The Ice Age Came And I Just Got Married - Chapter 104

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Chapter 104
Was Julian dead? Honestly, the idea that he was still alive in there seemed even less believable.
What was I supposed to do?
My mind went completely blank.
If only Logan were here. If only Graham were here…….
Shaking my head to clear such thoughts, I forced myself back to focus.
I couldn’t fall apart now. That would be truly dangerous.
I placed my hand on the ice, hoping to melt this tremendous thickness.
Red light spilled from my palm, warming the ice surface with intense heat.
But the ice was so deeply frozen that melting it entirely with my power alone seemed impossible.
It wasn’t just the surface of the lake that was frozen—it looked as though everything beneath was ice all the way down.
If that was the case, things changed. The Redstone Power I possessed alone couldn’t melt the entire lake.
I thought that perhaps melting just down to Julian and the Frost Heart might be enough, but even that looked difficult.
‘What should I do?’
I need to find a way. A way to…….
As I looked around, I spotted something buried in the snow.
Huh? That’s…….
I’d seen it in the dream the Frost Heart showed me.
It was that strange magical tool Julian had used when he tried to bore through the bottom of the lake.
I hurried over and dug frantically through the snow.
Beneath it lay a long staff—several metal cylinders connected in series.
Geometric runic patterns were carved across its surface, and at the staff’s end was a Redstone that had gone dark and lifeless.
“This is it.”
But the problem was I had no idea how to use it.
I turned the cylindrical staff over in my hands, examining it from every angle.
‘How does this work?’
I tried pulling the handle. It didn’t budge. Next I tried twisting the cylinder. Nothing happened.
“How on earth…….”
That moment.
Use your power.
A familiar voice echoed near my ear.
I found myself staring at the Redstone embedded in the staff’s tip. It had long since lost its luster, darkened to black.
“Ah. Could it be……?”
Carefully, I placed my hand on the blackened Redstone.
Red light spilled from my palm and seeped into the Redstone.
At first, nothing changed.
But then.
Crackle—
One pattern carved into the metal surface began to glow red. Like dormant circuits awakening one by one, the runes across the entire staff gradually kindled with light.
Hummmmm—
A deep, heavy vibration rippled through the entire shaft.
“It works.”
I stared at the staff in astonishment.
What had been nothing but dead metal moments ago was now trembling faintly, as if alive.
Click.
Then a small lever hidden beneath the handle suddenly sprang free, as if begging to be pulled.
‘Julian definitely used this.’
Could it be connected to what locked the lake below?
I swallowed hard and pulled the lever down with all my strength.
Clang.
In an instant, several cylinders began rotating in sequence.
Whirrrr—click-click-click—
The Redstone at the staff’s tip blazed brilliant red, and intense heat began swirling around the point.
I drew in a deep breath and aimed the staff’s point at the ice.
The Redstone Power flowing from my palm was drawn into the staff.
Hummmmm—
The red runes began awakening one after another.
Then.
Boom!
A pillar of brilliant red light shot straight down from the staff’s tip, piercing into the ice below.
Crack—!
This wasn’t the sound of ice melting; it was the sound of something being pierced straight through.
The lake, frozen solid for thousands of years, began to split vertically along the red light.
Splinter.
Splinter, splinter, splinter.
The fractured ice spread outward like an enormous spider’s web.
I drove the spear deeper with both hands.
‘Just a little more……!’
The spear’s tip struck something solid.
Thud.
A heavy sensation transmitted through my fingertips.
Then the spear’s patterns suddenly blazed with blinding light.
Click.
The cylinders began rotating of their own accord.
From the spear’s tip, several strands of red light—like chains of fire—extended outward.
That light descended rapidly beneath the ice.
I held my breath.
“That’s it. That’s it……!”
Julian surely couldn’t still be alive, but even so, I wanted to pull him up—frozen together with the Frost Heart.
The red strands of light from the spear’s tip wrapped around Julian and the Frost Heart simultaneously without hesitation. They resembled coils of rope.
Under ordinary circumstances, I would have marveled at such a remarkable object, but I had no room for such thoughts now.
With all my strength, I pulled the spear backward.
Rumble, rumble, rumble—
The entire lake trembled.
The fractured ice burst explosively outward.
Boom!
