Chapter 267 Dragon Sleep and the Frost Beast

"...Yes, Her Royal Highness. But about the trade in goods at the Frozen Water Port..."

Halfway through Dmitri's words, he suddenly stopped.

The young man with a straight back and a stern expression frowned slightly, looking at the decadent old man with a thin body.

"Where's Annan?"

Seeing Old Merlin coming back by himself, Dmitry asked plainly.

His deep ice blue pupils were like the frozen sea. Can't see any emotion.

Elizabeth knew that this was the talent of Winter's direct bloodline... its name was Winter's Heart.

This is proof that the cold-blooded lady's blood is flowing within them.

The Principality of Winter is a country where the winter and the harvest year alternate. Just like the underground city-state, the old grandmother can unconsciously transform the surrounding ecology on a large scale just by existing.

The old grandmother is a righteous deity with two forms.

When He was awake, He was a three-meter-tall beauty with frosty hair and blue eyes. The old grandmother in this form is the god of tradition—whether it was giving birth to the bloodline of Winter, establishing the Duchy of Winter, or teaching his young children and grandchildren, helping the contemporary Grand Duke handle government affairs, presiding over domestic festivals and activities, and even taking charge of children and grandchildren The marriage, marriage, birth, and funeral ceremonies are all His actions at this time.

Just like an immortal grandmother... has an absolute right to speak within the family, and is extremely active. When the old grandmother was awake, everyone would be more respectful to the Winter Clan-because behind them there was a righteous ancestor who was protective, strong and capable.

This is why He is affectionately called "Grandmother". Because this habit of caring for children and grandchildren is not limited to his own blood... He also often gives gifts to obedient and lovely children, or likes to mediate other people's family conflicts. At this time, the Duchy of Winter was called "the harvest year" by the people of Winter.

But the old grandmother has the habit of falling into the "long sleep" of unknown time from time to time because of her habits before becoming a god.

At that time, He would turn into a giant dragon with a height of 100 meters only when it was lying down.

That is more than thirty stories high.

At this time, he was the God of Frost.

The breath He breathes will roll up a never-ending blizzard. This blizzard can act as a barrier to protect the Duchy of Winter from being eroded by the gray fog, and it can also act as a barrier against foreign invaders when the grandmother falls into the dragon's sleep.

But this blizzard will also make the cold temperature of the Principality of Winter drop sharply. Some newborns and old people will freeze to death at this time, crops in the wild and weak ordinary beasts cannot survive, and even trees will fall into "hibernation" for several years or more than ten years.

Even those superhumans who die in the blizzard will not have nightmares - because even the curse will be frozen and become part of the blizzard. The Winters will refer to this cycle as the "winter year".

Inside the large cities, there are also constant temperature enchantments arranged by wizards, greenhouse crops made, and food crops imported from other countries through underground passages. And in those villages, only those powerful hunters and warriors can go out against the blizzard, in the woods, in the snow field or in the sea, to hunt the same frost beasts that can survive the blizzard for the villagers.

These frost beasts are monsters that have undergone physical changes after being immersed in a blizzard full of curses for a long time. They rely on curses to eat, so when humans are locked in a city by a blizzard, they can instead multiply—once the number gathers to a certain level, they will attack human settlements.

But those with the blood of winter can tame and command these frost beasts in winter. This is also the fundamental reason why the Winter Clan cannot be replaced.

yes.

They are also the believers of the old grandmother...and his offspring.

This is, after all, the part of the old grandmother as a dragon, the influence on the beasts in the dragon's rest.

This is why the Winter Clan is called the "Wolf King" and uses the white wolf as the clan emblem - the most numerous frost beasts are the "gregarious species" with the shape of "wolf".

But the point to be made is that the frost beasts are not attacking humans in order to crave blood... they are special species similar to elemental life and do not need to eat meat.

They just crave "love".

But it's not just love.

Hope, sympathy, loyalty, happiness... Frost beasts have the ability to devour positive emotions. But the Frost Beast itself has no emotion, nor much wisdom.

