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A purple-feathered woman with sharp crimson-red eyes and a sharp and long black beak, covered in golden accessories around her beautiful, feathered body looked down at the scene from within a crystal ball. She had prepared a nice distraction for the annoying girl this time around.

Using the amazing artifacts given to them by the Dark Lord of the Depths, which they had harvested from the World's Tree Labyrinth Entrances located around the entire world, they were able to bring forth the Dark Lord's Spawns.

Indeed, the very spawns that had grown to an insane level in the depths of this world were brought here, but only a handful, and they required sustenance.

The moment they were summoned, they viciously attacked the people around and began to devour them alive, assimilating them into their bodies and adding them as mass for their growth and energy.

Using the eye-shaped pendant, a special artifact with the power to command the Dark Lord's Spawns, the woman smiled maliciously as she ordered the spawns to go kill the girl.

Unlike other times, she was more confident that they would have a large change of winning, or at the very least, they will be able to distract her and buy them enough time for them to be able to complete the long ritual.

She looked into the beast quickly move away, their amorphous beings that constantly malformed and shaped around into weird masses of flesh quickly began to crawl away into the forest, seeking the mana-rich girl that would become an excellent meal.

If they could become able to assimilate her and acquire her incredible magic talent, these spawns could become a formidable entity within the ranks of the Dark Lord of the Depth's spawns created out of his flesh.

The woman leisurely walked across her room and reached a large hall where many magic circles and formations were being set. The hall was so spacious it would be almost as big as a small stadium on Earth.

There were several artifacts lying over the floor, connected through magic circles engraved in the floor, the last things were already being settled, and soon, they would all be able to see the glory of their lord, after having acquired all artifacts over hundreds of years since the creation of their Cult…

"Fufu, everything will soon be arranged, my lord… Don't worry…

" she said with a pleasant smile.

…

Meanwhile, the horrors that had emerged from within the forest surprised Manationia as Octo told her what they were the moment he realized it and received info from his creators.

"Uegh! More weird things? What are these things?!

" asked Manationia.

"T-Those are… No way! Hivemind's Spawns… But how could they be brought to the surface if the split souls and everyone else is fighting against them down there?! Did they had a way to summon them here?!

" asked Octo in surprise.

"Octo! Explain yourself!

" said Manationia.

Octo gritted his teeth.

"This monster is a spawn of the entity you fought in your dreams, Manationia! Remember that bastard that molested you while you were sleeping in your dreams? The one you slapped in the face with dream magic? Well, that bastard is living down there leisurely, the ones that gave you the apple are trying to stop him from going nuts!

" said Octo.

"Wait, what?! That's a lot of info dumping done out of nowhere!

" she said.

"You kind of knew half of the story already anyways, don't complain to me like that! That bastard is as strong as a god!

" said Octo.

The three ghosts of the aristocrats reached her and began to explain.

"The cultists possess special artifacts!

"

"They used them to probably summon the aberrations…

"

"Be careful, master!

"

After they died, Manationia tamed their souls and they ended becoming ghosts, regaining part of their sanity before converting into aberrant monsters, they held a great hate against the Cultists that betrayed them and converted them into monsters, and wanted to help her as much as they could.

"So these are like spawns of that monster?!

" asked Manationia.

"Manationia! Watch out!

" said Octo.

"GROOOARRR!

"

Suddenly, the five aberrant masses of flesh jumped into action, as their bodies began to grow larger and suddenly Manationia noticed they were not just growing, they were detaching their own flesh from one another.

But why?

"What are they doing?! …Wait! Is that self-division? They're trying to swarm us through self-division and numbers? Ugh! Why everyone just wants to kill me so badly!

" she sighed.

Manationia quickly got into action as she commanded her Undead troops, boosting their power using her Magic and Physical power-boosting Buff Spells, which began to spread over her almost a hundred soldiers!

FLAAAASH!

A bright aura of power encompassed them all, as she fueled them with her enormous pool of Mana.

The almost a hundred Undead quickly got into action, pointing their eyes at the beasts in front of them and conjuring all sorts of elemental magic against them!

A thunderous and colorful spectacle of elemental magic continued to fall over the aberrations one after the other, thunderbolts, fireballs, piercing water spears, spiraling vortexes of wind, consuming shadow tentacles, bright light arrows, enormous boulders of stone, and more!

This is the power that Manationia had managed to make, combining her magic around, why did she even need to fight by herself so much if she could synchronize with the many Undead, she had risen this entire time?

As mana less wild animals turned into Undead, they gained magic and magic affinity, and even awakened elements if she stimulated their bodies and souls using her own mana.

Using her power over the Undead through Death Magic and using all other elemental magics as support to boost their power and making their magic even stronger.

She had come out with this idea by herself, but Octo further enhanced it by giving her ideas that he knew from his creators!

The elemental attacks caught the spawns off-guard, who were leisurely dividing themselves!

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

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