Sumatra's Greatest Fan-Chapter 138: The Power Of Twins

"What?"

"What happened?"

"Who was that?" The water serpents prowling about around the Trailing Waves Battleship expressed surprise to see a row of Stitched Humans explode suddenly.

They were unable to see clearly, only noticing a cone of densely packed mist shielded by a layer of ivory barge into the ship through one of the holes on its hull.

[An enemy?]

[Since it mowed down the Stitched Humans, it probably is an ally.]

[Those nearby, keep a watch of the location.]

A thin mist had covered the region, with distinct currents circulating among them. Each current was an Information Slip, its contents dispersed across the mist. The goal was to spread the contents as radially as possible, so any water serpent could access the contents.

From time to time, when they had a semblance of safety, a Cooter Clansman would revert to human form while protected by their water vortex to consume the mist and access the information. They will promptly assume their Spirit Weapon forms to avoid being affected by the influence spread by the Stitched Humans.

In their Spirit Weapons, they were able to concentrate their power better, which also meant mounting stronger, more potent resistance against the Stitched Humans’ influence.

Thud!

While the water serpents maintained their communications across the battlefield in real-time, saving for delays that were inevitable due to the flow of mist getting interrupted constantly by enemy attacks, ignoring everything to rush through the Battleship’s cabin was the vapour cone.

It quickly reached a secluded cabin where Torq had hidden his submarine. It hadn’t been compromised, and its surroundings were fine too. After all, the entire cabin room was filled with ivory mist.

"Let’s head inside." Torq opened a pathway that brought the duo to the submarine. He opened the hatch, which worked with the same principles behind the doors used in the Cooter Clan’s Academy dorms.

"It will be a bit cramped." He spoke, only to see Eureur Pet roll her eyes in response and rush inside.

"Let us stay here for as long as possible." She spoke, "Even the Centinger won’t have an easy time breaching our defences. And to rush this far, it’ll need to destroy a series of walls and the hull to make a path large enough for its massive body to mass through."

"Hmm," Torq focused on himself to calm down from his alert state and closed his eyes to focus on the information that appeared in his mind space in conjunction with his newly obtained abilities.

Primary Nature–Voracious Spirit Dominance!

The moment it appeared, it had consumed and replaced his Primary Nature of Inertial Waves Dominance. Torq hadn’t lost the Spirit Pool, only that it had been moved elsewhere.

As he focused on information pertaining to the Primary Nature, he understood how it worked, ’So, I only have to consume a Cooter Clansman’s Spirit Weapon and I’ll be able to accumulate the respective Spirit Pool?’

There was one, fundamental difference between Cooter Clansmen and Free Humans, even though both relied on the power of minerals. Other than the fluid and solid uses of the respective sides, the prime difference was what made the Cooter Clan a regional force.

When a Free Human created a Spirit Weapon, the matter forming the Spirit Weapon was sourced from their Human Avatar. Therefore, they had hard limitations on how large a Spirit Weapon they could create.

That is why, they will typically engineer their Spirit Weapons to be as hollow as possible while still retaining its structural integrity and accomplishing its intended purpose. When a Free Human wants to use their Spirit Weapon, they will assume their Human Avatar transformation, in which their bodies will transform into their mineral counterpart.

Only then can the mineral be sourced from the Human Avatar to make a Spirit Weapon. Without undergoing the transformation, they won’t be able to make a Spirit Weapon. This was the greatest weakness of Free Humans, which was why they were the weakest force on Sumatra.

For the Cooter Clansmen, on the other hand, their Spirit Pools worked as a union of their Mystic Mist Art and treated as a body fluid. Therefore, once they build their body, no matter how little, they were given the means to generate as much Spirit Pool as they wanted.

Of course, this Spirit Pool was treated as part of their body, mind, and soul. And hence, it couldn’t be used by another Cooter Clansman to build their body. That was the only limitation.

However, for the respective Cooter Clansman, there was no limit to the size of their Spirit Weapon. The restriction came into effect in their Spirit Weapon forms, which was a transformation.

This transformation turned the Cooter Clansmen into a core the shape of their hearts, the substance of which was made by the solidification of their respective Spirit Pool, which in essence, was no different from the Human Avatar.

Cooter Clansmen were unable to do anything to their Spirit Weapon forms, since it was a pure solid. Still, the defences it granted were significantly higher than their human bodies, since the core was basically a heart-shaped Human Avatar.

These were the two differences. This was where Voracious Spirit Dominance came into effect, terrifyingly so. Because, it allowed Torq to consume the Spirit Weapon produced by a Cooter Clansman, digest it, purify it into a pure Spirit Pool the likes of Empyrean Snappers create, and then refine it into his Spirit Pool, all in one flow, similar to the digestive system’s functions in the body.

Even though he could only consume limited portions at a time, it was still an absolutely frightening ability. Of course, the influence generated from such an overpowered ability was equally absurd.

Gurgle!

Torq felt his stomach rumble from hunger, as if he hadn’t eaten anything for two days while also exercising nonstop the entire time. He was famished. ’It hasn’t even been that long and the influence is already hitting me like a truck!’

Had it been just him, Torq would have succumbed to the influence in a matter of weeks to become a maddened individual who only sought to satisfy his voracious hunger. Thankfully, Raurau had perfected it using the Bolt of Transcendence and built a solution for the same.

[I’m hungry!]

Came Runthral’s voice, as if he had woken up from his slumber.

Secondary Nature–Empyrean Spirit Snapper!

The Nature of Spirit Snapper was created by the Cooter Ancestor, the individual that created the Cooter Clan. The method of obtaining this Nature pretty much involved compromising an Empyrean Snapper and hence had been banned.

The second individual to obtain the Nature of Spirit Snapper was Raurau, with added baggage and conditions. He suffered from a multiple personality disorder as a result of the same.

Hence, the solution was to have twins, unique individuals born as identical copies of each other. The original choice was to make Runthral the original body and Boiboi the Spirit Snapper variant.

However, since Torq was a slightly better option once Runthral got compromised, the situation had turned as such.

And now, the Secondary Nature of Empyrean Spirit Snapper, was pretty much Runthral, living as part of the Nature with his own thought, mind, and soul within Torq. 𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂

’It’s not that simple!’ He thought, for since they were twins, they probably had a spiritual connection of sorts between the two. Torq’s capability of stealing Runthral’s talents also originated from this. ’And now, the furball’s lie has turned into the truth.’

’That’s why Father accepted the claims back then.’ He sighed, ’For he knew the bridge was real and had the means to harness it fully.’

Now, the twins had become connected on all fronts, just like how they were at the time of conception.