Volume 1, Chapter 85 – I Am The Frost Dragon Ysera

It was a world blanketed in frost.

The sky was shrouded by thick clouds. Sunlight could not reach the ground, leaving only the silent snowfall drifting endlessly across this frozen land.

Cold.

Despair.

Lifelessness.

No life existed.

In my eyes, the world was so silent that only the sound of snow and wind could be heard. So silent that even my own breath, my own heartbeat, seemed to vanish.

But… Do I even still have a heartbeat?

With effort, I forced my eyes open, only to be greeted by a vast, blinding white.

The sun I once thought of as warm was now completely hidden by the sky. The world had grown so cold that even the warmth flowing through my blood vanished within a second.

So cold.

A voice echoed beside my ear.

“To leave you behind in such a freezing world… Why were you ever born in the first place?”

Yeah… Why was I even born?

That voice brought back memories of the time when my mother gave birth to me. Her eyes, cold enough to pierce bone, struck through my chest like sharp arrows.

“I refuse to acknowledge this. A wretched bloodline like this cannot possibly be my descendant.”

The beings surrounding me spoke naked malice. Their cold gazes were even frostier than the eyes of the mother who bore me.

“Kill her. She should never have existed. Her very presence shames our kind.”

Yes…

I remember now.

At that time, all those beings, including my own parents, wanted me dead.

Dead.

What is death?

When I was newly born, I couldn’t understand such a thing. I only stared blankly as those beings easily decided my life and death.

“Then… Did I die?”

I asked the voice.

“Yes. You died.”

The voice in my mind answered plainly. In this world of biting cold, aside from the wind and snow, that voice was all that remained.

“So, I really am dead?”

“Yes. You are dead.”

“So this is what death feels like?”

“To feel neither cold nor warmth, to watch the world grow darker before your eyes, yet be unable to do anything.”

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I murmured to the voice in my mind.

“Hey, when the world turns dark… what happens to me?”

“When everything before your eyes turns to black, you will no longer hear the sounds of the world.”

“And you? Can I still talk to you?”

“No. Death means your existence will vanish from this world. Nothing will remember you. You will be trapped in endless loneliness and darkness.”

“Why did I die?”

“Because you were killed.”

I fell silent.

Not because I didn’t want to speak, but because an immense wave of sorrow surged through my heart.

A suffocating, indescribable sorrow.

“Why… Why did they kill me?”

I suddenly remembered that moment.

In the endless snow, under those cold and emotionless eyes, they threw me away into this frozen wasteland.

“Look, that is your mother. To protect her precious bloodline, she abandoned you mercilessly in this land of ice and snow.”

The voice laughed mockingly, and I had no words to refute it.

Yes, from the moment I was born, my fate had already been decided.

Other than death, I had no other choice.

“Why… Why treat me like this?”

I asked blankly.

“Why?”

The voice in my head suddenly turned furious.

“Do you even know who you are?”

“Who… I am?”

“You are a dragon! A noble dragon! A being born powerful, supreme, and proud!”

“A dragon…?”

I didn’t understand. What is a dragon?

My memories only went as far as my birth and death. No, more accurately, I was sentenced to death the moment I was born.

“Yes, you are a dragon. A noble one.”

“Then why did they still want to kill me? Why did my father and mother want me dead too?”

Maybe it was because I was a dragon that I instinctively understood what “parents” meant.

But weren’t parents supposed to protect their children? Why did they want to kill me too?

“How ridiculous. Though you are a dragon, you were born incomplete. You are not a perfect dragon, understand? You possess the bloodline of the Dragons, but you were born flawed. That is why they wanted you dead.”

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“Because your existence tainted the purity of the dragon race.”

“My existence tainted the dragon race…”

What a laughable reason.

So that was why I was abandoned in this land of ice and snow to freeze to death?

“So they heartlessly threw me away here to die?”

“No, you are not dead yet.”

“Why? Why am I still not dead?”

I felt miserable, but my world was growing darker and darker.

“I’m so tired…”

“Yes, you are tired. You’re sleepy. Go to sleep.”

“But you said… if I do, I’ll die.”

