Chapter 453: Absence (7)
Arctic Iceberg Mountain, Ice Spirit Plateau Fortress.
High above the world, where the air thinned and breath turned to frost, the Ice Spirit Plateau Fortress loomed over the jagged peaks of Arctic Iceberg Mountain. Perched 5,000 meters above sea level, it was a citadel carved from ice and stone, eternally besieged by blizzards that howled without end.
Thanks to the abundant ice-attribute mana in the region, most of the soldiers stationed here specialized in ice magic, granting them some degree of resistance to the freezing cold.
However, mastering ice magic did not grant them the ability to control or evade natural disasters like snowstorms.
To withstand the razor-sharp, bone-chilling winds, only warriors with unwavering mental fortitude, exceptional magical talent, and superior physical endurance could survive in the fortress.
For 156 years.
The fortress had held its ground, preventing the monsters and beasts inhabiting the Arctic Iceberg Mountain from descending into the Central Continent.
Not once had its walls crumbled.
It stood as the unyielding shield that kept the horrors of Arctic Iceberg Mountain from spilling into the Central Continent.
Yet now...
"... What a massacre."