The Empress Won't Sacrifice Herself!

The Beast God Di Tian, dressed in black, shook the happy water in his hand and pointed to the second floor. "Since you're here, want to get on a computer first? The Elder Scrolls I've been playing lately could use a mage follower as capable as you."

Hearing this, Ice Empress's tense nerves did not relax. Instead, she became even more bewildered.

She stared fixedly at the man before her. His aura was unfathomable, and the pressure of his black dragon bloodline was as deep and vast as an abyss.

That was right. This was indeed the Beast God Di Tian, whose name shook the continent.

But... where was the dignity of the ruler of soul beasts in the current Di Tian? He wore loose human clothes, held a black potion bubbling with foam, and looked lazy and relaxed, like a... human middle-aged man who had just gotten off work?

"Di Tian... have you gone mad?" Ice Empress's voice trembled slightly from shock.

"As the Beast God, you're actually addicted to human..." She glanced at the glowing Screens around her and the humans tapping away at keyboards. "...such frivolous tricks?"

"Frivolous tricks?" Di Tian snorted, a trace of pity in his eyes, as though explaining ice to a summer insect.

"Ice Empress, in this shop, whether it's me or you, we aren't soul beasts, nor are we rulers. We are merely players!"

After saying that, Di Tian ignored her and headed upstairs, muttering, "Hurry up. My Dragonborn save still hasn't finished the main quest..."

Watching Di Tian vanish at the stairway, Ice Empress was completely thrown into chaos.

What had happened to this world? Even that proud black dragon had become like this?

"Ahem... um, Senior Ice Empress." Huo Yuhao cautiously spoke from beside her. "How about... you give it a try too?"

Ice Empress came back to her senses and coldly swept Huo Yuhao a glance.

The next second.

Jade-green light flowed around her. Since she had arrived in human territory, maintaining her enormous true form was indeed inconvenient.

When the light faded, a figure appeared that made the entire internet café hall light up.

She looked like a woman in her twenties.

Her dark green hair cascaded down like a waterfall, its tips rippling with crystalline jade light beneath the lamps.

Her skin was whiter than snow, and under the lights, it possessed the warm, translucent texture of flawless jade. Unlike Snow Empress's cold detachment from the mortal world, hers was an elegance so stunning it became regal.

A jade-green gown tightly wrapped around her curvaceous body, outlining breathtaking contours. Beneath the hem, a pair of long, flawless legs appeared and disappeared from view.

Her jade-green eyes held an innate arrogance and domineering presence. As her gaze shifted, she resembled a queen inspecting her own territory.

"Gulp." In the Spiritual Sea, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm stared blankly, his drool nearly flooding the Spiritual Sea. "Bingbing... my Bingbing... Her human form is actually this beautiful! Sob, sob, this brother can die without regrets!"

Huo Yuhao's breathing also caught, but he quickly lowered his head.

This was a four-hundred-thousand-year savage beast. One extra look might cost him his head.

"Human." Ice Empress strode forward on her long legs and stopped before the counter, looking down at Lu Yuan. "This is your so-called miracle? A few tables and several iron boxes? Di Tian was captivated by these things?"

Lu Yuan sat behind the counter, utterly unmoved by Ice Empress's peerless beauty.

He merely smiled and handed her a membership card. "Whether it's a miracle or not, sit down and find out! Computer 18 in Zone C. I've opened it for two hours. Since you're a new customer, this bottle of iced cola is on me."

Lu Yuan pushed a bottle of chilled cola toward Ice Empress.

Ice Empress frowned, intending to refuse.

Yet the cold air and strange sweet fragrance emanating from the bottle actually stirred a faint desire within her ice-attributed Soul Power.

She extended her slender fingers, picked up the cola, and took a sip as Di Tian had done.

Fizz—

The bubbles burst across her tongue, and the icy sweetness shot straight to her head.

Ice Empress's eyes abruptly widened.

"What kind of water is this?! It can actually stimulate my taste buds?!" After eating ice and snow in the Far North for four hundred thousand years, she experienced the power of happy water for the first time.

"Go on." Lu Yuan pointed at a computer in the corner. "Huo Yuhao, teach her how to use it."

Computer 18, Zone C.

Ice Empress sat in the soft gaming chair, somewhat unaccustomed to the comfort of something that seemed to envelop her entire body.

"So soft and uselessly lacking in support." She snorted, but her body honestly leaned back into it.

Standing beside her like a humble internet café attendant, Huo Yuhao skillfully turned on the computer and put the VR headset on her.

"Senior, since Senior Di Tian recommended that game..." Huo Yuhao clicked the ancient dragon-shaped icon on the desktop. "Then you should try this one."

"The Elder... Scrolls?" Ice Empress looked at the icon, confusion flashing through her eyes. "It sounds like some kind of ancient human text."

"Just try it." Huo Yuhao pressed the Start button for her.

"Hey, you. You're finally awake."

When Ice Empress opened her eyes again, she found herself sitting in a jolting carriage.

A freezing wind howled outside, while snow-covered mountains and forests surrounded them. The sight felt incredibly familiar, as though she had returned to the Far North.

But the next moment, she became furious.