“Die? No. You won’t die yet. You haven’t had your revenge. You haven’t found them and asked them why they abandoned you! Just to protect their so-called pure bloodline? What a joke.”

“…But… I’m so tired…”

“If you’re tired, sleep. Soon… you will awaken.”

……

Cold.

Silence.

The world fell quiet again.

Only the wind and snow remained, and the voice in my ear slowly faded away.

So, this is how I die?

To be born into this world, only to perish in the next second?

Like a flower that begins to wither the moment it blooms.

To exist… is to vanish.

But… why?

Because of a laughable bloodline?

Because I was born flawed?

Because I could not control my own fate?

“Do you feel despair?”

“Do you feel pain?”

“Does it hurt?”

“Do you accept it?”

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“I… don’t accept it…”

I don’t know where the strength came from, but I roared within my heart.

“Why? I didn’t do anything wrong! They abandoned me, killed me, left me to freeze to death! I was supposed to live only a brief, meaningless life…”

“I… won’t accept it!”

“I’ll have my revenge! I’ll—”

After a long silence, the voice echoed softly in response.

“If you truly feel that way, then do not die so easily. Don’t forget. You still have revenge to claim.”

“Yes… I won’t die so easily. I’ll live. Until the day I can take revenge… on the entire dragon race.”

……

At that instant, countless fragments of memory flickered through my mind. The more they surfaced, the more my consciousness began to blur.

“Xiaobingxue? What’s wrong?”

The voice of the person I cared the most reached my ears.

That person might be clumsy, silly, and sometimes touching in ways that made my heart ache.

“…”

I wanted to tell her to run, but my fading consciousness no longer obeyed my body.

“Oh… is the name in this world Bingxue?”

That familiar voice from my memories whispered again, the one that tempted me to live on.

And in that moment, I realized.

Back then, in the snow, there had never been any voice speaking to me.

It was me, talking to myself, trying to keep myself alive…

“I…”

As my consciousness faded into darkness, I understood one thing.

From this moment on, the name Bingxue would cease to exist.

And I, this false personality… would completely disappear.

“Xiaobingxue?!”

When that person heard my faint voice, her expression of panic instantly turned into joy.

Seeing her like that, I couldn’t help but want to laugh.

Stupid Tianyin. Such a fool… really, such a fool.

But those words, I only kept in my heart.

“Xiaoyin… I like you… you’re the one I care about most…”

I finally forced the words out.

Though I felt unwilling, I knew this was the end.

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I couldn’t stop what was happening.

Because… the real me… had awakened.

“Bingxue. That is your name?”

In my mind, that familiar voice returned.

“Remember well my name and my title…”

“I am—”

The next moment, the world sank into complete darkness.

“The First of the Graveyard Thrones, Frost Dragon… Ysera.”

……

Outside the Northern Fortress, an ocean of Beastmen soldiers charged toward the northern walls under the thunder of massive war drums from their war beasts.

Among them were Beastmen players fighting as part of the Stronghold faction.

“For the Tribe—!”

The Beastmen roared their battle cry as they charged.

On the fortress walls stretching for dozens of kilometers, Kingdom faction soldiers stood in tight formation, ready for battle. Outside the walls, a massive tide of Beastmen surged forward, crashing against the defenses.

“Archers, volley!”

“Archers, volley!”

“Mages, aim for the southeast front! Cast your offensive spells!”

“Knights, warriors, take position! Hold the line, the Beastmen are climbing!”

“…”

The command rang out clearly.

Below, after losing a number of warriors to the arrows, the surviving Beastmen reached the base of the wall and began their assault.

“Ladders! Bring up the ladders!”

“Protect the siege engines!”

“Shamans, bless our warriors!”

The battle raged fiercely.

Among them, Mengyao, being too small in size, had been assigned to the reserve troops.

Watching the noisy NPC soldiers and the players blending seamlessly into the fight, Mengyao felt bored and thought she might as well check how her Master was doing.

But just as that thought crossed her mind, on the battlefield outside… the corpses of fallen Beastmen, and even the bodies of dead humans on the walls, began to stir.

Those eyes that should have remained closed… slowly opened.

Pale blue flames burned silently within them…