Three years soon passed in endless extermination campaigns.
During those three years, Benjamin, Viola, and Augusta had practically circled the entire plane, wiping out every swarm of Parasite Beasts they found. From wastelands to forests, from mountains to oceans, the number of Parasites far exceeded their expectations.
The Black Giant Legion suffered considerable losses, while the losses among the Dragonblood Mushroom People were even more staggering. Hundreds of millions of units died over those three years.
Fortunately, Benjamin's logistical system was quite robust, and fresh legions arrived in a steady stream.
Unfortunately, as they prepared to face the parasite's main body, Benjamin and Viola had tacitly agreed not to bring any cannon fodder.
After all, against an enemy specializing in parasitism, cannon fodder could become a burden on their own side instead.
Still, the presence of Parasites across such a vast area confirmed something for Benjamin: this worm must have infiltrated the plane and begun parasitizing it long ago! Thinking back now, the information they had obtained from those Birdfolk at Anvil Base might well have been a smokescreen laid by the worms. This parasite had probably infiltrated the Jack Plane even earlier.
At that moment, the three hovered before a colossal mountain range that spanned heaven and earth.
The mountain range stretched tens of thousands of kilometers from east to west, its highest peaks piercing the clouds. Gray-brown rock and sparse vegetation covered its cliffs. At first glance, it was an ordinary mountain range, no different from countless others in this plane.
But Benjamin's True-Delusion Breaking Pupil could penetrate the rock layers and see the densely packed, horsehair-like worms within.
Those worms spread through the entire mountain range like blood vessels, each as thick as a train, slowly writhing through gaps in the rock.
The entire mountain range was,