Back to the the arena, Shion Lan got back his consciousness in his body leaving the Stars Domain.
But he felt as he was in an oven as the bones trembled within his crying muscles and his mind was like if it was burnt from the exhaustion.
Shion wanted to cry but he kept his silence as he had to keep his noble appearance.
'Damnit! I think I'm about to die!! Shi Yun Lan you ###!!'
He moved weakly to Glass Sano and give him his hand to help him stand.
"Are you alright?"
"..."
There's no answer came from Glass who lost his consciousness but the medics came to get him to care.
Shion looked at the audience who fell in silence as none could imagine such a result especially the heads of the great six families who knew about Yossi Sano's loss before him.
The king Jord Joul smiled and said,
"I want to announce the final victorious of the academy."
He declared,
"The second grade student, The Apex Star, Shion Lan!"
And it didn't take a lot to fill the arena with clapping and partying.
"Shion Lan!! Shion Lan!!....."
"Master!!"
"My son!!"
"Shiooon!!"
Shion stood under the praising as if he sank in a warm relaxing water as his tension and tiredness went off and thought,
'I...did it! I could do it! I'm the champion of the academy!! I ...'
He suddenly felt a cold air in above so he raised his head to look.
'Huh?'
Shion saw a man behind him looking at him indifferently with his cold blue eyes.
"..."
"..."
No one talked and the whole arena stopped as they noticed the new comer.
The man wanted to ask.
"You..."
Shion got back as fast as he could leaving his spell (Star Explosion) to explode near his face ignoring the current trembling body.
He exhaled and thought quickly,
'Who is that damned man?!! He could penetrate through my realisation and stood behind me!'
Shion communicated with Shi Yun Lan and said,
"Get ready!!"
"We don't have to."
Shi Yun Lan answered indifferently.
"Huh?"
Shion didn't expect such an answer but none will stand doing nothing as the whole nobles stood and raised their weapons and spells against the man with a cautious look on their faces.
They were feeling cold as no one could detect him at all.
The man didn't care about them and looked at Shion with an amaze in his eyes and said,
"Two aura stars and two magic circles, although it must be push you to the third level in your best but you could reach the fourth level...."
He didn't hesitate and continued,
"You even have sensed my intention to suppress you but you act immediately and didn't show any fear."
Although the whole arena wanted to get in especially Solan Neumann but he was still talking.
"And that spell, it's a fourth level spell but you fired it without saying anything although it must be possible for the fifth level and higher."
The director Tim Ayr stood beside him and said smiling,
"Long time no see."
"..."
The man didn't know Tim who introduced himself,
"I'm the director of Karath Academy, Tim Ayr. As you see, it has been a long time since they saw you last time."
The man realised that as he felt something like ants' steps in his back but he frowned and said,
"Five centuries and this is the time power? Your elders will die of shame."
"They are already dead."
"..."
Tim didn't say anything but smiled and the shouted,
"Sano boy!! Come here and pay respect!! Now!!"
"..."
None could say anything and their mouths were open but Brad Sano sensed his power and compared it with the auras of the ancestors that were in his mansion and quickly his face got pale.
"K.... Kaine Sano?!!"
The audience didn't acknowledge his name for a moment but they got it fast and their faces got pale too.
"Lord ....Sano?!!"
Shion knew that name from the academy.
Although Kaine didn't betray the kingdom but his actions were too violent and merciless that attracted the trouble from the whole continent that made him forsaken.
Even his family didn't endure him and wanted to kick him out especially because of his illness as they thought he would die but his illness appeared later as a unique physic that helped him to reach the ninth level and became one of the three tyrants of Ostiferos Kingdom.
"..."
Shion fell in silence and thought,
'I hope there's no one would accuse me for humbling a sympol of the kingdom.'
But Shion found something else.
"That's strange.... I don't feel ill though the match."
Shi Yun Lan said,
"Your suffering time is frozen, your body isn't collapsing as it is keeping its condition till now."
Shi Yun Lan continued,
"You can say in other words, your pain receptor is numb till your time work again."
Shion looked at the director but Shi Yun Lan said,
"It's not him. Kaine did that."
Shion felt shocked as he didn't expect that anyone but the director could make such a thing.
Freezing the time, his power isn't that simple.
The director Tim made his spell and made Shion got his first condition back.
The striking headache and the burning sinking body got clear and fresh again as he woke up just a minute ago.
His scratches, bruises and staps are heald as it wasn't happened.
"Don't be so happy, you will suffer in the night and it will be painful."
Shion, who had the ability to accommodate the pain, said,
"Well, thanks for your help, director."
"Now, we want to talk."
Kaine talked as he got into with Glass.
The director Tim said,
"Won't you announce the final victorious?"
The announcement came with a raised voice,
"The champion of the academy for this year, the second-grade student! The Apex Star! Shiooon Laaan!!"
The whole arena clapped with acclamation on Shion who couldn't hear anything from the noise but quickly the name appeared loudly,
"Shion Lan! Shion Lan! Shion Lan!....."
