Ocean Lords: Start as a Fisherman

Chapter 2: Skinning and cramping
Su Wang immediately checked the three professions that could be transferred to.

When you decide to change your profession, the scroll will show you the differences between the professions.

First, the angler activates the fishing gear - the entry-level fishing rod.

Professional skills:
Hooking the Golden Feather: After hooking the target, 10 stamina points are consumed per second, and damage equal to strength is caused per second.
When your own strength is greater than the target, it will cause double damage, and the hooked target cannot escape. When the endurance limit is greater than the target, using skills will not consume endurance.

Occupational Features: Fishermen gain vehicle strength*2 and endurance*2.

The other is the fisherman, activating the fishing gear - the entry-level fishing net.

Professional skills:
Dragnet - consumes 20 stamina points per second, causing 30% of strength damage per second to all targets within the 30*50m fishing net range.
When the target's power is lower than the user's own endurance, the user will fall into a continuous imprisonment state. When the target's power is greater than the user's own endurance, the target cannot be imprisoned and the user will suffer an endurance loss equal to the target's power.

Occupational Features: Fishermen gain vehicle strength*1 and endurance*3.

Speargunner, activate the vehicle - entry-level speargun.

Professional skills:
The spear comes out like a dragon - after using the fishing gear, you can aim at a single target. After the spear hits the target, it can instantly cause damage equal to strength*5. Each use consumes 30 points of stamina and the shooting range is 5 meters.

Occupational Features: Fishermen gain vehicle strength*3 and endurance*1.

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The advantages and disadvantages of the three professions are clear at a glance.

At this moment, Su Wang couldn't help but think about which career to choose.

Combined with the information seen in the fishermen's exchange area, plus the introduction of each profession.

It can be seen that the fisherman and speargunner professions have their own strengths.

A character with outstanding endurance attributes, large-scale damage and control capabilities.

The other focuses on strength and emphasizes single-target lethality.

Anglers, on the other hand, are mediocre, the type who are knowledgeable but not specialized.

At this moment, Su Wang's gaze was still fixed on the profession of angler.

"This fisherman profession seems to be the most suitable for my soul's unique talent."

What suits you is the best.

Neither the Fisherman nor the Harpoon Master can maximize the use of the Unbalanced Talent.

Using the imbalance talent can only strengthen the unilateral highlight again.

On the other hand, wouldn't the angler profession, coupled with his unbalanced talent, allow both aspects to become prominent points?
Relatively speaking, there are no shortcomings in both aspects?
Thinking of this, Su Wang made up his mind to choose the career of angler, which some people have already regretted.

The moment he chose his career, Su Wang's mind went blank for a moment.

A gray-white fishing rod slowly appeared in his consciousness.

The capabilities and usage of fishing gear became clear instantly.

After closing his eyes for a few seconds, Su Wang opened his eyes again and had an idea.

A gray-white fishing rod with a 4.5-meter-long pole and a 30-meter-long line appeared in Su Wang's hand, looking both real and unreal.

The next second, Su Wang looked outside the raft and saw the strange fish still biting the raft.

He gently swung the fishing rod in his hand, and a silver hook drew a silver light in the air and immediately sank into the body of the strange fish.

Several messages also flashed in Su Wang's eyes.

[Consumed 10 points of stamina, successfully caught a black-scaled snapper (lightly polluted), and reduced the target stamina by 10 points.]

Black Snapper (mildly polluted)

Fish species rarity: Common.

Strength:12(8).

Stamina: 170/180 (120).

Ordinary black-scaled snappers that have been contaminated by evil forces have seen varying degrees of improvement in strength and endurance.

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The moment he received the information, Su Wang immediately made a decision.

He immediately used his imbalance talent, increasing his endurance by 100% at the cost of reducing his strength by half.

In an instant, Su Wang's endurance limit soared to 200 points, exceeding the endurance limit of the black-scaled snapper.

The endurance value, which was originally consumed at 10 points per second, also stagnated at this moment.

The price is that the Black Snapper's endurance value drops sharply to 5 points per second.

The black-scaled snapper hit by the fishhook seemed to be strongly stimulated and increased the frequency of biting and hitting the raft.

Su Wang was slightly relieved.

"Finally, we can deal with this strange fish."

In his eyes, the endurance of the strange fish was decreasing in an orderly manner.

With the unbalanced talent to bless the endurance value,

My endurance is enough to hold on and I can completely wear this strange fish to death.

As for why the strength attribute is not improved,
The reason was that the moment he consumed his endurance, Su Wang felt as if his physical strength was instantly drained away.

Su Wang even vaguely felt that if his endurance was completely exhausted, there would be extremely serious consequences.

At this point, he made the safer choice of strengthening his endurance.

10 seconds…20 seconds…

In Su Wang's eyes, the endurance of the black-scaled snapper was gradually decreasing.

As the stamina value decreases, the frequency of the black-scaled snapper attacking the raft gradually decreases.

In the end, he even seemed powerless.

Until the black-scaled snapper's endurance was only 40 points, the black-scaled snapper, sensing the crisis, suddenly stopped attacking the raft and dived underwater with a swing of its tail.

Seeing that he was about to kill the strange fish, how could Su Wang let it run away, not to mention that the strange fish had been hit by the silver hook.

After activating the fishing gear, Su Wang naturally became clear about its capabilities.

When the target is out of the range of the fishing line, if the target's strength is greater than Su Wang, it will escape the damage of the fishhook.

But the target's strength is lower than his, so he cannot escape from the range of the fishing line.

The strength attribute of the black-scaled snapper is 12 points, which is higher than Su Wang’s current strength.

