"...Yes, Your Highness Princess. But regarding the trade of goods in Frozen Water Port..."
Dmitry suddenly stopped mid-sentence.
The young man with a straight back and a stern expression frowned slightly and looked at the old man with a decadent spirit and a thin body.
"Where's Annan?"
Seeing old Merlin come back by himself, Dmitri asked calmly.
His deep ice-blue pupils were like the frozen sea. There was no emotion at all.
Elizabeth knew that this was the talent of Winter's direct bloodline...it was called the Heart of Winter.
This is proof that the blood of the cold-blooded lady flows in their bodies.
The Principality of Winter is a country where winter and harvest alternate. Just like an underground city-state, the Grandmother can unconsciously transform the surrounding ecology on a large scale just by existing.
Grandma is a righteous god with two forms.
When he is awake, he is a three-meter-tall beauty with frosty hair and blue eyes. The grandmother in this form is the traditional god - whether it was giving birth to the bloodline of Winter, establishing the Principality of Winter, or
Teaching his young descendants, helping the contemporary Grand Duke handle government affairs, presiding over domestic festivals and activities, and even being responsible for the marriages, births and funerals of his descendants were all His actions at this time.
Just like an immortal grandmother... she has absolute say within the family and is extremely active. When the old grandmother is awake, everyone will be very respectful to the Winter clan - because they have a protector behind them.
, the powerful and capable ancestor of the Righteous God.
This is also the reason why He is affectionately called "Grandma". Because this habit of caring for children and grandchildren is not limited to his own bloodline... He also often gives some gifts to obedient and lovely children, or
He likes to mediate other people's family conflicts. At this time, the Principality of Winter is called "Feng Nian" by the people of Winter.
However, due to her habits before becoming a god, the old grandmother had the habit of falling into the "dragon sleep" of unknown time from time to time.
At that time, He will transform into a giant dragon that is only 100 meters tall when lying down.
That's more than thirty stories high.
At this time He is the God of Frost.
The breath He exhales will stir up a never-ending blizzard. When the old grandmother falls into dragon sleep, this blizzard can serve as a barrier to protect the Winter Principality from the erosion of gray fog, and can also serve as a barrier against external invaders.
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But this blizzard will also cause the already cold temperature in the Principality of Winter to drop sharply. Some newborns and the elderly will freeze to death at this time. Field crops and weak ordinary beasts will not be able to survive, and even trees will sink into the water for several hours.
Years, more than ten years of "hibernation".
Even those extraordinary beings who die in the blizzard will not have nightmares - because even the curse will be frozen and become part of the blizzard. People in the winter will call this cycle the "Winter Year".
Inside large cities, there can also be constant temperature barriers set up by wizards, greenhouse crops made, and food crops imported from other countries through underground passages. In those villages, only those powerful hunters and warriors can withstand the snowstorm.
Go out in the woods, snowfields or sea to hunt for the villagers the same frost beasts that can survive in the snowstorm.
These frost beasts are monsters that have been immersed in cursed blizzards for a long time, and thus mutated. They feed on curses, so when humans are locked in the city by blizzards, they are able to reproduce in large numbers - once the number gathers
To a certain extent, they will launch attacks on human gathering areas.
But those who possess the blood of Winter can tame and command these frost beasts in winter. This is also the fundamental reason why the Winter family cannot be replaced.
Yes.
They are also Grandma's followers...and her descendants.
After all, this is the influence that the old grandmother's part as a dragon has on the beasts when the dragon is sleeping.
This is why the Cold Winter family is called the "Wolf King" and uses the white wolf as its emblem - the frost beast with the largest number is a "social species" with the appearance of a "wolf".
But one thing to point out is that frost beasts do not attack humans because they are thirsty for blood food... they are special species similar to elemental life and do not need to eat meat.
They just want "love".
But it's not just love either.
Hope, sympathy, loyalty, happiness... Frost beasts have the ability to swallow positive emotions. But frost beasts themselves have no emotions and little wisdom.
