Psychic Parasite

"Let's use the Tier 2 Lava Turtle," Jyorta spoke upon seeing the futileness of their efforts. No matter what they did, they were unable to pry open the door and enter the dome. And, even if they were to open it, the Tier 3 Lava Turtle only had the intention to push them away.

Moreover, the intense boiling water it unleashed was more than enough to incapacitate them with enough injuries, a staff would have to save them immediately. Therefore, they were caught in an impasse. They had to do something to change the status quo. Otherwise, they were bound to run out of time.

That was why Jyorta changed their plans. His eyes shone with a cunning glint, for a moment causing the onlookers to flinch. For, it was venomous. It seemed he knew exactly what to do to piss of the Tier 3 Lava Turtle beyond limit and make it lose itself in rage.

Esina turned around and shouted at the rest of her teammates, motioning for them to drag in the Tier 2 Lava Turtle. The teammates of everyone had been watching their actions, cheering every time they took down a Tier 3 Frenzy Beast.

So, when Esina asked for the Tier 2 Lava Turtle, it wasn't her team alone that moved. Everyone who was present helped in dragging the Tier 2 Lava Turtle. Seeing their fights and victories had pumped their blood too. So, they wished to do something, no matter how small or insignificant.

Once they had brought the Tier 2 Lava Turtle to the scene, Esina motioned for them to retreat. They immediately complied and returned to the circular platform that was situated right at the end of the path. From there, they witnessed the actions of their team leaders with rapt attention.

"Alright, what do you want to do with it, Jyorta? We planned to use it against the Tier 3 Floating Spider, right?" Esina said.

"Yeah," Jyorta nodded with a sigh, "But, we have no other choice but to waste it here. Otherwise, we wouldn't be able to kill the Lava Turtle."

"Fine, do your thing." Esina patted the Tier 2 Lava Turtle's shell and retreated. All fourteen of them formed a circle around the Tier 2 Lava Turtle as Jyorta stood right before it. As its head had been pressed backward and tied onto its shell, it was unable to move it.

The same had been done to its flexible legs too. So, the Tier 2 Lava Turtle was unable to resist. This was the perfect chance for him, so Jyorta gently unleashed his two psychic arms and combined them into one.

He then smirked, muttering as he seeped them into its head, "Sweet dreams."

Aura Personification—Hallucination!

The Tier 2 Lava Turtle tried to resist, but it could sense a feeling of longingness stem from its heart. It was reminded of its home, the territory of the Lava Turtles, basking in nostalgia. It saw its friends and family members peacefully floating on the sea waters they had terraformed to their liking.

A significant quantity of the Swarm, in their infancy period had been captured and locked in the waters underneath them, acting as their food source. They also used the same technique the Skeps had used to create a plant like that grew on the ocean bed.

And, by absorbing nutrients from the soil and the water, it grew, releasing certain fruits into the ocean waters. And, this was the common food the Swarm fed on to grow in size and numbers.

As the Swarm members grew, the Lava Turtles hunted them from time to time, having no lack of supply. Whenever the quantity of the Swarm they had amassed had reduced, the stronger Lava Turtles hunted for and brought in new droves.

Hunting the infants served as training for the younger Lava Turtles. Moreover, only to increase the potency of their Essence of Frenzy did they travel inland and hunt other Frenzy Beasts. Everything they needed, they possessed.

And thanks to their race's Unranked Skill, anywhere in the world they went, they could transform it into a habitat suitable to them. That was the reason their Ancestor went by the same name as their planet.

Rhachis Ancestor Earth!

It showed the capabilities and potential of the Lava Turtles and the entity that stood at the top of their race. The Tier 2 Lava Turtle immersed itself in the thoughts of its race and became filled with pride.

But suddenly, it noticed the sky turn pitch black. But, it was a cloud. Rather, as it focused on the jet black cloud-lookalike in the sky, it paled in fear, including the other Lava Turtles playing beside it with their respective prey.

Humans covered the sky to the extent they blanketed out the sun, causing the entire region to turn pitch black. And from them, a certain figure emitted blinding white light and slammed a powerful beam straight towards the centre of their race's territory.

The beam of light impacted a massive mountain that had been floating on the water, cracking the top of its shell. A head peaked out from it, the Ancestor of the Lava Turtles. Immediately, the two entities clashed with each other.

