Chapter 200 Turning Sisters into Enemies (Part 1)
During the three months that the mating season would last, the only work of the female Centingers was to collate the points accumulated by all the male Centingers. But that didn't mean they wouldn't explore the immediate vicinity of their location when intrigued.
The Rooster Tribe settlement was located close to the Angan River. Hence, the two female Centingers that had camped there sensed the Rockatrice's presence and approached the region. They were feeling mildly bored and hence intended to use a strong opponent like the Rockatrice as a target practice.
A casual artillery strike later, all the Slump Lizards within the settlement were killed. The two female Centingers soon made their way to the lake and stared at the floating corpse of the Rockatrice. Its blood had leaked into the lake and polluted it, giving it a pungent stench.
The two female Centingers looked around and spread their Prana around, failing to detect anything worth noticing. They did detect an egg deep inside a cave, but it was beyond their reach. Moreover, nothing worth their attention was registered from the egg. It hadn't even hatched after all.
Followed by a swat of one of their centipede upper bodies, the boulder blocking the cave's entrance was sent flying. But the entrance was too narrow, preventing the Centinger's centipede upper body from entering it.
Since the egg was beyond its reach, the Centinger stopped trying to target it. It then looked around and noticed the vantage point given by the hill range, allowing it to survey the entire region more easily.
With an altitude of six hundred metres on flat lands, it was enough for the female Centinger to even make out Ellora City's shadow far away.
The two female Centingers discussed among themselves and decided to camp in this region. At least, they could keep watch on some of the battles from this place, instead of the bottom of the Angan River.
A few minutes later, the two female Centingers retracted their Prana, casually lying around the lake as they played with the Rockatrice's corpse.
The moment they retracted their Prana, Inala sighed in relief. When they tried to detect using their Prana, the Prana Bomb was able to absorb faint traces of the Prana they had released.
Through it, Inala knew that they were keeping their detection means activated. And the moment his Prana Bomb stopped absorbing Prana implied they had stopped using their detection means.
He stealthily shattered the Prana Bomb and took in long breaths, feeling almost suffocated before. If he hadn't bent space within his lungs and inhaled a large amount of air, it would have been impossible to remain confined for extended durations.
'Do I attack them or not?' He wondered, hesitant. Had there been just one Centinger, he could have made plans accordingly. But facing two of them would be a death sentence.
The moment a single of their artilleries strikes him, his defences would come undone and he'll be incapacitated. He wouldn't be able to recover fast enough before more strikes from the Bone-Melting Artillery impact him.
Death was guaranteed in such a situation. But upon noticing that the two female Centingers intended to remain next to the lake, Inala had no other choice but to face them.
Otherwise, he would be trapped in his current location until the mating season ends. And if his location were to be revealed, the two female Centingers would attack him. Currently, they hadn't targeted the egg—the Prana Bomb he hid within—only because it didn't pique their interest.
But once they sense his existence, they would unleash an artillery strike on the settlement walls and bring it down in a matter of minutes. They had such fearsome firepower. n-/Ovelb1n
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