Therefore, they will follow their instincts, find humans by following their smell, attack them, and devour their emotions—but they will not show mercy to humans who "produce food."
After encountering an attack, humans tend not to have many positive emotions... This will make the frost beasts even more irritable and look for the next gathering point.
Only other frost beasts, the "Hand of Winter" without positive emotions, and humans with the talent of Heart of Winter can avoid being attacked by frost beasts. In the perception of frost beasts, humans of the winter clan are
A kind of "humanoid kind", and they are their superior species. Therefore, they will be loyal to these "kinds" they see.
Then they will be captured and included in the army. After being tamed, the frost beasts can form a symbiotic comrade-in-arms relationship with the soldiers - they have learned to "save a bite" and will not directly chew their partners into despair.
Heart of Winter is not just a talent used to tame frost beasts.
It allows the holder to have a certain sense of immortality.
Once the damage received exceeds the limit, the damage will be transmitted to the old grandmother, and she will bear it on her behalf; if she is awake, she can be found immediately, and even if she is asleep, once she has endured too much...
He will also gradually wake up.
If you want to kill the Winter clan, you can only use frost elements. This is the "family method" reserved by the old grandmother for herself - he is the god of tradition after all.
But as we all know, all gold-level extraordinary beings who have awakened the frost element were born in the Principality of Winter.
Therefore, it is almost impossible to kill people from the Winter clan.
The only option is to tie up the hands and feet and throw them into the sea, or tie them up and throw them into the basement... until they can no longer bear it and end themselves.
In addition, the Heart of Winter can also give the holder a cold and indifferent heart.
From birth, the Winter clan must endure the eternal training of "never being happy". This is to prevent them from being addicted to the lust of power, to always stay awake, and to always act for the people.
No matter what they do, they will never get happiness. So for them, only the "rules" and "traditions" they have learned since childhood are worth noting... They are the ice-hearted kings who have acted for others since they were born.
This is undoubtedly cruel.
But for the Principality of Winter, which occasionally falls into winter, only a king who is strict, self-disciplined, inhumane, and able to endure people's resentment, curses, and incomprehension can stably maintain the shaky public order.
The old grandmother's idea is very simple.
If people need such sacrifices - then the sacrifices should be made by their own children.
This may be unfair to his children...but this is a "traditional" choice.
While the old grandmother was extremely protective of his shortcomings, he also had extremely strict requirements for his children. Under such training, every generation of Grand Duke Winter...even just the children of Grand Duke Winter, was the best ruler among all countries.
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They will not be lazy because of the pursuit of easy happiness, nor will they be arrogant because of the pleasure of superiority. They will not be arrogant because of the compliments of courtiers or envoys, nor will they accept the temptation of beauty - reproduction of offspring is for them,
It's just "obligation" rather than "pleasure".
With such a ruler...such a terrible and desolate country, why should we go to war with them?
Elizabeth's thoughts were so simple and pure.
She tried her best to resolve the aftermath of the war caused by her father... because she was afraid.
She doesn't want to go head-to-head with such an enemy.
This is also the main reason why the eldest princess is willing to put aside her dignity and offer to receive the eldest son of Grand Duke Ivan in person.
She didn't want her stupid younger siblings to mess things up.
They simply don't understand... how terrifying the Winter clan is.
"……What?"
After old Merlin whispered to Dmitri, Dmitri was stunned for a while.
He shook his head and murmured in a low voice: "Annan actually..."
"What's the matter, Your Highness?"
Elizabeth's heart tightened and she asked nonchalantly.
Dmitri turned around.
She vaguely seemed to see a little confusion in Dmitri's emotionless ice-blue pupils?
"Annan seemed to be having a lot of fun with a young lady named Kafni."
Dmitri shook his head and replied calmly: "My brother, I'm sorry, Your Highness."
Hearing this, Elizabeth's heart moved.
"...No, Your Highness Dmitry."
She smiled sweetly and said gently: "How about we talk about... His Highness Annan's affairs?"