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Sebastian still wanted to refute the outrageous claims of the system, but he immediately stopped as he felt his abdominal muscles churn while making some weird but familiar sounds.
"I need food". He declared.
From the way things currently were, he guessed that his journey in this world would definitely not be too smooth. Even if at such a low level, he had such an appetite, that meant the more he evolved, the more he would eat.
"I'll really become a glutton then". He lampooned.
Because of this, he had no choice but to cancel his plans of taking things slow and steady. Now, he needed to act as the predator and great hunter that he was, he couldn't sully the dignity of great white sharks.
Still carefully, he started swimming farther away from the outwards slope of the cave where he's spent the first few days of his life.
He swam downwards a bit closer to the ocean bed, his belly was now rubbing the sea plants and weed as he swam across. He did this to hide his body and his movements a bit, this was an essential skill of any hunter.
The blueish-green glow of this sea illuminated the surroundings, making sure that he saw as far as possible through his sharp eyes.
Like a stalking predator, he didn't move too fast nor did he move too slow. His tail fin just kept flipping left and right, pushing the water gently as he moved slowly with his eyes trained to the front constantly.
His electroreceptors also worked as a compliment to his eyes, the invisible electromagnetic lines kept on pulsing and spreading to the surroundings, presenting any nearby scene directly to his brain.
He didn't even have to move far, just about a minute after he was forced to move out, he saw his first prey. A Bluefin Tuna, just like the one that he killed when he was still low-leveled.
He didn't rush out immediately. Confident that he had sharper eyesight than the Tuna, he slowly approached with no intentions to rush things.
The distance between them was slowly being closed. When the distance lessened to just a few meters between them, he finally made his move.
[You have activated skill: Dash.]
The water moved past his face at an extremely fast speed as soon as he dashed out from his position. Compared to before, with his improved attributes, he was now countless times faster.
The Bluefin Tuna suddenly turned having detected the vibrations in the water, but it was too late.
[You have activated skill: Battering ram.]
[You have activated skill: Shredding bite.]
Boom!
He first collided with the huge Tuna's body, he heard sounds like a few screws being loosened in the Tuna's body but he didn't give a damn. Taking advantage of the fact that it was stunned from the collision, he viciously bit down.
Crunch!
His first bite ripped a significant amount of flesh from the Tuna's body, this seemed to finally anger the fellow as the familiar light of magic suddenly erupted around its body.
The Tuna rapidly turned, faced its opponent, and opened its mouth wide. The particles of sand around immediately began converging, in seconds the particles transformed into solid rock before being thrown at Sebastian.
Green magic power suddenly erupted from his body at this moment. Hauling his huge sharky body forward, he smashed through the rock and arrived before his opponent again.
With his magic power surrounding and empowering his teeth, he bit down hard onto the Tuna's hide again.
The Tuna let out a soft yell of pain but Sebastian did not let up, he bit down again, and its magic shield finally popped into pieces. As soon as his teeth dug in completely, he immediately started shaking his body left and right.
Just like chain saws, his sharp teeth started shredding the opponent to pieces. The Tuna struggled some more, it flapped its tailfin repeatedly in vain, a few seconds later it finally went limp.
[You have killed a Bluefin Tuna- Level 13: You have gained experience.]
[You have gained 3 Skill points and 5 Adaptation points.]
Seeing how easily he killed this fellow that caused him problems the first time that they met, Sebastian felt smug a bit. Adding a certain swagger to his swim, he went closer to taste the juicy flesh of his prey.
Whoosh!
As soon as he heard the sound, he felt something sting his skin. Through his electroreceptor skill, he concentrated and was shocked to see black blood suddenly flowing from his stomach.
[You have been hit by a cone snail's harpoon: You have been poisoned.]
[You will receive 3 damage every second until you purge the poison.]
"The heck?"
Alert all of a sudden, Sebastian looked down and searched his surrounding for any opponent but he could not detect any. As he looked around, he suddenly heard the same whooshing sound again.
The harpoon stung him again, he couldn't dodge but he finally located the sneaky cone snail's hideout. It cleverly dug itself a bit under the ocean bed, blending its color with the surroundings.
Having detected it, Sebastian did not hesitate to attack.
[You have activated skill: Magic Teeth.]
Pu! Pu! Pu! Clang!
3 deadly teeth were shot out in quick succession but Sebastian was stunned as a small magic shield shimmered to life around the small snail, easily deflecting all the damage away.
Feeling his dignity sullied a bit by that, Sebastian immediately abandoned his food and personally decided to finish this nuisance.
Activating his dash skill again, the water bubbled and stirred behind him as he rushed closer to the cowardly snail.
[Your Dash skill has leveled up to level 4.]
Feeling even more encouraged by this, he rapidly closed the distance. As if it felt the danger, the cone snail's shell suddenly jerked a bit and a purple mist surrounded it in a bid to deter its attacker.
Sebastian keenly noticed that this purple mist was poison but he didn't stop, after getting close enough he bit down without hesitation. Powered by his green magic power, his teeth immediately broke through the defense of the snail.
[Your electroreceptor skill has leveled up to level 5: Automatically switching to advanced version of the electroreceptor skill.]
[Switch to Advanced Electroreceptor completed.]
As soon as the system announced this, Sebastian felt the change in his perception immediately. He could see farther, and clearer with the skill now.
Almost immediately, he detected something else with his advanced skill. "Is that, another opponent?"
He tried to activate his dash skill and dodge but the opponent moved too fast for him, even before his tail fin could shake a row of dagger-sharp teeth paired with magic power dug into his back with frightening force.
Boom!
[You have been bitten on the neck by a Giant Barracuda: You have been inflicted with -27 damage.]
[You are suffering from shredding damage: -4 damage for every one of the Giant Barracuda's rough shakes and pulls.]
[You are suffering from magic penetration damage: -6 damage for every one of the Giant Barracuda's penetration magic pulses.]
Sebastian felt pain like he's never experienced before flood his brain, unprecedented agony bit at his brain as his face immediately contorted to the unbearable feeling.
He felt like his skin was being sliced piece by piece by a sharp butcher's knife, and they were slowly being placed in the hot oil pan while he was still alive to witness it all.
He finally felt a taste of the medicine that he gave to the dead Tuna. Every shake of the Giant Barracuda's body made its extremely sharp teeth tear deeper into his flesh, shredding all his blood vessels and muscles apart.
The pain from this was milder compared to what the magic inflicted him with. As its black and white magic power penetrated his injuries, he felt like a hot iron rod was being pressed into his injuries.
As the pain continued invading his brain, something suddenly clicked. All the pain faded away, then unprecedented rage directly overwhelmed his brain straight from his blood.
"Roar!"
Flapping his tail fin hard at the water, he felt his body move in the water but the Giant Barracuda still refused to let go of his juicy skin.
