The Snowball

"Ahaha—"

"Take this!"

"Haha, be careful!"

A snowball flew over gently. The girls dodged with a laugh, only to be ambushed from behind. The snowball exploded against their clothes, scattering into falling snowflakes.

Then, everyone would run and play happily in the snow... When they got tired, they would build a snowman, find two branches for its arms, and perhaps extravagantly use a carrot for its nose.

This was what a snowball fight should look like in Mo Lini's mind.

But reality was far from what she had imagined.

On the snowy ground, two figures constantly leaped and dodged. Mo Lini could only faintly catch their afterimages.

Swish—

A white phantom flashed past her eyes like lightning, stirring up a strong gale that blew Mo Lini's long red hair back.

Boom—

The thing that could tentatively be called a snowball missed its target and smashed into the ground, blasting a pillar of snow several meters high into the air.

"Haha, my turn to counterattack!"

Liyana arched her back slightly like a hunting cheetah. Before anyone could see how she moved, she scooped up a handful of snow from the ground and hurled a snowball with an arm like a catapult.

A streak of white lightning flashed.

"Hah!" Luo Lun let out a fierce shout, settled into a firm horse stance, and threw a straight punch. The snowball instantly exploded into a mist of snow.

"Oh! You've got some skills, Luo Lun."

"You're not bad yourself, Liyana."

"Then I'm going to get serious now!"

"Bring it on!"

Mo Lini stared blankly at the artillery-like battlefield before her, looking as if she had lost all will to live.

How was this a snowball fight? This was clearly a real war!

"I didn't expect a snowball fight to be this fun... Mo Lini, aren't you going to join us?" Luo Lun said to Mo Lini with an excited face.

Mo Lini shook her head desperately.

Playing with these two, she felt like a single snowball could blast her to death.

A tiny figure appeared on the battlefield.

"Take this!"

Liyana's snowball flew out and smashed right into Mida's face.

Mida kept a straight little face and silently wiped the snow off her face.

The surroundings quieted down, like the calm before a blizzard.

"Uh—"

Liyana shrank her neck, feeling that something was wrong... She thought Mida would definitely dodge it.

"My turn."

Mida slowly raised her finger.

The surrounding snow gathered above Mida, condensing into a massive snowball ten meters in diameter.

"Mida... no, Lady Mida, this isn't how you play a snowball fight..."

Mida pointed her small hand, and the giant snowball flew toward Liyana.

Liyana dodged sideways and barely evaded it.

"Mida, that's really dangerous! I'm going to tell Aina to spank your butt hard!" Having dodged the snowball, Liyana suddenly became arrogant again.

Mida's already icy little face grew even colder. She spread her hands upward in a lifting motion.

In the blink of an eye, hundreds of snowballs the same size as the previous one took shape and whistled toward Liyana.

"Ah..." Looking at the overwhelming barrage of snowballs, Liyana finally understood the same deep sense of powerlessness that Mo Lini felt.

The snowballs fell, completely burying Liyana's tiny figure like an avalanche.

...

"It's so loud outside." Xia Lun clicked his tongue quietly. "Is it an earthquake?"

"Don't mind them." Aina cupped Xia Lun's cheeks. "Right now, your attention should be on me."

...

"Xia Lun and I grew up together since we were kids."

"Xia Lun completely treats me as his younger sister."

"Aina is Xia Lun's wife."

"So in terms of seniority, Mida, I'm actually your aunt..."

"Mida, can you put your aunt down now? Your aunt is getting a little dizzy..."

An incredibly massive snowball was rolling around on the snowy ground.

Liyana only had her head exposed on the snowball's surface, her body embedded inside like a radish.

Mida remained expressionless, merely waving her finger to control the snowball as it rolled larger and larger.

Luo Lun stood to the side, looking up at the sky at a forty-five-degree angle... even though the sky, covered by thick clouds, had nothing worth looking at.

Outwardly, she maintained a look of aloof independence, but inwardly, she was frantically praying that Mida wouldn't come after her.

As the leader of the Blood Alliance, if others found out she had also been rolled into a snowball, it would be far too humiliating.

"Mida... is so amazing!" Mo Lini hid behind Mida and let out a gasp of awe.

Mida's finger suddenly stopped. She looked up slightly, as if she had thought of something.

Whoosh—

Small dragon wings spread out from Mida's back. After flapping a few times, she flew away.

Liyana was still trapped in the snowball.

"She's gone! Mo Lini, hurry and get me down!"

"Eh? Me?" Mo Lini looked up at Liyana, who was embedded several meters high, and pointed at her own nose with a helpless expression.

Even if she jumped, she couldn't reach Liyana's head.

However, this snowball was rolled really perfectly round.

"Luo Lun! Come save me! Please!" Liyana knew Mo Lini was powerless. "The snow has seeped into my clothes; I'm freezing to death!"

"Ahem, Liyana, it's not that I don't want to help you, it's just..." Luo Lun's gaze shifted toward the direction Mida had left.

"It's fine! If she asks, I'll say I got out myself, I won't blame you! Hiss— I'm going to catch a cold from freezing!"

Since Liyana said so, Luo Lun finally flew up with a kick, striking the snowball that Mida had worked so hard to roll up.

The snowball collapsed with a boom.

One of Liyana's hands reached out from the snow pile, looking like a zombie resurrected from a graveyard by a necromancer... Mo Lini forcefully pulled her out of the snow.

"Phew— I'm alive." Liyana shook the snow and water from her hair. "I'm definitely going to complain to Xia Lun and have them teach this brat a lesson!"

Luo Lun and Mo Lini exchanged a glance.

They felt that she was the actual brat she was talking about.

...

"Where is Anana? Why didn't she come?"

At the foot of the mountain, Mida was gnawing on a piece of sausage, but she didn't see that familiar figure behind Anlier.

"Uh... Lord Snow God, Anana has left this place," Anlier replied somewhat nervously, completely unable to fathom what emotion was on Mida's icy little face.

"Anana's magical talent is quite good. She decided to go out and explore the world, and wants to apply to the Olifendo Magic Academy. So for a while, she won't be coming with me... But rest assured, in a few years, when she graduates from Olifendo, she should be back... Ah, maybe that child won't even pass the exam, and she'll come back dejectedly next month..."

"Oh."

Mida merely responded with a sound.

Afterward, carrying a basket of sausages, Mida flapped her small wings and flew away unsteadily.

So Anana went to Wolund's place?

Then next time I go to fight Yisi, I'll drop by to play with her.