842 Countdown From 60
60 minutes!
Virala continued to blast Spirit Puppets at most of the Satellites and thwarted them. Whenever possible, he used a Mystic Ewworm Spirit Puppet to tie up a group of Satellites, making it easy for Barla to destroy them all with a single attack.
50 minutes!
Sweat dripped down Yahard Tusk's forehead as he continued to cough out blood nonstop, feeling intense pain as he began to destroy the tenth Minor Treasure of Orakha's Checkpoint. Unlike with the previous Minor Treasures, the final one was causing too many problems.
When he destroyed the first Minor Treasure, he only felt a heart ache. Upon destruction of the second one, the ache intensified a bit. It continued to spike with the subsequent destruction of every Minor Treasure of Orakha's Checkpoint.
However, the pain appeared only after a Minor Treasure was destroyed. The final one, though, was different. The moment he began to damage it, a searing sensation wrecked his body, making him feel as if he was targeting himself.
The Nature of Daily Checkpoint had been connected with the Minor Treasure of Orakha's Checkpoint. And currently, Daily Checkpoint was his Tertiary Nature. That meant every damage done to the Minor Treasure was being conducted into his Spirit Container, through which his body, mind, and soul were suffering harm.
"Hurry!" Yennda expressed his fluster upon seeing the Prana levels emitted by Brangara continue to spike, "He'll recover soon."
"I'm…trying!" Yahard Tusk groaned as his body shivered nonstop. Patches of his skin fell off and regrew. If not for his Mystic Grade Prana, he would have already died from the damage he was sustaining every second.
40 minutes!
"Tch!" Boul Brimgan clicked his tongue as he pointed his idle hand towards the Astral World and unleashed a beam of destructive energy, seeing it fail to damage Astral World, 'I'm still not strong enough to harm Astral World.'
The current Boul Brimgan was strong enough to go toe-to-toe with the Sumatra Chronicles' endgame Empyrean Boar King, and win. He would be destroyed in close-combat, but Boul Brimgan had a range of 180 kilometres.
It would take him months, but by the end of it, he would succeed in killing the Empyrean Boar King. Meaning, he was capable of killing Iron Transcendents and even face off against weak Silver Grade Transcendents.
In his Deity Fusion state, he was already the fastest individual on Sumatra. His State of Harmony form was even stronger. But even with such terrifying might, he was unable to destroy Astral World. Forget destroying or damaging it, he couldn't even scratch it.
And even when he tried to target the gap in Astral World, a barrier of Unlimited Predator protected it. He could drill through it, but by the time he could breakthrough, Astral World would have turned to face the opposite direction.
Usually, this manoeuvre was nothing, as Boul Brimgan needed less than a fraction of a second to appear on the other side. However, if he were to do that, it would imply moving his hand—that was targeting Brangara's Spirit Container.
Shifting it would mean it would have to cut through a section of Brangara's chest. If the beam was even delayed by a bit somewhere, it would allow the Spirit Container to recover and maintain itself for the respective duration, which would hasten the recovery of Brangara's mind.
Hence, he couldn't take the chance. They barely had enough time as is. Resha needed as much time as possible to recover, so that he could tank the heavy attacks of Brangara and provide opportunities for Boul Brimgan, Barla, and Virala to launch sneak attack.
'I need to be faster!' Boul Brimgan frowned as he focused on his Kinesis Beyblade, 'And before I finish refining it, I need to adjust my Secondary Nature so that even with a single Kinesis Beyblade added into the mix, I can still maintain my State of Harmony.'
With ten Kinesis Beyblades, he would have an easier time, but things weren't optimal. Therefore, he had to make do with the current situation…
"Wait a second…" For a moment, his Prana detection method picked up something. Immediately in response, he targeted a spot right above Astral World and unleashed the destructive beam at it, rapidly drilling a hole through Brangara's flesh. For a moment, something glinted from within before vanishing, 'Is that…?'
Sumatra Gold!
It was the Sumatra Gold that Brangara was using as an Information Slip. Carrying it in his pocket would make it easy to be stolen. And hence, the moment he joined the fight, he placed it within his body.
He had diverted a part of his focus to keep changing its position within his body, ensuring it wasn't revealed to the enemies.
Of course, with Boul Brimgan flaring up detection means one after another, with Brangara's body being restricted more and more by the strings of Prana, the piece of Sumatra Gold couldn't be moved fast enough, which allowed Boul Brimgan to detect it eventually.
A few minutes later, he had succeeded in extracting it. He couldn't sense the data stored within it, for he had to use Mystic Sumatra Art for that. Boul Brimgan didn't even care about the data, since a glance at a nearby Biome Bomb, and a piece of information was transmitted into his mindspace through a Tangible Piezo Slip.
