Sumatra's Greatest Fan - Chapter 161: Small Accomplishment

Chapter 161: Small Accomplishment

“Hungry?” Torq thought for a moment as he felt his stomach, and then subconsciously nodded, “Yes.”

“What creature do you fancy to consume?” The predator on the throne asked, “You deserve a reward for your accomplishment.”

’I can ask for anything?’ Without hesitation, Torq asked while barely able to rein in his excitement, “Can I eat a Roshmon?”

“Roshmon?” The predator eyed a subservient man standing closest to the throne, “Where does it live?”

“It resides in the Stromar Cliff.” The man took a few seconds to recall the respective information. Upon seeing the predator eye him without a change in expression, he hurriedly explained further, “It’s situated adjacent to the Rumtara Kingdom.”

“It’s one of the Satellite Kingdoms affiliated to the Brimgan Empire.”

“Rumtara, huh?” The predator then eyed Torq, announcing a second later, “You’ll receive your meal soon.”

Mutated Advanced Gold Grade Pranic Beast–Roshmon!

It was one of the strongest Gold Grade Pranic Beasts, weaker only to the Deities. However, its strength didn’t matter in the slightest. For if the predator willed it, any creature, including a Deity, was a mere meal.

“Continue developing,” The predator said and flicked a pellet at Torq. “Keep it.”

Torq hurriedly caught the pellet, only now noticing that the one he had hung around his long wasn’t in its place anymore. It was the same pellet, which the predator seemed to have made modifications to.

But the moment he wore it, his mind immediately grew more peaceful. He didn’t even feel any vestiges of the theatre anymore, Incredible!’

That wasn’t all. The pellet also seemed capable of making him endure his growing sense of hunger. His sense of hunger didn’t abate in the slightest. There seemed to be no way to mitigate that. However, the pellet prepared his mind to endure the sensation with a clearer state of mind.

“Leave,” The moment the predator dismissed Torq, two of the bowing figures hurriedly rushed towards him and whispered at him to follow them. And then, they led him out of the throne room.

Torq seemed completely fine as he walked out of the throne room. But a few seconds later, his knees gave out, unable to endure the terror anymore. ’That’s…HIM!’

Mutated Expert Mystic Grade Pranic Beast–Celestial Boar!

A predator without rival, and despite being considered a newborn Celestial, it already had no enemies on Sumatra. None, at present, were able to rival it. Were it allowed to grow for a few more Centuries, then Nusantara Continent would no longer have dared to target Sumatra.

Even now, the reason this entire region seemed absolutely safe was thanks to the Celestial Boar, for it had the capability to consume the opponent’s strength and turn it into its own.

“You’ve done well,” One of the figures escorting Torq uttered, “At your age, we would have lost our minds simply by staying in the same room as Him.”

“Also…” As he patted Torq on the back, the figure paused for a few seconds before asking, “Where did you hear about the Roshmon?”

“I heard it in passing by someone.” Torq explained without missing a beat and revealed a curious glance, “I liked the name and remembered it, since I feel hungry whenever I hear that name.”

“I heard it twice!” He said and grinned widely.

“I see,” The figure stopped a fair distance away and pointed at the gruff man who was standing a fair distance away, in waiting, “Take care.”

Nodding at the gruff man once, the figure walked away.

“You’ve recovered.” The gruff man held Torq’s eye and checked the pupil, commending upon observing the reaction for a few seconds, “It’s worth it that we managed to secure an audience with the Ancestor.”

“So,” He paused and asked, “Roshmon?”

’Seems he’s curious too.’ Torq thought and nodded, “Yeah.”

The Roshmon was extremely rare, with a small population of it appearing in the Stromar Cliff. The Stromar Cliff was exceedingly far from the Varahan Enclave, and needed at least a few years of nonstop travelling to arrive at.

And this was in a situation without taking any diversion, or engaging in conflicts, which was exceedingly rare on Sumatra. Hence, information about the place wasn’t privy to the Wean Clan’s general population.

That was why Torq was asked multiple times on where he heard about the Roshmon, for there didn’t seem to be any chances for that, given he was unconscious for over seven years.

