Maria emerged within the landscape of the Dungeon Core, as she found herself within a completely black space- no, it was a strange landscape, a world of darkness and purple energy. A red moon on top of the night sky, and aberrant-looking trees decorated the place everywhere. This place… resembled her own Soul Scape, in fact!
"Ah! This place… to think the Fragment has been parasitizing the Dungeon Core enough to form a complex Soul Scape inside already! What the heck was it planning to do next?" Wondered Tyr.
"Is this bad?" Wondered Maria, feeling slightly concerned.
"Yeah! This means the Fragment has been parasitizing the Dungeon Core so much it has developed the Dungeon's Core soul. It might had been trying to completely transform the Dungeon into… something else." Tyr answered.
"Something else… Like a giant monster?" Asked Maria. "Wait, that's it, isn't it?"
"Yeah, its ability to devour the mountain was already strange enough! It was slowly evolving a Dungeon and transforming it more and more into a new type of creature…" Tyr said.
And from within the very Soul Scape, the Evil God Fragment finally confronted us. This one had the amorphous shape of a dragon, made of black slime, and with glowing red eyes all over its body… did it took the shape of Crystal because it is its Dungeon Core Avatar?
"You dare enter my core… Do you truly believe you'll get out of this alive?! You're sure cocky to think you can win against me because you have a small fragment with you… I have grown vastly stronger than him in this time… If I had only been given a few more years, I could had completely awakened this dungeon's truest form! Well, I'll be able to do this even sooner once I devour you two!"
The enormous Miasmic Dragon rushed towards Maria and Tyr, shaped as a gigantic snake-like dragon with enormous wings and sharp claws made of crystalized miasma, it fell directly over Maria and Tyr, unleashing a barrage of attacks and Miasmic Flames everywhere!
CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!!!
Maria had to step back. The power of this Fragment was indeed way vaster than she had originally believed! It held enormous charging power and even more, miasmic potency! It was overflowing with insanely high quantities of Mana to boot, and it seemed to be endlessly growing larger.
The Miasmic Dragon roared, its enormous claws hitting the ground where Maria was seconds ago once more, shaking the ground around it. Maria quickly conjured several Dark Suns and fired them at the Miasmic Dragon, explosions of darkness and miasma reverberated the surroundings, shaking the entire place!
However, the Miasmic Dragon easily tanked the blows, all damage it received, which was big enough to leave enormous holes all over the monstrous slimy creature, regenerated in an instant, as if it had taken no damage to begin with!
"Useless! Your attacks have no power against me!"
The Miasmic Dragon laughed, as it started chasing Maria while she continued conjuring magic, trying out what could work against it!
"[Abyssal Lightning Storm]!"
An enormous storm of Dark Winds and Black Lightning reached the Miasmic Dragon, electrifying it and slicing it into pieces through the power of electricity and slicing winds combined together!
However, it seemed not enough, the beast immediately regained its former appearance, charging against Maria once more. Its tail shaped, materializing sharp crystal-like growths with a sharp spear-like end! With it, it quickly started aiming at Maria, attempting to pierce through her soul with these powerful blows!
CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!
Maria evaded as she could, conjuring Abyssal Barriers to defend, but many of such blows pierced through her soul directly, tearing apart her soul as small bits of it were torn apart, and quickly absorbed by the Fragment!
"Hahahaha! Your soul is sure a delicious feast!"
The Fragment laughed while attacking Maria. The ghost's eyes glowed bright red as she invoked several skills together, her axe and her sword suddenly converged, melding with her own soul and miasma, generating a larger sword at the same time as a powerful Abyssal Domain spread around her!
"Let's try something different then! [Abyssal Void Slash]!"
Maria unleashed a powerful slash using this powerful new weapon she had improvised, a temporary and powerful giant sword made by merging her two weapons, her soul, and her spiritual miasma together into one!
The powerful slash of chaotic power reached the Miasmic Dragon, piercing through its body not only just once, but several times and then splattering it everywhere as it exploded!
The Miasmic Dragon struggled momentarily, but it quickly came back like new, laughing maliciously as it grew larger and more monstrous, it even gained a new pair of heads, which quickly charged Miasmic Energy and even Divine Power within, unleashing a Triple Dragon Breath!
The enormous beams converged into one, super massive beam which began devastating the landscapes as it chased after Maria. The ghostly enchantress quickly conjured several Chaotic Meteors, one after the other to attack and distract the Miasmic Dragon, but this only did as much!
"GRAHAHAHA…! USELESS!!"
The Miasmic Dragon merely regenerated all damage dealt anyways, shocking Maria to the core. It was even able to resist and block such powerful attacks, just how strong could this vicious Fragment actually be?!
And at the same time, the Miasmic Dragon's Triple Dragon Breath reached her, exploding on the spot and generating a devastating blast!
The Evil God Fragment laughed, looking at Maria's pitiful soul as it had shrank from all that damage… her power was fading away as her soul's size reduced.
"It's over… Give it up and become part of my own self!"
Maria gritted her teeth, readying herself for battle as she rushed forwards, her beautiful maiden shape quickly changing once more, as she unleashed her transformation skills on top of being fused with Tyr!
"You're the one that's going to get eaten here…"