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"There it is! An ice bear on his right. Fire!　Thanatos, step forward."

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"Woah woah woah woah woah."

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　It has been more than a month since we entered the Daisetsuzan Mountains.

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　I wonder how Gran has been able to cross such a place.

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　I thought it was hard enough just to cross through the harsh snowy environment, but now there are even demons.

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　Even now, such demons were emerging from beyond the path of the Eastern Expeditionary Force.

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　A ferocious bear called an ice bear, which spits huge blocks of ice from its mouth, is moving its four legs toward us.

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　It is quite fast, and its physical ability to move on the unstable snow and ice without any problem is terrifying.

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　Above all, its body color is white, and it is difficult to distinguish it from the terrain, so we did not notice it until it approached us.

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　The Eastern Expeditionary Force began to intercept the extremely dangerous monster.

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　Several of them shot [shotgun shells] and hit the ice bear's face, slowing its momentum slightly.

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　Taking advantage of this opportunity, Thanatos transformed into a giant and slammed his large Nyoronkaku into the ice bear.

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　A huge amount of snowflakes fly in the air.

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　Then, a large amount of red blood flowed onto the pure white snow.

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"Thanatos, when you're done here, help me out here."

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　But that is not the end of the story.

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　Another monster appeared from a different direction from the ice bear and attacked us.

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　And there were more than one.

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　Four-handed ice monkeys.

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　They had two legs but four arms, and they made snowballs with their hands and threw them at us.

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　These snowballs were not just like snowball fights, but they were magically reinforced, and if they collided with each other, they would be more than just a handful of snowballs.

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　After defending myself against them with my "wall building," I approach with my Valkyrie and cut them down one by one.

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　And the cavalrymen deal with the four-handed ice monkeys in the same way I did, using [Riding Technique] and [Reinforcement Armament].

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　Then Thanatos, who had defeated the ice bear, joined us, and the battle was finally over.

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"Phew, it's over. Hurry up with the damage report. It seems that the ice spirits have found the next ice sucking stone."

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　Demons attack the Eastern Expeditionary Force as it moves through the Great Snowy Mountains.

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　All of them are adapted to the snowy mountains, and one wrong move could cause serious damage.

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　However, they managed to fight them off and continued to move on.

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　The reason we have been able to keep moving through the snowy mountains for such a long period of time is due to my [summoning ice spirit].

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　The ice spirit itself, like a ball of light, has no fighting power.

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　But in this cold weather, they can be produced in large numbers, and they absorb the surrounding cold so that the soldiers can move without being frozen.

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　And these ice nymphs also served as our guides once we entered this great snowy mountain.

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　When Paul guided me and I saw the ice sucking stone for the first time, the ice spirits I summoned were attracted to it.

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　I was worried that they might not leave the stone for a long time, but it seemed that this was not the case.

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　After we built a shelter and rested for the night, the ice spirit left the stone and followed my instructions to keep the soldiers cool.

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　It was my subsequent opinion that the ice nymphs were sucking power from the ice-sucking stones.

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　The large ice-like crystals of the ice absorbing stones absorb the coldness of their surroundings and alleviate the coldness of the surroundings, similar to the ice spirits.

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　And it seems that the more the crystals absorb the cold, the larger they become.

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　The higher the altitude and the colder the temperature, the larger the ice-absorbing stones we found deep into the Daisetsuzan Mountains.

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　It is interesting to note that after one night of the ice spirit clinging to the larger ice absorption stones, the size of the ice absorption stones became slightly smaller than their original size.

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　I am sure of this because I actually measured the size of the ice absorbing stones.

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　Perhaps, the ice absorbing stones are growing larger by absorbing the surrounding coldness, and the ice nymphs are absorbing it as energy.

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　Since the ice nymphs are just balls of light floating happily in the air, I am sure that this is the case.

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　This characteristic of the ice nymphs was useful in another way as well.

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　It was to guide the way in the snowy mountains.

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　I summoned more ice nymphs than there were soldiers, and had them check for ice sucking stones around us as we went through the snowy mountains.

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　And as I moved along, I would occasionally see an ice stone, which the ice spirits would spot even before it came into view and lead the way as if to point me in the right direction.

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　However, if I followed their lead, there was a possibility that I might fall into a crevice in the ground hidden by snow.

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　I let Paul and Valkyrie, who were familiar with the mountains, check out the terrain as we headed east toward the next ice sucking stone.

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　We would go to the ice sucking stones that were scattered all over the place, and when we found them, we would build a shelter in that place and make it our base.

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　This is how we have been moving for more than a month.

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　It seems to me that we have traveled a considerable distance, but I wonder how far we have actually gone.

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　There were times when we were stuck in a blizzard, and there were times when we were slowed down because it took time to grasp the terrain.

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　But we are moving forward.

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　I use healing magic to heal even the slightest wound, and so far no one has left the camp.

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　I think we've succeeded for the most part in moving through the snow-covered mountains, which are said to be difficult to traverse.

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"Still, it was a bit unexpected that we were attacked by demons this far. Was it the same when Thanatos crossed the Daisetsuzan before?"

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"Yes. I'm sure we've had encounters. But not as much as this time.

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"I see. Is it because there are so many of them, or did they provoke the demons in their territory?"

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"Maybe so. But if they come at us, we'll take them down. They're valuable food."

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"Indeed. It's a valuable animal protein. It might be used for something other than meat, and I'll have to remember to bring it back home in my magic bag."

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　I talk with Thanatos while sipping warmed soup in the shelter I magically built.

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　We exchange our opinions about the battle we had with the demons today.

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　But that is over soon.

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　Beside Thanatos, who lies down first, I write down the terrain of Daisetsuzan and the location of the ice-absorbing stone on a piece of paper illuminated by the [illumination] and ask the radio operator to [telecopy] and [telepath] it to me.

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　After that, I rested myself and prepared for the next day.

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　And so our journey over the Great Snowy Mountains continued.

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　Finally, at the end of the year, we crossed the Daisetsuzan Mountains and landed in the east.

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　We succeeded in finding a village, a human settlement, in the mountains, closed by snow.

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