'What is happening here?' Yarsha Zahara looked around, observing the visibility around her rapidly dropping as the sand storm intensified. Her eyes widened as she observed the sand gradually turning ivory, 'This is...shit!'
A jet-black serpent jutted out of her body and swallowed a portion of the ivory sand, immediately observing that she could control it now, 'As I feared, it's the product of a Nature!'
"Brangara! Watch out!" She bellowed as suddenly, a violent ivory sand storm engulfed her. Bone mist erupted from various spots on the ground, like geysers, projecting particles of ivory sand into the sky.
The regular sand storm was immediately converted into ivory sand, intending to suffocate her gradually, "Dammit!"
Swoosh!
Right as she intended to do something about it, all her senses of fear were triggered, causing her to instinctively activate the power of both the Major Treasures of Internal Inertial Gravity and Subtle Terrain Domination that she had absorbed from Brangara.
And an instant later, a thumb-sized droplet of water brushed past her, barely missing her head thanks to the combined usage of the power of two Major Treasures. It slammed into her shoulder blade, penetrating through her body without an ounce of reduction in its momentum.
Like a laser, it cleanly cleaved her left hand and a portion of her ribcage, "Aargh!"
Kaboom!
The droplet of water slammed into the sand to produce an explosion akin to a meteor strike, spilling a wave of sand tsunami in response that washed her away. Ripples of Prana burst out of her being as Yarsha Zahara's figure flickered away, barely avoiding a few more droplets of water that consecutely aimed for her.
"The target that's the source of this body's fear should be Inala. Since he fused with the Major Treasure of Attribute, it makes sense he could wield the power of the Attributed Region too." Yarsha Zahara analysed as she accurately felt spikes in fear and dodged accordingly, managing to barely avoid the droplets of water.
Prana surged into her injury and rapidly began to heal it. Aided by Internal Inertial Gravity, she the thrusts of Prana she could produce, her figure ran through the ivory sandstorm like a blur.
Boom! Boom! Kaboom!
Deadly meteor strikes followed her, each powerful enough to destroy her if it made contact. 'I never assumed he could become so deadly. But how is this possible?'
She stared at the sky, 'I've been steadily feeling the target of my fear at the same spot. That means, Inala is somehow staying at the same place in the sky. How is it possible? Is he in a state of flight? But then, why isn't he being targeted by the Mysterious Eye?'
'Did something change while I remained unaware?' She thought tensely. The sheer fear being emanated by Maroppa's body was gradually affecting her thought process, making her focus more on evasion rather than retaliation.
Unfortunately for her, visibility had become zero as she was surrounded by bone mist, some of which invaded her lungs as she breathed in and out. She had set aside a minor portion of Subtle Terrain Domination to filter the air when the a droplet of water grazed her, 'Dammit! If I lower me defences by even a fraction, I won't be able to avoid these attacks!'
Subtle Terrain Domination had condensed the air into platforms that she turned into Satellites. These Satellites were sent into the sky to serve as a series of shields, even if they didn't do much against a droplet of Attributed Region water. However, in the fraction of a second of time they bought, and moreover, when the droplet of water made contact with them, Yarsha Zahara could sense its approach in advance, which allowed her to evade on time.
Subtle Terrian Domination gathered and condensed the thrusts of shockwaves she was constantly emitting and concentrated them better. This allowed her to boost her limbs that were already moving fast with the power of Internal Inertial Gravity.
As both were powers derived from a Major Treasure, they were way efficient than their 10-Life Stage tangible nature counterpart. However, she was already using their power to the limit, which was the only reason she could slightly divert the droplet of water and evade it on time.
'Hmm? She's managed to avoid these attacks until now.' Hovering at an altitude of 180 kilometres from the ground was Inala, from time to time dropping a Biome Bomb filled with compressed air. Once the Biome Bombs landed on the ground, they disintegrated, releasing all the air within that produced a powerful gust, adding to the sandstorm.
The Biome Bombs were dropped at the specific spots to grow the sandstorm. As they were working perfectly to reduce the visibility to zero, Inala targeted Yarsha Zahara. He didn't use any large strikes, for the Attributed Region water was a product of his Primary Nature.
