Paros Island was home to a great many exceedingly rare races, some even more prized than merfolk.
But the slave traders could not extend their reach into the Kronos Kingdom's territory. If they dared intrude, they would be discovered immediately and physically annihilated.
This had led some members of the Longarm Tribe who had suffered terribly at the hands of slave traders to migrate into the Kronos Kingdom's territory.
Diversity was a defining feature of the Kronos Kingdom, though the Longarm Tribe ultimately accounted for only a small minority of its population.
Many of Hades's children, for instance, carried the blood of the Longarm Tribe.
These bloodlines could help the Kronos Kingdom govern the Longarm Tribe effectively.
Esdeath and Frieza were important forces in extending the Kronos Kingdom's reach into the regions of extreme cold.
Both possessed the Ice-People Bloodline.
Frieza, in particular, was the only one of Hades's many children to have undergone technological modification.
While he was still an embryo, the perfect blood of Typhon, the King of Monsters, had been used to activate the powerful ancient Ice-People Bloodline within him, known as the Frozen Demon bloodline.
Many powers across the seas were researching similar technologies.
For example, many members of the Giant Tribe in Elbaf possessed Ancient Giant ancestry.
Larger bodies and a pair of horns on their heads were the hallmarks of the Ancient Giant bloodline.
The Ice-People Tribe descended from humans and the Frozen Demon Tribe.
The First-generation Ice-People were half Frozen Demon by blood.
As time passed, they continued to reproduce.
The Frozen Demon Tribe's bloodline grew increasingly diluted, until it made up only a tiny fraction of their ancestry.
Over millions of years, it had long since dwindled to almost nothing, less than one percent.
Frieza was different. He was a true Frozen