Timothy the Stingray was a man of many ambitions, he was a great example for any mages who wanted to progress into the higher realms of mana! His ambitions were great, but his knowledge was still under development, as there was only so much that an earthling could figure out on his own, after stepping onto a massive, complicated planet.
One thing that eluded him for a long time, was the fact that countless civilizations, or tribes, lived in vastly different time periods, even though th...
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This is a comic based on a little side story that I wrote. It's based on the I'm a Stingray? revamped universe, and it features two cavemen brothers experimenting with mana.
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After giving it just a few moments of logical thinking, Timothy decided to point out what most would expect, forging it as an order. "Look, we obviously can't use our own friends as food so their bodies should be buried somewhere."
A random reef shark whom survived this battle, decided to question the foundation of this new authority. "How could we bury all these fish? It would take a lifetime."
Although he was a bit staggered how anyone of this tribe would be picky after such a c...
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And so, the craze-encrusted enemy had somehow plumped back in colour, that natural brown skin restored only on specific patches.
The last time Timothy had seen this monster carrying such life, was when he faced her back at the first den whom contained such awful green substance.
The big bad enemy began moving around, twisting left and right as if she was another soul whom had reincarnated into this body and was trying it out in panic.
With a massive burst of energy, she near...
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Once he was struck back to the battle after Osira thundered through his hearing holes, every emotion of which the hero contained, rapidly became replaced by nothing but boiling and blood-thirsty rage!
He arose from the very sand that carried the fins when he was gazing upon Marlo, and locked vision with the closest enemy before lunging forward.
Speed for once in a while became a perk all thanks to this precious rage. Definitely something worth being proud about but it still was ba...
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The den carried 40 more of these bastards now, their quantity isn't so easy to comprehend especially since the den was filled with fish now.
Such a situation made Timmy think, "No wonder none of these pufferfish were in their homes, they were waiting to attack us!"
If one would want to move around here, they would have to inevitably face one of these enemies and it was the same result if one didn't want to move from their spot.
Tim was one of the first to notice these enemie...
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"Can't eat me, you bastard!" Timothy shouted as he used those little fins to lunge backwards with one big flap.
Such a procedure aided to form the banana attack, therefore his barb stuck out forward and struck right against the enemy's head.
But the attack wasn't good enough, the barb sunk just a quarter of an inch deep, nothing but a scratch for a monster like this one.
The 3 foot wide anglerfish decided to charge straight forward after that point, clapping her teeth over a...
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The crackling sounds continued to grow, ignoring it now was impossible regardless of what thoughts the most recent event could arouse, and what struck him amazed the most from this situation was a claw that finally managed to burst out of the ceiling.
The claw was pointy and no doubt large for a crab although it was just about 7-9 centimetres long, such a scene made the boy think just how that could be possible.
The thin line that coated the ceiling before had advanced more than e...
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And another familiar tone followed up with an answer, "No I didn't find him, it's like that crazy fish ate our brother!"
Shaking his head a tad bit, firmly shocked because of what kind of melody managed to bless the hearing senses, but yet paranoid and thinking that the gas had started causing hallucinations - Tim still shouted out, "I'm down here!"
"What the fuck?" He heard a female tone shout out, the holler was short but underestimating its weight would be dumb. And considering...
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Taking a few seconds to comprehend the entire complex of that sound, Tim felt shocked and struggled to admit what the situation was evolving to. "It can't be, my luck can't be that bad!"
"I can sense you down here, motherfucker!" That same female tone shouted, it felt like she was far away but the tone was loud enough to cause a few goosebumps and raise the inevitable feeling of danger.
Majorly unwilling to battle such an enemy while carrying a low health bar and no friend to aid ...
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Gazing upon the approaching enemy, Tim had a hard time identifying just what kind of species it was. Apart from the earlier stated features, this species seemed pretty round and textureless ~ there was no place to focus on apart from the size and crotch.