He could hear the system giving him even more notification of his activating skills and damages being inflicted by the Barracuda, but he was too riled up to pay attention to it.
Every muscle in his body tightened, squirming and moving like they were being heated on a fire. His tense body made him explode with strength as he struggled on the Barracuda's jaws.
In just a few seconds, his blood already dyed the surrounding water a dark red due to his unrelenting struggles.
Despite his fierce struggles, the Giant Barracuda still refused to let go. Roaring again, he immediately activated a skill that could result in mutual damage to both himself and his opponent.
[You have activated unique skill: Water Transmutation.]
Immediately after he activated it, the familiar flaming sword appeared. The Giant Barracuda felt the sudden heat instantly as soon as the sword appeared, it tried to release its tight grip and escape but it was too late.
Slash!
The flaming sword cut down with tyrannical speed and strength, directly cutting into the Giant Barracuda's head.
Sizzling sounds reverberated in the water as the flaming sword immediately cut a significant part of the Barracuda's head away, including part of Sebastian's belly that was originally under the fish's harassment.
Sebastian didn't even feel the pain as his now blood-red eyes finally turned to face the opponent with pure hatred and malice shining from its depths.
Whoosh!
The flaming sword cut across again, but with experience this time, the swift Giant Barracuda reacted and dodged. After dodging it turned around and went on the run immediately.
Its transition from attack to defense, then to escape was seamless, without hesitation and a strong vibe of experience emanating from it.
Sebastian saw it as it intended to escape, letting out another roar his subconscious mind gave another order in his head. Before the escaping Barracuda, a huge tower shield suddenly appeared.
With a booming sound, the unprepared Barracuda slammed into the sudden blockade without being able to react. Before it could reorient itself, it felt the water rapidly stir behind it, and then…
Crunch!
All the dozens of teeth filling Sebastian's enormous maws snapped down with mind-blowing force, empowered by his magic at the same time as they all dug into the fish's back in retaliation.
The Giant Barracuda opened its mouth to gasp while also roaring in pain, but its fate was sealed already when it let its grip go. The shredding finally began.
Sebastian violently shook his body in the water, dragging left and right, pulling up and down, snapping side by side.
[You have bitten your opponent: You have dealt -19 damage.]
[You have dealt further -8 damage {3}.]
[You have dealt shredding damage -13.]
The razor-sharp teeth peculiar to every great white shark did their dark work, tearing without any care of the world at the thick skin of the opponent, shredding every single ounce of flesh apart.
This time, the Giant Barracuda no longer had any will of its own.
It tried to struggle while repeatedly groaning in pain but none worked, Sebastian's violent movements meant that the potentials of his sharp teeth were maximized to the fullest.
And with his new strength after evolving, he pinned the Barracuda in one place. All his muscles were active and tense, focused on restraining all the struggles of the huge Barracuda.
The violent struggle continued for a whole 2 minutes before the Giant Barracuda's strength started waning. At some point, Sebastian left its body and his teeth were now firmly digging into its neck.
It jerked a few more in pain, a minute later it finally went limp.
[You have killed a mature Giant Barracuda Fish- Level 21: You have gained Experience.]
[You have gained 12 Skill points and 20 Adaptation points.]
[Congratulations! You have killed an opponent 2 tiers higher than you.]
[You have gained an additional 5 Adaptation points.]
[You have leveled up once.]
Feeling the Giant Barracuda go limp still under his jaws while also hearing the notifications of the system, Sebastian finally left his peculiar state of pure rage and came back to the present.
His eyes looked around dazed for a moment before quickly clearing up as he felt a sharp pang of pain strike at him. Through his electroreceptor skill, he could see the large hole that was currently dug inside his back.
Despite this pain, his eyes remained alert, watching the surroundings like a hawk to check for any new enemy. After the experience of the Barracuda, he was now wiser.
Confirming that no more enemy was nearby, he suppressed his weakness and started swimming around in search of any good hiding location.
As soon as he swam forward, his eyes lit up as he saw the familiar trenches that he saw during his first time seeing the outside expanse.
Without hesitation, he swam back and dragged all 3 of his prey to the hole. He hid at the corner of the trench's entrance, not daring to go deeper into his current state.
After the 3 battles, paired with the poison of the cone snail still on his body, his health was now at a critical level and he was super hungry.
Without hesitation, he devoured the 3 lumps of meat before him.. After doing this, he finally fell asleep to recover his spent stamina reserves.
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Blink!
Sebastian's eyes flashed open to see the familiar greenish environment of the ocean water. His body ached a bit, he felt like he just slept through lifetimes, and was just waking up.
As soon as his eyes cleared up, then all the memories of what happened came back flooding into his head.
As everything settled down, he immediately looked at the corner beside the entrance of the trench where he was currently hidden. There, he saw a few bones and a cracked snail shell lying around.
Seeing this brought all the memories of his most recent battle back to him. Since his arrival into this magical world, there was no doubt that this was his fiercest battle and the one where he was closest to death.
He still felt some lingering fear when he thought back on the painful sensation of the Giant Barracuda's teeth digging and shredding his flesh apart, it was an experience that he was reluctant to face again.
The first thing that he did after calming down was to carefully analyze his discoveries from this battle, he learned a lot of rules from the battle.
The first rule was to survey the surroundings carefully before engaging in any battle, and it was better for the battles to end fast least an oriole stalking in the darkness pounces out for an easy kill.
The less commotion made in his hunts, the better for him.
His only target was the Tuna, but due to a series of coincidences, he had to fight both a cone snail and a Giant Barracuda.
He shuddered thinking of how close to death he was a few hours ago.
The second rule was that he should forget most of his human characteristics. After battling with the sea creatures here dozens of times, and with the addition of the Barracuda, he came to this conclusion.
Before, though he already embraced his identity as a shark, he still thought like a human. In this world, bite for bite, tooth for tooth was the rule.
He was still moving around with the superiority mentality of a human before, but now, he learned the hard way to forfeit it. Though he was strong with his great white shark bloodline and his unique skill, he was still just level 9 after his recent breakthroughs.
A level 21 Giant Barracuda was that strong already, what if he encountered a same-leveled enemy shark. He shuddered at the thought.
And this brought him to another question, was he the only special sea creature that had a unique skill? What if other sea creatures had unique skills?
This again made him become more prudent about this world, the dangers out there were too much for the current him. He already resolved to be aggressive to fill his gluttonous stomach, but he had to also add a brain like that of Einstein.
This combination was his only way to dominate in his world.
Also, after being stimulated by the bite from the Giant Barracuda fish, he noticed that he entered a state where he was purely driven by his instincts.
He guessed that this was an instinct given to him by his bloodline.
After thinking of all these, he finally relaxed a bit. "In the end, to survive in this world before even starting my ambition of an all-round dissecting, I still need to hunt and raise my level first".
