Timothy strode the sea to find creatures that he could kill, he wanted to collect a bunch more system points, but it didn''t take long until his motives got him in trouble!


    The sea didn''t intimidate him as much as it did before, so he was cocky as he swam. Tim could see up to five-hundred meters even within the depths of the sea, so his confidence wasn''t exaggerated, however, he still was susceptible to sneak attacks!


    A giant squid emerged out of the sand, and Timothy happened to be floating right above it! The squid emerged out of the sand, and was just fifteen meters below him!


    It flung one of its eight, fat arms towards him, but he evaded it. He Dual Casted, and swam forward at 60 km/h!


    Afterwards, he looked back, and noticed that the squid was well over seventy meters long, and forty meters wide! It was truly giant!


    “How the hell did it even hide in the fucking sand!?” He asked himself, as he stared at the giant squid.


    Once he noticed the sharp, fiery features on its tentacles, he got an answer to his own question. The ‘Suckers’ on its tentacle arms were its greatest tool, because they emitted tiny bits of fire, and this fire would surely help them push the sand around more easily! That''s part of how it hid.


    Furthermore, this squid could camouflage itself really well, it could match its color with the surrounding sand, so even if part of its body wasn''t covered by sand, it wouldn''t matter. They were really good at hiding, and they might as well be, because a giant squid like this one had to hide if it wanted to eat, because hiding, and waiting, exerted a lot less energy in comparison to chasing prey!


    “What a big bastard,” Tim remarked, “What do you say, system? Fight or flight? Can I kill it?!”


    [You might as well try, you have enough protection to resist its fireballs.] She beeped.


    “Fireballs?” He asked, and almost farted out in frustration.


    Timothy had taken his eyes off the squid just for two seconds, and when he looked forward again, he saw what could be well over two-hundred, five-foot wide fireballs heading his way! He immediately flapped his wings in response, and his strength, paired with the couple of abilities that helped him move faster, helped him move forty meters upwards, in less than a second!


    This move helped him to evade most of the fireballs, but about twenty of them still headed his way! Seven of them hit him!


    “Ah, ya bastard!” He shouted.


    Though the fireballs hit him, he was still just being dramatic, because he had felt the heat of the fire only for a single second, and he didn''t get burned. His durability upgrades dissipated the enemy’s attacks quickly, so he was fine!


    [Health, -20 points] The system beeped.


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    Furthermore, she added. [You''re dealing with a Blazing Giant Squid, good luck!]


    “System, for fuck''s sake! You could''ve told me that sooner!” He complained.


    Initially he didn’t want to fight this thing, especially since he could get away from it within seconds, but now that he had his toes in the water, he was more and more enthralled to fight it! It could get him a lot of points, firstly, and that was important, but he was also overly-interested to witness a fire wielding squid!


    Timothy couldn''t find it within himself to swim away, especially after he saw about three-hundred more fireballs heading his way, just because the squid moved its arms around like a failed martial artist. It was terrifying to witness such an amount of fireballs, yes, but he ended up finding it hilarious!


    “You can''t kill me, Kung Fu prick!” He shouted. He found joy, and laughter out of the fact that he was almost immune to its fireballs.


    Complete immunity against any form of attack was rare, but he was relatively safe right now. The sea beast''s fireballs were either too mild to kill him, or, his durability upgrades became especially useful after his ascension to the Fintelus’ Apprentices Realm of mana! The latter sounded more sensible, his durability upgrades may be backed up by his increased mana quality, though the system had mentioned before that durability upgrades were not related to mana.


    It was difficult to pinpoint his durability, but it didn''t matter right now. Either way, he was fine!


    Tim evaded most of the fireballs, and ended up absorbing thirty of them, which cost him forty more health points! Losing that amount of health points may have been alarming when he first reincarnated, but his health bar was up at five-thousand points right now, so he could withstand hundreds of tentacle nursed fireballs if he had to!


    After enduring that wave of fireballs, he then swam downwards, circled around the Giant Squid, and attacked it with various, super-amped, single-shot attacks!


    Timothy first relied on the Withering Shaker ability, as it may be the most effective one of them all. Squids had complex nervous systems, but regardless of how complex it was, the nervous system was still susceptible to attacks!


    [-3,000 mana points,] The system beeped.


    This ability wasn’t too expensive to cast, even when he cranked it up to the maximum! It was handy, and in this case, it was effective, because the squid already started moving weirdly!


    However, the squid was still alive, so he continued attacking it, but this time, he attacked it with the Electro Nerve Splitter ability! He had sensed nine brains on it, eight of them being small, so he knew that he had to attack this squid several times if he was to kill it.


    Timothy sensed that eight of its brains were used to move its tentacles, so he started attacking those tiny brains, with less powerful shots, before he moved over to attack its biggest brain, the one within its head!


    Each small attack cost him two-thousand mana points, which was expensive, as he hadn''t amplified this ability yet, but nevertheless, it was necessary! He spent sixteen-thousand mana points like that, and when he attacked the squid''s massive brain, he cranked the Electro Nerve Splitter ability to the maximum, and lost another twelve-thousand mana points!


    It was expensive, and he may need a day to recover all of the mana that he lost today, but his attacks were thankfully effective. The squid was just big, it wasn’t immortal, and it certainly didn’t have a strong durability, be it physical, or magical.


    Timothy then shot three, overcharged fireballs to seal the deal, and although this cost him twenty-seven thousand mana points, he did manage to kill the squid with them! The giant fireballs were rather effective, he got himself some fried calamari at the end!


    [Blazing Giant Squid killed. In exchange, 33,000 system points have been added to your sum. You''ve accumulated 58,000 system points in total, so now you''re eligible to buy the Master''s Will ability!] The system beeped.