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The Hivemind, or as it called itself now, the Dark Lord of the Depths, had been planning this for a while now, it wanted to create its first Avatar within the Dungeon, and become a powerful monster that devoured other monsters and their Magic Crystals to grow stronger.

Using this powerful Avatar, which he called Demon King, he would move to the surface and begin to consume even more life! Even though it was impossible for his true body to move out, this Avatar which the entire Green Skin Tribe within the first stratum of the Dungeon has been trying to make this entire time was going to be a fine substitute!

Although it was weak and pathetic compared to his true form, it was strong enough and held special abilities transferred over to it, with it, the Dark Lord of the Depths was going to conquer the planet of Eden while the Tree of the World had no chance to defeat him now!

However, a group of nuisances showed up in the Dungeon, ending up cornering him and forcing him to prematurely summon his Avatar using the ritual he made the Goblin Shamans replicate, the Hivemind was forced to emerge from the underground where he was.

His intentions were not fighting; however, he had been forced into this situation as a last resort, his new avatar that was once going to conquer the world was supposed to use the Dungeon he had built this entire time to nurture itself with the life of the monsters and the rich energy they had, especially in their Magic Crystals.

Ultimately, he would make a powerful Avatar with an all-consuming power, assimilation abilities, and an even greater talent with magic than his true body. He would conquer the world with this Avatar, devour the World Trees, and free his true body from this planet cage!

However, things ended not being as he planned, his Avatar, although not his last resort but one of his most anticipated plans, ended being prematurely created, the Goblins he ha encroached and ordered to gather Magic Crystals for generations after generations of green skins were now dead alongside the last Shamans which he killed himself to nourish his new body even if a little bit.

The bodies of the goblins were consumed by his miasma-like body, as their agonizing and distorted bodies showed around his monstrous and amorphous shape, making him even more grotesque…

He was a being that could assimilate all life forms and would slowly assimilate anything to grow bigger and bigger. However, now, it was forced into a direct conflict against the nuisance, invaders from afar, probably related to the goddesses that defeated him!

"GRUUUOOHHH!

"

TRUUUUMMM!

His enormous body roared as he emerged into the surface, glaring down at the group of tasty snacks before him, he had to contain the urge of devouring and assimilating them into his body and save that task for another day! For now, it had to run as fast as it possibly could.

Veronica, Ervas, Aurora, and everyone else in the group right now noticed a gigantic monster emerging from the ground, but it didn't attacked!

"…

"

The monster glared at them and then turned on its back and began to run away…

"Oi! Where the heck are you going?!

" asked Veronica.

"He seriously had that amazing entrance but now is running away?

" sighed Ervas.

"Wait… this guy… I can detect the Hivemind energies within him!

" said Yggdrasil.

"So he's an Avatar of the big guy in the depths? I see!

" said Aurora.

"We cannot let him leave! Let's quickly kill him!

" said Juliette.

"Yeah!

" said Anastacia.

The Hivemind's Avatar began to run for his life, as it quickly started to spread its tentacles around the soil and started to assimilate the plant life all around, fusing with them and then turning them into grotesque fleshy miasma-filled plant monsters, which began to attack Veronica and Ervas party with deadly beams from their new-grown eyes across their barks.

TRUUUUUMMM!!!

Suddenly, the entire forest began to turn into a monstrous black forest, overflowing with great dark power, the plants all around, even the grass, the little mushroom, anything began to turn into monstrous black beasts that attacked the group!

CLAAASH! BOOOM!

Explosions ensued everywhere, Veronica and Ervas quickly decided that it was better to divide the group.

"Shit, this bastard…! Aurora, come with us! Yggdrasil, Juliette, Anastasia, stay with the rest of the group and protect them!

" said Veronica.

"What? But…!

" said Yggdrasil.

"Don't worry about us! I got Space Magic so I need to get closer and I can catch him!

" said Aurora.

"It won't be that long, so endure for now.

" Said Ervas.

"GROOOOARRR!

"

"GRRYYYEEGGGH…!

"

"GRAAAAOOO…!

"

Aside from plants, armies of wild beasts and monsters emerged, they were different, however, as they were mutated and mixed together, oozing with miasma-like black substance all over their bodies!

"To think this bastard can infect things and fuse them into grotesque monsters so fast… Not even five minutes have passed!

" sighed Veronica.

"Alright, we'll go, you make sure to catch him!

" said Yggdrasil.

The twins nodded and flew back to the main group, who was unleashing their magic and weapon techniques while fighting the powerful mutant chimera beasts and monsters, alongside the endless forest that was trying to destroy them as well.

Meanwhile, the Hivemind's Avatar rushed across the battlefield while panting in exhaustion, it had used a large quantity of its Mana reserves to turn a large part of this entire floor into a living hell of grotesque monstrosities, it regrated that it could not assimilate it all and gain great power, as it was desperately trying to run away, that was the priority at hand right now for this Hivemind's Avatar.

As long as it could survive, the Hivemind would have the opportunity to rise back to the top and one day and free his true body…

"I think I lost them…

" it thought, only to be surprised as space and time began to distort around him!

"W-What is this?!

"

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