Because she discovered that her hands were bound?! Worse still, several filthy human men sat opposite her.

"You were trying to cross the border, right?" said the blond man across from her.

"Impudence!" Ice Empress flew into a rage. Instinctively, she tried to summon four hundred thousand years of Soul Power to blast the broken cart into dust. "Who dares bind this Empress?! Are you tired of living?!"

Yet to her shock, she found her body utterly empty, without a trace of Soul Power!

"What is going on?! Where is my power?!"

Before she could figure out the situation, the cart entered a fortress. Then she was shoved out, forced onto a chopping block, and an executioner raised a massive axe.

"Beheading?!" Ice Empress trembled with rage. "I am the ruler of the Far North! You ants actually dare—"

Just as the axe was about to fall.

ROAR—!!!

A Dragon Shout that changed the color of heaven and earth suddenly rang out from the sky. Alduin dived down from the clouds, breathing flames that instantly turned the entire fortress into a sea of fire!

"A dragon?!" Ice Empress's pupils contracted.

This dragon's aura... though different from Di Tian's, carried the same godlike pressure of utter destruction!

"Run! Prisoner! This way!" Amid the chaos, someone cut through her ropes.

Ice Empress regained her freedom. Though she had lost her cultivation, the combat instincts of a savage beast remained.

She picked up a staff from the ground and felt an unfamiliar power surge within her—magic.

Ice Storm! She swung the staff instinctively.

A biting ice storm howled forth, instantly freezing the Imperial soldier before her into an ice sculpture.

"So this is... magic?" Ice Empress looked at her hands, a strange gleam flashing in her eyes.

Though different from Soul Power, the thrill of controlling the elements was the same! And in this world, she did not need to worry about exhausting her Soul Power. She only needed to wait for her mana bar to recover.

As the story progressed, she left the fortress called Helgen. When she pushed open its gates and truly stepped into Skyrim.

Boundless snowy mountains, flowing streams, dragons soaring in the distance, and brilliant auroras across the sky.

"So this is... the world of that whatever Scrolls?" Ice Empress was stunned by the grandeur of the open world.

Here, she was no longer the Ice Empress who had to keep up appearances at all times and worry about heavenly tribulations.

She was simply a free adventurer.

"Can I climb that mountain?"

"Can I Scratch fish from that river?"

"That giant... looks like it can take a beating?"

Over the next hour, Huo Yuhao and Tian Meng stood in reality, watching the images on the Screen.

The once aloof Ice Empress was now controlling her character and frolicking through Skyrim's snowy plains.

She learned to use Fireball to burn bandits.

She learned stealth archery.

When she saw a mammoth, she had even excitedly rushed forward to fight it barehanded, only to be sent flying into the sky by a giant's club.

"Hahahaha! Fun! This is too fun!"

"This giant can actually send this Empress flying? Again!!"

"So this is a Dragon Shout? Fus Ro Dah!!"

Ice Empress was completely immersed.

For an old shut-in who had stayed in the Far North for four hundred thousand years, a world with such freedom and filled with exploration and combat was simply a New World.

Before she knew it, two hours had passed.

[Beep! Your computer time has expired.]

[The system will forcibly log you out.]

The screen went black.

Ice Empress removed the headset. Her dark green hair was slightly disheveled, and a flush of excitement colored her exquisite face.

She stared at the dark Screen, stunned.

"It's... over? This Empress hasn't even gone to that Hosgar Peak to find the Greybeards yet! This Empress hasn't slain any dragons yet!"

A profound sense of loss instantly filled her heart.

"Um..." Sky Dream Ice Silkworm came over at that moment, feeling the timing was right. "Bingbing, did you have fun? See, isn't this internet café amazing? As long as you become Yuhao's Soul Ring and help him become a god, then in the future..."

Bang! A loud crash rang out.

Ice Empress slammed her fist onto the keyboard, making Sky Dream Ice Silkworm jump.

She turned and glared at Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and Huo Yuhao. Her jade-green eyes were filled with killing intent.

"Tian Meng." Ice Empress gritted her teeth. "Did you just say that you want me to sacrifice myself? Give up my physical body, become a spirit body, and enter this brat's Spiritual Sea?"

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm nodded. "Yeah, then we can live forever..."

"Live forever, my ass!!" Ice Empress suddenly erupted. Pointing at the keyboard and mouse in front of her, she let out a roar from the depths of her soul. "If I become a spirit body... how the hell am I supposed to wear a headset?! How am I supposed to play games?! How am I supposed to cast Fireball?!"

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm: Huh?

Huo Yuhao: Huh?

Ice Empress crossed her arms righteously, her cold mature-woman aura fully unleashed. Yet her words drove the two into despair. "Only being able to watch and not play? That's torture! More terrifying than a heavenly tribulation!"

"This Empress has decided!" Ice Empress tossed back her hair, sat down again, and looked as resolute as though she were joining a party. "I won't sacrifice myself! I'm staying here! I'm going to slay that black dragon called Alduin!!"

Looking at the Empress of the Far North, who had completely become a game-addicted girl.

Huo Yuhao and Tian Meng exchanged a glance. Only four words remained in their hearts: We're completely screwed.