(gonna proof read tomorrow bey bey) :D

First chapter- Ice King

In the dark of the night, there was deep rumbling thunder rolling across the land, lightning cracked, scaring every creature alive to the bone. The metallic aroma of blood filled the air, taunting the people and animals of the land. As usual, the morning was devastatingly cold in the north of the continent. Blizzards and snow flurries were common in the desolate north, as numerous as the clouds in the sky. At this early time, one should be sitting by a fire, feeling the differences in temperature. Appearing out of nowhere, a man could be seen, standing on the mountain. He had long hair that blended into the night, vivid green eyes along with a wiry body, bushy brows, and a small nose. He seemed not quite outfitted for the extreme conditions, wearing only a pair of ratty and torn brown pants. To an onlooker, he appeared weak, but if one ventured closer, he would observe thin and taunt muscles. The man looked starved half to death.

This was a place at the edge of Snow White Continent, Murumink Empire, it was place forgotten by people and usually only retired strong soldier lived here wanting to escape from people.

The young man was standing as if he was part of a mountain calm and unmoving, his eyes closed and he breathed extremely faintly. One could feel a chilling aura coming from him, without trace of fear or waver. One could imagine how cold it was if one would be instantly frozen into a cube of ice if exposed to such weather.

"I was blessed by heavens with this special power, but heavens cursed me with poverty and merciless life. It is time for me to raise and break from this curse." This young man’s name was Yin Yun, he was born different from others. His family thought he was a demon after he got five years old out of hate their parents left him in the slums of a considerably big village, and left. Yin lived the life of poverty and hate, he wasn’t able to go to school as he had no money, he learned from life that strong eats while weak starves.

Yin's body was born incredibly cold so much that one wasn't able to hold him. In actuality it was caused by his incredibly amount of Yin energy in his body, but he lived in far the most forgotten place of the continent with barely two thousand people in the village. During his years Yin learned to control his Yin energy which exists in his body.

Yin opened his eyes and started descending the mountain he, crossed the forest and entered the village. Just that his village couldn't be said to be a village anymore, as hundreds of corpses chopped in half and frozen were covering the village. Yin calmly walked through the corpses and entered a house, he was calm because he was the one who killed all of them after all.

In the house Yin took a leather backpack, started putting food and some clothes in it, soon enough he took all the gold and valuables from everyone’s houses and left as if he was never meant to be there in the first place.

In Snow White Continent, at the edge of Murumink’s Empire there was a road covered in snow.

On the road a carriage with six horses were going at steady pace.

"Hick are you sure there are no bandits on these roads? After all this is the edge of Muruminks Empire..." A young lady of around 23 years old with blond hair said. One could see that she's from noble family as she was full of accessories and extravagant clothes.

"Don't worry, don't worry Joselline. How can there be bandits here when there isn't even a single person coming here because of the extreme cold. There would be no profit for them to be here." Hick said with calm smile on his face, but also full of arrogance and haughtiness.

Suddenly horses stopped walking and stared at a shadow that appeared on the road out of nowhere.

This was none other but Yin carrying big wood cutting axe on his back. Yin started nearing the carriage, and next moment carriage wheels froze not able to move.

A man suddenly jumped out of the carriage wielding a sword, "What do you want? Get out of the way or I’ll slaughter you!" The man said as he swung his sword in air showing chopping motion.

Yin didn't say a single word and took his huge axe from his back, wielding it with only one hand.

The man with the sword sneered and started walking towards Yale, he was full of haughtiness.

"People like you don't deserve to live." Yin said as he looked at the man with the sword, at this moment the man started moving extremely slowly. He opened his mouth wanting to scream, but he couldn't as the next moment the man was already dead.

Yin chopped with his axe and the man split in half, his internal organs falling on the ground, painting the snow red. One could see terrifying agony on the man's face.

When Hick and Joselline saw this, Hick snared and started running, “Motherfucking, useless, cheap soldier!" Not even trying to take Joselline with him he ran like a wind soon disappearing in the forest.

Joselline seeing this got angry, but didn't have other choice but to run as well, but next moment man screaming sound came from the forest and she didn't dare to go in. She turned around and shouting, agony, anger and arrogance could be seen in her face, "Don't kill me! I have a lot of gold if you save me I’ll give you some! Please don't kill me."

When Yin heard the young woman still being arrogant and haughty even in such situation he laughed inside and started walking towards her putting his axe on his back.

Joselline thought that he agreed and started walking towards him, “I’ll give you one hundred gold how about that? It should be enough for someone like you.” Yin stopped and when Joselline came next to him, he grabbed her neck with one hand and crushed her neck not waiting for anything. At the beginning he thought of sparing her miserable life, but she looked down on him.

Yin took all her Jewels and put into his backpack then started running towards the place where Hick ran. As he ran towards Hick he could see a snow tiger devouring Hicks flesh. Yin moved, cold started radiating from his body, axe in his hands he chopped towards the snow tiger. Unexpectedly the tiger managed to dodge, but next moment the tiger stopped moving and dropped dead. The tiger has been made into an icicle, as frost covered the tigers body. Yin searched around Hick where he found a pouch of gold, and a bracelet with one small diamond on it, Yin smiled slightly, he was quite happy with his findings. Yin went back to search the carriage thoroughly, finding many expensive things, it seems that they were moving into the empire’s capital city. Yin took everything he could find valuable and headed out once again. Moving towards the Capital as well.

