Chapter 163: Origin of the Eternal Frost: A Mythic Love Story
Far away in the ancient past, long after Earth had been abandoned, mythical creatures ruled the world.
In the frozen northern lands, a lone creature soared — the Ice Phoenix, a mythical being who avoided contact with others of her kind.She landed atop a frozen mountain, her breath misting in the icy air.
Why am I here? Where is this place?Inside the Phoenix, Selene’s thoughts spiralled. Panic surged.
Anxiety clawed at her mind.
She couldn’t move. She couldn’t speak.She could only think.
A passenger trapped within the divine beast.
The Ice Phoenix suddenly took flight again, her massive sapphire wings spreading across the sky in a single breathtaking motion.
As she soared, her frost-like eyes locked onto something below — a man lying alone on the snow-covered ground, blood pooling beneath him.The Phoenix descended gently, her presence freezing the air itself.She moved close and, with a touch of her wing, sealed his wounds in frost, halting the bleeding.The man, with silver hair matted in blood and ice, slowly opened his eyes.Light brown and weary, they met the Phoenix’s pale blue gaze — and for a moment, time seemed to stop.In his eyes, he didn’t see a mythical creature but an angel.
And with that one look, he fell in love.
After a few days, as the Ice Phoenix roamed the endless frozen lands, she noticed something strange—The man she had saved on a whim... was still following her.The same man, with silver hair and gentle brown eyes.She had paid him no mind at first, thinking his presence a fleeting consequence of her mercy.Yet every time she flew, he was there—chasing her across icy plains, trudging through snowstorms, always just beneath her shadow.She ignored him.
She was a creature of myth, born of frost and sky.He was only a mortal.