The forest ghostOn a road blocked by a field of heavy snow, a man wearing heavy clothing was holding the rope tightly, urging the two horses to speed up. He looked at the wagon behind him with some envy, then turned forward and focused on the road.

  Inside the carriage, Aldric stared bnkly at the window, lost in thought. In his right hand, he gently wiped the surface of a white letter. He looked at Cara sitting in front of him. His eyes didn't change when he saw her red, desperate eyes.

  Cara looked at Aldric with anger. Why did he save her? She wanted to die with her father. Why did this happen? Why didn't they attack the other cities? Why was she weak? Cara was like a lonely person in a boat on a stormy night, helpless and desperate. She couldn't save her father from drowning in that dark abyss, she was left alone in a lonely boat, staring into the darkness of life.

  Aldric watched Cara experience a thousand negative emotions, but he didn't move, didn't comfort her, didn't calm her down. The weak will always remain like this. He looked down. On his p, Alice was resting her head in his p, her eyes closed and breathing heavily. He gently brushed away the strands of hair that had fallen over her face.

  He looked out the window. The snowstorm seemed to be over. "Steve, stop," Aldric called in a low voice, using the Aether to transmit the sound to the driver's ear. This was one of the many uses he had learned himself over the past few days.

  The man heard Aldric's voice and whistled to stop the two horses. The two horses stopped slowly. The man jumped out of the chair and came to the carriage door.

  Aldric patted Alice's head and woke her up. Aldric got out of the carriage, with Alice and Cara behind him.

  Aldric took out his sword and cut off several branches, then gathered them together and lit a fire. The four of them sat around the fire. Aldric turned to Steve. "Is it the weather like this all the year?" Aldric was curious why the weather outside was so different from his vilge. It had been almost a month and a half since he'd been out and everything, he'd seen was white.

  Steve's hands moved closer to the fire with a relieved expression. When he heard Aldric's question, he looked at Aldric in surprise. "That's normal. Doesn't it snow all the year? Why do you ask such a question?"

  "Really, so you're saying it snows all the year?" At first, he thought he was lying, but when he saw Steve's surprised expression and Alice and Cara's surprised faces, he knew he was saying the truth.

  “Yes, I see you're strange about such a thing. Where were you born?” Steve looked strangely at Aldric.

  When Aldric heard Steve's question, he looked up into the air in reminiscence and gently wiped the letter's pce on his coat. "I was born in a vilge far away in the mountains called the Vilge of the Mists. There we had four seasons: winter, summer, autumn, and spring."

  “What nonsense are you talking about spring and autumn? Did you make up these names for yourself?” Steve couldn’t believe Aldric’s words.

  Aldric saw Steve's expression and knew there was a new mystery about his grandfather. First, his grandfather could erase his memories just by reading a letter from him. Now there was the question of how there was a 3 more seasons than the outside world.

  “Well, believe it or not, tell me more about where we are.” Aldric didn’t care if Steve believed himself or not, but he was interested in the new information.

  Steve shrugged. "I don't really know much, but I know that Grilin City and the city we're heading to, are under a kingdom called the Ice Kingdom. I don't know more than that."

  Aldric nodded, "I'll go find some food," and jumped off toward the forest.

  Steve shook his head and looked at the two girls in front of him. "Hey girl, what happened to your friend?"

  Alice looked at Steve. "Are you talking to me?" She pointed to herself and asked.

  "Yeah, what happened to your friend? She seems lost,"

  Alice looked at the lost Cara with some pity. "She lost her father in the skeleton attack,"

  "Oh, I'm sorry," Steve shook his head, feeling sorry for the girl. He stood up and sat beside Cara. "I'm sorry for your loss," he looked at Cara's orange hair that had faded and her eyes that were bck from ck of sleep.

  Cara turned to look at Steve. "Why are you trying to comfort me? I don't deserve it. I couldn't protect my father." Cara was surprised that this man took pity on her.

  Steve heard Cara's questions and felt pity, he looked into her eyes "If your father saw the way you are, would he be sad or happy, would he be happy to see you like this?" In Steve's eyes, Cara was a beautiful lost girl, he felt pity for the sad beauty and felt sympathy because he went through a simir feeling.

  “But he died because I didn’t help him,” Cara argued, refusing to accept the truth.

  "Yes, but he sacrificed himself to save you. How would he feel if he knew his daughter regretted loving him?" Steve looked at Cara and encouraged her.

  "Really? Are you telling the truth?"

  “Yes, Cara, your father sacrificed himself to save you, so you need to be stronger and live a beautiful life to make him happy,” Steve felt eted when he felt Cara regain her feelings.

  “Thanks Steve, now I know what I want to do,” Cara's brown eyes filled with light, and she thanked Steve gratefully.

  “Really? What do you want to do?” Steve looked at an emotionless Cara and felt his heart pound.

  "I will take revenge," Cara said firmly, tightening her grip.

  “What?” Steve had a questioning look on his face. What happened to the beautiful, peaceful life I just told you about?

  “I will take revenge on those skeletons.” Her face was firm, and the fire bzed in her eyes.

  Steve looked at Cara's face and her burning eyes. The sunlight reflected off her face and her hair fell down her back, complementing the orange dress. Steve's heart gradually beat faster. "I will help you."

  “What?” Cara looked at Steve’s excited face. “What do you mean, I’ll help you?”

