Chapter 1192 Ice Cocoon
"Arghhhh!"
"Ummm... Are you sure she is alright?" Zorda asked, his voice filled with suspicion as he looked at the scene before him.
"She is fine... I think," Elysia responded, though her voice held no confidence.
Zorda's mouth twitched when he heard Elysia's hesitant answer and glanced at her with a speechless expression.
"Arghh!" Valery's pained scream pierced the air once more, and although Zorda could no longer feel pain after becoming a shadow undead, the sight of her suffering made him shudder.
"Just what is happening to her?" Zorda asked, his voice betraying his unease.
"Her core is evolving," Elysia answered with a frown on her face as she observed Valery, who was wrapped tightly in the dense vines of the Tree of Life. "Normally, this shouldn't be a problem, but there is something wrong with her core."
"Of course, something is wrong with her core," Zorda replied in a matter-of-fact tone. "Have you forgotten what Master told us about her identity?"
"I haven't forgotten, but I didn't expect her core to react like this during evolution," Elysia said in an irritated voice as she walked toward the Tree of Life.
Like the World Tree, which can help Dryads evolve from S-rank to Rank One without the aid of a source pill, the Tree of Life also has the ability to assist in core evolution.
Elysia had intended to use the Tree of Life to strengthen Earth and those who had the potential to become core evolvers. NoÌv(el)B\\jnn
The process of evolving a core from S-rank to Rank One was always painful, as the evolution fundamentally altered a person's body and even transformed their race. But Valery's situation was far from normal.
At first, Elysia had dismissed Valery's agonized cries, assuming the pain was simply part of the process. But as time went on, it became clear that something was seriously wrong.
Valery's core appeared to be missing an essential component, causing her evolution to stall halfway.
Zorda watched in silence as the two women engaged in a battle of curses, hurling insults at each other as if there were no tomorrow.
After several long minutes, they both finally calmed down, though they continued to glare at each other with venomous looks.
"If I could beat you, I would flush you down a toilet," Valery said darkly, her voice dripping with malice.
Elysia, ever the mature one ignored the threat and instead used her light element to create a bubble around Valery's face, effectively silencing her.
Feeling satisfied with her petty revenge, Elysia turned her attention back to the Tree of Life and patiently waited for the other S-rankers of Earth to arrive.
Once they had gathered, she resumed the process of using the Tree of Life to help them evolve their cores. Unlike with Valery, the rest of the S-rankers successfully evolved into Rank One Core Evolvers without issue.
"So, there is nothing wrong with the Tree of Life after all," Elysia muttered under her breath, heaving a sigh of relief.
She glanced over at Valery, ready to gloat and prove that the tree was working perfectly fine. But when she saw Valery's condition, her expression immediately darkened.
In an instant, she appeared at Valery's side, panic lacing her voice as she asked.
"What's happening to you?"
A powerful surge of cold energy was emanating from Valery's body, freezing everything around her.
Even though Elysia was a Rank Four Core Evolver, the freezing energy was so intense that it caused her hands to frost over when she touched Valery.
Valery didn't respond to Elysia's frantic question, appearing to have lost consciousness.
Elysia tried to stop the flow of cold energy using her abilities, but to her dismay, she found that the energy was coming directly from Valery's half-evolved core and no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't stop it.
Within seconds, the cold energy completely enveloped Valery and trapped her in a solid, ice-like cocoon, sealing her off from the outside world.