Three months passed in such a fashion. The Mammoth Clan didn't migrate to other locations. Instead, they planned to compile their gains and make preparations for the future.
Hence, instead of going through dangerous locations, all while not knowing when Brangara might target them, the Mammoth Clan began to build a temporary home.
They picked a spot 500 kilometres away from the Brimgan Empire, situating themselves at a depth of eight kilometres underground a patch of forest inhabited by Enrans. As Enrans lived here in large numbers, no intruder could get here without being bombarded with Comets.
Only pinnacle powerhouses could endure this bombardment. Even if the bombardment didn't kill them, it would end up alerting everyone in the vicinity that a powerhouse capable of enduring a shower of Comets had arrived at the home belonging to Enrinos and Enrans.
So, it was the perfect defensive measure. At one spot of this thicket of trees stood one at a height of thirty metres and with a girth of two metres. It didn't look anything special, other than a hole in the shape of a door carved into the trunk of the tree.
The moment anyone enters the door, they'd freefall through the hole in the ground below, continuing to fall for a depth of eight kilometres before entering a dome with a radius of two kilometres.
This was created by Gannala while Raaha reinforced the entire structure. Now, the dome was layered by a thick wall of bedrock, making the entire cave system seem natural. It would exist for thousands of years, as if it had formed naturally in the place.
The dome shape wasn't perfect. Instead, it was more cavern in nature, following the natural lay of the land to make it seem natural. This was done so that it wouldn't collapse on them all of a sudden.
It was in this cave that the Mammoth Clan lived. For a couple hours daily, an Empyrean Tusk would assume its Pranic Beast form, allowing the Mammoth Clansmen in its Settlement to move about freely and do whatever was necessary for their daily lives.
After all, while the Empyrean Tusks were in human form, only the biomes in their bodies could sustain their immune system. There were no pathways connecting the biomes that allowed the Clansmen to move from one biome to another.
Once they assumed Empyrean Tusk form, the various channels formed instantly, allowing for the transfer of resources, personnel, etc.
At present, the Empyrean Tusks had more than enough resources, after obtaining everything that Orakha had gathered. Presently, they were working on distributing them across their various biomes, with their immune system helping them micromanage everything.
Best of all, their current location had a vent, similar to the ones forming the Southern Veins of the Brimgan Empire that spewed out toxic substances.
Blola had taken root on the vent and was happily consuming the minerals to birth Parute Fruits. As a result, the Empyrean Tusks hadn't just recovered to their peak capacity, but they were also producing resources in excess in their biomes.
It was to the extent that Raaha had thoughts of increasing their population limit per Settlement from fifty thousand to sixty thousand. But he didn't do that and instead focused on the Bone Viper project.
Even if the details are revealed to the Boar King, so what? The existence of the Bone Vipers perfectly harmonised with the defence and function of the Empyrean Tusks. Hence, the Mammoth Clan focused on increasing the population of the Bone Vipers.
The population will be capped according to the new resource generation capabilities of the Empyrean Tusks. The Mammoth Clan also had to focus on developing the functions of their Secondary Nature of Kinesis Lantern Deity. Hence, everyone was busy.
"A bit more…" At one corner of the place was Virala, still in the process of consuming the Transcendent Eater's body. As his body grew, so did his Prana capacity. But after every few seconds, his Prana capacity dropped, fluctuating nonstop.
It was because Virala was actively using Gold Kinesis Art on his Spirit Weapon, which was a product of his Secondary Body Stage 1 partial transformation of Tool. Basically, he could condense the tool growing at the tip of his Mystic Ewworm's tail as a Spirit Weapon.
The reason he was using Gone Kinesis Art was simple—to strengthen it further.
His Mystic Ewworm form could condense any mineral into a tail. At the Mystic Grade, Virala was able to rapidly condense a tool using a new mineral in a matter of seconds. This function was already entering the realm of the Major Treasure of Weapon.
In Sumatra Chronicles, the Major Treasure used the most by Resha was Weapon. Its functions were damn simple but extremely overpowered, as is the case with Major Treasures.
When fused with a cultivator, the Major Treasure of Weapon allowed the cultivator to build a Spirit Weapon out of any mineral instantly.
A Mammoth Clansman could only have a Spirit Weapon made out of bone. Every cultivation technique had a mineral to form a Spirit Weapon with, and only this mineral could be used for it.
