Timothy kept blowing up every Raptor Orclet that headed towards him. It was a brutal way to handle things, but considering that the raptor swarm fled only once most of their swarm was wiped out, he hadn't had any other option but to fight them. Exploding their skeletons was his way of fighting them cheaply, and killing them quickly!
The battle cost him well over one-hundred-and-fifty thousand mana points overall, so he wasn’t too excited about him and the team winning the battle here. Quite the opposite, it further deepened the paranoia that he felt about this sea, because if a swarm attacked them for no good reason whatsoever, he could only imagine how hard other creatures would fight if large quantities of mana were in question! With that said, each meter he swam towards the ruins, seemed like a personally signed death certificate to him!
Timothy wasn't enthusiastic, but then again, he did win a lot of points throughout this battle. He ended up exploding the skeletons of forty-four more raptors, which only increased his already large sum of system points! This sum was the only thing that prevented him from retreating, because he hoped that they could camp somewhere for a couple of hours, so he could buy the rest of the upgrades that were available, and then they may have a better chance to survive the challenges of The Old Sea! It was a sound plan, and he was hoping to initiate it.
[You've accumulated a total of 78,000 system points,] The system beeped.
“This sum is getting stupid-er,” He remarked, and now he was more motivated than ever to stop, and buy the rest of the available purchase options. “Now, we need a place to hide… Maybe we can hide in that pile of-”
Timothy tried to formulate a plan, but then one of the worst possible things happened! With their explosive speed, and humongous bodies, several Sea Orcs hit the scene, and started munching on the countless carcasses of the Raptor Orclets! This was problematic, because even though the team was protected by that set of force fields, this didn’t help them from being swallowed whole!
The latter was one of the worst things that could happen to them, and it happened. Everyone, except Timothy, were swallowed whole by a single Sea Orc!
“Bastard!” He yelled, after he saw what happened.
Timothy saw the faint light of the force field dissipate in front of him afterwards. It had protected him so far, and since it faded out, he could only assume the worst! He feared that Ortana had been killed, and if she was dead, the rest of the team might as well be dead, because the stomach acid of the giant dragon was going to kill them quickly, and brutally!
“I knew something like this would happen!” He yelled out, and regretted ignoring his gut feelings.
Timothy was about to go apeshit on the few dragons that were slithering around close to him, he wanted to use every bit of offensive power that he had on them, but something stopped him. A second before he was about to shoot at them, Skendus’ voice suddenly reverberated in his head!
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“Timothy, can you hear me? I’m sure you can.” Skendus called for his attention, “We got our hands on the dragon's throat canal, or whatever it's called, well, Gustav wedged me between a couple of carcasses because I don't have any hands myself! I'm gonna try to shapeshift to an aqus goblin now, hopefully before I fall in the dragon's stomach…”
He was a bit casual about the dire situation they were in, it was unsettling, but at least he also tried to be helpful. “We're alright, but please come get us out of here, because the dragon's insides seem to be tougher than its outsides, its rock solid in here, we can't get out. Even Arvena can't burn as much as a hole for us, the dragon could be immune to fire, so you have to try and kill the dragon yourself however you can!”
Skendus was a skilled illusionist. Paired with the fact that his mana quality had also sky-rocketed recently, it wasn’t surprising that he could communicate telepathically, even while he was down the throat of a dragon! This telepathic ability was very helpful, because in this case, it stopped Tim from attacking the Sea Orcs randomly, and the latter potentially prevented him from getting killed!
“You’re in its throat, huh?” He muttered.
Afterwards, he came up with a plan that excluded fireballs and lightning bolts entirely. He figured that attacking the dragon’s scales would be useless, and expensive, so he came up with another plan.
Timothy was about to initiate his plan on one of the dragons, but then Skendus spoke to him again! He hated being interrupted.
“We're not stuck in that orc, but the other one. Turn to your left, a.a.a.a. right there! That's the one!” Skendus guided.
Once Timothy figured which dragon it was that swallowed his friends, he started initiating his plan! Originally he wanted to break the dragon's spine, and kill it right there, but these Sea Orcs were truly tough, and he guessed that they practiced some form of magic that shielded them. It had to be the case, because their bones were impossible for him to move.
Since his original plan couldn't work out, he then altered his plans a bit. The plan was simple, but also genius!
“If I can't break its bones, I'll just make some new bones, mu-hahah!” He grinned.
Considering that the dragons were ignoring him entirely right now, as they were feeding on the hundreds of raptor carcasses, he could summon his abilities in peace. He cranked the Bone Multiplier ability to the max, and did as the ability's name suggested, he created some new bones, out of nothingness!
The barb on his tail emitted a nearly suffocating dark cloud, which only confirmed that he was pushing the ability to its very limits! He was spending six-thousand mana points a second on this!
The dragon that he had targeted, started grunting in distress. His plan was working.
“Chew on that, you bastard…” He smirked.
Timothy had created a bunch of new teeth in the dragon's mouth, and this in turn kept its mouth from closing entirely. Though this wasn't enough to kill the dragon, it was just enough to help the rest of the team crawl out of its mouth slowly, or at least, that was the plan that he tried to reap success on.
When the dragon noticed that there was something wrong with its jaw, it darted towards the open sea, and moved at such great speeds that it was easy to lose track of it! Timothy chased after the dragon, and later on paired a couple of abilities of his, just so he could swim faster!
“You can't get away from me…” He grunted.