Snow Demon Legion, pitch-black night.
Within mounds of piled snow, dozens of Snow Ghosts huddled together, buried inside the snow mounds as they drew strength from them.
One source of power was stolen from the earth, while another drifted in from afar.
The power drifting in from afar leaked from Snow Giant Da, dispersing into the air and blending into the ice and snow. It ultimately served as a medium, transforming the power the Snow Ghosts stole from the earth into special Hail Power.
Each snow mound was like a festering sore growing from the surface of the earth.
Outside the snow mounds, some damaged Snow Ghosts picked through severed limbs from the chunks of corpses on the ground, attaching them to their own bodies.
These limbs varied in how badly they were damaged and came from different sources. Randomly pieced together, they made the Snow Ghosts look absurd. Yet the Hail Power healed their wounds, causing the mismatched limbs to meld into a grotesque whole.
Their teeth gradually sharpened, and the Snow Ghosts' strength slowly recovered, growing ever stronger.
A few Snow Ghosts even suddenly swelled within the snow mounds, transforming into Great Snow Ghosts, their blue faces and fanged mouths becoming even more ferocious.
At that moment.
One Snow Ghost seemed to have reached the threshold of its power. It let out a low, agonized roar as its teeth began to lengthen and its claws grew wildly.
But the good fortune did not last. Abruptly, the Snow Ghosts around it vanished one after another.
Then the power driving its evolution was cut off. In its daze, it felt its body growing weaker and weaker. When it lowered its head to look at itself, its body crumbled into dust within the pitch-black snow mound, as though it had decayed