Chapter 6 - Health -10
Charging towards a detected Urchin has to be the best part when hunting such a species because they can't really dash away, these small things crawl really slowly.
Stalking the species for a few seconds but realizing that taking too much time here, being exposed to danger, isn't such a good idea.
So he finally reached close enough to take a bite of the spiny sea creature.
Satisfaction far from Tim's disposition, the black points surrounding the U...
2025-02-11 11:43:25 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 5 - Just in time
"Wow, I woke up and there isn't a shark trying to kiss me." Tim mumbled, realizing he has slept like a rock and his fins feel heavy too.
Taking a peek around, it's fair to say that he isn't the only life form in this little nice hole of a home.
There are no threats, nothing to worry about but shrimps of the same species have slowly called this place home.
They are less in number this time, Tim can count 4 of them. He isn't hungry at all but 4 ...
2025-02-11 11:42:24 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 4 - Pin point
Chomp chomp chomp!
Went Tim through one of these shrimps, avoiding the legs but still accidentally biting through one, at least these shrimps can't fight back and he doesn't even have to use his barb.
No no, it's just swim forward and eat these things alive, tad brutal but it's for the sake of survival. It's how the ecosystem works come to think of it so there is no time to feel bad about it.
[Marble Shrimp identified, statistics have been saved i...
2025-02-11 11:41:04 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 3 - The momentum
Unwilling to budge away and run, the shark directly charges towards Tim, it's nose straight forward and the tail flapping left to right on the end side of the shark.
This is a terrible situation to be in, the shark isn't huge but still has to be at least 2 meters long, while Tim is small and slow!
Unwilling to just wait for the shark to come and take him out with a bite, Tim swims directly downwards with an aim to bury himself in the sand again.
<...
2025-02-11 11:40:03 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 2 - Enemy
"System, I've been waiting for an hour now! Where the hell are those crabs?" Tim let out yet another complaint but now at least his behaviour can be acceptable, it isn't easy to wait for an hour for food, while being dangerously hungry.
[You've been waiting for 37 minutes, guests aren't supposed to lie.]
[You should wait, crustacea will eventually come here. Talking isn't recommended, it can scare away prey.]
While the two exchanged a bit of words, Ti...
2025-02-11 11:38:38 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 1 - System reboot
"The Hell!? Why am I underwater?"
[System Reboot]
[Loading...]
[I'm your Ocean Survival System, you are my Servant.]
[Feed me Points, and I'll show you the Secrets of Survival with the aid of body Upgrades.]
"Oh for the Love of..."
...
[Your first task = Locate and eat any small species of the Crustacea, Juveniles are preferable.]
Still confused about what the hell is happening here, and how did he [Tim Lake] get ...
2025-02-11 11:36:31 +0000 UTC
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ChatGPT is a powerful tool, or perhaps my writing is just that good? đ
2025-02-10 23:16:32 +0000 UTC
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A great visual made with ChatGPT based on the I'm a Stingray? series.
2025-02-10 23:09:57 +0000 UTC
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The team continued their search for Frost Orc eggs. The task was quite difficult, as their search was purely based on luck and chance itself, but the method they developed was the best that they could think of, so they just pushed forward.
The team found comfort in the fact that a Kelketuk demon was guarding them, and thanks to that fact, they could melt a hole through any bit of ice, without fearing what could pop out from there. That way, their luck-based search didn't feel as overw...
2025-02-10 23:00:56 +0000 UTC
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2025-02-09 23:52:33 +0000 UTC
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I had ChatGPT read my chapters, and through some hassle, I had it create some great pics based on Volume 2 of the series. If you read the volume, you will instantly recognize what these pics are about!
2025-02-09 23:23:00 +0000 UTC
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âOh, hell nah! I'm not fighting that.â Tim grunted. âI spend thousands of system points amplifying my shit, but I can't even make a dent on this icy-looking bastardâŚâ
Timothy had shot at it already, but he discovered that his massive fireballs attacks weren't exactly effective against this beast. Dragons of any kind were typically difficult to fight, and the bigger they were, the more difficult they were for one to inflict damage upon, nonetheless kill!
