Other than a couple of other animals there is no one else there. I break the ice as usual before cleaning the furs, bones, and myself. All of this takes a bit over 3 hours. After finishing I make my way back home. At this point It's already a bit late. It's only a couple hours before sunset.
I arrange everything including the bones. The bones are further arranged depending on their size. What I want to do with them is simple. One is to make my armor a little better. Now I can break the bones into smaller pieces and cover all my armor with them. However, that will be time consuming, and time is very valuable. With that in mind I'll just place some pieces here and there.
Another use for them is the bone marrow is good to eat, but let's not focus on that aspect. Another use for the bones is the fact they can be used for weapons. Yeah, not very surprising but that's all I got. Shaping them into small throwing knives and daggers is a good idea. I can find some place to keep them on myself and then throw them. My powers are better, but I don't want to have to use them for everything. They do drain me after all.
Since I have the time now I end up sharpening bones for the next couple hours.
Honestly It's rather peaceful simply doing these mundane things. Even the hunting isn't too bad. The only stressful moments are when I'm fighting for my life. When it comes to surviving in the wild alone there's a lot to do. And a lot to see.
After finishing around a third of the bones I look outside. It was a bit after sunset, and the sky was beginning to turn dark. I finish the last of the animals I caught before going to sleep.
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3rd person POV
In a forest full of snow, trees with bark that look like ice, and leaves dark blue in color with a crystal like look.The trees stood over a dozen meters tall at least. The scenery seems peaceful, but despite the fact that it's a forest not a single animal can be seen. The reason is simple. A fight between two of the strongest beings that reside in the forest are fighting.
Both have long white hair, however one is obviously more mature than the other.
While this fact is obvious, their features are blurred when one tries to peer closer.
"#####, I have taught you many things over the past 50 years. Due to some unexpected developments I have to leave for a couple years. In my absence it will be your duty to protect this forest, and what lies in the core of the forest."
Her hands and arms start to frost over. The frost spreads until it covers her body entirely. In her hands a bow made of ice forms quickly. The frost covering her expands outward forming a sort of attire. Soon she's covered in ice in the form of armor. The armor seems light yet intimidating as she fixes her stance. She aims her bow at the younger woman while forming an arrow of ice.
"Don't keep me waiting. This is simply a test. This will tell me how far you've come."
The young woman nods slightly and her body is engulfed in snow. The snow condenses into what seems like heavy armor and a greatsword held by her. The snow falling from the sky seems to freeze as the two stare at one another. Not even a second passes as the arrow leaves the bow of the woman.
The young woman waste no time in deflecting the arrow and forming a snow storm to block the vision of the woman. The woman in question jumps up into the sky and freezes the water in the air which she stands on. She can't see the young woman, but she doesn't need to. She forms another arrow, but this one has a much lighter color.
She fires it into the snowstorm. The young woman reacts quickly by submerging herself in the snow as the arrow explodes. The explosion freezes the snowstorm turning it into an ice sculpture. The young woman uses the snow to travel underground and arrives underneath the woman. She swings upward with her greatsword causing the snow above to form a similar sword slicing towards the woman.
Seeing the giant sword the woman jumps higher in the air with her body facing the ground. She forms another arrow which is dark in color. She fires it at the young woman. The young woman brings her sword in front of her for protection. She then forms a giant shield with the snow around her. As the arrow strikes the shield the shield easily succumbs to the arrows power. However it was never meant to stop the arrow but slow it down.
The young woman knocks the arrow to the side which blows all the surrounding snow into the air, forming a small smoke screen. The young woman looks up only to see hundreds of small ice arrows pointed at her. Without warning the ice arrows fly at her. She doesn't panic as she grabs her sword with both hands before slashing upwards. The snow forms something similar to a massive wave made of snow, destroying all the arrows.
Before the woman can continue her attack the young woman jumps up at her. Seeing the swing greatsword the woman doesn't dodge but backs up slightly and smacks the sword with her bow. This causes her to spin and avoid the tip of the sword. Continuing the spin she smacks the young woman with her bow followed by a surge of ice knocking her to the side.
The young woman uses the snow to form a platform for her to stand on as the woman aims at her once again. The young woman dissolves her sword and instead claps her snow armored hands together. The snow falling and on the ground surges trapping both of them. Thousands of pounds of snow flies at them. The woman forms an arrow that glows brightly.
As the snow closes in on them she fires freezing the snow before causing it to explode into millions of ice shards. The young woman dashes out of the ice shards and punches the woman in the chest. The woman collapses into shards of ice revealing it was a ice sculpture.
As the young woman turns she finds a foot flying at her face. Before she can block she gets hit staggering her. By the time she recovers the woman is standing over her with an arrow knocked in her bow.
"You lose. A valiant performance, although you made quite a few mistakes. Your best when it comes to defense, yet you constantly go on the offensive. While your capable of doing so, against an opponent far faster than you charging straight at them is a bad idea.
The better idea would be to stay on the defensive while letting me exhaust myself. While doing this you can analyze me and determine a way to restrict my movement or catch me off guard. Your attacks are rather heavy so any blow will do a good amount of damage to my body."
The armor of the two fades away. The young woman gets up.
"Yeah, but that doesn't matter against you. Besides, no one will be brainless enough to exhaust themselves."
The woman shakes her head.
"Of course most opponents will realize what you're trying to do. However they won't be able to do anything to you without going hard with their attacks. Even if they repeatedly use smaller attacks they will run out of energy eventually. And while it's true it may not work against me, you should try to find something that will. I restricted myself to minimal usage of Winter Sprites, and no Higher Winter Sprites."
The young woman looks away.
"Why can I only use snow anyway?"
The woman gives the younger woman an annoyed look.
"We've been over this. You're much more gifted when it comes to using the snow aspect of Winter Sprites. When you use the other aspects they drain you much faster, aren't as powerful, take longer for you to form them into an attack, and much more. You don't have the gift required to control Winter Sprites properly. No one does. The same goes for every other sprite with multiple elements."
Everything starts to go blurry and distorted before going black.