One month left for the fight between Inala and Shuwrak Zahara, the former stared at his left hand, which had now turned into a claw. "Good, this is exactly what I'm used to."
Now, he had fingers on both hands, allowing him to perform dextrous work. But that wasn't all. The moment he completed his left hand, Inala observed a warm feeling emerge from his heart and circulate through his body.
With a thought, his Billakin Hammer manifested in his hand, "I finally obtained it."
The Billakin Hammer could only be used by an adult Brully. Only upon reaching maturity do they gain the capability to create it. Until now, Inala relied on the Major Treasure of Weapon to shorten the process, since he was still a child Brully.
But having been at it for so long and even successfully changing the weapon shape of his hand, Inala was now able to use his Billakin Hammer on his own. After all, changing the shape of one's hand was something only Brully adults could do.
Since he did the same, it was as if he had become an adult too. Basically, using the Major Treasure of Weapon, Inala took a shortcut.
Otherwise, if he were to approach it in the traditional way, he wouldn't have even started the process by the time the Fourth Major Disaster began.
It did take out some of the fun to use shortcuts, but all Inala did was reduce the time, nothing else. The overall process was still a naturally-replicable one.
"Pretty..." Inala stared at his hands as they gathered Billakin and condensed them into a hammer each. He held them steady and slammed them into a bucket of ivory sand. The ivory sand had been collected from the Kalahatra Desert. The Wean Clan had a sizeable quantity and Inala had simply requested a portion of it.
Bam! Boom!
The two hammers rhythmically slammed into the bucket of ivory sand as Prana seeped out of them. The hammers imbued the ivory sand with the power of psychokinesis and clumped it together.
Every time the hammer impacted the sand, there was a faint flash at the point of contact due to the force and friction. Followed by the flash, the respective clump had fused into a singular whole.
Inala hammered the sand nonstop and turned it into solid blocks. He then piled them atop each other and began hammering repeatedly. There was no need for an anvil.
The Billakin Hammer created by his left hand had a hammer head in the shape of a cylinder, with a base circle radius of four metres and a height of two metres. This flat surface acted as the anvil while the shaft served as a handle to hold it steady.
The shape at the top turned mildly concave, too faint to notice through the naked eye. However, if water were to be poured on this flat surface, a small amount would gather at the centre, displaying the mild curvature.
This was only there for balance, to ensure the object being hammered didn't budge unnecessarily. From the left hand's Billakin Hammer, Prana poured into the ivory sand blocks with the power of psychokinesis, holding them in place.
The Billakin Hammer on the right was smaller as Inala raised it high and brought it down with a thunderous impact, flattening the pieces into a larger clump. He hit it three times, creating a flash in the fourth.
The flash was an emission of light, sound, and some heat that the force of the impact had generated. Blacksmiths on Earth commonly used this process to heat up an object and then use it to light up a furnace, displaying impressive skill.
A Brully's massive body and physical might only made it easier for Inala to achieve the same. With every hit of his on the levels of a hydraulic press, the ivory sand block got compressed steadily. The heat being generated by the impacts and the psychokinesis pouring into the object adjusted its molecular structure.
Inala continued to hammer until he found a hammering frequency that was perfect for the material, causing it to set in the same manner as how it existed naturally-as the tusk of an Empyrean Tusk.
Inala hammered nonstop and used the force behind the hammer to deform the solidified block. The properties of Billakin worked wonders to help seep the power of psychokinesis into the ivory block in the same manner as the psychokinesis produced by a Mammoth Clansman.
That was why the ivory block was listening to Inala's actions and changing its shape accordingly, 'A Mammoth Clansman could casually use Mystic Bone Art and change its shape. Any elite from the Clan could have been way faster than me.'
But he didn't care about that, for Inala was creating a Spirit Weapon of the Mammoth Clan as an outsider. Soon, the block turned cubical, with the top sporting a roof, which was created by his psychokinesis artistically drawing in the power behind his hammer hits and using it to mould the shape.
The tusk bone began to morph according to his will as Inala was able to shape it better and better. Soon, a portion of his Prana was absorbed into it and caused a small suction of the air for a second. The moment the air was sucked in, he smiled, "It's done."
Mammoth Clan Spirit Weapon-Storage Lantern!