[It has all his memories, so that he can recover them every time he forgets something due to the side-effects of Unlimited Predator. It was weak at the start, but the greater his strength as the Celestial Boar progressed, the worse it became.]
"It's of no use to me then," Boul Brimgan thought and immediately began to integrate it with the second Kinesis Beyblade.
Mystic Kinesis Art—Spirit Weapon Switch!
The third piece of Sumatra Gold was forming within Brangara's heart. And by now, it had almost finished forming, 'Before the deadline ends, I can extract it.'
30 minutes!
"Phew…fuooh!" Resha inhaled and exhaled fiercely, generating a gale from underneath the Influenced Region of Armoury. He was quickly mending the cracks that had formed in his biomes, followed by hardening his bones that were on the verge of cracking.
The environment within his biomes looked like they had suffered a cataclysm, so he had to first adjust them. These biomes were a source of his strength, for they funnelled a ginormous amount of Prana through his bloodstream, which had a volume equivalent to the Angan River.
"I need to hurry!" Resha grunted while unleashing External Inertial Gravity to refine and strengthen the ivory sand forming the Influenced Region of Armoury. His control spread to its psychokinesis, cementing his authority so that he could freely move Armoury according to his will.
An Influenced Region was powerful enough to tank attacks from Brangara and even threaten him somewhat. And as long as the attacks succeeds, Armoury was capable of dealing damage to Astral World.
In the current situation, even the slightest of damage was valuable, since except for Barla's Astral Puncture, no other attack was strong enough to harm Astral World.
20 minutes!
Pet had stopped moving as Grehha was vomiting blood in his Dungeon, having consumed too much food in a short while. His Spirit Container was strained, having been processing Prana beyond its limit for a long while now.
With trembling hands, he kneeled on the floor and gasped weakly, "Not yet…"
"The real battle is yet to begin!" He muttered and fainted, giving an order to his subordinates in the blood sea, "Wake me up in twenty minutes even if you have to break my limbs. No matter what, ensure I wake up on time!"
10 minutes!
The Biome Bombs were working in a flurry as Blola was still nervous. He wanted to participate in the fight more and honestly had enough power to do so too. However, his build was the weakest against the Celestial Boar's Unlimited Predator.
He would be mere food for the latter. And worst of all, he could be consumed and turned into a Tangible Nature.
The moment Brangara obtains his power as a Tangible Nature, things were pretty much done for this side. Their means to win instantly became zero.
Therefore, all Blola could do was to act as a passive generate of Prana while everyone else risked their lives, 'I am the one with the power to take a serious beating and shrug it off like nothing. Unless I'm completely obliterated, I can recover to full capacity from a single root strand. And with my current capacity that is no longer limited, it takes me less than three seconds to go from a piece of root to a full body.'
He would be sucking the entire region dry during the process, but Blola could recover endlessly. And he only needed to expand his roots further for more resources. With the full potential of a Transcendent Eater, Blola only needed a day to spread his roots across Sumatra Continent.
But his build was hard-countered by Brangara, so it was a frustrating situation for him, 'Even in the Transcendent World, the Transcendent Eater is one of the strongest entities. It's a source of power and only the strongest among Mystic Transcendents could ever hope to defeat one, not to mention kill it.'
'Dammit!' He could only curse mentally.
And soon, time had run out as Yahard Tusk was extremely flustered, still needing a bit more time to destroy the last Minor Treasure of Orakha's Checkpoint, "Shit!"
"Why does an hour feel like a couple of minutes?" Virala cursed, already tired by now. And right as he had said so, a tremendous level of presence burst out of Brangara.
Suddenly, like a bullet being launched, Astral World burst out of Brangara's body and flew away, following which it unleashed a ginormous pillar into the sky. A fraction of a second later, a new body of Brangara had formed.
A destructive beam impacted him and rapidly dug into his chest, striking his Spirit Container. However, before it could be destroyed, Brangara succeeded in assuming Celestial Boar form, now able to tank the attack enough to unleash his absolute domain.
"You guys had fun violating my body for an hour!" His expression was incensed as he glared at everyone, bellowing as his sheer presence ignited the surroundings into a sea of flames. A ginormous Celestial Boar aurora formed in the sky, passively suppressing everyone, making their Prana flow five percent slower than before, which was extremely dangerous since they needed all their strength to even handle his attacks.
"Now, it's my turn!" He roared as the pillar of light began to curve around him, enveloping his Spirit Weapon range.
State of Unity—Unlimited Predator!
0 minutes!
"Guess it's my turn now," Root uttered and got up from his spot on the Royal Zinger's nose. He bowed towards the latter for a moment before facing the Celestial Boar, "Let's see how long I can last against it."
"I hope I can last for as long as my Deity expects me to."