State of Harmony-Astral Puncture!
Barla positioned herself steady over the end of the flight of bone stairs and assumed her Pranic Beast form. Following that, the Empyrean Boar King opened its mouth as a vortex of Prana swirled around and condensed into a dot. Once ready, there was no signal.
In silence, it punctured forth, casually adding the power of Unlimited Predator dome to its strength upon contact and moved forward.
Within the Unlimited Predator dome, dozens of Satellites and Homing Satellites were in a tug-of-war. Both sides tried their respective means to consume each other. However, the Quip Guardian's Prana was limited and subsisted by absorbing more from its enemy.
In contrast, the Celestial Boar had an endless stream of Prana to rely upon. If it wanted, it could destroy the Quip Guardian faster, since the number of Unlimited Predator Satellites it had accumulated were four times the Quip Guardian's Homing Satellites.
But it only used the same amount as the Quip Guardian and saved up the rest for the other enemies. As expected, Astral Puncture appeared, casually puncturing through the defensive arrangements it had made.
'It is indeed impossible to guard against this ability!' The Celestial Boar thought as over a dozen Unlimited Predator Satellites were destroyed before Astral Puncture was diverted and missed its mark. It punctured bored through the ground, forming a deep hole spanning many kilometres.
'At least, this works!' The Celestial Boar thought in relief as it stared at the sides of its arm that Astral Puncture had singed. The edges of the attack were struggling to heal. However, that wasn't an issue, as the Celestial Boar shed off all the influenced parts and regenerated the region from scratch, which barely took a tenth of a second.
Right as it was completed, a second Astral Puncture arrived, 'Shit! That's fast!'
"Hmph!" Right as the Celestial Boar wanted to evade a little while its Unlimited Predator Satellites diverted the attack, the Quip Guardian grunted and blasted off a series of Prana Stitches, tying up the both of them firmly.
This way, to move, the Celestial Boar had to also drag the Quip Guardian's weight, which had been tremendously boosted thanks to the Attributed Region Armour. This slowed down the Celestial Boar enough for the Astral Puncture to sever through its shoulder.
"I bought enough time!" The Quip Guardian groaned in exhaustion as the whip tied around its neck was tightening up.
Minor Treasure-Whip Exhaustion!
It was why the Quip Guardian was steadily on a losing streak. But that didn't matter, since it could quickly recover now that the others had joined the battle. Using Prana Stitch, it quickly attached itself to the remainder of the Celestial Boar, preventing the latter from escaping, whether in human or Pranic Beast form.
"Dammit!" The Celestial Boar cursed in anger as the third Astral Puncture appeared and blasted open a hole through its chest, revealing the Astral World inside. Right as it planned to eject the Astral World somewhere farther away, strings of Prana wrapped around Astral World and stitched it to the flesh of the Celestial Boar.
The fourth Astral Puncture arrived, aiming for the Astral World. However, right as it was about to strike the target, a Spirit Container formed above the Astral World, following which it vanished as the Celestial Boar assumed human form and employed Shredded Lunge to evade the attack.
State of Unity-Unlimited Predator!
Brangara unleashed this once again and scurried around in its space, this way making it hard for Barla to aim at him. Using Counterbalance, he didn't have to stay within its centre, thereby camouflaging himself.
And while he was running, Brangara continued to amass Unlimited Predator Satellites, arming himself to the teeth with them. He brought out the Minor Treasure of Gracious Inheritor and took out nine Tangible Natures of Bloody Affection from it.
As for the nine Tangible Natures of Accel Ram that he had fused in his body, Brangara deactivated them and consumed them for energy. Now, the Tangible Natures of Bloody Affection had fused with his body, allowing him to control his blood.
"Phew!" He exhaled softly, feeling his blood circulation rate increase in cyclic frequencies until his output had increased significantly as compared to before. He then created an Unlimited Predator Satellite at one-third the previous duration.
He could also spike its digestion intensity by three times as Brangara stretched his body and prepared himself to go on the offensive. At a thought from him, the Unlimited Predator Satellites turned into chakrams and spun around him.
Following that, he inhaled a deep breath and amazed Prana into his mouth, waiting as he watched Unlimited Predator get breached by the fifth Astral Puncture, 'That's her fifth attack!'
He was keeping count, having already observed the supply pace of Prana from the Biome Bombs. Therefore, he will know the window when Barla had to recharge, 'The Transcendent Eater is probably reviving the Natures to fill up her Astral Chart. She has to keep all 100 active to unleash this. So, once she starts, she cannot waste time, for the longer she wastes, the less the number of times she could use it.'