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Ten days later inside the Murimink Empire’s Capital a young man entered covered by a robe. He carried huge backpack which was almost two times his size. But to the people of the town it was already normal, to see such things.

‘I finally arrived at the Capital it’s time to join the army.’ Yin said as he headed towards dark areas of the town. Going deep into the dark area a man suddenly approached wearing a robe, one couldn’t see his face. But neither could the man see Yin’s.

“If you are looking to sell your goods come with me.” A middle aged man’s voice came from the robed man. Next moment they entered a hidden wall. Inside the house behind the hidden wall, there were many robed men and women, all had come either to sell something or to buy. Inside a row of people were waiting in order to enter big room, as soon as one exited the room another person would enter. Soon Yin’s time to go came, entering the room Yin could see the room packed with jewelry and weapons from all sides. In front there was a man sitting, hidden behind hood in front of him was a desk.

“I came to sell jewellery I would also like to buy something.” Yin spoke and took off his back, opening it and then dropping all the jewellery on the ground, and then the man came closer and started counting.

After good ten minutes the man stood up and spoke, “These will be ten thousands eight hundred gold coins in total, please pick what you want to buy, it will be counted from the ten thousand eight hundred gold coins.” The man sat on his chair again.

Yin had already decided what to buy, he went next a shelve there were earrings, they giving off cold radiance Yin took them, and then looked at the ring next to the earrings, took it as well, then he moved next to coldness giving radiance blue metal chain necklace. He took these items and nine other rings and two more earrings, then he looked at the two handed sword which was giving cold chills barely looking at it one could feel cold radiance on. Not thinking about it much Yin took the heavy sword.

“In total hundred and fifty thousand gold please pay, eleven thousand will be reduced for jewellery”  The man said as he looked at Yin.

Yin gave a cold laugh and instantly the man froze in his place. Yale put on all the rings, necklace and earrings he could feel his power boosted by two fold and with the two handed sword in total was two and a half fold.

Suddenly door behind him opened and the man froze in place, Yin started walking towards the door, and people who were there all instantly froze and dropped on the ground. The hidden door opened as the same man led another man in, he saw all the bodies on the ground laying not breathing both of them wanted to run, but were instantly frozen in place.

Yale left the place walking out to the main street again, taking off his robe the heavy sword on his back covered in leather holder, he was walking towards two soldiers.

“I want to join the army” Yin said as he neared the two soldiers, “Follow me, first you will be tested and then you will be placed accordingly.” The man said as he led Yale into a camp which was full of soldiers.

Soon they neared the training grounds and stopped at an empty area, “If you are able to beat me you can join for missions and after gaining some merits join the front forces of the army, if you are equal to me you will have to join seventy first battalion for training. If you lose you will proceed with training in this base.” The soldier said, and handed Yin wooden two handed sword as he saw that Yin was using one. He knew that anyone using heavy sword cannot be called normal and would have great physical strength, but when he saw Yin slim body he was quite surprised.

Yin took the wooden heavy sword as he took a fighting stance just like the soldier did. The soldier not waiting for anything he charged at Yin in full speed.

Yin still calmly standing as he thought, “From today onwards I must build up my reputation, kill the ignorant, and become the strongest. I must cleanse this world from trash, I was given power and I must use it correctly. Losing is not an option.” Yin was still standing, the soldier neared Yin as he chopped towards Yin's head.  Yin closed his eyes pushing out the heavy sword. Moments before soldier’s sword touched Yin's heavy sword, Yin instantly pushed his heavy sword forward meeting the soldier’s sword, the sheer force and momentum of the heavy sword reflected the wooden sword and send it flying from the soldier's arm.

The soldier looked at Yin shocked, he took off his helmet. One could see that he was about twenty two or so years old with black short hair and blue eyes, “You really beat me… I didn’t expect you to be so strong. My name is Hinky, can I ask your name?”

Yin saw sincerity and amazement in Hinky’s eyes, he could see that he was a good person, “My name is Yin, nice too meet you.” Yin shook hands with Hinky faint smile curved on Yin's face, he was that type of person who doesn’t do much talking, and respects people who respect him. Yin doesn’t believe in nobility or ranks and think that everyone should have equal grounds, the exception is when someone is stronger than him, only then he will obviously acknowledge them as his superior.

“Yin it’s nice to meet you too, let’s go meet Captain Zhale where he will set up a place for you to stay and take soldier equipment.”

Yin nodded, and followed Hinky, soon enough they closed in on a huge tent with two soldiers safe guarding at the entrance.

“Brother Hinky you found new recruit again huh, don’t tell me he beat you too?” One of the soldiers laughed saying jokingly.

“Actually he did, he is stronger than expected so don’t look down on him, even brother Cestis might not be able to beat him.” Hinky said confidently as he looked at the soldier who spoke.

