The condensation of his purest form of hatred, one bearing the name of the Supreme Tusk, an existence birthed from the death of his race, that was Gannala.
To date, every single time he had been lured to a place through Gannala's voice, it was a trap laid by Inala. Every instance he sought to find her, he ended up with no results.
It was during the First Major Disaster when he chanced upon the Supreme Tusk, but she was dead by then, preventing him the privilege of revenge. The Supreme Tusk's successor, Gannala was a baby, enveloped by a Prana Bomb and carried by Inala.
Another Prana Bomb had covered him back then, serving as a second layer of protection. A gap was opened in the Prana Bomb to leak Gannala's crying voice in an effort to lure in the Boar King. Other than that one instance, Brangara hadn't heard anything from her, not to mention seeing her.
For the past 24 years, he had been seething with obsessive longing, dreaming for the day to come when he could crush the product of his race's annihilation. And now, the figure of the Empyrean Tusk standing over the horizon triggered every single cell of his being, screaming at him to rush at the target faster and torture the living heck out of it.
"Gannallaaa!" Brangara roared with all his might, unleashing a shockwave that ruptured the surroundings as his figure boomed through. His lips curled to extreme ends as his jaws parted open, revealing a maniacal desire, ravenous to the zenith.
"Stay there! I'm coming!" He assumed Celestial Boar form, rupturing the earth with every thunderous step he slammed into the ground in an effort to accelerate his sprinting pace further. Powerful gales gushed around him through the effects of Subtle Terrain Domination, adding a wind to his steps, hastening his approach.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The figure of the Empyrean Tusk visibly trembled as he approached it, causing Brangara to break out in a maddened state of voraciousness, almost tasting the target's flesh in his jaws, "I'll kill you! Too much time has passed. You need to die, a clobbered death!"
Hundred kilometres, ninety, eighty, the distance shortened in a matter of seconds as the 800-metre-tall Celestial Boar covered a kilometre every second in its sprint, continuing to accelerate the longer it ran.
Even in his maddened state, he calculated logically, feeling that the boost given to him by Subtle Terrain Domination would make his human form faster than his Celestial Boar form now that he had gained enough momentum.
Immediately in response, he reverted to human form and continued to accelerate, getting closer and closer to Gannala, his focus remaining solely on her.
But suddenly, when there were less than twenty kilometres between the two, a shadow flickered from the corner of his eye and began to trail alongside him, mimicking his running action, mirroring him once it arrived at his side.
'How is this possible?' His heart thundered as Brangara experienced a shock, seeing a replica of him keeping pace with his run, 'I'm at the 2-Life Stage while being boosted by Subtle Terrain Domination!'
"Hello, big brother!" His mirror image waved happily and extended his leg to the side, tripping Brangara.
'As if that can work on me. You can mimic me perfectly, but you're not as strong…' Brangara thought as his leg slammed into the other party's, alarmed as the bones of both cracked in response. And then, carried by his momentum, he slammed face-first into the ground and formed a crater.
"As the ground kissed him on the face, the hammer nudged his back…" The culprit was none other than the Free Human Virala who spoke as if commentating a wrestling fight. He leapt onto Brangara and slammed his elbow into the latter's spine, producing a shockwave from the impact.
"Gah!" Brangara grunted as blood gushed into his mouth. He slapped the ground and used the rebound to get up. Aided by wind generated through Subtle Terrain Domination, he spun 180 degrees and punched Virala, only to find the latter coil around his arm as a worm and revert to his mirror image a moment later.
Arriving at his back, Virala grabbed Brangara by the shoulder for support and kneed into the spine once again. The wind produced a shockwave and slammed into his face, only for him to shrug it off casually and use his other knee to kick into Brangara's spine a third time, "You're only using one Subtle Terrain Domination against me? Wow, what a riot."
"Has that worked on you in the past? No, right? So, use up more of them." He weaved his body like the wind and evaded Brangara's punches, raining down his own on the latter. "You fight as someone born strong. Your strength took care of everything in the past, so your hand-to-hand combat skills suck balls."
He punched hard, dispersing the wind that formed a protective filament around Brangara. Right as it cleared up, he followed up with a second punch at speeds faster than Subtle Terrain Domination being able to recover the filament. His fist met Brangara in the face, denting it faintly, causing a crack to form in the skull.
"Get Lost!" Brangara roared and assumed Celestial Boar form, stomping upon Virala with his right leg. But in response, the latter's figure transformed into the Empyrean Boar King and rammed into his left leg, tumbling him down.
