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Chapter 12. Snow Yeti (1)
One.
igloo.
“Oh, now I can live.”
Debo, Kiri, and Ralph were resting inside the igloo.
It was a pretty comfortable break.
First of all, the inside of the igloo was warmer than anyone could have imagined. It wasn’t so hot that I would sweat, but it felt like heaven to someone who had been fighting a fierce battle in the bitter cold.
“Kiri, can I ask you a favor?”
“Speak.”
“Can I hug you for a second?”
“Wh, what are you talking about!”
“No, don’t get weird, you’re just warm because you’re that sun stone or something. I’m using it instead of a stove.”
Moreover, Kiri, who was here right now, was generating quite a bit of heat herself, and because of that, the igloo was incredibly warm.
Of course, just because the temperature was warm, it didn’t mean that everyone’s mood was warm.
“Wake up. This is hell.”
As Kiri said, the place where they were adventuring now was nothing short of hell.
It wasn’t just covered in snow and cold eyes appearing, calling it hell.
These two factors were already non-threatening to them.
But they knew.
“I don’t know how many people failed.”
If that were all there was, if the snowy world and the cold eye were all there was, there wouldn’t have been so many scars.
Surely there must be a monster here that is incomparable to Cold Eye.
“There will be mountains of corpses.”
Ralph continued speaking at Kiri’s words.
“There are as many items as there are corpses.”
What an incredibly creepy thing to say.
Divo smiled bitterly at the eeriness.
“What on earth are you doing with all that money? Huh? Are you trying to buy a mansion or something? Or an item? Or do you have a family member at home who has black blood cells?”
Ralph answered the question calmly.
“Nothing in particular.”
“what?”
An unexpected answer.
“If you have something you want to buy and a family to protect, why risk your life for money like this? That’s more important.”
In response to that, Divo and Kiri did not continue speaking.
Silence fell inside the igloo.
Qyuu!
The one who broke the silence was the snail Agate inside Kiri’s armor.
The guy who had been hiding in Kiri’s armor to avoid the cold came out of the armor as soon as it got warm.
Of course, it wasn’t just because it got hotter.
There is only one case where a snail mano moves.
Qyuu!
“Hey, why are you here?”
Qyuu!
“The floor? Here? No way?”
Only when you go to find items.
“I think there’s a body down here?”
And that item was usually found on the corpse.
At that moment, as if he had been waiting, Ralph took a shovel out of his pack and started digging the snow.
Phew!
The digging that started like that was at a possessed level.
‘How much digging did it take to get that?’
It’s hard to gauge the experience.
Thanks to that, Devo, Kiri, and Ralph were able to see quickly.
The corpse that was sleeping under the snow.
And the moment they saw it, everyone’s expressions, including Ralph’s, couldn’t help but harden.
“this person?”
“That’s right. He’s the one who came in with us.”
Because it was a familiar face.
“The condition is intact.”
In addition, the condition of the body was clean. The limbs were still attached.
So everyone’s expressions couldn’t help but become even more tense.
“There are no teeth marks.”
In this cold-eyed paradise, a corpse is still intact?
“Wounds too.”
There wasn’t even a visible wound.
Ralph was the first to answer that question.
“It was poisoned.”
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Why were there no wounds, why did the Cold Children not even stick their tongues into this precious corpse?
The first one to react when they reached that answer was Devo.
‘Dangerous.’
Debo immediately grabbed his polearm and ran out of the igloo. Then he shouted.
“Boss! It’s dangerous! Come back!”
He sent a warning message to El Palm, who was searching the surroundings.
That was a dangerous thing to do.
Making a sound in a snowy forest full of Cold Eyes is like courting Cold Eyes.
It was something a veteran adventurer would never do, and Divo knew it.
“Boss! There’s trolling here!”
But Devo didn’t stop.
“He’s the one who uses deadly poison!”
El Palm, because warning him was more important than my life.
Devo shouting so desperately.
“Boss! Where are you!”
“we are here.”
“yes?”
At that moment, El Palm appeared behind Divo.
“boss?”
El Palm spoke quietly to Debo, who was surprised by his appearance.
“Don’t make a fuss.”
A warning when we first met.
“Oh, no, I mean, boss.”
Only then did Divo lower his voice.
Of course, I couldn’t stop talking.
“We’re in big trouble! A body has been found, and it’s the adventurer who came in with us. He’s been poisoned.”
Because the situation was very urgent.
“Just like back then, there are some adventurers among us who commit trolling!”
Enough to make you excited in so many ways.
“Know.”
“yes?”
But Divo turned cold at El Palm’s words.
“Oh, you knew?”
“I’m on my way here after processing it now.”
“yes?”
The moment I heard the words that followed, my thoughts froze.
It was that shocking.
“Uh, how?”
“They were following us.”
“Us?”
And the moment he heard those words, at that moment, Divo’s cold expression turned fierce.
Because I noticed it right away.
“Which of us left a trace?”
In this world covered in snow, a world where even corpses are hidden, it is impossible for a pursuer to be caught so easily unless someone deliberately leaves a trail for the pursuer.
Moreover, it was not difficult to identify that someone.