“Beat me? We will have to see what this kids strength is later.” Cestis said confidently, wanting to test Yin’s strength.

Yin and Hinky then entered, not saying anything no more. Inside the tent there were many soldiers of all sorts of ranks could be seen, talking and strategizing pointing at the map.

Yin and Hinky neared one of the groups at the left side of the tent, one of the Captain rank soldier saw Hinky and confronted him, “Hinky new recruit yet again it’s already third today this is something new… How is his strength eh?” Captain Zhale looked at Yin curiously, he looked at Yin from his feet to head, he saw that Yin was carrying heavy sword which made him quite surprised.

Yin as calm as always, standing there looking at the map interestingly then looking at the Captain Zhale and smiled slightly, “Nice to meet you Captain Zhale please call me Yin, I came with the wish of joining army.”

“Nice to meet you too Yin, actually I have a small question. Why do you wish to join the army?” Captain Zhale calmly spoke.

“I think that the world is ruined, I wish to reach the pinnacle of power and change this world.” Yin spoke without a hint of emotion, as if hiding something.

Captain Zhale hearing this was extremely surprised, although he didn’t have such passion, but he for sure can somewhat relate to Yin, “Good, from now on you are assigned for escort missions, If you do well on this I’ll think of promoting you. Also first you will do one week short introduction on army. Your tent will be in the fourth zone twenty first tent, go and get your equipment with Hinky we will inform you when there is mission.”

“Yes Captain Zhale.” Yin said as he looked at Hinky who was staring at him in astonishment, he saluted Captain Zhale and walked off with Yin, “You know you keep amazing me, I never seen Captain treat newbie like you so good, seems he has high expectations of you… Also can I ask how old are you?”

“I am 17, and you?” Yin answered while smiling.

Hearing Yin, Hinky tripped and fell on the ground, standing up he spoke, “Brother, how are you so strong at such young age?!?!” Hinky was shocked to the bone.

Yin didn’t answer and continued walking, not answering Hinky.

‘He is really mysterious…’ Hinky thought.

Soon they entered a big cavern and inside was full of army boxes, with weapons and clothes and other supplies.

“Brother Yin do you need a weapon?” Hinky asked curiously as he can see that Yin already has a great sword, but not necessary as good quality as the army one.

“I already have weapon.” Yin said calmly looking around.

“Alright then I’ll just give you some army clothes it is made from leather, it’s defence is not quite up to standard, but with higher rank you will get better ones, and also with you get army armor, which is plain metal, New recruits usually are not strong enough to wear them, because it’s quite heavy, so it’s up to you.” Hinky said as he handed army clothes, which was brown, with few pockets on the chest and pants, with few inner pockets, forearms metal protection and calf and thigh protections, also a light helmet.

After Yin tried it on he felt that it’s pretty good, and so he decided to wear them straight away.

Then Hinky took out the heavy armor, when Yin saw how heavy it is he immediately thought that is waste of time to wear them, it was full body plain metal armor, which looked extremely uncomfortable. Yin thought for a while and realised that it would be very good for training as it is quite heavy, so he took it with him. Nothing else to do there they left.

Soon they entered Yin's tent which was quite comfortable and not too small, with bed and a table in it next to the tent was a campfire.

“Alright someone should come tomorrow to do introduction, you can enter and exit the base whenever you want though, but if you are out for too long without reporting, there might consequences.”

Yin nodded not saying any more as he looked around and put his backpack on the table and heavy armor on the ground taking the gold headed out to the main street, too look for something to eat.

‘Why is the capital so low on the restaurants?’ Yin thought and then entered the noble area which was more towards the centre of the Capital.

As soon as he entered noble area he could immediately see an extravagant restaurant, with many nobles inside.

He entered the restaurant and sat down at the corner of the restaurant, waiting for attendant.

“Look at that soldier he thinks he has enough money to eat here ahahha what a joke, he should get out of here he smells like shit.”

“Who does he think he is coming to noble restaurant like some rich kid he is obviously a soldier, all soldiers are filthy.”

“I think I am going to Vomit.”

Nobles in the restaurant started talking in disgust, not accepting soldiers coming here. They were nobles after all, Supreme to those shitty commoners.

Hearing this Yin was full of anger inside but not a single emotion came on his face, when suddenly one of the nobles who talked bad about him fell on the ground. He didn’t scream or say anything, his body was covered in frost.

Suddenly woman who was sitting next to him started screaming, “Cheng are you okay? What’s wrong with you someone call doctor!” She shouted, everyone was shocked not understanding what happened.

Yin laughed inside, ‘Peace of shits like you don’t deserve to live.’

The Cheng’s skin started cracking and poor Cheng fell apart, the woman scream as tears fell from her.

“It’s magic!!!!! Someone who can use ice magic is here!” one of the nobles shouted, as he was shocked, because there is only three people in their continent who can use magic or so he thought.

