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88 – When I opened my eyes, it was a pure white snowy field.

The whole world was black.

…No.

Is it black? It feels like something is pressing on my eyes.

Ian cleared away the stuff that had accumulated on his eyelids.

– Toad.

When I opened my eyes, it was a pure white snowy field.

Endless eyes were welcoming Ian.

“Ha…”

It was obvious who planned this and what the intention was.

The huge training hall where the sparring took place. The place itself was a sacrificial stand.

Northern Grand Duke Richard Pierce’s plan to devour everyone who was there.

Everyone got caught up in it.

“… Damn.”

Ian was at a loss and curses came out of his mouth.

The original sacrifices were the children of the Northern Grand Duke.

Herman, Yergina, Sharon.

From the beginning, Richard Pierce raised his children for that purpose.

The reason was obvious.

Those who have Pierce’s blood flowing through them are all born with the greatest talent. The talent of the object and its effectiveness as a sacrifice are proportional. With children like that around him, they are the best prey for Richard the Shame Cultist.

So I thought they would try to devour just them.

“… I let my guard down.”

This is a guy who thinks he will raise his children and eat them.

There is no way that even the invited nobles would not be the target.

‘I wonder why everything was beaten by the eldest…’

The intention is probably to cover everything up.

Because the dead have no words.

Anyway, it’s all in the past.

It is not too late to regret even after you leave this place.

I looked around.

An endless snowy field.

“How did we get away with this?”

In the first place, it is unclear whether this world actually exists or whether it is a goddamn fantasy.

The only thing that is certain is that this place must be some type of barrier.

Among the best absorption techniques of Shaleam Bridge, there are techniques that force humans into a barrier and slowly digest them.

In the end, I have to find a proper way to escape before I die here…

“Etch!”

It is extremely cold. When I realized it was cold, it felt like my whole body was going to get cut. My toes and fingers feel sore as if they have already been cut.

Ian looked around the mouse.

It is a plain full of snow.

Snowflakes were falling from the sky.

And right nearby, bright red hair was buried in the snow.

“Lina wake up!”

“Mmm… Ian. A little harder.”

… I don’t know what I’m dreaming about.

After shaking it a few times, Lina blinked and opened her eyes.

Then.

“Ehe-chu!”

She sneezed with her nose turning red.

‘First of all, he seems to be normal.’

I don’t know about the head, but the body is normal.

Next is Danya.

“Where is Danya?”

Ian looked around.

Danya was nowhere to be seen.

Seeing as Lina is there, she must be around here.

As Ian looked around, a tuft of cherry blossom-colored fur sticking out on a snowy field some distance away caught her eye.

Without much hesitation, Ian grabbed a tuft of her fur.

“Hiyaat!”

Dania was pulled out with a strange cry.

Deronderong.

Danya, hanging upside down in Ian’s hand with her tail caught, looked at Ian with bewildered eyes.

“What the heck!”

“I saved him because he felt like he was stuck upside down in the snow.”

“No!”

Jaw.

When I let go of my hand holding her tail, Danya landed gracefully on top of her eyes.

“Hmph! What do you think of this Danya!”

Danya shouted like that and dived into her eyes again.

Again, Danya’s appearance, gently wagging with her tail and buttocks out, looks like a fox hunting prey buried in the snow in a snowy field.

That’s it for a moment.

“I found it!”

Danya, smiling brightly, was holding a magic engineering backpack in her hands.

“Huh? Why is it here?”

“Hmm. Hmm. The backpacker did his job right!”

Ian remembered.

She said that she should take emergency supplies with her in case something happens within the Pierce family.

I didn’t know that Danya would bring it to her gym.

“Danya you…”

“Huh?”

“Are you a god?”

“hehehe.”

Danya scratched her head at Ian’s sincere compliment that seemed touched.

“Ecchu!”

Lina sneezed loudly once again.

She was literally in the icy cold of winter, unable to keep out the cold with just her tenacity.

Danya hurriedly took out her winter clothes from her backpack and gave them to her.

She hurriedly put on her clothes, and Lina and Ian looked like they were finally going to live.

“You really are the best.”

“Ian is right. You are the best.”

Danya’s nose rose.

She stroked her head once and Ian looked around her.

“I think it would be a good idea to find a place to stay first. It looks clear right now, but I don’t know when it will snow again.”

“Snow?”

“When I woke up earlier, there was snow on my face.”

“Ah… That’s right. Is it true?”

“Let’s get moving first.”

As he said that, Ian held Lina’s hand.

“?”

“!”

Two girls who are embarrassed for different reasons.

“Ah.”

Ian continued his explanation.

“Please share some warmth with fire attribute magic. If there is no contact, it will be less effective.”

“Ah-yeah! That’s right! Right? hehehe. So you caught it, right? What was I thinking?”

Lina’s hands that were holding each other heated up. She probably just used elemental magic. Danya, who pouted her mouth, also realized her situation and took Lina’s other hand.

