Tim squeezed within the reef and its many tents, in search for easy points. He swam around for three hours, quite carefully, but hadn't mao find as many creatures as he hoped to find.

  He just found a few more marble shrimps, and half of them had been in his den. They seemingly were the most abundant creatures in a fifty-meter radius, but their numbers weren’t infinite. He only killed twelve of them, but avoided eating most of them, because he didn’t want to exhaust himself too quickly with their ive side-effects.

  Tim avoided utter exhaustion as long as he could, but yet again, swimming around slowly and carefully for three hours straight, wasn't easy at all. He got tired, and used his st bit of energy to swim back to his den. Then, he fell asleep.

  It was a good idea to rex for a while. Tim wasn’t hungry, and his health went up by six points too, because of the few shrimp he ate. For that matter he could sleep peacefully.

  He went to sleep while hearing a brief notification, from the system's side. [Your health bar now is 75/100 - Good job!]

  …

  "Wow, I woke up and there ain't no shark trying to kiss my face." Tim joked.

  He tried to move around afterwards, but he had slept like a rock, potentially for six hours, so it wasn't easy for him to move. Even as a fish, he had to stretch first!

  He took a peek of the surroundings, and noticed that mother nature had blessed him. A bunarble shrimp had crawled into his home, so quite literally, there were a feoints in front of him which he could reap. Tim felt a bit hungry too, so this was a very good se to wake up to.

  Six of them had crawled in his rge den, and within a couple of minutes, he bit all of their heads off, and thehem. His sharp little pte-shaped jaws were quite effit for the job!

  Throughout that murder spree, he even jokingly yelled. "You're in my nd, hehe!"

  Moments ter, the system announced. [You successfully killed and ate six marble shrimp, and now, you accumuted 18 system points.]

  [Health bar = 87/100 points,] She added.

  "Nice, I feel a lot better too. Need me more shrimps though, I still need like six points to buy that hunting thing." He expressed.

  The system was quick to correct him, she said. [You need 10 points, not 6.]

  Tim wasn’t the best at math, that was obvious. As a stingray, it was astounding that he reized o begin with. Anyway, although he wasn't smart enough to do mathematics, he was smart enough to ask good questions.

  He asked, "Why 't I buy anything else, though? Like tail venom and stuff like that."

  The system repared for questions like this, so she broke the topic down slowly. There were a feects to cover.

  Firstly, she said. [You'll upgrade your tail eventually, amongst hundreds of other powers and attributes that are also avaible. However, it's best to take things slow, and buy the simple stuff first, before you move on to anything dangerous and advanced.]

  Furthermore, she added. [For survival, your options are bracketed to what your current bodyform and size needs, you'll only get a few purchase options at a time. Specifically, this will keep you from making irresponsible purchases. I took the privilege tanize every avaible option for you, based on your overall weaknesses and strengths.]

  "That's good," Tim nodded his ft head along, and added. "I wouldn't trust myself either."

  The system didn't ent on that. She maintained a standard line of professionalism, and focused on more important things.

  Just moments ter, she announced. [You've made progress, Timothy. For that matter, based on your current overall state, you proceed with a task, task wo, to be exact.]

  Then she expined, [Your official, sed task is to locate and kill a bubonic sea ur. Upon pletion, you will receive twenty system points as a reward.]

  In all seriousness, he asked. "Bubonic, huh? Does this mean that the ur has boobs?"

  The system was stumped by that question. For a sed, in her infinite wisdom, she couldn’t figure out if the other was joking or not.

  Eventually though, she answered. [No, it's called bubonic, because a stab from its spiky spines make you gravely ill.]

  "Oh," He mumbled, "I'll avoid its booby spihen, hopefully."

  For a sed he wao avoid this task altogether, but a reward of twenty points sounded great! Number-wise, he'd have to kill twenty shrimps to get that same amount, and surely, he'd rather not waste hours hunting for shrimp. This would even be a good opportunity to buy that upgrade, and even have points to spare afterwards!

  He found a string of enthusiasm just so he could follow this task, and then recalled. "I saw plenty of urs while I was looking at that fshy map of yours, system. They were in the sand out there, out of the reef… so let's hope I find the right ur, before that stupid shark finds me instead."

  Moments ter, he squeezed through a tunnel, and poked his head out of those red, bushy sea pnts. With his limited vision, he wao check if the perimeter was safe. He found himself being all the more careful retly!

  There weren’t any dao speak of, so he left the reef, and used the fmes oip of his fins to swim quickly. Tim felt as if he was a fighter jet, because he didn’t have to move his fins mu order to travel quickly, it was very fun!

  He swam twenty meters away from the reef in seds, and right then, he saw a carcass on the sandy sea-floor. It was an eel, and its body was almost split in half, so the se was gross and pretty graphic! Tim however, was feeling opportunistic, so he quickly took a bite off of the eel.

  To his utter surprise, the system then announced. [You just killed a thunderous moray eel, and as a reward, you received 40 system points! In total, you've accumuted 58 system points, which are to your full disposal.]

  Tim freaked out, and quite joyfully, he asked. "What the hell? But, it was already dead!"

  The system ignored his questions for a moment, and instead, she said. [There are 20 volts of thunderous electricity stored in your barb, and you use half of that amount in a single sed. You either use that amount sparingly, or tio eat the eel carcass in order to accumute more voltages.]

  Tim felt like the luckiest stingray in the world right now, but also, he had so many questions. Plenty!

  At first, he insisted. "So I actally killed this eel… and got all those points? Please answer me, system, don't py with me."

  Finally, she expanded on that question. [I'm not 'pying' with you. It looks like the shark had bitten the moray eel badly yesterday, but it didly kill it. The eel used its voltages of power to stay alive, but it had exhausted most of its powers already. You're lucky, because in any other setting, you would've been fried dead.]

  "Now that's luck," He celebrated.

  Tim could buy that big upgrade now as well, which henomenally advantageous, but chose to push the upgrade away for ter. He was out here with a goal to find an ur, aeo plete that goal.

  However, to protect himself from the potential dangers, he took a few more bites off of the dead eel, and accumuted a total of fifty points of voltage on his tail's pointed barb. Tim would love to figure out just how dangerous this 'thunderous voltage' was, so for once, he hoped to get attacked by a shark. For once, he felt powerful, rather than helpless!