"I wonder how much stronger I will be after the level 10 evolution. I guess, by then, I'll be able to dissect anyway that I want".
He now really felt anticipation for his next evolution, he wanted to get stronger faster. Despite the dangers in the previous battle, he was glad as he gained significantly from it.
After leveling up to his current level, he already noticed that his leveling speed was reducing. To get from his current level 9 to 10, his intuition told him that it would probably take more than he expected.
After organizing his thoughts, he finally started thinking of his skills that leveled up in the previous battle. For the current version of his electroreceptor skill, he could only call it marvelous.
He could now manipulate it by concentrating to see greater distances in a single direction. Due to the encounter of the Giant Barracuda, this was invaluable to him.
He checked his health points and his status. After confirming that everything was back to full and that the cone snail's acid was already purged, he silently marveled at the miraculous effects of eating prey.
Because this was his first time killing a Barracuda fish, the system unveiled its basic profile to him. He didn't go through it as he already knew the features of a Barracuda fish from his previous life.
It was when he encountered Dragons that he would really need the basic profile compiled by the system, he couldn't wait to dissect them apart.
"Now, it's time to hunt more prey".
Shifting his medium-sized body for a great white shark up while gently flicking his tail fin, he hovered from his hiding point under the entrance of the trench.
He wanted to go back out, but he suddenly looked back down after seeing a flash of blue light erupt beneath him. He looked down but couldn't see anything because of the curved pathway of the trench.
He suddenly remembered something. "I saw eels here the other time".
"Perhaps, I can feast here to level up for the time being, if there are enough of them down here. But I have to remember the rule, always remain alert and cautious".
With his interest piqued already, he gently swam down while repeatedly reminding himself to remain cautious. As he swam down, his advanced electroreceptor skill was already blasting off in waves.
Through all these precautions, the overall layout of the trench finally started presenting itself before him. In a moment, he was stunned as this place suddenly seemed like an abyssal plain.
An abyssal plain was just an underwater plain on the deep ocean floor.
Following the gentle slope down, he discovered another thing. The greenish glow of the sea was subsiding a bit, he guessed that this meant a night in Oceania.
Feeling enlightened by this while hoping to encounter slumbering eels, he maneuvered his way down. The walls of the slope slowly turned rocky, eliminating the presence of the few seaweeds originally growing on it.
Going down a few meters, Sebastian suddenly stiffened as he sighted something. He tried to halt all vibrations from his body that affected the surrounding water, his glittering eyes watched the young prey alertly.
It was a glowing blue young eel.
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Sebastian did not attack as soon as the prey revealed itself completely to him. Having more experience this time, he calmly stalked the unfamiliar eel while straining his eyes to survey the surrounding.
This was a type of eel that he's not seen before. It was blue and was glowing, it had 2 big eyes that were disproportionate with the size of its body, and black lines flowed through its almost transparent blue body.
Tiny electric sparks went through its streamlined body. Despite its small size, the electric current alone was a big enough deterrence factor to most predators.
[You have activated skill: Magic teeth.]
Sebastian first released only one of his teeth, allowing the substance to fly at the prey with speed. As soon as it dug into the eel's flesh, it immediately turned and directed a wary glance at the surroundings.
Despite its wariness, Sebastian immediately observed that it was weakened. Its body squirmed out a grey milkfish substance in place of blood, dyeing the water in a shade of white.
Seeing this, Sebastian confirmed a lot of things and no longer held back.
[You have activated skill: Triple Reverse Swim.]
[You have activated skill: Dash.]
[You have activated skill: Shredding Bite.]
Due to his relative proximity to the eel already, and due to activating his 3 most basic and essential skills at once, he arrived before it immediately. Without much resistance, his teeth dug in for the kill.
Crunch!
[You have killed a Blueray Eel- Level 6: You have gained Experience points.]
[You have gained…]
Almost immediately after this happened, Sebastian sharply turned to the side as his electroreceptor skill alerted him of new opponents.
His eyes clashed with all 3 prey immediately. 3 eels of the same type, transparent and glowing in blue color. 2 of them were vaguely the same size, bigger than the one he just killed, but the last was far bigger.
The last eel was almost as big as Sebastian's current self, which was completely outrageous for an eel. Anger shone from its eyes, giving Sebastian the impression that this was a parent who just saw his child killed before him.
"Is this a f*cking family thing? So cushy, and my family abandoned me".
Left speechless and grumbling in his mind, Sebastian did not back down from the challenge. Despite this, one thing rang in his mind, the 2nd rule, finish the battle as fast as possible.
[You have activated unique skill: Water Transmutation.]
Bzzz!
Sebastian couldn't even produce any magical manifestation before he saw streaks of silver fill his vision. With a sizzling sound reverberating, the bolt of lightning fired by the biggest eel zapped his body viciously.
[You have been hit by a skill: Lightning bolt.]
[You have received -6 damage.]
Feeling the immense pain and his convulsing body, Sebastian felt like crying. This made him place a thicker skin in his top list for his next adaptation during his evolution, his current skin was really not up to the task.
Eels don't exactly have the right goods to swim like other fishes, they rather swim by generating waves that travel the length of their body. Despite this, they were freakishly fast.
Seeing the rapidly advancing unit of 3 eels enlarging before his face, Sebastian ignored the pain and immediately hastened what he was in the process of forming.
The water shimmered before converging together in one place, a bright green light flashed and all the commotion subsided.
At the place of this convergence, a familiar pure black bow and arrow hovered. At the same time that this appeared, Sebastian felt a drain from his mana. The water transmutation skill was really a mana drainer.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
The bow was drawn and 2 arrows were released simultaneously. Both long arrows of death rapidly flashed through the water, one at the biggest eel, another at one of the remaining 2 eels.
A muffled booming sound of impact immediately reverberated, spreading shockwaves through the water. When everything subsided, one of the eels was seen pinned to the wall and was already dead.
For the biggest eel, a dimmed bright shield was currently revolving around it which deflected the arrow, and the deflected arrow was stuck in the wall.
Suppressing the rage in its heart, the eel focused again but what it saw left it gasping in shock. Sebastian moved so fast, taking advantage of the point of collision to dash rapidly to its side.
Crunch!
Pain waves hit it as it reflexively tried to curl its body, its electric current also spread out at an extremely fast speed, invading the attacking shark through its opened maws.
Sebastian felt irritated as the electric current zapped him again and again, keeping him in place. This spasm of his body meant that his teeth also released the eel, who took advantage of it immediately.
With the sound of something sharp digging into flesh, Sebastian felt pain as the other eel produced a sharp weapon and drilled it into his flesh from behind with magic power.
[You have been hit by a skill: You have been inflicted with -3 damage.]
[You have activated ability: Tail fin attack.]
Almost immediately, he spun his body in place. His sharp tail cut through the vulnerable skin of the eel sneak-attacking, dealing -7 damage in one blow as it reflexively retreated from the pain.
