Once we arrived at the Dungeon, we sensed an oddly powerful quantity of Divine Power everywhere. This was because this Ancient Dungeon was originally a place where Skadi, the Goddess of Ice, stored her treasures and left her Frost Dragons protecting it.
Over time, it was consumed by time, the Divine Power ended transforming the surroundings into a Dungeon, trapping the tower inside, and sealing the dragons within this place, until the Ice Giants found this Dungeon and made it their home.
It was a taboo to visit the Frost Tower, however, in a fit of rage after seeing her brother and her friends die against the hands of humans, the Frost Queen, Tear, stepped inside the Tower and acquired the Crown of Skadi, gaining unprecedented powers, which at the same time changed her body and soul, and she ended becoming a Calamity.
That is, more or less what I know that happened here… Though looking around, I can't see any Ice Giants, it feels like a desolate land. Could everybody be inside that tower at the distance?
"Welcome!" And then, a voice that we have never heard before, yet felt oddly familiar echoed within the dungeon's interior. "I've been waiting to see you for a long while… What took you so long, Maria?"
Of course, it was quite obvious who could this be… Nobody else than the Frost Queen herself, that malicious and young-sounding voice, it was her, the one behind the Majin being frozen, the one behind the ever-expanding winter in Midgard… The one that has been mercilessly taking the lives of many innocents.
Veredorr is with me, and I promised him I wouldn't kill her. But that doesn't mean I won't get to beat the shit out of her to the point she can no longer do any funny business… I have to make her pay for all the shit she did anyways. Oh yeah, and the Frost Generals? They're free to kill.
"Tear…" Veredorr sighed, looking into the distance. "Are you there, Tear?"
However, his voice went unanswered.
"Frost Queen." I said. "We've got inside your Dungeon. Were you expecting this?" I asked her.
"More or less, I didn't thought you would do it though! I was preparing to greet you at the dungeon entrance…" She sighed. "What a pity, all of those plans for nothing! Oh well, I could always simply do it now!"
FLASH! FLASH! FLASH! FLASH! FLASH! FLASH!
Suddenly, hundreds of magic circles emerged in front of us, from the ground, as countless of monsters started to be summoned all at once. They were the whole variety of Frost Monsters, from the fiercest looking to the smallest of them.
Their quantities went from hundreds to almost a thousand! Did she prepare all of this for us?! And if she can just summon them so easily, it is rather obvious that she's a Dungeon Master capable of controlling the summon of monsters within a Dungeon… this is also the reason why she had a near endless army of monsters at her disposal.
"Wait, what?! There's almost a thousand monsters in here!" Said Lucifer.
"This damn witch summoned so many already?!" Partner asked.
"She's controlling the entire dungeon, after all, she somehow became the Dungeon Master, as we thought." Emeraldine said.
"So many monsters… They're still things we can handle, but it is rather obvious she's summoning them to exhaust us before she sends her strong retainers against us!" Jonathan said.
"Hehehe, that's right, Jonathan." Laughed the Frost Queen. "I never thought you would betray your own kin though. It is surprising how dedicated you are to that dead woman! Gyahahaha!"
"Silence, foul-mouthed woman!" Jonathan roared. "You're nobody to lecture me about loyalty when you've enslaved your own kin!"
"Enslaved?" Laughed the Frost Queen. "You would be surprised to know how happily they're living now… Well, not like you'll ever get to live to see them in person. You will all die before this endless army of monsters! Let's see how long you can last!"
Indeed, it seemed endless, as she constantly summoned more and more monsters, which now finally surpassed a thousand. The creatures obeyed her own authority and swiftly began charging towards us.
"What's wrong?! Where are your Undead?" The Queen asked. "Oh, don't tell me you left them all back home so they could protect your pitiful people? Hahahaha!"
"Well, it's not as if I don' have a plan though." I smiled, taking out a large black coffin from my inventory. I channeled the power of Hel's Divine Protection and imbued them into the coffin, which swiftly opened up, a black portal leading somewhere completely different emerged.
[You have opened the [Skeleton Coffin of the Underworld (A Grade)]!]
[By channeling the powers of your Divine Protection of Hel, the Ruler of the Underworld, you've been given the maximum benefits of this item!]
[A Gate to the Underworld is now opening, and an army of ten thousand Skeleton Soldiers are marching to defend you and your companions, directly commanded by Hel's Authority…]
A shockwave of space and time distorting energy reached and filled the entire dungeon, distorting reality and opening a portal to the Underworld itself! The authority of Hel emerged from within, as thousands of Undead rushed outside of this large, black portal, coming out of the Coffin.
"W-What is this energy?! T-This presence…?!" The Frost Queen panicked. "T-This can't be! It is impossible… Hel… Why is her presence within my domain?!"
"This is the Relic she gifted to me." I smiled, as ten thousand Skeleton Soldiers, all of them being A+ Rank in power, endlessly marched and fought against the endless army of Frost Monsters. "You've been looking down on us for way too long, Tear. It is time to finally give you a good slap in the face, so you can snap back to reality and realize how foolish you have been."