The Frozen Sea

The Frozen Sea is a Raid Event scheduled to start on December 1, 2019 at 7:00 PM (PST) and end on December 7, 2019 at 7:00 PM (PST). It is the eighty ninth episode of the Dark Stigma story and forty fifth in the Malice Canon storyline.

Half-time Reward Calculation Period is at December 3, 2019 from 8:00 PM to 8:59 PM (PST).

Feature Changes
Highest Reward Card has PWR 36

Raid Bosses Skill Cards

 * Divine Rune Dragon (LR) Anti-Raid Boss Skill Card, obtained from the Oath of Survival Card Pack
 * Hostile Deimos Hellion (LR) Anti-Hidden Raid Boss Skill Card, obtained from the Oath of Survival Card Pack
 * Immortal Count Tepes (LR) Anti-Secret Raid Boss Skill Card, obtained from the Oath of Survival Card Pack
 * Finalized Trigleam (LR) Special Evolution Card, Skill works against all Raid Bosses of the event, obtained from the Master of Fate Card Pack. All stages of the card are bound until the event rewards are distributed.

Reward Cards

 * Antipodean Aslecia (Fire PWR 36 LR )
 * Magna Glacies (Forest PWR 30 Defense LR )
 * Cruel Goddess Agrona (Water PWR 28 LR )

Prologue
The icy mountain in the island kingdom of Zelai was starting to melt. Dripping water and running streams could be heard from every cliff and path. Then, there was a brief moment of silence filled with tension, like that before a battle. Finally, a tremor struck with such strength it seemed to originate from the planet's core. The rumbling made several glaciers shatter, unleashing the pooled water to create an unprecedented sight of waves crashing down the mountain.

The fluid avalanche broke through the frozen surface of the ocean, and a blue-skinned giant rose from the cracks. She was Magna Glacies, Zelai's guardian spirit. As dangerous as she was beautiful, she awoke in times of danger to save the kingdom's people. However, this sudden thaw was decidedly unnatural, caused by the extraordinary rage of the country's princess, Aslecia.

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An ally had delivered a letter addressed to you from a minister of Zelai. He said the former king had passed away and the current ruler, his daughter, was rampaging. His choice of words conveyed the severity of their plight while stressing they wanted your help in her placation rather than her elimination. The rampage was above all a desperate bout of self-sacrifice born from her concern for the country.

Everything began with a structure called the Frost Barrier.

Zelai was situated on an island in the northeastern corner of the world. The ferocity of its frigid, snowbound environment was exacerbated by a layer of compressed ice on the ground that was harder than steel. No normal human could reside there, but the residents had adapted by integrating ice into their very bodies over the course of eons.

Even so, the cold wind carried all the way to the mainland. It was common that several of the coastal villages would lose lives every winter because of it. To combat this, the nations formed the Northeast Alliance and constructed a magical wall called the Frost Barrier to shut out the chill.

This was done without the consent of Zelai, and the king vehemently opposed it. The barrier also blocked their trade ships from reaching the continent, a necessary means of procuring resources for survival their home lacked. However, he conceded the harsh reality of the lethal arctic winds, so they negotiated an agreement. For a set number of days in summer, the wall would be removed to allow Zelaian trade ships to pass.

Unfortunately, this agreement was annulled with the king's death and the Frost Barrier had remained throughout the previous summer. Protests were met with the revelation that the Alliance only consented to the terms while he was alive, a dubious claim when considering the king's merciful nature.

Of the Zelaians, the ruling Aslecia was most vocal about the controversy, yet all diplomatic efforts went ignored by the mainland. Zelai was now effectively isolated and, without the supplies they needed, their extinction was imminent.

As a last resort, Aslecia turned to one of Zelai's ancient tomes. It contained a fire spell upon which her ancestors relied before their bodies acclimated to the cold. The strength of the flame depended on the user's emotion, such as the desire to warm their family or survive. As they fused with the ice, the region's biting winds became as comfortable as a gentle breeze, but the spell was regarded as lethal and thus taboo. Aslecia's use of it along with her ardent will meant she was not only putting herself at risk, but the lives of her people as well.

Her enormous anger manifested as both a declaration of war upon the Alliance and a searing blade created by the forbiden spell. The sword's heat was so intense that it forcefully stirred Magna Glacies, and together they had set out to destroy the Frost Barrier. Before untold damage was done to both sides, the princess' rage had to be calmed.

With a full grasp of the details, you headed for the northeastern sea to do just that.