So they will follow their instincts, find humans by smell, attack humans, and devour their feelings - but they will not show mercy to humans who "produce food".

After encountering an attack, humans often do not have many positive emotions... This will make the frost beast more irritable and look for the next gathering point.

Only the other frost beasts, the "Hand of Winter" who do not have positive feelings, and the humans with the gift of the heart of winter, can not be attacked by the frost beasts. In the perception of the frost beasts, the humans of the Winter Clan are a kind of "humanoid kind", and they are their superior species. So instead, they will devote their loyalty to these "similars" they see.

Then they will be arrested and taken into the army. The domesticated frost beasts can achieve a symbiotic comrade-in-arms relationship with the warriors-they have learned to "leave a bite" and will not directly bite their partners to despair.

And the Heart of Winter is not just a talent for domesticating frost beasts.

It allows the holder to have an immortal body in a sense.

Once the injury is beyond the limit, the injury will be transmitted to the grandmother, and he will bear it on his behalf; if he is awake, he can be found immediately, and even if he is asleep, once he has endured too much... will gradually wake up.

If you want to kill the Winter Clan, you can only use the frost element. This is the "family law" reserved by the old grandmother for herself - after all, he is the god of tradition.

But as we all know, all the golden rank superhumans who awakened the elements of frost and cold were born in the Principality of Winter.

Therefore, it is almost impossible to kill the people of the Winter Clan.

They can only tie their hands and feet and throw them into the sea, or tie them up and throw them in the basement... When they can't bear it, they will break it on their own.

In addition, the Heart of Winter can make the bearer have a cold and indifferent heart.

From birth, the Winter Clan has to endure the eternal training of "Never Be Happy". This is to keep them from indulging in the desire for power, always staying awake, always acting for the people.

No matter what they do, they cannot be happy. So for them, only the "rules" and "traditions" learned from childhood are worth noting... They are the king of ice hearts who have acted for others since birth.

This is unquestionably cruel.

But for the Principality of Winter, which sometimes falls into winter, only a king who is strict enough, self-disciplined, impersonal, and able to endure people's resentment, curses and incomprehension can stably maintain the crumbling public order.

The old grandmother's idea was simple.

If people need such sacrifices - then the sacrifices should be made by their own children.

This may be unfair to one's own children...but it's a "traditional" choice.

While the old grandmother was extremely protective of her shortcomings, He also had extremely strict requirements on his children. Under this kind of training, each generation of Archduke Winter...even the heirs of Archduke Winter is the best ruler of all countries.

They are not lazy because of the pursuit of lighthearted pleasure, nor arrogant because of the pleasure of superiority. They will not be swayed by the compliments of courtiers or envoys, nor will they be tempted by beauty - reproduction is just "duty" rather than "happy" for them.

With such rulers...such a terrible and desolate country, why go to war with them?

Elizabeth's ideas are so simple and pure.

She tried her best to defuse the aftermath of the war brought by her father... just because she was afraid.

She didn't want to go head-to-head with such an enemy.

This is also the main reason why the eldest princess is willing to put down her figure in person and offer to receive the eldest son of Duke Ivan in person.

She didn't want her stupid siblings to screw things up.

They don't understand at all... the horror of the Winter Clan.

"……what?"

After the old Merlin and Dmitry whispered, Dmitry was stunned for a while.

He shook his head and murmured in a low voice, "Annan actually..."

"What's the matter, Your Highness?"

Elizabeth's heart tightened and she asked casually.

Dmitry turned around.

She vaguely seemed to see a little dazed from Dmitri's emotionless ice-blue pupils...?

"Annan seems to be having a good time with a young lady named Kaphne."

Dmitri shook his head and replied calmly, "My brother-in-law is rude, Her Royal Highness."

Hearing this, Elizabeth was moved. .

"...No, Your Highness Dmitry."

She smiled sweetly and said gently: "Or, let's talk about... His Royal Highness Annan, how about it?"