[Same year, you and the spirits rested here for more than two months before you felt somewhat recovered. Time was of the essence, and you did not intend to linger any longer. After all, because of the Clam Spirit Empress Mother, you had already caused quite a commotion here. Perhaps due to the arrangements you and Ink Bone had made in advance, the Epidemic Area Camp was unlikely to discover you, but the adjacent Poisonous Pool would certainly notice the changes here.
It had been fine when you were battling the Clam Spirit Empress Mother. The king of this region had still been alive and in a state of rage, causing the entire swamp to be shrouded in pink Love Mist, while the fires of desire burned ever more fiercely. Under such circumstances, even if there had been something in the Poisonous Pool, it would not have dared approach carelessly.
Now, with the death of the Clam Spirit Empress Mother, eighty or ninety percent of the Love Mist had dispersed during the two months of your rest. Though the fires of desire in the swamp still burned, they were nowhere near as fierce as before.
Judging from what you had encountered in Poisonous Forest, while there had been no old poison like the Clam Spirit Empress Mother there, the plants themselves had all been poisonous and possessed a natural resistance to other toxins. If there were living creatures in the Poisonous Pool, they were most likely of the same sort... The disturbance in Lustful Swamp might very well send those things scattering everywhere. When that happened, regardless of whether there were troublesome foes among them, cleaning them up would inevitably become more troublesome.]
[Two months could not be called foolproof, but it did fit the state of pressing forward in