Chapter 399: All-Out Clash (1/2)

”Again!” Jyorta shouted, using his aura personification of hallucination at maximum capacity. The Wave Controller Lava Turtle unleashed its aura in a torrent, amplifying it using its psychic energy, continuously breaking out of his hallucinations.

It then launched flame attacks of all shapes and forms at him. The Bundle Flea protected him against the attacks while continuously regrowing its hair. One of his Soul Cornea poured energy into its soul while the other siphoned energy from the River Whale's soul.

The replenishment was unable to keep up with the expenditure as Jyorta found himself getting steadily cornered. He was using his Regen to recover his aura while maintaining the aura personification of hallucination.

From the start of the exchange, both the parties hadn't moved even once. For, they both were held back because of their comrades and requirements. To prevent Jyorta's attacks from affecting the other Lava Turtles, the Wave Controller Lava Turtle focused his attacks on itself.

And, to prevent the Wave Controller Lava Turtle from attacking the River Whale, Jyorta had to face all its attacks head-on. They both tied up each other using the other's weaknesses. This way, both the parties remained unmoving and attacked each other.

Aura Induction!

Jyorta used his trump card, slowly inducing the effect of the hallucination into the Wave Controller Lava Turtle. His first hallucination was instantly broken by the Lava Turtle. But, after using Aura Induction, as he steadily induced a tattoo in it, the duration it existed under the effects of his hallucination steadily increased.

Aura Personification—Insignificance!

Jyorta felt some mental strain as he activated a second aura personification, aiming it at the Wave Controller Lava Turtle. The Wave Controller Lava Turtle gazed at the figure of Jyorta, watching it steadily increase in size.

It swiftly infused a psychic arm into its body, unleashing a wave of psychic energy that acted on its muscles, changing the secretion of hormones, actuating a minor change in its nervous response. It controlled its mental state by actuating its body's response index, exhibiting a feeling of superiority.

This feeling of superiority clashed with the insignificance Jyorta inflicted upon it, suppressing and destroying one another. When Jyorta increased the output, it retaliated similarly by using a greater quantity of psychic energy.

'Dammit! This is why Espers from Tier 3 onwards are troublesome.' Jyorta mentally cursed. Using their psychic arms, Espers were able to affect the emotions and mental states of themselves and others. To them, it was an easy feat.

They were able to achieve this from Tier 3, with the effect becoming pronounced in potency as the Tiers increased. A Ground Controller was able to make the manipulated emotions and mental state seem perfectly natural. Such was the reason they were hard to defeat.

Warrior Skills such as Mental Calm and Mental Frenzy acted on the body and affected the mind. For Espers from Tier 3 onwards, they could similarly affect the related glands and secrete hormones to counter the effects of the Tier 3 Skills. And, considering their superior brainpower, they could manipulate the emotions more intricately and overwhelm the Skills.

So, the only way to win against Espers was to brute force through their psychic arms and destroy them until they run out of psychic energy, finally dealing the finishing blow. This was the only way to kill them. Now that he was against a Wave Controller, Jyorta felt it was all the more true.

His aura personifications were getting countered as swiftly as he unleashed them. Moreover, as time passed, the Wave Controller Lava Turtle compiled data against the intricacies of his aura personifications, developing the formula to instantly negate them.

Upon the third try, his aura personification of betrayal and insignificance were rendered useless. As the aura personification of hallucination was limitless and could be varied into any form, it was unable to be countered. Jyorta continuously changed it, preventing the Wave Controller Lava Turtle from devising a countermeasure.

'I hope this works.' Jyorta muttered, using his Soul Cornea to send numerous memory fragments to the River Whale's brain, forcefully making it conscious. Based on his inputs, the River Whale pretended to be asleep while gathering water under it, to retaliate upon a moment's notice.

'I can only hope the remaining 70% of my aura is effective.' Jyorta muttered, using a psychic arm to fish out the Tier 3 Relic, Dynamic Brethren Bait from the cuboidal bag. Even after the two psychic arms healed him, his aura expenditure surpassed them.

Now that he used a psychic arm to control the Tier 3 Relic, his aura replenishment rate fell by almost 40 percent. It was because he had used his weaker psychic arm to control the Relic. If he had used his stronger psychic arm, the replenishment rate would have decreased by 60 percent.

Jyorta focused, tolerating the intense headache as he converged all the aura in his body towards the palm on his right, condensing it into a spot while compressing it to the limit.

While he was preparing his strongest attack, the Wave Controller Lava Turtle too was doing the same. The Hunter Clams on its back stirred up, using their jelly-like tentacles to form a protective cover on the Lava Turtle, with some using their shells as shields.