Only the entity targeted by the Hidden Eye could see it. But as Inala had faced it a few tis already, he could feel its presence. But that was it.
It was why he stitched Tangible Piezo Slips onto the Bio Bombs before summoning the Influenced Region of Hidden. It was to experint upon the extent of rules it followed to use cause and effect to erase an existence.
'As I thought, it works.' Inala smiled in thought as the information popped up in his mind space, 'Since Zinger Shrieks are purely sounds and not an ability, it doesn't get erased with the entity.'
Like if Inala were to get erased by the Hidden Eye, his body would vanish. However, the air in his lungs won't vanish. He wasn't sure of this info, but the arrival of the Zinger Shriek confird his hypothesis.
'But why exactly doesn't it get erased too?' Inala frowned. When the two Bio Bombs entered a state of flight, the Hidden Eye appeared to erase them. it erased them one after another. However, it intended to erase them both.
Hence, when it appeared, it had revealed itself to both the Bio Bombs. The one that got erased first wasn't able to resist. After all, in its perspective, its ti was halted, following which it was erased.
Right before it attained flight, it had generated a Zinger Shriek from one corner of the Bio Bomb's interior. At the speed of sound, the Zinger Shriek required a bit over a second to traverse the length of 360 tres within the Bio Bomb.
The shriek was only partway in its journey when the Bio Bomb got erased. But as it hadn't been erased, it continued to travel and eventually reached him. The air within the first Bio Bomb was sucked in from outside. Hence, the shriek reached Inala after the Bio Bomb was erased.
However, the air in the second Bio Bomb was condensed through Prana, which ant that the shriek travelling through the air too was erased. Before it got erased though, the Bio Bomb unleashed a Zinger Shriek that inford Inala of what it witnessed—that of the first Bio Bomb getting erased by the Hidden Eye.
Inala compiled all the information he got and formulated another plan, 'Maybe it's because both were in line of sight of each other. So, it could see and target the other Bio Bomb.'
Up next, Inala created two Bio Bombs, placing them at a distance of thirty kilotres from each other. He stood atop one and stared in the direction of the other, 'Thanks to the waves, there's no line of sight towards the other.'
It was already hard to make out each other due to the curvature of the planet. The waves made it easier for Inala to hide them in such a short distance. Once he got to safety, he made the two Bio Bombs—that were floating on the water—assu flight once again.
They had barely flown for a few centitres when the Hidden Eye appeared. It stared at the Bio Bomb and erased it. A second later, it erased the other Bio Bomb.
Inala waited in patience until the Zinger Shriek from the other Bio Bomb travelled across the distance and reached him, taking a bit less than two minutes to do so.
Both the Bio Bombs had been constantly unleashing a Zinger Shriek from the instant they assud flight. So, the longer the duration their Zinger Shriek persisted, the longer it ant they lived while assuming flight.
Factoring in the speed of sound, Inala calculated, 'The second Bio Bomb was erased only a second after the first.'
Imdiately after that, Inala planted twelve Bio Bombs in a circle, similar to the position of the hours in a clock. Each Bio Bomb was placed thirty kilotres from their adjacent Bio Bombs. Inala stood at the centre of the circle and unleashed a Zinger Shriek radially.
This way, the sound wave would reach all the Bio Bombs at the sa ti, prompting them to assu flight in unison. The mont they started, the Influenced Region of Hidden Eye appeared once again, beginning to erase the Bio Bombs one after another.
Once it had erased all twelve, it vanished. Inala waited a couple of minutes until the Zinger Shrieks from the Bio Bombs reached him, causing a smile on his face, 'It seems that the Hidden Eye can only erase one target per second. It has been erasing the Bio Bombs once every second.'
The Hidden Eye was an Influenced Region. Therefore, Inala was aware that it wasn't sentient. The Hidden Eye was similar to the Comb in that it operated on a set of rules to achieve a selective task. Therefore, irrespective of how many tis he summons it, the Hidden Eye would never target him, since from its perspective, he wasn't the cause of flight.
That was why he dared to experint like this, since it didn't matter how many of his Bio Bombs it erased. Thanks to the endless supply of Prana from the Bio Lattice, Inala could create Bio Bombs without worries.
"Onto the next experint." Since he tid its erasing power, he intended to figure out its movent capabilities next.
Inala created a tre-wide Bio Bomb and placed it before him. He layered a four-tre-wide Bio Bomb over it and repeated the process with concentric Bio Bombs. He filled them with various substances too. One was a vacuum, one was filled with air, one had water, one had earth, etc.
