Standing twenty kilometres away from the dome formed by the Transcendent Eater branches was Gannala, her expression focused upon the battle.
In her Empyrean Tusk form, she sucked in a large volume of earth through her trunk, compressed them into a solid through the effects of Internal Inertial Gravity, and shot it into the sky, aimed at the Zahara Kingdom.
She had no intention of destroying the Zahara Kingdom. Rather, the Zahara Kingdom would remain sturdy despite the meteor strike, thanks to the innumerous defensive means that Yarsha Zahara had erected.
Gannala had spent most of her time figuring out these defensive means and had managed to discover most of Yarsha's plans. Hence, she knew whether or not her attacks were damaging to the Zahara Kingdom.
The meteor strike only had one purpose, which was to stretch Yarsha Zahara's mind to the limit, enough that her control over Grehha and Yennda would be retracted, allowing the duo to free themselves through suicide.
Hence, Gannala had to unleash enough volume of meteors to pressure Yarsha Zahara to her absolute limit. Hence, she was unrelenting in her attacks, continuing to passively hurl large, compressed blocks of earth to the Zahara Kingdom.
Her trunk focused on the meteor strike while her eyes were on the dome. Gannala intended to figure out the limits of Brangara's strength.
Grehha had already leaked information related to Brangara's three Natures. He gained the related information through Yarsha Zahara. This information also allowed Gannala to plan better and communicate with Grehha from time to time, refining their plan of action.
Armed with the information of Brangara's three Natures, Gannala had one objective in luring him out here: To get a feel of his power.
Can the Mystic Seven with their endgame builds manage to kill the Celestial Boar during the Fourth Major Disaster? Gannala wanted to know the answer. And if possible, she wanted to determine at what point the Mystic Seven be strong enough to face him, and if that point in time would appear before the Fourth Major Disaster.
'This isn't good.' She became worried upon sensing the blazing presence fluctuations being emitted by the pillar of light unleashed by Brangara, 'He's in a maddened state upon seeing me, but his extent of madness isn't as strong as I expected.'
Had it been the Empyrean Boar King, he would have activated every single Nature in his Astral Chart upon discovering Gannala. He would harness every strand of power at his disposal to destroy Gannala.
But the Celestial Boar was different. He had a certain degree of control even over his madness. He was mad enough to ignore the Zahara Kingdom to chase after Gannala. But he hadn't lost every semblance of sentience, for he hadn't activated any of his Natures of Subtle Terrain Domination.
The only Subtle Terrain Domination he was using originated from the influence generated on his being through the stored 44 Natures of Subtle Terrain Domination. Even though he had activated all three Natures and synchronised their effect, he wasn't using up all his Natures.
That was why Gannala was worried. It meant that she couldn't use herself as a powerful enough bait. That ended in the Empyrean Boar King's era. The Celestial Boar was different.
'Then, onto the next experimentation.' She made a mental note, instinctively emulating Inala. She craned her trunk at a steeper angle and shot compressed chunks of earth to greater altitudes.
This way, they'll take a longer time to slam into the Zahara Kingdom. Her trunk's angle steadily increased as she shot enough, and calculated, 'With these varying arcs, there'll be enough meteors striking the Zahara Kingdom for the next three minutes.'
With that done, she pointed her trunk horizontally and unleashed a powerful gust of air, immediately reverting to human form to use the momentum generated from the thrust to launch herself as a projectile.
She shielded her body through the effects of Internal Inertial Gravity while arcing towards the Transcendent Eater dome. While en route, she took out a body from her stomach biome, assumed Nature Weapon form and equipped herself onto the body's Tertiary Nature slot.
The woman was middle-aged, an existence targeted and captured by Inala. It was a Millinger and the strongest card she could play at the moment.
Prime Skill--Gannala!
This was the same Skill Virala had used in the past to disguise a Mammoth Clansman as himself. Gannala had modified it to suit herself, intending to use it on all the bodies she captured and planned to use in the future.
This way, she could disguise them all as herself, adding another layer to her means. The appearance of the middle-aged woman morphed into a woman who seemed to be in her early twenties. Her ivory hair flailed from the wind but remained sturdy enough that not a single strand flew away from the sheer friction of her travel.
Gannala took out her Inhibition Needle and poked it into the woman's forehead, adjusting the presence until the woman's body synchronised with hers perfectly. Now, it would be impossible to tell the woman's body apart from Gannala's actual body, which was a Nature Weapon hiding in her Tertiary Nature slot.
Primary Nature--Bone-Melting Artillery!
A spike jutted out of her arm bone as Gannala activated Mystic Bone Art, controlling the Primary Nature through it. Instead of unleashing an artillery strike, she concentrated the power into the spike, strengthening it to the limit.
In terms of toughness, it reached the tusk of an Empyrean Tusk, 'Good, with the power of Bone-Melting Artillery, it'll be powerful enough to stab through his flesh.'
She prepared herself mentally, swarming her mind space with the memories of the Mystic Paths from Earth in an effort to curb her fear, 'Keep calm! Keep calm! Keep calm!'
If her concentration were to slip for even a moment, she'd end up giving herself to fear. Even when the Celestial Boar no longer had a Nature of Internal Inertial Gravity, his existence triggered the fear of every single Empyrean Tusk. It was genetic by now.
