Throne of the North.

Chapter 489: Heart of the Frost Giant King, the World's Frozen Ocean

The huge crack seemed to connect the sky and the earth, and at the lowest point of the crack, a solid iron hoof stepped out in the hot air. The majestic and mighty highland warhorse breathed heavily, it was not very adaptable to this world with suddenly high oxygen content.

The warhorse hurried forward, and its companions behind it filed in, pushing the horse in front further away.

Before long, thousands of war horses roared loudly in this strange world. Their voices did not sound like those of docile horses, but more like those of ferocious beasts.

“They’re evolving.”

Rose was the first person to notice something strange here. When he arrived, he did not dare to move forward. He felt that facing tens of thousands of extraordinary legion soldiers was more stressful than facing a legendary dragon.

"This is the hometown of giant dragons. Strictly speaking, these war horses already have a lot of dragon blood. They have bathed in dragon blood."

"I don't recommend you to get involved because your power is still too weak. I see that you don't have enough reverence for the gods, which will make you passive."

"But now, you are no longer weak."

Earl Clayton stood beside Ryan. In his opinion, fighting against the gods was an extremely serious matter, but he did not see any of that in Ryan.

He didn't know whether this was good or bad, but fortunately there was Surtur in this world.

"He actually made a covenant with you."

“It’s really mysterious.”

Count Clayton still found it a little hard to believe that such a great being as Surter would actually make a contract with a mortal.

"Perhaps it is the remaining power of the Dragon Emperor."

After Ryan said this, Surtur had no other reason. He couldn't be sure whether Ryan had a second favor. Of course, it might also be because Ryan's methods were a little weird for Surtur.

The divine essence that was offered to Him could be stolen.

The mighty army of Fire Dragon Knights marched towards the north of the world. Ryan wanted to know how Earl Clayton could fight against the giant dragons flying in the sky.

"Of course, the Fire Dragon Knights are no match for so many dragons, but you said that Surtur is their enemy. The most powerful dragons will become enemies of gods."

"What we have to do is to kill those arrogant dragons when they come to attack us."

"The dragons of this world may have forgotten that as the overlords of the sky, they have never truly defeated humans."

Clayton spoke coldly, and finally looked at Ryan.

"I heard you say that there are frost giants in this world, fighting with dragons?"

"Yes, they are our friends from the Tundra Territory. I invited them to hunt dragons. There is an entire village, seven frost giants."

“They can eat their fill.”

Clayton said this meaningfully.

Lagerloff was also shocked by the human army that appeared before him. He said to Ryan:

"You are powerful beyond imagination, human noble."

"This is my father, a great noble of the human empire."

Ryan introduced, but it was Christman, the fire dragon in the sky, who responded by swooping down from the sky and biting at Lagerloff.

The hatred between dragons and frost giants is engraved deep in their blood. The Fire Dragon is not the Frost Dragon Areris. It is tyrannical, greedy, and possesses all the cruel attributes of a dragon.

The fight between the giant and the dragon caused the ground to shake until Lord Clayton appeared in the sky.

The raging flames were not an exaggeration, they were truly flames that filled the entire sky, burning the sea of ​​clouds and the earth. Earl Clayton walked in mid-air, with bright red footprints forming a path to the throne behind him. At the same time, the fiery energy exhaled by the Fire Dragon was completely extinguished.

The frost giant also exuded a burning breath, and the unmelted ice turned into liquid and flowed down.

"I didn't come here to watch you fight."

Under the flames, a crown was formed, and Earl Clayton stood on the back of the fire dragon. The terrifying force suppressed the dragon.

Falling to the ground, the dragon's body smashed a big hole in the ground.

Lord Clayton looked at Lagerloff.

"You haven't even grown up yet, but you've already taken on the responsibility of a tribe. It seems your childhood life wasn't so perfect."

Earl Clayton knew more about the growth of the Frost Giants than Ryan.

"I am the 132nd Earl of the Dragon Flame Earldom of the Flor Empire. Here, I sign a contract with you."

Earl Clayton did not reveal the contents of the contract, but took out something first.

