Ur, Alive and Well

Gray, panting heavily, stumbled and staggered towards the iceberg.

His gaze froze as he passed over a pile of broken ice crystals.

He saw the living Ur, and standing next to Ur was an uncle who seemed both familiar and strange.

"Ur!!"

Gray's voice trembled.

Ur heard Gray's shout and turned to look at his good-for-nothing disciple.

Seeing that Gray didn't recognize him, Silver, who was standing to the side, curled his lip in annoyance, a wicked smile playing on his lips.

That's true; Gray was young then and might not remember what he looked like.

Yin and Ur exchanged a silent glance, and in that instant, they reached a strange understanding.

"Gray, run! This isn't something you can handle!"

Ur suddenly turned around and shouted at Gray at the top of his lungs, his anxious tone perfectly convincing.

As soon as he finished speaking, Yin raised his hand, flipped his palm, and a pink ice-colored magic circle instantly unfolded beneath Ur's feet.

A bone-chilling cold erupted.

In the blink of an eye, Ur was frozen solid inside a block of pink ice.

They didn't even have time to make the next move.

Seeing this, Gray's eyes widened in fury, and his nails dug deep into his flesh.

Ur had finally recovered, but now he's been frozen again right in front of me!

Unforgivable! Absolutely unforgivable!

His eyes quickly turned bloodshot as he stared intently at Yin, his hands trembling slightly with extreme anger.

The longer he stared at it, the more inexplicably familiar Yin's mocking face seemed.

Who is this?

Why does it feel so familiar to me?

Those blurry fragments of memory are frantically piecing together in my mind—who was it again?

Seeing Gray's near-rage state, Ur, trapped inside the ice, instinctively wanted to shake his head and sigh.

As soon as he tried to use his neck, he found that he couldn't shake his head at all.

The surrounding area was entirely covered in solid ice.

Only then did she belatedly realize that she was currently being held hostage inside a block of ice, unable to even make a facial expression.

Silver sighed inwardly as he looked at Gray's extremely angry expression.

He didn't expect that brat Gray would recognize him now; it was heartbreaking. He had to make up for the lack of something in Gray's childhood.

A severe beating from my father.

"Speaking of which, I should thank you all. I froze Sun Village because I was passing by; I just casually froze it, hahaha..."

Yin deliberately dragged out his words, laughing extremely arrogantly, the laughter echoing across the empty ice mountain.

It really maximized the villain's level of ridicule.

"So it was you who did it!"

Gray didn't want to waste any more words; anger overwhelmed all reason.

He slammed his fist into the ground, clasped his hands together in front of his chest, and an ice-blue magic circle instantly unfolded in front of his palms.

[Ice-Make - Thousand Blades]

He plunged into the magic circle and conjured a Tang sword radiating a chilling aura.

The action of drawing the sword was clean and swift, sending ice shards flying everywhere.

It looks like it was pulled out of thin air; it's really cool.

Yin was speechless as he watched his son so eagerly draw his knife and slash at him.

He wanted to chat a little longer; this was a rare opportunity for father and son to get together.

Why didn't my daughter-in-law come?

I heard from Ur that Gray, that ice block, has a woman now, but he didn't even bring her over to check her out. Sigh, what an inconsiderate and unlucky kid.

He thought this to himself, and then casually asked it aloud.

"Gray, where's your woman? Why didn't she come?"

This sudden gossip question was like a bucket of cold water being poured over my head.

Gray was almost charging at Silver with his sword drawn when this completely unconventional, everyday remark interrupted his momentum, leaving him frozen in place, frozen in a comical sword-wielding pose.

"Forget it, how could any girl possibly like you looking like that?"

Silver looked at Gray's dazed expression and shook his head in disdain.

After saying that, Yin waved his hand dismissively.

With a chilling aura, the magic circle unfolded unexpectedly beneath Gray's feet, and a thick pink icicle quickly formed, heading straight for Gray.

Gray reacted quickly, instinctively twisting his waist and turning to the side to dodge.

Although they narrowly avoided a direct impact, their clothes were only frozen solid the moment the icicle grazed them.

He spun around, and with the force of the spin, his clothes came off smoothly.

Bare-chested, he steadied himself in the freezing snow.

Ur, inside the ice cube, rolled his eyes inwardly at the sight and couldn't help but complain.

Why is this child getting more and more comfortable undressing her?

How did this habit of taking off clothes to fight develop?

But you have to admit, being able to escape instantly by taking off your clothes is actually a pretty good skill in a way.

The battle broke out again.

Silver barely moved, simply standing still, easily dealing with Gray's relentless onslaught.

With just a wave of the hand, layers of ice waves surge forth like a tidal wave.

Faced with this enormous difference in magical power, Gray was forced to retreat steadily and was forced to dodge in a very sorry state.

They tumbled and crawled through the icy waves.

"That's it? Gray, after all these years, you're still so cowardly. How could I have such a son?"

Yin suddenly dropped his earlier teasing tone, his eyes turning icy cold.

The sound wasn't loud, but it felt like a heavy hammer blow.

These words struck Gray like a bolt from the blue, shattering all his defenses.

He stood frozen in place, the tip of his Tang sword dangling on the ice.

That face, that tone, that ingrained sense of oppression... He finally remembered who Yin really was, and he remembered that night engulfed by fire and Despair...

Gray stared intently at Silver, his face pale and filled with disbelief.

"Impossible, you clearly..."

"Already dead, right? That's right, this body was indeed dead back then. I am Deliora! What a coincidence, to have possessed your father's body, hahaha..."

Yin threw his head back and laughed wildly, his face contorted in a ferocious grimace.

That look clearly showed she was deliberately provoking Gray, trying to provoke his deepest anger.

Ur, inside the ice cube, watched Yin's exaggerated performance and silently gave it a mental evaluation: terrible acting.

Gray watched Silver laugh wildly, his heart pounding like a drum, his emotions a jumble of feelings.

This clichéd villain possession trope, coupled with this clumsy, maniacal acting, can only fool Natsu, that simple-minded creature.

To verify his suspicions, he suddenly turned to look at Ur.

Ur, inside the icicle, probably hadn't expected Gray to look at him so suddenly, and nervously closed his eyes.

He had a guilty look on his face, as if to say, "I don't know anything, don't ask me."

Oh dear, we've been exposed.

The weight that had been hanging over Gray's heart lifted with a thud, followed by a complex mix of emotions.

He straightened up again and gave a cold snort.

"Stop acting. Deliora is long dead. Besides, when you died, Deliora hadn't been sealed away yet."

He paused, took a deep breath, and stared sharply into Yin's eyes before continuing.

"So, what exactly are you now?"

Silver's laughter stopped abruptly.

He looked into Gray's clear eyes and shrugged helplessly.

"Was my acting that bad? It doesn't matter anymore. The final outcome won't change. Today, you can only kill me, or I can kill you and then destroy the entire Tartaros myself."

The pink magic power emanating from the silver body erupted like a volcano, and the surrounding air instantly dropped to freezing point.