Yin chuckled for a moment as he thought, ‘Yes it’s ice magic, but it also has Yin energy within, I was born able to use ice magic, but also incredible Yin energy although I don’t know what exactly this Yin energy is but it lets be control it with incredible accuracy and speed. I don’t even need to say incantation or use anything in order to use it, and those rings earing and necklace that I found increases my control over it by whole 100% percent, which reduces the amount of Yin energy used to control the ice and it takes effect even faster.’

Everyone was shocked, as they were looking at each other, but most of them knew each other, there were only few mysterious figures in the restaurant. Absolutely no one thought that it’s that it’s the soldier, because a magician has authority which is at the level of emperor. Only one in ten thousands has affinity with element and most are usual so low potential that they don’t realise that until they are old and dies. Only about one in two million has big enough affinity with element to realise that they have in their whole life, as there is no clear way to know when one has affinity to any element. Because of this they have no way to train in it, and so only those with extremely terrifying affinity with some kind of element realise that they have affinity with it young enough to train in it.

Yin could actually feel his affinity ice element since he was extremely little and started to somewhat train in it since he was five years old controlling snow and water. He didn’t know why he could do that and so he kept silent about it, only about half a month ago he got some information about it, and also half a month ago he was able to finally instantly freeze most things.

Usually one needs incantation to do such thing but he didn’t know why but he didn’t need any kind incantation. Yins only weakness is that he wasn’t able to increase the amount of Yin energy in his body, nor he didn’t know how to increase the amount of magic power he could have, as one needs it in order to control the element. Yin knew that those magicians have some kind of method to gather it, but it was top secret, after all there would probably be many people who could use magic somewhat if all of them tried to gather magic and realise that they can control some kind of element. Because Yin has no way to know how to gather the magic power or Yin energy, he only has enough Yin energy to freeze about fifty people every day.

Nobles didn’t know who was the one who done it, but all they could do is stay silent about it or they might die magicians are emperor rank entity they can do nothing about it.

Commotion didn’t die but instead increase of course they were suspecting some figures in the restaurant. Soon attendant came next to Yin, “Sir have you decided what to order?” Attendant was extremely pretty, blond hair and blue eyes, with petite body she gave of elegant atmosphere and no supremacy or ignorance, actually very gentle feeling; she was no older then Yin.

Yin looked at the attendant, he thought that she was extremely pretty, and couldn’t help but blush a bit.

Seeing Yin attendant blushed as well as she thought, “What is his skin made of? It looks so smooth and shiny completely white as snow and he is quite handsome too, but those eyebrows are quite funny.”

Attendant next to them seeing this awkwardness between the two suddenly came and slightly pushed the other attendant side and said, “Sir have you decided what you want?” she said and pushed the other attendant aside to go to next table quickly.

Yin quickly got over it and suddenly said, “Can ask what the other attendants name is?” He asked silently, the attendant chuckled as she answered, “If you want to know that you must ask her yourself.” She said teasingly.

Yin cursed inside and then said, “Then please gives me ten most expensive dishes and most expensive wine then thank you.” Yin put on huge smile as he always wanted to say this, he was quite happy being absolutely ridiculously rich by only killing few people.

Attendant almost lost her cool as her jaw dropped, “Sir if you don’t have enough money to pay for it after you will be executed after, please think over this, after all everything would cost two hundred gold do you really have so much money?”

One gold was hundred silver and one silver was hundred copper, a simple soldier usually gets only up to two gold per year, captain five gold, even the main person behind the whole army gets about one thousand gold per year.

And yet this person has only simple new recruit wardrobe…

“Miss don’t worry about it and get me the food please.” Yin smiled slightly.

Yin was staring at the blond, petite attendant and the attendant would give him short look and then turn her head immediately, ‘She really is really cute…’ Yale thought as he couldn’t get his eyes of her…

‘She is like warm summer that I have never felt, like fresh apple which I only ate once, like sun in the sky which only show’s too make my mood, like warm breezing wind.’ The attendants all are dressed in maid like wardrobe, but includes red stripes as well which represents the restaurant.

When Yin’s food was delivered everyone was absolutely shocked, everything on his plate was absolutely the freshest products, which needs to be delivered from the other side of continent where it grows. One could imagine how hard that is to do, and how fast one needs to deliver it. Even the attendants were drooling when they saw the food, but they would never in their life would be able to eat it with their wage.

“Is he son of some aristocrat family? But why is he dressed like new recruit?” All the nobles were questioning themselves.

Yin even got fresh fruit, such as bananas apples and grapes, when the blond attendant was shocked by this young man, and really wanted to taste them, but that’s not something she will ever afford.

Actually the whole empire was on shortage of food, because they are currently in war with surrounding empires, and so they can hardly get any resources. The reason why all the empires are fighting over this empire is because this empire resides at the upmost corner of the continent, and at the corner of continent there is incredibly high mountain that reaches the heavens. The legends say that if one is able to handle the extreme cold and obstacles reaching the top, there will be heavenly treasures there.  But Yin has no wish in treasures, what he wants is power and so he didn’t try to go on and climb the mountain.

At this time Yin saw one of the nobles grab the blond attends butt cheek, instantly the noble froze in place and fell on the ground his body covered in frost.

‘No one can touch her!!!’ Yin shouted inside, and continued eating.