This marine animal is hard to identify but the young stingray didn't care about specifics, he only knew that fighting this enemy would be a terrifically bad idea.
Concerned because the topic surrounded him as the newcomer, the bra...
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Knowing for a fact that this entire 'holy tar' business won't be understood unless he plays it cool here, Timothy answered with half a tone carrying calmness and the other one pushing rage away. "How could I kill a fish like that? I'm small and helpless!"
Yelling was a criteria necessary to shun away the bit of sarcasm he had in that projected tone and it didn't fail to make everything a lot more believable, he began feeling cocky regarding just how well these bastards can be fooled.
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The enemies could indeed sense that something was... in the waters, but haven't yet determined Tim's exact location.
Opposing disaster by a small little hunch, a couple more familiar creatures ran across his vision and didn't fail to spike attention along with joy. Perhaps they have been a bit hidden until now, either that or he didn't pay attention to the surroundings enough considering that bigger enemies were close by.
"Leggy crabs!" Tim celebrated with an internal shout and sl...
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Chapter 89 - Advantageous disadvantage
The two sides of the stick now being on an inevitable death stare towards each other, Tim couldn't help getting angrier by the passing moment all thanks to the wound inflicted on his left arm, the pain itself was sharp but the ego linked with it was even sharper.
He killed these same species effortlessly before, but now this pufferfish who doesn't seem to be any different, managed to leave quite opposing damage. It wasn't the easiest on the s...
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Chapter 88 - Miss
As he went through the tunnel that was the closest to reach, swimming 15 meters in it, Tim's field of vision was captured by what in all terms, was a marine animal.
Happy but yet nervous to see life down here, he couldn't help but yell out. "Leggy crabs!"
And then charged right towards these fine species, using the ground itself here that sunk down just by a foot ~ making this meal appear like it was already in a bowl.
By now the little stingray had e...
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Chapter 87: Returning grace
Motivation becoming his best friend now, although we can't say that it was lacking up until this point - Timothy avoided to charge straight forward against the tiny hole and instead just slowly swam near it.
With a prime idea in mind, he began to test his jaws along the tiny rocky hole, making sure it's biteable before risking to break those little jaws in an attempt to break through this natural prison.
After about 15 seconds of testing, he figur...
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Chapter 86 - Testing the waters
With the ear drumming sound still following, Timothy put in all effort to swim faster and faster through the waters for just about 5 more meters, which fairly was crossed in half a second since fear helped break through his average speed.
Thankfully no damage managed to bless his tail with what could feel like anus pain if the tail was severed enough, that bodily durability upgrade he had made, was sure coming in handy.
It proved extremely use...
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Chapter 85 - Restriction
[Yes, your points are sufficient to upgrade your barb.]
Happy that he finally reached the step of upgrading that specific body part, joy began to take over all other emotions as he spun once in place, thinking out a chant. "Yes!"
And then remembered that the system requires a specific command, therefore he also added. "Upgrade my barb then!"
[Purchase confirmed]
[Loading purchase...]
Right at that second, the small yet worthy stingr...
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Chapter 84 - New objective (2)
After giving the ladies a long gaze, Marlo came up with an idea and pitched. "Then they better stay here, I can't let under any circumstances, let my people get hurt or killed while we are away handling this long awaited duty."
"But I want to come and fight!" Haze opposed the idea, craving the blood of the enemy whom ate their siblings right in front of them. "Harold must die by my fins, he must!"
Giving out a direct order, although calmly inte...
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Chapter 83 - New objective (1)
It took a while to drag a 1 meter long tunafish towards the hidden den, specifically since that den was a few hundred kilometres away, just entering the reef would take 300 meters of travel.
But yet the fish was surprisingly light for something that big, it had to range somewhere around 15 kilos. Surely enough to scarcely feed the whole tribe, but considering the food pile, no one would have to rely on what one hunter brings home.
On the way th...
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Chapter 82 - Similarities
"Got it!" Haze shouted and didn't wait for his brother to orientate.
