Chapter 274

Chapter 274 A Tale Of Floating Islands 2

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The Floating Island of Skadi was an interesting tale, it seems that the Elves had come out with all sorts of stories to explain things, although that island… Was that actually real? I wonder if Emeraldine thought she saw something or if she really saw it, but I don't want to insult her by telling her that I don't believe her or something, so I will just believe her words and imagine that it would be a pretty incredible place. I wonder if Gods would actually wander around the world leisurely… I know that Hel is confined in Helheim, but what about the other Gods? How much freedom do they have to walk on the land?

If they really got the freedom to walk on the land as they please, why they don't do it more commonly? Perhaps their very strength could crush the land or destroy it? Or perhaps there is another truth behind it? Well, according to her lore, the titans used to roam the world and they destroyed it by merely walking, maybe they got tired after fighting them. Or whatever was the case, there no point in overthinking things I couldn't find a solution for.

"Well, the cold here is certainly not because of a floating island with snow on it!" Said Partner. "I think the Frost Queen could have something to do, isn't it? How is that ghost that you said was killed by her?" Partner spoke about something and quickly reminded me of that story.

"Oh! Veredorr! Yeah, he's with me, alongside Kuro, Raven, and even Pyro, I brought them all with me… Veredorr is still mostly sleeping for now, but sometimes he wakes up." I said. "I don't want to bother him, as he's going through some sort of metamorphosis with his phantom body, he's slowly turning into some sort of new ghost type monster."

"I-I see… Well, I guess we can bother him all we wanted later when he wakes up." Said Partner.

"Will he become an ice ghost?" Wondered Emeraldine.

"That's my idea, but I don't really know…" I said. "But assuming how the flame ghost came to be, it could be a possibility. An ice ghost or maybe a snow ghost or something…"

"But why is he taking so long compared to the flame ghost?" Asked Emeraldine.

"It is mostly due to the mental damage he got, it is taking him a long time to reform himself into a being that can interact with the world and everything else, it is a hard task to do for him so we have to help him out as much as possible… by letting him sleep! How easy, isn't it?" I laughed.

"I think that's way too easy!" Said Partner.

"I guess everybody can recover in different ways…" Sighed Emeraldine. "Perhaps it hurt him deeply that his friend died as well, and that his friend's sister ended going insane with that crown, killing him at the end… And that's without saying for how long he could had been frozen."

"Hm, well, if you're going to talk about that Frost Queen, I really going to say that she really is suspicious. Who else with crazy ice powers is there? I believe she could have something to do with the people of the Demon Kingdom getting frozen." Said Lucifer.

"I also think that too to be honest… And it still confusing in many things, the people of Snowfall was fine and they were not attacked, and the Kingdom was also okay, so how come she hasn't attacked them if she's so wicked? It really doesn't make any sense, isn't it?" I wondered. "So how come she did this to the demons but not to anybody else? What could have the demons done that they provoked her fury?"

"…"

Lucifer fell in silence, thinking about a reason, but because we were not here in those times, he couldn't really come out with any answer. He felt a bit embarrassed with himself, I could clearly tell, for saying such a thing without thinking it twice. But that's how things are.

"Could the Frost Queen have appeared in the past?" Wondered Emeraldine. "Or… Lucifer, do you remember any of the people we saw frozen?"

"…I don't. They were all new faces, it seems they were the last descendants of the Majin that survived and were inhabiting this place, although the castle seemed abandoned and there was no person frozen inside, so perhaps they were just a mid-scale village living inside the ruins." He said. "Nonetheless, I would say they were frozen a few years ago, but not longer than ten years."

"I see… I wonder if it could match with the time of the dhampir's narrative… We'll have to investigate when he wakes up." I said. "In fact, he's getting a lot of questions when he wakes up, I hope he can answer them all as best as possible."

As we moved across the skies, Lucifer accelerated his pace and we began to cross the skies at an even faster speed, in a few hours we would reach Affnaria, as he knew the route already and he was confident in reaching the place in time.

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The new duchess of the Affnaria Duchy was sighing in exhaustion, looking down at several papers in front of her, she had been working extensively to process all sorts of transactions that her duchy had been doing with many other merchants, it has been a tiring day for her, but she knew that this was what she had to do for the better of her duchy and of her people, she was very tired, but this was the right thing at the end of the day, or so she believed relentlessly, and continued to believe as she moved forward into her hard work.

She had been staying in this office for three days in a row, with barely any bathroom and snack break, and without sleeping at all while sustaining herself with Energy Potions, that could keep people awake for days but would exhaust them tremendously.

"Ugh, Maria… When are you coming back?"

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