Ice Storm was likewise deeply shocked—and even frightened—by the power she had unleashed herself.
This fear stemmed from the Turan Orc's instinctive aversion to the power of holy light—just as beasts recoiled from flame.
Yet Original Mother was a hundred times more terrified than she was.
The flood of holy light triggered by the "Mark" seemed to have awakened the pain buried in the deepest reaches of Original Mother's cells—the pain caused, on the Ancient Battlefield, by the devastating strike of the Space-Based Orbital Weapon, pain that could not be erased even after hundreds of millions of years.
It was like a heart pounding frantically from fear.
Ignoring the inverted V-shaped wound on her body, which was still blazing fiercely and spewing holy light even brighter and more violent than before,
countless crisscrossing folds, like the grooves of a brain, suddenly sprayed out clusters of blood-red, mist-like spores.
The spores spread rapidly.
They resembled red mist baring fangs and brandishing claws.
They came crashing down, enveloping Lion King and Tiger King.
The Lion-Tiger Duo had originally been able to fight Wolf King on even footing.
But as vast quantities of spores drifted down and burrowed into their Totem Armor,
both sets of Totem Armor underwent bizarre changes.
Not only did the Spirit Flame shooting from the Totem Armor change in color and shape, becoming more like the eerie radiance emanating from Original Mother,
the totems across the armor's surface also became like endlessly writhing insects, changing from majestic and imposing into grotesque distortions.
At the joints, beneath the arms, around the waist, and other areas requiring a wide range of movement, the flowing nanometal instantly solidified and hardened. Like a mixture of glass and steel, it gave off piercing scraping sounds as it became unbreakable shackles that locked down its