Chapter 653 A Mystic Human’s True Might
The condensation of his purest form of hatred, one bearing the name of the Supreme Tusk, an existence birthed from the death of his race, that was Gannala.
To date, every single time he had been lured to a place through Gannala's voice, it was a trap laid by Inala. Every instance he sought to find her, he ended up with no results.
It was during the First Major Disaster when he chanced upon the Supreme Tusk, but she was dead by then, preventing him the privilege of revenge. The Supreme Tusk's successor, Gannala was a baby, enveloped by a Prana Bomb and carried by Inala.
Another Prana Bomb had covered him back then, serving as a second layer of protection. A gap was opened in the Prana Bomb to leak Gannala's crying voice in an effort to lure in the Boar King. Other than that one instance, Brangara hadn't heard anything from her, not to mention seeing her.
For the past 24 years, he had been seething with obsessive longing, dreaming for the day to come when he could crush the product of his race's annihilation. And now, the figure of the Empyrean Tusk standing over the horizon triggered every single cell of his being, screaming at him to rush at the target faster and torture the living heck out of it.
"Gannallaaa!" Brangara roared with all his might, unleashing a shockwave that ruptured the surroundings as his figure boomed through. His lips curled to extreme ends as his jaws parted open, revealing a maniacal desire, ravenous to the zenith.
"Stay there! I'm coming!" He assumed Celestial Boar form, rupturing the earth with every thunderous step he slammed into the ground in an effort to accelerate his sprinting pace further. Powerful gales gushed around him through the effects of Subtle Terrain Domination, adding a wind to his steps, hastening his approach.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The figure of the Empyrean Tusk visibly trembled as he approached it, causing Brangara to break out in a maddened state of voraciousness, almost tasting the target's flesh in his jaws, "I'll kill you! Too much time has passed. You need to die, a clobbered death!"
Hundred kilometres, ninety, eighty, the distance shortened in a matter of seconds as the 800-metre-tall Celestial Boar covered a kilometre every second in its sprint, continuing to accelerate the longer it ran.
Even in his maddened state, he calculated logically, feeling that the boost given to him by Subtle Terrain Domination would make his human form faster than his Celestial Boar form now that he had gained enough momentum.
Immediately in response, he reverted to human form and continued to accelerate, getting closer and closer to Gannala, his focus remaining solely on her.
But suddenly, when there were less than twenty kilometres between the two, a shadow flickered from the corner of his eye and began to trail alongside him, mimicking his running action, mirroring him once it arrived at his side.
'How is this possible?' His heart thundered as Brangara experienced a shock, seeing a replica of him keeping pace with his run, 'I'm at the 2-Life Stage while being boosted by Subtle Terrain Domination!'
"Hello, big brother!" His mirror image waved happily and extended his leg to the side, tripping Brangara.
hole in size, making it impossible to determine where the eyes were positioned. They were too tiny and there were too many.
"Damn...you...Loot!" Brangara grunted in rage, intending to get up but was unable to do so, as his spine had taken a severe beating. His limbs weren't functioning. He would be able to move a second or two later considering his healing speed. However, that was if he was given the time to do so.
Boom!
Dozens of vines jutted out of the ground and rapidly thickened into branches. Their ends budded and bloomed into carnivorous mouths that chomped upon the Celestial Boar, biting into his skin once he was fully strapped to the ground.
It was Blola in his Mystic Eater form, taking charge of confining Brangara, creating an opportunity to even consume the latter's flesh. Of course, due to the sheer difference in muscular strength, even the carnivorous mouths were struggling to eat him up. Their carnivorous teeth became stuck skin-deep, struggling to lodge in further.
Astral World—Shredded Lunge X10!
The Celestial Boar's body trembled once but was unable to leap. The Transcendent Eater's branches had coiled around him too deeply. But there were plenty of options left at his disposal as Brangara timed himself perfectly.
Right as the effect of Shredded Lunge was about to reach his end, he reverted to human form. Blades of wind populated his surroundings right as he assumed human form, for Shredded Lunge had ended.
Through Subtle Terrain Domination, he strengthened the Shredded Lunge's wind blades further and sent them hurling radially, dicing up the Transcendent Eater branches into hundreds of pieces.
With that, he managed to free himself. Unfortunately, that wasn't enough to break free from the situation as Virala jumped him, jutting out of the ground as a metre-long Mystic Ewworm and transformed into the human form of Brangara.
He opened up with a punch and targeted Brangara's jaw, knocking the latter unconscious. Right as he intended to strike with another punch, Brangara switched bodies, retaliating with the conscious body.
He raised his arms up in defence and was sent skidding, panting a little as his arm bones had shattered from the impact. As his unconscious body regained consciousness in the meantime, he observed Prana spike into Virala's arms, rapidly healing his cracked bones.
'This damn fucker!' Brangara grunted, vexed to find new Transcendent Eater branches jut out of the ground and coil around the region, forming an enclosed dome.
"This will be our private battlefield." Virala cracked his stiff neck and began to walk towards Brangara, activating his partial transformation of Tool. A golden, full-body plated armour composed of Rutham covered him, radiating light onto the darkness within the dome.
The armour covering his hands thickened, forming gauntlets twice the size of his hand as Virala slammed them against each other, producing a sonorous gong. "Come at me, Brangara."
"I've yet to go all out."