Seeing that the black-scaled snapper was no longer visible on the water surface, Su Wang instantly switched the amplification of his imbalance talent.

As the endurance value cap of 200 was reduced to 50, Su Wang's strength attribute suddenly soared to 20.

The damage caused by the fishhook increased simultaneously, instantly clearing the last bit of the black-scaled snapper's endurance.

A message immediately flashed across Su Wang's eyes.

[Black Snapper Caught (Lightly Contaminated)] Upon receiving the message, Su Wang immediately lifted the fishing rod in his hand, and the fishing line suddenly contracted.

The next second, a black shadow a few meters tall broke through the water and suddenly fell onto the raft, motionless.

At this time, Su Wang finally saw the entire appearance of the strange fish.

In addition to the deformed tumor on its back, there are actually three strange legs growing under the fish's belly.

The information of the strange fish also changed at this moment.

There is an additional near-death kill state, and the endurance value is also locked at 1 point.

Looking at the strange fish's current motionless performance, combined with the situation mentioned by a fisherman in the fisherman exchange area earlier.

Su Wang couldn't help but have some guesses.

"When the fisherman's stamina runs out, will he also become like this strange fish?"

This endurance value seems to be like vitality.

No wonder the upper limit of endurance was lowered, and 10 points of endurance were consumed to wear away the last 40 points of endurance of the monster fish.

You will suddenly feel a strong sense of fatigue.

Immediately, Su Wang revoked the blessing of the imbalance talent, allowing his strength and endurance to return to balance.

As the upper limit of endurance value returned to 100, the existing endurance value also increased proportionally, and then I felt that the fatigue had dissipated a lot.

"It seems that the conversion power cannot be used lightly. At least when the endurance value is low, you have to be careful."

Su Wang loosened his grip, and the fishing rod and fishing gear disappeared on their own and returned to his sea of ​​consciousness.

Then he looked at the dying black-scaled snapper.

According to the previous hint in the scroll, underwater creatures contain opportunities but also come with dangers.

We have seen the crisis, but we have not seen the opportunity yet.

Su Wang took two steps to the front of the strange fish and squatted down. At this moment, the strange fish was completely unable to move.

Only the eight fish eyes can still move slightly.

Seeing eight bulging pale fish eyes looking at him at the same time, Su Wang couldn't help but feel a chill.

"It's so ugly!"

Thinking about how he was almost bitten by this strange fish, Su Wang kicked the strange fish in anger.

The monster fish's only remaining endurance was also wiped out by this kick, and it died completely.

Black-scaled snapper (mildly contaminated), dead, decomposition confirmed.

Information flashed in his eyes, and Su Wang immediately chose to decompose.

The next second, the strange fish's body flashed with light and suddenly turned into a pile of objects.

[200g of lightly contaminated sea bream fillet*10 servings.]

Price:
①: Edible, nutritious, each serving can restore 20 points of endurance. Due to being contaminated by evil forces, there is a very low chance of infection if consumed in large quantities.

②: Can be used as bait. After being thrown into the water, it has a great attraction to ordinary fish. There is a small probability of attracting black iron fish, and an extremely low probability of attracting special rare fish.

[Ordinary fish skin*10] Value: Some kind of material.

【Ordinary fish glue*2】Value: a certain material.

[Ordinary fish scales*40] Value: Some kind of material.

[Ordinary fish tendon*1] Value: A certain material.

[Ordinary Fish Soul: Black Scaled Snapper*1] Value: A rare product with a low probability of being produced after the death of a fish. After the vehicle is upgraded to a certain stage, the fish soul can be consumed to produce fish guards.

[Ordinary Fish Maw*1] Value: A shelter given by the world. After opening it, you can obtain an indefinite number of low-level resources.

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Looking at the strange fish scattering into parts of a raft, Su Wang couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth.

"How thoughtful! I didn't even have to do anything to skin him alive."

Even though he had witnessed all kinds of fantastic things before, he still felt a little unbelievable when he saw the scene before him.

Su Wang first put the fish skin, fish maw and other materials into the fishing warehouse.

The fish meat was also put in after a slight hesitation.

Although the information suggests that it is rich in nutrients and can also restore endurance.

But considering the ugly appearance of the strange fish before, and the hint that there is an extremely low probability of infection and contamination.

Su Wang decided that unless he was almost starving to death, he would never try to eat this thing.

Then, Su Wang picked up a round blue gem, inside which was the shadow of a small black-scaled fish.

This gem is exactly the ordinary fish soul.

Judging from the hint, this gem may be the most valuable item in this pile.

However, the raft used as a vehicle may not have reached the stage where the fish soul can be used, so it can only be put away for the time being until it is available.

Finally, the fish maw.

Judging from the information, this fish maw seems to be similar to a treasure chest.

Su Wang picked up the fish maw and chose to open it.

The next second, I received the information that the items had been stored in the fishing warehouse.

When I opened it, I found 10 units of wood, 2L of pure water, and 5 units of steel plates.

There are also 5 fish coins that look like crystal scales.

【Azure Fish Coin】

Function: Can be used for dock supply, dock maintenance vehicles, and internal facilities of vehicles.

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"Vehicle repair...my ship!"

After seeing the introduction to the function of fish coins, Su Wang hurriedly checked the condition of the raft.

During the time of killing the monster fish, the durability of the raft has been reduced to only 376 points.

More than one-fifth of its total durability was lost, and there was no sign of self-recovery.

"It will be troublesome if a few more strange fish come..." Su Wang muttered to himself.

They immediately started looking for ways to solve the durability problem of the raft.

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(End of this chapter)