So, she had to do everything in her power to keep her wits by herself as Gannala counted down the seconds left for her to reach the Transcendent Eater dome.
In the meantime, Virala was busy antagonising Brangara within the Transcendent Eater dome. The Rutham armour emitted golden light as he was fully covered by it.
His footsteps made clinking sounds as Virala approached Brangara, "Come at me, Brangara."
"I've yet to go all out."
"Should I care?" Brangara snorted and leapt into the sky, able to feel Gannala's approach. Wind churned across his fist and rotated to form a drill as he punched the dome. It took him a fraction of a second to puncture a body-sized hole, grunting in anger upon seeing another wall right after. He punctured it too, only to see a third wall, "How many are there?"
"Enough to prevent you from fleeing." Blola's voice echoed within the dome as a carnivorous mouth swallowed Brangara towards the end of his leap and pulled him back into the deepest later.
A couple of branches jutted out of the ground and slammed him, volleying him across the dome nonstop, battering him repeatedly. The shockwaves from the impact coursed through his body and rippled into each other, rattling his organs.
The damage was piling up within him gradually to dangerous extents, forcing Brangara to switch bodies once again to prevent serious harm to himself.
But other than defending himself, he couldn't do anything else, for a single Subtle Terrain Domination wasn't enough against his opponents. He activated the Nature of Bloody Leech, intending to draw out Virala's blood upon contact, only to notice the latter back away immediately in response.
"Bloody Leech is powerful, but unless you activate a bunch of them, you can't suck in the blood of a target within your Spirit Weapon range." Virala commented as his figure flickered across the place, "At the Silver Grade, it needs physical contact to take effect."
"Tch!" Brangara clicked his tongue in response, for other than his Tangible Nature Minor Treasure of Bloody Affection, he only had two more Tangible Natures of Decaleeches. Their combined use wasn't enough for him to pull in the blood of his targets within his Sprit Weapon range.
With a snort, he used Shredded Lunge and punched Virala, grunting in anger to see the latter enter the ground promptly, drilling to depths beyond the range of the generated wind blades.
Mystic Humans didn't simply transform into the physical forms of Pranic Beasts. They infused the entirety of their power of psychokinesis to reinforce their bodies, making their bodies tougher than the original.
And in Virala's case, not only did he have the psychokinesis capabilities of two Mystic Grade Pranic Beasts, the race of Ewworms were ambush predators, physically geared to lunge into the asses of their target from their hiding spot deep underground.
In terms of short-distance lunging speed, Virala's Mystic Ewworm was the fastest on Sumatra. So, he only needed to assume Mystic Ewworm form to evade Brangara's attacks. No matter how powerful an attack was, its power would be dispersed across the earth.
With his speed, Virala was capable of drilling into the ground faster than whatever attack could course through the earth and reach him. This was what he relied upon to dodge all of Brangara's attacks.
Astral World—Drifting Tunnel X8!
Brangara jumped into the ground, intending to tunnel underground and escape the confines of the Transcendent Eater dome. But an instant later, thousands of roots drilled into the tunnel and coiled around him, preventing him from leaving.
A second later, Virala appeared in the tunnel and engaged in physical combat, "You're a fucking leech!"
"Thank you for the praise!" Virala assumed his Tertiary Body Stage One partial transformation of Brangara and covered himself with Rutham armour in the fraction of a second, sending out a jab. He selectively reinforced the related muscles with psychokinesis and made the jab even more devastating.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Large chunks of earth surrounding the tunnel fell off. The shockwaves from the punches destroyed the surroundings as Brangara's face was bruised to the extent even Yarsha Zahara wouldn't be able to recognise him anymore.
'As expected, even Rutham cannot handle this intensity of attacks.' Virala thought upon seeing Rutham spill out like water every time he punched. The impact broke the structural composition of the Rutham armour covering his hands, splashing them as dust all around. 'My stockpile of Rutham will run out soon. Is that fucker not ready yet?'
"She's here!" Suddenly, Brangara's eyes brimmed with absolute happiness as he activated one more Nature of Subtle Terrain Domination alongside his entire reserve of Shredded Lunge to surface promptly.
Wind blades flew all across the place and shredded through enough of the dome that sunlight leaked in from multiple tiny holes that had formed. Through one of the holes fell Gannala. Promptly in response, Brangara leapt towards her, condensing wind drills on both arms, "Come!"
The wind drills spun rapidly as in excitement, Brangara activated one more Nature of Subtle Terrain Domination, further increasing their intensity. Thunderous roars blasted from them as tens of thousands of wind blades revolved around his hands as part of the wind drills.
His face bloomed in excitement as the distance between the duo reduced. But suddenly, once they were within 180 metres of each other, his wind drills lost power, dispersing by the time he was within arm's distance to Gannala.
Secondary Nature—Inhibition Dome!
"Hello, my predecessor's enemy!" Gannala grunted and pierced the bone spike—infused with the power of Bone-
Melting Artillery and Internal Inertial Gravity—she held into Brangara's chest, using the momentum behind his leap against him.
A sizzling sound resounded as the bone spike pierced his chest, proceeding towards his heart.