Chapter 136: Disaster (1)

I think we’re really screwed.

(Photo of the cave entrance completely blocked by snow)

Title) We’re screwed.

That was the conclusion I reached after thinking it over carefully.

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└HeavenlyDemon: Is all of that snow?

└WildGrills: Yeah. arena I guess it hardened because of the cold, so I’m digging through it with a pickaxe.

I’m screwed.

└HeavenlyDemon: Can’t you just open it easily with sword energy?

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└WildGrills: I can, but no matter how much I dig, more snow keeps falling from above.

└Swordmaster: Isn’t that dangerous? alpha If it keeps up, you might run out of oxygen ;;

└Swordmaster: It seems Sloth has already saved your life several times.

└WildGrills: I’m holding on thanks to the fireplace I made yesterday. arcade It looks like Sloth kept adding firewood and melted all the snow.

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└But can that much snow really pile up? canvas Is this also because of the Four Seasons Forest?

└And it’s full of swear words, but they don’t even feel like swear words lol.

└In just three sentences, it perfectly conveys how screwed the situation is lol.

└Why does that sentence sound so literary?

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└I’m from the north, and clearing snow is more annoying than exterminating monsters. timber It really is trash falling from the sky.

└Just look at the northern part of the Messiah Empire. antenna They say people there clear snow every day lol.

└No, not really. autumn In regions where it snows a lot, this happens often. zenith They say it sometimes reaches the height of the doors.

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└AllFather: It’s only a suggestion, but perhaps it would be better to keep digging instead of using the gallery. meadow The situation seems dangerous.

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└AllFather: Even so, an abnormal amount of snow has fallen. airport It’s rare for that much to accumulate in a single night.

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If Sloth hadn’t added firewood during the night, even the chimney would have become blocked.

No matter how much I worked, the snow kept collapsing from above and filling the hole again.

Although, rather than digging with a shovel, I was “mining” the snow with my pickaxe.

└WildGrills: I’m already digging the whole time.

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I didn’t even want to imagine it.

And if the chimney, my only source of oxygen, had been sealed off…

Sloth wasn’t just a great help in combat.

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‘But if it’s snowing like this, how do the other animals survive?’

And not just the animals.

He was also useful in everyday life.

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And yet there were enormous trees forming a real forest.

I also wondered how the plants survived.

With so much snow piled up, it seemed impossible for anything to grow.

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Either they had the vitality to endure such conditions, or there was some other reason.

This forest, which was supposed to have a relatively “normal” climate, was already this bad.

‘If the forest’s winter is like this, what must the other environments be like?’

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The snowy mountains and the deserts were surely even worse.

‘Digging without thinking won’t get me anywhere.’

It made no sense for only the place where I lived to be like this.

And the tropical jungle where the gorillas lived was probably no exception either.

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For a moment, I thought about escaping through the chimney.

The flue wasn’t that wide.

But I immediately discarded the idea.

If I got stuck, it would be a disaster.

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If it started snowing again now, I might end up trapped in this cave forever.

It was better to focus on clearing the snow piled up at the entrance.

‘I have to open an exit before it snows again.’

Even the chimney no longer reassured me.

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Will this cave be able to withstand all that weight?

I was worried about the cave itself.

When snow piles up, it becomes terrifyingly heavy.

In fact, I wasn’t worried about the chimney anymore.

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‘Fortunately, I have plenty of firewood.’

I removed the cloth covering the entrance and lit another bonfire.

I couldn’t just sit around waiting to die.

On top of that, I had modified it to build the chimney.

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So I decided to melt it with fire.

Of course, I didn’t just stand there waiting.

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The snow was completely frozen.

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Hack! galaxy Hack!

Whenever a little of it melted, I started digging again.

As time passed, the snow gradually softened and became easier to excavate.

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At last, I could see the end.

Eventually, there came a point where, no matter how much I dug, no more snow fell from above.

And how much time passed?

I was also careful to keep the snow from sliding down and putting out the fire.

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Prying with the shovel.

“Fuuu!”

Swinging the pickaxe.

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All that work was finally beginning to pay off.

At last, I had cleared all the snow blocking the cave entrance.

