State of Harmony-Astral Puncture!
It was created with the sole intention of piercing through the absolute defence that Brangara could achieve by activating eight Natures of Subtle Terrain Domination and above. Moreover, Inala was damn sure that Brangara wouldn't even think about conserving his strength and would straight up use all his Natures from the get-go.
Therefore, Astral Puncture was Inala's response to breaking through Brangara's defence. With Prana Circuit acting as the base, 99 other Natures were constructed atop it harmoniously in such a way that once all 100 Natures in the Astral Chart were activated in a certain format, Astral Puncture would be unleashed.
Kinesis Deity was there to increase the range of effect of Astral Puncture and strengthen the speed of the ability. It served as a pillar for the ability to be built upon. The second pillar was Drifting Tunnel, which could create a tunnel with a varying gravity field that was different from the world beyond its form.
Imprison served to reinforce the boundaries of the ability within whatever terrain it was activated in. Of course, Imprison was the Primary Nature of Clumped Fingers, using which they built their finger-like exoskeleton. Thereby, as it was considered a part of their body, whatever layer that Imprison gathers could also be affected by Satellite.
Eddy Blade condenses a blade of Prana, which was focused upon the penetrative tip and the external surface of the ability, alongside the layer created by Imprison and treated as a Satellite.
Since the constructed form was treated as a Satellite, the power of Shredded Lunge could be built into it. And of course, the jumping power gave it a power boost, making the ability reach its target quicker. Moreover, the wind-blades generated towards the end of Shredded Lunge was absorbed by Imprison and gathered into Eddy-Blades.
Prana Shock and Piezo Response existed to absorb any shockwaves generated at the moment of contact or when impacted by an external force. Piezo Response would naturally absorb the shockwaves and transmit it back at the source.
However, this is where Reactive Counter came into effect. It was the Zahara Kingdom's valued ability, obtained by constructing a Human Avatar out of Reactive Jade. The moment Astral Puncture comes into contact with any ability, Reactive Jade will react first, changing the Satellite.
Prana Shock existed to transmit all the shockwaves that Piezo Response gathers across its form, following which Drifting Tunnel would accumulate them into the Satellite once again, only strengthening it further.
Sixteen Reactive Counters were used so that the Astral Puncture was capable of reacting to 16 abilities simultaneously. Bio-Synthesis and Rectum Merger only existed to enable Astral Puncture to rapidly enter a target body through the wounds it inflicts on them. Bio-Synthesis allows rapid consumption of their body, further widening their injury while Rectum Merger allows Astral Puncture to perfectly merge into the wound and expand there accordingly.
Finally, there were two Natures that were the most valuable for the desired effect to be unleashed. Statue, combined with Human Appeal created an interesting effect against the Prana of the target. It was what allowed Barla to puncture through Inala's Attributed Region cube.
When her Astral Puncture came into contact with the Attributed Region cube, the Prana forming the latter subconsciously recognised Astral Puncture as something cute and requiring protection. Statue's effect was unleashed not on Astral Puncture but the target it came into contact with, turning the Prana in the target sluggish for a moment.
When it turned sluggish, it became more vulnerable to the effects of Human Appeal, which made it subconsciously let go of its resistance against Astral Puncture. Of course, this made Astral Puncture only effective against humans.
However, this was were Linked Rupture came into effect, converting Human Appeal into a form suitable for the target. The sixteen Reactive Counters also existed to modify the effects of Human Appeal according to the target.
Combined into a whole, the 100 Natures resulted in a State of Harmony to create a corkscrew- shaped tunnel that spanned a length of 1.8 kilometres, one capable of adapting to move across any region.
It'll become a water corkscrew when unleashed in water, fire-corkscrew when unleashed in a sea of flames, wind-corkscrew in wind, earth-corkscrew underground, etc. Moreover, it could constantly change itself according to whatever environment it found itself in, dynamically, and in real-time.
State of Harmony-Astral Puncture!
Following by a resounding boom, an Attributed Water corkscrew punctured through the Attributed Region cube, resulting in a hole that spanned a radius of three metres. And due to the effects of Linked Rupture alongside various Natures, even if the Attributed Region cube intended to, it was unable to heal the hole for the time being.
After a long period of Prana washing over the edges of the hole to revert the region back to its original state, the hole will close up.
"Haah...huff!" Barla gasped in exhaustion as she stared at the hole before her, having never imagined in her life that she would attain enough power to puncture through the Attributed Region cube with a single hit like that.
