The moment his corruption flowed into her, it was like setting a fire to dry leaves.
The change was immediate.
The air around them thickened with power as the serpent's body arched, luminous veins of brilliant azure red running beneath her scaled skin like glowing rivers.
The chamber trembled with the sheer volume of corruption surging through her. Her eyes widened, the deep amber shifting into molten gold, and a sharp, echoing hiss tore through the silence...less of a cry and more of a release, like a dam finally breaking.
She coiled tighter, not in defense, but necessity.
Her body was reacting violently to the sudden overflow of Monster Energy, enough to birth the child not once, but threefold. And enough, Adam realized with a small jolt of awe, that she needed to survive several battles in tiers leagues above her current strength if pushed came to shove.
Whatever limits she had known...for the moment had been surpassed.
The child, too, inside her, responded to the flow.