He didn't create a simple bone, which didn't have much properties, but the best Spirit Weapon a Mammoth Clan could create and use the Storage Lantern.
"The Mammoth Clan can modify these Storage Lanterns in such a way that even non- Mammoth Clansmen could use them." Inala thought as he observed his Storage Lantern and seeped his Prana inside it, finding that he couldn't use it as his Spirit Weapon.
He was cultivating Mystic Sumatra Art, after all. He pondered for a few minutes, took out his Billakin Hammer, and began to hammer the Storage Lantern once again, 'Can't believe I missed out on such a simple fact.'
The ivory sand was created by Grehha. If Grehha had condensed tusk bone powder directly from his Primary Nature of Spirit Bone, then there would have been no issues in creating a Storage Lantern out of it.
However, the ivory sand was originally sand that had been transformed by Grehha. So, it couldn't display the properties that the tusk of an Empyrean Tusk possessed, 'Those tusks naturally have such a property, which is why the Storage Lanterns produced from them can be used by everyone universally.'
His hammer hits destroyed the Storage Lantern and turned it into a mush. Inala continued to hit repeatedly until it was reduced to powder form. But, he didn't stop there and poured his Prana into it, cranking his psychokinesis to the limit as he hammered nonstop.
After three days of nonstop hammering, a transparent substance appeared within the ivory
powder. Whenever it appeared, Inala used the process of winnowing to separate the two. They had a considerable weight difference, so it was easy to separate the two substances through
winnowing.
Soon, the transparent substance no longer appeared, "Good, now the remainder is pure tusk bone powder."
Inala began to hammer the tusk bone powder and created a Storage Lantern in less than eight hours, seeping his Prana inside to see it shrink in size, similar to all Storage Lanterns. "Goos, I have successfully created a one-storey Storage Lantern."
"Next, to forge it higher." Inala took another batch of ivory sand and spent the next three days separating tusk bone powder from it. Then, he started to forge a two-storey Storage Lantern. A month later, he was able to finish a ten-storey Storage Lantern.
"It's a success!" Inala muttered in excitement. Having forged a Storage Lantern all the way to its peak at ten storeys, Inala had a complete understanding of its structure, makeup, and the functions of tusk bone powder that resulted in the Storage Lantern's properties.
The moment he reached this point, Inala picked up his Billakin Hammer and began to
pummel his left hand, using the frequency of Prana and psychokinesis that interacted with tusk bone powder and seeped it into his arm.
While he hammered, he sprinkled tusk bone powder on his left hand and used the hammering
to infuse the powder into the hand.
The process would take decades for a Brully. But Inala had the most experience in using Mystic Bone Art. He also had an abundance of Mammoth Clansman data to assist in the process. Moreover, unlike the Brully race of the past, Inala had an absolute cheat in the name
of Mystic Sumatra Art.
By now, he was already maintaining it passively. Therefore, he already had a perfect blueprint
to morph his left hand into a Storage Lantern. His Prana and blood interacted with each other better, allowing the tusk bone powder to circulate through the blood with minimal resistance, treated as the body's nutrients and then accumulated within the left hand.
Slowly, Inala was modifying his body's logic as both his Prana and blood were influencing each other, imposing their will upon the other party.
Complete knowledge of the method to reshape a Brully's hand, Mystic Sumatra Art to make
the process systematic and assist in recognising the foreign mineral as a building block of the body and then accumulating it in the respective body part, deep understanding of Mystic Bone Art and Mammoth Clansman, and finally, the means to turn tusk bone powder into a Storage Lantern using his Billakin Hammer.
Moreover, wherever he made a mistake, Inala didn't have to worry. After all, using the Major Treasure of Weapon, Inala already had the perfect, finished product in his possession. He simply had to observe its functions and follow whatever the Major Treasure of Weapon did.
Adding everything, the result was a staggering feat, where a Brully managed to change its hands into another Race's Spirit Weapon in a mere eight days.
Eight Days!
That was how long it took Inala to turn his left hand into a one-storey Storage Lantern, "This
is just the start."
'Currently, I have a concrete understanding of the Mammoth Clan, Cooter Clan, Quip Clan, and the Wean Clan. Now, I just need to play to my advantage.' Inala chuckled and severed his left hand, watching another Storage Lantern regrow in its place, "It's done!"