"Waaaah!" Yvlena said falling to her knees oery floor, she held her hands to her head and then searched the water for any signs of the amphibian.

  Crote swam about, paying her no mind as she pounded her fists against the water whining for her sword back.

  "Ugh," she groaned, shaking the water off her hands and standing up to stomp her foot once more in frustration.

  Her eyes fell oimer telling her she had already wasted a minute pouting. The urgency made her spring to a, ing up with a pn sure tainst the frog.

  "Alright, I've got to brew the freeze potion," she said running over to the tree stump Crote had previously rested on. Yvlena hoisted herself up, just enough to keep the effects of the Water Resistant Elixir from wearing off.

  Stepping on something even as small as the wooden stump would t as solid ground and risk ruining her ability to tihe fight on water.

  "Gotta brew the potion and lure him out with the rancid pork, I'm so lucky I have that!" Yvlena said, adding the ingredients to the boiling pot and waiting for the potion to cook.

  Behihe summons monitored the giant frog leisurely swimmih the water.

  Rabbit Knight stomped his foot hard, trying to get Crote's attention, to no avail, the frog didn't even gn their dire.

  Sprite bsted a few stings at the water with the same results. The summons exged looks with each other, running to Yvlena's side to see if they could be of help.

  They watched her stir the potion, w what she was cooking up.

  [Yvlena Acquired

  Freeze Potion x3]

  "Got it," Yvlena said. "Only one way to find out, but I'm sure these bottles will be enough,"

  She took the rancid pork from her iory, holding it away from her nose as she flung it towards the water and waited for Crote to emerge from the depths.

  'Bingo,' she thought as the water's surface broke with the rise of the green skinned frog.

  Crote's tongue shot out, ing around the rancid carcass and pulling it bato its mouth in one swift movement.

  [Crocate The Terrible inflicted with poison]

  "Gotcha!"

  Yvlena popped the freeze potion's cork as quickly as possible before hurling it toward the frog about to leap out of the water.

  The icy blue liquid touched the wetness causing ice to explode all around Crote's lower half. The former S Guardian struggled to rip itself free and remaiuck.

  "Attack it now," Yvlena said reag for her sword only to remember.

  "Crap! It's in Crote's stomach!" she said with a groan. She tried to remember if there was any other on in her iory, but she had gifted her beginner sword to Olivia's son, Dyn.

  "Unless..."

  Yvlena equipped the Moon Sickle and prepared for battle. She leaped at the frog and began sshing hard.

  [Yvlena Cast Harvest Skill: Wild Sweep]

  The impact of the attack wasn't just effective on Weed Mimics but on Crocate the Terrible, the being's eyes darted around until it could break free of the ice that held it down.

  Yvlena dodged the frog's flyi. Nearly being knocked back by the force of his jump. She looked at the frozen water in surprise.

  "I guess it would make sehat the freeze potion would st longer in water," Yvlena said looking at the ice fragments left by the amphibian's hasty escape.

  Her eyes followed Crote and he prepared to make another dive into the water, she opened another bottle and threw the tents to the area before he could.

  Crote dove head first, bashing its head against the newly formed ice floor for added damage against itself.

  The frog's fused croak let her know she was on to something, it set his slit eyes on her before shooting out its too seize her on again.

  [Crote The Terrible cast Tongue Whip]

  Yvlena parried, giving Rabbit Knight time to scurry up and stab Crote's tongue in a volley.

  [Rabbit Knight Cast Rabbit Volley (05MP)]

  She wielded her sickle, bringing it down on the frog's tongue as hard as she could. The sharp bde sliced right through and the sound of flesh ripping frightened her, soon, the leathery tongue wriggled and squirmed all over the S's floor. She gasped in horror as the thiered her iory.

  [Yvlena Acquired

  Leathery Frog Tongue x1]

  "Oh my God I didn't expect that to happen!" she excimed watg Crote close its mouth, now its primary means of attack was gone.

  "It won't be long now, the bleed and double poison status ailments should ki to end this," Yvlena said, looking at the timer that told her she had only two mio finish this boss before her beloved Carrot Sword would be gone forever.

  [Crote The Terrible cast bellow]

  The rge creature opes mouth and blew a fierce wind intending to sweep them out of the Tree's Hollow. But Yvlena would not allow herself to be sent out without her sword, she held her summons close to her and braced herself.

  [Yvlena Cast Harvest Skill: Wild Sweep]

  The force of her sweep cut through the rank odorous winds of the Crote's breath.

  With that final attack, Yvlena's party had secured their victory with only thirty seds left on the clock.

  The winds sliced through f Crote's mouth to snap shut, the giant frog swayed nding hard beside the tree stump that was os throne as the former S Guardian.

  Yvlena watched the frog's stomach rumble before the frog burped and spat a pieetal toward her. She reached out and caught her beloved Carrot Sword.

  The bde was bent, missing pieces along the edge. The Carrot Sword's shine had dulled, making it look like a flimsy pieetal instead of the wonderful Sword that had carried her thus far.

  If she wa fixed she would o head to Soren's workshop.

  [Yvlena Acquired

  Carrot Sword (Corroded) x1]

  A croak left the former S Guardian's mouth and the rumbling began.

  Yvlena nearly lost her footing as the Tree Hollow shook vigorously, the wooden walls rattled, pushing splinters out of the wood and into the s water.

  "It's happening again," Yvlena said recalli battle with another Minor Miasmitity.

  Corte opes mouth and expelled a beam of darkhat shot into the air, breaking through the top of the tree and into the Avaresh S's sky.

  "We have to leave!" Yvlena said, taking her summons by the hand and rushing towards the exit. She avoided the pieces of wood that rained down as the Tree Hollow began colpsing in on itself with Crote's defeat.

  [Crote The Terrible's Domain is colpsing, escape before you are crushed!]

  The game told her on her way out of the structure, she looked behio see the darkness swirl in the sky before vanishing.

  "The Miasma's influence..." arouhe murky waters ged. Gone was the sickly dark green and murkiness. Now the deeper sossessed a shimmering quality to its greenish waters.

  Fish swam underh the surfad tiny s flora began to bloom, Yvlena faced the tree where the battle had taken pce. Like a giant, the tree began its dest. The wood creaked and groaned as it fell baable to keep standing.

  It nded with enough force to lift her off the ground.

  [You Defeated A Minor Miasmitity]

  Sunghost