Chaos Heir

Chapter 1352: Mana beasts

"[Do you think they lost control]?" Khan asked, casually waving his hand to his left.

A purple-red slash escaped Khan’s fingers, which expanded while flying at an incoming ape-like mana beast. The creature was huge and burly, twice the size of the average Thilku, but the spell cut it in half before it could even come close to unleashing its rampage.

The slash’s effects didn’t stop at that single cut. The ape’s two halves kept moving forward, driven by the previous momentum, but their structural integrity was already gone. It only took a second for those huge figures to shatter as if they were made of glass, leaving behind black emptiness.

That wasn’t the end. The slash didn’t deplete its power after severing the ape in half. Instead, it continued to fly forward, splitting on its own into tinier versions of itself to chase after the other mana beasts nearby.

"[The Nak are avatars]," Liiza corrected, her eyes’ white light growing colder as she looked at a swarm of mana beasts flying down at the couple. "[They were never in control. The mana was]."

The flying mana beasts were somewhat similar to the Aduns. They were large, eagle-like creatures, but had two pairs of feathered wings each.

Nevertheless, the swarm of eagles’ descent slowed down under Liiza’s chilling light, eventually coming to a complete halt. They stopped mid-air, their sharp beaks and claws still pointed at the couple on the ground, but unable to cross those few remaining meters.

Ice followed. The ten or so flying mana beasts froze on the spot, turning into white statues that fell prey to the azure planet’s gravity. The swarm crashed to the blue ground, shattering into countless shards.

"[Right]," Khan muttered, recalling that point, his attention moving to the rain of slashes his previous attack had unleashed. "[So, it must be a simple instinctive reaction to this place’s deterioration]."

The previously severed ape had a pack of over twenty smaller monkey-like creatures following behind. They were too numerous and nimble to kill with a single rain of slashes, especially since some actively dodged the sharp attacks, but Khan only had to will it to fix the issue.

Some tiny slashes hit their targets while others missed, stabbing the ground. Yet, they all suddenly grew brighter, generating sparks in their ethereal bodies before detonating.

Multiple pillars rose to the sky, expanding over that patch of blue ground and submerging the pack of small monkeys in their raging, crackling, and scorching light, obliterating it out of existence.

"[The mana isn’t an infinite resource]," Liiza explained. "[It’s not a resource at all, and the more other beings wield it, the scarcer this version becomes]."

Vanquishing the ape, monkeys, and four-winged eagles didn’t put an end to the assault. The air moved again, and pieces of the ground also rose, merging their azure energy to give birth to more mana-beasts.

The event didn’t surprise the married couple. Khan and Liiza had already witnessed it so many times that they had grown numb to it.

Khan and Liiza had never stopped advancing through the planet, following the call resonating with his very being, and the mana had kept trying to hinder them every step of the way.

The couple had to vanquish pack after pack of unknown but fearsome mana beasts, only for more to replace them. Those victories also felt pointless since the planet never slowed down in producing those creatures, seemingly being set on continuing that trend until one side exhausted its energy.

Still, one side featured Khan and Liiza, who were monsters in their own right and could vanquish those packs of mana beasts without breaking a sweat.

Meanwhile, the other side was a whole planet made of mana, so its energy reserves had to be beyond immense.

As things stood, that battle promised to be virtually endless. The married couple didn’t have any time to waste, so rushing through the planet would be the wiser option, especially since Khan’s speed would make that approach trivial.

However, the opportunity to study the planet at the very center of the Nak’s mission was priceless and would probably only come once.

Moreover, a few weeks of isolated and guided training couldn’t possibly suffice to master Khan’s broader version of his element. Actual battles usually shortened those processes, so the couple indulged in those one-sided fights.

"[The mana probably used the Nak to generate more of it]," Khan guessed, his glowing eyes browsing the newly formed mana beasts. "[With the Nak killing themselves to expand the mana far and wide, this place became like this]."

That conclusion paved the way to many profound questions, but Khan and Liiza avoided discussing them. They were mostly talking to kill time anyway, and the appearance of a pack of three-headed dog-like creatures changed their priorities.

"[You have seen my ice many times now]," Liiza commented, ignoring the pack that had already started rushing toward the couple to look at her husband. "[You should be able to imitate it]."

"[I don’t want to copy your ice]," Khan admitted, scratching his head while kicking at the incoming pack, his leg performing short but swift forward and backward moves. "[It feels wrong with me loving you and wanting to keep you special in my mind]."

The incoming pack of three-headed dog-like mana beasts fell prey to an ethereal earthquake. Each tremor that ran through those creatures and their surroundings made chunks of their tissues, air, and ground explode, wiping out the azure color and replacing it with black emptiness.

It didn’t take long before the shockwave eradicated the pack out of existence, but the planet’s mana didn’t hesitate to move again to produce more creatures. Still, neither Khan nor Liiza inspected the process, too busy looking at each other.

"[You’ll say anything to get between my legs]," Liiza scolded, but a pleased and intrigued smile occupied her expression, betraying her tone. "[Then, did you think of something else]?"

"[I actually did]," Khan admitted, struggling to divert his gaze from his beautiful wife but doing it anyway. "[You know how I always go around threatening to burn stuff]?"

A swarm of huge ant-like mana-beasts had formed in another spot near the married couple. Those creatures were at least three meters tall, wielding metallic pincers and exoskeletons. Each of their many legs was sharp and sturdy, but something appeared among them before they could start to move.

Two tiny sparks materialized in mid-air and clashed with each other, unleashing raging tongues of purple-red flames that expanded everywhere, devouring the newly formed pack whole.

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