Chapter 572 The Story Behind

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"Friends, what a funny word. It was almost mystical to me." Veredorr sighed. "I meet the two of them as they hunted around. They were people unlike other humans, as tall as three meters, with blue skin, silver hair, and golden eyes. They walked without fear of the freezing temperatures, as if they were immune to them. I meet the couple of siblings, Frusk, and Tear, they were my friends, the first friends of my life."

"At first I was afraid, but they found me. And then they weren't afraid of me. They said I was small but dexterous unlike them. We began hunting together, to share meals together. I knew them more, and after months, they invited me to their village. A beautiful place inside a dungeon, a small world by itself… A beautiful blue tower always shone brightly in the background; I was always mesmerized by its beauty…" Sighed Veredorr. "I meet these people and had a good time. They accepted me, I had… a family."

Veredorr sighed, looking into his own phantasmal hands, as if he was trying to remember something.

"Frusk and Tear were very close siblings. His little sister adored her big brother. Frusk taught me how to fight and hunt, he taught me where to hunt, how to survive… and more. Tear taught me about feelings, about people, and how to craft, cook, and sew…" Sighed Veredorr. "I spent over a hundred years with the Ice Giants, my life was peaceful and happy. After the death of my mother, I was finally able to find a place where I could belong to…"

Veredorr depicted Tear as this sweet girl that adored her big brother, someone that valued emotions and relationships, even teaching him all of that. She even taught him how to cook, craft, and sew. She was definitely not evil since the beginning.

"However, things changed that day. Due to my influence, Frusk wanted to meet the humans, he thought that they might be friendly and humble like me. I was foolish, I didn't knew how they would react to him… I ended letting him go with me and a few other Ice Giants…" Veredorr sighed. "It all ended in tragedy. The Iceland Kingdom humans were accepting of beast-kin, elves, dwarves, and even Majin, but Ice Giants resembled trolls to them, they were scared, the same way they call my father's race monsters, they were scared of me as well the same way they were scared of them, my friends, the Ice Giants…"

"A battle ensued the moment they got closer to the walls. Humans' soldiers and adventurers chased us down. They were relentless, smiling as they chased us, as if we were mere prey for them… We managed to survive with many wounds but… at the last moment, a powerful high ranked adventurer appeared, he almost lethally wounded us all, Frusk stepped in to fight him, while we were told to run away…" Veredorr sighed. "I should had stayed with my friend and face death alongside him…"

"Tear was devastated of the news, and after a day, we came back to check if he was somewhere still alive… the only thing we found were… his body parts, all of them roasted, and his head on a pike." Veredorr cried, recalling a painful memory. "Frusk was… a good friend. He did not deserve such an end…"

"Tear was then devasted by the news so much she went insane. She wanted to avenge her brother and kill all the humans, she said she was going to kill everyone… Shew as insane, we tried to stop her, we had to bring her back to the village before she got herself killed." Veredorr sighed. "I remember her crying in frustration, in anger, in fury… We constantly told her she had not the strength to do as she said she wanted to do… I fear such mere words might had been what triggered her to do what she did afterwards…"

"As we mourned Frusk's death, she infiltrated the Frost Tower somehow, and from within the top of the tower, she grabbed the Divine Artifact that was said that nobody should ever touch, a taboo… The Crown of Skadi was stolen by her. She wore it as she walked away from the tower that day. We tried to stop her, to take the crown away from her hands. She went berserk, as if she had completely changed. She became cold hearted and merciless, and after blaming me for her brother's death… She froze me to death… My dearest friend, the one I even… I even loved." Sighed Veredorr. "I never thought she would kill me in such a merciless way…"

Veredorr finished talking, sighing.

"That's all of it… I've told everything I know…" Veredorr sighed. "Now, please, let me alone…"

"Veredorr!"

Veredorr suddenly flew away without even coming back to me or my shadows. Well, he was free to do as he pleased. But still, I left a phantom familiar with him to watch over him. He was still a ghost that might do dangerous things to others without realizing.

"His ice powers…" Aquamarine muttered. "They are due to this kid's trauma, isn't it?"

"I've also heard about special types of phantasmal undead that are elemental ghosts take the element of their traumas. Those that die by fire become flame ghosts, those that are bullied alive become swamp ghosts, and those that die frozen become ice ghosts…" Said Ruby.

"Yeah, he had it rough." I sighed. "When I found him, his soul looked like his frozen form, it was too much of a trauma for him."

"How tragic… So this is the truth about the Frost Queen's past." Aquamarine said.

"It is… gruesome, yes. But if that's true, then she most likely wants to wipe out all of humans in this continent, probably all of us in between too, she might not even recognize us as someone different." Sighed Ruby.

"Those that use Divine Artifacts become Calamity-level Monsters, she is someone that might be capable of doing just as she said she would…" Aquamarine said. "Stopping her must be our priority."

"I agree." I nodded. "But for now, let's have lunch, I am starving…"

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