After a brief silence, Alvitr suddenly reached out and pressed her hand against the ice coffin. The coffin, which had originally been incomparably hard, now yielded beneath her palm like tofu, collapsing with ease.
Clearly, it had undergone a qualitative change from the inside out.
Some special substance must have been extracted from it.
This showed that there was indeed some special connection between the ice coffin and the "divine body." With the disappearance of the "divine body," the ice coffin had decayed as well.
But why had that "divine body" collapsed and vanished?
And what decisive difference lay between the ice statue that had "revived" and those that had failed to "revive"?
The incomprehensible mysteries had suddenly multiplied.
Rather than standing around and thinking, Dark and the others took out several more ice statues, searched for "divine bodies" matching their appearances, and opened the coffins to conduct experiments.
However, since none of those ice statues had revived, the final results were no different from those of the first Valkyrie ice statue.
Still, the follow-up experiments essentially confirmed that the armored "divine body" had collapsed and disappeared precisely because the ice statue had "revived."
The group gathered around the last ice coffin they had tested, thinking and discussing carefully. Claire said, "In that case, to understand why the 'divine bodies' disappear, we only need to investigate the difference between the ice statues before and after their 'revival.' In other words, what causes an ice statue to revive?"
"It's the Snow Mountain Goddess," Dark said. "Or rather, the divine power of the Snow Mountain Goddess."
Aquinita said, "The Snow Mountain Goddess is a deity who presides over the authorities of time and life. Granting life to inorganic ice statues is one manifestation of her authority over life."
Claire said, "That