Debo glared at Ralph.
“I left it.”
At that gaze, Ralph immediately confessed the truth.
“He said he would give me money if I left a trace.”
“You damn punk! No matter how much money you like, you still sell your comrades? What the hell is wrong with you? And how much did you sell them for?”
“Five million Mesoios.”
“5 million?”
“He said he would give me 5 million mesos as a deposit, and I received it. Then I split it half and half with the captain.”
“Captain? Who the hell is that… … Huh?”
El Palm willingly told Debo, who turned his head to look at him at those words.
“I ordered it.”
El Palm, he expected that the upper echelons of Kania would contact Ralph and try to bribe him.
So I told Ralph.
If an offer comes, say okay.
Instead, let’s split the profits half and half.
Of course, I didn’t make that offer because I was greedy for profit.
“Oh, no, boss? Why on earth?”
“The pursuers follow Ralph’s trail, because there’s nothing more comfortable than that.”
There is no better way to lure the assassins from the upper reaches of Kania.
From El Palm’s perspective, it was a method they had no reason to refuse.
At that fact, Divo was speechless and just stared blankly at El Palm.
El Palm said to such a debacle:
“The situation has been resolved. Our party is the only adventurers left in this snow hell. The rest have been annihilated.”
The current situation.
“There are at least 50 parties of adventurers who have come here for an adventure, and the number of adventurers is over 500. However, no one has found the exit. That means that the condition for the exit to appear is likely to be killing the boss monster.”
The current situation that El Palm is organizing is dire.
“And the boss monster that appears here is not certain, but it is assumed to be a snow yeti.”
El Palm put an end to such misery.
“Snow Yeti? Are you talking about the monster that appears in the El Nath Mountains? The big yeti?”
“Similar, but different. You can think of it as a mutant Yeti. Its vitality is particularly special.”
“Resilience beyond common sense?”
“You can think of it as using heal skills in real time.”
At that explanation, not only Devo and Kiri, but even Ralph’s expressions hardened.
Okay, I got it.
The three of them knew firsthand how powerful the heal skill was.
Unless your limbs are cut off, most wounds can be healed with the heal skill.
But you use that heal skill in real time?
This means that it is impossible to kill with just any attack.
“The snow yeti’s skin is the same as the snow. It is impossible to tell one apart in the snow with the naked eye. It is also smart. If the situation is not favorable, it will run away without looking back.”
Even the fact that a monster with such abilities could run away was an understatement to say that it was a nightmare.
“That’s not accurate.”
Of course, El Palm’s words were only speculation.
“We need to look into the situation a bit more to get more details.”
El Palm himself knew this was true, but that was only El Palm’s position.
Unless El Palm revealed and proved that he was a regressor, his colleagues who heard him could not be sure.
But that kind of confidence was good, after all.
Because the adventurers who died here proved it.
“Whatever it is, there’s a huge monster here.”
That it’s not easy to survive here.
“So boss, is there a way?”
The only way to survive in this place is to follow El Palm, his words.
And El Palm had a way.
“It’s not easy to catch him with magic or physical attacks. Even if you damage him, he’ll run away once his wounds get deeper. The moment you start chasing him, the Cold Idles will latch on.”
“Swords don’t work, spears don’t work, boss magic doesn’t work either, so what do I use?”
“It uses poison.”
Ralph’s eyes widened at those words.
“Poison? Captain, can you use poison magic too?”
Ralph had never seen El Palm use poison magic.
So I couldn’t help but be surprised.
You already use fire attribute and telekinesis magic, and now you use poison attribute magic on top of that?
The talent to use three attributes is something that can only be found in one out of ten thousand wizards.
“A boss isn’t a boss for nothing.”
Debo smiled at Ralph’s surprised look and said:
“So how do you use poison magic? Do you just gather poison mist like before and then inhale it?”
“That’s impossible against a snow yeti.”
“Yes? Then what should I do?”
“Inject poison directly into the body.”
With those words, El Palm took out a ring.
“Put poison on the cold beam and embed it into the bastard’s body.”
Cold Beam, that enchanted ring item.
“Cold beam?”
“You can also use ice attribute magic?”
At that fact, Kiri and Devo’s expressions changed to resemble Ralph’s.
I was terrified.
Are you saying that three attributes aren’t enough and you can use four?
‘Four attributes?’
The three had only heard of such a case once.
‘Only Heinz, the master of magicians, can do that, right?’
Heinz is the director of the magic library in Ellinia, the city of magic and fairies, and the teacher of all magic adventurers!
There was currently only one wizard in Maple World with the talent to use four attribute magics.
Of course, El Palm’s talent was different from that of the wizards’ master, Heinz.
Allmaster, he had even greater talent.
But El Palm didn’t bother to explain it to him.
Even if El Palm had told us at this point that he could use other attribute magic, it would have been useless in battle.
‘He’ll make his move soon.’
Above all, El Palm knew.
‘Because I set a baited trap.’
The signal is coming.
And as El Palm had expected, the signal came.
Wow!
A gigantic roar, incomparable to that of Cold Eye, shook the snow-covered hell.
“Snow Yeti, that’s for sure.”
fantasy,
