"I’m telling you...FORGET IT!" Inala groaned in frustration and closed his eyes, trying to distract himself from the mild but constant pangs of pain radiating off his arms. They were being operated upon by the golden humanoids.
Minor Treasure—Kinesis Deity!
’Everything else aside, they are damn impressive!’ He thought as he stared at the group of golden humanoids before him. In over a month since he had been held captive in this place, Inala managed to infer a lot of valuable information about the place.
The place he was at was a different space altogether, similar to the space within a Mystic Biome Bomb when it’s in its miniature form.
Geographically, at a depth of 600 kilometres from the Brimgan Empire, below a 200-kilometre-thick layer of lava, was a solid landmass. This landmass was shaped like an amoeba.
Excluding the tendrils, the base landmass stretched for 60,000 kilometres at its longest and 18,000 kilometres at its shortest. The tendrils stretched anywhere from a thousand to 10,000 kilometres, with their ends sporting pieces of landmass in irregular circular shapes ranging between a hundred to three hundred kilometres.
The landmass stayed immersed within lava flow, having been created from extreme pressures that it could maintain its solid form even at such temperatures.
The existence of this landmass, and the way it interacted with the lava flow resulted in a surge of minerals, creating the blessed land in the region where the Brimgan Empire stood.
When the Brimgan Founder first found the Lotus Range, he wondered what conditions were necessary to produce a blessed land. After developing the place and laying down the foundation for the Brimgan Empire, he investigated the blessed land further, until he eventually came across the Mrutch Sea.
Deep in the depths of the Mrutch Sea, in one of its channels that headed further underground, there lay a path to one of the tendrils of the landmass.
Sunken Halmahera!
It was what the Brimgan Founder had named the landmass upon discovery. Only a small tip of one of the landmass’s tendrils was accessible, thanks to being in contact with the Mrutch Sea’s channel.
It was when he decided to take advantage of the Sunken Halmahera’s geography. He first started to lay down a formation on the island, with the nodes of the formation being implanted with a specific Pranic Beast’s Spirit Container.
Advanced Iron Grade Pranic Beast—Flappy Trumpet!
With a Prana capacity of 800 and a lifespan of 50 years, it was a creature that resembled a baby elephant. It had no tusks, short legs, and a thin skin too weak to protect it. It had large ears capable of shielding most of its two-metre-long body.
This Pranic Beast was a happy-go-lucky type, in that since birth, it would roam the place until it was either killed or died due to exhaustion. The Flappy Trumpet only consumed leaves, so it had no lack of food to consume, which caused its population to boom.
Even with no defensive means, the abundance availability of its food caused the Flappy Trumpet Race’s population to spiral out of control, basically like an invasive species, as they were making more of their kind than what was getting killed.
They had a slow maturity for an Iron Grade Pranic Beast, requiring as long as twenty years. Their fertility wasn’t that high either, on par or worse than powerful Expert Iron Grade Pranic Beasts. But what truly allowed this race to excel was their survival tactic of laying eggs.
Primary Nature—Big Egg!
The egg of a Flappy Trumpet was spherical on one side and slightly elongated on the other, reaching one centimetre at its longest. Externally, it was tiny. However, things were different internally.
The interior of the egg had a space a bit over two metres in length, breadth, and height. That was the effect of the Nature of Big Egg.
It took 800 units of Prana to activate this Nature, pretty much all the Prana capacity of a Flappy Trumpet. Once activated, it launched its egg at the top of a tree.
A Flappy Trumpet has to activate its Primary Nature to lay its egg. And it could only lay one at a time, requiring at least a few days of interval between each laying session during the mating season.
In the mating season, a Flappy Trumpet could lay up to forty eggs each. It wasn’t impressive among the Iron Grade’s fertility rates. However, these eggs were launched like projectiles to the top of the tallest tree the Flappy Trumpet could find.
The elongated portion of the egg would stab into the tree and begin absorbing tree sap. This would be filtered through the shell, and only the relevant plasma would funnel into the egg.
