Hexagonal ice crystals fall lightly, piercing through everything and eventually sinking into the ground.

Ji Yan could feel that within a radius of thousands of miles, they were all under his control.

With the thought of it, those snowflakes swarmed like bees.

This form reminded him of a scene he had experienced before, which was Alice after facing blackening.

The silent world, the ashes falling from the sky, how similar it is to this moment.

However, Ji Yan showed a slightly surprised expression, because in this death-like silence, he vaguely felt a strange power.

It seemed to be a wisp of life.

It's tiny, but it's incredibly tough.

Nurture yourself in this endless silence, only to one day break through the ground and sprout.

"The Great Winter Lord......"

A subtle voice came from below, and as soon as Ji Yan's eyes moved, he shifted to the person who was sacrificing this time.

“…… May you bless the empire, and the devout believers will be willing to erect statues and build ...... Ahem...... Build a religion and spread your glory everywhere......"

Maybe it was because Ji Yan was on top of the extremely high sky, so the figure below him was as small as an ant.

He leaned over to widen his perspective, and finally saw the man who was praying to him.

I saw that he was covered in a lake of flesh and blood, charred and black, as if he had been burned inch by inch by the fire.

From time to time, blood flowed out of the upper body, dripping down the puddles below.

Perhaps because his injuries were so severe, his prayers at the moment were so angry that they could hardly be heard in his ears.

So miserable?!

Ji Yan was a little surprised and looked at Charles with interest.

He had seen many bloody and tragic scenes, but they were all relative to sacrifices.

It's the first time that the sacrificial person has made such a miserable scene.

"The Great Winter Lord......"

After Charles finished the previous request, he continued to repeat it.

Listening to the content of his words, it turned out that he wanted to protect a country himself, not the Order or himself.

Ji Yan also saw this kind of request for the first time.

Could it be that the identity of the person who sacrificed this time was the king of a certain country, or a minister, or something.

He couldn't help but guess for a while, and his eyes continued to focus on Charles.

For if it is a request to protect the whole nation, then it means that the nation is beginning to offer itself as an official faith, and not as an individual or an act of the Order.

Instead of suppressing this belief, the whole country will erect its own idols in major cities to propagate it.

That's a bit of a big determination.

I just don't know which small country it will be.

After all, looking at the miserable condition of the person who sacrificed and the degree of shabbyness, it is estimated that he encountered something like war.

The only ones who can face these situations are the small states that are interspersed with the major empires.

Because of the selfish desires of the empire, it is extremely normal to be caught in war all year round.

Even in the newspapers of the great empires, there was not as much as a nobleman who had lost a cat, and such news was often in the corner, difficult to spot.

Therefore, it is understandable that these small countries will find a god to believe.

On the contrary, the great empires have suppressed faith in various ways.

After all, no one can accept that there is a being above them.

Well, unless it really comes down to the top of itself.

Ji Yan couldn't help sighing, but the belief of a whole country is a good thing for himself.

The praying figure below suddenly stopped speaking, and his body couldn't help but tremble slightly, as if he would fall directly in the next moment.

Charles felt a pinprick gaze on his body, and his muscles couldn't help but tremble, which also caused the wound to crack further.

This kind of terror is like an abyss-like will......

She's finally looking at me!

Charles was only excited at the moment, and even the voice of the prayer that had been praying couldn't help but calm down.

For the wounds on his body, he didn't care about it at the moment.

There's nothing like it!

That's the delusion of all living things, and even the ultimate goal!

"Ahem......"

After being baptized by the dragon's breath, Charles experienced the gaze of the great being again, and his body was finally overwhelmed.

A trace of blood overflowed from the corner of his mouth, and he raised his head slightly to look at Yin Lizabeth on the altar.

At the moment, she was just like herself, lying on it and unable to move.

Sure enough, it was necessary to have a sufficiently qualified sacrifice to attract God's attention and thus descend here.

Of course, Charles's creation of a demon-free environment is also an extremely important part.

It's just that after the arrival of Ji Yan, the large array was eroded by snowflakes, and the demonless environment naturally died.

But even then, these snowflakes have taken its place.

Countless mysterious factors are attached to the snowflakes and disappear nowhere.

This is an extremely unreasonable thing for Ji Yan.

In his conception, things cannot disappear into thin air, because there is the idea of equivalent exchange on the mysterious side.

It is similar to the law of conservation of energy in the previous life.

And after the erosion of snowflakes, these disappearances are really gone.

Even Ji Yan didn't understand where these eroded and dissolved existences went.

But at this moment, he knew that if he didn't save this sacrificial person, he was afraid that he would be able to go directly to face death.

However, Ji Yan felt a little tricky when he looked at him.

Because now the power of the Lord of Winter is to dissolve all things, not concepts.

Maybe it can reach that level in the future, but Ji Yan is now the first time to contact the power of this account, and most of them are not familiar with it.

Just as he was trying to undo the concept of the wound on Charles's body, he suddenly thought of the seed that had been trapped in silence.

It's a good time to experiment with this strange power.

If you can't save it...... He could only say that he tried his best.

If you can't do it, you can only keep his body and then resurrect it with the power of Optos.

After all, even gods are not good at things.

At least as far as Ji Yan's current accounts are concerned, they have all reached the realm of gods in a certain rule.

But in other abilities, it is not so prominent, and it can even be said to be a flaw.

This was a far cry from his own perception of an all-knowing and all-powerful God.

Perhaps there may not be such a existence in this world.

Ji Yan suddenly put his mind on that kind of child.

I don't know if it's his delusion, but the seed seems to have gotten bigger.