An entire Empyrean Boar King body's worth of Prana was necessary to activate Astral Puncture. If Barla deactivates it for even a moment, all 100 Natures will vanish. Therefore, she had to steadily supply Prana into all 100 Natures.
The Biome Bomb's function was to exactly provide her with the Prana necessary for this. The excess amount will gradually funnel into her Spirit Containers. Ans based on Brangara's calculations, Barla could unleash Astral Puncture for the eleventh time before requiring a long charging time.
As he was prepared, Brangara ensured he dodged the fifth Astral Puncture, having only lost his legs in the process. But Barla's goal was to first open a hole in the Unlimited Predator. As she had used Astral Puncture to do, the hole wouldn't close up for the time being.
Brangara also has no other choice but to keep it active, for letting it go for even a moment would make him vulnerable. Hence, he had been prepared. And now that the hole appeared, he spat out a ball of mud that sealed the gap and solidified instantly.
Minor Treasure-Mud Ball!
Minor Treasure-Satellite!
Minor Treasure-Rocky Intimidation!
Minor Treasure-Prana Bomb!
The four were combined through Subtle Terrain Domination and used to patch up the hole, all to buy time for a second, as soon after, a golden drill penetrated through it and slammed into
Brangara. "Tch!"
The moment he grabbed it, his hand got shredded by the drill, forcing Brangara to assume his Celestial Boar form, using which he could grab the drill without much damage. He then employed Subtle Terrain Domination to melt the drill. However, an opposing force coursed through it and managed to maintain its structural integrity for a few more seconds.
Mystic Kinesis Art-Spirit Weapon Switch!
Mystic Kinesis Art could refine Spirit Weapons, which was employed to resist the effects of Subtle Terrain Domination. It was bound to be overpowered in a matter of seconds, but every second bought meant every second's worth of damage done to Brangara.
Whistling sounds resounded as sixty Spirit Weapons rushed inside and bombarded the Celestial Boar from all sides. They made minor gashes while some managed to penetrate a couple centimetres inside the flesh. None of these were threatening in the slightest.
But there were too many of them. They specifically targeted the eyes, ear canals, nostrils,
mouth, etc. every orifice of the Celestial Boar became a target. The rest grated across the Celestial Boar's skin, rendering its Prana detection means useless, since that relied on skin prickles.
The sole function of these Spirit Weapons was to hamper the senses of the Celestial Boar, which they managed for the time being. Some of the Spirit Weapons were melted into a sludge and thrown away, but that didn't matter, as many more took their place.
More and more Spirit Weapons continued to enter through the hole, blindsiding Brangara towards the actual attack.
Descending from the sky with imposing momentum was Boul Brimgan, roaring as he churned all his Prana into the 20-kilometre-long cone and rapidly approached the Unlimited Predator dome. Prana surged into his throat as he roared with all his might, "Barla!"
The cone rumbled as it flew towards the Unlimited Predator dome, targeted to move right
past Barla. And the moment it had approached the target, the Minor Treasure of Kinesis Beyblade exited from the back.
Right after, a figure leapt into position and aimed her attack through the space where the
Kinesis Beyblade used to be there.
State of Harmony-Astral Puncture!
The swirling drill entered the cone and absorbed its strength, experiencing a spike in power as
Barla was extremely focused. Blood dripped out of her orifices as she used her psychokinesis
to control Astral Puncture.
Thanks to the Biome Bombs, she had been aware of Brangara's positioning all along.
However, just to make him drop his guard, she had aimed her attacks slightly off the mark.
Them barely missing Brangara served to reinforce his opinion that he could divert Astral Puncture ever so slightly.
Barla had wasted five Astral Punctures just for that purpose, all in preparation for the real attack. Absorbing the power of Boul Brimgan's destructive cone, her Astral Puncture transformed into a thin drill barely ten centimetres wide.
It revolved at speeds hundreds of times greater than before, filled with destructive energy
meant to destroy Astral World. After all, when Barla launched it, she had aimed it at the edges of the hole. This way, Astral Puncture would absorb a small portion of Unlimited Predator without losing any strength, since she had already shattered the area with her previous
attacks.
Upon absorbing Unlimited Predator, Astral Puncture adapted to counter it. Right as Brangara
intended to dodge it, Barla grunted and caused it to faintly swerve. It wasn't much, but was enough to puncture through more than forty Unlimited Predator Satellites and accurately
slam into Brangara's stomach.
Kaboom!
It made contact with Astral World, ruptured through its defensive means and then...pierced it.