"Man...he's absolutely broken." Inala said as he stared at the vegetative state of Brangara, one that couldn't despite his Spirit Container circulating Prana across his body.
Prana had the capability to bring one to their natural state eventually. And the higher the quality of Prana one possessed, the faster this process occurred. However, in Brangara's case, that was no longer applied to his memory, for every piece of data stored in his mindspace had been extracted by Virala.
Therefore, even if Brangara's Prana wanted to recover his memories, it couldn't, as it no longer had any information to feed his brain. However, that was the basic understanding till now as Inala used Perfect Biome Domination to observe Brangara, 'He's a living Major Treasure. There's no guarantee that he cannot recover his memoires through some reason.'
As Brangara's power operated beyond Sumatra's power system, Inala understood that he couldn't use his existing logic to assuredly claim the figure before him will remain in a vegetative state indefinitely.
It was just a matter of when Brangara would recover and not how. 'So, before something like that happens, I need to extract everything of value.'
Secondary Nature-Perfect Biome Domination!
Inala funnelled Prana into Brangara, filling up the latter's Spirit Container and then focused, wondering if it might be possible. There was a surge of Prana in the Spirit Container, following which nothing happened.
"Too late, huh?" Inala clicked his tongue. He wanted to condense a second body of Brangara here, one he intended to maintain in an unmature state. This way, the main body of Brangara would no longer be able to build bodies anymore.
However, when he attempted the process, he realised that a new body had already been created by the main body of Brangara. "Seems he realised something was up and has taken precaution."
When they were targeting this body of Brangara, Inala noticed the possibility that the body of Brangara before them could condense a body. It was his plan to form a second body of Brangara after capturing him, for that was the best way to restrict his growth.
However, he couldn't take chances at that time, since creating a second body would allow Brangara to summon an infinite number of Bolts of Transcendents, way beyond what Inala could handle, even if he exhausted all his accumulations.
So, he couldn't take the risk until he surfed through Brangara's data and determine what the latter was fully capable of first. And after that, Virala had to use his Mystic Human Stamp to extract all of Brangara's memories and turn him into a vegetable.
Only past that point did Inala deem it safe to experiment with Brangara. Unfortunately, the main body of Brangara didn't take any chances and immediately condensed a new body.
"It's indeed unfortunate," Inala sighed and began to extract Brangara's Prana and Lifespan. He also took out an orb that funnelled Prana and Lifespan into the latter, using his body like a filter to obtain Mystic Grade Prana and Lifespan, the best of the very best.
This allowed him to accumulate an infinite supply of them, which he planned to do before his main fight against the Celestial Boar.
Primary Nature-Voracious Cultivator!
Secondary Nature-Astral World!
Tertiary Nature-Major Treasure!
Major Treasure-Tangible Nature!
"Voracious Cultivator consumes and nurtures a Nature through the Life Stage. However, the Major Treasure of Tangible Nature is what turns the consumed Nature into a Tangible Nature. And most of all, Astral World creates a place where the Tangible Natures could live and be nurtured through the Life Stage." Inala muttered, "The three Natures are pieces of a whole."
"Basically, it's one Nature that has been broken down into three Mystic Grade Natures." Inala smiled wryly, "That's what makes him a broken existence, even at my current level."
Decades back, Inala figured out that Brangara wasn't even making use of a portion of his potential as the Empyrean Boar King. An Empyrean Boar King who had reached his full potential could easily destroy every single existence that stood in its path.
It was just a dialogue used in Sumatra Chronicles, claiming the Empyrean Boar King from the Fourth Major Disaster could kill Iron Transcendents and even weak Silver Transcendents. This was just by a full-powered Empyrean Boar King, but not an Empyrean Boar King at the peak of his potential.
Astral Chart was capable of storing even Mystic Grade Natures. Basically, at peak potential, even if he had gone insane, the Empyrean Boar King ought to carry 100 Mystic Grade Natures.
Forget plans, schemes, and tactics. Just the sheer influence generating out of the insane Empyrean Boar King might surpass the strength of Gold Transcendents and even grow strong enough to harm a Mystic Transcendent.
This was merely by filling Astral Chart with 100 Mystic Grade Natures. If the Natures were optimised into energy variants that complemented the effects of each other and could also stack, that's when the full potential of the Empyrean Boar King was realised.
What about the Celestial Boar then?
Any Tangible Nature it possessed could be nurtured to the 10-Life Stage and then turned into
a Minor Treasure. If they were at the Gold Grade or above, they'll become a Major Treasure.
So, a full-power Celestial Boar could carry 100 Major Treasures. But of course, a Major Treasure could fuse with the body and didn't need to be stored in the Astral World, meaning Brangara could open up new slots and nurture them into Major Treasures too.
In essence, the Celestial Boar was a factory capable of endlessly churning out Major Treasures. That was why even after attaining Expert Mystic Grade, the Celestial Boar didn't have the monicker of Empyrean. It hadn't hit its limit.
"Currently, the lack of resources is the only thing stopping him from creating Major Treasures with the power of Subtle Terrain Domination." Inala sighed, "But he has most definitely consumed all the Empyrean Tusks."
The Empyrean Boar King experienced a growth of twenty-five percent with every Empyrean Tusk it consumed. Basically, the consumption of every four Empyrean Tusks brought a body of it to maturity.
