I'm a Stingray?

“I can’t help much with those illusions… I could barely figure out what that fish was, the one that made our souls breed or whatever.” Timothy admitted.

The lady by his side was in the process of embarrassment after that point, but she pushed such emotion away as she embraced the prior topic.

“I don’t need someone with a godly vision,” The lady stated.

And then explained, “I have a plan, but you need to come with me or else I can’t figure anything out.”

“Oh, sure then. But you have to tell me what to do, or else I’ll be useless.” He admitted.

…

The couple of friends travelled through a tunnel on the right side of the carved cavern this time. They headed towards the spot where one of these precious diamonds is said to be.

What stood different in this vicinity, was the fact that this tunnel was shorter in comparison.

They had to swim for about thirty meters before they met with what seemed like the diamond.

These two friends weren’t surrounded by a huge cavern this time, no. The scene itself seemed anti-climactic actually.

As this spot was just a dead end, there wasn’t an extravagant scene to cover the area.

The concept of such an approach confused the hero quite a bit, as he did not understand what stood as a barricade.

Likewise he pointed it out, “The darn thing is over there, we just gotta go and grab it.”

“That’s the problem,” The fine stingray lady tried to explain.

But her friend was sure that he would succeed, for that matter he swam directly towards this precious diamond.

He even thought of ways to grab it. If this spherical gem doesn’t float like the other one, then he aimed to grab and lift it with his muscle-coated fins.

But yet just after he felt sure that he reached this diamond, the boy's vision altered towards the unexpected.

He could see both the spherical gem and his friend, all at the same time.

This was especially odd after considering the fact that he was in the middle of these two points.

It almost felt like he had eyes at the back of his head, and such a concept was beyond comprehension.

"What the hell's going on?" He muttered.

And then he tried to back away from this nonsense, but at the same time he didn't have any recognized sense of direction.

Such an fate forced him to crash on many sides of the tunnel, as he simply had no idea where he headed.

Eventually he got far enough from the diamond, and could see things clearly once more.

"I tried to tell you, this thing does weird stuff to your eyes. What part of 'illusion' didn't you understand?" Dana lightly scolded.

After the young boy pushed panic away, he could only recite. "That was my bad, my mistake alone."

Sure this felt like something he usually would not say, but ego had to be tampered with one way or the other.

"You should be fine though. It's an illusion, not poison." The fine stingray lady assured.

And afterwards she revealed, "I might have figured out how to break this illusion, and get this shiny gem for us."

"How can I help?" Timmy tried to cooperate.

But he still was beyond dizzy and couldn't quite shake such a dilemma away.

Thankfully his friend didn't prove difficult, and was quick to properly carry this conversation.

She started it off with, "I've heard you and the system playing around with soul powers, right? We can use that to break this illusion."

"How?" The hero asked, as confusion coated his consciousness.

“Do you have a soul attack, that can drain someone or something’s soul?” She was swift to ask.

Within an instant the hero answered, “Yes actually. But how will that help us get this diamond?”

“It will help trust me,” The stingray lady assured with a mild tone.

And then she encouraged, “Try it out on the diamond sphere thing.”

Timmy was too confused in order to be objective. He didn’t have the slightest clue regarding a soul-movement like this one had to do with the diamond and its illusions.

But he also understood that his fine friend was able to see patterns that the naked eye couldn’t capture, so he found enough reasons to trust this lady.

That aside, he wasn’t in a good shape so it was hard to be argumentative.

“Okay I’ll trust you with this,” He mumbled.

And thankfully he was present enough to remember an important detail.

He didn’t shy away from its expression either, “But the soul reaping ability of mine is deadly now. You need to get out of here, or else I’ll accidentally take your soul too.”

“Fair enough for me,” Dana expressed.

And as she slowly swam away, she reminded the boy. “Aim for the diamond, it can help us figure this out.”

It took less than a minute for this good stingray to swim above fifty meters away, and by that time the hero felt slightly more capable.

That strong dizziness he suffered had fiddled away, enough for the hero to understand what he was supposed to do right now.

So Tim peeked at the illusive diamond for a few seconds, and afterwards he shouted. “Soul reap!”

What he expected next was for a stream of light to come out of the diamond in front of him. Sure the young man was sceptical regarding if that was possible or not, but he still hoped for the better.

The result he got instead was both progressive and confusing at the same time.

A stream did burst out of the spherical diamond, that was for sure.

But this one single stream of light pierced and circled around that shiny stone, and towards Timothy all at the same time!

The worst part was that this same one end of the stream somehow pierced through the diamond and entered the hero’s body too!

This light wasn’t long, so technically it didn’t even feel like the sea-pancake and this gem were connected.

It felt like one short stream circled around the hero, and the gem in question as well, without actually separating itself to attain such a result!