Card Apprentice Daily Log

Chapter 3103: Thalorien’s Frost Incarnation

Date: Unspecified

Time: Unspecified

Location: Myriad Realms, Lil’ Red Storm Realm, Freedom Megalopolis

“Let us say you are right. But in the face of certain defeat, does my origin really matter?” Dalia asked.

Thalorien’s repeated insinuations that she hadn’t been born a Celestial didn’t offend her. Because he wasn’t entirely wrong. She had acquired Celestialhood. But Dalia held no resentment toward that part of her past. If anything, she was grateful for it.

Had she remained what she once was, she would never have found her dear younger brother. She would never have met him, never have gained a family, and never have found a purpose beyond the existence she had once known. She regretted none of it.

“Certain defeat?” Thalorien repeated the words with open disdain. Behind him, the massive Frost-and-Flesh Golems began to dissolve.

Their bodies collapsed into snow, frozen flesh, and countless shimmering particles before flowing back toward him. Within moments, the entire clone army vanished, leaving the Snow Elven Crown Prince standing alone.

He glanced at Dalia with unconcealed contempt, asking “You think you have already won? I sensed the Frost Rule Source when I was still an infant. I forged my Frost Rule Stream before I even became a teenager. Before reaching adulthood, I had comprehended every Frost Rule Meaning and studied every special snow the Dark Realm had to offer. After reaching adulthood, I traveled through the known and unknown corners of the Myriad Realms, searching for every form of frost and snow I could find.”

Frost began gathering around him. The temperature surrounding them began to drop. His aura gradually changed. It wasn’t merely becoming stronger. It was becoming colder and more absolute. The special snows within his body began responding to his words. Each carried a different nature. A different cold. A different interpretation of the Frost Rule.

“Till to date, I have comprehended millions of Frost Rule Meanings. Some of them don’t even exist within the Dark Realm’s womb. Do you understand what that means? When it comes to comprehending the Frost Rule, I have surpassed the Dark Realm itself.” Thalorien slowly raised his gaze and his eyes locked onto Dalia while the surrounding temperature plummeted.

His voice carried absolute confidence, not arrogance but certainty. His gaze fell upon Dalia’s Space Rule Stream and a smile filled with contempt appeared on his face. “And you…A mere fake Celestial who has only comprehended a thin Space Rule Stream… You dare challenge me?”

Thalorien’s pale blue Snow Elven skin began to glow with an intense, icy radiance. Then his body started to grow. At first, the change was gradual. His figure expanded several times over, frost pouring from every pore as the surrounding space groaned beneath the pressure of his rapidly increasing existence.

Then he accelerated. One by one, Thalorien began using Domain Implosion on every Frost Rule Meaning he had comprehended throughout his lifetime.

Normally, he would manifest his Domains outward, allowing the Frost Rule Meanings to overlap, merge, and reinforce one another until they formed his terrifying Multi-Domain. But the Celestial array formation had denied him that option. He couldn’t expand his Domains outward. So, Thalorien did the opposite. He expanded them inward.

Each Domain Implosion opened within his body. One Frost Rule meaning after another was compressed into his existence, transforming his flesh, soul, and every clone-derived fragment of his being into vessels for the Frost Rule. He wasn’t merely borrowing the Frost Rule anymore. He was becoming its incarnation.

Of course, anyone with sufficient comprehension of the Frost Rule could theoretically become an incarnation of it. But becoming the incarnation of a Frost Rule Stream containing millions of different Frost Rule Meanings was an entirely different matter. Each Rule Meaning represented a different interpretation of frost.

Different temperatures, properties, applications, forms of cold… And Thalorien had comprehended millions of them. Now, he was using domain implosion on all of them to coexist within a single body. His form continued to expand. Soon, he was larger than mountains, then continents.

The Lil’ Red Storm Realm itself could no longer contain him. Forced beyond the realm’s physical limits, Thalorien’s enormous body rose into the void surrounding it and settled into its orbit, suspended there like a newly born moon.

The sight was absurd. The Snow Elven Crown Prince had become so massive that, from the perspective of those standing on the Lil’ Red Storm Realm, he appeared to be another celestial body hanging in the sky.

Frost radiated from his enormous figure, while millions of Frost Rule Meanings circulated within him like an endless river of icy stars. And the most terrifying part was his gravity. If not for the restraining power of the Celestial array formation, Thalorien’s gravitational pull would have surpassed that of the Lil’ Red Storm Realm itself, if only by a slight margin.

At that point, it would no longer have been accurate to say that Thalorien was at the realm. The realm would have been at him.

Thalorien glanced down at Dalia. She stood upon the surface of the Lil’ Red Storm Realm, which had now frozen solid under the overwhelming influence of his Frost Rule Incarnation. Yet Dalia hadn’t moved an inch. She simply stood there, looking up at him with cold indifference.

“Certain defeat?” Thalorien asked. Then a contemptuous smile spread across his enormous face. “Sure. For you, that is the case.”

Dalia looked up at Thalorien’s incarnation of the Frost Rule without the slightest change in expression. Then she began, “You claim that your comprehension of the Frost Rule has surpassed even the Dark Realm itself. But we both know you ran from the center of Winter Valley with your tail between your legs.”

She tilted her head while her lips curved faintly, asking, “Am I wrong?”

As soon as Dalia spoke those words, a fierce blizzard swept across the entire Lil’ Red Storm Realm, seemingly responding to the rage of the giant frost incarnation as it stared down at the entire realm, as if it wanted to reduce everything into fine snow.