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[…What is ice?]

When Harloys was ned to stimulateme to think about it by myself

But unlike my confused self frorandic is a branchas I pay a certain ae the form of water I create into ice&8221;

That was Roland Blackhand’s answer to this question back in rator-like answer, very scientific and practical, and was how he had developed his Ice Hallucination technique which wasable to utilize "hallucinations&8221; to the ut manipulation abilities and absolute coldness and calmness even in the most heated of combat situations However, this was a perfect ability for Roland Blackhand, who had abandoned human emotions No—it should be said that only someone like Blackhand would be able to use such a power

"Ice? It’s nothing more than a tool It’s foundationally no different to fire or wind e I absolutely must have those bastards pay the price for what they’ve done I still don’t have enough power I need more, I need absolutely destructive power&8221;

My third life as a lich answered this question by coave him a path to reach the void of dreae where the world and universe were first for to death back to reality with hiht, desired to bring eternal darkness upon the living That was how the Ice Aeon of despair had been born

"Power? Existence? No—the frozen age is only that homeland in my heart I shall draw the Northlands’ beauty withis the best paintbrush I could ask for&8221;

With Harloys and the Frigid Night a new understanding of ice

"No, just this alone isn’t enough Ice is only the baseI can use ice to create an entire world I can create er of the Emordilorcan crisis, I took the most important step However, it was likely that very few people knehat this step of mine truly represented… it represented the hope of the world

I arrived at different answers at what ice was in each of these three lives of mine Every piece of the puzzle seesaw puzzle, which would be incredibly difficult to put together [1] ¹

"I should consider myself lucky Very few people will have three cos of ice Actually, it’s impossible for anyone other than s of ice&8221;

Anyone learning about a specific type of knowledge would have to progress fro Once they reached a certain level, they would have their own path and understanding, unique in the world Even if another person walked down the exact same path, there would always be small coincidental factors different in that person’s life that would make this path impossible to completely replicate

And people could only have one life experience To use an analogy, it was like pouring water into a cup A full cup of water wouldn’t be able to contain anything ain, you couldn’t escape from the traces of water left behind in the cup It was impossible for a person to have more than one Soul Imprint The only method would be for that person to e from their very soul, and start over That would count as a new life but was obviously straying far fros did, indeed, stray far from common sense For instance, reincarnation For instance,would have their own opinion of it I, however, had three coles and opinions Just like a filled cup of water, life experience was so that couldn’t be cleaned out so easily Yet I had started over with a clean slate three tiic in these threeable to start over with a clean slate was due to ed every ti But now this "bad side effect&8221; of having to start over again had become "three life experiences&8221; that nobody else in the world could possibly obtain I doubted that a single person in the world had a deeper understanding of what the true nature of ice was

[Then, what is ice?]

"I still don’t know! I had three co at ice Is the correct answer the addition of all three? What if I have four lives, five lives… or even thirteen lives’ worth of experience? Would I have to come up with yet another neer, one that would also be correct? Is this the legendary multiple-choice question on a test?&8221;

As I asked myself what ice truly was, I realized I had less of an understanding than when I first began Was this the actualization of the legendary saying "The more you know, the more you realize how little you know?&8221; The ly answered the question But now I found myself unable to define what ice was

And so it naturally becaether and come up with a neer

"I don’t know Isn’t ice… just ice? It doesn’t get any fancier Hey, Systeure it out&8221;