For an instant, Ice Storm's entire hand vanished.
It was as though a passage leading straight into another dimension had opened at the center of the magic array.
And Ice Storm's right hand had reached into that passage, as though feeling around for something.
Immediately afterward, every rune composing the magic array extended countless rays of light in all directions.
When the crisscrossing beams divided the magic array into tens of thousands of fragments, a crisp, pleasant "ding" rang out, and the magic array completely disintegrated.
It turned into crystal shards thinner and more translucent than mica, whirling rapidly around Ice Storm's right arm and merging perfectly into her nearly charred flesh.
Ice Storm's right hand reappeared.
Yet it had become crystalline and translucent, illusory and elusive.
Meng Chao did not know how to describe it.
Ice Storm's right hand was like a rapidly flickering Holographic Projection, existing both in the current three-dimensional space and in another, higher and more mysterious dimension.
It retained the flesh-and-blood and cellular structure of Carbon-Based Life.
Yet it also seemed to have condensed from pure Spiritual Energy.
From the depths of her charred flesh, the holiest and most terrifying radiance bloomed.
The radiance turned her right arm into a torch of light, a living magic wand!
Even Ice Storm herself seemed not to have expected that she could truly crack and use the "Mark."
Her expression was half exhilarated and half dazed. Her eyes held both resolve and emptiness. Her face bore the brutality and bloodlust of a Turan Orc, yet also the solemn majesty of someone possessed by an even more powerful existence.
The blazing holy light erupting from her right arm immediately drew everyone's attention in the Original Mother Laboratory.
If the Hope Potion in Meng Chao's hand was still within Original