- Grand Duke Ivan has turned into a dragon.

The news quickly spread throughout the province of Winter.

It is impossible to hide.

Almost everyone saw that a giant dragon with bright yellow pupils and scales as white as snow flew out of the Grand Duke's Mansion with a body of frost qi, and hovered and flew reluctantly over the Frost Province.

When it flew out, the frost condensed around it formed a white trail in the deep sky. Beneath the night sky, the frosty scales on his body seemed to glow.

With the traces of the dragon's flight, brilliant snow fell into the Great Enchantment. Catch those crystallized plants, and the next year will bloom pure white flowers.

If you eat these flowers, you can calm your feelings of sorrow, anxiety, and fear again......

- This is Ivan Rindon's last gift to the people.

People gathered in the streets, or opened the windows of their homes, and watched their beatings turn into dragons, hovering low in the air, or crouching on high platforms.

The bright yellow dragon eyes were full of strong feelings.

Nostalgia, joy, attachment...... Even if it crosses races and is hundreds of meters apart, you can clearly see the overflowing feelings in its heart.

With a healthy body and a full relationship regained, the spell called the Heart of Winter has been unlocked at the end of his mission as Grand Duke of Winter.

Even if they didn't have any knowledge before, the winter people who saw this scene quickly understood.

Their Grand Duke, Ivan Rindon, is leaving them today.

But only a few know that this is not a painful goodbye.

Because...... A dragon named Ivan Frostwhisper will also be born today.

"Goodbye, Ivan."

Annan stood in front of the wide-open floor-to-ceiling windows, looking at the pure white dragon flying in the air, gradually becoming more and more mature with its new body.

It's not so much a floor-to-ceiling window as an entire wall that opens outward. This is the top floor of the Grand Duke's Mansion and the place where the "dragon" was born.

In this snowfall, Annan's clothes can be called thin.

He was wearing a pure white slim gown, and his posture was erect. And behind Annan, draped in a white openwork light gauze shawl - that was the Grand Duke's dress when he ascended the throne.

Annan's right eye has a clear and transparent ice-blue pupil like a ragdoll, while his emerald-like left eye shines with a divine glow. He stared deeply at Ivan, who had turned into a white dragon.

Finally, the dragon flew to every part of the Frostwhispering Province.

It flew back to the Grand Duke's Mansion in the eyes of the people again.

On the top floor of the Grand Duke's Mansion, Annan held a scepter taller than him. The three-colored scepter clung to a crystal ball, with an upside-down silver cross at the bottom.

The pure white dragon carried the moon on its back and flew towards Annam.

…… It's really the moon coming to me.

Annan sighed silently, silently raising the tricolor scepter.

Ivan, on the other hand, stretched out his dragon claws—the giant claws that could hold Annan's head in his hands.

Now it just puts one of its fingers on the scepter.

It's just a crystal ball.

But like a sharp steel needle, it pierced the dragon's claw—dark red blood, slowly dripping on the scepter, soaking the entire crystal ball, causing it to glow a dark red light.

This is the succession ceremony of the Grand Duke of Winter.

This means that the Tricolor Scepter is no longer under the control of Ivan Rindon, and it also means a complete transfer of power.

"Aang—"

Ivan let out another dragon groan and circled towards the sky.

As the small barrier of the Frost Province opened, the moment the quiet blizzard fell, the pure white dragon was already roaring and flying away.

After the dragon's form completely disappeared.

Standing in the loud ritual circle, Annan's cold and pleasant announcement resounded throughout the city:

[I'm Annan Rindong.] Son of Ivan, Lord of Winter—]

He raised the scepter in his hand slightly, and the crystal ball that shimmered with dark red light quickly cleansed the blood and shone bright ice blue again.

In that light, the small barrier that had been opened closed again.

The barrier was opened, and the incoming wind and snow were re-isolated.

A new Winter Grand Duke was born.

In the province of Saint-Alexe, the station of the Melvin family.

In a closed village filled with the scent of smoke and completely cut off from the outside world, a hairless man with bright golden eyes stands on a stone clock tower high up.

The back of his head is imprinted with runes, resembling an intricately shaped disc. Now a pale golden halo was flowing between the runes, blooming a triple aura on the back of the head.

If you look at it from the front, you can see the divine aura that appears behind the man's head, slowly rotating clockwise, counterclockwise, and clockwise.

Behind him knelt a dark-haired girl and whispered to him:

“…… From that time on, we made a mistake in the ceremonial positioning of the 'Skeleton Male'. The divine interference of the 'silent god', which was preliminarily confirmed, caused the transformation of the positioning of the 'Skeleton Male'. The elders are already re-preparing the ritual for a recalibration, and the initial calibration can be completed in three days......"

And the man did not respond to this.

His lips were closed, and his eyes shone brightly. His whole being shone in the night, under the stars, like the sun after sunset.

He quietly stared in the direction of the Northern Frost Province without saying a word.

Northland, Wrangel Province.

A middle-aged nobleman wearing a frost-colored military uniform, with a tall posture and a scar on his left eye on his face. His face was cloudy and uncertain, looking at the night sky in the south.

He is Ostov Dolgoruki, a former captain of the Frostbeast Force. He is also the head of the current Dolgoruki family.

"Ivan has been dragonized, and Annan Rindong is still not dead."

Behind him, a white-haired old man with a kind face and single-rimmed glasses said calmly, "I'm sorry, Viscount Dolgoruky.

"But I suppose you're going to have to take revenge on our new Grand Duke."

“…… I understand, Your Excellency. ”

Ostorf said slowly: "I am ready for a long time, and I will not bother you. ”

"Ah, you misunderstood. I didn't mean that. ”

The old man said calmly behind him, with his hands firmly behind his back, like an old butler.

A tall, thin man with dark skin and eyes glowing with a faint green glow suddenly flashed out of the shadows beneath his feet.

There was a dark shadow between his hands.

Suddenly, the thread was tightly wrapped around Viscount Ostov's neck.

Viscount Ostov struggled violently and let out a muffled grunt, but he could not utter a word.

The old man's squinted eyes opened.

Revealing dark golden vertical pupils.

"I mean," he said leisurely, "I mean...... You might be able to do something else. ”

Above the Fourth Exhaustion Collection, a ferocious beast with dark golden pupils crouched quietly.

That's none other than "Unbalanced Beauty" Vasika Rasputin.

If Annan could see what it looks like at the moment, she will know that she is not some kind of "Catwoman".

Because it was a lynx.

The markings on its body form a completely asymmetrical, but strangely beautiful pattern, which makes people feel dizzy when they are swept away.

And now it just quietly looked at the pure white dragon in the distance.

The white falling snow fell on it, but instead of melting at all, it covered it with a thin layer. Instead, the ceiling beneath it melts the snow due to the temperature in the Fourth Exhaustion collection.

"...... [Tyrant] is coming."

In the lynx's mouth, a low, magnetic voice came out - Vasika's sex today is male.

"—and so does Blizzard."