Of course, right as she finished, a puppet of Virala disguised as Brangara appeared behind her and lopped her head off.
Barla wouldn't have been so successful against the Attributed Region built by the Major Treasure of Cube. She would have had to put in more effort since Human Appeal wouldn't have worked on it.
However, the Attributed Region cube was created by Inala. So, when the attack struck it, his Prana subconsciously considered the Astral Puncture as something cute and requiring protection, which made the Attributed Region cube more susceptible to the destructive effects of Astral Puncture.
"Blola!" Inala shouted in excitement, "Keep on reviving her, even if this region gets destroyed further in the process. I want her to use Astral Puncture enough that she could activate it in her sleep."
Barla was only able to succeed in activating it correctly once over a span of two months of relentless fighting. She still had a long way to go before she could spontaneously use it in battle. Moreover, at full strength, Astral Puncture had been built in such a way that Barla would be able to unleash four of them at the same time and control them all without a drop in psychokinesis efficiency.
"I want her at full capacity in the month we have remaining." Inala commanded, "Tell me if you want anything else for it. I'll pay you."
"It's alright, I'm benefitting significantly from this." Blola raised his hand in protest, "So, I'll do everything in my power to strengthen her to the limit."
"Once she's ready, you need to feed yourself to her until she reaches the 10-Life Stage." Inala nodded, "Only then will she be powerful enough to destroy Brangara."
He then stared at Virala once Blola accepted the work, "You know what to do."
"The influence from Prana Circuit alone is messing with her mind, not to mention everything else." Virala grinned, "I hardly need four more days before she'll charge at Brangara in a
heartbeat."
Inala then stared at Resha but didn't say anything, grinning upon seeing the latter stare at the hole on the Attributed Region cube in a trance, 'This guy doesn't need any input from me when it comes to battles. He's the best on Sumatra itself on this field.'
After becoming the Supreme Tusk, Resha was ready, prepared to enter the Mystic Grade at a moment's notice. He hadn't done it yet because that wouldn't be impactful enough.
'When he enters the Mystic Grade and truly harnesses his prowess against Brangara, the shock value alone will disrupt Brangara's pace.' Inala thought and took flight, appearing at an altitude of ten kilometres to survey the land, "This region is fully fucked up."
'I hope Brangara isn't too strong.' He thought in fear as he stared at Blola, 'Otherwise, we'll
be fighting even after Sumatra Continent is fully destroyed and consumed.'
Blola would behave like a checkpoint and constantly gather Prana, from whom Inala would absorb and supply to the rest of the Mystic Paths, allowing them to keep fighting against
Brangara.
The longer the fight dragged on, the greater the damage done to Sumatra. After all, even if the likes of Resha and Virala hadn't reached the 10-Life Stage, they had other means to fully exercise their powers.
The bodies of these two were ridiculously tough and could take multiple full-powered hits
from the Second Major Disaster Brangara without much bother. And these guys would be fighting without any care for their Prana consumption, since Inala would be supplying them
endlessly.
"I...can only hope there's enough of Sumatra left to sightsee by the time the Third Major Disaster end." Inala sighed despondently. He could unleash his State of Unity at the start to conclude the fight early.
However, he had a time limit. Therefore, Brangara had to first be weakened physically and mentally, following which he could take the helm. Moreover, Inala was saving it to counter Brangara's State of Unity.
He didn't know whether Brangara had attained it or not, but he felt like the possibility was high. After all, it was by absorbing Brangara's data that he fully comprehended the concepts of State of Harmony and State of Unity.
"He'll have it, I'm assured of it." Inala gritted his teeth, "Once he uses his State of Unity, I'll
use mine to resist it."
After all, the power spike resulting from it was too great. Without Inala, the others would be destroyed by Brangara's State of Unity, irrespective of how much they had prepared.
Moreover, without Inala, they can only resist until then ran out of Prana, following which they'd be destroyed by Brangara.
"Now, there's only one step remaining." Inala muttered and appeared in the core of Grehha's Dungeon, staring at the cocoon before him to say, "There's only a month left. Are you ready,"
"Grehha?"
[Obviously!]
The pillar of light emitted by the Minor Treasure nearby curved into a word as the cocoon shattered, revealing a slightly malnourished figure of Grehha, "I was mentally fighting against Brangara to judge how well the current me stood in the power scale of everything."
"And," Inala raised as eyebrow, smiling upon sensing a thick, scaly presence from Grehha, "How did it go?"
"I'm confident," Grehha chuckled.