Second commotion appeared in the Snow Queens Restaurant!

Instantly the noble was carried away by few guards of the restaurant, everyone looked at the attendant somewhat suspecting her, but they knew that a mage wouldn’t lower herself to being a maid with barely any pay. The attendants would even sometimes be led out by filthy nobles who wanted to have fun with them, and they couldn’t refuse, some attendants would even be happy as the nobles would sometimes give them money.

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The blond attendant didn’t know what to with scared face, but she knew that noble was frozen by the mage because he touched her, she thought that the mage might even have taken fancied her; but then the thought suddenly disappeared as she never thought of herself so highly.

After long time. The sky has already become dark and stars could be seen, Yin saw that the blond girl has finished her job and so he packed the food which he didn’t as it was practically impossible to eat so much alone.

After everything was packed in wooden small boxes with holes on the top and few from the sides everything was put into an extravagant leather bag. Actually the only reason why this empire is still is alive is because unknown reason of extreme population of all kinds of animals who can survive the harsh weather, they actually exceed the human hundred to one. Which makes meat almost worthless, and everyone gets to eat meat on their table but instead very low amount of bread if any. For this reason the people is way stronger than any other empire around them and so they are able to handle fighting against four empires alone. There is also excessive amount of leather and fur so people able to survive the extreme cold weather, even the carriages are covered with leather, one can only imagine the excess.

Yin headed out before the blond attendant and was standing next to the door outside with extreme colds at night is really hard to believe one wouldn’t be cold outside with only simple leather armor. Although everyone thought that the young man has trained his body like other soldiers to resist cold for emergency situations and so they weren’t that much surprised.

It was extremely quiet night without any exaggeration, not often that happens, but during cold weather it’s not unseen. One could smell food and wine coming from the restaurant and people quietly walking around, some commoners looking at the restaurant with jealousy in their eyes. Yin always thought that the weak should be looked after by the strong and the strong taken care of by the weak. If the weak is able to become strong then they should without any exception. But neither of them should look down on each other as they are both human, if one saw another in trouble they should help each other.

At this moment Yin felt as his pants was slightly pulled, as he look what it was he saw a small kid covered by poor quality leather, he looked extremely frail and was covered by bruises and dirt.

“Mister, can I please have some food just a little bit, please I haven’t ate in days, please mister…” Little kid said almost crying, the kid was actually a girl and about nine years old too, it was amazing that she survived.

Instantly in Yin’s memory flashed scene from his past.

Inside a small town, noble region a very frail kid of about seven years old covered by leather was walking, he seemed as cold as the winter itself, but he wasn’t shivering, but instead barely walking, he came next to noble restaurant. A noble exited the restaurant and the kid asked the noble for some food, but the noble didn’t give the kid food and instead kicked him to almost dead. All the nobles that exited the restaurant would be disgusted and spit on the kid, who was laying there faintly breathing. The kid was full of anger and pain, but not a single bit of sadness, not a single tear came from his eyes, he would look at every single noble that would spit on him, and would remember him forever. What he was thinking is million ways of slaughtering them with as much pain as possible.

A tear fell from Yin’s one eye on the kid which froze in the air and fell in the kids hand the kid never seen such mysterious thing and she found it extremely beautiful. Yin then took his leather bag and handed one wooden box to the kid and a banana, “Kid eat it here or someone might take it from you.” Yin said.

How could the kid know that such food costs twenty gold, a commoner would live from twenty gold for his all life.

The little girl started crying as she dropped on the ground holding the fool, “Thank you mister, thank you, thank you, thank you, tha….” She kept repeating while crying.

Another tear fell from Yins eye, and he felt anger fill him up he said, “Little girl, do you want to serve me?”

“*sob*sob* Yes, mister I’ll do anything if you accept me…” The little girl said.

Yin looked at the little girl deeply and said, “Remember you will have to become strong if you want be serve me, you will have to work extremely hard, but you will also never have to be hungry. What’s your name kid?”

The little girl looked at Yin and stopped sobbing she stood up and said, “Master my name is Yuki! Master I will definitely work hard! Master I will become strong girl!”

Yin looked at Yuki and said, “Yuki call me Yin never call me Master! I do not approve such titles, I believe that one day you can become like me! I am only taking you in as a favour and in the future when you are strong enough, you can return the favour!”

“I understand, Yin please look after me from now on!” Yuki said strongly.

At this time the blond attendant was watching this through barely open restaurant door she couldn’t help but start sobbing as well seeing this, she haven’t seen such kindness in anyone before.

Yin didn’t wait anymore and led the little girl towards the tent when suddenly he stopped and looked at the restaurant seeing the blond attendant coming out wearing lots of leather and still shivering he laughed inside and took out apple throwing it to her he said, “I want to see you again, will you be here tomorrow?”

The attendant nodded not saying a word she was really flushed and words didn’t come out of her mouth.

Yin smiled and then led Yuki to the tent, she couldn’t wait to eat it, she also didn’t know where she was going, but anywhere is better than on the street.

Soon they arrived and entered the tent, it was unexpectedly not that cold inside, one could see that the tents were made from good quality leather.

