Chapter 875: There’s A Breach!
Primary Nature—Bone-Melting Artillery!
The Millingers launched their artillery strike at the horde of approaching Forest Boars, resulting in a cacophony of sizzling explosions. Flesh corroded while body parts splotched on the ivory sands. But the speed of the Forest Boars remained unaffected.
One of them kneeled on the ground, clutching the stump of its left arm, watching the severed portion melting into a puddle on the ground. A spike had pierced into the severed arm. The ivory sand too was melting under the influence of the spike.
The Forest Boar grabbed the spike, ignored its melting palms, and stuffed it into its mouth. Crunching sounds resounded as smoke billowed out of its mouth. Patches of its throat skin fell off, revealing holes behind as a portion of the food pipe melted.
However, once the substance reached its stomach, the digestive juices acted upon it and turned it into fuel. Immediately in response, the rate at which its body was being corroded slowed down by a portion.
The Forest Boar then scooped the melted puddle before it and consumed it too, coughing dryly in response as its teeth turned into a molten sludge. It wheezed in pain as its windpipe got blocked, suffocating it.
The Forest Boar rolled on the ground in pain as its Gold Grade Prana sought to heal it. Slowly, it got up and sat upright, feeling a lot better now as it felt around its intact throat and buccal cavity. It then noticed another spike nearby and grabbed it, watching its palm corrode in response.
But strangely, the speed of corrosion was a lot inferior now. The potency seemed to have reduced, not because the spike used up the Prana within it, but the Forest Boar was just less affected by it now.
Beginner Gold Grade Pranic Beast-Forest Boar!
With a Prana capacity of 4200 and a lifespan of 1006 years, it was a decently powerful Gold Grade Pranic Beast. However, its intelligence was severely impacted by its unquenchable hunger, prompting it to recklessly charge at any and every food source in its vicinity that didn't have the same genetic material as itself.
Primary Nature-Voracious Subtlety!
Voracious Subtlety allowed the Forest Boar to consume any product of a Nature and gain resistance to it. It also extended to the source of the Nature too.
Thereby, once the Forest Boar consumed the Millinger's Bone-Melting Artillery, it gained some resistance to the latter's corrosiveness. The more it consumes the artillery, the higher its resistance gets until it can casually tank an artillery strike on the face from closeup and shrug it off.
This was limited to one Nature, and the gained resistance gets gradually flushed out of the body by the Forest Boar's Prana once it deactivates the Nature. When the Forest Boar consumes the product of some creature's Nature, its hunger would cause it to hunt the same creature as much as possible.
This was similar to the Empyrean Boar King's obsessive hunger towards Empyrean Tusks when it had twenty-plus Natures of Internal Inertial Gravity in its Astral World.
After consuming a few spikes and healing from the damage dealt by the corrosive power in the Bone-Melting Artillery, the Forest Boar wiped the blood covering its throat and grinned, staring at the Millinger on the Kalahatra Border. "That...Prey!"
It plunged its hand into its stomach and ripped out the organ, waiting in patience for a couple dozen seconds until it healed completely. Following that, it began to rush towards the wall, wielding its stomach as a Spirit Weapon.
The stomach was filled with the power of Voracious Subtlety. As it tanked the spikes from the Millinger's artillery strike, it consumed and continued to gain higher resistance. Soon, the spikes were doing less damage than the Forest Boar's recovery means through Prana.n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om
Upon reaching this point, it needn't worry about anything and straight up charged towards the wall and threw its stomach towards the top.
The wall stood at a height of two kilometres, a height not possible for the Forest Boar to scale up. However, if it was just to launch its stomach-Spirit Weapon-using psychokinesis, that was barely possible.
As the stomach scaled up the wall, it exploded, raining stomach juices atop the Millingers who screamed in pain as these juices were geared to digest their bodies, treating them as prey.
However, after the first volley of stomachs exploded, the Millingers adapted to the attacks and didn't use their artillery strike. Instead, they waited until the stomachs were hurled to the top. And exactly a moment before the Forest Boars were about to detonate the stomachs, the Millingers took action.
Secondary Nature-Inhibition Dome!
All Prana activity within the Millinger's Spirit Weapon range was inhibited. This also included the stream of Prana controlling the Forest Boar stomachs through psychokinesis. With the stream cut off, the stomachs couldn't be detonated, since they lost contact with their source.
The centipede upper bodies of the Millingers twirled around, gracefully caught the stomachs and then threw them towards the ground. Immediately after, each of the Millingers grew their mandibles, infusing as much of their power of psychokinesis in them as possible and launched them towards the stomachs.
The stomachs had only gained resistance to the corrosive power behind Bone-Melting Artillery and not the momentum behind the artillery strike itself. A single confrontation was enough for the Millingers to grasp the entire situation.
Instead of dispersing the power of their psychokinesis through a hail of spikes, they
concentrated it upon the mandibles and shot them at the stomachs. Upon contact, the mandibles clamped shut, severing the stomachs into two and rained the stomach juices on the
Forest Boars.
The acidic stomach juices caused the skin of the Forest Boars to melt when they were bombarded with an artillery strike. This time, the spikes didn't have any corrosive power. Instead, they were just the spikes growing on the centipede upper body of the Millingers, filled with the power of psychokinesis.
Snort! Aiee!
The Forest Boars wailed one after another as they were shredded apart, turned into a sieve in a
matter of seconds.
A group of Zinger Aristocrats were stationed next to them, in charge of trading with them. Their mouths were agape, dumbfounded at the sheer might expressed by the Millingers, 'S-
Strong!'
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