— Hwiiiii

Sure enough.

I thought it was windy, but then it started snowing.

Snow begins to pile up in an instant.

Ian constantly turned her head.

‘What should I do to get out of here?’

Whether this is reality or a space constructed through magic, there is a release condition for all barriers.

That condition may be the goal we need to find out.

Visibility is blurred by the increasingly severe snowstorm.

“Sniff.”

Danya, who was walking in front of her while holding her hand, suddenly twitched her nose.

“I smell something.”

Danya checked the direction of the wind by pricking her ears and pointed to a place.

“It smells like a person… But not a good smell. It seems like there are a lot of them.”

Danya looked at Ian.

Ian thought for a moment.

If it doesn’t smell good… It means there is a high possibility that the other person is not friendly. However, if people gather in a snowy field like this, it is likely to have some meaning.

“Let’s go.”

No matter what, it is important to find a clue.

In a world full of snow, there aren’t many choices.

◆

I walked towards the smell like that for a while.

“Ugh.”

Danya frowned.

“Strange smell.”

Just then, I saw the human figures in the distance.

Ian and his party observed a group of people from a distance.

“…Is that?”

Can you call that a person?

Even at a glance, the condition does not look good.

Most of them are skeletons wearing torn-down Cheonjo Garis. Those creepy people looked more like corpses.

Those who still had some flesh on had their skin discolored black, giving them a hideous appearance.

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A bunch of dead bodies.

They stood like skeletons.

“Jugging!”

I turned to the side when I heard the sound of my nose cracking.

Danya points to something while covering his nose with one hand.

Ian narrowed his eyes after her.

Beyond the crowd of corpses, through the snowstorm, something vaguely towering was visible.

“It looks like a building.”

“That guy that came from over there?”

“There is a high possibility that he froze while heading there. It may be further away than you think.”

“Then, you guys all want to sing…”

They must have been transformed into mummies after having most of their life force absorbed by Richard.

Ian didn’t bother to answer.

Those mummies are enemies now.

“Sniff. I’m used to it now.”

Danya took her hand away from his nose and frowned.

“Shall we go through?”

“I don’t think it will be easy to deal with them because there are so many of them. Above all…”

“More than anything?”

“If the people the Northern Grand Duke swallowed up, there is a high possibility that they are strong.”

It is impossible to estimate the level of power those corpses have.

Lina and Danya’s faces became glum.

It was worth it.

Because it was the only clue I found in this endless snow field.

More than these, the mysterious building hidden in the snowstorm beyond is even more so.

After thinking for a moment, Ian opened his mouth.

“Danya. Would you like to shoot a bow from as far away as possible?”

Nodding her head, Danya hid in her eyes and fired one of her magic bows.

— Pishuuung!

But the corpses are easily avoided.

“… He avoids that.”

Lina, who was watching from the side, praised her corpses.

Ian’s feelings were the same.

‘It’ll be hard to catch, right?… No, wait.’

Ian’s eyes narrowed.

The corpses’ reactions are strange.

They avoided it, but after that, they looked around and just walked around, muttering to themselves.

Danya, who joined cautiously, also expressed her opinion.

“I feel like I’ve completely lost my sense of sight and smell.”

“That said, it’s a bit disappointing that he immediately dodged the arrow.”

Anyway, the story goes that even those creepy corpses have a weakness.

I think I can come up with a strategy.

However, there is a possibility that someone could get hurt in the process. Because the movements used to avoid Danya’s magic arrows were unusual.

With those corpses having the upper hand, the danger is doubled.

Ian, who was lost in thought for a moment with his hand on her chin, came to a conclusion.

“Let’s take a detour and find another way.”

◆

I wandered and explored the snowy fields like that for a while.

“Nyan!”

Ian concluded by grabbing Danya by the neck as she almost fell off a cliff.

That is the only passage, and everything else is called a crevasse.

To be precise, the plateau divided in two is probably connected like a bridge where the corpses are gathered.

“That makes sense.”

“Well, I definitely think so.”

Danya and Lina also nodded to Ian’s hypothesis.

Even if it feels uncomfortable, you will have to try to attack them somehow.

On the way back towards the corpses.

“Huh? What is that?”

Danya, who was looking ahead, pointed to something she had.

“It doesn’t smell particularly good. It smells vaguely like a living person?”

When I looked in the direction she pointed, something about her stood tall. I don’t know if it was a sign or something, but it was about the size of an adult male.

“Let’s go.”

Ian took the lead, followed by Lina and Danya.

A position where the tank naturally takes the lead.

And only when I arrived nearby was I able to figure out its identity.

“Isn’t this a person?”

As Danya said, he is a person.

Pure white and thick thighs.

Blue hair.

Snow piled on long eyebrows.

Ian muttered as he examined the pale, as if frozen person.

“…Yergina?”

It was Yergina Pierce.