Turning even faster than it could retreat, Sebastian's still spinning body enabled his dorsal fin to cut again. Then his teeth finally came to the task, digging and shredding its skin apart.
The eel tried to struggle but he clamped his teeth shut again, ending its life for good. Almost immediately as he did this, he saw the silvery light of the lightning magic again.
Zap!
This time, the lightning turned tangible as it drilled a huge injury through his side. Another sound of a vicious bite followed as the biggest eel bit him on the tail, dealing even more damage.
When he turned, he was surprised to see the big eel escaping without hesitation. Sebastian reflexively wanted to go in pursuit, but he held his impulses back and watched the eel gradually disappear through the plain.
He was still stunned as he did not expect such reactions from the eel. As he hovered motionlessly, a voice suddenly sounded out.
"Young shark, you've angered the eel family. Run now while you still can or the eel ancient family will hunt you to the ends of Oceania".
"Enjoy your life while it still lasts".
Sebastian was even more stunned now. "For real?"
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Sebastian was left stunned for a while, the declaration of the shameless eel kept on reverberating in his head, leaving his face with an incredulous expression of pure amazement.
"Damn! I never knew eels were so shameless".
Despite how amazed he was at the shamelessness of the eel that escaped, this did not stop him from going closer to feast on the 2 new kills that died to the tyranny of his might.
A few crunching sounds later, the 2 eels were smoothly devoured and stored into his almost dimensional box equivalent stomach.
[You have eaten the meat of the Blueray Eel: Basic Profile of the Blueray Eel has been unlocked.]
Seeing this, Sebastian's eyes glowed as this was his first time seeing an eel of this type in both lives that he's lived. He was not too shocked though, even back on earth there were many types of eels.
"System, unveil the basic information before me".
[The Eel is one of the more than 800 fish species that are slender, elongated, and usually scaleless. They have large dorsal and anal fins that are continuous around the tail tip.]
[The Blueray Eel is a mutated version of the normal eel. They adapted to the environment of Oceania and developed a special magic organ which stores their electric charges.]
[It's signature blue and slightly transparent body is a result of the mutation. Beware of its silvery-blue electric charges, you never know when you'll become cooked by one of them.]
"Well, that's pretty informative. Having a special electric charge magic organ is fairly badass".
After settling down, he didn't rush to follow in the direction that the big eel swam in a moment ago. He wanted to evaluate his battle again, though he was the stronger predator he detected some flaws.
The first flaw was his lack of sufficient mana. Thinking of this made him feel like bashing his head against the trench wall, this was the nemesis that was destined to restrain his Water Transmutation skill until he got more.
His unique skill was badass but its shortcoming of draining his mana was just too much of a setback. Well, he had no choice but to put up with it for now until his next evolution.
Through his electroreceptor skill, he noticed that the injuries that he sustained from the previous battle were already closing up so he decided to continue downwards.
Though the big Blueray eel a moment ago was powerful with its lightning magic, he was pretty sure that if this was a game then this Abyssal plain was still medium level compared to the hard level of the surface.
His battle with the Giant Barracuda was always at the back of his mind. Thinking of that, he propelled himself and finally started swimming downwards.
Apart from leveling up to the ultimate level 10 and preparing for his next evolution, what he actually wanted to do more now was to level all his skills to the highest level.
He already upgraded his skills by a lot but he could not use the advanced versions yet, he wanted to reverse this situation.
Following the contours of the rocky slope downwards, he suddenly remembered the shameless eel's yelling of ancient eel family at the back of his mind.
"Ancient eel family…, does he mean like that cultivation family stuff?"
He tried to distract himself with such thoughts but they didn't seem to be working, swimming down a rocky slope with no seaweed where he could at least hide for comfort a bit left him anxious.
As he followed the slope downwards, he started seeing tunnels emerging from the sides of the slope on both sides.
Most of the tunnels were too small to contain his body, he didn't have any intention of entering them though. He was now curious, the deeper he went the more he felt like a boisterous community was below this slope.
Making another sharp turn in the slope, Sebastian suddenly froze in shock. He felt like rubbing his eyes now for clarification but unfortunately, he had no hands.
He saw a gray-skinned eel motionless at the front of one of the tunnels, its wide opened eyes kept on staring at him without emotion like a zombie.
Seeing that the fish still didn't make a move, Sebastian quickly came to a conclusion. The eel was asleep, but as eels' eyelids couldn't close up, its eyes remained open.
Seeing this, Sebastian suddenly felt that there was really a God that answers prayers. He just casually thought of meeting a sleeping eel, and he really met one.
Well, this was a practice target to him so he would utilize it to its fullest.
He didn't rush to kill the eel immediately. He approached it slowly so as not to startle it awake, then he quickly activated a ton of his skills at once.
[You have activated skill: Dash.]
[You have activated skill: Battering ram.]
[You have activated skill: Tail fin attack.]
[You have activated skill: Dorsal fin attack.]
Bam!
As soon as his much bigger body slammed into the sleeping eel, the fellow reeled backward in shock and pain before immediately waking up.
A grayish-black substance immediately started coming out of its slippery skin as soon as it saw the enemy but Sebastian did not give it any chance. He didn't even bite it, he used pure kung fu this time.
Slicing sounds reverberated around the small tunnel, the poor eel jerked and shook in pain and agony as the shark moved back and forth around its body while its sharp fins dug into its flesh without mercy.
[Your Dorsal fin skill has leveled up to level 3.]
[Your Tail fin skill has leveled up to level 4.]
[You have killed a Moray eel- level 8: You have gained experience.]
[You have gained 5 Skill points and 5 Adaptation points.]
The eel had its mouth open in the last struggle for breath as it finally went limp. The tiny but numerous sharp gashes dug in its body opened up at this moment, making it look like grilled fish all of a sudden.
Sebastian didn't pay much attention to his kill; all his attention was on the system's notification. He felt like jumping for joy as 2 of his skills directly improved at once.
Seeing this, he resolved to use his fins in battle more to level them up.
And of course, great white sharks were not modest when it came to food.. Without hesitation, he gulped down the Moray eel feast before he continued his adventure downwards.
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Crunch!
[You have killed a grey Electric Fish- Level 9: You have gained Experience.]
[You have gained…]
[You have killed a Wolf Eel- Level 11: You have gained Experience.]
[You have gained…]
Sebastian's mouth was stained with blood again as he ripped the flesh of his new prey apart. Shaking his body, he tore through the magic hardened skin of the Wolf Eel before feasting on the meat.
Though he already knew about the electric fish and wolf eel in his previous life, he still went through the basic profile information of the system to confirm if the system was as correct as it claimed.
Electric fish are not exactly eels, the scientific and magical classification of electric fish was closer to the carp and catfish.
