Erudite Canyon!
It was a region located 1600 kilometres from the Kalahatra Desert, laden with plenty of resources. However, there was no strong Pranic Beast here, as the region was littered with more than fifty Iron Grade Pranic Beast races.
They were in a constant state of battle, vying for dominance over the smallest regions. Today was no different from the past. The place was a bloodbath as usual. However, there was a sudden quake, following which the Iron Grade Pranic Beasts scattered into the homes, huddling within in fear while peeking out their noses, tongues, ears, or whatever organ they used for sensory means.
Every passing second, the quaking grew stronger, until the canyon was suddenly burst with a tsunami of tree roots burrowing into everything along their path. The appendages along the roots were barely the width of a hair, numbering in the sheer billions across each branches among the fibrous root structure mowing through the place.
Screee! Kieee! Raaa!
The Iron Grade Pranic Beasts rushed into the open as their homes were destroyed by the roots. A good number of them were crushed by the heavy roots while the rest fled for their lives.
Boom! Kaboom!
A couple minutes later, the roots arrived at a standstill, no longer causing any damage to the region. The Pranic Beasts that had survived breathed a relief. However, it wasn't for long, as they could feel the vitality of the place dropping alarmingly.
The trees, shrubs, grass, and even moss growing in the Erudite Canyon began to wilt as their vitality was sucked out of them. Every particle of nutrient necessary for plant growth was stripped dry, absorbed by the roots and funnelled in the direction of Kalahatra Desert.
Krieeek!
An Iron Grade Pranic Beast harnessed all its power to target one of the roots in an effort to save its home. However, its strongest attack failed to even scratch the root system. Their home was getting destroyed before their very eyes and there was nothing they could do about it.
Every single Pranic Beast in the region had this thought in unison. But indeed, they were helpless. They were merely at the Iron Grade while the roots belonged to a Mystic Grade existence.
Expert Mystic Grade Pranic Beast-Empyrean Transcendent Eater!
The Erudite Canyon wasn't alone in this disaster. Every other region in the vicinity too had been subjected to this state. And as time spanned past, regions even further were being affected as roots of the Transcendent Eater swarmed them.
The reason was simple-resources!
Every single Mystic Path was unleashing earth-shattering attacks against an endlessly charging Celestial Boar. All the Prana that Inala had collected was getting used up at an alarming pace. Saving aside the amount meant for his State of Unity, Inala had distributed the rest and had mostly burnt through it all.
Therefore, the only other source of quality Prana was through the Transcendent Eater. And as the Kalahatra Desert had been modified by Grehha to allow Resha to fight better, they didn't wish to damage its fundamental foundation, which meant Blola had to look beyond the region for resources, using which he could produce enough Prana for the battle.
That resulted in this sea of roots swarming every single region and absolutely destroying them from ground up. The land beyond Kalahatra Desert turned into a desert, stripped dry of all resources. And once turned into desert, a faint cloud of bone mist radiated from the grainy sand, turning it into ivory sand.
The terraformed Kalahatra Desert was expanding in size. And as it did, the roots of the Transcendent Eater that formed the wall along the border of the region too began to expand, gradually moving outwards.
The Quip Clansmen could perceive the changes clearly. However, even if they didn't like the situation, there was nothing they could do about it. The sheer waves of presence emanating from the region terrified them.
The sounds were akin to ginormous mountain rages colliding into each other tens of thousands of times. The sky was covered by a messy aurora, with the colours a hopscotch mix of everything. There were frequent earthquakes as sand tsunamis crashed into the wall every three seconds.
As the height of the sand tsunamis continued to increase, the wall along the border changed accordingly. By now, they had reached a height of three kilometres, spanning a whopping breadth of 12 kilometres.
This level of sturdiness was necessary to endure the constant bombardment of shockwaves, both physical and energy based. If not for these walls that blockaded the colliding presences from multiple Mystic Grade existences, the surrounding regions would have become a death
zone.
Even Silver Grade Pranic Beasts would have exploded spontaneously, not to mention the Iron Grade Pranic Beasts. The Transcendent Eater's actions were the final line of defence that separated the two worlds, preventing the rest of Sumatra from being destroyed by the fight in the Kalahatra Desert.
Keep Yarsha Zahara at bay, tank punches from Brangara that weren't fuelled by Unlimited Predator, prevent the entry of any foreign entity while simultaneously block the resultant waves of the fight from reaching beyond Kalahatra Desert, and finally, constantly generate Prana for the Mystic Seven to restock upon.
They were Blola's tasks, assigned by Inala who had systematically planned and strategized everything like clockwork. Steadily, the regions in the vicinity of the Kalahatra Desert were already bereft of resources, forcing Blola to expand his Transcendent Eater's root network even beyond.
"Isn't this a mess?" While Wally and Kenzar observed all the sequence of events from atop the border walls, a concerned voice resounded as a Parute Tree popped out beside them. The Parute Tree grew large and transformed into the figure of new Blola who walked out.
"Are you sure you can reveal yourself?" Wally stared at new Blola, aware of the latter's identity thanks to being informed by Resha. He pointed at the wall, "Wasn't this guy concerned about consuming you? And now, you're standing right atop his body."
"There's literally nothing he can do to me." The new Blola pointed at the wall, his tone turning a tad dejected towards the end, "Of course, I can't do anything to him too. We have the same set of powers."
"Then, why did you come here?" Wally asked as blood began to flow faster through his body, preparing to fight when necessary.
"Damn, you're one scary bastard." The new Blola wiped the goosebumps that had formed on his hand, "Remind me to never fight you once you enter the Mystic Grade."