"A few years ago, I led my extraordinary army across the northern border and went deeper into the Six Kings' Courts to slay the Mammoth Man."

"I went there for divinity. You should know how rare divinity is."

"But the divinity of the mammoth man is far from enough to keep my army in the north for so long. It took me more than a year to find this thing."

A thumb-sized gem appeared in Earl Clayton's hand. It was crystal clear and white, but the moment it appeared, frost flowers fell from the sky.

The frost giant Lagerlov couldn't take his eyes away from the beginning, he looked at the gem in disbelief.

"The heart of a king."

"The heart of the Frost Giant King. The Frost Giant King seemed to be a huge man, but after his death, only such a small thing remained."

"Your tribe has lost the heritage of becoming a king, right?"

Lagerloff nodded. He was a simple-minded man and just meant what he said.

"When I was young, my father and grandfather were called away to fight a dragon, and they never returned."

He looked at the gem in Earl Clayton's hand, but there was not much desire in his expression.

It doesn't belong to him, it's that simple.

"It's yours now. As a contractual transaction, I want you to call upon the sacrificed frost giants as a king."

"I need their strength."

Lagerlov shook his head, not because he was not a king but called out as the King of Frost Giants, which would bring him terrible backlash, but because...

"The frost giants will not accept any deal."

"Then I'll give it to you as a gift."

Ryan said loudly. Earl Clayton frowned for a moment, but still destroyed the contract and threw the gem to Lagerloff.

"So what do you give in return?"

"everything."

After Lagerloff finished speaking, he grabbed the gem, which was smaller than his hair, and smashed it against his chest.

The giant's power was so terrifying that even a dragon would be torn in half. Lagerlov smashed his chest directly and roughly stuffed the gem into his heart.

Dong Dong~!
A strong and powerful heartbeat sounded, and Lagerloff raised his head, roaring with frost visible to the naked eye.

The invisible force was moving towards the border of the entire world with him as the center. At a certain moment, in the ocean of Esil, the sea was suddenly split in the middle amidst the raging waves.

In the view that leads directly to the bottom of the sea, one by one, the dark-skinned Frost Giants raised their heads. They were the violent Frost Giants who were sacrificed by the dragons and transformed with the dragon's essence. They were like the dragon warriors enslaved by humans, and were the soldiers of the dragons.

No one could wake them up because the Dragon Emperor had fallen, the power of the Dragon Essence was divided, and the two great beings fell into a deep sleep again.

Naturally, the violent frost giants remain asleep.

At this moment, Lagerlov's call came, and all the frost giants raised their heads. They were all in black, but their eyes were as white as the ice and snow in the north.

It's as pure as the way the frost giants only accept gifts.

The awakened and violent frost giants began to run wildly on the seabed. They passed through the separated ocean canyon and came to the surface of the sea.

The world's most extreme cold emanates from their bodies, freezing the surrounding oceans.

The pitch-black ice replaced the raging ocean. Their color spread farther and farther, and everything was frozen wherever they passed.

Deep in the ocean, there were tidal dragons roaring in anger, madly slamming into the ice above them that sealed the sky. But at a certain moment, even these tidal dragons were frozen in the ice and turned into ice sculptures, frozen beneath the ice.

The dark icy world grew farther and farther away, until after a long time, it spread to the land where humans lived and stopped.

Lagerloff stopped roaring and fell to the ground like a mountain.

"A giant won't fall down, even when he's sleeping. He's already dead, but the heart of the Frost Giant King can give him a chance to come back to life."

"If he can stand up, he will become a very powerful legend. This world has enough food for him to grow."

Ivar walked forward, and Ryan's eyes widened, because he saw that Ivar had the second heart of the Frost Giant King in his hand.

It is exactly the same as the one that Lagerloff got just now.

"This is……?"

Ryan asked and Ivar smiled slightly.

"Who said that father only harvested one in the North?"

"In the war on the divine realm, quite a few frost giants died."

What arrogant words.

However, what was even more arrogant was that Ivar threw the Heart of the Frost Giant King in his hand directly into the sky, and the flames that had never dissipated from Earl Clayton were like a dragon sucking water back at this moment.