In a straight-up charge, the quadrupedal Empyrean Boar King outclassed the bipedal Celestial Boar. The expression of shock became etched deeper on the face of the Celestial Boar which slammed into the ground, resulting in a soil tsunami.
Immediately after the charge, the Empyrean Boar King vanished. In its place was the Mystic Ewworm, in its infant form as it drilled into the ground and curved its way to the surface, emerging right beneath the Celestial Boar's spine.
Having arrived at position in a fraction of a second, Virala assumed Empyrean Boar King form, taking advantage of his size expansion to plunge his tusks into the Celestial Boar's spine and lifted it two hundred into the air, which was the Empyrean Boar King's height.
Following by a colossal snort, the Empyrean Boar King shook its head violently and flung the Celestial Boar away. Immediately after, it assumed Mystic Ewworm form in its full scale, burying half its body into the ground while the other half coiled around the flying Celestial Boar's right leg and cranked its body.
Followed by a coil, it spun the Celestial Boar's body, accelerating it before swerving suddenly to slam the latter into the ground.
In its matured form, the Mystic Ewworm reached a ginormous length of two kilometres. Its body was cylindrical in shape, spanning a diameter of ten metres, a paltry sum when compared to its length. Mysterious celluloid patterns covered its skin, depicting textures of rectum cells of a variety of creatures, listing practically all the variety of those available on Sumatra. The head was conical in shape, protruding faintly as compared to the girth of its body, gelatinous to the extreme, capable of easily penetrating the toughest of rectums without issues.
The tool at the tail end was shaped like a rapier, meant for puncturing purposes. But considering the Mystic Ewworm's size, it might very well be a spear to the regular humans.
It crouched forward a little, observing the Celestial Boar through the hundreds of eyes littered across its body. These eyes resembled tadpoles in appearance and were barely pin-
hole in size, making it impossible to determine where the eyes were positioned. They were too tiny and there were too many.
"Damn…you…Loot!" Brangara grunted in rage, intending to get up but was unable to do so, as his spine had taken a severe beating. His limbs weren't functioning. He would be able to move a second or two later considering his healing speed. However, that was if he was given the time to do so.
Boom!
Dozens of vines jutted out of the ground and rapidly thickened into branches. Their ends budded and bloomed into carnivorous mouths that chomped upon the Celestial Boar, biting into his skin once he was fully strapped to the ground.
It was Blola in his Mystic Eater form, taking charge of confining Brangara, creating an opportunity to even consume the latter's flesh. Of course, due to the sheer difference in muscular strength, even the carnivorous mouths were struggling to eat him up. Their carnivorous teeth became stuck skin-deep, struggling to lodge in further.
The Celestial Boar's body trembled once but was unable to leap. The Transcendent Eater's branches had coiled around him too deeply. But there were plenty of options left at his disposal as Brangara timed himself perfectly.
Right as the effect of Shredded Lunge was about to reach his end, he reverted to human form. Blades of wind populated his surroundings right as he assumed human form, for Shredded Lunge had ended.
Through Subtle Terrain Domination, he strengthened the Shredded Lunge's wind blades further and sent them hurling radially, dicing up the Transcendent Eater branches into hundreds of pieces.
With that, he managed to free himself. Unfortunately, that wasn't enough to break free from the situation as Virala jumped him, jutting out of the ground as a metre-long Mystic Ewworm and transformed into the human form of Brangara.
He opened up with a punch and targeted Brangara's jaw, knocking the latter unconscious. Right as he intended to strike with another punch, Brangara switched bodies, retaliating with the conscious body.
He raised his arms up in defence and was sent skidding, panting a little as his arm bones had shattered from the impact. As his unconscious body regained consciousness in the meantime, he observed Prana spike into Virala's arms, rapidly healing his cracked bones.
'This damn fucker!' Brangara grunted, vexed to find new Transcendent Eater branches jut out of the ground and coil around the region, forming an enclosed dome.
"This will be our private battlefield." Virala cracked his stiff neck and began to walk towards Brangara, activating his partial transformation of Tool. A golden, full-body plated armour composed of Rutham covered him, radiating light onto the darkness within the dome.
The armour covering his hands thickened, forming gauntlets twice the size of his hand as Virala slammed them against each other, producing a sonorous gong. "Come at me, Brangara."
"I've yet to go all out."