When Resha had the Major Treasure of Weapon, he could create Spirit Weapons out of all minerals. Once he activates it, a cluster of Prana would form before him. And if it comes into contact with an ore, Resha would be able to detect all the minerals forming it.
The moment he makes a selection, the Prana cluster would absorb the respective mineral from the ore and become a Spirit Weapon in whatever shape Resha desired. The size of the Spirit Weapon was only limited by the quantity of the respective mineral.
At one moment, Resha would be using a Spirit Weapon made out of Reactive Jade, and at the other moment, his Spirit Weapon would be made out of Rutham. The Major Treasure of Weapon would eject out all the Reactive Jade and then absorb Rutham from whatever source Resha feeds it, becoming a Spirit Weapon through it.
It allowed Resha to unleash a variety of attacks through Spirit Weapons.
The Major Treasure of Weapon could absorb a mineral selectively from the ore through physical contact. In contrast, Virala would have to consume the mineral and then accumulate it at his tail. This process took some time.
He also held mineral deposits in his body just to create Tools of various shapes and with various effects—by changing the mineral.
But at the end of the day, though vastly inferior, Virala was able to manually perform the same actions as the Major Treasure of Weapon. In Sumatra Chronicles, Resha was unable to do anything against the Boar King through Weapon, since he neither had Sumatra Gold nor a variety of valuable minerals on the level of Rutham.
Hence, what Virala wanted to focus upon was to create his tool out of a mineral that had proven its effectiveness against Brangara, which was nothing other than his stamp created through the minerals part of the Golden Deity.
Virala consumed minerals containing the strongest concentration of influence from the Golden Deity. He stabilised, made it functionally practical, and amplified its effects to the extreme through a piece of Sumatra Gold.
Through the stamp, Virala could steal the data of even Brangara. Hence, what he wished to do next was to focus on strengthening this power to the extreme, which was possible through only one way—Gold Kinesis Art!
As a cultivation technique focused on the field of refinement, Gold Kinesis Art was perfect for the job. Moreover, it was being applied upon the stamp which was created from the Golden Giant. Basically, an Influenced Region created by the Major Treasure of Deity which was formed thanks to a Brimgan Royal practicing Gold Kinesis Art. So, the synergy was already perfect.
Through Gold Kinesis Art, the power of the stamp could be amplified. It wasn't just that. From the moment he stared at the golden felines used by Boul Brimgan, Virala knew what he wanted to do next.
"I thought you would be scheming against us, but all you did for the past three months is to help us further," Orakha said as he dropped a couple of Nature Weapons next to Virala.
He then pointed at a sedated Pranic Beast carried in a Storage Lantern by Vhalla, one that reverted to its original size of a cube spanning a side of 20 metres. "That's for today."
"Okay," Virala stopped his refinement for a moment, observing his Prana capacity begin increasing. It was fluctuating until now because the moment he used Gold Kinesis Art, he was losing Prana permanently.
By consuming the Transcendent Eater Body, he was maturing too, which caused a series of fluctuations in his prana capacity. He took a breather to gather his thoughts and used his stamp on the Pranic Beast, causing all the data in its mind space to condense outside.
Virala collected them in Spirit Container clusters and gave them to Vhalla who consumed them promptly. Once she digested them, the relevant information appeared in her mind space, which she relayed to the rest of the Empyrean Tusks through the Bone Slip Skill.
While Virala remains at the Mammoth Clan, the latter could make full use of his abilities. This was what formed the foundation of their cooperation. Indeed, the Mammoth Clan intended to take full advantage of that as they captured Pranic Beasts whose data would prove useful for the development of their abilities.
In the Mammoth Treasury, the Mammoth Elders were having the time of their lives, happy throughout exhaustion as they could help develop Mystic Bone Art further.
Yes, since the situation in Sumatra was too dangerous, the Mammoth Clan wanted to improve upon the foundation of their abilities, which was Mystic Bone Art. And they were taking advantage of Virala's abilities to achieve it.
Once Vhalla left, Virala smiled at Orakha, "I only need to scheme when I desperately need something that would affect my endgame growth."
"Are you saying…?" Orakha's eyes widened, "Already?"
"Yup," Virala laughed, "This is my endgame build. I've already attained what I wanted."
"Now, I just need to grow."