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While I battled the monsters alongside my new Living Strength Spirit, one of the three bosses emerged.
She towered over thirty meters tall, her slender, feminine humanoid body pale blue and overgrown with frozen plants and vines. Long hair of shimmering ice crystals framed her form. Now corrupted by the Evil God's Curse, her skin had turned pale purple, sprouting long spikes and oozing virulent poison.
This was her—one of the three bosses of the Glacial Caverns Dungeon.
[Permafrost Forest Ruler, Winter Dryad – Curse of Miasma Corruption Form (Tier 9: Rank 3)]
The wolf had been Tier 9: Rank 2; this one stood at Rank 3. A single rank higher, yet in the upper tiers that small difference meant everything. From everything I had learned so far, the higher the tier, the greater the power gap between each of the ten ranks within it.
