Volume 1 - CH 11

Chapter 1-11. Exploration

Several hours have passed since my race changed and evolved.

...... I've gradually learned about Rain Bass.

I can go against the flow while looking like the water flow doesn't affect me at all. There is some resistance, but it doesn't matter at all. Or rather,It's look like I don't care with water flow.

I tried to catch the water flow directly on my side, but I was able to cross the water flow sideway in no time.

And one more thing ... the swimming speed is so fast. If I swim along with the flow, I able to swim even faster.

But! I can't turn around.

In a stream of water, the water pressure I receive on my body replaces the brakes. However, the movement is too fast and it takes some time for the brakes to be applied.

I came up with that! That's right! It's [Water flow manipulation], ye guess it right ma man!

If the natural water pressure doesn't work, I can create my own water stream!

So I try to swim at full speed and make a U-turn to brake! (drift maybe? fish drifting lol)

I see ! After all, water pressure alone can't stop me immediately!

Then! Create a new water flow from behind me with the skill [Water flow manipulation] and receive it with my body! Then, it will be possible to completely suppress the momentum and stop.

I forgot my MP existance while doing all of this.

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Race: RainBass

LV: 2/10

HP: 20/20

MP: 0/25

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Right now I floating with my body lying down. I don't feel motivated. I mean, 'what a pain' kind of feeling  ...

When the MP runs out, it seems that a considerable burden is applied to the body.

I am conscious but I can't move.

Ha ~~. Well, there is not enough information of this world and how it works. I completely ignore the support of the voice of heaven and remember it with my body. Am I an old man who doesn't see the instruction manual?

I could have avoided this by listening to it too! What a pain.

How about this? I wonder if even 1 MP can make my body move again, let's see it after I recovered ... Alright. Heavenly voice. Please tell me about running out of MP.

[MP. It is used for skills such as magic, transform, and strengthening. The recovery method is either to rest or to eat the monster's meat. When the MP runs out, the burdens continues to be applied to the body, it becomes difficult to move properly, and it keep in that state until MP is fully recovered before it can move again]

I will be in this state until my MP is fully restored ... I think this is too much because I got into this state soon after it evolved ...

Ah, I want to close my eyes and sleep. Ah right, I'm a fish, so I doesn't have eyelids.

It was the first time I wanted to be a blowfish (puffer fish). It's impossible because this is a river in the first place.

I want eyelids! Give me an eyelids and a comfortable place to sleep!

No, who the heck is the one to give me an eyelid. Keep it cool, me, and think. Mmm, that's it.

...... Isn't the MP running out and losing is the same thing? I'm scared of running out of MP now.

[MP has slightly recovered]

…………We apologize for the inconvenience.

When my MP recovered, my body started to move.

Check the surroundings, ensure my safety, and at the same time take a rest. I didn't meet the enemy often.

However, it is strange that even though I just left from the water flow for several hours and floated, none of them saw mee.

I think there is something wrong with it ... I can't find any source of this problem.

I'm wondering if I should go upstream or downstream ... but for the time being, I should be heading upstream.

...... MP was run out and I'm back after quite a bit. Or rather ………… It's already night?

After all that happened seems took a good amount of time. Full recovery will take about two hours.

I don't have a sense of time anymore, so I can only understand it from dark as night and bright as morning.

By the way, it's hard to see the surroundings at night, so I'd like to avoid moving too much, but I can see clearly for some reason today. It looks good around noon.

What is it? There is only one reason why I can do that. Is this a feature of RainBass? Maybe this guy is nocturnal. This wasn't in the information from Heavenly Voice.

Well..... meh.... It's a good thing that I can see well in this darkness! With this, I can explore anytime, day or night!

There may be something who only appears at night.

Ah, I set the flag! It may be a little dangerous, but let's do our best! I resting right now because I was out of MP, i-it's not like I'm sleppy or anything! I don't have the concept of sleepy in the first place!

Let's start searching around! Since I was washed away, I will do my best to go upstream.

Then arounnd 10 minutes just go upstream. There are no small fish, and I can't even see my shadows, but I'm moving forward for the time being.

Probably the place where my egg shell was at the upstream. I must have been washed away quite far since then.

At that time, I couldn't go upstream properly.

However, the lower I went, the less chance I had to see any creatures.

Thanks to that, I was saved in some places, but the problem is that the LV is hard to rise there. I want to raise the LV as soon as possible and go ashore.

There will be a lot of problems when I goes up, but ... I'll take care of it somehow.

How long was it? As I passed the place where I was born and headed further upstream, I was able to reach a large pond.

There are a lot of aquatic plants and big rocks, but it seems that this place is easy to find prey because of the good visibility.

However, there are no fish anywhere.

Hmm ~~~ I went out to a larger place, but it's not good.

Did I climb to a place that I didn't know in tens of minutes? What a great fish is this RainBass. Or maybe the scales of the blue fish are too heavy ...?

So I feel like I couldn't climb.

Well. I want to go higher ... Where is this place?

It's a little too wide and I don't know the direction to go upstream.

Well, should I go around some more?

Move around by using the RainBass'es high mobility.

By the time I got here, my LV had already risen to 5.

It seems that the LV increase the plankton preyed faster while moving.

By the way, my current status is like this.

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Race: RainBass

LV: 5/10

HP: 30/38

MP: 30/45

Attack power: 31

Defense: 39

Magical power: 10

Agility: 34

-Special skills-

[Voice of Heaven] [Rare Species Benefits]

-Skill-

[Luminous] [Partial Body Strengthening (hard)]

[Fangtooth] [Physical Strengthening ] [Water flow manipulation]

-Resistance-

[Dazzle] [Strong Acid]

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This time, it seems that my agility tends to increase, and the magical power is as it is, but the MP is still high.

MP consumes quite a lot with my current skill, so I would like to raise it more.

The defense and attack power is still low, but there should be no problem with the attack power because I has [Fangtooth] Attack power +80 just by using it.

I wento around the pond while checking my status.

I went around while checking if there was anything, but after all there was nothing.

If nothing is done, I will be forced to live by only preying plankton, but ... I can bear the fact that my staple food is plankton.

About two-thirds of the lap around the pond, I found a way to go upstream.

There was nothing particularly noticeable, so I decided to go upstream as it was.

Haaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh.

Too boring! Keep going! What is this exploration!!!!

What I can see around me is aquatic plants or stones! And clear water! For the neptune sake, this is so boring.

[You got experience points]

Shut it! Can you read the water, plankton!

There's nothing to do, and I'm losing my awareness. I am sure that if I am attacked now, I will definitely get one shot-ed.

I so defenseless right now ... I've never fought with this body. I want to fight something once, but ... there is nothing to fight here.

I was fine because I had a high defense power until now, but now I completely weakened and my defense power is low.

Now that we have completely transitioned from the durable type to the mobile type, I would like to confirm how to fight. Because [Water flow manipulation] cannot be used in actual battles.

There is something I want to do, but I can't do it.

Suddenly, a big stone comes into view.

It's the same kind of stone that I've seen so far.

Normally, I just go ignoring it, but there was one difference from the other stones.

……………………Hmm? …………Hmm!? A letter!!??

Yes, the letters were written there. It's not just letters.

If it's just a letter, I'll just ignore it.

But this letter was so important that it caught my eye.

The characters written there were ………… Japanese.

(fui-nee: why japanese, from all of the language. At least make it StoneAge language or something)