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The enormous Boss Monster had emerged, a gigantic salamander! It was covered by black spikes and venomous slime all over, and it possessed a powerful dark and venomous presence…

Veronica looked at the creature with a bit of indifference, it was yet another boring boss monster, and although it looked mildly cute, she didn't had the mood to tame more beasts as of now.

Ervas noticed that Veronica seemed indifferent over the gigantic salamander and quickly decided to ask her if she wanted to kill it.

"You want the EXP?

" Asked Ervas.

"Oh, well, we'll earn it all anyways, it doesn't matter who kills it, to be honest.

" Said Veronica.

"Hm, then give it a slap.

" Said Ervas.

"GRUUOOOHHHH!

"

The salamander wasn't going to stand still, it quickly pounced towards the group with a fiery charge. The venom around its body suddenly turned into a poisonous purple mist covering its body from head to toe.

This mist even allowed it to fly, taking into the skies of the stratum and reaching up to its foes. Yggdrasil looked at the scene in surprise, this Boss Monster was certainly stronger than she had anticipated.

She couldn't believe such a giant creature was dwelling inside of her roots, and she felt utterly disgusted by thinking about how many little critters there were inside of her. She felt a bit of bad deep down as she began to realize all the things inside of her…

Well, she was gigantic tree, so what could she expect? Most trees always had disgusting creature inside either living inside of them or straight up eating them alive, like parasites.

And there was certainly something that made her feel bad, seeing that slimy creature… triggered some inner disgust she had for these beings.

"Uggh… K-Kill that thing already! Why are you discussing so many pointless things?!

" she cried.

"Oh! Hahaha! Sorry, we were kind of spacing out… You know?

" laughed Veronica, as she suddenly waved her hand.

TRUUUUUUMMM…!

A gigantic phantasmal claw encompassed with pure darkness and blue flames surged from the palm of her hand. The enormous hand flew down below, crushing the salamander into the ground!

CLAAASH!

The gigantic Spike Venomous Salamander was only able to roar before Veronica pushed down her palm and this enormous phantom and darkness hand emerged, crushing it into the ground!

BOOOOM!!!

The enormous salamander had its internal organs crushed, and it even vomited a mouthful of blood, most of its bones broke as well, and its eyes rolled out… It was more than dead now.

Juliette and Anastacia noticed Yggdrasil's expressions; their little daughter was making a fuss over something very insignificant as a giant salamander monster.

Juliette, the softer of the two and the gentler, unlike Anastacia who was very tomboyish, quickly reached up to her daughter, a gentle smile adorned her beautiful face.

"D-Dear, are you feeling okay?

" she sighed.

"Ah… Yeah… Ugh, I just began to feel more disgusted the more I realize how there are so many things living inside of me…

" sighed Yggdrasil.

It was understandable, Yggdrasil was getting creeped out by imagining all these little critters wandering around her interior, anyone would get creeped out to be honest, it was something normal to feel like that, and it was rather disgusting indeed.

But she had been acting rather expressionless through the entire journey until now, realizing what this entire thing was, but a just a swarm of parasites living inside of her hit her hard, and now she even felt disgusted over something she wouldn't had minded at all before…

Anastacia and Juliette petted Yggdrasil's shoulder to calm her down, as Yggdrasil sighed and decided to not look at the corpse of the salamander.

"Okay, calm down, it is just a monster… is there something else affecting you?

" wondered Anastacia.

"Ungh… The Hivemind is emanating a strong quantity of miasma out of the sudden… I think that might be it, but I've already told you what it was doing before… The next stratum might be filled with more dangers.

" Sighed Yggdrasil.

"Maybe you should try to rest, we can handle things from here, don't worry about us. As long as I am around, I can always support everyone with my spacetime techniques!

" said Aurora, trying to calm down Yggdrasil.

After all, Yggdrasil had been with everyone else because she had been acting as a guide, but now, she felt rather exhausted of everything, and wanted to take a rest for the moment

"Yeah, I think the same, come on now, go to rest.

" Said Veronica.

"You can enter our divine realm, right? Calm down your mind there. We'll do you some soul and mind therapy, free of charge.

" Said Ervas.

"Fine…

" sighed Yggdrasil, she quickly flew to rest for a bit, her state was worsening the more her avatar got closer to the Hivemind, they might not be able to completely count on her aid in the upcoming journey.

"Poor Yggdrasil, she's feeling rather ill… But would she feel better if she moves her avatar away? Isn't this still her body at the end?

" wondered Anastacia.

"Yeah its her body, but its different, down here she doesn't have the senses. However, by coming with an avatar, she can bring her senses down here and can extend them with all her roots, I believe…

" said Juliette.

"Oh, that explains it, she must feel all the living beings crawling around here… it is certainly something rather eerie…

" said Ervas.

"Yeah, I wouldn't mind it though, I always have several pets living inside of my armor anyways!

" said Veronica.

"Ah, but you're a creep though, you were born like that…

" sighed Ervas.

"W-Who are you calling a creep? Ervas!

" said Veronica, shocked of Ervas boldness.

"I am trying to be a bit more open to what I say, was I too rude? Sorry…

" said Ervas.

"Oh, no, I actually liked it- Anyways, now that Yggdra-chan is resting, what do we do with this little guy? I'll make it into zombie!

" said Veronica.

FLASH!

A large amount of phantasmal power flew over the crushed salamander, as its entire body began to wake up from death…

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