Flesh Imprint [Frost Element]

Night fell.

The warm glow of the temperature-control array inside Ice Thorn Manor's castle faintly lit one corner of the vast room.

Dago sat at a heavy desk. Fine tapestries and oil paintings hung on the wall beside him, while wind-driven snow battered the enormous floor-to-ceiling window before him.

By the light of an illumination crystal, Dago slowly examined the contents of the box Avery had given him.

It contained every detail of the Huntington Family's Bloodline Transformation technique.

"Everyone makes Bloodline Transformation sound far more mysterious and complicated than it is."

Dago pushed aside a pile of rune recording stones and gazed at the howling snow beyond the window, gently rubbing his temples.

Ice Fortress's Bloodline Transformation had originated in research conducted by the Ice Prison Palace in the Far North to counter the endless soul corruption caused by Mamentos, the great demon of Greed.

It used the calming properties of ice energy within an ice-type magical beast's bloodline to affect the body and soul. Applied to one's own soul much like a Soul Imprint, it acted as a sedative, preventing corruption by the great demon of Greed.

In essence, the method used a magical beast's soul and blood to condense a Flesh Imprint, [Frost Element], which protected the body and soul from the Spirit World's emotional energy.

But it could not be condensed like a normal Soul Imprint, and its power was exhaustible. Once the [Frost Element] energy within the body ran out, fresh magical beast blood and a soul had to be gathered to condense it again.

After all, [Frost Element] was not a true imprint but an alien one condensed from a magical beast's blood and soul. Forcibly embedding it in one's mental field inevitably contaminated one's mental and Soul Force.

That contamination left impurities in