In another distant land, a black portal opened, throwing a woman out of it. She was thrown into a pile of snow. The moment she got to her feet, she felt extreme cold that made her gasp.
The cold was not just chilly cold, it cut straight to the bone. Snow blew sideways across an endless white field. The sky was grey, low and heavy. There was no sunlight to get warmth, only wind and silence that came with it.
She was dressed in what looked like thin ceremonial robes. Completely useless against the snow. Her hands began shaking immediately. That was when she heard a voice in her head.
[Bearer No.6 recognized.
Granting abilities….]
[Ability: Hear Core]
[Ability: Frostbite Immunity]
A warm glow pulsed in her chest. She stumbled, falling to her knees in the snow; her breathing became hard suddenly, pain in her chest began to intensify, but soon a warmth began to spread. Her limbs stopped shaking, her blood flowed more easier and the pain slowly reduced.
She stood again, the air didn't feel that cold anymore. The skill is working.
In the distance, she saw some vague figures, huge but slow moving, dragging something behind them. She ducked instinctively and began to walk in the opposite direction. The land was empty, but it was not flat. There are many ice hills that rose to enormous heights, some were thin ice covers which broke with little weight on them.
Soon, she found a hollow in the side of one of the ice mountains and crawled inside it. By now, her thoughts were clear. She realized she had no memory of who she was, her name and her past.
She waited inside the hollow till the wind calmed down. She put her hands near her chest where the heat radiated the most. Hours passed, the outside world stayed quiet. By the evening, the wind calmed down, and she began walking again.
Soon, night came, and she found no hollow hole to rest so, she just rested against the ice wall outside. Then she saw a light coming; it looked like a campfire.
She hesitated for a second, before going towards it. Near the campfire stood a man. Not a creature, a human or something that closely resembles a human.
He turned around and looked at her, his eyes were pale, skin had cracks. He didn't speak, just opened his arms wide.
Something in her wanted to run from here, but he was just unarmed and didn't look that much of a threat. As she stepped closer, reaching the fire, then she realized that the flame didn't have any warmth. That was when she realized that it was an illusion, that's why flames didn't give any heat.
The man stood up and walked towards her and touched her forehead. For a second, she froze there like a statue. Then her body rejected him. Her Heat Core released a wave of energy which sent him flying back. He wasn't human.
She turned to run, but the ground beneath her suddenly cracked. The snow gave way, and she fell into the ice. She didn't die immediately, as the hole was not straight. She tried to claw at the ice wall, trying to climb back up, but her hands couldn't get any grip. The walls were too smooth, which is very unnatural.
The creature stood at the top, watching with a creepy smile on his face. She screamed at him in anger.
And slowly she fell into the hole, at the end which had ice spears, and she fell on them and died.
[Bearer No.6 eliminated
Time survived: 1.9 days]
[Cause: Lured by mirage, fell into a hidden ice trench, got perched by ice.]
[Result: failure.]
[Started selecting the next bearer….]