For the Wolf Eel, it was not an eel either. It was just a weird sea fish with a head like that of an ugly wolf, and the body of an eel. The perfect description for it was just plain creepy and weird.
Sebastian's journey down the abyssal plain has been fairly sweet and smooth all along. In just a few minutes, he met 2 other grey eels that were asleep in front of other tunnels, and without hesitation, he practiced his skills on them.
For the grey electric fish, it was also asleep and he easily killed it.
But during the process, due to the slight commotion induced from their battle, the Wolf eel that was sleeping nearby was aroused and the brainless fellow mindlessly charged into the battle.
Of course, Sebastian easily killed it too, the only problem was that he had no choice but to resort to his teeth to finish it off as the Wolf eel had ridiculously slippery and hard skin.
And unfortunately for him, neither of these kills could make his skills level up nor did his overall body level up.
After repeated encounters with most of the sea creatures in this world, he already deduced that only a tiny number of them which were the highly evolved ones had intelligence and could speak fluently to him.
Most of the time, some of the ones he met just yelled brainlessly before charging into battle. Seriously, he felt like these fellows' unintelligence was indirectly frying his brain.
He guessed that to meet really intelligent creatures like Leroy, he had to meet those creatures with a high-tier bloodline like his, most especially sharks.
As he speculated, he quickly finished the meat of the Wolf Eel before continuing his predatory feast swim down the slope.
He suddenly remembered something. "Wait, I've not brushed my teeth for days? Gah!"
He felt like vomiting now, but he soon remembered that brushing his teeth was the least of his problems. For days now, he's been eating raw meat with blood so what harm could going without brushing do?
Consoling himself with that, he continued his swim sulkily.
Another thing that he's been neglecting after his evolution because of time was the main system store. During his evolution, he unlocked both the evolution and the main system store.
The main system store was just like its evolution counterpart, the only difference was that through it he had the option of using his skill and adaptation points to buy skills and adaptations outside the time he was evolving.
For skills, he could buy and get access to them immediately but for adaptations, they would only appear after he evolved.
And he noticed something after repeatedly checking the store. He noticed that the more his skill points and adaptation points increased, the more option for skills and adaptations appeared.
And the newly unlocked ones were far more attractive and expensive too.
He would have bought one already, but he decided that he didn't need them yet. When he really saw the need, he would buy anyone that caught his attention without hesitation.
And he noticed something also that made him feel like facepalming. As a great white shark, he was always in motion as his swimming was not controlled by his brain but rather his spinal cord.
The few times that he stopped to stalk prey; he could only attribute it to the uniqueness of this world as Oceania was powered by magic Afterall.
His train of thought suddenly pulled to a halt, he focused on his mind as his electroreceptor skill showed him something that he's been hoping for since.
"Finally! An exit from this long slope".
Excitedly but cautiously, he immediately started swimming in the direction that his advanced electroreceptor skill pointed out to him.
It didn't take him long before he found the opening leading to a vast world below the slope. The first thing that revealed itself before him was white light reflecting a vast new world, then the familiar scene of nature weed.
Even more excited now on this sight, Sebastian went closer. He didn't go there immediately; with his electroreceptor skill, he didn't have to take such a risk.
When he concentrated the skill at that point, he discovered about 8 eels of different colors swimming about leisurely. Seeing this again, he could not help but have a weird expression on his face.
"Is this abyssal plain exclusively owned by eels?"
As he didn't find any danger immediately, he emboldened himself and moved closer. Getting there, he finally peeked and through his sharp eyesight, everything presented itself before him.
"Holy uncle of all anatomists!"
Sebastian had his jaws hanging open in shock due to the scene that was before him. The green glow of the ocean was still dark here indicating night, but it was still brighter than inside the slope.
The scene before Sebastian was so shocking that he didn't know which exclamation was right to express it anymore.
Besides the 8 eels that were swimming leisurely stood a small rock which seemed like the landmark, and beyond the rock was a city of eels that the sight alone left him feeling dizzy.
Eels of different types, different colors, filled his sight that this city seemed as beautiful as a rainbow city. He was mesmerized completely.
From the cute eels, he suddenly started noticing a different sight of eels entirely that left him uncomfortable.
Eels as long as 10 meters with fins as sharp as butcher knives started appearing in his sight, they projected an aura of majesty and tyranny that made him shudder in fear.
Then one of the eels turned to look at him. With one look, Sebastian identified it.
"The shameless Blueray eel fellow".
[You have activated skill: Triple Reverse Swim.]
[You have activated skill: Dash.]
Without hesitation, Sebastian directly started swimming in reverse to escape. He had no intentions of staying here one second further, but what happened next shocked him.
He didn't know when it happened, but something like a teleportation portal suddenly appeared behind him. By the time that he noticed it, his tail already entered the portal.
Horrified now, he struggled with all his might to break free but it was all to no avail.
His face suddenly contorted in pain as electric currents flowed through his body from his tail, then he fell inside the portal as soon as his body lost the resistance force.
Warp!
He disappeared.
Sebastian felt his orientation become inverted, making him feel like he was stuck in a washing machine that was continuously rolling. His eyes felt dizzy, he felt like he suddenly caught a cold and his nose was running.
The light before him spiked in intensity, becoming as bright as the sun all of a sudden and prompting him to close his eyes. Everywhere around him became dark, but it soon recovered to normal again.
When he opened his eyes, he didn't feel the prick from the glare of the bright light but what he saw made his eyes widen in despair.
The first thing that appeared before him was the familiar Blueray eel, and beside it was a few other eels of the same species.
They had vicious expressions on their faces as they looked at their prey, they felt like a group of local bullies and Sebastian was now the prey.
Sebastian's eyes darted left and right in despair; he was directly drawn deep inside the city of eels which directly translated to immense danger.
Feeling the pain being transmitted to his brain from his tail, he remembered the electric shock that made him lose his resistance and without hesitation, he attacked backward.
[You have activated skill: Tail fin attack.]
His tail fin stiffened behind him, before the shocked eel could react the sharp tail cut a few injuries through its hide.
Sebastian didn't even pay attention to how much damage that he caused. His eyes rapidly darted around and surveyed the surroundings, then he picked a direction and bolted away immediately.
[You have activated skill: Triple Reverse Swim.]
[You have activated skill: Dash.]
"Kill him!"
The Blueray eel suddenly yelled loudly before rapidly swimming forward in pursuit, its friends quickly followed.
A part of the originally calm and gentle city of eels was suddenly stirred.
Though Sebastian landed in just one part of the city and couldn't draw the attention of every eel in the city, his big, different, and menacing build of a shark was bound to attract attention.
Most of the eels didn't even care to understand what happened, seeing an intruder immediately lit the desire to protect their home in their hearts.
"Intruder!" "Intruder!"
Sebastian didn't know who started it, but as soon as it started, it didn't stop as a significant number of the eels who could speak already started yelling mindlessly.