Even though the percentage of growth obtained by Brangara should have reduced after he became the Celestial Boar, the Empyrean Tusks too became tremendously powerful, having obtained three Natures, and with ten of them entering the 2-Life Stage.
The growth benefits should more or less be similar to the past, 'Which means, even by a conservative estimate, he has enough resources to grow 26 bodies to maturity.'
If Brangara focused all the resources solely on him, he would have easily reached the 10-Life Stage. "Maybe he's focused on elevating Tangible Natures of Empyrean Snappers using those resources, but no matter what he wants to do, he can achieve it."
Inala analysed Brangara's data and grumbled, "Since it's too risky, he won't try to turn Subtle Terrain Domination into a Major Treasure. But I'm damn confident he'll elevate as many of them as he can to the 10-Life Stage."
The result was basically facing a 10-Life Stage Empyrean Snapper. And he could stack more than a dozen of them at the same time, "The Celestial Boar's body is strong enough to endure the power that level of stacking results."
Without realisation, Inala was clenching his fists hard, "Forget the Fourth Major Disaster.
Even now, it might be too late."
The Biome Bomb closed as Inala walked out, his expression dark as he noticed Boul Brimgan watching him intently, having stopped practice for a minute.
"Your face has seen better days." Boul Brimgan said with a light hearted tone, "Your
expression is twisted in despair."
"Haha!" Inala laughed and stared at Boul Brimgan, commenting in the same light hearted
tone too, "Your expression is equally fucked up too."
"Hah!" Boul Brimgan collapsed on the floor, and rested his head on his hand, grouchy, lacking the energy to fight for survival, "This is a drag."
"You can repeat it for my sake too." Inala said and slumped on the floor a few metres away
from Boul Brimgan. The duo blankly stared at the ceiling, tracing the lines of decoration engraved into the ceiling passively.
They were like that for two whole hours before Boul Brimgan broke the silence, "Can we...
win?"
"We?" Inala raised his eye, "You're not a Mystic Path though."
"I am his enemy," Boul Brimgan said and then eyed Inala, "So?"
"What is your opinion? Can we win?"
"I can't think of any possibility." Inala shook his head, "Most of our physical attacks cannot
harm his natural defences. Anything beyond that can be absorbed by a variety of Natures, including that of a Twi-Shocker, which his Astral World can stack."
"And for Nature based attacks, Yarsha Zahara can absorb and make them hers." He sighed, "And these two have been practicing operating as a single unit ever since Brangara figured out that he could behave like a Major Treasure. As long as he sits in her body and supplies her power, there's not much we could do."
"Any attacks that break past this defence would be easily healed off by the Celestial Boar's insane regeneration speed." He stared at Boul Brimgan, "You've seen his memories."
"Yeah..." Boul Brimgan nodded, recalling one of Brangara's memories from when he was experimenting his powers.
It was a simple experiment. Brangara simply severed his head, but then, another head grew
back. He didn't die. His Prana quality was high enough to regenerate a lost head while perfectly maintaining all of his body's functions.
The mind aspect of his Prana was robust enough to carry enough information that it could maintain the function of all the organs until a new brain was regenerated.
The second experiment was to destroy both the head and the heart. Without the Spirit
Container in the heart, the body wouldn't have enough Prana to survive. That was the original
assumption.
"But just the Prana circulating through his bloodstream was able to regenerate both a head
and a heart." Boul Brimgan sighed, "In the human form, he'll die. But in the Celestial Boar form, he'll live."
"Yes, and this was when he experimented upon a newly condensed body, and not one that had reached maturity." Inala nodded, "Moreover, it was a lone body and not one with the Life Stage stack."
"His regeneration would be even faster in the Life Stage." Boul Brimgan groaned, asking
after another hour of silence, "So, what do you think?"
"Can we win?"
"Why are you asking me the same repeatedly?" Inala groaned, turning silent after that. The
duo stared at the ceiling in silence as usual. A whole four hours passed this time, at the end of which Inala muttered, "There's only one way we can win."
"So you indeed had a plan." Boul Brimgan muttered softly, letting out a mild smile, "And
that is?"
"In death, there is honour." Inala let out a soft sigh, hesitant as he stared at the wall that had broken down after Virala had been sent flying out by Boul Brimgan. He slowly walked towards
it and peered out to observed the Brimgan Empire's Capital City of Boul, "This is a beautiful city."
The picturesque buildings, the skyline, the vast Northern Lakes at the background, and the vibrant culture of the place enamoured him, "I can easily spend a few decades doing nothing but admiring this view. It's...that beautiful."
He then slowly flew out and stared at the sky, observing the Transcendent Worlds as a thin
streak of tears slid down his eyes, "My law states that I alone am the Royal Zinger. So, the moment another Royal Zinger appears, I'll be reborn."
"But that'll be as the Deity of the Quip Clan. I'll be influenced to become their Deity, an
omniscient entity that caters to the demands of its Clan." He muttered, "That will indeed be
Inala, but..."
His expression drooped, "It won't be me, one who likes to travel Sumatra."
As his figure landed on the ceiling of the Brimgan Palace, a golden figure condensed behind
him, forming the image of Boul Brimgan as Inala spoke softly, "There's a way."
"But there's no me beyond that."