Chapter 654 Gannala Meets Brangara
Standing twenty kilometres away from the dome formed by the Transcendent Eater branches was Gannala, her expression focused upon the battle.
In her Empyrean Tusk form, she sucked in a large volume of earth through her trunk, compressed them into a solid through the effects of Internal Inertial Gravity, and shot it into the sky, aimed at the Zahara Kingdom.
She had no intention of destroying the Zahara Kingdom. Rather, the Zahara Kingdom would remain sturdy despite the meteor strike, thanks to the innumerous defensive means that Yarsha Zahara had erected.
Gannala had spent most of her time figuring out these defensive means and had managed to discover most of Yarsha's plans. Hence, she knew whether or not her attacks were damaging to the Zahara Kingdom.
The meteor strike only had one purpose, which was to stretch Yarsha Zahara's mind to the limit, enough that her control over Grehha and Yennda would be retracted, allowing the duo to free themselves through suicide.
Hence, Gannala had to unleash enough volume of meteors to pressure Yarsha Zahara to her absolute limit. Hence, she was unrelenting in her attacks, continuing to passively hurl large, compressed blocks of earth to the Zahara Kingdom.
Her trunk focused on the meteor strike while her eyes were on the dome. Gannala intended to figure out the limits of Brangara's strength.
Grehha had already leaked information related to Brangara's three Natures. He gained the related information through Yarsha Zahara. This information also allowed Gannala to plan better and communicate with Grehha from time to time, refining their plan of action.
Armed with the information of Brangara's three Natures, Gannala had one objective in luring him out here: To get a feel of his power.
Can the Mystic Seven with their endgame builds manage to kill the Celestial Boar during the Fourth Major Disaster? Gannala wanted to know the answer. And if possible, she wanted to determine at what point the Mystic Seven be strong enough to face him, and if that point in time would appear before the Fourth Major Disaster.
'This isn't good.' She became worried upon sensing the blazing presence fluctuations being emitted by the pillar of light unleashed by Brangara, 'He's in a maddened state upon seeing me, but his extent of madness isn't as strong as I expected.'
Had it been the Empyrean Boar King, he would have activated every single Nature in his Astral Chart upon discovering Gannala. He would harness every strand of power at his disposal to destroy Gannala.
But the Celestial Boar was different. He had a certain degree of control even over his madness. He was mad enough to ignore the Zahara Kingdom to chase after Gannala. But he hadn't lost every semblance of sentience, for he hadn't activated any of his Natures of Subtle Terrain Domination.
The only Subtle Terrain Domination he was using originated from the influence generated on his being through the stored 44 Natures of Subtle Terrain Domination. Even though he had activated all three Natures and synchronised their effect, he wasn't using up all his Natures.
That was why Gannala was worried. It meant that she couldn't use herself as a powerful enough bait. That ended in the Empyrean Boar King's era. The Celestial Boar was different.
'Then, onto the next experimentation.' She made a mental note, instinctively emulating Inala. She craned her trunk at a steeper angle and shot compressed chunks of earth to greater altitudes.
This way, they'll take a longer time to slam into the Zahara Kingdom. Her trunk's angle steadily increased as she shot enough, and calculated, 'With these varying arcs, there'll be enough meteors striking the Zahara Kingdom for the next three minutes.'
With that done, she pointed her trunk horizontally and unleashed a powerful gust of air, immediately reverting to human form to use the momentum generated from the thrust to launch herself as a projectile.
She shielded her body through the effects of Internal Inertial Gravity while arcing towards the Transcendent Eater dome. While en route, she took out a body from her stomach biome, assumed Nature Weapon form and equipped herself onto the body's Tertiary Nature slot.
The woman was middle-aged, an existence targeted and captured by Inala. It was a Millinger and the strongest card she could play at the moment.
Right as Brangara shredded through the carnivorous mouth, Virala sneaked upon him from the back and targeted his spine once again. The punch sent him flying towards the dome where a thick branch swatted him to the ground.
With a snort, he used Shredded Lunge and punched Virala, grunting in anger to see the latter enter the ground promptly, drilling to depths beyond the range of the generated wind blades.
Mystic Humans didn't simply transform into the physical forms of Pranic Beasts. They infused the entirety of their power of psychokinesis to reinforce their bodies, making their bodies tougher than the original.
And in Virala's case, not only did he have the psychokinesis capabilities of two Mystic Grade Pranic Beasts, the race of Ewworms were ambush predators, physically geared to lunge into the asses of their target from their hiding spot deep underground.
In terms of short-distance lunging speed, Virala's Mystic Ewworm was the fastest on Sumatra. So, he only needed to assume Mystic Ewworm form to evade Brangara's attacks. No matter how powerful an attack was, its power would be dispersed across the earth.
With his speed, Virala was capable of drilling into the ground faster than whatever attack could course through the earth and reach him. This was what he relied upon to dodge all of Brangara's attacks.
Astral World—Drifting Tunnel X8!
Brangara jumped into the ground, intending to tunnel underground and escape the confines of the Transcendent Eater dome. But an instant later, thousands of roots drilled into the tunnel and coiled around him, preventing him from leaving.
A second later, Virala appeared in the tunnel and engaged in physical combat, "You're a fucking leech!"
"Thank you for the praise!" Virala assumed his Tertiary Body Stage One partial transformation of Brangara and covered himself with Rutham armour in the fraction of a second, sending out a jab. He selectively reinforced the related muscles with psychokinesis and made the jab even more devastating.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Large chunks of earth surrounding the tunnel fell off. The shockwaves from the punches destroyed the surroundings as Brangara's face was bruised to the extent even Yarsha Zahara wouldn't be able to recognise him anymore.
'As expected, even Rutham cannot handle this intensity of attacks.' Virala thought upon seeing Rutham spill out like water every time he punched. The impact broke the structural composition of the Rutham armour covering his hands, splashing them as dust all around. 'My stockpile of Rutham will run out soon. Is that fucker not ready yet?'
"She's here!" Suddenly, Brangara's eyes brimmed with absolute happiness as he activated one more Nature of Subtle Terrain Domination alongside his entire reserve of Shredded Lunge to surface promptly.
Wind blades flew all across the place and shredded through enough of the dome that sunlight leaked in from multiple tiny holes that had formed. Through one of the holes fell Gannala. Promptly in response, Brangara leapt towards her, condensing wind drills on both arms, "Come!"
The wind drills spun rapidly as in excitement, Brangara activated one more Nature of Subtle Terrain Domination, further increasing their intensity. Thunderous roars blasted from them as tens of thousands of wind blades revolved around his hands as part of the wind drills.
His face bloomed in excitement as the distance between the duo reduced. But suddenly, once they were within 180 metres of each other, his wind drills lost power, dispersing by the time he was within arm's distance to Gannala.
Secondary Nature—Inhibition Dome!
"Hello, my predecessor's enemy!" Gannala grunted and pierced the bone spike—infused with the power of Bone-
Melting Artillery and Internal Inertial Gravity—she held into Brangara's chest, using the momentum behind his leap against him.
A sizzling sound resounded as the bone spike pierced his chest, proceeding towards his heart.