Chapter 202 Planning, and the Return
The dawn broke through the quiet night. Clear daylight, like thin snow, covered the entire land.
The wind, bathed in the dawn light, gently caressed her ice-blue hair. A frost-haired, white-robed young girl had a gray crow perched on her shoulder, her pupils gazing at the horizon where the morning scene was appearing.
Facing the power of the Frost Calamity God, and even the slender Goddess Princess, raised her golden flame sword and slashed down, Caslet sustained no light injuries.
However, she did not utter a single sound, only showing a hint of confusion in her eyes, quietly observing her surroundings.
This place had once been visited by the Frost God’s true form and ravaged by ice and snow. Tender green forest grass, however, grew in the frost plains, its lush vitality almost making one forget that this had been a battlefield of gods.
Caslet extended her slender fingers and picked a small flower.
Even though she was the incarnation of the ice and snow laws, she could still feel its endless vitality as if touching it.
“That Princess, her flames, after melting the ice and snow, is it life…”
“Miss Caslet.”
As if after a long hesitation, the young girl standing beside her finally couldn’t help but speak.
She had blue and pink hair, and the dress she wore was slightly torn, her exquisite face and light golden pupils shimmering with deep worry. Caslet knew her name; she was a noble lord among humans.
“Shiel,” her crystal-clear voice, like ice and jade, was spoken by the frost-haired girl.
“You mean, Miss Verafia, and Ig, they… it’s been so long, and still no news.”
Shiel clasped her hands across her chest, like her complex emotions, her slender fingers tightly gripping, speaking with great concern.
Caslet hesitated for a moment before shaking her head, “She is a noble existence. I don’t know. If she doesn’t want to appear, no one can find her.”
“But…”
Shiel wanted to say more but stopped. Her slender fingers were tightly intertwined, her exquisite face turned, and the red-haired young man beside her suddenly looked up.
“Miss Verafia helped Shiel and me a lot. And last night, it was to save us too…”
Azer’s voice paused, his eyes resolutely raised, looking at the cool frost-haired girl before him, “I’ll go find them.”
“Um, Brother Azer, I’ll go with you!” Shiel hastily called out.
Caslet calmly watched Shiel and Azer disappear into the distant snowy landscape. The wind gently stroked her hair, and even though it wasn’t far, the color of the frost was enough to easily conceal a person’s figure.
“Madam Caslet… the Frost God, did it not disappear?”
A weak, but not fragile, young girl’s voice sounded. Tais propped up her staff, the frost-colored wind blowing her torn and leaky cloak, revealing her snow-silver hair.
It wasn’t just Tais who walked to her side. There was the wood elf girl Ain, with verdant green hair, and Count Robert, all following beside her.
Looking at the young girl who raised her face and asked, Caslet was silent for a moment, “Yes… That Highness severely injured It, cutting off Its origin. But, It is the god of frost calamity, and also the incarnation of the law, it will not die easily.”
As her voice fell, her fingertips moved slightly, touching the flowing frost, as if it were a kind of flowing frost intent.
The red-haired loli Niya, after having her demonic power extracted by Verafia several times and consuming a lot at the moment of the Frost God’s descent, had now transformed into a small, exquisite pigeon, perching drowsily on the wood elf girl’s shoulder.
“Then… do you have a solution?”
Ain asked, raising her face with some worry, her beautiful verdant eyes shining with a touch of urgency.
“The frost calamity was brought by that evil god. If It is not removed, the calamity of ice and snow will be endless.”
Count Robert said, dragging his injured body, his pupils on his face incomparably firm, “Miss Witch, since you have come here to find us, you must have a way to eradicate It, right?”
“Holder and I were born on the frost plains of the Northern Territory,” Caslet said.
Tais’s eyes lit up, “The Northern frost plains… that is the former location of Winterfall City.”
The once magnificent city stood proudly on the northern frost plains. It had been scoured by a thousand years of wind and snow, yet it still stood proud and firm, as if it were destined to guard the entire continent for eternity.
However, twenty years ago, the descending frost easily destroyed it all. Within a thousand-mile radius, the entire northern frost plain was corroded by the claws of the frost calamity, turning into a forbidden zone for life.
“Moreover, Holder was wounded by that Highness’s long sword. Even though It was not annihilated, It was still severely injured in its origin, only able to linger in the place where we were born.”
“Madam Caslet means, we need to go to the northern frost plains, to the location of Winterfall City?”
Tais said, but her expression was slightly hesitant as she looked around.
When they escaped from the ice-sealed Vinash City, they were accompanied by many priests from the Vinash Church, plus the guards from Shiel’s castle, followers of the Kasha Cult, and Count Robert’s knights, totaling nearly a hundred people.
However, they encountered the storm of the frost calamity descending once again.
Even though the calamity was resisted by Caslet and Ig, nearly half of the accompanying people died from the corrosion of the ice and snow laws. Even Tais’s closest comrade, Laurence, perished in the frost.
The remaining people were also mostly injured.