“Wha! I’ll be living here from no on?” Yuki asked looking around curiously, her cheeks flushed and she put the food on the table, she was carrying the leather bag for Yin.

“We will be both living here from now on, don’t worry you can sleep on the bad, for me is good on the ground as well, I am use to it anyway.” Yin said and put some leather on the ground starting to exercise.

“What! How can I sleep on the bed and Yin sleep on the ground?!? Can I really sleep on the bed?” Yuki said almost crying.

“Of course you can, now go eat I can see that you are hungry, remember in the future we will probably won’t be eating such food much, it’s really expensive after all, well with my current gold we could eat there for quite a while but I don’t want to get excessive.”

Yuki nodded and started eating enjoying every bite, while Yin put on the heavy armor and started exercising.

At this time inside a small not out of ordinary house in the kitchen one could smell food, and feel warmth coming. There sat four people, one girl about twelve on young woman about seventeen or eighteen, one woman about forty or so and a man in his forties, all of them were looking at an apple on the table.

“Akemi is it really how you say it is? That noble should have definitely taken fancy to you and he also so kind.. just like a prince…” The middle aged woman said as she blushed then continued, “Just like your father…But he has money…”

The middle aged man got angry and said, “Are you saying I didn’t have money?! it’s because you spend all of them…hmph…” The middle aged man said as he laughed.

“Who spends your money, it’s because you didn’t have any in the first place…” She said with anger then started laughing.

The two younger girls started laughing as well, but then said, “Let’s share this apple I don’t think that the kind noble would mind.” Actually she only started working at that restaurant only this week as she finished school much earlier than everyone else, she was extreme genius only seen in hundreds of years, but after all she has no money and so she has to start from the beginning. She only started working there because of decent enough money and when she gets enough she wants to open her own business hoping to become noble one day. But now she was taken fancy by a noble and so she was extremely happy that he might help her financially, but she didn’t expect too much, she also doesn’t like taking advantage of the people and so she would never take advantage of him.

“No, no, no he gave you the apple you eat it!” The middle aged man said as he knew one gets to eat such fruit not often.

Akemi didn’t mind his words and split the apple in four and gave each a piece, and ate it slowly, enjoying the taste. It’s really best apple she ever ate…when she thought of Yin she blushed, she couldn’t help but think of him.

Early in the morning, Yin woke up then woke up Yuki and went for early running, but Yukis body was extremely weak, after all she starved for days.

Soon they got back ate breakfast, and a middle aged man came to take him for talk about the army. He introduced all kinds of gears and how soldier supposed to treat others which Yin thought to be absolute bullshit.

Soon enough the first day introduction ended which only lasted for about two hours and Yin headed out to the main street.

As he was walking he could hear that between houses a woman screaming for help, Yin entered the dark are, he could quickly see two men raping a girl, but suddenly the two men fell down not moving anymore the woman sobbing, Yin said, “Are you alright lady ?” he knew the lady is not alright, but he still asked.

She saw Yin was a soldier and started running, only now did he realise that the two men were actually soldiers, he got angry he knew that soldiers can be violent, but this is crossing the line.

Yin headed out once again with anger in his heart, but he also felt relieved that two piece of shits are out of this world.

He was also quite surprised that today everyone is actually talking about an ice mage that killed two nobles yesterday and no one saw him or heard him. Literally everyone was talking about him and most commoners were even extremely happy that he killed nobles, as most commoners hate nobles.

“Hmph, good that those nobles were killed I heard one of them raped a girl before and nothing was done! And the other one would go and beat up commoners for no reason, really treashes…” An old looking man said as he was working with wood.

“They done some other crimes, but no one would any about it really how low can our empire go…” another middle aged man said.

Hearing this Yin was quite concerned about the empire, he wanted to one day take over this empire and then keep conquering, but if the empire gets taken this would be more difficult. But since he didn’t really have big attachment to this empire he could just become civilian of another empire he didn’t see problem, only since they are in war in would be a bit more difficult. The reason for this is because the other empires would kill anyone that would try to cross the lines.

Soon Yin arrived at the same restaurant again, and sat down at the same table at the corner he could see the blond attendant (Akemi) was putting food on the table for some nobles which was one of the cheapest foods in the restaurant.

Akemi suddenly felt a bit of cold coming from her back and she turned around seeing Yin sitting at the same place as yesterday, she blushed and turned around her heart beating fast.

Yale chuckled and send little wave which lifted her skirt, and her underwear could be seen, she quickly covered it with her skirt and turned her head saw Yin laughing, she immediately got red from embarrassment. She quickly left going to the kitchen.

Yin chuckled at Akemis cuteness and attendant at this time came next to him, “Sir have you decided what you want to order?” The attendant was looking at Yin curiously.

“How much does it cost to order an attendant?” Yin asked with smile on his face.

The attendant laughed and said, “Sir please wait” she said as she and went upstairs, but quickly came back and said, “Sir actually our lord, will do you a favour today and you can take any attendant for free today.”