In this case, the...
2025-02-09 20:23:55 +0000 UTC
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Considering that their deep dive didnât lead them to any nests of dragon eggs, the team had to reconsider their approach. After some brief theories, they decided to head back towards the surface of the sea.
On the surface, they could do two things. They could either explore the large patches of ice anywhere down to the one-hundred meter depth mark, hoping to find Frost Orc dens, or, they could stick to the surface itself, and explore the dry-ish land of snow and ice. Though these opti...
2025-02-06 21:18:10 +0000 UTC
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Being flightless birds out on the North Pole was a tough task back on earth, and it was especially tough on this planet, with magical beasts swimming around. They could get wiped out any moment if they weren't careful enough!
Some beast could simply eat them whole, and this was their biggest fear for the time being, because they experienced this sort of danger before. A Sea Orc had swallowed them whole once, all of them, apart from Timothy, so they knew how dangerous these serpentine cr...
2025-02-06 19:52:43 +0000 UTC
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Timothy opened a portal in the castle, the one that would take them back to the main universe. The flow of time between the two universes were massively different, with an hour in Purpureus Mundi equating to fourteen days back in the main universe. Considering that they spend well over thirty-six hours here, it meant that around sixteen months had already passed in the main universe, a flow which gave them a great example of how time dilation worked!
Now Timothy and the team couldnât ...
2025-02-02 20:37:22 +0000 UTC
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Timothy and Ortana made a few more potions. They made twenty of them, and figured that it was best to leave them here, in the castle, because it wouldn't be as easy for them to carry the bottles in the real world, where they would have to shapeshift into small birds soon. They stashed the bottles here, and didn't worry much about expiry dates, because the flow of time was on their side here.
With these bottles of potions accumulated, they felt ready to leave this needle universe, and th...
2025-01-29 16:40:23 +0000 UTC
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Timothy and Ortana went down to the basement, so they could practice alchemy. At some point they considered the basement to be a more quiet space, and the best place to relax in too, because the main floor was getting a bit crowded. Well, the mule he had created made it seem crowded, as it chowed down on anything it could get its tongue around!
The mule had a brain of its own, Timothy gave it one, so the mule wasnât a brainless zombie who listened to every verbal command, no, it was j...
2024-12-21 17:05:43 +0000 UTC
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After Timothy figured out that the Air Roots were effective, progress was inevitable! He knew that he'd progress even more if he ate the remaining root, but of course this also meant that he had to suffer through hallucinations again, and he wasn't ready to do that just yet. He needed to rest first, perhaps eat as well, otherwise he might just go insane if he sped this process up!
Timothy simply healed the minor brain damage that he had experienced, and then went upstairs, to the main ...
2024-12-19 21:54:31 +0000 UTC
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Once consuming a bit of the Air Root, Timothy saw a lot of things. Subconsciously, he was happy that he didn't eat the whole thing, because it would've been life-threatening otherwise! Goblins weren't meant to eat psychedelics from another universe, from the looks of it.
The hallucinations started out soft, with a few shadow people running around him, but then the shadow people were replaced by a giant, shadow snake! The snake was bigger than the average python snake, stretching over t...
2024-12-16 14:50:30 +0000 UTC
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âAah, you mean drugs, right? Psychedelics? I think that's what you call them in your language.â Bindal followed along. His decent ears may even be linked to a higher intelligence, because he picked up on hints in a way that humans never could. âCome to think of it, most plants here will make you see weird things if you donât cook them long enough, be warned. Unless you have a really good reason to eat an Air Root, I advise against it, because it can hurt you more than it can benefit y...
2024-12-15 16:18:21 +0000 UTC
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The needle universe of Purpureus Mundi was small, it was tiny even, considering that it was technically a universe with its own, special borders, but when one explored its lands on foot, it looked a lot bigger to the common observer. The dense forest, which was difficult to walk through without experiencing tens of cuts, made the surface of the universe seem all the more larger!
