If you continue walking north from the Principality of Winter, which is already in the north, until you break away from the big barrier formed by the storm, you can reach the "Amber Sea".
In that ocean, there are a lot of amber floating.
Further north from there is the infinite glacier commonly known as the "Great Glacier" in the far north of the world.
If compared with a map of the Earth...this is almost where the Greenland ice sheet is.
In this kind of place, basically no plants can survive. Except for a few wild animals, only the fish under the ice and passing seabirds can eat it.
The difference from the earth is that the air and water here have been polluted by gray fog. Almost all the dwarves and giants who lived here before died here because the great barrier was broken and the gray fog poured in.
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Only less than three digits of dwarves survived, and almost all the giants died as a result.
The strong curse and resentment caused the alienation of this land. The ice cap area, which could still barely be inhabited, has raised icebergs one after another. The essence of these glaciers is actually one ice coffin after another.
Because of these curses, the temperature in the nearby area has also plummeted, reaching a level where it is easy to freeze to death even with thermal equipment.
It is very dangerous to travel here.
The excessive curses filled in the gray fog rendered all props such as compasses ineffective.
Even spells and rituals will become abnormal and cannot be used. All food and water carried are extremely perishable, and wounds cannot be healed at all. Once you get a disease, you will not recover...
Because of this, no passers-by would pass by here. It is also because of this that the heart of justice has never been discovered.
Paper Princess turned into a giant dragon and flew here about a month ago.
She is burdened with the mission given by her main god Yaweng.
Find the heart of justice for Annan and draw three magic paintings within one month.
It has to be said that Yaweng's judgment of her was so accurate. Yaweng's request was exactly the magic painting that Zhiji was at her current level, and she had to devote herself wholeheartedly to the painting to make it well done.
"Really," Zhi Ji, who was flying in the sky, complained, "don't throw two things that I need to do seriously together and ask me to do them..."
At first, Zhi Ji wanted to find her heart of justice and then concentrate on painting.
Otherwise, if you are always thinking about unfinished things, Zhi Ji thinks that she will become anxious and unable to devote herself to it. She will not be able to reach the highest level where she can surpass Ya Weng and satisfy Ya Weng.
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Although she complained, Zhiji still understood in her heart.
Compared with the "homework" Ya Weng gave her such as painting, finding the heart of justice for Annan is the more important business.
...As a result, Zhiji searched for a whole month, but still could not find the heart of justice. In desperation, she could only start painting after the deadline, so that she could at least deliver the same work when she returned.
She has already completed the first two paintings depicting glaciers and extreme cold storms.
The third painting requires me to draw myself flying over the glacier.
Although Zhiji knew her appearance very well, she still had to find a place to take in the scenery and search for her heart of justice.
Although she actually doesn't have much hope anymore...
"……Um?"
Zhi Ji suddenly saw someone from a distance.
It seemed to be a certain man, lying motionless in front of a cave.
Judging from the fact that his body was not yet covered with snow, it shouldn't have been long since he fell.
Is he a lost traveler?
Let's go down first and see if he is still alive.
If he still has a breath, go and save him.
Zhi Ji thought.
The pure white dragon with gorgeous wings that anyone could feel "beautiful and elegant" descended slowly and turned into a human form the moment it touched the ground.
The man seemed to hear something vaguely and wanted to raise his head, but he only squirmed and failed.
Sure enough, still alive!
"Are you OK?"
Zhi Ji quickly moved over and took out a red crayon.
She drew a cartoon red heart in the air and then filled it in.
Then, she penetrated this heart into the passenger's body.
Just like the "health value" in the game fluctuates, the red color in the red heart slowly drops like liquid, as if it has been injected into the passenger's body.
When the red heart turned into a hollow red outline again, the passenger's pale to almost cyan skin regained its color.
He coughed and slowly opened his eyes.
The first time he saw Zhi Ji's face... perhaps because he was not sober enough, he was not charmed, but instead had strong confusion and surprise in his eyes.