And the Winterfall City that Caslet spoke of was the territory of the frost calamity at that time, with countless powerful frost claws wandering about.
For twenty years, who knows how many powerful knights and rangers had launched expeditions, and even Shiel’s father had gathered armies from more than half the continent to march towards the frost.
However, their end was invariably to perish under the blade of frost, and even to become puppets of the calamity.
Even though, at this time, the God of Frost Calamity was severely wounded by the blade of the Flame Goddess. However, since the calamity descended, countless soldiers and knights corroded by frost, and even followers of the Frost Calamity…
Count Robert, standing beside her, understood her meaning and said, “I will immediately return to my territory and bring the remaining troops.”
The Count’s voice paused, and then he continued, “Moreover, last night, with Miss Verafia’s divine miracle, perhaps the council and other lords can be persuaded.”
Tais also looked up, “I will also go and summon the followers of the Kasha Cult.”
Caslet watched Count Robert and Tais depart.
They both had close ones who perished in the frost, but at this time, there was no leisure to grieve, and they walked away with firm conviction.
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“Miss Caslet…”
Ain rubbed her stiff, cold hands, her pure white long ears flicking off the fallen frost and snow. Ain turned her face and noticed that the frost-haired girl next to her, who had a demigod status, was also gazing at her.
Hearing her voice, Caslet turned her head as if to ask. The wood elf hesitated, raised her face, and said:
“The way you spoke of eradicating that evil god, is it that ice and snow heart?”
“Mm. That is the heart of the ice and snow law. If it were normal times, I would not have a complete form, but after all, Holder has been severely injured by that Highness…”
“Miss Caslet, you are the incarnation of the other side of frost. I believe in you.”
The wood elf girl said earnestly, “But, he has a power that is not the same… and also, that dark swordsman.”
Caslet was silent for a moment. She could still recall, amidst the howling wind and frost, that dark starry sky-like, withered, and deathly still power.
Ain raised her head, “Ig, and Miss Verafia, they told me, that is the power of the ‘Star God’. They come from another dimension, wanting to seek precious things… but, they were born within the frost.”
Caslet raised her face and said, “Thank you.”
She did not fail to understand humans. Similarly, this elf maiden was trying to tell her that behind the ice and snow called ‘Holder’, there was something unknown that she did not understand.
Even with her sincere thanks, Caslet’s expression remained calm, unchanged.
“Hmm…”
Ain puffed out her cheeks slightly. She was still a young elf maiden, but she also knew that she had not persuaded the other party.
She tilted her head again, seeing the verdant life growing in the ice and snow around her. She picked a green branch, and her eyes showed a hint of curiosity:
“But, Miss Verafia, isn’t she the goddess of flames? Why, after her flames burn, does this kind of vital power appear?”
“Hmm, and some are like the Holy Spring, and those divine power crystals of the Adult Siloseri that those old guys treasured…”
Ain’s self-muttering had not ended when suddenly, a joyous shout came from the distance.
Caslet also looked up, “It’s the voice of that human girl.”
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Ain and she hurried over. The vast snowfield was covered with silver frost. Not only were Azer and Shiel’s figures there, but the ice and snow dragon girl was chasing behind him.
The black-haired young man, holding the white wedding dress girl, walked silently.
As if a pure white flower blooming on a snowy field.
“Ig!”
Ain rushed closer, and the red pigeon on her shoulder also let out an anxious coo.
“You and Miss Verafia…”
The pale golden dawn light shone on the girl’s face, leaning lightly against the boy’s chest, her slender eyelashes tinged with soft radiance, gently concealing and covering.
The girl breathed shallowly, her skin, bathed in the faint light, was warm and moist, as if she were indulging in a beautiful dream.
Ig looked up. Ain’s voice suddenly paused.
The human boy before her was still the gentle and cheerful person in her memory, unchanged… yet, Ain somehow felt that he was completely unlike a person.
In fact, the wood elf maiden felt a sense of fear.
The black-haired young man’s gaze fell on the girl in his arms, and he said, “Young Lady, she… is my wife.”
Ain was stunned for a moment, then came back to her senses, just as she met Ig’s raised gaze.
It was still the clean and clear azure… but at this moment, in Ain’s eyes, it was like a heavy sea, as if it carried a suffocating pressure.
She hadn’t seen the avoidance and timidity that the boy had always hidden.
Ig walked past her, carrying the girl. Ain anxiously turned her face.
The young man walked up to Caslet, who was waiting behind.
The frost-haired girl hesitated, “His Highness she…”
“The Young Lady is just sleeping.”
“Mm.” Caslet nodded, somewhat at a loss.
“Miss Caslet, you want to completely eradicate the frost calamity, and you need that heart… Veer gave me the ice heart. She hopes that in the end, you can completely eradicate the frost.”
Ig took out the ice heart from his spatial ring, its deep, solemn luster pulsing with its contraction.
Caslet instinctively reached out her hand.
However, Ig did not hand it to her, but instead put it back, “Let me and Veer go with you to Winterfall City.”
