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Ten years.
Elayne had achieved the impossible in that timeframe, by repeating farming techniques on mushrooms and moss that grew in the Netherworld.
She had done something as ridiculous as recreating farming from scratch to suit the "death" and "souls" carried through the Netherworld and all its living and unliving beings.
By letting those plants live inside her own body and cultivating them by feeding them her soul, they, in exchange, grew to love her and even communicate with her.
Unlike the plants of the living world, this moss and these mushrooms fed directly on the very essence of souls. Elayne had nothing else they could want more than that.
Thus, after ten years of diligence—without breaking her spirit for a single second—Elayne cultivated her soul and her mind.
And so, her surroundings became a farm whenever she wished it.
Spells? Skills?
Perhaps they had some meaning to her, but beyond that... she was achieving the ability to freely manipulate energies and elements, recreating the effects of spells and skills without needing them.
Thus, through {Farming Terrain Expansion: Netherworld Garden}, Elayne took over the entire arena and caused tremendous chaos.
Using the unique power of the plants that grew in the Netherworld, she absorbed their energy and gained an enormous, temporary surplus of power, while weakening as many foes as she could.
Her rebellion had finally begun!
And to the faces of all high-ranking Undead and Netherworld Races present, this one zombie everyone had looked down upon...
Became a genuine threat to all!
"Demon King of Death, you should’ve made sure you destroyed my soul thoroughly. You will pay for your carelessness. I will not stop until I completely dismantle your Kingdom into the ground!"
Elayne roared loudly. As she swung her sword forward, a glitching mass of energy struck the flaming, radiant slashes of Mark.
Now turned into a vengeful, mindless undead, Mark didn’t even recognize her. He fought with the intention of killing her and destroying her soul.
BOOOM!
Explosions of flames and Netherworld energy erupted through the arena as Elayne ran toward the barrier in front of her, Mark rapidly following.
She felt deeply saddened by what had happened to Mark and was crying at that moment...
However, the plan had to go on, no matter what.
A part of her had expected something like this to happen, and in those ten years, Elayne had mentally prepared herself for the worst.
And this... was also the reason she asked Shade to teach her how to dismantle curses from souls.
But above all, Elayne had happily achieved one of her goals—
To enrage the bastard of Blaze, who had separated her from Mark and tortured his soul to the point of insanity.
FLASH!
From within the dark pit, an explosion of blue, green, and golden light erupted.
The millions of mushroom colonies and moss Elayne had diligently planted for ten years were not for nothing, nor were they left behind.
All of their power began to gather, unifying into a crystallized core. At the same time, Elayne revealed her chest, opening it to show a glowing green crystal, with moss and mushrooms growing inside her body.
This crystal was nothing else but a Spiritual Heart, a heart she had forged using the last fragment stored inside her soul. It glowed dark green, releasing nether and ghostly energies mixed with nature and spirit energy.
Before the eyes of all spectators present, Elayne drew power from her modified body, filled with mushrooms and moss, from her surroundings, and from what Little Hope was doing—all for this moment.
"Gardenia, it’s time to wake up."
With a single command, a dormant ancient great spirit within her soul suddenly opened her eyes.
At the same time, within the dark pit, Little Hope was standing there.
She had disappeared out of nowhere thanks to her special ability.
Little Hope and everyone thrown into the pit had a special ability that deemed them unique enough not to be ground up into pills.
Little Hope’s special ability was "Soul Exchange."
Like the advanced power of Liches, she could freely switch her soul between bodies, as long as she had a main storage for her soul, something similar to a phylactery.
Elayne helped Little Hope designate the giant crystallization of nether, ghostly energy, nature, and spirit energy within the dark pit as her phylactery.
The essence of all the flora Elayne had farmed underground rapidly gathered and crystallized.
And this crystal was...
"Now, Little Hope! Use the power of the Domain Core!"
A Domain Core, the same type of core that existed within her world on Earth.
All conditions had been met during Elayne’s time down there.
She expanded her territory, spread spirit and nature energy, and imprinted her very essence and soul into the soil.
Thus, she solidified her ownership of the land, crystallizing a Domain Core.
Space rapidly warped!
BZZZZTTT!
"W-What?!"
Blazer gasped as he saw his surroundings warping and changing.
He couldn’t believe that through mushrooms and moss, someone could go this far.
Seeing how the nobles struggled and glared at him angrily, Blazer roared—
"YOU DAMN WOMAN! I WILL PERSONALLY EXECUTE YOU!"
He raged, riding his three-headed infernal hound and charging toward Elayne.
Elayne looked into his blazing eyes.
She was being sandwiched between two monstrous blazing skeletons.
But that was just perfect.
She quickly encompassed her body with ghostly flames, kicked the ground with all her power, and jumped high into the sky.
At the same time, Mark and Blazer met.
"Ugh?!"
"GRAAAHHH!"
Mindlessly swinging his giant blazing sword, Mark struck Blazer with all his might, sending the commander flying with an immense, furious attack.
BOOOM!
"Gaaaha?!"
Blazer vomited nether from his skeletal jaws. A huge cleaving wound appeared across his face and skeletal body, his hands trembling in disbelief.
"Y-You damn bastard! Who do you think you’re harming?! Obey me! I am your master! Go kill her! HER!"
"GRAAAHHHH!!!"
However, Mark roared monstrously and mindlessly.
Blazer, at that moment, realized he had made a mistake.
By torturing Mark’s soul to the point of madness and then beyond that...
He had made him so monstrous and primal that it became impossible for Mark to properly follow orders.
Especially once he started going berserk, nothing could stop his rampage.
Blazer groaned, swinging his pair of blazing swords as he clashed against Mark’s giant blazing blade.
"I raised you; you damn piece of garbage! Obey me!"
Blazer swung his twin blades, unleashing a barrage of slashing attacks and covering Mark’s body with scratches...
Yes, merely scratches.
"HEHEHEH! GYEHEHEHE!"
Mark laughed madly as he attacked Blazer. The more damage Mark received, the stronger he became—his flames glowing even brighter with more intensity.
"Go on Mark! Beat him!"
"Tch! Hellhound! Kill that woman!"
"Woof!"
Blazer quickly sent his three-headed hound to attack Elayne, who was now dismantling the barrier with her Ghostly Nature Aura.
And... the help of a certain someone.
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