Blizzard blows across the world, and the wind ruffles the hair.

Theresia's confident smile seemed to freeze on her face, and she looked at the Red Flame Sword wrapped in the ice with a stunned expression.

I...... I couldn't pull it out?

Because of the sudden increase in the blizzard, the onlookers couldn't see her movements and expressions clearly, and could only vaguely see her fiery figure in the center of the snowstorm.

Everyone only saw that she seemed to have her hand on the hilt of the sword, but they didn't see that she had failed to draw the sword, and thought that she hadn't started to try.

Those eager and expectant eyes were still focused on her, and those encouraging words of anticipation still faintly came through the violent wind and snow, but to Terecia's ears, it was like some kind of curse that had been twisted and stretched.

She could feel how much kindness, what expectations and hopes these people had for her at the moment.

These eyes and words made her enjoy it incomparably just now, and made her feel extremely dazzling.

Ruger has failed, she is everyone's last hope, she is the sun that illuminates the Northland.

That's how it should be, that's how it should be, she'll stand up and be the savior when everyone is desperate, she'll give everyone courage and confidence, she'll accomplish what the Valkyries couldn't accomplish, she'll ......

The whirring wind and snow mixed with fine ice slag hit her face, as if mocking her arrogance.

She gritted her teeth again, but the Red Flame Sword did not move, still stuck in the ice, and did not give her the slightest response.

How...... Yes?

How could it not be pulled out?!

Obviously, I already have unparalleled self-confidence, and I have faced my weakness and evasion, and I am obviously ......

Her teeth gritted even tighter, and she even began to use her psionic energy in an attempt to forcibly pull the disobedient sword out of the ice.

You come out for me!

Come out!!!

You deserve to be owned and used by me, why should you reject me! Why don't you accept me!

She used all the strength of her body, but the cold body of the sword stood still in the wind and snow, standing still in her hand, the cold surface of the hilt like a cold star falling into her heart, laughing at her funny.

Dozens of seconds passed, and no matter how much the onlookers looked forward to it and deceived themselves, they faintly discovered that something was wrong.

"Theresia, come on!"

"Theresia, stop kidding us, draw your sword quickly!"

"Theresia ......"

"Theresia......!"

The voices that came from the wind, the eyes that looked at her, those that were slowly turning from enthusiastic longing to disappointment and cold gaze.

If I fail...... What will people think of me? Laugh at me?

These are great kindness and expectations...... And how deep and terrible malice will it become?

"I knew for a long time that she couldn't succeed, and she was still wasting our mental energy here, giving us hope and disappointing us in despair, what a grandstanding clown!"

"We have worked so hard to cultivate her over the years, as long as we follow our arrangement step by step, she will definitely be able to draw the sword successfully, but she has to be arrogant and say that she wants to be herself, and she must pull out the sword of red flame by her own will, phew! Does she have that qualification, that ability? ”

"It's really blind that we put so much effort and resources into her, and we knew that we shouldn't have saved her in the first place!"

Obviously, such a future has not yet appeared, but Theresia has hallucinated such a scene in her mind.

Her heart trembled, her body trembled, and she suddenly felt a coldness, a coldness that pierced her bone marrow.

She wants to get warmth, but Xia Ming is not by her side at the moment, and pulling out the Red Flame Sword may be able to get warmth, create flames, and bring this warmth and hope to others.

But she couldn't pull it out, no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't pull it out.

The Sword of Red Flame did not respond to her will or wishes.

She...... Failed to do so.

The self-confidence that I thought was invincible was disintegrated and melted little by little in the cold wind.

The energy and confidence that exuded from Theresia's body, the exuberant heroism, were overwhelmed and extinguished in the cold wind, cooled and extinguished under the eager gaze of everyone.

Those words and gaze turned into a pressure that made her feel extremely heavy, a pressure that made her feel painful and desperate, and she suddenly understood why Ruger's eyes were so gray and dilapidated after the failure to draw his sword, and she lost all light.

Responsibility, mission.

She was scared again in her heart, and she ran away, but it shouldn't be like this, it shouldn't be like this, I have obviously faced the weakness in my heart, haven't I already mustered up the courage to break my fate and become myself?

Why...... Why......

She subconsciously avoided those sights, lowered her head, and her eyes wandered timidly, looking for Xia Ming's figure.

She wanted to see his gentle gaze again, his encouraging eyes, as long as he was still by my side, as long as he believed in me, supported me, and encouraged me......

She needed him to instill confidence in her, courage and self-confidence, but the violent wind and snow cut him off from another world.

Finally, she saw his blurred figure, but she couldn't see the expression on his face clearly, and she couldn't see the tenderness in his eyes.

It doesn't matter, even if she is isolated by the wind and snow, she is extremely confident that Xia Ming is watching her with warm eyes at this time, supporting her, and encouraging her.

Even if she couldn't see it, she could imagine that Xia Ming was by her side, holding her hand and giving her warm encouragement.

But at this moment, her heart was shocked, and she suddenly woke up.

The courage and self-confidence that can only be summoned by absorbing the warmth of others...... Can it also be called self-confidence?

She may ...... There was never a real victory over oneself.

Thundered!

Suddenly, the roar and roar of the monster came from the whistling wind and snow, and the wind and snow in front of him suddenly became bigger, and the ice slag Bingling mixed in the wind and snow cut people's skin like a fine flying knife, scraping snowflakes.

The earth was constantly shaking and trembling, the surrounding buildings were shaking and trembling, and the whole world seemed to be shaking and trembling.

It was the vibration caused by the huge bodies of countless ice and snow monsters running on the snow, which was the horn of death and the precursor of destruction.

The sky suddenly turned dark, as a huge dragon wing covered the sky, and it stirred up a violent wind, and the roaring storm tossed everyone to the ground.

Not far away, there was a rumbling and crackling sound, the sound of buildings being smashed apart by the monsters.

Disasters are never foreshadowed, giving people time to prepare.

It's always sudden, sudden, at a time when you thought it couldn't be worse.

And then destroy everything.

Theresia failed to draw the Sword of the Red Flame.

And the dragon has descended.

(End of chapter)