"This is Warm Winter, the core wonder of Warm Winter Palace, foremost of the four great palaces of Deep Blue Hell."
In the dark deep sea a thousand meters below, a gentle snow was falling. The snowflakes were beautiful six-pointed stars, drifting slowly to the ground and melting. Just watching from the side gave Ash an inexplicable sense of peace.
He reached out a finger and touched a snowflake. Even though he had been prepared, he still lost focus for several seconds and stood there in a daze. Only when Death Frenzy blew a smoke ring at him did he come back to himself.
"Refraction Guard actually didn't react?" Ash instinctively took a step back, away from the gentle snowscape before him. "But I clearly covered my finger with Holy Domain—"
"But you already touched Warm Winter."
Death Frenzy folded her arms across her chest and said leisurely, "The snowflakes are just a smokescreen. The 'mind' is Warm Winter's medium. Once you realize you're within Warm Winter, you naturally feel Warm Winter. This is a wonder that interprets the mind through Water Art, and it's also the reason Warm Winter Palace has stood in Deep Blue Hell for thousands of years without falling."
Ash held his forehead. "During those five seconds just now, I was still conscious, but... how do I put it? I felt like my whole body was very warm, but also very empty, very void. It felt like nothing mattered, no matter what happened..."
"That is a sense of peace."
Death Frenzy said, "In a snowscape that symbolizes cold, your body is wrapped in warmth, carefree and fearless... Like curling up under a quilt on a snowy day, that warm sense of peace wears down all your will to resist, and all you want is to keep