Wanting to yell out that it was too dangerous to go alone but yet knowing that such a demand would have played no value in controlling his sibling, Timmy just hurried along after her.
One thing he particularly noticed was his sister's speed... it wasn't normal for a stingray whom as well was just 41 days old.
The tunafish had emerged from the depths of the mist, rather aimles...
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Chapter 81 - Legendary
In just a second, the stingray slowed down and stopped on its spot. That's when the next and yet hardest to find step initiated. He began to feel a violent shake, it took just a moment of common logic to realise how it was happening.
He could even feel the movements of the fish, specifically how it was arching that back and then letting the belly round up like a ball. At that point it was easy to determine that the enemy was doing the cow-cat yoga pose viole...
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Chapter 80 - Bite bite bite!
Although at this point far behind the target, he could still see it leap out of the sea waters and then bash down into a belly flop.
That surely hasn't done any damage, suffocation was not a problem but the impact against water could have been damaging, although minimalistic.
The tunafish afterwards began to charge straight down, no one could access its mind and exactly predict where it was going... but it was a bit obvious considering the curren...
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Chapter 79 - Home (2)
Knowing that she might not be the best hunter, instead he put value on other aspects, therefore inviting. "No rush. Better come with me, we have another mission on our hands."
Sensing danger but unwilling to back down, she swallowed fear by asking. "Oh really? What do we have to do?"
"Kinda like what we did before, but I need you to translate if we meet fish I can't understand." Well the boy was drowsy enough to be direct, it was clear that this lady ...
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Chapter 78 - Home (1)
Travelling the next 12 hours became much easier all thanks to the massive kill the leader of the diamond stingrays managed to make.
The much capable lady had managed to find, battle and kill a reef shark. It was understandable really, considering a full grown reef shark was usually half a meter long. But the thought of killing a shark weighed heavy upon the subconscious, as commonly it wasn't something easy to do.
When it came to the pact of solitude wi...
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Chapter 77 - Recovery
Although eating that starfish helped to successfully complete task 6, it didn't really satisfy hunger enough for energy to be yielded out of it.
So after observing this little opening here, the boy managed to spot a small tunnel in the middle of this place's left walls. The tunnel was half his size so imagining just how small this spot was, shouldn't exactly be a problem.
Desperate enough to give it a try, the young man swam towards that tunnel and bega...
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Chapter 76 - Cartoons
Throughout travelling under a day, the group of 6 fish was blessed with the eye sore of dead coral that gave a vibe the same like a wicked disease. It would be reasonable to think so, as the damaged portion stood right in the middle of this entire coral reef.
It truly was unsettling but yet the rest of the group could not understand what the whole point was. Sure the coral here had died out but what did it have to do with the reef life in general? No matter h...
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Chapter 75 - End of recruitment
It took barely a second to swim away from the enemy and make a sharp turn to face her. Seeing that the lady barely had any energy to move at this point, perhaps because of the slice across her belly, Timmy decided to offer another route out of this.
Here, he came to completely vaporize the enemy but now seeing just how fast she went down and what condition the lady was at right now, petty moved in. She almost killed him before and now... went down w...
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Chapter 74 - Ruthless
Gazing at the very beings that were shaking her soul, Alba pointed out with a stutter. "You are supposed to be dead... the tunafish told me so!"
Rather confident at this point after enjoying the fear in this opposer's eyes, one of these diamond stingrays had to speak out, specifically one of the men. "Being dead and being in hiding has a fine line, the difference would be life and death itself. So you were gravely mistaken, misinformed."
At this point u...
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Chapter 73 - Whom do the odds favour?
But yet these tunafish weren't lined in perfect order, some proved slower than the others and therefore were far behind from the rest.
While some proved faster than anyone else of their kind, specifically 2 of them.
Speed as a perk in this battle, Timmy charged directly towards them, although in a way it did seem like he was going against the entire group. He did not want to back down, especially now when he felt so successful.
Hel...
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