"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.

The Wave Controller Lava Turtle's body bulged as it absorbed a lot of water through its tail. It converted the water into steam and compressed it, shrinking its volume to less than what it occupied while in a liquid state.

Its psychic energy helped compress it, pressuring it while its Trait increased the temperatures within, soon arriving at a point where its own body was unable to endure the built-up power. The Hunter Clams on its back activated their Skills, defending its body to their utmost ability.

Its aura shot to the peak, causing waves to form on the shallow waters, alarming the other Lava Turtles that began to retreat in fear. They gazed at the entrance of the path in unison, seeing the air there shudder, forming gales, turning still at moments before resembling a volcano in the other.

Two beings, a human, and a serpentine Frenzy Beast had also erupted with their aura, both in the realm of Tier 3. The Bundle Flea directed its aura on the Wave Controller Lava Turtle, keeping its aura in check while Jyorta prepared his attack.

Within the blue soul, the blue face shot its eyes open, opening its mouth as it breathed out a jet-black smoke. The smoke seeped out of the blue soul and travelled through the connection it shared with the body, slowly entering Jyorta's aura.

His presence generated the effect of corrosion, suffusing it in the aura attack he was preparing. The Bundle Flea covering his body shuddered in fright for a moment; all its hairs trembled in fright, like a baby abandoned within the snow mountains.

As the Soul Corneas seeped energy into him, his stronger psychic arm consumed it while using Regen to continuously recover his aura levels. Jyorta sent the recovered aura into the palm on his right, trying to accumulate strength in it while the Lava Turtle prepared its attack.

Both were biding time, unwilling to launch the attack early, seeing the defensive preparations the other party erected. They wished to use their strongest attacks to break through the opponent's defence.

Jyorta's weaker psychic arm placed the Tier 3 Relic within the water, activating it. The mist turned transparent upon mixing with the water, moving towards the Lava Turtles.

Based on the angle he had aimed it towards, the moment it crossed the Wave Controller Lava Turtle, the mist gushed out of the water and moved towards the Lava Turtles, alarming them for they knew what it signified.

Through its domain, the Wave Controller Lava Turtle realised his plan but didn't do anything, for the time being, opening its mouth the moment it finished its preparations. It was dark inside, its throat unable to be seen.

But immediately, light that was a mixture of red-and-yellow radiated from within as a stream of plasma ejected out. The Wave Controller Lava Turtle had gone all out with the attack, unleashing a plasma wave that beamed towards Jyorta.

"Hah!" Jyorta bellowed, unleashing his aura beam. Unlike before, it was visible to the naked eye now, a jet-black stream that moved forth, corroding everything in its path. The blackness stemmed from the air it had corroded, the resultant absorbed all the light in its path.

The black and red beams collided with one another, annihilating their counterparts in the opposing forces. The Lava Turtle's psychic energy destroyed Jyorta's trace psychic energy contained in the aura beam. On the contrary, his aura destroyed the Wave Controller Lava Turtle's aura in the plasma beam.

The heat in the plasma beam burned through his aura while his corrosion corroded it in return, turning it into a substance that possessed a higher melting point. The River Whale shot its eyes open, pulling out all the water it had collected, turning it into a vortex sphere that revolved around Jyorta, acting as the first line of defence.

It had a pointed end, facing the plasma beam that slammed into it, giving rise to steam as it swiftly penetrated through the film of water. The water swirled about, expending all its reserves as it vaporised, expending as much of the heat in the plasma beam as possible.

On the other side, the Hunter Clams used their shells to first come into contact with the aura beam, combusting their flesh to generate aura that mixed into the aura beam, hindering its progression. They then formed layers and layers of defence using their jelly-like tentacles to defend against the aura beam, trying to negate it as much as possible.

In Jyorta's side, the water was fully expended as the plasma beam slammed into a dense overgrowth of hair the Bundle Flea had created, swiftly burning through it as more and more hair came in its way.

Steam rose as the air cracked, causing sparks of lightning to flash amidst.

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