"Independence Day is for blowing up of alien spaceship, yes? We are dangerously behind schedule!"
— Ninochka Nikiforov, Dark Winter
The effect of Nina's ice beam was straightforward and immediately useful, much to her own relief. For all she knew, the slime could have been adapted to remain liquid even in the vacuum of space. With her mana just over half burnt and her mission just under half accomplished by her own estimate, another wasted opportunity might have made this one a bit tough.
"Is maybe more effective than I intended," she remarked, adjusting her goggles to Witchsight to see if, alongside Ashley, she could learn anything from observing their captive comrades. She paid particular attention to Luna. Though she'd only met her a handful of times, she was the one person for which Nina might have a solid enough baseline to compare to and find out what the slime and its containing machinery might have done to her, and what it was doing to her now.