The team didnât have a great time exploring it, especially since they had taken the position of a pack mule...
2024-12-14 16:13:06 +0000 UTC
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The team were getting used to this universe, regardless of how its crimson features weren't so easy on the eyes. The wonders of this place outweighed the dangers, so for once, they weren't as hesitant to be outside of the protective walls of the castle. This universe became Timothy's because of dumb luck alone, that's what he figured, so it was best to make the most use even out of such luck!
At some point, he even started memorizing the types of plants around him, even though he didn'...
2024-12-14 16:12:34 +0000 UTC
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The attempt to create a telekinetic ability for himself, was an utter failure! He just couldn't do it, even though he technically understood what it would take to create one, he still couldnât absorb it. This was infuriating!
The lesser man would be tricked into trying hundreds of times to try and absorb the ability, but Timothy was no lesser man. He paused this task all together, and didn't want to pay attention to it again until he got some new information about the matter that he c...
2024-12-14 16:11:54 +0000 UTC
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The alchemical values of this needle universe were well-developed, and therefore, hyper-specific. He needed specific ingredients if he was to make potions, which may be a daunting task, considering that he needed to collect weeds as well, on top of other things. All of the weeds here were crimson red, so he wouldnât be able to tell them apart from one another, not without racking up some experience first, at least. He couldnât skip this part, regardless of how high his IQ was.
The o...
2024-12-13 16:07:02 +0000 UTC
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After clearing up the castle from those several corpses, Timothy had four tasks in mind, each of which were more important than the other, but yet their prioritization varied. He didnât prioritize the most important task, such as the deeper understanding of the flow of time, no, he thought that such a task would take a long time until he saw some benefits out of it, so he didnât want to officially start it.
Instead, he got to the castle library, and wanted to absorb as much informat...
2024-12-10 21:50:48 +0000 UTC
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The situation that Timothy just faced, and suffered through, was beyond confusing. He didnât know what to make of it, and come to think of it he was still shook up by the fact that he suffered numerous mental illnesses just a moment ago as well! A strong headache pumped on his forehead, and it wouldnât go away regardless of how much he tried to heal himself. This headache also stemmed from the fact that he could not comprehend the creature, that odd being which he just met!
âWhat ...
2024-12-09 13:25:17 +0000 UTC
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Timothy didnât like being snuck up on, so when a weird voice spoke to him from the shadows, he was not a fan. He attacked this sneaky man without even turning around, by unleashing his trusty Electro Nerve Splitter ability!
Humans, or intelligent creatures of any sort were not welcome in his universe, not under the current settings, so he attacked, and hoped for the best, however, his attack did not work! He quickly realized that there weren't any physical targets that he could shoot ...
2024-12-07 19:19:33 +0000 UTC
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The team made it to the twelve-thousand kilometer mark in no time! As birds, the distance they were making, with little to no effort was exemplary, and in a way, it was also unexpected! Timothy wouldnât have ever thought that birds, or the bodies of birds were this useful, it was beyond him.
However, just after they hit that mark, they ran into a problem that was not related with what theyâve faced throughout their travels so far. There was no simple way to prepare against it.
...
2024-12-06 21:30:55 +0000 UTC
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Turning into birds was perhaps the best idea they were ever presented with. The Arctic Tern had evolved to fly such great distances, regardless of how severe the temperatures around it might become, so all-in-all, this species seemed like their best option, their best mode of transportation!
It was easy to turn into one of them as well. The system showed Timothy a video of how an Arctic Tern looked like, and he was able to replicate its form himself, by shapeshifting into one! The team...
2024-12-01 20:36:22 +0000 UTC
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The time of day reflected in the phantom world, equal to the physical world. The sun rose from the east, and set to the west, so the team met at midnight after they spent a few hours away from each other. They met at the tavern where Ortana and Gustav were wasting their time at.
They didn't intend to drink, however, because they had some strong conversations to hold with each other. Most of them found the phantom city of Fortuna very useful, so it wasnât surprising how they wanted to...
2024-11-30 22:09:57 +0000 UTC
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