“…Yes, Your Highness the Princess. But about the trade in goods in the frozen water port…”

Dmitry suddenly stopped halfway through his words.

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

"Where is Annan?"

Seeing Old Merlin come back by himself, Dmitry asked casually.

His deep ice-blue pupils were like the frozen sea. There was no sign of emotion.

Elizabeth knew that this was the gift of the direct bloodline of Winter...it was called the Heart of Winter.

This is a proof that the cold-blooded ladies' blood flows in their bodies.

The Duchy of Winter is a country that alternates between winter and good fortune. Just like a dungeon state, the grandmother can unconsciously transform the surrounding ecology on a large scale by just being present.

The old grandmother is a righteous god with two forms.

When He was awake, He was a beauty with three meters tall, ice-skinned and blue eyes with frost hair. This form of grandmother is a traditional god. Whether it was to give birth to the blood of the winter, establish the Duchy of Winter, or to teach his young descendants, help the contemporary grand duke to handle government affairs, preside over domestic rituals, and even be responsible for the funeral ceremony of the descendants, he was his behavior at this time.

Just like an immortal grandmother... she has absolute voice within the family and is extremely active. When her grandmother is awake, everyone will be respectful to the Winter clan - because behind them is a strong and capable ancestor who protects her shortcomings, is strong and has excellent abilities.

This is also the reason why He is affectionately called "Grandmother". Because this habit of caring for children and loving children is not limited to his own blood... He also often gives some gifts to obedient and cute children, or likes to mediate family conflicts among others. At this time, the Duchy of Winter was called "a harvest year" by the people of Winter.

But because of the habit of becoming a god, my grandmother had the habit of falling into the "dragon sleep" of unknown time at irregular intervals.

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

That's the height of more than thirty stories.

At this time, He was the God of Frost.

The breath He exhales will bring up an endless blizzard. When the grandmother falls into the dragon sleep, this blizzard can serve as a barrier to protect the Duchy of Winter from grey fog, and can also serve as a barrier to resist foreign invaders.

But this blizzard will also cause the already cold temperature of the Duchy of Winter to plummet. Some newborns and elderly people will be frozen to death at this time, and crops and weak ordinary beasts in the wild will not survive, and even trees will fall into "hibernation" for years and decades.

Even those extraordinary people who die in the blizzard will not have nightmares - because even the curse will be frozen and turned into part of the blizzard. The Winterman will turn this cycle into a "winter year".

Inside large cities, there can also be constant temperature barriers arranged by wizards, greenhouse crops produced, as well as food crops imported from other countries through underground passages. In those villages, only powerful hunters and warriors can go out in the snowstorm, hunting the same frost beasts that can survive the blizzard in the woods, snow fields or in the sea for the villagers.

These frost beasts are monsters that have been immersed in a blizzard filled with curses for a long time, and thus have the most mutations. They rely on curses to eat, so when humans are locked in the city by blizzards, they can reproduce in large quantities. Once the number gathers to a certain extent, they will attack the human cluster area.

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

Yes.

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

After all, this is the part of the old grandmother as a giant dragon, which affects the beasts during the dragon sleep.

This is why the Winter family is called the "Wolf King" and uses the white wolf as the clan emblem - the frost beast with the largest number is the "group species" with the appearance of a "wolf".

But one thing to be mentioned is that frost beasts do not attack humans in order to thirst for blood food... They are special species similar to elemental life and do not need to eat meat.

They just desire "love".

But it's not just love.

Hope, sympathy, loyalty, happiness... The Frost Beast has the ability to swallow positive emotions. But the Frost Beast itself has no emotions and no wisdom.

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

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

Only other frost beasts, the "Winter Hand" that does not have positive feelings, and humans who hold the talent of Winter Heart, can not be attacked by frost beasts. In the perception of frost beasts, humans of the Winter clan are a kind of "human-shaped similarity" and their superior species. Therefore, they will instead be loyal to these "same" they see.

Then they will be arrested and brought into the army. After being tamed frost beasts, they can reach a symbiotic relationship with the soldiers - they have learned to "stay a bite" and will not directly chew their partners into despair.

And the Heart of Winter is not just a talent used to tame the frost beast.

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

Once the damage suffered exceeds the limit, the damage will be teleported 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 in a deep sleep, once he bears too much... he will gradually wake up.

If you want to kill the Winter clan, you can only use the frost and cold element. This is the "family law" reserved by my grandmother for herself - He is the traditional god after all.

But as we all know, all the golden-level extraordinary people who awakened the elements of frost and cold were born from the Duchy of Winter.

So it is almost impossible to kill the people of the Winter clan.

He could only tie his hands and feet and throw them into the sea, or tie them up and throw them into the basement... and he could not bear it and broke it on his own.

In addition, the Heart of Winter can also allow the holder to have a cold and indifferent heart.

From the beginning of their birth, the Winter clan has to endure the eternal training of "never happy". This is to prevent them from indulging in the power, always stay awake, and always act for the people.

No matter what they do, they will not get happiness. So for them, only the "rules" and "traditions" they learned from childhood are worth noting... They are the King of Ice Hearts who acted for others since they were born.

This is undoubtedly cruel.

But for the Duchy of Winter, which is often trapped in winter, only the king who is strict enough, self-disciplined, unkind, and able to tolerate people's resentment, curse and incomprehensible can maintain a shaky public order stably.

The grandmother’s idea is very simple.

If people need such sacrifices—then the victims should be held by their offspring.

This may be very unfair to your offspring...but this is a "traditional" choice.

While the grandmother was extremely protective of his shortcomings, He also had extremely strict requirements on his offspring. Under such training, every generation of the Grand Duke of Winter...even just the descendants of the Grand Duke of Winter are also the most outstanding rulers in all countries.

They will not be lazy because of their pursuit of relaxed and happyness, nor will they be arrogant because of the pleasure of superiority. They will not be arrogant because of the compliments of ministers or envoys, nor will they bear the temptation of beauty. For them, the reproduction of descendants is just a "obligation" rather than "happiness".

With such a ruler... Why should such a terrible and desolate country go to war with them?

Elizabeth's idea was so simple and pure.

She tried her best to resolve the subsequent impact of the war brought by her father... it was because she was afraid.

She doesn't want to confront such an enemy.

This is also the main reason why the eldest princess is willing to let go of her figure and take the initiative to offer to receive the eldest son of Ivan in person.

她可不想让自己愚蠢的弟弟妹妹们把事情搞砸了.

They didn't understand the horror of the Winter clan at all.

"……What?"

After Old Merlin whispered with Dmitry, Dmitry was stunned for a moment.

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

"What's wrong, Your Highness?"

Elizabeth's heart tightened and asked as if nothing had happened.

Dmitry turned around.

She seemed to see a little confused in Dmitry's emotionless ice-blue pupils?

"Annan seems to have had a lot of fun with a lady named Kaphne."

Dmitry shook his head and replied calmly: "My son is rude, Your Highness, Princess."

Upon hearing this, Elizabeth felt aroused.

"...No, His Highness Dmitry."

She smiled cleverly and said gently: "Or, let's talk about... what's going on with His Highness Annan?"
Chapter completed!