  "I mean... I mean, I'll help you fight those skeletons." Steve caught his tongue and smiled awkwardly, trying to quickly expin.

  “But why do you want to help me?” Cara looked at Steve suspiciously.

  Steve was startled when he saw Cara's expression filled with doubt. "Because... because I've felt this way before. I want to help you," Steve expined, stuttering, sweat dripping down his face. He looked nervously at Cara's expression, waiting for her to agree.

  "Okay I guess," Cara looked at Steve with a strange expression but accepted, anyway, he would give up after some time.

  Aldric leaped through the trees, searching for prey. After some searching, he stopped on a tree branch, closed his eyes, and drew the Aether into his eyes. When he opened them, his vision was sharp, and he could see the details of a tree barks details from 100 meters away.

  He started searching and found a pack of wolves 300 meters away. He returned his normal eyes and urged the Aether back to his feet. He started running and gradually increased his speed to where the ordinary eye was. It seemed like an illusion. Within a 1 minute, he reached a tree branch above the wolves.

  On the ground, a pack of 13 wolves was following a giant wolf that was 1.5 meters tall. The wolves behind him with snow-white fur were obediently following him. Suddenly, as if the wolf sensed something, he looked up. Two blue eyes were staring at him in the tree's shade.

  Aldric looked at the wolves in front of him, especially the giant wolf. In the Emperor's eyes, he had a light brown aura around him. He had entered the Sea of ??Nothingness recently.

  The giant wolf looked at Aldric warily and prepared to attack.

  He took out the sword from his waist and slowly unsheathed it. He spread out his palms and the sword slowly flew out and spun. He waved his hand towards the weak wolf pack.

  The sound of the sword rang out in the air as it spun, in the blink of an eye it reached the wolf in front and cut off his head, then it turned and came back, cutting off one head after another until finally it fell to the ground.

  The giant wolf jumped away and watched all his followers die. He looked at Aldric with a face full of fear and killing intent.

  Aldric ignored the wolf's expression and jumped from the trees to in front of the killed wolf pack.

  In his eyes, concentrated grey auras emerged from the wolf pack and slowly entered Aldric's body. His strength level was slowly accumuting but as if he had encountered a hurdle to stop.

  The wolf watched Aldric's actions carefully, and after some watching, attacked. The wolf started walking slowly in a circle, looking for a suitable pce to attack. After walking a little, he faced Aldric's back. He lowered his body and tensed his leg muscles, ready to pounce. He gritted his teeth, his oval eyes narrowed and leaped forcefully towards Aldric.

  Aldric still had his eyes closed, like a tree doesn’t move .

  The wolf gradually approached. His eyes widened, his mouth opened wide, his cws protruding, and his muscles tensed.

  Whoosh... The wolf heard something sharp passing through the air and then felt a tickle on his neck, the wolf's eyes widened as he looked at Aldric's back and then he fell to the ground and a streak of blood appeared on his neck slowly turning the white furred into red color.

  Aldric turned to look at the dead wolf with bnk eyes. He extended his hand and the sword in his hand floated peacefully with drops of red blood dripping from it.

  From the start, he pnned to win at the lowest cost. He used all his Aether reserves in the sword, leaving himself without Aether. This would be dangerous if someone else did the same, but he had the Emperor's judgment skill, so even if he was without Aether, he only had to kill one wolf, and he would regain enough Aether to fight the rge wolf.

  When he threw the sword, it made it look like he had lost energy when he killed the 13 wolves, but the sword only consumed 13% of the energy, the rest was used to nd a powerful blow, using 60% of the energy for the wolf, even if the wolf somehow survived, the remaining energy was enough to nd a critical blow.

  Aldric put the sword back in its sheath, slung the wolf over his shoulder, and started walking towards Alice and the others.

  Around the fire, Cara and Alice were sitting together. Opposite them, Steve was sitting, bringing his hands close to the fire. Suddenly, a step voices rang out from the forest. Steve immediately turned to the source, pulling out a dagger from behind him. Alice and Cara stepped back.

  Gradually, Aldric appeared, carrying the giant wolf out of the shadows of the forest.

  The size of the wolf surprised Alice and Cara and on the side. Steve's facial expression changed, and he looked at Aldric in disbelief.

  He came to Aldric's side and looked at the wolf behind him, "Man I can't believe you killed the forest ghost, and killed him with one clean hit," Steve face was pale when he saw the wolf neck, and he looked at Aldric like he was looking at a monster.

  “Actually, it’s not that big of a deal. I used one sword strike, and he died.” Aldric shrugged and threw the wolf into the snow, then began skinning and cutting it up.

  Steve shook his head speechless, came over to Alice and Cara, with curious face. "Did you two known that your friend is so strong?”

  Cara shrugged and watched Aldric in obvious surprise, a little fire of excitement burning in her eyes.

  “I’ve never seen him fight seriously so I don’t know his strength level,” Alice was looking at Aldric but there was hidden fear in her eyes, she knew Aldric killed humans like he someone who harvesting pnts, if one day he tired of her what would happen, he would kill her or he do even more horrifying thing to her.

  After Aldric skinned the wolf, he pced the meat over the fire and the wolf's fur on the wagon to dry. After the meat was ready, they eat it.

  After they finished eating and preparing the horses, they quickly set off towards the city.

  Aldric looked out the window at the blue sky with some anticipation, then id his head on Alice's p, closing his eyes.