I'm a Stingray?

Chapter 43: EQ

As his little stingray eyes open, the first thing in his vision, thankfully wasn't an enemy practicing low scale molestation, such as a kiss.

But instead, he saw the 4 fishy friends that were near him before slumber overtook reason and conscious.

The system immediately put in an effort to wake Timmy up quicker by giving in some grand base information.

[Health bar = 50/100]

[Hunger bar = 0/15]

[Sleep = 32/35]

[Stamina = 13/15]

The hunger portion was alarming, he was happy that the health wasn't dropping down because of it but still had to ask the system with a brief thought. "What happened? I slept with like, 17 hunger bars."

[You went asleep while your stomach was still active, working at double the pace. So most of what you consumed has been burned down.]

[System advises to eat what you can scrape off the tiger grouper carcass, there is still a lot to eat off it.]

"Okay." Tim answered as he gave out a yawn, understanding only half of what the system said.

Remembering that he wasn't alone here, the boy greeted his friends. "Thank you for guarding me guys... and you, lady."

"The crabs are still praising you. Their little ones explained the entire battle, so these crabs feel big and confident for pairing up with someone so strong." Amie explained while her brother was communicating with the pufferfish brothers, regarding another topic.

With food in his mind, Tim swam towards the carcass and took a couple of bites before answering. "It wasn't easy but bosses don't back up from fights."

"You truly are a boss." Amie complimented, with a smile on her fishy face.

Spotting the ongoing conversation between Rummy and the pufferfish brothers, Tim asked. "Since you speak their language, can you ask them why Marlo sent them here?"

Through a bit more chewing, Tim got into a brisk realisation. Eating the same tiger grouper body, won't grant another ray of stomach upgrades. It strikes a fact out, that these temporary upgrades were a one time thing if taken from a single fish body.

Tad limiting but Timmy didn't want to complain about it, because it felt weird to go through the stomach upgrade, felt like pregnancy.

Rummy broke the silence a bit after by translating, "Marlo doesn't want you dead, he is concerned about some other stingray so these fish will be your body guards. Specifically because they can puff."

"Sounds like Marlo alright." Tim answered and continued to chomp on the carcass, his level 3 jaws unwilling to spare bones through the munching.

Amie moved in with another topic right after by explaining, "There also are some pufferfish looking for you. The way you killed these predators was amazing so they have a job for you."

Tad more honest, he answered. "Better not be to rescue more kids, almost died here you know."

Instantly breaking such a thought, Amie contradicted. "You probably won't have to rescue anyone, the pufferfish said that this is a stealth mission. Whatever that means."

"Let me see much pain will go away, can't risk going there without being healed enough." That was practically a way of telling these friends to stop talking so he eat the fish.

A lot of munches later... Tim heard the system granting the only information he wanted to hear about. [Health bar 65/100]

"That's better than I expected, my fins feel a lot better today." The young stingray thought while flapping his fins, and then remembered something stunning. "I got a lot of points yesterday right? These fish weren't easy to kill so..."

[Your current total system points = 113]

Happy that he finally reached such numbers, Timmy requested. "Nice! If I can buy that depth upgrade thing, lay it on me."

[Purchase confirmed]

[Purchase loading]

[Upgrading depth durability by 10 meters....]

At that moment, Timothy felt a sharp pain right on his head. It felt like a hammer struck the noggin but thankfully the pain after that, started reducing.

As it spread on where the neck is supposed to be, covering his body round and round through that area, his pain split in half.

And it continued towards the tail, reducing by half on each step. Tim felt that if the pain he received on his head, equaled to the one he obtained on the rest of his body, it would easily feel as if getting flattened like a pancake.

[Now, guest can go 210 meters underwater without receiving water pressure damage.]

[Purchase completed.]

[75 system points consumed.]

[38 system points remaining.]

"Shouldn't like 80 points remain, I had over a hundred." Tim complained, his math skills explicitly catastrophic.

[System never does mistakes with calculations.]

Ignoring the young boy's stupidity, the system began to explain something that didn't fail to capture all attention.

[3 more purchases have been unlocked.]

[Option number 1 = upgrade barb to level 2]

[Price = 80 system points.]

"What! Finally. This means that I can poison my enemies, right?!" At this point, his enthusiasm broke borders and beyond. Simply because poison, or in this case, venom, sounded pretty cool.

[No. Let's not confuse him with venom. Upgrading your barb, means that you can stab easier and stronger after.]

Trying to keep all good enthusiasm with this, he thought. "Oh... well that's cool. Because I killed everything with my barb."

While the friends around here, just saw the boy peeking at the fish, thinking. "Did he fall asleep?"

Wouldn't be a surprise to think so, as he was just blankly staring at the carcass, having a full on conversation with the system in his head.

[Option number 2 = increase emotional intelligence by 5 points.]

[Price = 110 system points.]

"Hold up hold up hold up!" Tim interrupted, having a hunch that this might be a scam. "I upgraded my intelligence already."

[You upgraded IQ, which includes logical intelligence.]

[This option allows you to increase EQ, which is emotional intelligence.]

[They are 2 types of intelligence, far different from each other but often cooperate.]

[With a high emotional intelligence, you can control emotions. Be it your own or the individuals around you.]

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