Ebraham gasped at the Tenebrous Titanoboa's capabilities. He knew that although the barrier around the pillar did not have incineration-repelling abilities, it was fifty percent of overall blocking ability of 'Celestial Vanguard: Vega'. That strike was at least half of a 100 km-sized meteor impact.
Without wasting any time longer, Ebraham flashed to the location of Tenebrous Titanoboa at lightspeed.
The sudden appearance of a strange two-legged creature was obviously sensed by Tenebrous Titanoboa. It warily stared at the small floating creature, but soon turned hostile when it sensed the familiar mysterious magical energy that seeped out of this creature. It was the same mysterious magical energy that kicked it out of its nest when it was hibernating.
Tenebrous Titanoboa directly bite towards Ebraham when it had confirmed its enemy.
Ebraham had only made two seconds appearance yet Tenebrous Titanoboa directly attacked him. Sighing, he made a spherical barrier to protect himself.
"Aegis"
Kang!
When Tenebrous Titanoboa bite down the barrier, it instinctually knew it had bitten a hard rock to swallow. The barrier was firm and unmovable as a mountain.
Obviously, there was a distinction between a barrier powered by magical energy and a barrier powered by Blood Obsidian energy. Blood Obsidian energy that was leagued beyond natural magical energy could amplify any magic technique performance 100 times over.
Although Tenebrous Titanoboa knew it had messed up, it stubbornly tried to crush the barrier with the might its powerful jaws and sharp teeth. As the result, its teeth were shattered and it roared in pain.
Since biting was not effective, Tenebrous Titanoboa changed its attacking pattern. It wanted to strangle its opponent but the opponent was too small. So, it flung its huge long tail at the speed of sound.
Boom! Bang!
Two continuous loud explosive blast resounded the area. First was a sonic boom from the tail attack while latter was the impact when it hit the barrier.
Tenebrous Titanoboa was shocked as its tail attack was also not effective. It used to claim victory against other hegemon with this surprise attack.
Since once was not effective, then twice, then trice. Tenebrous Titanoboa aggressively battered the annoying barrier that hindered its attack.
"…" Ebraham was speechless.
He had not done anything since he arrived, yet Tenebrous Titanoboa was provoked and increasingly agitated. Its continuous batters even shook his 'Aegis' lightly.
Ebraham needed to think of away to calm this giant serpent before it hurt itself again and continue the vicious cycle. First, he needed to stop Tenebrous Titanoboa from attacking him.
So, he activated Telekinesis from his Domain feature and restrained the serpent from moving. It was challenging to stop moving things with Telekinesis especially so when the thing was a living being and had a power beyond Ancient Dragon. Despite that, Ebraham still did it with ease.
Ebraham thought he finally could cool Tenebrous Titanoboa's head down by asserting dominance. However, things suddenly escalated beyond his calculation.
The restrained Tenebrous Titanoboa could felt the unbelievable pressure from its opponent. Its body was mysteriously frozen yet its opponent did not even budge. It had never experienced this before. It was always been the strongest. The only time it felt threaten by others was when it was young. But now, even when he was this big, he felt its life was seriously threatened.
Leave with no other choice, Tenebrous Titanoboa activated its life-saving skill.
Sky suddenly turned dark. It was pitch black. The dark cloud blocked even the smallest photon from entering. Then…
Bang!
A thunderous lightning struck the 'Aegis' barrier illuminating the dark world. It did not stop with just one. Continuous lightning followed after. Each of it was stronger than the one before it.
The lightnings was focused on Ebraham. But the ever-stronger lightning even struck the ancient trees in the surroundings straightaway burning it. Wild fire spread and soon turned into forest fire. The ground was carpeted with orange fire, while the sky was filled with blinding flash of white. Orange light from the forest fire and flash from the lightning turned the world orange with blinking flash of white.
Ebraham did not expect things to escalated quickly.
He did expect that Tenebrous Titanoboa could use magic, since magical beast in his world could use magic. But this was beyond his expectation.
His action of restraining the giant serpent had caused the serpent to felt cornered and activated natural disaster level magic. After all, the cornered beast was the most ferocious.
Ebraham calmly watched the lightning strikes. He could feel natural law implemented in the magic attack. On the other hand, this was very reasonable. This primordial world was absent from any intellectual being even more so with the one that could use magic. So, unlike the magical beast that copied magic techniques from human, the ancient primordial beast copied the natural disaster that occurred by mother nature instead and created their own version of it.
This was the reason why the attack pattern of Tenebrous Titanoboa was limited. It mainly used physical attack and only used magical attack as a last resort.
In Ebraham's previous world, even the weakest magical beast, Horn Rabbit could use magic. That why they were called magic beast. They were different from their animal counterpart that could not use magic and did not possessed Beast Core.
