[You and your Party have slain [Giant Miasmic Mushroom Chimera King: Lv100 (A+++ Rank)] x1!]
[You and your Party have slain [Miasmic Giant Mushroom Aberration (B++ Rank)] x1009!]
[You and your Party have slain [Abyssal Dark Treant King: Lv100 (A+++ Rank)] x1!]
[You and your Party have slain [Abyssal Dark Treant (B++ Rank)] x1017!]
[You and your Party have slain [Titanic Demonite Golem: Lv100 (A+++ Rank)] x1!]
[You and your Party have slain [Demonite Golem (B++ Rank)] x1002!]
[You earned 485.000.000 EXP!]
[Your Level has increased from Level 91 to Level 96!]
[All of your Stats have increased.]
[You earned Bonus System Points.]
[Your Job Class/Subclass Level has increased from Level 66 to Level 88!]
I'm getting closer to Max Level now… Three thousand of monsters, even if small fry, really give a lot of EXP… I don't know how much that huge tree will give us EXP-wise, but it must at least be over a hundred million.
"We're done with the small fry." Lucifer said, looking at the distance. "Should we advance right away?"
"I want to rest for a bit…" Takeshi sighed.
"I'm quite tired myself…" Laura agreed.
"Alright, let's take a break." I nodded. "How about we have something to eat? E-Even if the surroundings are quite lugubrious-looking. Every corpse has now become an undead, so you can think of them as… friends."
"I guess there's no helping it." Emeraldine sighed. "I am quite tired myself too…"
"Let's have a meal then!" Partner agreed. "I'm starving!"
"I'm quite hungry too." Lucifer groaned.
"Me too." Jonathan sighed, sitting over the floor. "Hahhh… I never thought I would go against thousands of enemies…"
Mostly everyone was exhausted, even the eager Emeraldine, so even if the surroundings looked a bit creepy, we didn't had any other choice than to prepare something to eat and fill our stamina.
This is also the perfect time to talk with Emeraldine about what I spoke with Takeshi and Laura about Ash… Although I don't know if she might agree completely to it, we have to try.
"Mama, can we have beef?" Nyx flew to my side. "Beef! Beef! Beef!"
"Hehehe, okay, okay." I smiled, giving her a head pat. "Let's have beef."
"C-Can I cook something too?" Tear suddenly spoke. "It is a meal that Veredorr used to make all the time for me and my brother…" She caressed her necklace.
"Sure, feel free." I smiled. "Come, I'll bring out the portable kitchen."
I quickly took out dozens of items at once out of my Inventory, Tear quickly started making some dough, and then prepared tomato sauce with grounded beef she had prepared beforehand.
Oh, she was making noodles?! Was that what Veredorr always made for her? Honestly, I can't even imagine Veredorr being a cheerful young man, I only remember him as a gloomy, and silent ghost.
To think that Tear holds such different and precious memories of him… It makes me kind of happy that she knows a completely different face of him.
"It's done! It is called Bolognese Pasta!" Said Tear. "I-I don't know if it is as tasty as how Veredorr used to make it but- Huh?!"
She quickly realized everyone started eating the noodles without hesitation. The tomato sauce was delicious, made from fresh dungeon-grown tomatoes from the dwarf country dungeons. The ground beef was a combination of polar bear meat and frost snake meat, both were quite tender once grounded so much.
The spices were quite simple, but there was indeed oregano, salt, and some pepper added into the whole mix, making the sauce fragrant and delicious. The only thing missing was parmesan cheese, which we sadly lacked.
"Ahh, it's so good!" Emeraldine said happily. "Did Veredorr really made such a tasty meal for you, Tear?"
"Y-Yeah!" Tear smiled happily. "It was my favorite meal when he made it for us… I wish he could be here, so I could food with him…" She smiled sorrowfully, eating the noodles.
"I'm sure he would love them." Lucifer said.
"For sure!" Jonathan agreed.
"It is really good." I nodded. "Well done, Tear! I never thought you had the knack for cooking."
"Heheh… I-I've been practicing… mostly to destress a bit." She smiled faintly.
"Tashty!" Nyx said. "Big sis Tear, can I has moar?"
"I-I didn't thought you would like it that much! Sure." Tear giggled, giving Nyx even more.
She also served us all a second plate, while the stew and grilled meat I was making was getting ready. I had also started making a pizza I had pre-made beforehand. Why? Well, I was craving pizza.
Even in these perilous moments, it is always important to gather together, and eat something with the family, to make bonds together, and grown attached some more.
"Ahh, the stew is ready! Is somebody still hungry?" I wondered.
"YEAH!" Everyone agreed, it seemed that as we grew stronger, our appetite did as well.
We ended eating the meat stew, and then the grilled meat which Nyx requested, and later we devoured the huge pizza I made. After eating so many foods made with the Cooking Skill, we gained a lot of buffs to our stats.
And while we ate, we also talked about what we discussed with the twins with Emeraldine, and she seemed to agree with it.
"If Ash… is truly sorry, and maybe was manipulated, then I think it is the right thing to help him somehow. Once we confront him… or see what's truly happening there, we can take a proper decision." She nodded.
"I guess that's better than just going for his head." Lucifer said. "Though… was that tree so big before it transformed?" Lucifer wondered.
The tree was over fifty times bigger than his own dragon form, so it was definitely not something easy to tackle, not at all.
"No, it was much smaller… It is as if its expanding." Emeraldine sighed with concern. "The Spirit Tree… We have to go."
"I agree. Let's get this done with." I nodded, leading our large party, and thousands of Undead.