"Wiat... This isn't the cold ice"
She turns and looks at me.
"Ahh!"
She jolts.
"Why the rush? Relax"
I say in a soft voice.
I hug her and play with her hair
"What are you doing here shadow?"
She asks embarrassedly but doesn't pull away.
This place is so comfortable!
I tell her what happened and my breakthrough to the 5th rank.
"You... Too monstrous.. "
She exclaimed in disbelief.
5th rank below a hundred years old?
That's insane!
It usually takes at least 600 years!
"What about you? Did you make any progress?"
I ask casually
"I broke through to middle stage."
She answers while inhaling my scent.
'He smells soo good!'
We stay silent enjoying each other's company.
In the last 7 months we became used to each other.
After all, in this white expanse only we are here.
Another month passed.
I am now in middle stage.
And she is peak 4th rank.
Her increasing speed of cultivation isn't just her talent.
Her Hardwork , and my presences take credit.
My presence has a huge impact on all ice species. The closer they are, the talent increases.
I was laying on a bed made of snow and ice with Anna beside me.
Anna was asleep.
But I wasn't because of a simple thing...
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"A new mission? "
I stand up.
"Mm"
Anna wakes up too.
"Where are you going?"
She says in a sleepy voice.
"I will give you a big surprise"
I take her hand and start flying away.
"Wait, where are we going?! Ahhhhh! "
I hold her from her waist as I stop in the air.
After reaching the fifth rank. My abilities all upgraded without exception.
All abilities that before had limits finally became like the others with no limit.
Like the abilities, my sense because overpowered.
I can sense to more than a hundred miles and using my "energy detection" skill, I sense dense ice energy exactly 86 miles away in a huge mountain.
"Hmm..."
I fly towards it and land at its foot.
"What was that?"
Anna asks somewhat dizzy.
"A surprise"
"I know you idiot! I mean what is that surprise?"
"Anna,Β can you stand in my place for a second?"
I
say with my hand on my chin staring at the ground.
"Huh?"
"Just do it"
Anna nods and stands in his place.
"Now what-"
Before she continues, a blue rune under her foot glows.
Rumble!
The mountain trembles and the rocks in front of us Open like a huge gate.
'Just as I expected, it works only with their bloodline, otherwise it would have recognized me since I now posses their progenitor's blood'
I think to myself.
"How did you...."
Anna looks at me with surprise.
"My intuition told me"
I lie as easy as breathing.
"... Jerk"
"Hehe~"
"Let's go inside"
I say before walking ahead.
As soon as we enter the rocks close again.
Anna looks around.
"It's dark here"
I take a deep breath and blow.
Whoosh!
Icy fire light up the chandeliers in the place.
Or rather "the palace"
Anna's eyes widen.
"Woah... "
Meanwhile my eyes narrow.
'I am still not affected by grand things....this is starting to unsettle me'
Anna goes to a rusty sword on a platform.
"Hey shadow look!"
"Hmm?"
I go to her and look at the sword.
Anna reaches her hand to touch it but I stop her.
"Wait"
"What? It looks cool"
She pouts.
"First of all, do you even know where we are? Does your father know about this place?"
"... No"
She admits.
"Second of all, this is the icy grounds, your ancestors' inheritance.Β do you know what that means? "
"This place is not simple? "
"Exactly"
I nod.
I look around until I see that the walls have marks on them, as if they can open.
"This looks like a challenge"
I muse.
"Hmm"
I look back at Anna who is still at the platform.
'Probably when she takes out that sword those stone doors will open and something will come... Maybe ice monsters?'
I conclude.
'This is dangerous.. I don't know their level but it's dangerous...we can't risk it'
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I look at the system panel in Deep thoughts.
That's right, if that was the case the mission would have come the moment I stepped into the ice grounds.
I go to Anna and stand beside her.
"Anna, this may be an inheritance. The moment you take out the sword from the ground the challenge will ensue"
Anna asks, still not taking her eyes off the sword.
"Is that it?"
".... Yes?"
I replie with a strange expression.
"Then screw it!"
Without further delay she takes out the sword.
Immediately after the ground shakes once again and the stone doors open.
A hundred ice golems , rank 4 peak, rush in.
I right in relief.
'Fortunately, I can kill them with a thought'
'But isn't it too much of a coincidence? The same rank as the challenger?'
I think with suspicion.
Just then, the sword in Anna's hand glows, the rust vanishes and the blue ice sword with a hilt made of exalted materials shows up.
'That sword...'
I observe the sword intently.
'If she tries hard enough... She can kill all those golems'
"Bring it on!"
Anna shouts and lunges at the goldems.
Before, she would have struggled against two golems.
But now?
I think the golems want to see their mothers.
Anna slashes the golems with precision.
Every slash leaves a deep cut.
Every swing cuts a head.
Before long , the hundred goldems had all died.
"Huff Huff Huff... Is it done?"
Anna asks panting heavily.
Actually....
"No"
Just after my replie...
Runes glow all over the place and a figure emerges.
A tall slender woman resembling Anna but with a more maternal aura holding a sword in her hand much like the sword currently in Anna's hands.
'She looks like Anna... Maybe a projection of her ancestor?'
I think while observing the scene.