Ancient primordial beast was the ancestor of magic beast. It should by nature able to use magic just like its descendent. So, it means that the ancient primordial beasts in this world still did not unleashed its full potential.
'Let's try this'
To prove his theory, Ebraham conjured a magic technique while ignoring the lightnings that were still striking him.
"Wind Blade"
The magic attack flew towards Tenebrous Titanoboa and heavily hit its body. A long gashing cut appeared on its body. Tenebrous Titanoboa wanted to hiss and wiggle in pain but it was still restrained, so it could only suffer in silent. With its vitality and magical energy, the cut was immediately healed.
Tenebrous Titanoboa ended its lightning magic attack. It recalled the magic attack that manage to penetrate its iron scales and injure it. Surely this attack was a high-level magic attack. It might be higher level than its lightning attack. Tenebrous Titanoboa thought to itself.
So, in no time, it copied the magic attack 'Wind Blade' and sent it back to its hateful enemy. Coincidently, Tenebrous Titanoboa had high affinity with wind element, so the time it took to understand the principle and copy the magic attack was very short.
Expectedly, or unexpectedly to the giant serpent, the 'Wind Blade' did not penetrate the barrier.
Seeing this, Ebraham envisaged a bleak future for humanity, if ancient primordial beasts were given a chance to learn magic technique. Other than harsh extreme weather and chaotic natural disasters, ancient primordial beasts would be the biggest threat against humanity in this world.
When human grew stronger to deal with ancient primordial beasts, the beasts would also grow stronger by learning how human fight. The vicious cycle would repeat itself and the future generations would face harder and harder trails than the generations before them.
Light skirmish would turn into all-out war. Human need to grow in populations. They need to fight for resources. They need to fight for territories. And their opponent would be the original inhabitants of this world: the ancient primordial beasts.
If no drastic action was made, this problem would eternally trouble humanity. The only goal for humanity at that time would be to win the war against ancient primordial beasts.
Ebraham personally knew how cheap a person life was when war erupted; How dark one's heart and twisted a person could be when continuously exposed to violence. Ebraham did not want that to happen again.
Especially so when he could start humanity over in this virgin world with history that yet to be written. He wanted human to be more than just violence warring creature. He wanted human to be peaceful and benevolent yet will remained unafraid in the face of diversity.
Ebraham had already deemed his mission was to look over and guide human in this world along their natural path. A war prone environment was not a good condition for his vision.
Ebraham shifted his focus to the giant serpent. He intended to end this fight fast.
So, Ebraham raised his right hand, straighten his fingers and tightly joint them together. He focused his energy and produced Sword Aura with his bare hand.
With a swift strike, he decapitated Tenebrous Titanoboa by its neck.
Then he activated 'Void Storage' and unhesitatingly flung the giant serpent body inside.
If Tenebrous Titanoboa had 'Super Rapid Regeneration' skill just like the Ancient Dragon had, it could instantly regenerate its own head as its Beast Core, that located in its heart, was still intact. Seeing that it instantly healed its cut wound before, there was a high possibility that it had 'Super Rapid Regeneration' skill if not higher version of that skill.
By putting Tenebrous Titanoboa inside 'Void Storage', where no living creature was allowed to live in, it would be more dead than dead.
This trick against high vitality opponent was first discovered during Human – Spirit War. The spirits released the ever-regenerating Legions to fight against human. The mass of wiggling meat was a massive headache to human because of its regeneration ability. Until some general discovered that if the dissected part of Legion was put inside 'Void Storage' it could not regenerate that body part again. So, such trick was passed around and used to deal similarly high vitality opponent.
Ebraham was not remorseful by using a short cut to win a fight, but he still put his hand together and silently prayed to the life he just taken.
While he conjured water magic to douse the forest fire, Ebraham looked at the barrier. He needed to change the property of the barrier. And he needed to act fast as similar situations was happening around the globe. Similar hegemon ancient primordial beasts were angry to the barrier that expelled and barred them from their nest.
Ebraham hastily changed the barrier's blocking ability into pressure-increment ability and illusion ability. When ancient primordial beast entered the barrier, it would feel huge gravitational pressure pressing against its body and the pressure would increase every step forward it took. A weak ancient primordial beast would immediately give up against the pressure, but an apex predator like Tenebrous Titanoboa could persist and venture into the barrier.
Then the second ability would be activated after certain distance and mislead the ancient primordial beasts to the opposite side of the barrier. It would not go through directly in a straight line but instead it would dawdle around the circumference of the barrier, taking a long detour, wasting its time and energy. Even if it was angry, it could not directly attack the barrier like before as the barrier was no longer tangible. It would eventually give up or stay in the area but could not provide any direct danger to the barrier and people inside the barrier.
The changes were simultaneously applied to all eight barriers in the world. Even if the hegemon ancient primordial beasts rampaged near the barriers, it would no longer pose direct threat to the barriers.