The young eels called elvers responded in droves, rushing out of their crudely made settlements like a group of mischievous youths going on a riot.
Sebastian didn't even know where he was again due to the sheer size of the abyssal plain's main depth, only eels and even more eels filled his sight, completely blocking his orientation from discovering a direct safe route.
When he tried to go through them with his electroreceptor skill, he felt even more despair as he could not see the end. This meant that he was drawn deep into this city of eels.
Zap!
His body shuddered as the electric current snaked through his body, this high voltage shot was enough to stimulate his brain, jolting him back to full lucidity.
This was when he finally observed his surroundings well. Hundreds of super long eels were currently swimming towards him to feast on his flesh, but most of them were the small elvers.
Through his electroreceptors, he discovered that the over 10-meter-long eels were just looking at him both nonchalantly and surprisingly in a wary manner.
Sebastian didn't have the luxury to analyze the expressions on the eels' faces, he made his decision instantly.
[You have activated skill: Magic teeth.]
Almost immediately after Sebastian made his decision and activated his skills, he stopped in one place and opened his mouth wide.
Pu! Pu! Pu! Pu!
The sharp teeth lining his frightening maw jerked before shooting out at the pace of a machine gun. Surrounded by his green magic energy, they penetrated through the ranks of the eels facing his front.
His motive was not to kill them, his motive was to escape, and using this to create a pathway through their ranks was his plan.
The eels were startled a bit by the unconventional attack method but this did not stop them, they hauled out their attacks immediately.
Stones surrounded and empowered by magic suddenly flew out from the battalion-like formation of eels, when they touched Sebastian's skin, he felt his body tighten like dried fish as electric current zapped through his body repeatedly.
[You have been hit by enchanted stones- Ancient Eel engraved.]
[You have been inflicted with physical damage: -2 {13}]
[You have been inflicted with electrical magic damage: -4 {8}]
Sebastian detected blood flowing from his hide immediately after the first skirmish, his hard dense skill improved his defense but it was still weak against magic damage.
Combining this with the damage that he just saw displayed by the system, he took advantage of the small opening that was borne open after he used his magic teeth skill.
[You have activated skill: Dash.]
[You have activated skill: Shredding bite.]
[You have activated skill: Spike attack.]
Crunch!
Propelling himself forward rapidly through the water, his teeth bit down, savagely cutting an elver into bits and pieces. In the process, his spike adaptation jutted out of his sides, stabbing into the nearby eels.
[You have activated skill: Battering ram.]
Boom!
He finally collided with the frontline formation of the attacking eels; the pressure pushed him back a bit but his relatively higher strength compared to the eels pulled him through as he bulled his way through them.
His teeth no longer stopped moving, his body no longer stopped moving as he started biting left and right to bull his way to safety.
As he did this, his skin did not rest as bites, electric zaps, and even more stones were thrown at him. Empowered by magic, the stones flew at such speeds that he could not dodge.
His intuition suddenly warned him of danger, and without hesitation, he dodged to the side. Turning his head, he saw the familiar Blueray eel who just released the familiar lightning bolt.
This turning of his head proved fatal, taking advantage of his temporary distraction one of the familiar Blueray eel's friends attacked.
Its body rotated in place, pulling both water, dirt, and its magic power to itself as it quickly turned into something like a sharp metallic drill. Then it rapidly flew outwards.
Its speed was too fast for Sebastian to dodge, it encountered some resistance after colliding with his hard dense skin but it eventually drilled through.
[You have been hit with a skill: Electric drill.]
[You have been inflicted with -17 damage.]
The eel went through Sebastian's body completely and appeared on the other side. Feeling the pain hitting his brain, Sebastian growled, suppressed his convulsing body from the electric current, and bit at the side.
Crunch!
[You have inflicted -18 damage to your opponent.]
[Your Dash skill has leveled up to level 5: Automatically switching to the advanced version of the skill.]
[Switch to Advanced Dash completed.]
Sebastian's eyes glowed a deep green, then he locked into the drilling eel.
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[You have activated skill: Advanced Dash.]
[You have activated skill: Battering ram.]
Boom!
This time, before the drilling eel could rejoice at its victory Sebastian directly arrived behind it. Even Sebastian himself was surprised by his almost instantaneous speed at this moment, but he still bit down immediately.
Imbuing as much magic power as he could into the bite, his skills came biting down like a vicious rat trap having caught prey.
With a loud sound like that of snaking thunders reverberating, his teeth clamped down on the blasphemous eel with mind-blowing force accompanying it.
A sickening sound of something depressing reverberated, then a squelching sound followed as the eel was directly crushed under the sheer bite power transmitted by Sebastian for that attack.
[You have dealt -31 damage to your opponent.]
[You have killed a mature Blueray eel- Level 16: You have gained Experience.]
[You have gained 6 Skill points and 10 Adaptation points.]
Almost immediately after this happened, Sebastian felt fierce glares of shock penetrating his back which quickly became that of pure hatred.
The remaining 7 close friends of the eel were agitated by what happened immediately. Blinded by rage, they rushed forward, pushing their smaller brethren apart just to get to this murderer shark.
Sebastian did not dare to underestimate this group of 7 even though they were eels and he was a great white shark. This was Oceania not earth, and here everything was possible.
Crackle!
Electricity current zapped and crackled loudly, sending voltages of electricity into the water as all 7 eel's eyes started glowing in a deep blue color.
Seeing this, Sebastian felt his heart skip a beat and without hesitation, he activated his trump card.
[You have activated skill: Water Transmutation.]
Immediately as the enormous flaming sword appeared, sending heatwaves through the water, the concentrated convergence of electric magic sparked a strange connection before rapidly forming a huge bolt of electricity.
As one, the 7 eels let out a sound and the glows on their eyes erupted before shattering to pieces like a plain mirror.
The behemoth-like bolt of electricity flashed forward immediately, and the flaming sword slashed out at the same time.
A bright light flashed through the eel city, then…
Boom!
The center of the clash suddenly seemed to have become the CenterPoint of a nuclear explosion, the ripples spreading through the water became the radiation energy as they went across at the speed of light.
Sebastian jerked and blood flowed from the side of his snout as the wave rippled across his position, easily invading his body to deal damage.
[You have been inflicted with internal damage: -38 damage.]
He was horrified by the damage, but his eyes lit up the next moment as he saw a ton of eels with their back up floating lifelessly beside him.
The 7 eels suffered even more than him, practically every orifice on their body started bleeding as they fought to retreat and recover. For the nearby elvers, Sebastian was not sure if any of them survived.
Seeing the lifeless eels, he felt pained as his system didn't notify him of a kill, it obviously didn't treat the shockwave damage as damage done by him.
This did not affect him too much though because as the dead elvers and eels floated, an opening was unveiled in their formation where he finally saw another exit that looked like the one that he just came from.