"……His Majesty?"
he murmured.
"Huh?"
Zhi Ji was stunned: "Do you know Annan?"
The traveler was startled.
His consciousness gradually returned to his body and he slowly sat up from the snow.
This time, when he clearly saw Zhi Ji, he was also shocked by the overwhelming beauty. However, before Zhi Ji could continue to treat him, he quickly regained consciousness.
"...You are Paper Princess, right?"
He quickly and skillfully shifted his gaze, looked at the glacier in the distance, and said in a hoarse voice: "I am a ritual master affiliated with Grand Duke Annan... I came to the Endless Glacier to find a certain treasure for Your Majesty. My name is Jacob,
Can you contact His Majesty Annan?"
"You're not here to find the Heart of Justice, are you?"
Zhiji blurted out.
"……you too?"
Jacob was also startled: "Is Your Majesty so anxious to get it..."
He hesitated for a while and then quickly decided: "Since you are Lord Zhiji, I think this can be entrusted to you.
"I can't use other teleportation rituals with it. But if I want you to take me out, it would be too presumptuous..."
Jacob said, using his still stiff right hand, he took off the leather glove on his left hand with difficulty.
What caught Zhiji's eyes was a round hole.
She immediately and subconsciously wanted to heal the injury of the ritual master. But she soon judged from the beauty of the scar that it should be a trace left by the ritual.
Jacob took out a key, put his left hand on the ice, and inserted the key into the black hole on the back of his hand.
At that moment, Zhi Ji clearly heard a "click" sound of the machine spring.
But it is impossible to have that kind of mechanical spring in your hand. This can only be the trace left by some kind of auditory hallucination to ritually modify the world.
...About the ritual of locking?
Zhi Ji thought.
A new inspiration suddenly emerged in her heart, but out of politeness, she still did not interrupt the ritualist's actions.
I saw Jacob singing in a low voice:
"I am the lock, and the steel is the key. I use light to open my flesh and blood, just as I use the key to open all the doors."
As he spoke, he slowly turned the key.
The sound of the lock cylinder turning sounded out of thin air in the air.
"I penetrate myself with light, just as a key penetrates the lock of a door. Therefore, I am the door. I am the door of the secret treasure, the door of flesh and blood."
Brilliant golden light overflowed from Jacob's palm.
When she saw the light, Zhi Ji suddenly felt her heart pumping strongly.
Jacob motioned to Paper Girl to hold it down.
It was as if it would suddenly fly away the next moment.
When Zhiji stretched out her hand to hold it, she immediately felt a burning sensation and a strong sense of repulsion. It was like the high temperature of a soldering iron, or like the feeling when two magnets are pressed together forcibly.
At the same time, she felt that her heart, which was shaped by the light world, was beating fiercely almost in sync with the scorching ball of light.
It's not flesh and blood. It's a collection of light and heat.
She has realized why she can never find the heart of justice...the reason is here.
Annan's subordinate, a ritual master named Jacob, had long since found his heart for justice.
But the Heart of Justice is scorching hot, shining with a brilliance that can be seen ten miles away... This is not a heat that a mortal can normally hold, and it is even less possible for him to create a vessel that can imprison the holy bones.
In order to allow him to transport it smoothly, and in order not to be discovered and taken away by others, he protected his heart of justice to a different world that even gods could not pry into, that is, the inside of his body. But because of this, he lost
In the process of hiking back across the glacier, he finally collapsed in the endless glacier from exhaustion.
"Thank you for your hard work, Jacob. You are an amazing ritualist."
Zhi Ji said softly: "I will tell Annan the truth about your achievements... Now, can you go back by yourself?"
Hearing this, Jacob breathed a sigh of relief: "That's good...you don't have to worry about me, I will teleport directly back to Winter and report the matter to His Highness Dmitry.
"If I don't have to transport my heart of justice, it would be easy for me to transport this distance."
Although his breath was still a little weak, Jacob's words were full of confidence: "If you can... please say a few kind words for me in front of the Grand Duke."