The eighth stage's opponent was a dual awakener monster with both its paths being 6/6.

It was a plant as tall as an adult. It was a beautiful blue thing and looked perfectly normal until

Whoosh!

The room was flooded with water and the blue plant wriggled.

"Roo!"

The plant morphed into a bluefish?

Varian only had time to blink before he sidestepped. But it was still too late.

Boom!

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