Everything from Lith's features to his muscles now bordered on perfection, making it hard for the guests to take their eyes off him.
Yet when the same change happened to Kamila, Elysia, and Tista, they succeeded.
The baby girl only had two eyes like her mother, but they shone with prismatic light. The Verhens' hair color hadn't changed, yet under the magical lights of the Ball Room, they now gleamed with a reddish sheen like polished metal.
"I assume that you have all watched the recordings of the fight against Ruugat of the Earth." Lith said, and everyone nodded for him to continue. "Back then, I experienced a change that hinted at the possibility that my Tiamat bloodline held the secret of human evolution.
"I'm happy to tell you that the possibility turned into a certainty. When the Dead King attacked the Kingdom, he also sent his troops to the Blood Desert to keep me away. As you can see, my fight with his Upyrs ended with more than my victory.