'Seems Resha hasn't pulled any punches when training him.' The new Blola thought as he observed Wally's growing presence, 'He's already at a level where no one below the Mystic Grade could hurt him.'
"What are you after?" Wally didn't intend to engage in a conversation and instead was on guard, having already accumulated enough Prana to fire up Subtle Terrain Domination to its
peak.
"Relax, I wouldn't have dared to come here if I didn't have permission. I might be the Transcendent Eater, but even I feel outclassed in this fight. Whether it's the Royal Zinger, Empyrean Supreme, Brimgan Emperor, Empyrean Boar King, and that overwhelmingly scary existence called root, I cannot win a fight against them. The most I could do is flee from them." The new Blola shrugged, "So, I only dared to come here after striking a deal with some
of them."
'The Royal Zinger wants me to steal the data of Barla, the Boar Kings, and every Pranic Beast whose Nature is stored in their Astral Chart from Blola.' The new Blola thought, 'That way, Astral Puncture wouldn't be lost from Sumatra Continent.'
The moment Inala realised that it was already the worst-case scenario where he was forced to use Yennda, he had made plans accordingly. In his plan, Yennda would use up both the Royal Zinger and Transcendent Eater bodies as fuel, which meant both would be compromised.
It was fine for Inala, since that was according to his plan. However, Blola shouldn't be killed just like that. There were too many valuable beings recorded in his data set, especially Barla.
Their current fight will drain Sumatra of too much fighting strength, so this was Inala's way of leaving something for the future. Hence, by the time Blola gets compromised, the new Blola would swipe in and steal all the data present within Blola's Transcendent Eater.
'But it's scary that he figured out the fact that I stole some of the data from Sumatra's Transcendent Eater too.' Blola thought solemnly, 'Every single one of them is a scary dude. If all of them are to be present during the Continental Invasion, Sumatra could simply chill out
and wait for things to pass on.'
'Seriously...' He glared deeper into the Kalahatra Desert and observed a cluster of Biome Bombs at a certain spot, "Seriously! What the fuck is happening there?"
The cluster of Biome Bombs popped out of Blola's Transcendent Eater form in large numbers.
And once they had formed and had accumulated a decent amount of Prana within, the Biome Bombs sprouted eight tendrils of Prana and walked off.
They hopped onto the immobile body of the Royal Zinger and latched onto its body, acting
like defibrillator as they seeped in faint sparks of a Bolt of Transcendence into Inala's body.
The spark worked on destroying the traces of influence seeped by the Minor Treasure of Gracious Inheritor.
It then reinstated a portion of data belonging to Inala, ones that hadn't been corrupted. The moment Inala had obtained the details of all the Minor and Major Treasures in Astral World thanks to the Minor Treasure of Prana Bomb, he had prepared for this situation.
That was why he created a stalemate where Brangara used one of his trump cards. Even though Inala was out of the picture for the time being, he could recover eventually. Moreover, using this opportunity, he had successfully stalled all seven Minor Treasures of Statue and a Minor Treasure of Gracious Inheritor.
Brangara only had one more Gracious Inheritor remaining with him. Upon stealing Yarsha
Zahara's memories, he understood how dangerous the Nature of Statue was when wielded by Brangara. It could be used strategically to stall seven of Brangara's enemies simultaneously. Therefore, it had to be used prematurely, which was what Inala had achieved during his one- -on-one fight against Brangara.
Currently, he wasn't in a state of mind to fight, but he had already carved a series of Piezo
Slips on his body. And the moment the Biome Bombs used their Piezo Slip Skill, all the information was perceived by them, allowing them to act accordingly.
'How long will it take?' Blola stared in a fluster as Biome Bombs latched on his Transcendent
Eater form like flies, sucked in his Prana, and once they had enough to form a spark, they detached to act as a defibrillator for the Royal Zinger, 'You need to get back into the fight
soon, Inala.'
[Blola!]
Right as Blola was worrying about what to do other than remain passive and continue to generate more and more Prana for the ever-increasing number of Biome Bombs, a Biome Bomb scaled up to a carnivorous flower and used a Tangible Piezo Slip to communicate. It was the message Inala had left behind for Blola.
[Focus on straining Brangara's Astral World as much as you can alongside the others. It
doesn't matter if they die in the process. Just push them to the limit. If they are on the verge of death, consume them. But ensure Boul Brimgan and Resha are alive. While you guys fight, my
Biome Bombs will fully comprehend Unlimited Predator. And once Brangara is damaged enough, I'll wake up.]
'Alright, I hope your plan works, Inala.' Blola let out a sigh and began to gather Prana even
faster, expanding his root system even more voraciously. Near him, Barla was consuming his branches in an effort to quickly charge up.
She was also devouring Pranic Beasts revived by Blola to fill up her Astral Chart. She had run
out of Prana previously, which caused her Astral Chart to deactivate, causing her to lose all 100 Natures since she had been using them all for Astral Puncture.
And now, she had almost finished charging up, grunting the moment she swallowed the last Nature and filled her Prana capacity to the maximum, "I'm ready."
Two orbs latched onto her back and drilled inside, ready to supply her with Prana constantly,
'I now have enough resources to spam Astral Puncture for a long enough duration.'
Right as they were about to take action, another Biome Bomb used a Tangible Piezo Slip to communicate with Blola as Inala's voice resounded in his mindspace. And in response, a Biome Bomb landed in his possession, containing ten Minor Treasures of Kinesis Beyblades
inside.
[Give these to Boul Brimgan. He'll know what to do. Until I arrive, he'll command everyone's
actions.]