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The snowstorm continued raging endlessly. I felt like I wanted to rest, to sleep, but I couldn't. Every ti I fell into the snow, I would wake up again due to the shock and pain of the cold creeping towards every inch of my body.
I stumbled upon that tree over and over again and ate the fruit. Each fruit made my body colder, but my mind sohow beca much clearer. At so point, all worries began fading away from my mind, I felt lighter and weightless, as I walked forwards faster and more steadily.
However, I stumbled down again. The scenery changed sohow, I could find no trees, and I was starving while facing a giant snowy cliff, that led down into a dark abyss.
I couldn't see anything below, but the chill, coldness of death.
"What is this now? It changed? Why?" I wondered, looking into the skies.
I noticed two azure eyes glaring at , blurrily hidden within the endless snowstorm. I didn't know what they ant, or what it wanted to do. But I can guess that the change in the scenery must have sothing to do with them.
And also with sothing I've changed myself? As I accepted colder in my body, and ate those fruits, it felt like more of my body was becoming ice itself. I looked at my hands, realizing they were now pure, azure colored crystal ice.
"Should I jump or…"
No, it shouldn't be so simple either. This is so sort of bizarre trial; I can't just risk it by jumping off the damn void. I have to solve this myself. I've tried calling out any kind of magic, but nothing works, not even my Unique Skills.
Yet…
I crouched into the snow and touched the floor with my frozen hands. The cold still felt cold, I was trembling, in fact. But my body could move even then, I was growing used to this cold, but it was never truly fading away like before.
FLASH!
The ice of my hands extended like a bridge across the cliff, reaching all the way to the other side. My eyes widened in surprise, as I quickly took off my half-broken ice hands, which slowly started regrowing anew.
And a bridge appeared…
"Well, alright…"
As I stepped into the other side of the cliff, I felt a stinging pain, followed by a cold, freezing and dull pain spreading across my legs. I fell to my knees, only to realize both of my legs were now ice too.
"Huh…"
I stood up, and the pain of coldness was there, never truly dulling all senses, it was as if I could feel and sense ice and frost much better. The coldness encompassed , an azure-colored aura of freezing winds spiraling around my body.
I kept walking and wandering around, finding a huge pine tree forest full of creatures. Snow Beasts and Ice Golems wandered around, attacking on sight. I couldn't use any abilities other than the ones in my arms and legs.
I ran away from most battles, or climbed up the trees until they stopped bothering . But I knew I couldn't go around like this for much longer. This was perhaps another part of the trial.
The forest never ended… I'm guessing I need to eat these creatures to advance, or sothing. And I was growing quite hungry, so I better eat.
I want to go back, whatever that woman sent , this is a trial to make stronger. I'll surpass it no matter what and get back to my family!
"ROOAAR!"
I confronted a giant Polar Bear just a few minutes later. The hulking beast was over three ters tall, and as a normal human-sized body, I was easily overwheld. I was forced to roll and jump away from powerful blows. The ground shook before the Polar Bear's strikes.
"Shit, shit…!"
Without my dragon body, everything felt weirder than it should. I used to be a human for many more years, but I had grown so used to my strong dragon body. Now I realize how lucky I was. A human body is so frail, the sole ability to evade lethal blows is already a skill humans must always master, sothing dragons would usually not bother with, especially soone with a skill nad Immortal Body.
Its claws reached again, as I preemptively put my arms in front to receive the whole blow. I wished it, and my frost arms turned into a giant shield of ice, sohow resisting the attack, although the cracks quickly made both of my arms collapse into pieces.
CRAAASH!
"Shit…!"
Although my arms were slowly recovering the ice crystals, I had no freaking arms now! The Polar Bear's crimson eyes lood above , its giant jaws opening and biting my neck.
I felt an imnse pain followed by the warmth of the beast's bite, blood gushing out as I gritted my teeth, the beast instantly attempted to snap my neck!
"RAAH!"
In my last monts of life, I poured all my focus into my legs, as they shoot up like a spear of ice, piercing the Polar Bear's stomach and making the beast instantly let go of the grip of my neck.
SLAASH!
"GROOOHHH…!"
It gave one, loud groan of agony, before dying on the spot. I fell to the floor, gasping for air, coughing blood. I was bleeding, and it felt like I was truly about to die.
"F-Fucking hell! I'm not… dying here!"
I quickly put my still regenerating arms around my neck, the ice covering the wound and stopping the bleeding. I desperate reshaped my leg back to normal and shaping my left arm into a sharp spear I cut up the bear's belly open.
Blood and guts ca pouring out. I quickly started eating without thinking twice, the taste of blood and disgusting raw entrails filled my mouth. I wanted to vomit, but I kept eating. As a dragon these things didn't taste bad, but even my past human tastes ca back with this body.
"Ugh… Cough… Agh!"
As I was eating the polar bear so desperately, I ended swallowing a large blue crystal, probably its mana core.
Because the next mont, I felt an azure aura encompassing my body.
"Wha…?"
FLASH!
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