Chapter 1223: The Ice Elemental Tree

[Ding! The unripe Seed of the Ice Law resonated with the Ice Law of the Ice Caves]

[Ding! The seed of the Ice Law has matured into the Seed of the Ice Law of the two worlds]

[Ding! The Ice Elemental Tree resonated with the ripened Seed of the Ice Law]

[Ding! The Kingdom has found its first rudimentary Law, the Ice Law of the two worlds]

Idan sent Ryan flying with a powerful blow, scattering his flames, and stopped, looking in surprise at the System notification.

"The seed of the law of Ice... is it ripe?"

In total, during the Third Disaster of the four Anomalies, the Kingdom received seven unripe seeds of law along with the sources of the elements.

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The Seed of the Ice Law

The Seed of the Fire Law

The Seed of the Water Law

The Seed of the Earth Law

The Seed of the Wind Law

The Seed of the Metal Law

The Seed of the Lightning Law

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And finally one of them has matured. Moreover, it resonated with the Ice Law of the Ice Caves — with the law of the world of Junonia.

[Ding! The first ripe Seed of the Law has been obtained!]

[The intermediate stage of the task has been reached. An interim award has been issued.]

[The Seed of the Ice Law has been added to the range of the "Trade" function for purchase.]

[The terms of the reward have been clarified: New types of Law Seeds will become available for purchase as they are received and mature.]

Idan’s eyes lit up, and he immediately decided to check.

"System, show me how much the seed of the Ice Law is worth."

The system immediately displayed the System window of the "Trade" function.

"10,000 System Points... Well, that’s to be expected."

Idan thought it was a reasonable price considering the rarity of these items.

He tore his gaze away from the system window and looked up. His older brother Ryan, having recovered from the previous powerful blow, was already heading towards him in his combat uniform with long flaming hair.

Idan turned to Milica, who also looked at him.

Then his gaze fell on another young man, who, sweating and tired, was sitting and resting.

"Leo, replace me," Idan said and switched places with him. "I need to leave."

"Huh? What?" — Leo looked around, puzzled, as Ryan’s fiery fist crashed down on him, sending him flying.

"Kyayaya!"

That’s all Idan heard behind him as he left the Simularium with Milica, who also noticed the changes taking place in the Kingdom.

Poor Leo couldn’t withstand Ryan’s fiery punch...

And he died.

A few seconds later, his avatar appeared to the side and fell, writhing in pain and steaming from the effects of death.

"Are you okay?" — Ryan asked, returning to a calm state and scratching his head in embarrassment.

"I... I hate you brothers," — Leo sobbed.

"Okay, get some rest and we can continue the fight," Ryan suggested.

"Fuck you, asshole," Leo replied to Ryan with annoyance.

***

Arabel, being in the time room in the form of an Ice Valkyrie, was in the last stages of pregnancy.

Her belly had grown noticeably, and now she was supporting it with a fluffy white scarf—or rather, wings that took the shape of a scarf.

After receiving a notification from the System, she left the time room and immediately felt the ice element in the Kingdom becoming stronger and more mysterious.

"This... The Ice Law?"

She had never come into contact with the Ice Law before, and this was new to her.

"Oh dear, is something wrong? Has it really started?"

Anna jumped up excitedly, noticing that Arabel had left the room earlier than the scheduled time.

Her words excited the other women gathered in Essora’s house.

Arabel looked at her mother, Ivette, Inessa, and Bera. All of them, including even Bera, were very worried. When the women found out that labor could begin in the next few days, they gathered at Essora’s house and waited for this moment.

Of course, Arabel was very touched by their concern.

"Don’t worry, Mom, your grandchildren don’t want to come out yet," Arabel said with a smile.

"Irene and the others came back, so I left the room," Arabel confessed.

"Oh, they’re back? Are they okay?" — Anna and Yvette, worried about Irene and Arslan, asked one question after another.

At that moment, Idan appeared.

"Dan!" — Arabel exclaimed joyfully, and Idan came up to her, took her hands and checked her condition.

Only then did he pay attention to the women, nodded to them, and looked at Inessa for a while.

She lowered her eyes guiltily.

"It seems that Arslan is a little hurt, but he will be fine," Arabel did not hide from her mother. "Irene is next to him, and I’ll take you to them right now."

With these words, she waved her hand, and carried all the women into the house of Irene and Arslan. Arabel and Idan, accompanied by Bera, teleported to the Ice Elemental Tree.

When they appeared, a crowd had already gathered around the tree. Most of the people gathered were creatures belonging to the ice element, and they looked at the trembling young Ice Elemental Tree with awe.

Not much time has passed since Idan’s last observation of the tree, but its appearance has noticeably changed.

The icy energy that Idan had previously felt as a formless wave was now slowly pulsing to the beat of a barely perceptible rhythm.

The thinnest silver-blue lines appeared on the bark of the tree. They were so pale that they could be mistaken for an ordinary frost pattern, but sometimes a faint blue glow ran through them. It rose from the roots to the branches, lingered in the leaves and disappeared without a trace.

The leaves themselves have become a little more transparent. Tiny ice crystals were forming inside some of them, reflecting two different shades of light, as if embodying two different laws.

Even the space around the Tree had barely changed. Falling snowflakes sometimes froze in the air, and then continued on their way, as if momentarily forgetting about the existence of time and gravity.

The changes in the tree, the qualities of the ice energy, and the presence of the rudimentary Law were most acutely felt by the creatures of the ice element, including Arabel herself.

She felt a mysterious pulse of power connected to the Kingdom itself. They were two different kinds of power, one weak and subtle, and the other solid and powerful. The tree created a balance between these forces, harmonizing and uniting them into a single whole.

The tree, sensing Arabel’s approach, trembled even more violently, and its branches reached out to her.

Arabel noticed this and turned to Idan.

"Someone missed me," she smiled and, giving him a peck on the cheek, let go of his hand and teleported to a tree.

As soon as she appeared next to her, the tree, like a frightened child, began to wrap around her.

"Hush, hush," — Arabel said.

But, catching two faint echoes of life, it started up and pulled back its branches.

Arabel laughed at that.

Of course, she wasn’t reckless and was ready to step in if the tree started affecting her children.

But the tree itself got scared and retreated.

Touching the bark of the tree, Arabel felt his emotions, his fear. She turned in the direction the branches were pointing, and met the white eyes without pupils — the gaze of Supervisor of the Ice Caves.

"Are you afraid of her?"

Arabel blinked in surprise and immediately received an affirmative response.

The Ice Elemental Tree felt fear from the presence of Supervisor of the Ice Caves.