In the grove of Primordium Evolutius Trees, where purple-gold light filtered through leaves that shouldn't exist, reality rippled once more.
The air itself seemed to part like curtains as a figure materialized from the confluence of water and starlight.
The glorious stellar watery form of the Primordial Genome Empress arrived with the grace of tide meeting shore…inevitable, beautiful, and carrying the power to reshape landscapes.
Rose Adrian, for all her newfound cosmic authority, appeared with confusion written across her liquid features.
Her emerald eyes, suspended in a face of living water that sparkled with stellar radiance, swept across the grove seeking answers to why she had been drawn here with such urgency.
Then she saw them.
Adras Maxwell and Lilian Maxwell, standing there as if death had been nothing more than an inconvenient detour.
…!
She blinked as if she was seeing things.
For a few seconds, she even froze!
