After Zong Shen left with Alexis, the narrow alleys of Iceflow Castle returned to deathly silence, with only the cold wind still howling.
The grand sight of the Workshop district in Eternal Frost's Wrath Fortress left him speechless for a long while, like a mouse that had fallen into a rice bin.
After settling him in, Zong Shen did not immediately return to his territory.
Instead, he stood before the main console in the fortress's central control hall and summoned Ice Soul.
Traveling through Eternal Frost's Wrath Fortress was far more convenient than searching for a traversal singularity.
Yet his gaze fell upon a long-forgotten corner of his personal Storage Grid.
There lay a bead the size of a glass marble, its interior seemingly suffused with gray mist.
[Three-Eyed Crow's Dream Pearl (Unknown)].
The Eternal Night Calamity in the Northern Frontier had come to an end. The Night King had been annihilated, the Vigia Kingdom had fallen under his control, and the Slavia Empire's legacy had also been inherited.
When he first obtained this bead, he had once gazed toward the Northern Frontier, speculating that it was connected to the Green Prophet's resting place and the history of the continent's ancient peoples.
Now that the vast frozen lands of the Northern Frontier lay beneath his feet, it was time to investigate this final ancient clue.
He took out the Dream Pearl.
The bead still felt as warm and smooth as it had before, without the slightest hint of coldness.
Now that he had ascended to godhood, Zong Shen could sense a strange, faint warmth from it, as though it possessed life.
The gray mist within slowly swirled.
Merely staring at it for too long gave him the dazed sensation that his soul might be sucked inside.
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