[You've also awakened new and enhanced versions of your former Draconic and Knullic abilities, including those you never even had the chance to use before.]

The system panel blinked to Ryuk, and he understood.

Truly, there were skills he had awakened before he abandoned his bloodlines: Skyvein Lattice, Pale Womb of Embers, Nemory, and Heir of Nytherion.

Those skills were powerful, some of them beyond even his imagination, and Ryuk never got a chance ever try them out.

But now they were all back.

And he didn't even need to read the descriptions or even see them at all.

He could faintly feel them, the capability he was capable of, like how one senses their hands can push against something.

He felt he could unleash the skills.

That brought an even clearer increase in growth.

"It's nice to have them all back," he mused silently to himself before turning forward and looking into the far distance.

Even though he had moved very far away before his fusion to avoid hurting Isha and Zaffree with the explosion of energy if it ever happened, right now, his eyes were able to see clearly.

In fact, he saw the entire realm with a gaze, and it wasn't a zoom onto a particular area, but like an overseer type of sight.

And in this sight, he naturally found both Isha and Zaffree, and when he saw what they both were up to, it was quite surprising.

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"You really can create living ice golems. You've made a dozen already!"

Zaffree's high-pitched voice could be heard ringing through the garden, and right now, snow had covered the majority of the part they were in.

Zaffree's hair was matted in snow, and she was on both knees, eyes looking at the creatures at the side.

They were humanoid, but short, below a meter tall, and they were white, seemingly made from the purest of ice.

Where their eyes were was burning frosty white light as they moved around, spraying the snow over Zaffree, who giggled loudly.

Before Zaffree was Isha, in her humanoid form, but her aura had become even more refined, looking like a true beauty at the peak of her blooming years.

She remained kneeling on the ground, too, her hands rolling in the air and conjuring forth ice that birthed out the frost golems, a new ability of hers.

"Can you make ones that look like Krakens?" Zaffree asked excitedly as Isha conjured the 14th golem, pausing her finger.

"Kraken?" she asked, and Zaffree nodded.

"Yes. Like this," she said, and in the next moment, Isha watched her change.

Though her torso remained, everything beneath her waist became tentacles, a total of eight covered in purple.

"You're a Kraken!?" Isha said wide-eyed as Zaffree chuckled.

"Yes. A Zaffree Kraken to be exact."

"Amazing. But...I'm not sure I can create golems like that, though. What do the tentacles do?" Isha asked, as her hand reached out, frost conjuring.

"They're like arms, without the bones."

"They can be straightened, though, used to grab something, just like hands... but better," she said, and Isha hummed.

In the next moment, the frost conjured into a cocoon, and soon it cracked.

Something appeared from within:

A one-meter-tall frost golem that looked like a mini version of Zaffree herself.

Her eyes widened to saucers upon the sight of the golem, which turned to her, its eyes flaming with silvery white.

It paused upon the sight of Zaffree before jumping into her arms.

"So cutiiieeeee!" she screamed out in shock, grabbing the Kraken golem by its hands and flinging it high into the air before catching it back like a child.

"I'm glad you like it," Isha said, and within ten seconds, there were eight more of these Krakens all around Zaffree, and all gathered over her, soon burying her within the snow gathered on the ground.

The sight made Isha laugh, an infectious laughter.

It transferred to Zaffree, and soon warm laughter filled the garden, only to stop as Isha paused and her eyes darted to the side.

Zaffree noticed, and she paused, turning to look, and there it was.

A being that she couldn't recognize.

Luscious snow-white hair surrounded by blue motes of light and a face crafted from perfection.

He was dead gorgeous, almost beyond this world.

What captivated her the most were those eyes.

Eyes of blue, with crimson dots like stars within them.

But the two horns from either side of his head rising into the air woke her up, making her heart unconsciously pound louder.

The sight of those two simple horns evoked a sense of danger, more striking than the captivating aura of his star-like eyes, prompting her into a state of caution.

Her tentacles transformed, their ends reduced to sharpened blades.

"Who are—"

She was still saying when the frost around her blew backward, sending her purple hair flying and momentarily blinding her.

When she turned, she found Isha buried within the figure's embrace.

Only then did the realization hit her.

There was only one person that the being could be.

"Ryuk?"

"But..."

"Finally finished your evolution," Ryuk said, looking at Isha.

Once more, she had grown up, and her skin was even colder, something Ryuk enjoyed.

"Hey, you'll slip into me again," he called out as Isha opened her eyes, finding herself halfway into Ryuk, and she tore herself out, giggling coquettishly.

"You've changed so much," she said, dragging his face down to her, and she gave his face a thorough analyzing look before sneaking in a quick kiss on the side of his cheek.

"Hey!"

He screamed as she giggled evilly, running away before he could grab her.

"Tch, you icy twerp!"

He mused under his breath before he turned away, finding Zaffree looking at him with furrowed eyes, surveying him.

But then, her eyes soon turned dreamy as she was sucked into those captivating eyes, only waking up when Ryuk waved his hand before her face.

"You're finally done. Hmph, took enough time."

"You sound like you've been waiting for a thousand years... old thing."