Chapter 267: Wyrmrest And the Frost Beasts (1/2)

Chapter 267: Wyrhness But about the Freezing Water Port’s trading of goods…” D

The young htly, looking towards the forlorn old man with a thin body

“Where’s Annan?” D alone

His deep ice-blue pupils were like the frozen sea, seely without emotion

Elizabeth knew that this was the Austere-Winter lineage’s talent… the Winter Heart

This was proof that the Cold-Blooded Lady’s blood was floithin them

The Austere-Winter Dukedom was a country in which the climate alternated betinter and harvest years Just like the Underground Federation, its surrounding ecology would transfore scale with just the existence of the Old Grandht deity with two forms

When She ake, She was a three-meter-tall beauty with frosty skin and blue eyes The Old Grandardless if it was giving birth to Austere-Winter blood, establishi+ng the Austere-Winter Dukedo the current Grand Duke handle govern domestic ceree, birth, funeral, and burial, it would all be done when She was in this forrandmother… She had an absolute voice in the family and was active in many affairs When the Old Grandreat respect for the Austere-Winter faht deity ancestor as protective, strong, and capable behind them

This hy She was affectionately called “Old Grandrandchildren was not liifts to obedient and lovely children, and enjoyedother people’s familial conflicts The Austerians called this period the “harvest year”

However, because of Old Grand a deity, She had a habit of rando into a “Wyrmrest” for an unknown period of tion with a height of 100down

That was h

At this time, She was the deity of frost

The breath She exhaled would stir up a never-ending blizzard This blizzard could act as a barrier to protect Austere-Winter Dukedon invaders when Old Grandmother had fallen into Wyrmrest

But this blizzard would also make the Austere-Winter Dukedom’s already cold temperatures plummet even lower Some newborns and old people would freeze to death in this period, wild crops and weak ordinary beasts would not survive Even trees would fall into “hibernation” that could last for more than ten years

Even those Transcended who died in this blizzard would not create nightmares— because even the curse would be frozen and become part of the blizzard Austerians called this part of the cycle the “winter year”

Inside large cities, there could be tereenhouse crops facilities, and also crops ies In the villages, only the powerful hunters and warriors could go out against the blizzard Similarly, only the Frost Beasts could survive within the blizzard and go hunting along with villagers in forests, snowfields, and the sea

These Frost Beasts were monsters that had experienced physical transfor immersed in a blizzard full of curses They relied on curses to eat, so when hu the blizzard, they could instead multiply—once the numbers reached a certain level, they would attack human settlements

But those of the Austere-Winter blood could ta winter This was also the fundamental reason why the Austere-Winter fah, they were also believers of Old Grandmother, and also Her descendants

After all, the beasts were created when Old Grand Wyrmrest

This was also why the Austere-Winter fa”, used the white wolf as the faregarious species that had the appearance of a wolf

The point to be made was that Frost Beasts did not attack humans because they craved food… They were a special species similar to elementals and did not need to eat meat

They simply craved “love”

But it wasn’t just love

Hope, sympathy, loyalty, joy… Frost Beasts had the ability to devour positive emotions, as they themselves did not possess any emotion, nor much wisdom

So they would follow their instincts, track humans’ scents, attack humans, and devour their emotions— they would not show mercy to humans that provided the an attack, the humans often did not have many positive emotions… This would further irritate the frost beast, and they would search for the next human settlement

Only other Frost Beasts, the “Winter’s Hand” who did not possess any positive emotions, and humans with the talent of Winter Heart would not be attacked by the frost beasts Based on the Frost Beasts’ understanding, humans of the Austere-Winter family were the human form of a similar species and were ranked above them Therefore, they would instead devote loyalty to these “siht and taken into the army The domesticated Frost Beasts could form a symbiotic comrade-in-arht to reserve their bite and would not directly chew their partners to death

The Winter Heart was not just a talent used to tame frost beasts

It allowed the possessor to have a sense of ie they received exceeded a certain lie would be transmitted to the Old Grandmother to bear it on their behalf; if She ake, She could co, She would be able to gradually wake up once She had borne enough