Chapter 671 — At the Edge of the Vortex
Blade of Dawn · Page 4 of 4
For the sirens, basking in the sun after a full meal was no idle habit but a part of normal physiological activity. To transform those unfamiliar energies and substances, they had to rely on the magical radiation of the giant sun, for they themselves lacked the capacity to process such energies.
Indeed, even this method of transforming energy and matter by basking in the sun was the fruit of their hard-won adaptation and evolution after arriving in this world. Before they came here, the sirens had possessed no concept of "basking" at all.
The world they had originally inhabited offered no sunlight to bask in, only an endless ocean and winds and thunderstorms and lightning that raged almost without cease.
"The new food does indeed carry no small amount of impurities, yet it has brought us precious energy replenishment, and a wholly new sample of primal energy," said a siren beside her, her long hair blue and the scales upon her cheeks rather pronounced. "Through practical testing, after ingesting the new energy sample and undergoing adaptive modification, all the sisters have gained varying degrees of enhanced adaptability to this world. And with the pure arcane energy that Prismlight technology provides us as a supplement, many of the sisters can already faintly perceive that which is called 'mana.'"
"Mana..." Pythia said softly, lowering her head and rubbing her fingers together.
A small cluster of arcane sparks burst from her slender fingertips, brief and bright.
"This is a world ill-suited to sirens, but at last... we can slowly begin to think of it as home."
"As you say."
"Hathaway, when next we make contact, inform Tyr to raise the human faction 'Cecil' to second-tier contact standards," Pythia said. "We will be glad to share the knowledge of the ocean with our friends on land—if they should one day find the courage to challenge the sea."
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