The suppression of emotions is Toby’s strongest technique.
Take now for example, the great whirlwind seems to heal again and again, but its behavior becomes more and more agitated, its combat thinking increasingly mindless.
You must understand, Toby is not an elemental creature, it has a tangible body. The great whirlwind has been fighting for so long, its body riddled with countless holes, yet Toby remains unscathed, not even losing a single feather.
This indicates that Toby’s strength is a notch higher than the great whirlwind, but not to the point of complete domination. The current situation arose entirely because the great whirlwind was infected by the furious emotions dispersed from the flame.
When reason begins to go offline, anger takes the main seat. There might be an initial burst, but once that phase is surpassed, it is nothing more than fish meat for others.
Evidently, the great whirlwind has now entered the phase of being Toby’s fish meat.
Toby has yet to find a way to deal with the great whirlwind’s frantic healing, but Angel believes that Toby should soon find a countermeasure.
Toby and the great whirlwind fought for several minutes.
Toby also noticed that the great whirlwind keeps healing, using previous methods is clearly futile. After careful observation, it sensed the flow of the wind.
Each time the great whirlwind broke open a hole, the surrounding wind quickly gathered, filling the hole.
Toby was not dumb; upon realizing the truth, it immediately changed its approach.
This time, rather than wantonly releasing the flame power, Toby swept its wings, and in the energy vision, a large amount of gray mist began to fill the vicinity.
When the gray mist formed a circle, completely enveloping the great whirlwind, Toby let out a high-pitched cry.
Centered around the great whirlwind, an empty force field was instantaneously formed.
The great whirlwind, still in the burst phase, was completely unaware of the situation outside; it only felt an overwhelming heaviness, its energy rapidly depleting. As usual, it sought an external supply of wind’s force but... this time it failed.
The wind’s force around seemed to have vanished completely.
Unable to replenish energy from outside, the great whirlwind’s own energy began to deplete rapidly; as layers of wind’s force were stripped away, its seemingly formidable shell finally showed weak cracks.
A bright azure light appeared on its forehead.
This is... the elemental core!
Toby’s eyes lit up, all its tunneling before had been to find the great whirlwind’s elemental core, and now, the elemental core was finally revealed!
Without hesitation, Toby opened its mouth and directly spat out a stream of molten fire, targeting the glowing elemental core.
A cracking sound was heard.
The elemental core cracked, azure light exposed, a large amount of wind’s force began to leak out.
Meanwhile, the great whirlwind, always in a state of fury, finally regained a sliver of clarity, but it was too late.
It glared at Toby with resentment and said, "The wind will carry away my memories, I will witness your demise within Master Hurricane’s body."
As the words fell, the wind’s force within it quickly expanded.
Elemental self-detonation!
Toby reacted immediately, yet it was not overly flustered; if the opponent had self-detonated when its energy was still abundant, it might have shaken the heaven and earth, but now, its energy considerably depleted and much of it leaked, its self-detonation no longer had the power it used to boast.
Toby, shrouded in gray mist, gently tapped its feet and appeared near the gondola.
Then it carried the gondola on its back, with a flicker, appearing several miles away.
Simultaneously, the power of the great whirlwind’s self-detonation finally manifested.
Though its energy was scarce, it still created much grandeur through self-detonation, directly breaking the connection between the cloud sea and the nightfall, forming a void of about a kilometer.
However, Gale had passed by, having no impact on the gondola several miles away.
Watching the calamity in the distance, Toby transformed into a small seabird, proudly perched on Angel’s shoulder, chirping to declare victory.
"So amazing!" Dangross excitedly tried climbing onto Angel’s shoulder, but Toby kicked it down with a claw. Dangross was not angry, instead, it kept bouncing on the table, shouting Toby’s name.
"So strong, to win so easily..." Jack was dumbfounded, in a world filled with wind, how did it manage to defeat such a powerful wind-type creature?
Also... "What was that strange force field blocking the wind just now?"
Jack’s inquiry was also the confusion of other elemental sprites, vaguely sensing a majestic force, seemingly possessing some nature of the world’s harmony, yet different from its power altogether.
Faced with Jack’s inquiry, Toby did not conceal it, chirping a few times.
Yet, none of them understood what Toby said. Without Loga to translate, they were at a loss.
"A power of laws." Angel answered for Toby.
A power of laws? It sounded rather advanced... Jack had intended to ask further, but Angel shifted the topic.
"That Master Hurricane the great whirlwind mentioned earlier, do you know who it is?"
Angel looked towards Jack, who appeared puzzled, then turned to Arnott, locked in a sand cage.
Yet Arnott said nothing; upon closer inspection, Arnott was silently shedding tears.
Through questioning, it was revealed that Arnott was grieving for the great whirlwind’s death.
Arnott did not know the great whirlwind; his sorrow stemmed purely from witnessing the death of a fellow member of his kind. However, Arnott was rational and understood that if the great whirlwind had not died, perhaps they would have perished, so it was better that the great whirlwind did die.
After grieving, Arnott also began to ponder Angel’s question.
"Master Hurricane? I’ve never heard of it."