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　It reminds me of a story Gran once told me.

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　It is the history of the relationship between the east and the west across the Daisetsuzan Mountains.

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　It is said that the people of the old Doren Kingdom, where we live, trace their roots to the east of the Daisetsuzan Mountains.

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　Originally, the world of mankind was formed on the east side of the snow mountain.

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　On the other side, there were many countries, and people lived in each of them.

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　And from those countries, Mt. Daisetsuzan, which is called the sacred mountain on this side of the world, was towering.

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　This sacred mountain was not only the mountain of the great god, but also the borderline between the world of evil and the world of death.

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　There used to be demons in the east as well.

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　However, as the number of people increased and demons were exterminated, it is said that demons are rarely seen in the other lands.

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　From the perspective of such a demon-free world, the other side of the snowy mountains, infested with demons, was a place symbolizing death.

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　For this reason, there existed a custom of sending mortals to the sacred mountain.

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　The guilty are not put to death but sent to the sacred mountain.

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　The guilty are never allowed to return to their country.

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　They were given a small amount of food and were forced to risk their lives to cross the sacred mountain.

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　The mountains that would normally be impossible to scale.

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　However, the same practice of sending sinners to the sacred mountain had continued in many countries for many years, and some of them eventually crossed the sacred mountain to the west side of the great mountain of death and started to live there.

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　That is how our ancestors came to be.

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　So the land of my birth, if you unravel the history, is a penal colony for the nations of the east, the descendants of sinners.

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　But that was a long time ago, and I think it's just a theory.

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　In fact, there must have been others who crossed the Daisetsuzan Mountain from the east to the west in search of a new land.

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　However, people who came from the east like that settled here and established a society.

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　And it was the first king of the Doren royal family who brought them together.

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　The establishment of the church may be one of the reasons why people were able to expand their sphere of existence in this land where demons had existed since before the first king appeared.

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　However, even so, there is still no one who has created a stable route between the east and the west.

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　The relationship between the east and the west has remained the same, with people coming from the east only on rare occasions.

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　Gran told me many other stories.

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　It seems that Gran was born in a small country that was not so big.

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　The country has maintained itself by making various products and selling them to other countries.

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　In other words, it may be similar to the Boutica family.

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　So it seems that Gran has been making all kinds of things since he was a child.

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　However, Gran had a complaint.

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　He could not work with magical materials.

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　It seems that demons are rarely seen in the East anymore, thanks to the expansion of human power in the region.

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　Therefore, there were few opportunities to obtain demon materials.

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　However, it is widely known that people in the East used to make weapons and other items from demonic materials in the past.

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　Gran had a longing to make things using such materials, and as a result, he crossed the sacred mountain called the Mountain of God, which symbolizes death, to the west.

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　However, it does not mean that there are no demons to be seen in the east.

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　It is said that so-called frontier barbarians occasionally trade in demon materials.

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　In a position close to the barbarians were the warriors of Atmos, wielders of the magic of giant transformation.

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　These giants live in a small way in a remote area where the rocks are bare.

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　The land is not a good place to live.

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　There is not much food to be had there.

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　So the giants from the village of Atmos go out to work.

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　These were the mercenaries called Warriors of Atmos who were active on the battlefield.

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　Even just one warrior of Atmos could have a great impact on the battlefield, risking his life to fight for money.

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　But even if they were recognized as brave, they were sometimes scorned as barbarians.

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　Is that why Thanatos is worried about them?

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　What do the humans who betrayed him and attacked him, saying that they would hire the warriors of Atmos, do to the people of the village of Atmos, whom they see only as barbarians?

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　Thanatos, who has managed to escape and come to the west, is probably wondering how he would be treated if there were any survivors in the village.

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　I gather my thoughts by recalling Gran's story.

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　The land of the east is our ancestral land, but it is a story of the distant past and we have little contact with it now.

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　If such a person from the west were to visit the village of Atmos, the birthplace of Thanatos, there might be many problems.

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　If so, they may need to be armed to some extent.

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　It is not safe to say that they will be safe once they cross the Daisetsuzan.

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　We have to consider the safety of the people in the other side.

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　And the route that Gran and Thanatos used to cross the mountain, from what I have heard, did not seem to be usable.

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　Both of them seem to have gone down the river on the way.

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　Many people who came from the east to the west across the Daisetsuzan Mountains did so by floating boats on the river along the way.

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　It is likely that the survival rate would have been somewhat higher if they traveled on the river instead of on the steep mountain paths.

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　However, it is not a river route, and therefore it cannot be used as a route from west to east.

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　We have no choice but to find a land route somehow.

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　I was thinking like this as I rode on the back of a horned Valkyrie with the wind cutting through the air.

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　The Great Snow Mountain was approaching before me.

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　High and steep, a great mountain that has defied man.

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　A white world covered with snow that never melts.

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　Before entering the great snowy mountain, I use [Summon Ice Spirit] to protect myself from the cold.

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　And then the Eastern Expeditionary Force, mounted on Valkyries, enters the Great Snowy Mountains.

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　Autumn of the 2nd year of the Garod calendar.

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　After the hot summer, when the temperature had begun to cool down a little, the Eastern Expeditionary Force led by the head of the Valka family of the Kingdom of Fontana began their uncommon journey across the Great Snowy Mountains.

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