Ashen Dragon

Chapter 192: Chapter 118: Battle of Glacier’s Demise (5)
 

The giant continued to charge forward. Even with a broken arm, he still used his remaining hand to snap off an ice cone as a weapon, attacking the red dragon relentlessly.

Cassius just flapped his wings, hovering in place.

“What a peculiar thing…”

“I wonder how long it can last?”

He didn’t think about leaving the center of the storm. On one hand, the storm of vengeance was no longer within his control, even entering it himself would be incredibly dangerous.

On the other, he had immense confidence in the power of this masterpiece he had crafted with his own hands. He didn’t believe the giant could stand before him alive.

The storm of vengeance had already surged for more than ten rounds. The fierce winds and icy rain ravaged the area beneath the thunderclouds.

The giant’s figure grew more slender, several sizes smaller than at the start, as if stripped layer by layer, revealing its fragile structure within.

Its movements became increasingly sluggish, struggling within the storm, yet it remained undaunted, charging toward Cassius.

“Everfrost…foe!”

“I will never…spare you…”

The voice, like a boat tossing in a stormy sea, grew weaker, yet it remained steadfast, a testament to the unyielding will of the Everfrost Holy Land’s guardians before their death.

However, with the surge of spells, the storm of vengeance did not cease. Instead, it grew increasingly violent. White, blue, and purple lightning continuously tore through the black sky, their immense strength descending upon the ice field, ruthlessly destroying everything on the ground.

Black mist churned, thunderclouds billowed, and from the dense darkness shone an irresistible radiance, illuminating the snow and ice. It was the most terrifying thunder.

But the giant on the ground seemed oblivious, now only a few hundred meters from the red dragon, brandishing a sharp ice cone as it charged.

“Boom!”

Thunder rumbled again, earth-shattering.

Dozens of blinding flashes of lightning struck simultaneously, forming a giant claw in the sky that tore through the dark clouds. This furious power gathered and finally struck the unsuspecting ice crystal giant’s head.

“No—”

Blinding endless lightning enveloped the massive body, illuminating the surroundings like daylight, with white smoke rising in billows.

Across the vast Vaar Glacier, nearly all living beings could hear the piercing wail and the crackling of lightning.

When the lightning subsided and the white smoke dissipated, the ice crystal giant was seen shattered, nearly at the end of this strange form of life.

Its head was half gone, looking grotesque.

Its massive left arm was broken, fallen to the ground.

Its hip was also half split, its right leg missing from the hip down, and its left calf was split in two, with only the left thigh still movable.

Maintaining this form had already exhausted all its strength. The ice crystal giant’s entire body was covered in cracks, as if it could shatter at any moment, turning into scattered ice pieces.

Yet that half mouth still twitched slightly.

“Everfrost… foe…”

The barely human-like ice crystal giant, using its only left thigh to scrape the ground, its torso writhing, presented a grotesque posture on the ground, like a crawling worm. Though exceedingly slow, it did indeed move toward the red dragon.

The red dragon watched silently, observing the giant crawling closer.

Each meter forward ground its body further against the ground, leaving behind fragments of ice.

As it crawled, its path was strewn with ice shards.

The giant on the ground barely touched the red dragon’s claw with its left shoulder, laboriously lifting its head, its half mouth twitching slightly.

“Caught…you…”

“Ever…frost’s…”

Before it could finish saying “foe,” a cracking sound interrupted. The ice crystal giant could no longer hold together its cracked form, shattering completely. This body, even though heavily damaged, nearly twenty meters long, turned into a small ice mountain, standing silently on the ice surface of Vaar Glacier.

Cassius casually picked up an ice crystal, holding it in his claws, feeling the instinctively loathed coldness.

“A magical creature driven purely by hatred, devoid of wisdom, yet it could reach a legendary level of life.”

“Such a strange thing, let’s have Ramp study it thoroughly when we get back.”

“Maybe this thing… could become a sharp axe in my hands.”

Cassius glanced around, quietly admiring the scourge he had created.

Though the ice crystal giant was dead, the terrifying storm of vengeance continued unabated. With the surge of spells, it would keep expanding until the natural laws balanced it, quelling this destructive force.

Endless gales and icy rain scoured everything under the thunderclouds, countless lightning bolts crashed down, shattering ice mountains one after another.

The frost giants’ snow fortresses were split by lightning, collapsing with a roar, their thousand-year-old holy land buried under shattered ice. The records and deeds of former giants would sink into the earth, forever frozen in hundred-meter-deep ice.

The frost giants’ hunting grounds were eroded by acid rain, becoming unrecognizable; their coarse horns, bone spears, and shields turned into the land’s nutrients.

Even the ice valleys, where the frost giants depended on for survival, were buried under collapsing glaciers with each thunderous roar, all traces of the frost giants’ lives — crafted fur, leftover bones, and even children’s ice sculptures — would be sealed in ice, known to none.

The Everfrost Tribe, lingering since ancient wars nearly ten thousand years ago, growing weaker over time, was finally destroyed by a red dragon.

Kobal Everfrost’s tribe rose because they killed a red dragon, and ended because they provoked one, a small divine joke spanning millennia.

“The scourge of frost is over…”

“Because I brought disaster to the ‘scourge of frost.'”

Cassius glanced around, finding humor in the devastation, thinking it almost a paradox.

He slightly raised his head as new information refreshed on his panel.

[You have slain the Incarnation of Winter from Soleim (Challenge Level: 20)], gaining 25000xp]

[You have annihilated the racial faction, the Everfrost Tribe]

[Special achievement obtained, Destroyer of Frost Giants]

Achievement, Destroyer of Frost Giants

“Frost giants are the easiest things to kill. Without the annoying spells of storm giants or cloud giants, you can easily slaughter them in close combat, even a trashy white dragon. The only downside is their meat tastes like ice chunks, fresh out of a frozen cave, truly unpalatable. — Ancient Red Dragon, Kabalia Halls”

Acquired trait: Frost Giant Slayer@@novelbin@@

Strength +2

Proficiencies: Intimidation +3

As the destroyer of the frost giant tribe, your renown is enough to make them tremble, and your damage to the race, frost giants, becomes more significant, with an inherent intimidation effect.

Meanwhile, your experience destroying Everfrost has made you stronger, your confidence altering reality, granting you some resistance to cold.