White Frost Twins

Veronica's account left Gawain somewhat confused.

"An individual?" He frowned. "What does that mean?"

There was a trace of reminiscence in Veronica's eyes, as if she had already sunk into ancient memories from millennia ago. After several seconds of contemplation, she finally said in a soft, gentle tone, "I assume you already know that during the Defiance Plan a thousand years ago, the White Frost sisters were employed by the Gondor Empire as consultant scholars... That employment lasted for centuries. Until the Magic Tide erupted seven hundred years ago, Feilna Frost and Raina Frost had both been secretly serving the Gondor Empire.

"The first time I met them was at the Palace of Vastness in the imperial capital... a Druid facility researching natural environments and species evolution. They were a pair of very cheerful sisters. What impressed me most was that they were always smiling. Everything in the human world filled them with curiosity, and they had many bold ideas, vastly different from the relatively conservative and rigid elven scholars of the time...

"Sorry, I've wandered off topic. That's what memories are like—you always end up recalling too many insignificant details."

Veronica showed an apologetic smile, while Gawain shook his head, signaling for her to continue.

"They truly were sisters. As I said just now, in the beginning, they really were two people—until that accident...

"That was when the Defiance Plan had just reached the stage of preliminary analysis and contact with Divine Power, also known as the first phase. In one experiment, we intended to test an observation method we had never attempted before. The general process involved opening a rift to the boundary of the mortal world within a highly sealed chamber. That rift crossed the Shadow Realm and the Umbral Realm, drawing infinitely close to the divine