A colossal column of ice shot skyward.
From its center.
Julian’s body and the Frost Heart, trapped in the ice, began to rise slowly toward the surface.
For reasons I couldn’t fathom, Julian’s body clung firmly to the Frost Heart without separation.
I dragged them further onto the solid ice floor.
Pulling the Frost Heart and an adult male’s weight with my strength alone required considerable force.
The old version of me would never have managed to raise them.
But now I possessed the Goldstone Power.
Strength surged through every muscle in my body.
I clenched my teeth and continued pulling Julian’s body, inch by inch, bit by bit.
The Frost Heart moved along with him, still adhered fast.
“Hah.”
After hauling for a long while, I finally managed to drag Julian and the Frost Heart completely up onto the solid ice floor, to a safe area.
I set down the spear and rushed to kneel beside Julian.
“Julian.”
Naturally, there was no answer.
A face as cold as ice itself.
Lips drained of color.
Eyes closed, not the slightest movement.
‘Of course he can’t still be alive.’
Somehow, a sob welled up in my throat. I bit my lower lip hard and brought my fingertips to his nostrils.
I felt no breath.
Disappointment gave way to helplessness and despair, consuming me whole.
We’d only just found each other, only just reunited, and yet he was already gone from this world.
My eyes grew hot, but I swallowed the tears and placed my hands on Julian’s cheeks and the hollow of his throat.
So terribly cold.
How frozen he must have been, alone in that cold lake…….
“What?”
My eyes flew wide open.
Thump…… Thump…….
A faint tremor transmitted through my fingertips.
The faintest of pulses, yes, but—
His heart was definitely beating.
“What…… How is this possible?”
No. This won’t do.
If he was alive, I had to raise his body temperature first.
I focused on drying his wet clothes using Redstone Power and raising his core warmth.
Red light continued seeping into Julian’s skin. Again and again.
How much time had passed like that?
Gasp—!
Suddenly Julian drew in a breath.
I opened my eyes wide and grasped his shoulders.
Yes! Yes, it worked!
“Julian! Are you all right?”
But Julian couldn’t open his eyes. When I pressed my hand to his forehead, it burned hot. He was running a fever.
His wet clothes had dried, at least. But I had no power to bring down a fever.
Cough.
I coughed up blood.
My strength was nearly depleted.
‘This is bad. I don’t think I’ll even be able to use Silverstone at this rate.’
Looking around, I spotted Julian’s bundle of belongings that I hadn’t managed to pull from the snow.
That great sledge and various bags that made it look as though he’d brought the Frost Heart with him.
Right. I’d have to drag him myself.
I moved quickly.
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Marcus stood on the rooftop of Eve House with a tense expression, scanning the surroundings through his binoculars.
Beyond the forest, countless troops were visible.
They were completely surrounded.
“Where the hell did all these people come from?”
“They look like they’re from White Veil. What they’re after is probably Eve.”
Graham, who stood beside him, answered.
Marcus glanced at Graham once, then looked down below Eve House.
There was Logan, preparing to rampage. His eyes had already lost focus—distant with fury. He seemed beyond hearing anyone else’s words. He needed only a target for his rage, and now that one had conveniently appeared, there was no one who could stop him.
A fitting opponent had arrived at just the right moment.
Logan had returned from his scouting expedition to Norton bringing only Graham, who had gone out searching for Julian.
Eve was not with them.
She had vanished along with an Ancient Artifact from three thousand years ago, they said.
The reason Logan had returned here with Graham was because he had made a promise with Eve.
They had agreed to meet in Dotori Village if they were separated.
“Do you think Miss Everhart believes Eve will return here?”
“Yes. More precisely, I trust in Eve’s strength. She has the Silverstone.”
Graham’s eyes were filled with fierce conviction in Eve.
He continued.
“I sensed that a moment like this would come someday. That’s why I believed Eve needed to be raised strong.”
“…I hear she’s not even your blood sister, yet you care for her deeply.”
“Yes. More than my own life.”
Graham gave a soft laugh and added quietly.
“That child was a single thread of salvation to both Julian and me.”
Marcus thought the Everhart family’s history might be more complicated than he’d imagined. Perhaps as much as his own.
There seemed to be something more—something only Graham and Julian knew—that Eve herself did not.

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