed and bit one of these little beings in half.

There are about 12 marble shrimp here, and chomping through them was rather easy as they can't get far.

The system kept yelling out the statistics upon every kill but the one we can put the most value on are the final results.

[Health bar = 76/100]

[Hunger bar = 15/30]

[Sleep bar = 7/35]

[Stamina bar 6/15]

Getting back on his former spot to relax, one question began to storm Tim's mind. "Did she really have a system?"

[Yes, but she doesn't anymore.]

[She was using my system but was stripped out of the title.]

[Because my servants can't attack each other, so the inflictor loses all connections with me.]

"Well dang, you really had my back there... well kinda." Tim murmured as he took time to comprehend the whole situation.

One feeling that started invading all other emotions was the feeling of revenge, of which forced Tim to speak out. "You made an enemy today, Alba."