# The main characters only I know episode 314
“That can’t be possible. That cliff is a place where exploration has already been completed a long time ago. “Is there a road to that place?”
“But I’m sure it exists.”
It was still far away so she couldn’t see it clearly, but Yuhyeon definitely saw golden light shining on the cliff.
Just because a blizzard is raging doesn’t mean you’re hallucinating. Rather, because everything in the world was stained white, the golden light seemed even clearer.
Lean still couldn’t believe what Yuhyeon said that there was a path there.
The most believable thing was that Yuhyeon was just seeing something.
“Let’s go.”
“no. “It’s just a waste of time.”
“There’s nothing to lose by doing it anyway.”
“If you want to be the first to arrive at your target location and look around, you have to get on your way right now.”
Yuhyeon sighed at Lean’s stubborn behavior.
“ha. “I know you probably don’t believe what I’m saying, but I don’t lie about things like this.”
“… … .”
“Then let me ask you here. “I heard that exploration of that place was completed a long time ago. Did you do it yourself?”
Lean hesitated slightly and shook his head.
“no. But even if I didn’t check it in the first place, many searchers have already come and gone here. Above all, Emperor Fritzen also visited this area often. “If there was a way, there’s no way they wouldn’t know.”
“You mean you’ve never seen it in person? “Then let’s take this opportunity to take a look.”
Lean wondered what he should do to persuade Yuhyeon, but Yoohyeon didn’t care about Lean and made the first move.
‘What on earth makes you so sure?’
Lean was rather skeptical because of Yuhyeon’s unstoppable movements. Could it be that the arrangement that Keira left behind really came to light at this moment?
Yoohyeon is the first to come this far, and the first to come this far. To begin with, before Yoohyeon, Keira only lived inside Gardian.
Considering that, it was quite possible, but the perception that had been solidified over the past 32 years was unlikely to change easily.
still.
If what she says is really true, just in case.
Lean eventually decided to follow Yuhyeon. Anyway, looking at his stubborn attitude, it didn’t seem like he would give up unless he used force. And grabbing someone with force in a place like this was an act of suicide.
Yoohyeon was suddenly standing in front of a huge ice cliff.
When I raised my head, the height was sky-high. The estimated height alone seemed to be over 500m.
‘The width… … There is no end.’
The ice cliffs extended out of sight on both sides, and their length seemed endless. At this point, it was hard to believe that the mountain range was not just frozen due to the curse of frozen ground, but that a tectonic shift had occurred and a dividing line had been created.
Even if you walk along the cliff like this, it will be difficult to see the end. In fact, even on the map, this part had a very long border line drawn.
“Look. “There is no way there is an entrance here.”
As Lean said that, he looked sharply to see if there really was an entrance that he couldn’t find.
I looked closely at the smooth ice wall, but I couldn’t see anything that could be called a gap.
Just as Lean was about to tell Yuhyeon that he had seen something wrong and that they should speed up the march as it was delayed.
Yoohyeon showed strange behavior. He stood alone in front of the ice wall and touched it with his hands.
Lean scolded.
“If you look at it that way, you won’t find an entrance that wasn’t there before.”
“no.”
Yuhyeon pulled out his sword. Before Lean could ask what he was trying to do, Yuhyeon stabbed his sword into the wall in front of him.
Phew.
It was hard to believe that it was full of solid ice, so it easily dug into the black interior.
Immediately after the sword was pierced, the ice around it cracked thinly and shattered like glass.
“Because there is an entrance.”
“what… … !”
Leanne looked at the new entrance in disbelief.
When? No, how? There was an entrance to a place like this? But I’ve never found it until now.
Yoohyeon went inside without hesitation, leaving behind Lean, whose head was in a state of confusion.
Lean hurriedly followed Yuhyeon.
“for a moment! “How on earth did you find this entrance?”
“Does that matter now?”
“Answer me!”
“Because I saw it.”
“You saw it?”
“yes. I could see it. So when I got closer, I felt something foreign.”
“Could it be Keira’s arrangement?”
Are you now referring to the arrangement that Keira left behind, which you denied so much until a moment ago?
Yuhyeon was tired of saying yes to those words, so she responded appropriately.
“Maybe so.”
“… … .”
Lean looked around the entrance with a sinking gaze.
