I'm a Stingray?

Chapter 133: Fearful peace (2)

After that decision had been made, the majority of the lobsters were getting ready to devour the ex-king whose body was laying slaughtered on the sand. But considering that there was no other animal around that he could eat, the best idea was for Timothy to eat through the carcass.

To assert his command, the young one landed above the body and took a bite - nothing else had to be said for every other lobster or shrimp to keep their distance.

After eating enough through the carcass to feel a bit of the little headache in the pea-sized brain of his, going away. He heard a tone thundering from behind, "Your majesty! We need to talk."

Turning around, he noticed that the interjector was a white-legged shrimp whose age has clearly gotten the best of him. Without waiting for the king to answer, this elder continued. "Through our community, 11 tribe leaders are angry and demand action."

"Angry about what?" The blue-dotted menace asked, at this point it was a tad difficult to filter out the reason.

"Some demand compensation about the losses in this battle, 7 of them to be exact. While the rest demand that you break all connections with the lobsters, you can't be a king in both communities!" These complaints made sense, it was hard to argue with them.

But the little hero wasn't really used to being bossed around or following a command from someone that isn't a friend or at least doesn't ask nicely.

So after taking another bite from the carcass, he cited. "No one will get any compensations and I'm not giving up the crown either."

Trying to keep his language in check although tone-control was far lost, the elder shrimp hollered. "This is not a time to behave like a child!"

"And this isn't a time for your tribe leaders to behave like bitches." The language was most definitely rough, but the young one wasn't even yelling it out.

Instead with a casual and taunting tone, he continued to recite while taking joy out of the other's facial expression. "I didn't start the war with these lobsters, your ex-king did. I even ended the war so what the hell do you want from me?"

"Our ex-king did not start the war with them either. They were lying just to find an excuse to kill us all!" Rage was topping over all emotions at the moment, this geezer was on the verge of collapsing because of it.

"It would be a stupid idea to do so, considering that they have less lobsters. Your ex-king did something stupid or else these lobsters wouldn't take a big risk." He felt smart about noticing this fact, but anyone with a basic logic can piece a portion of the story together to figure out that the bastard of an ex-king was not innocent.

Knowing that these kinda debates can go on forever thanks to the overall stubbornness of fish-kind, the young hero cut the conversation short by adding. "So I won't reward our precious leaders because of the losses they had, because of a war that I did not start."

Unwilling to give up, the elder questioned. "What about being the king of our enemies?"

"They're not your enemies any more. They are under my command and you are as well, so war is no longer an option unless any bastard has the guts to kill me in a fair battle and take the crown." Well such a reply would erupt when someone is bothered while eating.

He had never felt smarter than today and even the geezer was shocked of such hostile but yet accurate intelligence. One might think that his IQ has ascended towards the 160s by now but that wasn't the case.

These shrimp and lobsters are so used to their way of life and dealing with problems, that any other solution would be almost impossible to think of ~ simply because it's unheard of in their couple of communities.

Tim on the other hand, has nothing to do with these marine animals before and therefore he could think out of the box, and bash it on all of their faces. It didn't require much intelligence.

Noticing that the geezer had been struck silent, the new king demanded. "Get everyone ready, I think you heard me before about where we were going? Or at least I think it was you who heard me."

"Yes yes. We're going in the middle of the reef." The elder answered and then began crawling away to avoid any more loss of face.

Happy that he could continue eating again, the sea disk began chopping on the carcass and felt happier each time as his overall state was rejuvenating for the better.

He managed to eat half of the carcass before the system notified, [You no longer need to eat as your current state is the following...]

[Health = 73/110 bars]

[Hunger = 17/17 bars]

[Sleep = 10/39 bars]

[Stamina = 17/17 bars]

[Barb venom = 3/5 bars]

It stood evident that this carcass had healing properties and the increased stomach capacities helped absorb a bit more of it.

That's when he heard another tone sound out close-by, but this one was far more submissive and yet sharp. "We await your command, your majesty sir!"

The references were a bit mixed, but once turning around he spotted a half meter long lobster standing stiff and straight. Unwilling to make eye contact even, as he awaited for the king's command.

Feeling happy to finally see someone who cooperates willingly today, he answered. "The lobsters will be going to the west of this reef so prepare everyone."

The conversation was cut there as the big lobster just turned around and rushed towards his community to carry out the orders. This most definitely felt pleasing, but also allowed for other thoughts to barge in.

"I still can't understand how helping the reef ended up with me controlling 6,000 of these bastards but this isn't so bad." And it was truly difficult to comprehend, who else from the reef had the same position?

But positivity was seated as he decided, "I should continue to help the reef, even though I wasn't the one who almost destroyed it."

Realism knocked on the door now with a conclusion, "This big task will probably kill me but I would be bored anyway if I tried doing other stuff."

"Plus working to help the reef is paying off big time, maybe this life isn't so bad." That might be the most positive thing he uttered through the 2 weeks of life here.

But the system interrupted, [Guest is under a fair condition so 3 more upgrades have been unlocked. Would you like to hear them out?]