Chapter 221 - Glenda Acanthus(1/?)

Seeing Reyna weakly holding on to her, Glenda had no choice but to reciprocate. She felt bad for scaring Reyna so much, and she wanted to apologize but the words didn't come out of his mouth, so she made up for it with actions...

Embraced in this way, the two continued to feel the flow of time incessantly on their bodies and minds until, after an indefinite amount of time, the wagon stopped.

Glenda's lost gaze returned to its former clarity. If they stopped for any reason, then it meant they had a chance to escape. Although very small in fact, Glenda was quite good at handling weapons, she had the confidence to pull down one or two a.d.u.l.ts as long as they weren't level 2 or higher.

What met her ears, however, wasn't the sound of people exchanging simple words, Glenda heard a scream loud enough to wake even Reyna, which for the excess of tears or perhaps just lack of sleep, fell completely asleep in Glenda's arms, and at the sight of a girl a little younger than her seem to her in reality very distant from her own age, weak and frightened by all that surrounded her. In Glenda's heart, the feeling of wanting to protect this little girl was growing slowly.

"It seems that something has happened outside, if we stay here too long we will also be taken by whatever is causing this mess!"

Whispering these words to Reyna, Glenda didn't hesitate to check the bars that were apparently a bit tight to allow the passage, but Glenda had an idea.

"Do we just have to go through them? It's a piece of cake. The only thing that mattered was a diversion that allowed us to escape, and it looks like luck is on our side."

Although rather narrow for a normal human being, both Glenda and Reyna had no more than 10 and 11 years respectively, their bodies were much smaller than normal humans, and so that with a little effort they would have managed to escape, but without a diversion, the moment the people who captured them would come down they could have heard the noise caused by it, rendering their escape attempt useless as although Glenda was quite skilful, she remained a child, fighting a bunch of man of an unknown level was too dangerous.

Deciding to implement her plan, Glenda shook Reyna's hand, and the latter now awake and reactive, saw Glenda smile for the first time, a smile that immediately enchanted her.

Quickly explaining their plan, Glenda observed the bars in front of them. They were of rather rusty material, so the idea of forcing the exit through wasn't the best, but Glenda knew they had no better opportunity to get out of this place, and now by shaking Reyna's hand, Glenda felt like a force that even she didn't know she had was flooding her mind, it wasn't a chance, they would come out alive together, Glenda had just decided as she struggled with all her might to get out of the bars, And even though she had encountered some difficulty at first, she managed to get out.

"It's your turn...Reyna!"

Tightening the grip on her hand through the bars, Glenda tried to give Reyna as much strength as possible. Seeing her gaze full of determination, but that this time it wasn't filled with bloodl.u.s.t, but with a light brown enough to inspire a calm she didn't feel for a period of time for her as long as whole years, Reyna swallowed while trying to get out of the bars, but unlike Glenda, she couldn't get out.

Continuing to hear screaming and cries from the outside, Glenda decided to tell Reyna to hurry, but no matter how hard she tried, she wasn't be strong enough.

"..P-Please leave me...and g-go...you can't save me."

Reyna looked down and said these words. At the end of the day, the stranger in front of her had no reason to save her, which even Glenda thought for a second, but shaking her head to drive away these thoughts, Glenda relied on the warmth that emitted from her hands.

"I can't leave you! You held on to me yourself, but in reality I was the one who needed this warmth...you helped me a lot...!"

She was trying to get her out in every way, but before he knew it, voices could be heard behind them

"There seem to be two little girls here..."

The man said these words to his captain, who, taking a look, noticed the figure of two girls, one with azure and the other with brown hair, but in addition to the fact that their hands were intertwined and the look of the first girl would be rather promising as a member of his team, the captain sighed.

'She can't join the same group who's about to sell her out, after all...'

Ordering the man to take both of the girls, so that they could sell them in the city they were headed to, the girl with the brown hair had her eyes almost empty, but after a second she recovered, And by jumping at the man and taking what was the knife he owned in his sheath, the girl had the knife on the man's neck.

