The Ice God Ruins... did indeed lie within the Ice Sea, but the Sea Princess had never ventured inside to explore them. Her knowledge of the ruins was limited to knowing they existed.
After all, although the Mermaid Clan lived near the waters of the Ice Sea, they were ultimately sea soul beasts, and the god they worshipped was the Sea God, not the Ice God.
Moreover, whenever she approached the Ice God Ruins, the Sea Princess felt a chilling flutter of dread.
Over all these years, the Sea Princess had always kept a respectful distance from that place. The soul beasts of the Far North had never searched for the Ice God Ruins either, so she had long since put them out of her mind.
Had the Snow Empress not asked about them today, she would never have remembered.
If the Snow Empress had come alone to ask, the Sea Princess might readily have shared what she knew about the Ice God Ruins. But now, two humans stood beside the Snow Empress.
That inevitably made the Sea Princess weigh the matter in silence.
Although the Sea Princess had not yet been deceived by evil soul masters, and her daughter, the Mermaid Princess, was still safely by her side, when it came to humans... the Mermaid Clan had always maintained an attitude of well water not intruding upon river water, never growing too close.
After considerable deliberation, the Sea Princess still decided to tell the Snow Empress the truth.
As the nominal sovereign of the Far North, the Snow Empress deserved at least some consideration for her standing. Besides, the Sea Princess did not want to fall out with her.
"The Ice God Ruins you mentioned are indeed beneath the waters of the Ice Sea, only a few kilometers from