“Where did you hear it?” The gruff man asked.

“Not sure,” Torq shook his head, “I heard things when I was unconscious. So, I can’t say anything for certain.”

“Alright,” The gruff man nodded, “Let’s return home now.”

The duo walked to a station and entered a pod, which dropped down like in freefall. A few minutes later, the sensation of the freefall seemed to be slowing down, and soon, it had come to a standstill.

Even though Torq knew what to do, this was his first trip through the pod. Hence, he waited for the gruff man’s instructions as he unbuckled from the seat and exited the pod.

The pod was the means used by the Wean Clansmen to travel across their territory at optimal speeds. The pod basically fell through a tunnel where the gravity behaved with rules different from the ambient gravity, resulting in a freefall.

Towards the end of the tunnel, this specific gravity reduced in strength, until at the end, it disappeared and the pod alighted at the destination station.

’That was incredible!’ Torq grinned as he exited the station, ’I should start getting my hands on this power.’

’The Roshmon is the last ingredient for my next step. If I couldn’t get it, I was thinking of other ways to reach a similar result. But now, things have worked in my favour.’ Thanks to the Celestial Boar’s command, the Wean Clan will ensure a Roshmon gets delivered to Torq’s doorstep, no matter what.

The Roshmon being a Mutated Pranic Beast didn’t matter to him. Whether it be the Spectral Boar or the Empyrean Boar or even the Boar King, they could only get the Natures of a Pranic Beast in case it had one Nature.

Primary Nature–Voracious Nature!

This was an Empyrean Boar’s power, in which it gained the Nature of any creature it consumed. The specificity for consumption here was the Pranic Beast’s heart, where the Spirit Container resided.

As long as the Spirit Container–which had the Primary Nature–was consumed by the Empyrean Boar, it will gain the respective Nature. But this was only applicable to regular Pranic Beasts.

A Mutated Pranic Beast had two Natures, making it impossible for an Empyrean Boar to obtain its Natures. The same held true for the Boar King, Empyrean Boar, Spectral Boar, etc.

’The reason I was rewarded is specifically for this.’ Torq thought. Even though he was plagued by influence, the Celestial Boar was capable of perceiving the changes occurring in his body. That was enough for it to calculate when Torq would succeed, and had arranged for him to be brought to the throne room at the exact time.

“About time you gained consciousness.” Torq recalled the first statement uttered by the Celestial Boar.

Since the other party had calculated the changes happening in his body, it knew about his success, and hence, decided to give him any reward of his choice. The reason stemmed from the power he had created by subjecting him to a state of extremity for seven years.

Tertiary Nature–Spectral Shell!

When the Fourth Generation Pet of himself appeared in his stomach, Torq was feeling layers of his own presence stacked upon himself, which was escalating his every state of being to exponential levels.

The trait most affected by this was his stomach.

Spectral Boars had a stomach that doubled as a small world of sorts. This world morphed its terrain in accordance to the needs of the Tangible Nature being nurtured in it. If the Tangible Nature was sourced from a herbivore Pranic Beast, there will be rich forests growing in the stomach.

If it was a carnivore, there would be meat sources available in the small world. They weren’t actual resources, but merely the breakdown and rearrangement of the food the Spectral Boar eats into a form consumable by the Tangible nature.

And the size of this small world varied according to the Tangible Nature’s needs. The world only remains big enough to cater to the living needs of the Tangible Nature.

If the Tangible Nature lived in a small burrow and only ate grass growing at the burrow’s entrance, that would be the size of this small world. If the Tangible Nature roamed wide territories like a nomad, the world would accommodate to fit this need.

Basically, the Tangible Nature will live in the same way in the stomach as when it was alive on Sumatra. The small world reflected its needs from reality.

And with a series of Pets of himself living within the stomachs of each other, it created layers of these small worlds in stacks upon each other, piling their presence upon each other to magnify the traits of the stomach to hold multiple existences at a time.

Basically, it developed Torq, as a Spectral Boar, closer to its Source–the Celestial Boar.

He had tapped into a small fragment of the Celestial Boar’s power. That was his accomplishment in seven years.