《Epic of Ice Dragon: Reborn As An Ice Dragon With A System 》Chapter 4: Adventuring Through The Endless Snow Fields
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[Day 3]
Because I am literally immune to cold and I can absorb ice to regain some energy (limitedly, I still need to eat though), I just kept walking around for hours.
Just an endless sea of snow… whiteness everywhere.
And this snowstorm never stops.
Hello? Anyone there?
Am I really just going to live for eternity in here?
Well, at least throw me some rabbits to eat!
I am beginning to get hungry already.
Even though I ate a whole ass rabbit yesterday.
With fur and all, even the bones… and the mana core.
Talking about the Mana Core, after what I discovered yesterday, I began to concentrate on it and tried to use mana.
It was weird and it was incredibly hard to control.
It was like trying to pull out water from a pool with your bare hands…
Maybe that is not a good comparison, I am terrible at these things after all.
But I have been concentrating on using it while walking around this desolate snowstorm.
And somehow I am managing, I think.
I can analyze a lot of things, except time, I guess.
So I analyzed my own mana and discovered that I can cheat it and manage to manipulate my own mana through analysis a bit better.
Thanks, System, you are really the almighty cheat!
I had analyzed the Rank and it said that each Rank had several stages and that you need to use Mana all around your body while meditating and blah, blah, blah to use it properly and become stronger.
I see…
What a pain.
I have no time to meditate!
I want to find something else than just snow, you know.
So I have been walking all this time, I barely feel tired, but I am beginning to get incredibly hungry now.
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I think that because of all those calories I had stockpiled that I did not get tired…
Good thing I ate the fur too.
But now that I have digested most stuff (and went to the bathroom off-camera!), I am getting hungry once more.
And as I walked seeking a meal, I slowly nourished myself with my Mana, which was slowly getting lower and lower, so I stopped halfway through.
I wanted to use my super overpowered magic as well, but when I tried to activate it through the System, the only thing I got was an explosion of ice that covered me on it…
I cannot control it.
Why you may wonder?
Because I was stupid enough to ask for overpowered magic while being a novice on it!
And also, I think activating it already costs almost all of my mana!
What?
What do you mean I cannot even use my super overpowered cheat ability without blowing it all away?
What is the point of having it if I cannot use it?!
…At least I have an ice breath.
That's… kind of works.
But it is a very small breath, like icy winds that I can release from my icy lungs, I don't think it has a range of over one meter, at most, and it also drains mana.
But it is better than nothing, my friend.
Oh right, the Mana Core Ranks.
Whatever kind of cultivation world this is, Mana Cores have ranks, and I got them all through Analyzing the analyzed info over and over again like a maniac.
So here they are:
Rank 1, Mana Core Awakening Realm
Rank 2, Mana Core Nourishment Realm
Rank 3, Mana Core Expansion Realm
Rank 4, Mana Core Refining Realm
Rank 5, Mana Core Quality Enhancement Realm
Rank 6, Mana Core Veins and Soul Veins Awakening Realm
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Rank 7, Mana Core Divine Aura Awakening Realm
Rank 8, Mana Core and Soul Fusion Realm
Rank 9, Mana Soul and Divine Aura Fusion Realm
Rank 10, Divine Mana Soul Creation Realm
Yep, there are ten realms!
Damn, and I am at the bottom of it all, tough life.
I should have asked to be reborn with Rank 10 right away.
But how would I had even known about this stuff before dying?
I was hallucinating too, so I had my mind all dizzy.
Anyways, each Realm has four stages.
Initial Stage, Middle Stage, Upper Stage, and Peak Stage.
I am Rank 1 Initial Stage, the worst of the worst.
At least I got nice Unique Skills to back up my humble beginnings.
Now, as I slowly starve and walk around, I analyze more things of what I analyzed, such as the "World" keywords within the explanations.
And I finally kind of get something… not really.
<World>
The world where you have been reborn.
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WHAT WORLD?!
Tell me that at the very least!
I quickly reanalyze the world keyword over and over again but… I get the same message.
Man, this is hopeless.
It could easily tell me about Ranks, but nothing about the freaking world I am.
Nor the area I am in!
This is a flawed System, I tell you.
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[Day 4]
I keep walking through the snowstorm… it never ends.
Although I am starving, thanks to Ice Absorption, I am able to use the ice around me as slight nourishment to regain energy and a bit of mana.
But that is it, it will not really help me from starving to death, but it is increasing the period I can survive without eating.
Rabbits? Nowhere to be seen.
Only this endless… damned sea of white snow.
Wait, should I just eat snow?
I already tried, and it tastes snowy.
Not really much of anything, but I filled my belly with it at least.
It does not give any calories or anything… but feeling my belly full is at least a bit better.
Should I eat my tail and see if it regenerates?
I do not want to do that… only if I am incredibly desperate.
And I have not lost hope yet…
I seek through my sharps senses any rabbits or other animals, but nothing…
Nothing…
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Eh?
Wait!
I just… saw something!
I quickly hide behind a large rock as I glance at what was in front of me.
I could not see them because the bastards were camouflaging with their fluffy white fur!
But… there are over twenty rabbits there!
I begin to drool immediately, I am getting hungry…
They are all eating some blue-colored grass growing in the snow… I have never seen it before.
I analyze it.
A type of Grass that grows in ice, it contains a small amount of Ice Attribute Mana, good to craft cultivation materials. Ice-type monsters enjoy eating it.
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Oho? So this is what these guys eat in here!
After like two days of walking I finally find out this grass, it must be quite hidden.
Now, time to hunt…
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