What Yuhyeon broke was a thin layer of ice on the surface that could be called a door. After removing the shell, what unfolded inside was a very narrow canyon that could only allow one person to pass through.
How on earth did I not know about this road? How many people came and went here and couldn’t even find it?
Leanne’s gaze swept her hand around the entrance.
This did not simply occur naturally.
“I already found it, are you just going to stand there?”
“… … “Let’s go in.”
The area beyond the mountain range appeared as an unknown space. To check this place, we had to go around the ice cliff blocking the road from afar.
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To do this, it will not just take a few days, but at least a month or more.
And the search party did not have enough food and stamina to move steadily for more than a month in this harsh environment.
It was dark inside the canyon, but not so much that it was hard to see things. Above all, the road was straight, so the place to go was determined.
The towering ice walls sometimes glowed light blue and sometimes emerald.
It was as if the aurora from the sky had descended to earth.
Yuhyeon was about to sweep the wall with her hand for a moment, but stopped when she noticed something inside.
“This… … .”
There was something inside the translucent ice wall. The moment Yuhyeon strained his eyes even more to confirm it, he took a step back without realizing it.
It was the same for Lean. Wondering what Yuhyeon had seen, he looked at one wall and widened his eyes.
“this… … crazy.”
It was a person.
Inside the ice wall, people were frozen to death. Most of them looked like they were packing their bags to take refuge.
32 years ago, when the curse of frozen land flowed from the north and engulfed this world.
They were people who were unable to escape and were swept away while trying to escape by crossing the mountain range.
Even if you estimate that number, it’s in the thousands.
Considering the extent of this ice cliff, there were far more invisible corpses than that.
The canyon road, which seemed beautiful at first glance, was the grave of people who could not escape the curse.
“… … “Don’t stop, keep going.”
Yoohyeon walked down the street, urging Lean on.
The canyon road lasted almost 3km. A white light source exploded from afar, as if announcing the end of the canyon. On the other hand, Yuhyeon felt a more intense golden light from beyond.
‘Fragments, they’re out there.’
Yoohyeon felt more worried than excited when she realized that the fragment she had been looking for was getting closer. It was almost an instinctive feeling, and I felt that there was a great danger lurking beyond, along with debris.
When the two arrived at the exit, Yuhyeon and Lean discovered something strange at the same time.
Near the exit, there was a small mound with more snow than other places.
“Look at this.”
“… … “There is something.”
Yoohyeon opened his eyes with a sword. Then, miscellaneous items came out from inside along with the burnt ashes of the rune stone.
Yuhyeon and Lean’s expressions turned cold.
The two people understood the meaning of what they were seeing even without speaking to each other.
“Someone… … “I came here.”
“It wasn’t that long ago either.”
Someone came here and stayed for a while. No, telltale traces appeared one by one here and there, as if proving that they had stayed here for a long time, not just for a moment.
Not just once. At least it was more than 10 times.
The entrance, which felt unnatural, was actually not created naturally but had been artificially hidden by someone.
That means only one thing.
Within the Gardians, there is a traitor.
Yoohyeon was about to say those words, but when she realized that Lean was there, she suppressed them. It’s not like Lean doesn’t know that, and he’s probably the one with more complicated thoughts than anyone else at this moment.
‘But if there is a traitor, it makes sense that we have not yet found where the curse of frozen land came from over the past 32 years. No matter how large the Northern Continent was, there was a chance that someone would find it.’
The traitor within.
If he was able to hide it so carefully for such a long time, it was said that he was the one who had been active for the longest time among the investigators.
Yoohyeon suddenly thought of Fritchen. Lean said that the man’s group came and went here most often.
‘no. It’s still too early to be sure. First, we have to check what’s inside there.’
Yoohyeon looked at Lean’s condition. He was looking down at the traces carved into the exit with a shaded face. It looked like a bomb on the verge of exploding, or there was a sense of danger as if it would collapse at the slightest touch.
I want to cry, but it seems like I’m not allowed to.
“song.”
Yoohyeon grabbed Lean’s wrist.
Although Lean was embarrassed, he couldn’t shake off Yuhyeon’s hand.
“Don’t worry about this for no reason now; go inside and check what’s there. “Because that’s the best we can do right now.”
“… … is it. okay. “I guess so.”
Leanne nodded, looking almost like she was crying.
They walked across the vast expanse of pure white land beyond the exit of the canyon.