Yin was quite surprised, but he understood it’s because of his yesterday’s order, “Then can you ask the attendant that is hiding in the kitchen to go change and come sit next to me”

Hearing this attendant was quite surprised, ‘who is hiding in the kitchen?’ she thought, but then realised that Akemi is not here, she chuckled and quickly went to the kitchen.

The attendant went to the kitchen and saw Akemi hiding at the edge of the entrance of the kitchen. She chuckled, “Akemi today is your lucky day eh you got fancied by a handsome noble who is dressed like soldier, he ordered you for today. He said for you to go change your clothes and come sit next to him.”

“What?!” Akemi cried out and blushed, her head went dizzy and didn’t know what to do, “Quickly go change your clothes and go to him! You might be lucky tonight” The attendant winked at her.

“Lucky tonight…tonight…tonight” These words sounded out in her mind and she slowly went to to change her clothes.

The attendant laughed at this innocent kitten, who is about to be eaten by a violent tiger.

After about half an hour waiting Akemi walked out wearing pink pretty dress and her long hair pinned into one braid, her face flushed looking at the ground she quickly walked and sat on the other side of the table.

Yin started laughing, he is quite nervous actually, “Did you like the apple?”, ‘Ah is that what I was supposed to say?’ Yin thought…

Akemi not looking at Yin said in silent tone, “Ah…yes I shared it with my family, it was really delicious…Thank you…”

“No need to thank me, I saw that you wanted it so I gave it to you, what’s wrong with that?” Yin said smiling.

Akemi didn’t say anything as she was only looking at the table playing with her hair.

“Have you eaten anything from the list on here?” Yin asked, and saw Akemi shook her head.

“Are you hungry?” Yin asked then, Akemi nodded not saying anything.

Yin raised his hands and attendant came next to him, “Can I have two todays special, the best desert also two glasses of best wine.”

Seeing Akemi the attendant got quite surprised, but then nodded and didn’t say anything.

Quickly the attendant put food on their table and two glasses of wine.

Yin chuckled as he saw Akemi still looking at the table, “You know this food is for you as well…So please eat.”, ‘Aish… really I don’t know how to talk with girls…’ Yin thought.

Akemi looked at the food she knew this food is extremely expensive,” Thank you” she couldn’t resist and started eating slowly.

“Aish why you thanking me! This is a date I say a date okay! A man should always pay for girl, and girl should always spend her money on whatever she wants!”

Akemi looked at Yin, their eyes met and she started eating again.

“Too cute! Too cute!” Yin thought as he started eating as well.

“Well is it good?” Yin finished and asked, then took a spoon and took some desert which was ice cream. And then said, Said “Quickly open your mouth its dropping!” Yin shouted and then Akemi looked at him said, “Wha…” But then she saw spoon entering her mouth and she quickly closed her mouth she saw Yin holding spoon which was in her mouth she blushed and opened her mouth, Yin flipped the spoon and ice cream fell on her tongue.

Akemi quickly looked at the table not looking at Yin again, her heart beating fast and the ice cream was extremely delicious she started eating the ice cream as she could feel warmth and cold mix together making perfect yin-yang. Right now she was experiencing bliss, and the world around her seemed to disappear.

This was her first time experiencing this, but she knew it’s because of Yin.

That gentle and kind Look from Yins.

The gentle words of Yins.

And most importantly Yins kind and gentle actions.

It all made inside her heart pound.

This moment is when Yin knew that he wouldn’t let the world ruin her never, ever till the end of world.

Yin quickly gave money to attendant, and took Akemis hand, “Let’s go… trust me.”

Akemi nodded and followed Yin holding his hand, their hands pounding, she couldn’t understand but she wasn’t even bit scarred actually she felt sense of security, like nothing in the world would ever be dangerous if she were to be with Yin.

She saw that she was going to the door and realised she wasn’t wearing any leather, “Ah wait I need to get dressed…” She said.

“No need, trust me” Yin said with care in his voice.

Akemi nodded, and when she went through the door, she could feel wind and when she thought she would feel cold, nothing else happened, it was actually perfect not cold and not hot! She was still holding Yins hand and her cheeks started burning, “Ehh how is this possible why is It not cold?” Akemi asked.

“It’s always like this for me.” Yin said as he looked at her deeply with smile on his face but it came from his heart, gentle and caring.

He embraced her holding tightly and then jumped up landing on the edge of rood, jumping again and then landing on the upmost top. Of the restaurant from where one could see town fading in the distance, and sun barely holding at the edge, it fell soon fell down and northern light illuminated the sky.

Akemi and Yin sat down on the corner enjoying the northern lights, it was extremely beautiful as stars behind the green, blue and violet northern lights lit the night, and it wasn’t even bit cold for them. Actually they were both burning as they still held hands they didn’t dare to look at each other. Even after the northern lights disappeared they still sat there for enough time to burn two incense sticks.

Next to a small house two young people stopped walking and a young man spoke, “Can I ask your name?” he spoke very gently while looking at the ground and then looked at the young woman.

The young woman, looked at the young man she smiled and said, “Then you will have to tell me yours…”

“Okay.” He answered calmly with small pause.

