Sumatra's Greatest Fan-Chapter 79: Mystic Plan Of Doom

Intermediate Iron Grade Pranic Beast–Ewworm!

With a Prana capacity of 308 and a lifespan of 60 years, the Ewworm was a Pranic Beast despised by Free Human societies. In essence, it was by far the most harmless Pranic Beasts on Sumatra and actually shared symbiotic relations with the entity it was involved with.

Primary Nature–Rectum Merger!

Ewworms lived hidden in the dirt, mostly in hibernation throughout their lives. When they detect a living being, they spring out of the ground in a flash and drill into the anus of the target and fuse with the rectum.

Once they do so, they will live as the rectum and consume all the body waste secreted by the respective living being. By consuming the waste, they will grow in strength and actually strive to protect their host.

Growing at the end of an Ewworm’s tail was an item, created by condensing the mineral the Ewworm consumes first. This was a tool, treated as a mineral Spirit Weapon, exactly like the ones used by Free Humans.

The tool’s mineral was dependent on what the Ewworm consumes on a daily basis through the body’s waste. If enough mineral content reaches it, the Ewworm will keep increasing the size of the tool, using which it would defend its host or work according to the host’s needs.

Socially, in Free Human societies, Ewworms were despised the highest. It was because they considered an Ewworm made its host weaker over time, even though the Ewworm never exhibited such traits.

Ewworms were primarily found in a region called Guna Caves, which bordered the Dralh Sea. From time to time, they entered the Dralh Sea and remained buried on the various lands covering the region.

When the Cooter Clan controlled the Dralh Sea, they treated all Free Humans as slaves. And these slaves were made to mine nonstop using the Ewworms living in their respective rectums.

’It seems things haven’t changed much other than the fact the Free Humans are living better lives now.’ Torq thought as he eyed the closest tail peeking out of the rear of a Free Human walking into a tunnel.

Boiboi followed suit after Runthral’s birth. It was like he had attached himself to Runthral and was stealing the other party’s strength. That’s why he was named Boiboi, which in the Cooter Clan’s language conveyed–Why was this Ewworm born?

Torq spread his pollen throughout the mine and felt it interact with something for an instant, ’So, they were here.’

In one corner of the mine, amidst the living quarters of the Free Humans, was a saucer. It was nothing special, no different from the rest of the saucers in the place. When Torq’s pollen gathered around it, the saucer absorbed a portion of the pollen, thinking the pollen belonged to it.

It was a Nirclick.

Even though it hadn’t released any pollen into the surroundings, its means of food and sensing its surroundings was done through the pollen. All Torq did was suppress his presence in the pollen he had released, making the pollen seem neutral, which fooled the Nirclick into thinking the pollen might be its.

However, the pollen released by it would have its presence. Realising its mistake, it promptly stopped its attempts to absorb the ambient pollen. It had only gotten confused when it sensed pollen touching its body, which shouldn’t have appeared at the location in the first place.

It had only tried to absorb the pollen for a fraction of a second and quickly stopped its attempts. However, that alone made a mild reaction in the cloud of pollen released by Torq, through which he determined the Nirclick’s location.

A branch rolled across the floor around the corner, moving when unnoticed by the Free Humans at the mine. Slowly, it entered one of the houses after morphing its shape into a rope and crawled through a gap.

The rope climbed over a table and wound around the saucer like a python strangling its prey. There was resistance displayed for a couple seconds, before which the saucer was crushed into a ball.

The rope fully covered it and then morphed its shape to turn into a saucer, forcefully compressing the Nirclick’s body within.

A few minutes later, the saucer reverted into a rope and crawled out, then changed into a branch and rolled towards the flight of stairs.

Using Mystic Mist Art, Torq had steadily extracted all the blood from the Nirclick and processed through the mind aspect of the Prana carried by the blood. Through it, he gathered the necessary information about the Nirclick’s purpose for existence.

’It’s a scout.’ He concluded, ’It’s here to observe and relay the information to the outside world in regular intervals.’

There was a natural phenomenon that occurred at the Dralh Sea where a large group of living beings convened together for survival. That was the Death Hour.

