Timothy followed the Sea Orc that he was hunting, and he tried his best to keep up with the serpentine menace! This has quickly become a battle of speed, and agility, because he needed a lot of speed to keep up with the Sea Orc, and not to mention, he had to attack it as well.
“Almost…” His jaws clamped.
The sea orc started out swimming at a normal pace, well, it was normal in comparison to what it truly was capable of. Its fifty-foot long body knew how to maneuver the sea water to aid its speed, so the dragon's first fear-induced rush helped it gain a solid 70 km/h, which was simply unachievable for most sea creatures!
Its speed was purely natural, magic didn't aid, or amplify it in any way, it knew how to flee! The dragon knew that something was wrong, and acted accordingly in order to evade danger as quickly as it could, even if it didn't know what it was fleeing from, and even if it didn't understand why its jaw was locked shut!
Timothy ended up spending thousands of mana points just to keep up with the dragon. He couldn't find a way around such expenses, because if he stopped swimming, his friends would be gone forever! Since he locked the Sea Orc's mouth shut, his friends had virtually no other safe exit to use, even if they somehow mustered an escape plan! He couldn’t let them suffer the outcome of the situation that he created.
Regarding his speed ~ Timothy was a huge stingray, and he was muscular enough to swim up to 25 km/h without his magical powers aiding him. In this situation, such speed wasn't nearly enough, and this was why he turned to his powers for help in a short time.
The Flaming Fins ability, once maxed out, helped him swim 65 km/h at most, which was better than the prior speed, but it costs him two-thousand mana points per second! Worse yet, such speed wasn't enough on its own, it barely helped him catch up with the beast, but he was a one-ton stingray after all, so there were numerous aspects working against his speed. Each aspect got into his nerves!
“Let’s see if I can interrupt your stupendous speed…” He mumbled, and tried to grow a few extra bones across the dragon’s spine.
Logically, if a creature's bone structure was altered in any way, especially if incorrectly, then its natural movements would also be altered. In this case, he was hoping to cripple the dragon physically, once and for good!
Timothy tried to give his little plan a shot, his target was just fifty meters away now, but when the dragon noticed that something was tickling its bones again, it started swimming even faster than it originally was! At this point, it wouldn't even be a surprise if the dragon understood that it was being directly chased, even if it didn't bother looking back.
“He can swim even faster?!” Tim was bamboozled.
The system then helped him keep track of the distance, though that was about all that she could do. She couldn’t help highlight the dragon, to help him spot it within the midst of the continuous, dark atmosphere of the deep sea, no. He was on his own with that matter.
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[Target = 125 meters away]
[Target = 169 meters away]
[Target = 207 meters away]
[Target = 289 meters away]
The distance between him, and the dragon widened immediately, his target was almost three-hundred meters away now! Tim couldn't see beyond the four-hundred meter mark, so this was when he decided that he had to speed things up, because if he didn't, then the dragon would surely get away for good!
In response to the developing catastrophe, he summoned the Freezing Blood ability as well, and dual casted it with the Flaming Fins ability! The prior ability cost him three-thousand per second alone, at most, but since the two of them were being casted at the same time, his mana expenses bumped up to ten-thousand points a second!
[Target = 392 meters away]
[-10,000 mana points]
[Target = 325 meters away]
[-10,000 mana points]
[Target = 249 meters away]
[-10,000 mana points]
This was an irresponsible way to spend mana, because at this rate he'd lose one-hundred thousand of them in under ten seconds! It was an expensive task, but the Sea Orc had reached a grand speed of 130 km/h right now - He had to keep up with it, though he only had less than a minute to work his magic!
The Sea Orc then started swimming upwards, at rapid speeds, which was dangerous for most deep-sea creatures, because the water pressure could disfigure their bodies! It was dangerous, but the Sea Orc didn't seem to care, it swam upwards, and Timothy followed suit.
In five seconds, the two of them leaped out of the water, they crossed the sea’s surface! At 150 km/h, and a flat body to help him pierce the air, Timothy quickly flew above the heavy, large Sea Orc!
Being in the air, he felt like a WW2 warplane once more, well, he had the wings to act the part as they had this red glow, due to the Flaming Fins ability that he summoned! His organs felt weird ever since he leaped out of the sea, but this wasn't even bad enough to hurt him, nonetheless kill him, so he felt unstoppable!
Since he was in the air, and had gained plenty of velocity from the speed that he achieved so far, Tim stopped using the abilities that he dual casted entirely. It was best to cut corners somewhere, and this was the best chance to maintain what remained of his mana pool. He kept flying upwards, ten meters per second!
The Sea Orc was accelerating through the air as well, though at a much slower pace considering how heavy the Sea Orc was. It was only a matter of time before this tremendous beast started plummeting from the sky, and since it was less than eighty meters away from Timothy, he racked his brain to figure out the best way to attack!
For a second he considered frying its brain, but he scratched that as an option, because at this rapidly changing altitude, he didn’t want to hit his friends by mistake! He'd never forgive himself if he ended up accidentally crippling them, he didn’t want to push his friends towards a vegetative state.
With that said, he was stuck with his original plan. Since he wasn't spending all that mana in dual casting anymore, he decided to crank the Bone Multiplier ability to the max, so he could try and cripple the Sea Orc before it hit the water! By all odds, the impact with the sea water won't be enough to cripple this beast as efficiently as he would hope, so he had to try his best to do the damage himself, before the beast could get the chance to slip away, and be gone for good!