The child dug an empty room one metre by one metre further down in the iceberg connected by three tiny two-centimetre by two-centimetre tunnels built from one of the smaller tunnels connecting the second and third room.

As they waited for the water to completely fill the room, the child started dragging the krill eggs through the tiny tunnels and separating them into three sections. Once they had fifty eggs in each group, the child started cutting a piece of an ice mana string and the water mana string and dragged them into the room, along with a string of their own mana.

With all of the materials that they needed in the room, the child started the experiment.

They chose to start with their own mana string first. The child linked all fifty of the eggs and saturated them in a lot of their golden flecks. But unlike when they wanted to increase their growth and reproduction spread, the child just let the flecks stay in the eggs. Once the flecks were in the eggs, the child knew it was a waiting game, so they continued on with the other sections.

They knew that using the ice mana string and water mana string would be different than using their own strings. Unlike with their own mana string, where they can push golden flecks into the eggs, the child knew that they would have to saturate the eggs with the mana strings themselves.

Starting with the ice mana string, the child started linking and knotting the eggs into a cluster with the string. The string went around and through eggs multiple times, making a cluster. Once the eggs were in a cluster, the child started to forcibly circulate the ice mana in the way it was clustered around and in the eggs. Once they were satisfied with how the ice mana was circulating, the child moved to the last mana string, the water mana string.

The child repeated the same process, inserted and wrapped the water mana around the fifty krill eggs, and started circulating them.

After that, it became a waiting game. The child did not turn their attention away from this room for three days. They watched every twitch the eggs made, every circulation that the mana strings made, and everything in the room was under scrutiny.

Then, after three days, the first of the eggs started hatching. The very first was an egg from the water mana group. The krill was still one centimetre long but had little dark blue spots that glowed in the dark. The krill was still see-through, but the one other change that they noticed was that the swimmer legs of the krill were a lot more powerful. As the krill swam around the room, it was a lot more smoother in the water. It was like the shrimp had less water resistance than other normal crystal krill experienced.

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Just after the first water mana saturated krill, the other water mana saturated krill eggs started hatching. All but 11 eggs hatched, and after checking the eggs, the child found that they were no longer viable.

As these little one-centimetre krill started to swim around the room, the child started thinking up a name. They watched the krill begin to swim in formation with each other, making one swarm, and observed how they just seemed to flow with the water. The child decided to call them “flow krill.”

With all of the flow krill hatched, the child allowed the krill to leave the room. They knew that if the krill ventured outside the first floor, something could wipe out all of the flow krill, but the child knew that they could potentially make more of the krill.

They watched the flow krill leave through the small tunnels into the first floor before they turned their attention back to the room.

The child waited another day before the krill eggs with the ice mana wrapped around them hatched. The krill that hatched was two centimetres long and had a milky white colouring that made the krill no longer see-through. This krill also had an additional two long legs, longer than their swimming legs, that, with close inspection, seemed to have tiny ice crystals growing on them. Interestingly, the ice crystals did not hurt or impact the animal negatively. Still, the child did not know what the krill could do with the ice crystals that they were producing. So the child decided to call them ”frozen krill” due to the ice crystals that they seem to produce.

Over the day, all but three ice mana saturated eggs, which were no longer viable, hatched and started to swim in three different groups. Once all the eggs that were going to hatch hatched, the child allowed them to leave the room. Very quickly, the three swarms went their different way.

The child waited one more day, with a total of six days, for the krill that were saturated with their own mana to hatch. The hatched krills were the largest in size, averaging around three to four centimetres long and two centimetres wide, and their shells had grown bigger and stronger. Their colour had also turned into a dark brown colour. Once all but one egg hatched, the child widened the tunnels out of the room so that the krill could leave and named them “shield krill” due to the thickness and durability that their shells gained during this transformation. After that, the shield krill went their own way, with groups made up of three or four wandering around their first floor.

Once all of the krill left the room, the child dragged the non-viable eggs out of the room, out of the water and into the room with the growing plants.

What the child did with the non-viable eggs is that they placed the eggs close to the seeds in hopes that they might absorb some of the nutrients or mana that the eggs had. Though the nine seeds had not grown, the child noticed some seeds had changed. One seed changed into a lighter shade, another into a darker shade, and another grew in size. Still, nothing was growing in the room except some of the bearded bushes, which grew wider and with more leaves.

Their experiment with the eggs was a success, and the plant experiment was still undergoing, so the child focused on the outer part of their territory. The child starts to expand the borders that create a separation from their world and the outside world.