"This is a small gathering place. Becoming its leader will help us find the Dark Gate."
All at once, a faint strand of consciousness from Green came from the center of Milly's left palm.
Milly had thought encountering this purple-fire lizard was a sudden, random event. She had already prepared herself for battle, yet it turned out not to be random at all. By sheer coincidence, she had descended into a monster gathering place!
For Dimensional Esophagus monsters to gather here, there had to be resources worth fighting over. Yet judging by the scale of the monsters gathered here, this was probably not the large monster gathering place Green had mentioned, one that possessed clues to leaving the Dimensional Esophagus.
Even after the Time Storm and Milly's sudden arrival, these old monsters had not noticed her!
With sizzling sounds like air burning, the purple-fire lizard sensed Milly's inexplicable hostility. Frost and flame stood opposed. Within the Dimensional Esophagus, where any bizarre and grotesque occurrence was possible, a crisis born of inexplicable hostility seemed only natural. The lizard extended its tongue, which held an ancient copper coin in its mouth, as though it might unleash a fatal strike at any moment.
"Exile, do you wish to fight me?"
In the Dimensional Esophagus, battle needed no great reason. Death was part of the Endless World's cycle of digestion. Trapped within the Dimensional Esophagus, aside from a handful of fortunate souls, most creatures could not escape the fate of being digested by the Endless World. Yet the longer a monster endured, the greater its faint sliver of hope of returning to the material-energy world, a place filled with boundless hope.
Meanwhile, after recognizing her situation, Milly gradually relaxed from her initial state of facing a great enemy.
Before receiving the unparalleled enhancement of