Ivette had never imagined that this evolution would make her sleep for two hundred years in one go.
When the shell of the gray cocoon disintegrated and she lay on the ground, slowly opening her eyes, the first thing she noticed was that the Mana Core inside her now held a full 24,000 mana. It was extremely substantial.
However, when it reached 10,000 mana, the rune density of the Mana Core had already hit its limit, and its mana pressure no longer increased.
So this improvement was merely an increase to her mana pool. It had simply made the core's volume more than twice as large.
This made Ivette wonder whether, if she spent enough time raising her Mana Core to an even more outrageous number someday, it would bulge straight out from her chest.
Of course, her Mana Core was still smaller than a fingernail. For it to reach the point where it could be felt through her chest, at its meager annual increase of 42 points, it would take at least a million years.
Next, Ivette began confirming her new abilities.
First, the appearance of her tendrils had changed once more, turning pure black. They seemed capable of absorbing light; even under sunlight, they reflected nothing at all. They looked almost exactly like Liana's Shadow Tendrils.
Second, the "Shadow Tendrils" had also received a tremendous boost in capability. Aside from their increased combat strength, their most important new effect was the ability to devour and digest a target's memory.
Moreover, compared with the method Soul Magic used to acquire memories, Shadow Tendrils had an absorption and conversion process that could transform memories into purer, readable information. This avoided direct contact with the target's memories and the resulting contamination of her personality.
Ivette was extremely satisfied with this, but