Ice Crystal Flower.
It has nothing to do with streams and fertile soil, nor does it need a sunny hillside.
It merely puts forth hair-thin roots between the cracks of ice and snow, drawing energy from the cold winds and frozen days, finally showing a hint of blue among its crystal-clear petals, a hue only seen in the deepest layers of ice.
The Elves of the snow plains say that the Ice Crystal Flower will never wither.
It condenses all moisture into ice crystals, reduces its life activity to the lowest, and slowly breathes by extending its roots to the deepest frost it can reach.
It is as if time freezes alongside it.
Ten years, a hundred years, a thousand years, no one knows how long the Ice Crystal Flower can survive...
Until the warmth of "spring" arrives.
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That year, Sonny was still far from the title of "Old Sang" among the villagers, yet he was already the best hunter in the village.