He looked around as he saw his students, Baro Ferrer and Fiore Tai who joined the acclamation.
Looked again to see Pearl Jewel who believed in him encouraging enthusiasticly.
Turned his head to see the crown princess Jina Joul standing up and clapping actively with a smile on her face.
Finally he looked at his family, his mother, brother and sister and his love, Solan Neumann.
He wanted to get there but the calm voice of the director ruined the moment as he said,
"Now let's talk about the bets that happened in my academy."
"..."
The whole arena which partying fell in silence especially Shion, the champion of the academy, and thought,
'You really chose the right time to talk about that!!'
...
In the falling domain, where the snow disappeared and ice was cracking, one man watched his world collapsing but a relieved smile appeared on his face.
On the contrary, a spirit beside him was screaming in horror and shouted,
"No!! No! Noooo!!!!! My domain is vanishing!!"
He looked furiously at the man and said,
"It's all your fault!! You destroyed me!!"
"Really?"
The man said as he looked the terrified face on the spirit.
He laughed and continued,
"I destroyed your domain, so what?"
His gaze got sharp and shouted,
"You destroyed my whole life!! From the moment I was born till the moment you were defeated!! So tell me!! Who destroyed who?!!"
The mountain of ice crushed to the ground by his voice.
The cold gaze of Glass Sano in that moment was releasing coldness making Yossi Sano tremble.
"It doesn't matter anymore, you are dieing."
Glass said that coldly but Yossi shouted,
"You thankless boy! If it wasn't for me, you would die!!"
"Oh? Really?"
A cold voice penetrated the collapsing domain.
They both looked around looking for the source of that voice but when they turned again they saw him, a man with outstanding features as if he was like an artifact.
Kaine looked at Yossi and said,
"So, you are the reason that I couldn't communicate with my descendant."
He didn't look for an answer as he saw everything by his own eyes and listened to their conversation.
Without wasting time, he said,
"As your ancestor, I will punish you."
"Wha—?!!!"
The whole domain got frozen at once like an ice statue and Yossi was also frozen.
Glass looked at Kaine with terrified feeling as he saw the man who destroyed his life was frozen as he wasn't the great Yossi Sano, that made Kaine more terrifying than him times and times.
"..."
Kaine looked at Glass searching through all over his body and said at last,
"No wonder I couldn't notice you. That scumbag had covered you in the moment you were born."
"Who... are.... you?"
Glass got a step back and got sweat on his back as he didn't want to be in connection with another maniac ancestor.
"Why this face?"
Kaine asked with disappointment as he continued,
"Since when were our descendants afraid of some troubles?"
"Hold on!! Don't approach anymore!!"
Glass' nerves got tensed but Kaine smiled giving safety and made ice table and two chairs.
"Let's talk."
He sat and invited Glass to set with him.
Glass tried to get out of the domain but he failed so he didn't find anything but to obey Kaine.
He sat in front of his ancestor who said,
"Let me introduce myself, I'm Kaine Sano, your greatest grandfather and the first person of Sano family who carried the body of the Eternal Ice Statue."
"What??"
Glass couldn't get his words so Kaine continued his explanation,
"The Eternal Ice Statue, it's a physic that makes the body got icy and cold. In the first, when I held it, the people thought I had a curse on my body and I couldn't use my family's heritage, so....."
He looked serious and said,
"I made my own art. An art that used my curse as a standard, an art that surpassed the Sano's art, an art that controlled every single snowflake."
Kaine stood and let his body splattered with the wind in the domain which was like mountains of ice that surrounded a palace to transform it to a kind of art that made the palace got more elegant with blue-white colouration and float on enormous snowflake surrounded by polars of ice making the domain celestial and glorious.
"That...."
Glass lost his words at the moment he saw the scene but Kaine got formed before him again by snow and said,
"Welcome to my domain, my heir. You now can get your art, the Winter's King Art, and then you can dominate the world."
As if the world obeyed his words, threads of spiritual power aimed to Glass who tried to get off but he couldn't.
'No.... Not again!'
He believed that he would be under control for another bastard who would turn his life to hell but the time passed and he felt nothing,
"???"
Kaine smiled on seeing him expression and said,
"I won't harm you, I want you to see the contract between us."
Glass didn't understand his kindness but he asked,
"How should I do this?"
"Easy, let the threads get through your mind. When you love it you can let them get through your soul."
Glass listened to him and the threads got into his head and felt the conditions of the contracts then he opened his eyes surprisedly and said,
"These terms.... Are you sure about that?!"
The contract let him live his life as he wanted and there's no need to be under his control.
Compared to the other one, he felt he reached the paradise.
"You are my heir, so I have to take care of you."
"Thank you!!"
Glass didn't expect such a chance in his life.
"The heritage of Sano family is still here."
He pointed at Yossi who was frozen in an ice statue then he asked,
"Would you like to get the other heritage?"
Glass looked at him in shock but Kaine continued,
"It will be a loss if you leave this heritage. Especially you can use it despite your unique physic."
Glass hesitated but he remembered Shion who beat him so he said,
"Ok, I accept it."