Without hesitation, he activated both his Triple Reverse swim and Advanced dash skill immediately. Just like the wind, he rushed forward, intending to move through the dead eels and escape.
His eyes were already relaxing in relief, but it seems that life was not so easygoing Afterall. A loud angry voice suddenly reverberated that almost invaded his internal ears and cracked his vocal cords.
"Eeleir!! Who killed my son?!?"
Feeling the sheer power being transmitted through the voice, Sebastian didn't even look back to confirm who it was as he immediately increased his speed to escape and safeguard his life.
A part of the rocky environment of the city of eels suddenly started vibrating like an earthquake was imminent, it felt like an ancient dragon was awakening.
The protons and electrons in the water spiked, rapidly increasing in activity in an excited state as a thick bolt of lightning suddenly tore out from underground, tearing boulders apart to herald its appearance.
The lightning was so thick and concentrated that Sebastian who was far away shuddered in fear. "Is this the power of magic?"
He didn't even finish what he was saying before an enormous eel burst out of the rocky floor.
It was almost 15 meters tall; its eyes glowed a silvery blue color, it had thick scales which was strange for an eel, but this was not too strange considering that its body looked more like a water dragon.
Immediately after it appeared, it turned and its eyes locked on Sebastian.
Bzzz!
Sebastian suddenly halted on his swim, an electric cage surrounded him, and before he could react a mighty bolt of lightning descended from above to scorch his head.
His brain felt fried immediately as soon as the lightning bolt touched him.
[You have been hit with a skill: ???]
[You have been inflicted with a staggering blow: -52 damage.]
Everything was normal for a second, but the next Sebastian started convulsing rapidly like an epilepsy patient. His eyes rolled back, steam rose from his body and his skin melted as he felt unimaginable pain hit his brain hard.
Throughout the duration of the lightning bolt, he felt like he went to hell and back. As soon as it ended, he decisively activated his trump card again in a bid to desperately cling to life.
Not even thinking about his reserves now, he pumped all his available mana into his water transmutation skill as soon as he activated it.
[You have activated skill: Water Transmutation.]
[You have created a magic manifestation: Bow and arrow.]
Whoosh!
As soon as the bow and arrow sucked all his mana, the arrow was released and he felt the feeling of weakness come back again.
At the distance, the enormous angered eel was in the process of summoning another lightning bolt but its heart suddenly palpitated. When it focused, it finally saw the pitch-black arrow that was rapidly advancing to its position.
"Shield!" It growled.
Boom!
An electric shield appeared before its chest on time, but the pitch-black arrow was still able to penetrate its defense. It groaned as the arrow dug deep into its flesh.
Its magic became unstable immediately and the electric bolt in the water immediately dissipated. It coughed out blood, then it slowly turned its head to look at the bloody hole that the arrow dug through it.
It faltered; its body felt weak all of a sudden. Putting in effort, it turned its head to Sebastian's previous location but the great white shark was gone.
"What a fearsome shark!"_
Whoosh!
Sebastian swam so fast that he left afterimages on the water surface. The water rippled after him in waves, forming overlapping gaps which served as a physical manifestation of his current speed.
As he swam, only dread and fear filled his heart when he thought of the hostile environment that he found himself in.
Knowing that he was still in the eel city only pushed him to his limits to swim faster, he felt his muscles ache as his tail, dorsal, and all his other fins rapidly flapped at the water.
He's not done it before, but as soon as he tested it and confirmed that it was feasible, he immediately started pumping the tiny amount of his mana that managed to regenerate into his activated skills.
[You have activated skill: Triple Reverse Swim.]
[You have activated skill: Advanced Dash.]
[You have activated skill: Advanced Electroreceptors.]
[You are currently empowering your skills with your magic organ.]
As he continued his escape, his electroreceptor skill blasted out in waves, scanning his surroundings for any danger as he continued his rapid advancement to his only beacon of hope in this darkness, the exit.
He was getting extremely close to the exit already, but this could still not make his heart rest as he felt that hundreds of evil eyes were watching him from the dark.
Through his electroreceptor's skill, he already confirmed that no other eel was going after him after the blow that he dealt to the 15-meter-long eel.
The other super long eels only watched him from afar with calm eyes that hid wisdom in them. Their expression said that this great white shark meant disaster, and they were content with banishing it from their city.
As he escaped, his electroreceptor skill showed him the city of eels that suddenly seemed to have become still due to his intrusion and subsequent escape.
He could see the small elvers looking at him with pure curiosity shining from the depths of their eyes.
He could see the mountain-like curved bed of rocks where the eggs were laid, and he could see the enormous female eels that were currently taking care of the fragile eggs.
He could see the stiff hard rocks that filled the city, banishing everything called flower, weed, plant, or any form of vegetation far away from the city of eels.
He could see his currently battered body. Though his muscles were already working overtime to meld the injuries up, the accumulated injuries of his battle with the eels were still there.
The tiny depressions on his body that were caused by the fierce shockwave after his skill clashed with the 7 eels were still there, making him look like a kid whose face was swollen after a fight.
He could see the huge hole that was torn into his body when the huge lightning bolt descended, he could still feel the pain when the lightning magic ravaged his body internally.
At this moment, these sights all converged together to form a single sentence in his mind, a sentence that left him wishing for things to have developed differently.
"I really overstepped my boundaries this time".
Plop!
His body got stuck a bit, but after a series of frantic pulling, he was able to propel himself forward through the tunnel-like exit.
Finally, he was out of the city of eels.
…
After entering the tunnel, Sebastian did not stop as he continued swimming forward with the motive to create more distance between him and the dreaded city of eels.
At this moment, his stomach kept grumbling as the strong feeling of hunger hammered at his consciousness but he didn't dare make the decision of stopping to rest or even find food.
The blood loss from his body alone was already climbing to staggering levels, and his vision was slowly becoming blurry but he still didn't dare stop.
Thinking of the Thor-like bolt of lightning that descended from the water surface to batter his body, he felt the urge to cry but unfortunately, tears could not come from his eyes.
The pain that he felt at that moment was real, the craziness-inducing numbness that he felt was real. At one moment there, he felt that he was really going to die from the lightning bolt.
At that moment, he felt like all his ambitions would be laid to waste, and he wouldn't get to dissect all the sea creatures that he had in mind.
At that moment, he finally experienced the real feeling of fear.
Back on earth, it was general knowledge that eels were below sharks in the food chain, but once again he learned the hard way that he should discard most of the knowledge that he learned as a human.
Once again, he learned that this was Oceania, and the rules of nature were vastly different here from those of Earth.
"Einstein, you were wrong! All of you were wrong!"
"Eels are not the lowest in the food chain, dammit!"
"Dogshit! I almost died!" He cursed under his breath again.
[Your Magic Teeth skill has leveled up to level 2.]
"F*ck you!"
