I'll Surpass The MC-Chapter 1067: Brully Revival (Part 4)
What did an adult Brully do primitively upon reaching maturity? They engaged in endless fights, obviously. However, if they felt the weapon arms they were naturally born with weren’t optimal to their tastes, they would change them.
At maturity, a Brully could extract the Billakin forming their hearts and gather it as a Spirit Weapon. Since they had three hearts, they took time extracting little from each of them. After extraction, Billakin will begin to accumulate in the first heart, until it is back at full capacity.
In this time period, the remaining two hearts would share the burden of upkeeping the body’s functions. Little by little, Billakin would be extracted from the three hearts, one after another, until a suitable amount had been gathered.
Once enough had been gathered, the Billakin would be turned into a Spirit Weapon. This process too took time, since the Brully would have to use its psychokinesis to process the extracted Billakin and clump it up into a Spirit Weapon.
Pranic Beasts didn’t require a cultivation technique. They naturally had everything a cultivation technique could imbue. Therefore, by investing some time, the Brully turned the Billakin into a Spirit Weapon, which naturally conformed to a hammer.
Depending on its taste, the shape of the hammer would vary. But universally, every Brully resorted to using a hammer, including Inala.
After the hammer is created, the Brully would begin hammering its hands in an effort to mould its shape, little by little, over time, allowing for its Prana to adapt to the changes and not resist it too much.
It required a lot of trial and error, since if the changes were too much, the Prana would begin reverting it back to original. So, it had to be done gradually, until the shape is fully changed. This process took anywhere from decades to even a century.
Typically, a Brully didn’t add a mineral to its hands, for that was distracting. One of the few instances when it felt the need to add a mineral was in preparation to face an Empyrean Whisker.
Ignoring the mineral part, it was within a Brully’s capability to use its Billakin hammer to hammer away at its arms and change its structure over time. And that formed the basis of Inala’s hypothesis, ’Can’t that be extended to the entire body?’
A Brully had three sets of internal organs. Therefore, it could endure the severe strain the body is subjected to during the entire process. Even if a heart attack happens, only one heart gets compromised.
Thanks to the Nature of Cyclic Recovery, the second heart would naturally take over the function of upkeeping the body. By the time the second and third hearts tire out, the first would have already finished its recovery.
’A Nature has to be created in line with the respective Race’s train of thought and something that is a significant part of its life.’ Inala thought, ’Since a Brully naturally spends a significant part of its lifespan modifying its hands, it is only natural to have a Nature related to this.’
Any state of existence, taken to the extreme, and capable of interacting with Prana, becomes a Nature.
Inala’s method would consist of a Brully modifying its body from being a Brully to becoming a human. The sheer strain was immense. And the necessary time would easily surpass a century.
Moreover, even at the end of this process, a Nature wouldn’t appear. After all, even when a Brully turns its arms into a mineral Spirit Weapon, it doesn’t obtain the Nature of Weapon Hands.
To get it, Inala had to repeatedly change its mineral makeup and adapt to the process. Eventually, once his hands kept changing into different Spirit Weapons and adapted to the capability of change, the Nature was born.
Similarly, a Brully needs to become a human, and then revert to its original form. This process has to be looped endlessly without mistakes, until the body adapts to the ability to modify itself, and births a Nature.
In both situations, unless everything was done perfectly, failure was all that was present at the end. And even in the chance of success, the Brully might have spent more than a millennium. That was how long the process demanded.
Had it been in the past, no one would have bothered to attempt it. Of course, if a Brully had been obsessive enough, it could still reach that point.
However, during the Brully Invasion, there wasn’t an enemy strong enough to excite the Brully in preparing for a millennium.
The only powerful existence was the Mystic Empyrean Tentacle, which was considered a natural disaster. No amount of preparation seemed enough, so a Brully group would charge head on against a Mystic Empyrean Tentacle and meet a glorious end.
Had there been Empyrean Tusks and Empyrean Snappers during the Brully Invasion, the Brully Race would have very well figured out the means to obtain Weapon Hands.
Things were different in this era, especially due to the creation of Mystic Sumatra Art. "And that’s enough."
It greatly shortened the necessary time, thanks to its imprinting capabilities, ’It didn’t seem impressive enough at the start.’
After all, whatever Mystic Sumatra Art could achieve was a fraction of what Mystic Bone Art did. And this was a Mystic Bone Art before the First Major Disaster.
Currently, with all the development it had experienced, Mystic Bone Art was in a league of its own, being the most developed Mystic Grade cultivation technique.
"However, the true value of Mystic Sumatra Art is displayed in the hands of a Pranic Beast." Inala felt it strongly now. Mystic Sumatra Art was the key using which a Pranic Beast could attain its Secondary and Tertiary Nature.
It was easier said than done. However, a path existed in this cultivation technique.
For both the Natures of Weapon Hands and Cultivator, all a Brully needed was a Billakin Hammer. ’Of course, the conditions are different for a Cultivator.’
