Inside the stone chamber.
An egg formed from the Snow Empress, half as tall as a person and traced with seven-colored patterns, rested quietly on the ice bed.
A long while passed.
A piercing scream rang out.
"Ah!!!"
"Chen Mo, explain this to me! Why has my sister turned into an egg?"
The Ice Empress stared at Chen Mo in disbelief, her beautiful eyes wide.
Little did she know.
Chen Mo was just as bewildered.
He scratched his head.
This wasn't how it was supposed to go.
Wasn't she supposed to come back at full health after touching the Prism Ball, just like the Ice Empress had?
Why the hell had she turned into an egg?
More importantly.
This egg... looked delicious.
No, no, wrong train of thought.
After examining the Snow Empress egg.
He finally reached a conclusion.
"Shinjitsu wa itsumo hitotsu!"
"What kind of gibberish are you speaking?"
The Ice Empress couldn't understand a word.
"None of that matters. What matters is why the Snow Empress turned into an egg."
"After rigorous analysis and examination, I've reached a conclusion."
"The Snow Empress damaged her essence when she failed to condense her soul core, then suffered a sneak attack just as she was about to take human form. The transformation failed, leaving her body weak, and forcing herself to use her power afterward caused another backlash, making her injuries steadily worse. Although the Prism Ball stabilized her condition, it left her in a half-human, half-soul beast state. To restore her original appearance, it condensed her into an egg. Once she hatches, she'll recover. That's all." (Spoken at 3x speed.)
Faced with Chen Mo's lengthy explanation.
The Ice Empress only understood the final sentence and immediately asked, "So roughly when will my sister hatch?"
"Uh... I'm not too sure about