And in that one hour, the Nirclick will relay information to others of its kind, ’They’re only keeping an eye on this place.’

He quickly understood their goal, ’That’s how they intend to take advantage of the Mystic Humans, huh?’

The Mystic Humans underwent a special ceremony before beginning their journey as a Mystic Human officially. Only post this ceremony did their resistance to external influence take full effect.

Prior to this, they had the capabilities of a Mystic Human but not the resistance of one. ’That’s it!’

When a Free Human continues to cultivate using Mystic Nature Art and purify themselves within a year, they will become a Mystic Human.

Primary Nature–Astral Weaponiser!

Astral Weaponiser allowed a Mystic Human to gain the physique of two Pranic Beasts of their choice. Their resultant Grade of existence, Prana quality, Prana capacity, was all decided based on this choice.

This choice, was a ceremony. And once a Mystic Human completes their choice and consumes the two Pranic Beasts, they’ll obtain the respective bodies, at which point their resistance to external influence takes full effect.

A Mystic Human was stationed to protect and monitor every Free Human settlement in the Dralh Sea, because if a Free Human were to succeed, the Mystic Human’s task is to prioritise the transfer of the newly born Mystic Human to the headquarters where the latter could undergo the ceremony.

’I need to figure out which island has gotten compromised.’ Torq thought in a hurry and seeped his pollen into the bodies of the Free Humans standing guard at the bottom of the stairs. He influenced them to look away for a few seconds, during which he turned into the spokes of a wheel and rolled up the stairs.

Once he moved up through the zigzags of the stairs, out of sight, he used psychokinesis to retract the pollen infused into the bodies of the Free Humans. In this fashion, he continued to move up and stopped only upon noticing the Mystic Human. ’Do I make contact?’

’No,’ He changed his mind after a second’s worth of consideration, ’He’s just a brat that doesn’t know much yet. I can’t risk information about my actions being leaked to the Nirclicks.’

Torq morphed his form, taking on the same texture and appearance as the floor of the stairs. He turned into a slab that perfectly layered over a step. It flipped, shrinking its width in the process to paste itself upon the vertical part of the step.

And then, it flipped to land on the flat part, expanding its form to match the dimensions of the step. This way, Torq kept dipping his form to move up the stairs, ensuring to not make any sounds to the best of his capabilities.

Closer to the Mystic Human, he had latched onto the ceiling, stretching his body as thinly as possible to form a sheet, which stretched for a wide distance, almost impossible to notice unless one was inspecting the ceiling from close, under a strong light source.

Stretching for close to forty metres, the sheet expanded on the front and shrunk towards the rear, like a leech, and moved past the unaware Mystic Human. Soon, it reached the underground Settlement’s entrance, ’There must be a Narlakk here!’

The Narlakk that had taken control of the fat deposits in all the Pranic Beasts. The Nirclicks infiltrated the Settlements and hid there, scouting for information.

And during the Death Hour, they relayed information about the progress of the Free Humans–towards becoming a Mystic Human–to the Narlakk. This Narlakk communicated with more of its kind to prepare and intercept any newly born Mystic Human.

’As long as I capture that Narlakk, I’ll be able to extract information about where they’ve kidnapped and kept the newly born Mystic Humans.’ Resembling a branch, Torq rolled into narrow gaps on the ground between Pranic Beast bodies and spread his pollen.

’Not here!’ The pollen within the Pranic Beast bodies only passively tussled for control against his pollen, ’Not here either!’

The branch kept moving about on the island, inspecting every spot within Torq’s Spirit Weapon range. Once he had covered an area, he quickly moved towards another area, ’There’s not much time left for the Death Hour to end.’

’I need to find the culprit before that.’ With the aid of Mystic Mist Art, he created a gentle breeze that dispersed the pollen beyond his Spirit Weapon range and only kept moving quickly to detect any reaction in his range.

’There!’ Right as the Death Hour was about to end, Torq mentally roared upon noticing a faint stirrup from a rock on the shore. Promptly after the stirrup, the rock rolled into the Dralh Sea, as if stunned from being probed by an unexpected existence, ’You’re not escaping!’ 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝒆𝔀𝒆𝙗𝓷𝒐𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝓶

Torq began his chase!