At maturity, a Brully spanned a height of 80 metres. Inala would be at 100 metres due to shifting to the Body path. A Mind path Brully reached 80 metres at maturity.
A human, even the largest of their kind, reached two metres. Ruvva and Gannala were slightly taller, but that was because of their Empyrean Tusk genetics.
To shrink from a height of 80 metres to 2 metres would require a complete restructuring of the body, including the internal organs. Even a madman would feel lacking in spirit to undergo this process.
It didn’t seem possible to shed so much mass without going insane. And then, from a human form to a Brully, they would have to build themselves up while constantly eating. That was another round of torture.
Inala didn’t think it was possible to realistically achieve such a thing. Therefore, the same rules to gain the Nature of Cultivator apply here too, ’The younger they are, the easier it is.’
A baby Brully had a small body, which didn’t require much shedding to be turned into a human. "In essence, an adult, experienced Brully would have to perform this process on a newborn Brully. That is the only way to obtain the Nature of Cultivator."
While he was deep in thought, Inala was using a Billakin Hammer to pummel his body and relying on his exceptional Brully senses to understand his physique better.
Moreover, to understand it at a fundamental level, he had some assistance.
"Here it is." The golden humanoid number two arrived with a Brully egg and placed it before Inala, "Use this."
Inala didn’t reveal any information about what he was about to do next. Only that he needed to sacrifice a Brully egg for his comprehension.
"Thank you." Inala approached the Brully egg and patted it gently, activating a Skill, "I apologise, little one."
Mystic Sumatra Art—Empyrean Extraction!
A sphere of blood seeped out of the egg, imprinted with all the data of the Brully’s. As the sphere hovered over his palm, his Prana surged into it to access the information.
Mystic Sumatra Art—Mind Slip!
Without any strain to his brain, Inala accessed all the data contained in the blood sphere at a comfortable pace. Slowly, the blood lost its properties and began to coagulate, in parts where he had already accessed the information.
By the time he was done, the blood had turned into a murky blob, with no information whatever within it. Using the Mind Slip Skill, Inala had absorbed every piece of information from it.
The same Skills, when used with Mystic Bone Art, could be lopped over, since the skull would be retained intact.
However, in Mystic Sumatra Art’s case, it can only be used by one person, ’Well, it is enough, I guess. I can just store all this data in an Information Slip to pass on to others, when necessary.’
The Information Slip would be huge to contain so much data, but size wasn’t an issue. He could store it in a Billakin Information Slip. Even if he were to store it in another mineral, it didn’t matter.
Mystic Sumatra Art—Glove Slip!
The existence of this Skill made information exchange between various Pranic Beast Races easy.
"I see," Inala uttered as he began to understand the information, all while pummelling his body with the Billakin Hammer. Slowly, blood leaked out of his body, followed by pieces of flesh.
A sludge containing the powdered form of his bone followed next. Soon, there were also cellular parts of his organs, extracted little by little, while ensuring the respective organs maintained their form and function.
They were only shrinking in size, little by little. While performing the process, Inala kept using Mystic Sumatra Art to imprint the changes into both his Prana and blood, ensuring his body didn’t try to revert to its original state.
RAHHHH!
A few days later, Inala was screaming akin to a madman, for his neural network was in a mess, thanks to a mistake. A few hours of rampaging later, he calmed down, having reverted from the latest batch of changes.
"Phew," He looked around and saw craters covering the stadium, "Thank goodness I started it here. It doesn’t matter even if I rampage to my heart’s content in this place."
Within a month, Inala’s size had reduced to five metres. The process had slowed down a lot at this level, since the strain was beginning to accumulate more and more in his body, requiring longer intervals of rest.
However, even though Inala was gasping for breath, his eyes shone with excitement. "Ke...hehehe!"
He raised his hand and a Billakin Armour covered it, covered by an intricate mechanism, full of moving parts. Like how when the keys of a typewriter were pressed, the respective pins hit the paper and imprinted ink on the latter, the armour was covered with such pins.
When actuated using psychokinesis, the pin hit his arm and injected Prana with the effects of Billakin into the respective part of the body. There was a tiny syringe at the end of each pin, meant to suck a pin-drop size of the body.
Clatak! Clatak!
Typing sounds resounded as the armour began to work on his arm, steadily reducing its size. Similarly, another armour covered his leg and began to do the same. One after another, the rest of his body was covered by it.
He felt his head spin when it was getting shrunk. But with small intervals of rest, he could begin the process again, as steadily, Inala watching in real time as his body was getting shrunk.
’It’s like an industrial line.’ He grinned, having condensed his experiences to create two Skills exclusive for the Brully Race, which allowed them to shrink from a Brully form, all the way down to a Human form.
Mystic Sumatra Art—Billakin Shrink!
Mystic Sumatra Art—Brully Human Blueprint!
