Snowflakes drifted, the north wind howled, and heaven and earth lay vast and bleak.
Snow Giant Da and Frost Troll Da stood atop the shattered Ice Cap, staring into the empty space ahead, their faces filled with unwillingness.
How many times had it been?
He could barely remember. Every time he ambushed that human little ant named Russell Fluorite Mushroom, he ended up battered and humiliated. This time, he had returned for another attempt, and even after inheriting Frost Ge's Snow Giant power, he had still failed.
"Not only can I not reclaim the Extreme Ice Sacred Artifact, I can't even deal with one tiny ant... The warriors of Frost Star will be arriving soon. How am I supposed to hold my head up then?"
He raised his head and looked toward the dim sky, as though he could see his homeland, Frost Star, beyond the horizon.
Like a dream, Russell, within the Dark Dreamscape, seemed to return to the distant river of time.
It was a white horse.
It was grazing leisurely among a herd when, suddenly, a massive meteor fell from the sky and crashed onto the grassland not far away.
The shockwave nearly knocked the white horse off its feet.
The herd panicked, but driven by curiosity, the white horse walked toward where the meteor had landed. When it arrived, it saw a slender crystal embedded in the center of the crater amid curling smoke.
"The Extreme Ice Sacred Artifact!" Russell's consciousness cried out.
The white horse seemed to sense the danger as well. It slowly backed away and watched as the Extreme Ice Sacred Artifact, shaped like a slender crystal, began to emit waves of icy air.
Only then did it flee in panic, chasing after the herd.
Before long, the entire grassland began to