Therefore, Yarsha Zahara could steal them. As a result, he targeted her with smaller attacks to first exhaust all the abilities she was carrying with her, 'I'm pretty sure she has enough of Brangara's power stocked up in her.'
This meant that even if his attacks land correctly, all that would do is to kill Maroppa. Yarsha Zahara would still be alive, with her Major Treasure body protected by the power of Astral World. 'Thankfully, Ruvva had an encounter with them in advance and managed to get a decent grasp of their capabilities.'
It was her senses that had detected Yarsha Zahara's state of being a Major Treasure. 'Something had happened when they faced the Mammoth Clan and fought with Orakha. That's what resulted in such changes."
"Thankfully, she's weaker now." Inala let out a mild smile and assumed a throwing position. In each of his eight hands was a Biome Bomb, containing Attributed Region water inside. Followed by a mild grunt, he made a throwing action.
At the peak of his motion, a hole appeared on one of the Biome Bombs and ejected a droplet of the Attributed Region water, making a beeline towards Yarsha Zahara at hypersonic speeds.
[Hexagon 1711, Hexagon 1988, Hexagon 1782...]
Hovering beside him was the Kinesis Feline, steadily informing him of Yarsha Zahara's movements in real time. The entirety of the Kalahatra Desert had been divided into small hexagons, totalling to more than a billion.
Each Hexagon occupied around twenty square metres in area. It was how they had made a grid of the region, easy for Inala to target. After all, his vision too was obstructed by the ivory
sandstorm.
The only one who could see through the ivory sandstorm was Grehha, for Mud Vipers could detect the lifeforce of other creatures. It was this characteristic that Grehha had enhanced to the limit, using which he was keeping a track of Yarsha Zahara's position.
Next to him was a Kinesis Feline, through which Boul Brimgan heard Grehha's inputs and spontaneously relayed them to Inala.
Of course, it wasn't perfect, as there was a delay between Inala learning of Yarsha Zahara's position and his attacks reaching her. Even at hypersonic speeds, his droplets of water only travelled around four to five kilometres per second.
He was at an altitude of 180 kilometres, so it took a while before the projectiles struck the ground. So, most of it was Inala doing a guess work and launching eight projectiles at the most probably spots were Yarsha Zahara could be based on the patterns of her movements.
'Once she exhausts her current power, I can truly deal with her. It's even better if she stores the products of my Natures. That'll be optimal.' With that thought in mind, Inala continued to
target her.
In the meantime, Virala stood at a far away spot, having used his Tratham Minor Treasure to send Yarsha Zahara flying away, successfully separating her from Brangara.
In the meantime, his puppets behaved like him and bought time against Brangara, "How long
do I have to wait, Blola?"
The Kinesis Feline next to him heard his utter and let out a string of words a second later, mouthing Blola's response.
[Exactly two minutes. And then, we're good to go!]
"Fucking finally!" Virala let out a powerful exhale that resulted in a mild gust. Prana surged
through his being as he hadn't lost an ounce of strength all along. After all, hidden in his stomach were three Biome Bombs.
One of them was an orb, with the bolt of Transcendence within condensed using the Celestial Boar's Prana and Lifespan. It allowed him to recover instantly and until it gets exhausted, he didn't have to worry about Prana expenditure and could go all out endlessly.
The second Biome Bomb was filled to the brim with Virala's flesh and blood, enough for him
to create an army of puppets numbering in the tens of thousands. He could fight for days with his current accumulation.
And even if he were to run out, Inala will replenish them. After all, the third Biome Bomb was empty. It only had a few cylindrical pieces of wool, ready to assume a state of flight the moment Virala's resources were on the verge of being depleted.
Inala would appear within the Biome Bomb, replenish the other two Biome Bombs and
vanish. It was how they had planned to fight nonstop without allowing Brangara to realise what was happening.
His expression gradually became impatient as Virala grumbled, counting the time, until
finally, the words he wished to hear resounded.
[It's Time!]