“My name is Akemi…” She said with smile, and looked at the ground, a bit embarrassed.

“Your name really suits you…It’s just like you” Yin couldn’t help but say with smile. Akemi blushed and then said, “Now tell me your name…”

“My name is Yin.” He said with light laugh

Akemi looked at Yin, “Doesn’t your name resemble you even more? And you say my name resembles me! Hmph, hmph!” She blushed again looking Yin, she realised that he really is the ice mage.

Yin laughed not saying anything, Akemi suddenly said, “I’ll be going home now…” and ran to her house quickly, glancing at Yin for a moment before closing the door.

“I’ll see you tomorrow!” Yin quickly said and he headed back, he I still excited, he can’t wait to meet her tomorrow, it’s as if something changed inside him. When he got back to his tent he saw that Yuki was already sleeping, Yin took the heavy armor and headed out for training.

At this time, in the slaughtered village an extremely tall and robust, masculine man with crazy hair, and brown eyes, he was wearing a shirt that only covered his chest barely with silk belt, and robust silk pants with tightening at the ankle.

“Someone who is capable of controlling water has appeared…He really went berserk here…It seems he is from somewhere around here too…” The man said to himself and then his eyes opened widely, “That’s right somewhere around here a child with very cold body was born, they called him demon…I heard about it few years ago, but thought that it’s only villagers exaggeration…Don’t tell me…” The man suddenly disappeared.

In a secretive place a man was seated, he was seemingly thinking about something, suddenly the same man appeared next to him, “I have something to talk about.” The man with crazy hair said.

The seated man was seemingly about thirty, he was extremely muscular he was three heads shorter than the other man, his hair crazy like as well, and he wore same uniform, but much more slimmer than the other man.

“I have something to talk about too, you talk first.” The small guy said.

“A village have been slaughtered by someone who uses water magic, high possibility that one possess one of those bodies…” The big guy said calmly.

Hearing this small guy was surprised but then laughed and said, “There is someone capable of using water magic appeared at the capital, thief trading centre was cleaned by him and he killed two soldiers and two nobles, I just got back from there news goes around there fast. I wasn’t able to find out who he is, seems no one heard incantations, highly possible it is the same person that you are talking about, also high chance that he possess, ice king body. This is good news if he is young, seems very capable too from your description, I highly doubt he has cultivated.”

The other man nodded and said ,”I heard couple years ago that someone was born about seventeen years ago from now, he was called demon because of his cold body, highly possible it’s the same person… If he is only seventeen then you know what that means…”

The small guy nodded and said, “Yes truly, this is good news. It’s been very long time since last one appeared, of water element…” The man smiled and then disappeared together with the other man.

Soon morning came and Yin with Yuki were currently running around the base, “Yin you came back really late yesterday, I even fell asleep waiting for you, and also it was very boring inside that tent being alone for so long! So I just kept exercising…” Yuki was quite sad left alone for so long, she also really want to go to school and learn all kinds of stuff like other kids…

“We will go buy some books later, I want to buy some too, I never went to school before my knowledge is quite poor as well.” Yin said calmly as he kept running.

Yuki was left without words, and was amazed by Yin.

Lunch time. Inside capitals and whole Snow White empires largest library.

“Whoa! Yin look at all those books, I want all of them! Then I could sleep in between the books!” Yuki said laughing with joy.

Yin chuckled, “Where are you going to put all of them eh?” So many books he was amazed himself, he wanted to get some books on some general knowledge, legends about ice and mages.

Yuki quickly found some books she wanted together with Yin they bought thirty books in total.

They also went to buy some clothes for Yuki and both of them went to one of the hot springs to wash themselves and headed to Snow Queen restaurant, when they entered Yin and Akemi nodded to each other both of their hearts beating fast. They stayed at the restaurant till late reading the books Yin didn’t find anything useful, which Yuki was full of excitement reading the books. Yin and Akemi would glance at each other from time to time. Yuki seeing this couldn’t help but chuckle, she understood that Yin fancied that girl.

Akemis working hours were over and so, Yin send Yuki back to the tent, while both of them went for a stroll around the town, “So you actually want to open your business! Don’t worry I’ll help you.” Yin said and he took out a bag of gold from his backpack and handed it to Akemi, he said, “What are you going to do thank me?” Yin sounded quite as he smirked, looking at Akemi attentively.

It was already night and stars could be seen in the sky, it was quite cold, but for Akemi and Yin it was perfect weather, there were never many people at night because of the cold so they could take a quite comfortable straw.

Akemis cheeks flushed and she said, “I…I…I can….I don’t know” barely saying she quickly turned her head and didn’t say anymore.

Yin started laughing as she took her hand, “This is enough for me”

Akemi nodded slightly, she didn’t mind Yin holding her hand, and actually she felt safe and comfortable.

On one of house roofs two men in blue uniforms appeared one extremely tall with crazy hair and one shorter with crazy hair, “That’s definitely him I can sense qi radiating from him and he really is an ice king, wonderful, so young as well, now we just need to watch over him for some time, to see if he is worthy or not.” The other man nodded not saying anything.