Chapter 760: Inala's Funeral
"Allocate more funds to this Nest," MunuBuntara signed the document in an Information Slip, "And organise a Raid team to target the home of this Pranic Beast. We need to capture more of their kind..."
Bang!
The door slammed open as Wepetay hurried in, his eyes moist as he shouted, "My Lord!"
"...Shit!" MunuBuntara didn't even need to hear the report to know what had happened. There was only one reason Wepetay was both sad and in a state of loss. "I'm coming!"
The duo boarded the carriage and hurried to the same residential complex as the previous day, seeing Wepetay's children standing at the entrance of Inala's house, weeping silently.
MunuBuntara entered the house and halted in shock, staring at the picturesque face of Inala who had passed away in peace. Seated nearby and silently shedding tears was Stalahh, Wepetay's wife, the woman who had taken care of Inala the past decade, treating the latter no different to her father.
Her father died when she was young while her mother stubbornly refused to come to the Varahan Empire, intending to spend the rest of her life at their Kingdom, waiting for the day she could reunite with her husband.
And a few years after Stalahh and Wepetay arrived at the Varahan Empire and were take under MunuBuntara's fold, her mother died.
Subconsciously, she came to treat Inala as her dad, for they were both pretty similar. The way she treated Inala caused her children to open up to him, taking in him as the grandfather they never had. He did tell them interesting stories daily, so they bonded with him easily.
"This...is too soon." Stalahh wiped her tears, her figure trembling as she hiccupped, "I took care of him well. I was sure he'll be with us for another year or two!"
"This was too sudden!" She sobbed, staring at Wepetay, "He died in his sleep..."
"I understand," Wepetay consoled his wife, fighting back his tears, for he considered Inala his mentor figure.
A minute later, Stalahh stared at MunuBuntara, "My Lord, I wish to honour his funeral as my father."
"Hmm, okay." MunuBuntara had no reason to refuse. However, his thoughts were elsewhere, sighing as he thought of the suitcase he received yesterday, 'It seems he was waiting until he completed his masterpiece and handed it over to me. Had I come later to receive it, would he... have lived longer?'
But his coronation ceremony was a month away. And for that, he would have to depart in a week. So, the most he could have delayed receiving the suit was until then, 'But that was beyond my expectations.'
He judged that Inala still had three more months based on the state of the latter's Human Avatar, 'However, if he lost the will to live, then it's not a surprise he died in his sleep.'
It's like someone learning mathematics. Addition, subtraction, multiplication division are
the actual basics and formed the core of mathematics. Similarly, there were core pillars that formed a Gramophone. Inala simply changed addition a little bit such that it didn't affect the mathematics of a Gramophone, but still resulted in the Zinger voice being added to certain pieces of melody.
And for the Free Humans who have consumed the bodies of Empyrean Boars and gained the Secondary Nature of Voracious Nature, the side effects of the Empyrean Boar race kicked in, making them acquire a taste for Empyrean Boar meat.
That meant they would wish to capture a Wean Clansman for two reasons. First was to constantly make them create new bodies for them and their members to consume daily to obtain the Secondary Nature of Voracious Nature.
And second was to feast upon Empyrean Boar meat daily. This was enough reason to turn them into a fearsome terrorist organisation that tried to consume the Varahan Empire's foundations from within.
The headquarters of this terrorist organisation was based in a far away District. They typically targeted young Wean Clansmen, diverting most of the Peace Keeper force's attention.
Usually, the terrorists didn't operate in a far away district like the Noikatol District, as it was hard to escape from a place with only two railway lines. However, their spy network detected the MunuBuntara wasn't protected as much as usual in the funeral, as he was also part of the crowd to show respect to Inala, someone who had contributed a lot to his District's growth.
The group intending to target MunuBuntara numbered forty, their actions stealthy as they gradually approached the crematorium. Inala observed them in closeup and noticed the small number of guards accompanying MunuBuntara, comparing the two sides, 'These terrorists have a better combination of Natures.'
'Similar to how Brangara achieved a passive effect of Subtle Terrain Domination, they have
managed to figure out one too.' Inala frowned in thought, 'Without something like the Astral Chart, it's impossible to affix the location of the Natures in a respective spot. It's like creating a digital circuit in a computer chip. The slightest motion and the effect won't be produced.'
'Even Brangara only managed to figure it out thanks to the sheer level of control and authority Astral World grants him over the Natures in his possession.' Inala was surprised the more he observed the terrorists, for his old self had only sowed the seeds of chaos and hadn't witnessed the growth of such seeds.
"But...let's not do it today." Inala muttered as he stared at Stalahh weeping in loss, "I don't care if MunuBuntara alone is killed, but I can't stand that family coming to harm."
"Let's not become an absolute monster," He let out a slow sigh, "Only for the family that
truly cared about me."
"W-who?" One of the terrorists trembled in fear as he turned around and noticed a figure calmly standing behind him.
"Yo!" Inala smiled cheerfully as an instant later, all forty terrorists vanished. A Biome Bomb
appeared and hung at the side of his hip as Inala threw a woollen piece of cylinder far away. It slammed into a tree and unfurled itself, with its threads spinning in the right direction that gave it a lift.
A second later, Inala appeared beside it, as the power of the Major Treasure of Flight took effect once again, giving him absolute invisibility. He took to the skies once again and raced in a particular direction while he gathered all the data from the captured terrorists, "That way, huh?"