Timothy, and Genta recruited a bunch of fish. Well, she did most of the work but the results were still great. They recruited well over the original amount of blobs that they were looking to recruit, as four-hundred blobs joined their cause!

  Four-hundred of them was a bit too much for one to manage, but she could work with them nonetheless. The tens of extra blobs could help assure precision, because for now, Genta didn't need them to be speedy or anything like that, no, as precision was the key if she was to set up the foundation for a large-scale operation! She wanted to plant hundreds of mana roots, after all, not two or three!

  “Recruiting the Grundus Blobs made our jobs a lot easier,” Genta said, though she refused to elaborate.

  Anyway, aside from the blobs, the several other species within this cavern were enthralled to join, so they simply asked if they could! Genta didn't have a specific task to give them, but considering how desolate the coral reef was right now, she accepted all of them without thinking twice about it!

  Eight-hundred more fish joined her cause, even some anglerfish who weren't supposed to live in a reef to begin with. They were eager! The contribution that these numerous species of fish were to make was ecological, as by simply living in the reef, they could keep it healthy, and alive!

  “I can't believe that we invited them to come live in our reef, and just have sex in there…” Timothy sighed, and he inputted a very specific perspective there. He couldn’t help but think about it, as if it was an intrusive thought.

  “That's what repopulation is about, yes.” Genta followed along, and then she added. “Focus on the prize instead, focus on all of the mana roots that we're going to plant, and sprout!”

  “We have mana brackets over our heads, so… fish fucking in the reef remains in my mind.” He said, though this time, he said the latter as a joke.

  Anyway, regardless of what he thought, the results that they achieved today were still fabulous. Timothy and Genta left that cavern with over twelve-hundred fish by their side, and her silver tongue alone achieved these results! In mere minutes of work, the reef was about to receive a boost of life that it had desperately needed for years now!

  However, the lot of these fish were very weak, most of them were at level-one in the God's Punishment Realm of mana, so Timothy had to think of something to protect them, so as their contributions to the reef wouldn’t be short lasting! Fish were supposed to eat one another, that was only natural, it was just that he didn't want them getting wiped out in less than a week. He could have his slaves protect the fish, but his slaves were beings who required sustenance, so they were well accustomed to various methods of fishing, meaning that they'd attack random fish on sight! They weren’t the best guys for the case.

  After thinking about it a little bit, he figured out another, good idea before they even made it to the reef! His idea included the Master's Will ability.

  “If I can arm some of these motherfuckers with fireballs, then even a sardine can become a guard.” He thought, and that was exactly what he was going to do. “Arming some of these fish is less of a headache than creating more slaves, cause I don't want to look after more undead bastards. I'll give these fish the means to protect themselves, and their communities.”

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  It didn't take long to get some volunteers as soon as he pitched the idea. Twenty anglerfish volunteered immediately, and they wanted to be more powerful on account of their vicious nature, so it was easy to pick out their motives. He understood why they were enthusiastic. He didn't plan on making them too strong, however, just in case they betrayed him, or the reef.

  The Master's Will ability made this little plan of his possible. It was an ability that was typically used on undead creatures, to give them powers, but despite what was practiced typically, and despite that it was labeled a necromantic ability, it still wasn’t exclusive to the undead. He could cast it on living, breathing beings as well, even though it was far more expensive and complicated for him to do so. At the very least, it would be really interesting to try these powers out on living creatures, as he wanted to explore every inch of this superiorly useful ability!

  Using the Master's Will ability, he gave each of these anglerfish the ability to cast fireballs, and he upgraded their mana quality to level three. Level three was just good enough for them to scare off small sharks, though, it would take a lot more than their given arsenal for them to actually kill a shark, but this was good enough! Their powers were balanced.

  There were tens of other volunteers, a third of which were two-inch sardines. It may seem pointless to arm sardines, but they were creatures who swam in schools, as in, big groups of fish. With an upgraded, level two mana quality to aid them, these fifty sardines could essentially shoot fifty, hot fireballs per second, thus, they were a force to be reckoned with in tough situations! Assuming that they wouldn't end up shooting each other accidentally, and regarding that matter, Timothy just hoped for the best.

  The rest of the volunteers, apart from a few groupers, were just mere four-inch long reef fish. They weren't the most vicious, but they had plenty of reasons to be here, as for example, their ancestors had been chased away from their original home decades ago. The reef they were heading towards, was the reef where their ancestors came from, so they were ever so happy to go there, and they were especially motivated to protect it!

  Timothy armed this group of one-hundred fish, with the ability to cast fireballs. There were eight species in this specific group of volunteers, half of which were butterfly fish, which were less than lethal species even when powers were given to them, but still, there was strength in numbers. The rest of this specific group consisted of a few flounders, wrasses, and tiger groupers!

  Timothy was convinced that the tiger groupers would be the most useful fish here, so he armed all ten of them properly. He gave them the ability to shoot fireballs, and bounced their mana quality up to level five, since they had already possessed level two mana! He expected these flounders to be the prime protectors of the reef, especially since most of them were almost a meter long in size!

  It took twenty-thousand dark mana points to arm all of them, which seemed a bit expensive considering that he had worked on small fish, mostly, but he hadn't worked on just a couple of fish, after all. He worked on one-hundred and seventy of them, and he had absolutely altered what they were biologically capable of! It wasn’t easy to painlessly level up one's mana pool, after all, and it took a grand understanding of how mana worked. He had seen deep within their veins, blood vessels, and organs up until he influenced their upgrades!

  Timothy's high MQ came in handy with this matter, he fixed them up in under half-an-hour as soon as they got to the reef! He had turned into an Aqus Goblin himself, and then performed.

  After he armed them, he then decided to warn them, because these fish weren't at his direct command despite the powers that he gave them. They could abuse their powers rather easily, so he wanted to make sure that they understood what was at stake!