"If you don't free us, I'll kill your man."

Glenda's words were simple, but at the same time cold as ice, so much so that they made the Captain laugh at what was happening while the other members of the group, hearing the commotion, entered the carriage, noticing with surprise that one of their men had a blade pointed at his neck by a young girl.

"Even if I don't follow your instructions and you kill that man, what else can you do with a miserable weapon against so many of us, here we have 4 levels 2 and the rest level 1, you think you can kill everyone with the same tactics?"

Usually, people wavered at these times, but Glenda's expression was even more serious than before, and if her words were enough to freeze the surrounding environment before, now the temperature in the room seemed almost to have dropped by many degrees below 0.

"I may not be able to kill everyone, but I can certainly take with me other men of yours, no matter how much physical pain may be inflicted on me, this body will continue to fight and seek vengeance, Would you really rather face such an enemy than go and find more wagons to plunder?"

His words immediately frightened the men behind the captain. Glenda was completely serious, there was no shadow of a doubt, which made the captain sigh.

'If only we didn't meet in such harsh circ.u.mstances'

"I understand. If that's how you put it, I have no reason to risk my men and then get little profit from it. You can keep the weapon if you want, but let our man go, and you don't dare attack her, understood?"

He admired the expression completely without any trace of humanity left in Glenda's eyes, so much so that he chose to leave her alone as it didn't matter how much he would have the advantage, He too felt frightened by the nothingness he could glimpse in her brown eyes.

By nodding, Glenda pointed their direction with the weapon in his hand, wanted him to keep walking towards them so that he could have a safe distance and the man saw that the captain was really telling him not to attack her, so he chose not to try anything, simply following his instructions, and once arrived in front of the Captain, Glenda kicked from the man's shoulders, so that he could get back to Reyna.

Once that was done, Glenda stood at attention, but the captain smiled "If you want to join our group in the future, I would be happy to accept you" before leading his men off the wagon

Being able to feel that they were seriously leaving, Glenda gradually lost her strength, and if before she was able to move the temperature to inhuman levels, now she felt empty and enormously tired, and noticing that she too, Reyna began to call her name and, wishing more than anything to continue to embrace her, she didn't even realize she used her fist to widen the bars, so that she could get out, her only thought was about Glenda's safety.

When Glenda woke up a few hours later, Reyna had taken her to a nearby cave, so she could recover from the cold, and after spending the night there, Glenda chose to go to the city that people were talking about. She had in mind to find some job that would allow her to keep Reyna safe, and once she saw the city they were talking about, only one job came to her mind.

'I need to become an adventurer, that's the best way!'

With these thoughts in mind, Glenda fought a little to get into a familia, but eventually found a home in a familia that wasn't specialized in exploration, yet she didn't care at all because all she wanted was a viable monetary income and Reyna's safety put first. The first days were hard for Glenda, but after the first few months, the situation was starting to get a little more bearable, and after only one year, Glenda had reached level 2, allowing her to continue descending into the Dungeon. She was known as the Ice Princess, or at least that was her nickname given by adventurers as it was said that no matter what you did to him, she would never even look at you, which made some people angry, others smile, and finally others were quickly becoming fans of the level 2 that was able to spread an area of frost able to freeze the blood even the highest level adventurers.

With her official alias being "Emotionless Doll" Glenda became popular for some times even among the gods, there were those who rumoured that she was actually half monster, others who believed her disgusting long hair was the cause of that lack of emotion, There were plenty of conflicting opinions, but Glenda couldn't care less. In fact, the Ice Princess was once again colouring in her eyes only in the presence of Reyna, she was the only one able to give her the warmth she needed to continue to express her emotions, which is why she ignored all the others.

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(Alternate Titles: "The Ice princess..a legend everyone forgot about!?", "I mean, she do be emotionless doe!", "She was already broken even before the events that will unfold lmao")