I'm a Stingray?

Gerlach was a thorough man, so naturally he managed to notice that the whole team had submerged into confusion. Even Osira, who had taken the journey with him earlier on, was utterly baffled.

So he loosened up all confusion, by reciting. "It's reasonable to look for our enemies, in places where stingrays aren't living at. That's how I managed to find them, they openly talked about eating stingrays too."

"I'm impressed," Timothy complimented whole heartedly, after finally managing to catch up in the slightest.

"Of course you're impressed. This wasn't an easy task, I can say that." The old man followed along.

That last bit of explanation was so to the point, that even the young hero could understand it enough.

[Your shrimp friend there, has a set of high intelligences. I'm not sure if the tar had something to do with it, but such levels are surely efficient]

[It's best that you keep any relations steady with this man, you'll need him for survival]

It took Timmy a bit of time to build up a sentence, but he eventually managed to speak out. "The system says that you're smart, Gerlach. It's a compliment and stuff."

Perhaps this wasn't the best form of expression, and understandably so after considering the situation; but he still managed to deliver the word.

Feeling a bit prideful thanks to such a compliment, the geezer expressed. "Oh is that so? Well that's one thing to brighten my day. Thank you!"

The conversations had slowly fiddled away after that point, as the group only talked about light topics that solely surrounded the task, like travelling orientation and such.

They travelled for about twenty minutes more, before Gerlach urged them to be a bit more cautious, as they were anxiously close to the categorized battle-zone!

The old man had managed to remember the exact spot, where these sharks had been floating over before, that kind of memory was quite convenient.

But of course those enemies wouldn't be swimming in one place forever. So the group, had not exactly found any of those murderous bastards just yet.

However, they had to be here somewhere around here. Finding them was only a matter of time.

But as they continued to put efforts towards such characteristics, other problems began revealing themselves bit by bit.

For example, it was quite difficult to look out far in the distance. Simply because these waters continued to be thickly saturated. And this colour continued to become darker, the deeper they went.

A deep shade of blue covered most of these waters, and illumination itself wasn't at a favourable state; since the sun's rays themselves, had it difficult to reach all the way down here.

The group had only dwelled about one-hundred-meters deep, but that was enough to cut a sizable portion of the overall illumination here.

Osira had the best eyesight in comparison to her other friends, but her capabilities couldn't be considered as too dependable.

Because she could only see around one-hundred-meters ahead, such a distance wasn't exactly clear-sighted either.

But she could still build theories, regarding just what was approaching in the far distance. So all-and-all, this good woman could help them achieve some efficiency in this task.

It was fair to say that the team did their best to progress towards the task at hand, but peace was something that they all lacked.

The reasons behind that fact, can be easily defined. For example: in any normal situation, they barely cared about what surrounded them, especially while travelling.

But here, they were looking for big and obviously dangerous enemies; such circumstances required top-level perception, which in exchange had built up a tower of anxiety.

Once again, the mantis shrimp was efficiently able to sense all of the stress in this group; so he put in an attempt to break the silence.

And the main topic surrounded the confrontation itself, "Who will protect Tim through this glorious battle?"

Although the young man proved utterly clueless a few times, such a sentence had forced him to become focused. And unsurprisingly, he had taken offense from such words.

That was why he utterly refused, "I don't need protecting!"

"Yes you do," The black-grouper joined the conversation, and spoke lightly.

Her statement was more of a command, and she wanted to make sure that it was properly asserted. "You've been asleep for a week, and you can't even focus on a conversation right now. I doubt that you will be able to kill a shark, don't be dumb."

Noticing what this good woman wanted to say, the sea-disk decided to agree. "Uh, yeah probably you're right. I don't even remember what a shark looks like."

Such a claim was tremendously impactful! It had managed to push the group towards inevitable worry, because forgetting how an apex predators of the oceans looked like, seemed almost impossible!

Every member of the group, had a question of their own to ask after that point; but neither of them knew how to project their thoughts that quickly, especially now when their anxiety had reached above the waters and headed towards the mountains!

However, regardless of how many questions they wanted to ask right now ~ such a luxury had been yanked away from them!

Because Osira managed to notice a specific feature in the far distance, and shouted. "Shark ahead!"

And when the group heard her call for attention, their eyes dotted towards what she was looking at. In exchange, they were quick to notice a fat animal charging against them!

It took no effort to notice that this was a great-white, but its size was still overwhelming in comparison to what they had seen before!

Most of the group had synced into a bit of shock, but one of the most powerful warriors was still ready for battle.

Unsurprisingly, that someone was Osira! The skilled black-grouper was already eyeing the target in question, and tried to pick the best time to attack!

It wasn't difficult to understand that this bastardous marine animal, had no good-hearted intent behind all of that energy; the craving for slaughter was visible in its body language!

And once this god-forsaken enemy had gotten a bit less than twenty-meters close, the young lady decided to spring into action.

She swiftly generated a ball of black-light, right in front of her forehead. This was the biggest one she had ever made until now, and was quick to blast it against the enemy!

Unsurprisingly, this marvelous and simple looking bit of transparent light, pierced through the waters with grand speed! A naked eye could barely catch it.

And its seemingly bigger size that stretched three-feet-long, managed to put quite some pressure against the waters!

It reached to the point where the fabric of water itself, unleashed a short lasting whistle! It was quite loud, and slightly hurt the ears of all present ~ but it was pale in comparison, to the holler of collision!