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As the group slaughtered all the Owl Bears they possibly could and advanced forward, they reached the depths of the forest, finding something quite bizarre, a large, red and purple colored crystal growing out of a black, distorted tree, which spread its roots everywhere.
The crystal was constantly releasing a miasmic energy everywhere, constantly causing the Owl Bears to enter crazed frenzies, and also pushing them to evolve into the stronger forms they had battled through this entire ordeal.
Elayne had wasted no time, throwing her shovel at the crystal, fully realizing that this was the cause of this entire mess, and aiming to shatter it with a single blow of her flying weapon.