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The overwhelming power of the Undead and Plant troops summoned by Ervas, and Veronica was nothing to scoff at! Their might was incredible and even if they were small compared to the giant Crystal Tree, they received great boosts to their power through the other variety of abilities within the Job Medals, making them formidable small fighters, combining tall their strength together, they were overwhelming the Crystal Tree, breaking the crystals she used to fire beams, and slowly biting on her crystal roots, which slowed down her ability to drain energy from the divine realm and made her weakened!
"Ungh…! This can't be! I am incredibly strong… The Crystal Tree that has been veneered for millions of years! The power of my believers, it has gathered inside of me… To protect my mothers! I mustn't falter!"
However, she was very stubborn, to the point she struggled to live and fight constantly, her crystals beams destroyed several Undead and Plants in front of her with deadly powerful explosive beams, while some of her other abilities also showed up as she began to shape this energy she used in her beams and made powerful crystal and energy soldiers to fight off the smaller armies she couldn't properly discern!
Ervas and Veronica continued to enhance their army and summon more, as Ervas constantly created and fired Yggdrasil Monster Seeds into the field for new Plant monsters to be born, until a few Supreme God-level plants emerged, a sunflower and a peashooter! The peashooter's power was formidable, each pea exploded into a massive explosion that spread across almost a kilometer if not more, while the sunflower's sunlight beam was so strong it left small holes across the roots of the crystal tree!
BOOOMMM!!! BOOOMMM!!!
Meanwhile, Veronica utilized the power of her Undead, ordering them to march forward as they detonated into loud explosions, while others released deathly beams of death magic and darkness, and some others bathed the tree roots with physical attacks.
Veronica suddenly smiled maliciously as she decided to act more evilly, she started to generate a powerful technique which she called Death Ring, absorbing the souls of her divine realm, and using them as fuel to enhance the death ring's power, which spin around incessantly, annihilating anything it came in contact with and slashing through it all!
The massive ring of darkness and death essence spun at immense speeds and absorbed souls to fuel itself, spinning faster and faster as the Undead began to sacrifice themselves to enhance this new ability Veronica had come out with!
SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!
The massive ring of death continued its deadly trajectory as the massive roots of the tree began to fall apart one by one, the Crystal Tree groaning in pain, her crystal soldiers were strong too, but not enough to overwhelm the power of even more troops made by Veronica and Ervas!
"Ngh… Stop! Stop already!" cried the Crystal Tree, incapable of keep going with this, she felt like she was weakening way too fast, and might die if she continued this!
"Finally calmed down a bit?" asked Veronica.
"A bit of pain always helps." Said Ervas.
"Ungh… Agh… Y-You're truly detestable! How can you do this to a sacred being such as myself? I am… all broken down!" cried the Crystal Tree, suddenly her personality gave a switch.
"You get that for being so angry and attacking us. You know that those beams were disintegrating us, right?" asked Veronica.
"Indeed, you went a bit too far for your tantrum." Said Ervas.
"T-Tch! I just wanted to let out my anger! How could you show up now acting all selfishly when my mothers sacrificed themselves to fight against the threats that came here, always praying for your help to come like you promised… but you never came!" roared the tree.
"Can you at least tell us what happened? And who is this threat you're speaking about?! And what's up with the girls? I can clearly sense they're sleeping, and alive!" said Veronica.
"Ungh… It frustrates me so much that I have to explain things that everyone knows to you… useless parents!" cried the tree.
"We are sorry for not having come back earlier, but as we stated before, the time differences made it, so billions of years passed here compared to the months in our world." Said Ervas.
"How could you not tell beforehand then?! You should had left more help! You don't know the terrible catastrophe that underwent through this world, did you not noticed the massive crater there is in the middle of the main continent?!" asked the tree.
"Crater?!" asked Veronica.
"Ah… Wait, that tree… it is growing from it, isn't it?" asked Ervas.
"My mothers created that tree which they named Yggdrasil to defeat the threat that had fallen into the world, they used the tree to absorb and parasitize the weakened being, but even now, it lays dormant deep down…" said the tree.
"WAIT WHAT?! Can you please explain this from the beginning?!" asked Veronica
"Explain things from the beginning? So you want me to talk about how my mothers spent their entire lives alone in this desolate planet as they slowly saw the world develop?" asked the tree.
"Well, that's the task we gave them!" said Veronica.
"We made sure to make two of them so they could keep each other's company… But they were essentially our clones… to think that after billions of years, they would grow so different from our original selves…" sighed Ervas.
"Of course they would do it, dummy! Look at me, I have developed greatly, and I am not even like my original self, Kireina… I even named myself anew so I could take into this new personality and identity." Said Aurora, reaching the two.
"And who is this being in front of me? I can see its presence overflowing the place too… despite not being as strong as you two, this being's ability over space and time is formidable…" said the Crystal Tree, glaring down at Aurora with its powerful presence, it didn't had eyes though.
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