Upon adding thirty layers of Bio Bombs, Inala touched the external most Bio Bomb and activated Perfect Bio Domination. Gradually, he gained control over all the Bio Bombs, dominating all the space they enveloped.
Once that was done, the innermost Bio Bomb assud flight, 'Can the Hidden Eye appear in a place where there is no space to accommodate it?'
Unfortunately, it appeared outside the concentric Bio Bombs. A second later, it vanished. "…Haah!"
Inala felt a sharp ntal exhaustion settle in him, noticing a thin, pinhole-sized line extending from the outside to the innermost Bio Bomb. This created a line of sight that allowed the Hidden Eye to stare at the innermost Bio Bomb and erase it.
'So, when there is no line of sight and it's being blocked, it erases other targets to create a line of sight. However, this erasure is only intended to create the line of sight, nothing else.' He thought and observed the needle hole that had ford through all the Bio Bombs.
Such a small hole was inconsequential, for both living and non-
living beings. Living beings could recover from it through Prana easily. So, the act of creating a line of sight didn't harm non-
flight targets.
Inala removed all the Bio Bombs except for the innermost and outermost ones. He then made the innermost Bio Bomb assu flight, watching the Hidden Eye appear next to it.
'It spawns there similar to the Iron Empyrean Tentacle.' Inala thought upon seeing the outermost Bio Bomb remain unhard. Since there was enough space within it, the Hidden Eye appeared there imdiately.
And once its purpose had been achieved, it vanished.
He then repeated the experint with the two Bio Bombs situated thirty kilotres apart and made them assu flight. But imdiately after that, they stopped flight.
"Haha! It doesn't track the culprits!" Inala laughed upon seeing one of the Bio Bombs fall on the ocean, having not been erased. It had stopped flight while the other Bio Bomb was being erased.
And after erasing its first target, it didn't detect anyone else in flight. All it did was stare at the second Bio Bomb in silence for a second before vanishing.
Inala repeated that experint ten tis, observing that the Hidden Eye focused on repeated offenders with priority. The second ti he repeated the experint, the second Bio Bomb was erased, as this was its second ti assuming flight.
"Onto the next one." After making a note of his observations, Inala watched a puppet grab a rock and throw it into the air, targeting the Bio Bomb that had assud flight. An instant before the two collided, the Bio Bomb assud flight.
Right as the Hidden Eye appeared, the rock slamd into the Hidden Eye. An instant later, the puppet that had thrown the rock had been erased too, even though it hadn't assud flight even once.
'So, it has so self-preservation tendencies. When it is damaged, it goes beyond its rules and erases the target.' Inala then repeated the experint. But this ti, the one throwing the rock was a chanical catapult.
Once tightened, it would stay still. Above the trigger was a seesaw, carrying containers of equal amounts of water on both ends. Water leaked out of one container, drop by drop, resulting in an imbalance after a few minutes. The seesaw toppled and pressed the trigger, following which the rock was launched.
Right as the rock was about to collide into the Bio Bomb, the latter assud flight. But unlike before, the Hidden Eye appeared on another side of the Bio Bomb, causing the rock to miss it.
Inala then created an encirclent of catapults, repeating the experint. The rock from one of them successfully landed on the Hidden Eye, causing the respective catapult to be erased. All the other catapults were safe though.
After rocks, Inala made the catapults launch Bio Bombs next, observing no difference from the rock experint. 'Both matter and energy substances can interact with it and the result is the sa in both cases.'
Next, Inala headed into the depths of the ocean, creating a Bio Bomb within another Bio Bomb. But this ti, the space within the two wasn't large enough to accommodate the Hidden Eye.
As the outer Bio Bomb hovered on the ocean bed, the inner Bio Bomb assud flight. At that ti, Inala observed a hair-thin line appearing in the ocean. The Hidden Eye had erased that part to create a line of sight.
However, the depths of the ocean were dark. And hence, it couldn't see despite creating a line of sight. Moreover, the Hidden Eye didn't enter the water.
'Its condition for erasing flight is to prevent anyone from flying out of Sumatra. Even if there is a large enough air pocket within the water, flight there cannot result in the existence flying out of Sumatra, since they're within the water.' Inala thought, 'However, as it's an eye, it relies on sight to function. And since it cannot see at the depths, it cannot target the Bio Bomb even when it's flying.'
"I have enough information now." Inala grinned, "Ti to begin preparations."
He knew the Hidden Eye was glitching now, unable to perform its functions as intended by the rules forming its existence. "A bit more and I'll be ready. First,"
He stared in the direction of the surface, "I need to exhaust its power."
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