But now he didn't have time to think so much, and to draw a trace of the power of this seed into Charles's body, Ji Yan quietly waited for the changes in his body.

……

Charles fell to his knees silently, feeling apprehensive.

It had been a long time since he had felt this way.

When I wanted to wait like this, my body seemed to be about to lose it.

Is this the end of everything for me......

Nostalgia for loved ones, loyalty to the empire, longing for nobility......

Countless emotions echoed in his mind, but they quickly drifted away.

There was only one thought left at the moment.

That is to be alive.

Charles suddenly felt a pang of regret in his heart, maybe he should have asked the Lord of Winter to save him.

It's not that he doesn't love the place where he was born and raised, but the instinct to survive trumps everything.

In the face of eternal death, almost no one can face it calmly.

But the idea got a spin in my head and I gave it up.

The empire does not feel sorry for its own place, on the contrary, everything he has comes from the empire.

May the Lord of Winter bless the Empire.

Hopefully, the nobles will see the gap between them, and stop treating the Winter Lord with that ridiculous pride.

But if God could come down on their heads, it would probably be them who would kneel the fastest.

Charles, who was well acquainted with aristocratic habits, thought so.

Yu Guang skimmed at Yin Lizabeth, and he had no regrets about it.

When something is done, it is done.

At most, the consequences are so serious that they can't bear it.

If you can exchange this for the blessing of a god, it will be worth it.

But if he could do it again, he would definitely be more cautious.

Just as Charles's consciousness was about to freeze, he felt as if something had entered his body.

It was a very peculiar but full of vitality.

Charles's faint breathing suddenly stopped, and then it became more and more rapid and heavier.

He sensed that his body seemed to be activated by this power.

First, the heart beat strongly, and then the blood was driven to let a trace of power flow to the whole body.

Charles's body was changing rapidly, and black patches fell from the surface of his body, revealing new skin.

He is like a dead tree in spring, blooming again.

At this moment, Charles felt that he was in better shape than ever, so good that it seemed to be living again.

As he moved, he felt both familiar and unfamiliar.

Place your hands on your forehead and bow respectfully towards the altar.

Charles knew that it was the Lord of Winter who saved him.

He couldn't express his gratitude in words, so he could only bow down for a long time.

Ji Yan saw all these changes in his eyes.

He witnessed Charles's body go from endless dead silence to rejuvenation.

Could it be that the other of the Winter Lord's abilities is healing?

Ji Yan carefully observed Charles's body, and immediately denied this speculation.

That glimmer of power was just an introduction, and everything that followed was the autonomous act of his body.

In other words, it was this power that awakened life and hope in Charles's body, allowing him to heal himself.

Ji Yan suddenly thought of the trace of green he had seen along the way.

Then there was some realization, this should be a ray of hope in a desperate situation.

Is it because after winter, there is spring?

Although everything is silent, there is still a glimmer of life.

Therefore, the power of the Lord of Winter is two-faced.

On one side is a snowflake that represents silence, and on the other side is a seed of hope.

Surely the power dissolved by those snowflakes has been hoarded in seeds.

Ji Yan kept thinking in his heart, but found that most of the time for summoning was consumed in his familiarity and thinking power.

Wait, what is the request of this sacrificial one?

It seems to be the country that blesses him.

This is not a problem for Ji Yan.

Just look at it as a larger order.

But if the country borrows its own name to do misdeeds, the final interpretation is in its own hands.

It's not that if it's blessed, it will always be blessed.

He blessed the country, and it had nothing to do with whether the rulers of the land were old or new.

"Yes."

A message suddenly appeared in Charles's mind, which was naturally a reply to his previous prayer.

This message immediately surprised him.

The Great Lord of Winter actually agreed to his request and was willing to protect the Empire.

"O Great Lord of Winter, your radiance will radiate throughout the land, and no one can only look up at ......"

Charles's lips were full of praise.

I was about to introduce the offerings, but I found that all of them, including Yin Lizabeth, had disappeared.

Apparently the sacrifice has been accepted by the Lord of Winter.

Charles couldn't help but sigh a little about this, but the queen has disappeared after all, and I'm afraid she will never come back, and no one can find her trace.

With the departure of the Lord of Winter, the scattered snowflakes also stopped.

It's just that there is no sign of wetness on the ground, as if nothing has happened just now.

If it weren't for his own change and the disappearance of the sacrifice on the altar, Charles would have suspected that it was just a dream he had before.

He stared at the altar, recalling everything in his mind.

Although he did not know the appearance of the Lord of Winter, Charles could get a glimpse of the majesty.

But then you can only try to make up a god statue yourself.

May the great Lord of Winter not blame.

"Captain! Head! ”

Several figures arrived from afar.

They were all people who were arranged to guard the nodes of the Great Array.

The node was inexplicably broken, and these people naturally had to come over to report.

After saying everything, Charles waved his hand and said nothing.

The others immediately knew that this meant not to be bothered, and immediately retreated, leaving only one person to stay where he was.

This person did not come to report the node problem, but to report the harvest on the aristocracy's side.

Everything was as they expected, after the queen had completely disappeared without a figure.

When the tree fell and scattered, most of her power collapsed automatically, some to the nobles, and some to the princess.

Only a small group of die-hard loyalists are still trying to rally the others to avenge the queen.

But these are not Charles's concerns, and he asks Biggs about the situation.

Finally, after learning that something could not be done, he disappeared with his group of hunters.

After a series of intelligence reports, it was what the nobles had promised.

First of all, the title of a duke!

But upon hearing the news, Charles found that he didn't seem as excited as he had imagined.

If I must have cared a lot about it before, now I am just thinking about that great being.

It was as if after experiencing life and death, even his thoughts had completely changed.