For the next twenty years, the Flappy Trumpet would grow within the egg, until it reached maturity, at which point it would burst out of the egg. Followed by a small explosion, thanks to the space expansion of the egg, the Flappy Trumpet would hatch.
Having spent twenty years confined in the egg, it would spend the rest of its life happily running around the place.
Space was compressed within the egg. Therefore, when a Pranic Beast tried to eat it and cracked through the shell, it would explode, which was powerful enough to seriously injure even a Silver Grade Pranic Beast.
Therefore, the majority of the Pranic Beasts refrained from targeting these eggs. And those that did so paid the price of space expansion with their face.
If ten thousand eggs were laid, at most a handful were targeted, mostly by ignorant or starving Pranic Beasts. This meant most of the eggs successfully hatched.
It was said that if a forest had a million tall-trunked trees, there were a million Flappy Trumpet eggs in it.
’These Flappy Trumpets were highly nutritious and hence, were extensively hunted by the Brully Race.’ Inala thought, ’And the shells of their eggs were a mineral.’
As an invasive species, the Flappy Trumpet exploded in numbers across various regions. A wandering group of Free Humans chanced upon a forest frequently used by the Flappy Trumpets to lay their eggs.
Plloma Forest!
It was a forest with trees reaching as high as fifty metres, sporting robust trunks, making it the perfect spot to lay eggs. And so many Flappy Trumpet eggs had hatched in the forest for thousands of years that the floor was littered with the eggshells.
The fleeing Free Human group chanced upon Plloma Forest, and in their desperation for survival, they tried to use the eggshells. Upon research, they created a cultivation technique and were able to build a Human Avatar.
’They obtained space-related powers, allowing their Spirit Weapons to unleash the powers of space expansion.’ Inala thought, ’It was basically the Iron Grade version of Kinesis Lantern Deity.’
Even though they only had Iron Grade Free Humans, thanks to the ease of building a Human Avatar with the mineral, and the abundance of it, their Kingdom grew in size and population. Many of them reached the 10-Life Stage over the generations and succeeded in becoming Transcendents.
’Unfortunately, they were destroyed during the Brully Invasion.’ Inala surmised. The Brully Race liked to eat the Flappy Trumpets as food, for they were nutrient-dense and available in abundance.
The Free Human Kingdom established itself in the Plloma Forest, living in harmony alongside the Flappy Trumpets, protecting them from harm and allowing their population to boom further.
In their prime, the Free Human Kingdom had a population reaching a whopping eighty million, with a few dozen Transcendents overseeing them from the Transcendent Worlds. In respect to the mineral that gave them hope, they named their Kingdom after it.
The Gaja Kingdom!
’The Brully Race massacred both the Flappy Trumpets and the Gaja Kingdom. The slaughter was so brutal hardly anyone survived.’ Inala thought in pity, ’As they were getting hunted everywhere they went, by the Brully Race, one of the Gaja Kingdom’s Transcendents took matters into his hands.’
He expressed his desire to not live anymore and fell to Sumatra, turning into an Enclave. That was how the Gaja Enclave was born, which served as a home to the Flappy Trumpets and Gaja Kingdom Free Humans.
With a narrow entryway into the Gaja Enclave, they were able to defend themselves, even against the Brully Race. Over time, due to many situations, the two groups interacted or were forced to interact, until Ravaged Tribes were born, one after another, with each birth causing an evolution.
’And eventually, that race gave birth to the Empyrean Tusks during the Mudropper Invasion.’ He concluded.
While the Flappy Trumpets were actively being hunted by the Brully Race, the Brimgan Founder harvested the intact Spirit Containers from their corpses, preserved them, and eventually incorporated them into his formation.
Over time, the formation grew and began absorbing energy from the Sunken Halmahera, using the Slappy Trumpet Spirit Containers to generate a space within the landmass.
That space had eventually developed into a massive world of its own, for it spanned a volume over thirty times the volume of the Sunken Halmahera itself. And in this biome, captured and dropped, was one Race, meant to serve a purpose.
Inala lifted his head and saw in chains a Brully horde. ’It most definitely is Sumatra’s largest farm!’