Dungeon Prowler : One Man Army

Chapter 368: home of the snow daughters

Yunan felt a huge headache threatening to take over him and some subtle threat that was looming over his soul from an unknown place, but he did not pay much attention to any of it, he was troubled by this blatant show of favour and respect, twice already he has been greeted with reverence, the first time he acknowledged the greeting by reciprocating it verbally, this time he chose to give a nod and a dismissal gesture with a "carry on" thrown in for good measure.

The arena was completely silent after Yunan spoke, but then again everything started to regain its casual fervour after the Yuki started performing their ice dance, meanwhile, Yunan got a pat on the shoulder for a well-handled situation, he turned around to see that both Leader and Lucian were smiling at him approvingly.

The dance featured by the Yuki tribe was just an ice storm, bold and arrogant, sweeping and gripping, although there was no cold in the viewing stands, there was a noticeable chill tugging at the audience, this prowess was showing off their affinity for the clod and ice elements, it was beyond question at the moment that these snow women were the masters of ice in this place, not even the Jtunn or the Yeti tribes were able to convince one that the ice show was actually deadly and not just a simple dance and routine of elemental manipulation.

Ice swords flew and converged into light blue coloured lotus flowers, the snow flying around the performers became white cherry blossom petals, converging and diverging like a flower blooming over and over again, but no matter how beautiful it looked like it still made anyone watching feel a chill of death locking on them.

The contrast of beauty and danger almost pulled the audience into a trance, but the cold atmosphere kept everyone at the edge of sanity, just barely enough for them to be enticed by the strange and unique show, to the point it felt like no time passed when the performing Yuki came to halt, breathing heavily with ice petals flaking on their hair and clothes, it took a moment before the roaring cheer sounded through the Coliseum. After watching the snow women lave the arena, the crowds started dispersing, it would be hard for the upcoming races to top what the Yuki just pulled out.

Yunan did not go out with his family as they left the Coliseum but instead headed to the entrance used by the performing teams to meet with the Yuki, he wanted to spend some time with them and meet their leaders, he was not very sure about meeting the snow women before but since they called him king, he thought he should do so, he put his daughter on his shoulders and sent away his wives with Ignis and Sapphira as escort, there were some objections and quibbling that ultimately did not work.

"King!" kneeled a certain Yuki before Yunan almost as soon as she saw him, there were others that bowed or knelt as well, there were some who looked unhappily at him, even so, he greeted each snow woman and introduced himself as well as his daughter to them by saying "well hello there, good to see you again, how have you girls been? This is my Daughter Catelyn, my name is Yunan and I am the current king of the Pearl kingdom, at your service".

The way Yunan conducted himself was very friendly, mainly because of how the Yuki treated him in return. Soon he was surrounded by the no longer cold and icy women who also introduced themselves and led him to where they were lodging for the event, a literal iceberg hollowed out and turned into a mobile fortress. Upon setting foot on the ice Yunan immediately felt the mana saturated and reinforced ice, with veins of mana throbbing through the iceberg like it was a living thing, strangely it was warm and comfortable inside, therefore Yunan did not need to use Drogon to keep the little child warm and safe, but he still chose to cast an isolation spell on her, the abundant mana may be harmless to himself but since the little girl was not used to such high mana concentrations, he choose to be safe than sorry.

Inside the iceberg were many rooms, hallways and halls for different purposes, he walked to the heart of the iceberg surrounded by a crowd of Yuki that only kept growing, it was after all very rare for anyone to be invited to the iceberg, let alone, a human male that was already famous among the women for being the promised king, some Yuki whispered and some shouted out loud, Yunan greeted everyone who cared to greet him, he enthusiastically returned waves and shook the hands that reached him, even the occasional hug was not out of the question.

Inside the main hall, there were a dozen older snow daughters on thrones, they were the source of the mana that coursed through the iceberg, upon entry Yunan presented himself as kingly as he could. "Good evening my ladies, thank you for indulging my sudden visit and agreeing to meet me on such short notice, I hope these gifts would help you forgive my lack of manners".

With Catelyn still sitting on his shoulder, he bowed slightly and conjured out some especially ice attributed lava wine and some beauty lotus fruits, enough for everyone in the icy village to have a few samples, the snow daughters numbers were abysmal for a clan with their strength, they numbered no more than 300 in all.

"Welcome King Yunan, we welcome you to our home, although we have to say that your gifts are surely enticing to old women like us, putting aside your familiarity with some of our numbers and your promise to them about visiting, we again welcome you to our home" the one that spoke was the one in the centre of the 12 seats but Yunan could feel all the 12 seats answering him through her, this was probably some shared will, more likely a way to join the strength of the seated, so that they could feed the iceberg with mana.

"My sincere thanks to the elders, it would be amiss of me to waste time with too many pleasantries, it is therefore that I must divulge the reason for my visit" Yunan straightened himself and put down his daughter to stand beside him "in my capacity as king of the Pearl kingdom, I would like to invite the snow daughters to join my kingdom as citizens, I would like for my kingdom to build some strong ties with the awakened island, through trade of goods mainly, I have friendly ties with the lizardman tribe and have already come to an agreement with them".