Before sunrise[1], Adam and his forces were up. The air was suffocating and the pressure palpable, so much so that even the chattiest concepts did not wish to utter a single word. No, they were just not able to do so.
"Tsara, are you ready?"
"I'm as prepared as anyone could possibly be in this situation... but it doesn't mean that I am not afraid of what's to come."
"I know I put a lot of weight on your shoulders, but that is because you are my most trustworthy teammate. If there is anyone who can do this it's gotta be you, the sturdiest of the pillars that lift me towards the heavens, the one whom I can always count to have my back."
"Th-thank you... Adam"
The hours passed, and while the stress only piled up, the forces were more riled up to win than ever before. As the plan stated, they began the surprise attack as the first ray of light appeared in the sky.
Yumud appeared, her being the water that Caravela sailed in. First she commanded the water to shape itself as a hand, then an arm, then another hand, then the other arm, after these a female torso was formed and lastly, a head with long hair attached to it, hair that ended with waves. This was the form Yumud had chosen to be in to partake in the fight.
"Foolish human and his forces"
She spoke in a tone that felt as soothing as the calm water of the lake, but as powerful as a tsunami. It was like a goddess speaking to her children through their minds, but this was not in anyone's mind, this was the actual way the words were spoken.
"Why do you seek to bring me down? Why do you have to go and slip away from my embrace? You do recall I am 60%[2] of your bodies?"
"I, the concept of humanity known as Adam, will rise to become the pinnacle of all concepts in order to understand the various layers of my existence."
"Adam... so that is your name. I am Yumud, the concept of water. I will say this only once. Back down from the fight or die."
"I will fight people stronger than yourself in order to fulfill my goal. So I shall not yield to a mere stepping stone on my path."
"You are nothing when comparing your power to mine yet you say that I am a mere stepping stone! How... amusing."
"We will see if your opinion of me is correct only if we fight."
As soon as Adam said this, Tsara released her strongest attack. Shells of Rifled and artillery cannons were fired at a gatling gun's fire rate. This was the attack Tsara called Light the sky ablaze.
Yumud got hit by the attack, her body made out of water absorbed a lot of the damage, but it still annoyed her that she not only got hit, but also felt the blow damage her.
The next attack came from Indra. Electricity surged through his body and flew towards the water figure. Yumud had long understood that Indra was a big threat she had to deal with in this fight, so she made her body more resistant to electricity in the places where Indra was trying to hit her.
What is electricity?
Electricity is the resulting energy created due to the existence of charged particles, examples being protons and electrons. It can appear statically as an accumulation of charge or dynamically as a current.
Indra appears to be an 11 year old boy. His appearance is pretty ordinary, with the only things that stand out being his white hair and his electric blue eyes.
The appearances of the concepts fighting could not be more different, and that only added to the weirdness of the fight. A boy with white hair versus a water giant. How could this fight ever be fair?
Indra got hit by a single punch from yumud and got knocked out, while she only took a tiny bit of damage from his full charge.
"I-I don't understand, how come none of our attacks work?"
Muttured Vasco
"Well, maybe we underestimated her when she is not enraged, I guess that between her experience as a concept and her not being in a frenzy help her quite a lot. Wouldn't you say that is the situation that is going on, Adam?"
"I can't say I disagree, Tsara."
"I have an idea Adam, it is a concept whom you created to show me the consequences of my avarice."
"Wait, Greed. Are you saying that Garb, the concept of pollution will be able to help?"
"Exactly"
"Then lets give it a try."
Garb used his abilities to make himself a physical form. This form was just a pile of garbage from various places. Wood from sunken ships, food that had gone bad and ashes from fires were all sticking together thanks to a mysterious yellow ooze. The only thing more disgusting than Garb's appearance was his smell. A stench so strong it could be felt from a mile.
Afterwards, Garb started using his ability on Yumud, and she not only started turning green from the ooze, but also got a lot of debris stuck to her form.
Argh
She screamed, unable to contain the obvious pain she felt.
"How dare you!"
She grabbed Caravela, shaking the concept of a ship until Garb fell from her.
Yumud was now getting angry.
"You pests. I will make you suffer the pain you made me fell a thousand fold."
She grabbed Garb and squashed him until he fainted from the pain. She then threw him onto Caravela, making a loud thud.
"Tsara, give it your all in the next shot."
"I'll try my best!"
Tsara charged up a shot, one so powerful it would make most constant level concepts cower in fear. But it required time, time that they did not have. So, in order to get the needed time, Adam did his own move.
"Caravela, I'm doing the thing."
"Are you sure about this, it is not a surefire way to in."
"I know we are not winning with this, but we just have to hold him off until Tsara is ready."
"Got it."
Adam when into Caravela's crow's nest. From there, energy flowed from Adam's palm and flowed into Caravela. This energy is Adam's creation power.
Creation power is a rare ability only possessed by two concepts, the concept of Something, who is made out of this power, and Adam. Creation power is what allows for a concept to create another, make a concept more powerful or create a mindscape that, if the concepts are familiar enough, allows them to share their consciousness and bodies.
As Adam's creation power was shared with Caravela, Adam began his plan to draw out the fight long enough for Tsara's next shot.
Yumud was mad, her wrath second only to the concept of wrath. This was her most powerful, yet, she felt that those she had treated as mere bugs actually posed great threat to her. That combined with her already critical condition, made her think she might actually lose.
Yumud used her abilities to turn the clear sky into a massive storm, made the water go feral, waves hitting Caravela from all sides, and she herself tried to use her physical form to punch the concept of a ship into pieces.
Adam was in control. he felt the pain afflicting Caravela and she felt his. Adam managed to evade Yumud's punches, but it was hard and made him realise he would not be able to keep this level of creation power flowing for very long.
Seeing as they were dodging her attacks Yumud thought it would be better if she could just hit them, regardless of their dodging capabilities, so she made the water pressure around the ship way higher, to such a level only found in the deepest oceans[3].
Adam was coating Caravela with creation power, this way it could withstand the immense amount of pressure it was under. But in order to maintain his defences he had to drop speed, which would no longer matter if the body was destroyed.
Reacting to this. Yumud made use of sea currents to make the currents hitting the ship's front and back the same, but making the middle's go the opposite direction.
Adam was reaching his limits from the pressure and now the currents were draining the last drops of creation power out of him.
Just as Adam reached his limits, backup arrived. It was Kyle, the concept of emotions. He threw chains made out of his unique emotion energy, these chains overflowed with calm energy, quickly making Yumud relax, and so her powers were dissipated. Adam breathed a sigh of relief , knowing that she would not attack so soon.
Tsara finished her preparations, aiming at the head of the now stationary Yumud. She shot her strongest Light the sky ablaze ever, knocking Yumud out.
This was the way the concept of a human defeated the concept of water, conquering the waters in his own name.
[1] Please keep in mind that the concepts in the conceptual realm behave just like the thing they embody. This means that the concept of the sun lights up the conceptual realm, and that the concepts which live in it live in the concepts of the environment they would normally be found on.
[2] Average percentage of water in a human body as told by various websites.
[3] The maximum amount of pressure we know of in any ocean is around 1086 bars, 15750 psi or about 1071 times standard atmospheric pressure at sea level. This amount of pressure is the same as being squashed by 100 elephants. The pressure here is greater than that.