Chapter 808: I'm Confident
State of Harmony-Astral Puncture!
It was created with the sole intention of piercing through the absolute defence that Brangara could achieve by activating eight Natures of Subtle Terrain Domination and above. Moreover, Inala was damn sure that Brangara wouldn't even think about conserving his strength and would straight up use all his Natures from the get-go.
Therefore, Astral Puncture was Inala's response to breaking through Brangara's defence. With Prana Circuit acting as the base, 99 other Natures were constructed atop it harmoniously in such a way that once all 100 Natures in the Astral Chart were activated in a certain format, Astral Puncture would be unleashed.
Kinesis Deity was there to increase the range of effect of Astral Puncture and strengthen the speed of the ability. It served as a pillar for the ability to be built upon. The second pillar was Drifting Tunnel, which could create a tunnel with a varying gravity field that was different from the world beyond its form.
Imprison served to reinforce the boundaries of the ability within whatever terrain it was activated in. Of course, Imprison was the Primary Nature of Clumped Fingers, using which they built their finger-like exoskeleton. Thereby, as it was considered a part of their body, whatever layer that Imprison gathers could also be affected by Satellite.
Eddy Blade condenses a blade of Prana, which was focused upon the penetrative tip and the external surface of the ability, alongside the layer created by Imprison and treated as a Satellite.
Since the constructed form was treated as a Satellite, the power of Shredded Lunge could be built into it. And of course, the jumping power gave it a power boost, making the ability reach its target quicker. Moreover, the wind-blades generated towards the end of Shredded Lunge was absorbed by Imprison and gathered into Eddy-Blades.
Prana Shock and Piezo Response existed to absorb any shockwaves generated at the moment of contact or when impacted by an external force. Piezo Response would naturally absorb the shockwaves and transmit it back at the source.
However, this is where Reactive Counter came into effect. It was the Zahara Kingdom's valued ability, obtained by constructing a Human Avatar out of Reactive Jade. The moment Astral Puncture comes into contact with any ability, Reactive Jade will react first, changing the Satellite.
Prana Shock existed to transmit all the shockwaves that Piezo Response gathers across its form, following which Drifting Tunnel would accumulate them into the Satellite once again, only strengthening it further.
Sixteen Reactive Counters were used so that the Astral Puncture was capable of reacting to 16 abilities simultaneously. Bio-Synthesis and Rectum Merger only existed to enable Astral Puncture to rapidly enter a target body through the wounds it inflicts on them. Bio-Synthesis allows rapid consumption of their body, further widening their injury while Rectum Merger allows Astral Puncture to perfectly merge into the wound and expand there accordingly.
Finally, there were two Natures that were the most valuable for the desired effect to be unleashed. Statue, combined with Human Appeal created an interesting effect against the Prana of the target. It was what allowed Barla to puncture through Inala's Attributed Region cube.
When her Astral Puncture came into contact with the Attributed Region cube, the Prana forming the latter subconsciously recognised Astral Puncture as something cute and requiring protection. Statue's effect was unleashed not on Astral Puncture but the target it came into contact with, turning the Prana in the target sluggish for a moment.
When it turned sluggish, it became more vulnerable to the effects of Human Appeal, which made it subconsciously let go of its resistance against Astral Puncture. Of course, this made Astral Puncture only effective against humans.
However, this was were Linked Rupture came into effect, converting Human Appeal into a form suitable for the target. The sixteen Reactive Counters also existed to modify the effects of Human Appeal according to the target.
Combined into a whole, the 100 Natures resulted in a State of Harmony to create a corkscrew- shaped tunnel that spanned a length of 1.8 kilometres, one capable of adapting to move across any region.
It'll become a water corkscrew when unleashed in water, fire-corkscrew when unleashed in a sea of flames, wind-corkscrew in wind, earth-corkscrew underground, etc. Moreover, it could constantly change itself according to whatever environment it found itself in, dynamically, and in real-time.
State of Harmony-Astral Puncture!
Blola would behave like a checkpoint and constantly gather Prana, from whom Inala would absorb and supply to the rest of the Mystic Paths, allowing them to keep fighting against
Brangara.
The longer the fight dragged on, the greater the damage done to Sumatra. After all, even if the likes of Resha and Virala hadn't reached the 10-Life Stage, they had other means to fully exercise their powers.
The bodies of these two were ridiculously tough and could take multiple full-powered hits
from the Second Major Disaster Brangara without much bother. And these guys would be fighting without any care for their Prana consumption, since Inala would be supplying them
endlessly.
"I...can only hope there's enough of Sumatra left to sightsee by the time the Third Major Disaster end." Inala sighed despondently. He could unleash his State of Unity at the start to conclude the fight early.
However, he had a time limit. Therefore, Brangara had to first be weakened physically and mentally, following which he could take the helm. Moreover, Inala was saving it to counter Brangara's State of Unity.
He didn't know whether Brangara had attained it or not, but he felt like the possibility was high. After all, it was by absorbing Brangara's data that he fully comprehended the concepts of State of Harmony and State of Unity.
"He'll have it, I'm assured of it." Inala gritted his teeth, "Once he uses his State of Unity, I'll
use mine to resist it."
After all, the power spike resulting from it was too great. Without Inala, the others would be destroyed by Brangara's State of Unity, irrespective of how much they had prepared.
Moreover, without Inala, they can only resist until then ran out of Prana, following which they'd be destroyed by Brangara.
"Now, there's only one step remaining." Inala muttered and appeared in the core of Grehha's Dungeon, staring at the cocoon before him to say, "There's only a month left. Are you ready,"
"Grehha?"
[Obviously!]
The pillar of light emitted by the Minor Treasure nearby curved into a word as the cocoon shattered, revealing a slightly malnourished figure of Grehha, "I was mentally fighting against Brangara to judge how well the current me stood in the power scale of everything."
"And," Inala raised as eyebrow, smiling upon sensing a thick, scaly presence from Grehha, "How did it go?"
"I'm confident," Grehha chuckled.