Inside of Fortress

Ireat raised his hand. "Frank, how should we interpret this situation?"

"I don't know, my lord, but this is not good, not good at all." Frank paced back and forth in the meeting room. Ireat rested his head in his hand. He was thinking.

Culad burst in. "Greetings, my lord."

"Culad, is that you? You saw what happened outside, didn't you, the ice shelf, the excess power, and the man was able to use a teleportation spell, one of the spells we override in the Arena with various rituals."

"My lord, you know. Cheyra is a kingdom built one on top of the other, an ancient kingdom if you will. It seems like they start from the beginning each time, but since they build on a certain foundation, they may have many different things that we do not know."

"Of course it is one of the most mysterious places. It is surrounded by a temperate, desert climate, yet it is built on an ice shelf in the middle of the ocean without melting the ice."

"But I didn't know such a powerful spell, it froze the whole arena. At the last moment I realized this and at the last moment with the Scimitar of Emission I sent energy into the ice with the scimitar, but I used so much energy of the scimitar that there was not a gram of energy left in it and it broke. Even so, I couldn't completely destroy all the ice, and one of the most famous adventurers in Harden lost both arms to frostbite."

 Frank asked, "Is this ice real ice or magical ice?"

"I don't know."

Culad intervened. "I didn't feel any magic power when I was on the ice." "Then where does this ice come from?"

"Where does what come from? It takes the energy from the thing at work and freezes it."

"No, it doesn't freeze what is. It traps it in a block of ice. We're talking about where this block of ice came from."

"How can you be sure of that? Maybe it's trapping the person it's trapping by turning the water vapor in the air around the person it's trapping into a vapor."

"Let's end this conversation for now. Frank, you inform the governor and the guards for now. The people must not be stirred up by the arena duel. Culad, you ask the nobles you know to stop by here tomorrow."

Frank nodded, opened the door and walked out.

Culad grimaced as if he didn't understand. "Why specifically my acquaintance? All the nobles could gather here if you wanted them to."

"I have nothing to do with nobles, Culad. I am estranged from them because I drove Kujima's bloodline out of this country. I'm not a noble, but I'm sitting on the throne, you know. If I call them to my feet just because I'm the king, it will have a bad effect on them again. You know the consequences of having a bad relationship with the nobles."

"All right, I will do that." Culad left the room. He was going down the stairs of the castle. On his way out of the castle, he went straight to the Pearlway area. Although it was close to the castle, it was a slum area.