Softhearted

Hydra was the god of ice and snow in Slavic myth and legend. Naturally, a place named after this god of ice and snow carried a powerful implication and significance.

According to Slavic legends, the terrain in the southern part of the Ice and Snow Wilderness had taken its present form entirely as a result of a battle between the god of ice and snow and another deity. The land, once sealed in ice, had been eroded and carved by the power of ice and snow over millions of years, eventually becoming what it was today.

Seen from the sky, the Hydra Glacier Rift resembled wrinkles and wounds upon the earth. Some were large, some small; some shallow, some deep. Because of this unique terrain formed by glacial movement in ages long past, the landscape of the southern Ice and Snow Wilderness, once a plain, had become rich and varied.

The place before Zhang Tie, where the entrance to the legendary underground ruins was located, was precisely such a strange place.

It was a long, bean-pod-shaped gigantic glacier rift, two or three kilometers wide at its broadest point and barely level with the ground at its highest. It looked no different from a canyon. The only thing distinguishing it from an ordinary canyon was the layers of stair-stepped rocky fault lines, formed by glacial movement, running from the ground down to the bottom of the enormous rift at both ends.

At this time of year, with it being summer in the Ice and Snow Wilderness, the bottom of the canyon was lush and vibrant. In many places, thick wild grass stood as high as a person.

At this moment, countless individual tents had been pitched densely across the rocky fault lines on both sides of the canyon, and smoke from