BOOM!
An invisible shockwave exploded outward from Lynn!
The cavern shook violently. Stones rained from the walls.
Torren, Jason, and the others were thrown to the ground, tumbling in heaps.
They stared in shock.
Longclaw was erupting with red light—brighter and brighter.
Warm. Scorching. Like the rising sun.
Dragonfire and magic!
It clashed with the icy cold radiating from Lynn's body—a silent, brutal war.
Red and white. Two opposing forces twisted, collided, and annihilated each other inside Lynn's body.
Lynn's crystallizing flesh began to thaw.
In Lynn's mind—
The cold presence that had driven him to the brink hadn't expected this fragile human to hide another power.
But the dragonfire and magic were too weak. The cold presence quickly regained the upper hand.
Lynn felt like he was being torn apart.
His consciousness—crushed between two massive millstones.
Ground. Pulverized.
The pain was beyond any physical torment.
"AAAAAHHH!"
Lynn finally broke. A scream of agony ripped from him.
Then—
[Host's mental body approaching collapse!]
[High-dimensional energy inflicting irreversible damage!]
[Activating protection protocol!]
The cold, mechanical voice sounded like salvation.
The next instant—
A more vast, more pure, more unreasonable force erupted!
Not magic. Not divine power.
Pure dimensional suppression.
The cold presence emitted a wave of emotion for the first time.
Fear.
It sensed something that could erase it from the root. Something incomprehensible.
It tried to flee. To retreat into its eternal dimension of death.
Too late.
The system's emotionless power seized the cold presence like an invisible hand.
And began the most brutal analysis.
[Analyzing high-dimensional energy...]
[Progress: 1%... 5%... 15%...]
[Warning! Energy level too high! Irreversible damage imminent!]
[Aborting analysis! Forcibly extracting data fragments!]
A massive chunk was ripped from the cold presence.
Then—filled with resentment and hatred—it fled. Never to return.
The magic from Longclaw, having lost its opponent, slowly subsided.
Lynn's mental world finally calmed.
[Congratulations, Host. New skill acquired: Ice Magic]
[Protection protocol has expired.]
The system notification echoed in Lynn's mind.
"Magic?!"
Before he could examine it—
A pure, icy energy was violently injected into his body.
The power of ice.
But no longer wild or malicious.
Now docile. Controllable.
It flowed through his limbs, forming a delicate balance with his own strength.
In the cavern—
Torren, Jason, and the others stared, dumbstruck.
Moments ago, Longclaw had erupted in one final blinding flash of red light. The terrifying frost covering Lynn's body retreated as if meeting its nemesis.
Lynn's body stopped trembling.
Color slowly returned to his face.
"Lord!"
Torren scrambled forward first.
Arya threw herself at Lynn, hugging him tightly.
Tears streamed down her face.
He'd terrified her.
Nymeria wagged her tail eagerly nearby, but everyone seemed to have forgotten her...
Lynn slowly opened his eyes.
He felt like he'd died and come back.
Every part of him ached.
Mental exhaustion weighed on him like lead.
But he could feel it—something new inside him.
A cold power. Completely under his command.
Lynn focused.
A faint blue mist appeared in his concealed palm.
The mist swirled.
The temperature around him plummeted.
Torren and the others shivered violently.
"This place is cursed..."
"Why's it so cold even with all these layers..."
Lynn comforted Arya, who clung to him, but his thoughts drifted.
If I've mastered ice magic... does that mean I can do what the Night King does?
Turn corpses into wights?
Or turn the living into something stronger... White Walkers?
The thought startled him.
But more than that—it thrilled him.
This secret can never be revealed.
After calming Arya and his men—
Lynn's gaze returned to the dragon egg on the ice crystal platform.
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