Ryan was wrong before. He thought that his father, the Earl, really had the ability to melt the heart of the Frost Giant King.

"Each of the King's Hearts is taken from the corpse of a demigod-level frost giant."

"They are harder to kill than you think, but not as powerful as you think."

"The previous one was stolen, but this one is for killing. In order to prevent him from knowing the truth about us killing the Frost Giant King after he wakes up, we won't give it to him."

When Lord Clayton said this, Ryan was forced to recall something.

The Earl of Clayton's family is expected to become the fifth grand ducal family simply because of this Earl of Clayton.

His father, the Earl.

"Don't even think about it. The Imperial Family and the four Grand Dukes still have the power to destroy our Clayton."

"The Empire is the Empire of the Emperor and the nobles, but even more so the Empire of the Emperor and the four Grand Dukes."

Earl Clayton could see what Ryan was thinking. How could this descendant of blood who didn't even have reverence for the gods possibly revere Emperor Flor who was thousands of miles away?

"This is my solution. Our army cannot enter the ocean, but we can turn the ocean into land."

Earl Clayton pointed to the frozen sea ahead and continued:
"Of course, we also need the power of the frost giants."

The power of the legendary knight [Junyan], Earl Clayton melted the heart of the Frost Giant King, and the breath of frost, along with the flames, merged into the bodies of tens of thousands of Flame Dragon Knights behind him, and even Ryan's Stag Legion received a different kind of blessing.

"Glory to Clayton!!!"

Tens of thousands of knights reveled, and then rushed towards the frozen sea fearlessly. Flames burned on the iron hooves of the Highland war horses, and every gallop would make the flat ice surface bumpy.

"Let's go too. Those dragons won't stray too far from their gods."

Ryan still rode the dragon forward. Is this what it feels like to have a background? He finally understood why the nobles of the North Wind Province were trying so hard to get into the circle of southern nobles.

It's not because the south is warm, but because only nobles powerful enough can occupy warm lands.

"His Majesty the Demon Dragon has awakened. What does this mean?"

Earl Clayton finally asked this question to the fire dragon Christman under his feet.

The latter was a little afraid. Even Ryan could feel that this arrogant dragon was actually afraid of the human Count Clayton.

"I don't know, but I just sensed that He has awakened. His will has enveloped the entire world, and He is looking for another great being."

Hearing this, Ryan probably understood.

Previously, I thought the Dragon God was sinister and cunning, but now it seems that the Demon Dragon is not bad either. He has actually awakened his will long ago, but he is not here when Nidhoggr controls the world.

"So, strictly speaking, Mr. Christman is a follower of the Divine Dragon."

"The dragon has no faith. We just get closer to him."

The Fire Dragon said this, getting closer, so he became more similar to the Demon Dragon, and thus became his people, but dragons always walk alone so there is no faith.

"No matter where He is, our goal is to drive Him away."

"Surtur wants to eat Him."

Ryan responded.

"That depends on His ability. The war between gods is not something we can participate in."

Earl Clayton sounded particularly relaxed when he said this. Perhaps none of the previous wars were as exciting as this one where he had a god as his ally.

"So, according to our contract, what do you want after the war is over?"

This war is a contract between Clayton and the Ryan family. The provisions of the contract are very simple. This is Ryan's world, and he is destined to get a piece of it.

So, by allowing Earl Clayton to take part in this feast, he was bound to be rewarded.

These are the rules of the game for the nobility.

But these things stumped Ryan. Last time he had no other choice, but this time, he took the initiative.

What he wants must be expensive and must be useful, otherwise it is meaningless.

Ryan thought for a long time. What did he want? Money, but asking for money was the most useless thing at this time. He wanted the loyalty of a legend? A legend was not a tool to be ordered around.

"I wonder...do you have architectural blueprints of several fortresses in the empire?"

Ryan finally said that he wanted to build the Great Wall in the North, and it would be difficult for Alchemist Rose to complete such a huge workload alone.

(End of this chapter)