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"Indeed, count on us. We won't leave you. We had also considered going away, but only if you wanted to. If you don't, we'll stay for sure.

" Said Ervas.

"Yeah! We can stay here and do whatever we can, which is a lot! So don't fear, we can make up something.

" said Veronica.

"I am here too by the way, so I'll help however I can.

" Said Aurora.

"Me too!

" said Violet while raising a tiny hand, she was enjoying her ice cream and waving her cute fluffy tail.

"Thank you everyone…

" said Anastacia.

"I am very thankful as well.

" Said Juliette.

"Now… there's something I must reveal you. Alongside the Hivemind growing restless and slowly trying to get out into the planet's surface, there's something more. The entire Hivemind had been doing this for a million years now, ever since it was thrown into the ground…

" said Yggdrasil.

Everyone looked at Yggdrasil with contempt, falling silent and carefully hearing her words… there was indeed something important that she wanted to say now.

"You see, since the beginning that my life began that I've been connected with the Hivemind through my roots, and therefore, I've been able to

"hear

" and also

"see

" what it often tries to do, using this, I anticipate it and try to stop it. But there was something that it had begun to do that seemed harmless to the world, which was… absorbing the pollution, toxicity, and more….

" said Yggdrasil.

"The what?

" asked Veronica.

"You mean…?

" asked Ervas.

"Indeed, the Hivemind absorbed these energies, materials, gases, and more to feed itself, but also… it unknowingly began to cleanse the world that it left into a catastrophe. When it fell, a massive amount of ashes emerged atop the sky which covered the planet in darkness for many years, but the Hivemind absorbed this and I also helped a bit, which ended in cleansing the planet easily. It even purified the oceans and more… it was surprising. But I didn't realized something… all of this wasn't just to feed itself but at the end it used all this energy for itself, and mutated, it turned into an even more abyssal entity, dwelling deep underground… It was noy only just an alien, but it had become the embodiment of darkness and pollution, toxicity, and all that there was in this world after The Fall…

" said Yggdrasil.

Everyone was left shocked, what they had heard was something surprising and many even opened their eyes wide open. What had happened in the past was always way more complex than it seemed to be… it was always like this at the end.

They realized that Yggdrasil was no pranking around or trying to give them a funny joke for them to laugh at it or something. she was indeed saying the truest truth…

In resume, the Hivemind had been absorbing all pollution in the world left after The Fall, and it purified it. Yggdrasil who was connected to it helped it because it found that it was helpful and utilized the Hivemind to hasten the rebirth of the planet into more plant life and animal life.

However, she realized way too late that all these massive quantities of toxicity and pollution would end up mutating and evolving the Hivemind into an even more abyssal, dark, and utterly monstrous entity that crawled in the depths of the underground.

This way, the Hivemind actually grew way stronger than before, and its level of power hastened the ability it had to fight back against Yggdrasil's powers… it had become the embodiment of contamination, pollution, and toxicity while Yggdrasil was all its complete opposites. Both opposing forces had been fighting in the background of this world for eons without anyone realizing it, Yggdrasil has been trying to keep things in peace ever since, but often barely managing to do so…

"I see… So such a thing has happened. That damn Hivemind!

" muttered Anastacia.

"That monster is really relentless…

" said Juliette.

"And interesting too. That thing really can adapt and absorb any energy there is? They're like the ultimate lifeform…

" said Veronica.

"In a way, it reminds me of Kireina, my main body. She also has similar capabilities… But the hivemind carries it to a completely new level.

" Said Aurora.

"A relentless species of aliens… To think it would absorb all the pollution deceiving you as if it were doing something harmless, only to utilize this very pollution to fuel itself and attack back once more after mutating and evolving into a stronger being… It really feels as if it were trolling us…

" sighed Veronica.

"Ah, quite so, I guess that's the right word to describe this monster at this point. The bastard is not giving up at all… I wonder what other form can we use to slay it or at least slow it down some more…

" said Shade.

"I think there might be a way, right? How strong is that thing anyways? Perhaps if we all gang on it… maybe…

" said Ismene.

"No, it is way too strong, we cannot easily win against it even with cheer numbers alone…

" sighed Anastacia.

"Indeed, we knew this firsthand as we had led our army of Gods long ago when we fought it… Sadly, they only ended being annihilated… All of them… and that were those that had a good end, some… even got devoured and assimilated into the Hivemind, becoming part of it and… it… it was horrendous…

" sighed Juliette.

"I see… It must have been hard… I am sorry for your loses.

" Sighed Ervas.

"Yeah… We didn't mean to make you remember that.

" Said Veronica.

"Ah no, its fine… It is long in the past. We have to keep moving forward and seek a way to avenge them for once…

" said Anastacia.

"Indeed. We have to work hard and find a way… although the news about its power growing and its form evolving are discouraging to say the least.

" Said Juliette.

"But there should be a way to defeat it, right?

" asked Violet.

Everyone looked at Violet with pale expressions… however, Veronica seemed to have an idea.

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