"I apologize," Kiho said while the shattered pieces of ice around them were melting down. The water from it vaporized right away and returned to him as Mana. "As a captain, I shouldn't have let an extra large serpent provoke me."
"So what?" Kiho retorted while unleashing his own Mana as defense. The air around him instantly turned cold while a layer of thin ice started to form on the ground under his feet. And even without looking at himself, he was pretty sure that his eyes were now glowing with gold light. "A dragon is just an extra large serpent."
In short, I was the one who raised Winter by myself. The moment I noticed the emperor's interest in my son, I vowed to myself that I would "create" a perfect child– a child that would be more than enough to be the emperor's heir. If I couldn't be an empress, then being the future emperor's mother didn't sound bad.