The pain in his body was now stimulating his brain so much that he felt irritated by everything. The unfamiliar feeling of dizziness left him feeling the urge to kill, he wanted to vent but there was nothing in sight.
Alone, in the relatively dark environment of the tunnel, he slowly swam forward with no destination in mind.
He subconsciously searched for food as he swam to refill his stomach but he found none, it seemed that this tunnel exit was deserted.
"Wait…, deserted?"
His groggy eyes suddenly darted open in alertness.
From the little knowledge that he already knew about this abyssal plain, the eels completely dominated every tunnel entrance so why was this tunnel so deserted and lonely?
Almost at the same time that he paused to think about this, he felt something stir around the surrounding walls of the tunnel.
The creature struck before Sebastian could react.
Whoosh!
The enormous snake rapidly left its ambush point, it wrapped its prey's body up with its long rope-like body, it squeezed and tightened its grip on its prey's body before quickly going for the kill.
The enormous Cobra's mouth opened wide, revealing maws with only darkness hidden within.
Its abdominal muscles contracted, making noises like those of a steam engine in operation, then it brought its mouth down to swallow its prey.
[You have been attacked by a dangerous apex predator: The Devouring Cobra!]
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Crack!
Sebastian felt his head go blank and his vision go dark immediately after the ambush. He heard cracking sounds reverberating from his head like his bones were being broken and squeezed, though sharks don't have bones.
Even though he did not have bones, his cartilages were there to experience the suffocating feeling of the intense pressure induced by the tight squeezing and compression.
[You are currently being swallowed by the dangerous apex predator: The Devouring Cobra!]
[You have been inflicted with the dizzy feeling.]
[You have been inflicted with the stunned feeling.]
[You have been inflicted with the crushing feeling.]
[Your gills have been wrapped up by the corrosion skin of the Devouring Cobra: Your body has stopped the Ram Ventilation system process.]
[Until the Ram Ventilation process is restored, you will lose -4 Damage every second.]
[You have been inflicted with the suffocating feeling.]
[You have been inflicted with the Magic Liberation: This skill makes you no longer have the yearning to live, it makes your resistance against death weaker.]
[You have been poisoned: -6 Damage every second.]
For every health point that he lost, Sebastian felt the impact physically as his body became weaker and the pain became more prominent.
His head was already inside the enormous maws of the Devouring Cobra, the magic liberation skill did its job as he instinctively started feeling that he had no hope of surviving and should resist struggling.
The Devouring Cobra's ambush plan was seamless and without openings, but it forgot to add something, it forgot to add that Sebastian had a system.
As soon as the system spammed all these to him through notifications, his originally dying brain suddenly became hyperactive.
Inside the blackhole-like belly of the Cobra, his closed eyes snapped open as a green glow flashed through them dangerously.
[You have achieved a peculiar state of mind: You have fulfilled conditions to activate an innate talent.]
[You have activated talent: Adrenaline Surge!]
[Effects: All your skills will experience a 30% increase in efficacy for 40 seconds, and all your adaptations will experience a 15% increase in durability and usefulness.]
As soon as these notifications from the system flashed through his eyes, Sebastian's already glowing eyes glowed fiercer, illuminating the belly of the Devouring Cobra like the sun.
Then, the counterattack began.
Roar…!!!
[You have activated skill: Battering Ram.]
[You have activated skill: Shredding Bite.]
[You have activated skill: Sharp Dorsal Fin attack.]
[You have activated skill: Tail fin attack.]
[You have activated skill: Spike attack.]
Boom!
The Devouring Cobra's enormous body shuddered a bit as the prey inside its mouth struggled dangerously, hitting its body straight from its belly as its elongated body slammed against the walls of the tunnel.
It opened its mouth a bit due to the pain of the slam but it quickly closed them back, biting in the process and injecting even more poison into its prey's body as it continued its swallowing process.
But this did not last though as its prey struggled even more dangerously.
Ptui!
A pair of spikes jutted out of the prey's sides, stabbing into its thick elongated body as it shuddered again in pain.
Before it could recover from the damage, the originally docile tail and dorsal fin of the great white shark suddenly stiffened. Sizzling sounds filled the surrounding waterbody as the fins became red hot and sharp.
They sliced through its thick skin viciously like there was no tomorrow. Though its thick skin held, the fins were still dealing considerable damage to it.
It still tried to continue its swallowing strategy despite all these but its decision changed immediately after its brain transmitted the painful feeling of a row of sharp teeth shredding its internals.
Pure confusion first shone in its eyes, it couldn't comprehend how the prey could still struggle inside its belly but it responded immediately to the attack, following the tactics imprinted in its instincts.
Immediately, its powerful muscles tightened further, then it started twisting and turning rapidly on the water.
This was a strategy to tire out its prey, and it has worked for it countless times before today was no exception.
As soon as the Devouring Cobra started this, Sebastian instantly felt his muscle power lessening and fatigue striking in.
Filled with desperation already now, his eyes suddenly shone brighter as a beacon of hope appeared before him. After spending its time since, his magic organ finally regenerated some mana and he tapped into it immediately.
[You have activated unique skill: Water Transmutation.]
[You have created a magic manifestation: Flaming Sword.]
Without hesitation, he controlled the magic manifestation with his remaining flames of willpower and slashed as hard as he could with it.
Sizzle!
[You have dealt staggering damage to your opponent: -38 damage {2}.]
The flaming sword was as tyrannical as always, it slashed only 2 times before dissipating as Sebastian's magic power got exhausted but these 2 times were enough to do the needful.
The first slash cut a deep injury through the snake's elongated evil hide, then the second struck the same place as the first, finally separating a portion of the Devouring Cobra's body from its main body.
Hiss…!!!
Sebastian already anticipated it, and it really happened.
Feeling the sudden pain brought by losing a part of its body, the Devouring Cobra hissed in pain and could no longer coordinate its body as it instinctively tried to abandon its swallowing plan.
It was a good reaction, but it couldn't work again. Because of Sebastian's spike adaptations that were currently dug into its body, it was unable to pull back out from its swallowing.
This was a similar situation of a fish bone getting stuck in your throat.
Sebastian was not going to waste such a God-sent opportunity, he pooled together all his remaining strength and erupted like a rabid dog that was irritated.
Crunch! Crunch!
His teeth bit savagely in a barbaric manner, his spikes kept on digging deeper into the snake's skin, his hard dense skin-covered body kept on bashing hard at the Cobra's belly, he attacked with everything available to him.
[Congratulations! You have unlocked an active ability of the Vampire Teeth Adaptation.]
[Blood Vampire!]
[Effects: By taking 5% of your health, you have a 2% chance of activating the blood vampire state- which enables you to deal an attack that will take 70% of your opponent's health points.]
Without hesitation, Sebastian activated the ability instantly.
Crunch!
[You have dealt a staggering blow to your opponent: -230 damage!]
Hiss…!!!