Things went down within seconds, trouble multiplied as the enemy attack enveloped into something greater! Marlo and the sect had tried to form both a defensive and offensive line in order to protect what they held near and dear, but that wasn’t enough.
The sect was literally within a rock and a tight spot, as a proverb would encourage. The green-coated enemies weren't as reckless as one would imagine them to be, no. They pierced within the lines of defenses (and offenses) with minimal casualties along the way, their efficiency was terrifying!
The attackers barely suffered any losses, and this itself was very concerning, because it said a thing or two about the power they were packing! There were just a few lifeless bodies floating around here and there, and most of these bodies didn’t belong to the enemies either.
These attackers dismembered rather powerful sect members, whose mana quality had been up to level three! This hinted that the enemies didn’t want to fight to begin with, but if they really wanted to fight, then they could’ve dealt a lot of damage! This was concerning.
Anyway, since the enemies were so fast, the results they achieved were equally fast. They weren’t as mindless as one would assume, in fact, it appeared as if they had a plan in mind; A very complex plan, even.
One of the enemy fish passed through Timothy, and for a split second, he thought that he was going to die, and he nearly didn’t care if they had a plan or not. Their power and speed was explosive, which left him to feel genuine fear once again. He only got a tiny glimpse of the fish as it passed by, and that was enough to scare him shitless!
The fish was slender, dark-ish, and had these blade-like fins. The fish moved so fast that one would assume that it didn't make any bodily movements whatsoever! Its speed was explosive, and terrifying without a doubt.
Tim didn’t know what species these fish were, and at that moment, he didn’t care to explore such biological aspects either. He got frightened, and through that split second, he realized that these attackers could achieve anything they wanted to achieve, nothing could stop them. Their powers were beyond what he imagined that a fish would bear, and Tim felt rather disabled in comparison!
“Jesus, fuck! I almost shat my…” Tim tried to express himself.
However, at that very moment, the situation expanded into something far greater, and far more dangerous than the sect assumed in the beginning. When that fish passed by him, almost ripping him apart, the system sensed quite the turbulence in exchange. She cut Tim's words short, and for the sake of his survival, she triggered a number of functions, regardless if he liked it or not!
[Extingus breath!] She exclaimed.
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Just like that, Tim started blasting a layer of blue colored mist across the waters. This blast didn't cost him a single mana point, but its use was clear, it was a protective/deflective spell that most stingrays naturally bore. It served great purpose in this predicament, even though he wasn't aware of the unraveling dangers below him!
Most of the sect members weren't aware either, not within this split second, but that didn’t matter. The system tried to save Tim’s life, and Tim’s only.
He wasn't going to fight the system's rigid demands either, because he didn’t have a single solid argument helping his case. Tim allowed for events to unravel, because there wasn’t anything he could do himself, he was as limp as a falling leaf. Except, in this particular situation, he wasn’t falling, but he was going upwards instead, all of a sudden!
The extingus breath was what got him out of trouble, initially, at least for half a second, and one could assume why. Tim recently upgraded the extingus breath magical ability, for it to protect him against elemental attacks. It was a deflective spell by nature, so it was advantageous how the power itself had been upgraded recently.
Now he didn’t know if there was anything elemental about the dangers that unfolded below him, he wouldn't be able to tell, but as he propelled upwards, the extingus mist he left behind protected him nonetheless, at least to some degree. Thanks to the aforementioned upgrade, the mist's color had adapted a deeper shade of blue, so one could only assume that its properties were deflective enough!
Anyway, the system kept blasting spells, with that same purpose in mind! She wanted to push Tim away from trouble, as quickly as possible, so she used a couple of effective spells rather quickly.
[Flaming fins!] She exclaimed.
She forced Tim to use that ability, which in this case was necessary, because it helped him swim upwards a lot quicker. Tim had beamed a whole meter above and away from the sect's lair as a result.
[Shivering blood!] The system ordered.
After that ability was activated, Tim got out of the lair. The shivering blood ability was best used to freeze the blood of an enemy, but it also helped one swim (or move) even faster. He was forced to use the latter benefit of this ability, and therefore, he swam fast enough to escape the unravelling dangers a bit more.
Along the way, the system had made him spit out ounces upon ounces of protective extingus breath, for two whole seconds! For that matter, he remained mostly unharmed, or at least, in one piece.
A fraction of a second later, a violent explosion erupted! This explosion pushed him further away from the sect, and it must be what the system had been worried about through these past couple of seconds. She had tried ever so desperately to nudge him away from danger, and she had been mostly successful!
[Health, -310 points] The system then announced, and furthermore she also added. [Health Bar = 1190/1500 points]
“That's not so bad,” Tim expressed, though he was really unaware of his surroundings right now.
He didn't understand what was going on, or what had happened. Tim couldn't see much either, because he was surrounded by an aggressive dust cloud, the explosion had deafened him quite a bit as well. He only knew that he had to swim upwards furthermore, and that itself wasn’t good enough to make sense of things! he was terrified.