Before, no matter where I went, there were large rock mountains or ice mountains everywhere, but this area was a pure white empty plain with nothing in it.
Rather, the ground was so transparent that one could see one’s own reflection.
‘no. Is this a lake?’
Yoohyeon realized that she was walking on a frozen lake.
Lean also seemed to know this, and his tone of voice rose slightly.
“This… … Andollim Lake.”
“Andolim Lake?”
“okay. It is known as the largest lake at the tip of the northern continent. “It is also close to the capital of the Franzgard Empire.”
“It’s close to the capital.”
Yuhyeon looked around. It was said that somewhere around here was the capital of the empire where Fritzen lived.
However, that wasn’t what we needed to check right now. Yoohyeon had been feeling the light of the fragments slowly getting closer for a while.
The direction is north. I don’t know if that direction is exactly north, but it felt that way.
The two walked on a frozen lake.
It felt like a world split in half, spread out above and below, and there seemed to be another world below.
If this is a world of curse, is underneath the frozen lake a world of salvation?
The paths clearly intersected, but they did not meet. Maybe in the future, the road would draw parallel lines like this.
The reality of curse and the dream of salvation.
What will be at the end of the road?
“Has the snow stopped?”
The moment we crossed Andollim Lake, the snow that had been falling non-stop until now stopped. There wasn’t even any wind.
A cold and clean space with not a single speck of dust floating in the air.
What filled the place was a hazy fog.
‘It’s cold.’
The moment I put my hand into the fog, the feel of it on my skin was horribly cold.
This wasn’t just fog. It’s just tiny cold particles compressed to the limit floating in the air and looking like fog.
‘It’s not so bad that you can’t go in completely, but you can’t stay there for long.’
When Yoohyeon glanced at Lean, he nodded with a determined look.
The two entered the depths of the ice fog, holding close to each other. If it falls even a little bit, it will be difficult to find.
The fog felt hazy even from outside, but once inside, even my sense of direction was dulled.
It felt like if I relaxed my tension even a little, I would freeze alive on the spot.
Nevertheless, the reason why he was able to move forward without stopping was because of a milestone that Yuhyeon could see.
Golden light visible through gaps in the fog.
Yuhyeon, who had been moving forward without wavering, stopped. Leanne didn’t ask why he stopped.
The two people’s gaze turned upward.
‘What is this… … .’
Biguuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.
My ears stung from the huge breathing sound that echoed through the space.
There was a huge giant there that you had to look up at. The giant was in his seat, kneeling on one knee, with his head down, sound asleep.
It’s a frost giant, but it’s much bigger than anything we’ve seen before.
I had no idea how big it was. If the sitting height was this high, the height seemed to be over 200 meters.
Above all, the energy flowing from the giant was unusual.
Puuuuuuuu.
When the giant exhaled, a hazy mist spewed out from his mouth.
‘no way… … Was all the fog around here his exhaled breath?’
Yuhyeon was astonished at this situation, where a simple exhalation released enough cold air to cause frostbite to the body of a Gardian.
Like Yuhyeon, Lean looked up at the giant and was astonished.
Although the giant’s breath and the ice fog made it difficult to see the figure properly, Lean was clearly looking at the giant’s face.
Yuhyeon eventually saw a large red gem shining on the giant’s chest and golden light emanating from it, and quietly stepped back.
‘For now, let’s back off.’
‘Sure.’
Lean also agreed with Yuhyeon. There was nothing more I could do here.
The two immediately went through the fog. Although his sense of direction was momentarily lost, he was able to escape in the shortest possible distance thanks to Yoohyeon moving with the golden light at his back.
As he crossed the frozen Andollim Lake again, Yoohyeon relieved the tension he had barely held back.
“I just said that… … “What was it?”
“Why… … .”
“Lean. “You recognized who the giant was.”
Lean’s expression when he saw the giant was a mixture of complex emotions beyond simply discovering a huge frost giant.
Even in the midst of the confusion, Yoohyeon noticed the change in Lean.
“… … It’s nothing to hide. “I’ve seen that giant before.”
“You’ve seen it? “That giant frost giant?”
“okay.”
Lean turned his head toward the end of the lake, beyond the fog, toward the giant frost giant.
“The author is the god of this world. “This is the Holy Spirit who should have passed his power over to his successor and disappeared.”