But, before the Lava Turtles could see how their fight turned out, the top of the Ancestor's shell turned magenta before shattering like powder, causing their Ancestor to scream. Their Ancestor's scream echoed in the depths of their soul, for it was their race's spiritual, and emotional pillar.

Jyorta looked at Dalna Doppler and nodded, motioning for her to open the door a little. And, just at this time, the expression of the Tier 2 Lava Turtle realistically crumbled. Tears streamed out of its eyes that vaporised within a couple of seconds as Esina severed all its bindings.

The Tier 2 Lava Turtle gazed towards the sky, trembling as it shouted from the depths of its heart, in the most horrid mourning expression it could make. It had made that in utmost desperation, disbelief, and despair, tearing its vocal cords to express its feelings of desolation.

Its voice resounded throughout the Graduation Ceremony Battlefield, for a moment turning the entire place deathly silent. Upon hearing the sounds, the Lava Turtles in the seventh coil began to shed tears immediately.

For, they could understand the message it had relayed. They all felt confusion, panic, and…fear. They expressed their disbelief, but something welled up from deep within them, oozing out of them at the fact something might have happened to their Ancestor.

They were unable to believe, after all, they had been trapped in such a place. So, it wasn't possible for something like that to happen. But, the sounds of horrid screams of one of them unnerved them all.

Jyorta gazed at Haesha, "How much psychic energy do you have?"

"Enough for whatever you have planned." Haesha nodded, seeping a psychic into his after turning it pale blue.

Slowly, the Tier 2 Lava Turtle could see a massive shard of their Ancestor's shell fall into the waters right next to it. It then saw the water gurgle as something akin to a island emerged from within. But, upon seeing it, the Tier 2 Lava Turtle lost its mind. For, it was an island sized eyeball, their Ancestor's.

Its mournful screams turned even more devastated as the sounds echoed throughout the Graduation Ceremony Battlefield. The sounds were too loud and mournful. Moreover, they echoed from a place beyond their reach.

So, the Frenzy Beasts from the other races silently retreated into the central tower. They didn't act, curling up in place as they retracted their aura, even going to the extent masking their presence. For, even they could feel the emotions expressed by the Tier 2 Lava Turtle.

It wasn't something a mere death of someone close to it, or an injury to itself would bring. They was something way beyond that, relying on a concept that surpassed one's individual concern for their life.

As they could perceive the vocal fluctuations, the Frenzy Beasts no longer acted and only used their Tier 1 Skills to be prepared against whatever was the cause behind the mourning screams.

Suddenly, the ambient aura in the Graduation Ceremony Battlefield had dropped down to a considerable extent.

The screams of the Tier 2 Lava Turtle carried forth the feelings that Jyorta wished to echo in the minds of the other Lava Turtles. He then expanded the range of his aura personification of hallucination below him, reaching a range of 40 metres until a portion of the coil with the Lava Turtles was wrapped under the effects.

There were around three Lava Turtles in the area. Immediately, they too fell under the hallucination, beginning to cry mournfully. Their devasting cries echoed in the battlefield and fell on the ears of the other Lava Turtles, affecting their emotions.

After all, just the sound of as brethren crying was enough to affect one's mental and emotion state. Even though the Lava Turtles were a race with greater individuality, they still shared a bond with their brethren, albeit small.

But in such a situation, it was impossible for them to remain affected. The screams continued as the effected Lava Turtles unleashed their presence accordingly. The aura they unleashed had become an aura personification of hallucination, filled with the scene Jyorta was flashing through his hallucination.

He was making use of the same concept to unleash an aura personification for the first time. A required through process, mental state, and a connection with the aura emission accordingly. For a normal student, they had to meditate for hours and shimmer the related emotions all the time to eventually unleash the respective aura personification for the first time.

Now, using the screams of the Lava Turtles under his control, Jyorta affected their emotions and mental states, causing them to unleash their aura accordingly, further amplifying the effect of the hallucination as they acted as relay stations.

Soon, all the Lava Turtles, whether Tier 1 or Tier 2 were pulled into the hallucination. They all began crying, behaving as if their Ancestor was getting killed before their eyes.

The eyes of the Tier 3 Lava Turtle flinched as the water geyser it kept producing trickled down to a halt.