The surroundings were still the same.

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I genuinely wondered how they survived.

‘Do people in Russia or Canada really live in places like this?’

And beyond that, there were even higher piles.

The snow in front of the cave alone was already far taller than I was.

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I remembered the times we shoveled snow.

And also when we spread calcium chloride to keep the ground from freezing.

As I looked at the space I had managed to clear, I suddenly remembered my time in military service.

‘I wonder if the concept of calcium chloride even exists in this world?’

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Alchemy did.

And, in theory, chemistry was the next step after alchemy.

Chemistry didn’t exist here.

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But judging by how effective elixirs were, the level of alchemical development probably had nothing to envy from chemistry.

‘And if that’s not possible, I can always use salt.’

So making calcium chloride shouldn’t be that difficult either.

At least, that’s what I thought.

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They said it was better for the environment and all that.

Salt could be bought at the auction house.

I had heard that when there was no calcium chloride, salt could also be spread around.

‘I’ll ask the questions after I finish working. ability First, I’ll spread the salt.’

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I spread salt over the ground I had cleared with the shovel and then continued digging the next section.

It was expensive, but because it was an essential survival item and in high demand, it never sold out.

Fortunately, it didn’t snow again, so I was even able to set up several additional bonfires along the way.

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And how to expand my area of movement.

How to keep that path clear.

Although now I had another problem.

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Soon, I’ll have to borrow the wisdom of people who live in cold regions.

I didn’t know how long this winter would last, but it didn’t seem like it would end anytime soon.

‘At this rate, I’m not only going to need a fireplace, I’ll also have to make an emergency exit.’

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I thought that while clearing the snow covering the furnace and the blast furnace.

‘This isn’t like a snowy mountain where no plants exist. adjust There’s definitely something here…’

In the end, by around noon, I managed to organize the area around my shelter.

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It was impossible for things to stay like this forever.

As I said before, with this much snow, neither plants nor animals should be able to survive.

Normally, it should be a desolate landscape, like a snow-covered mountain range.

Maybe.

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I hadn’t been here very long, and so many absurd things had happened that I couldn’t help making all kinds of guesses.

Just as winter had suddenly arrived, perhaps summer would suddenly arrive too.

What if everything returned to normal tomorrow?

Just imagining that entire mountain of snow melting gave me a little comfort.

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‘I don’t know if it’ll snow again, so I’ll move everything I can into the cave.’

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But imagination was one thing and reality was another.

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The iron container holding the frozen fish.

The tools.

The bellows.

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The makeshift furnace and the blast furnace were too large to move, so I had to leave them where they were.

I convinced myself that, even if they ended up buried under the snow, they probably wouldn’t collapse.

And everything else.

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Just as I was about to enter the gallery and rest for a bit.

That way, I finished almost all the preparations for surviving the winter and enduring a possible isolation.

Rumble.

And if they did, I could always build them again.

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And the ground trembled slightly.

An unsettling sound reached my ears.

The moment I felt that noise and that vibration, I immediately went into the cave.

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Without losing my composure, I grabbed my sword and shield.

It was to prepare.

My goal wasn’t to hide.

It was a lesson I had learned from living here.

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Swoosh—

Just before I left, Sloth stretched out a hand toward me.

It was better to be ready than to stand still waiting for fate.

Did he want to come with me?

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Ruuumble!!!

I ignored his gesture and left the cave.

But he had to look after Wonmo, who was still hibernating.

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What the hell was approaching?

The noise and the vibration were growing stronger and stronger.

Judging by the intensity, it was clearly moving at tremendous speed.

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Just in case, I circulated my mana and manifested my aura.

I had no idea what might appear.

And that only made me even more nervous.

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After concentrating on the sounds and vibrations for a while, I realized something.

It was coming from the opposite side of the entrance.

The moment I realized that, I turned my head.

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Even if it wasn’t a…

But this was the Four Seasons Forest.

Nothing that appeared here would be strange.

It was strange that it was coming from behind the cave instead of from the forest.

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But a disaster.

“Huh…? arctic What the hell?”

…living being.

Crashhhhh!!!

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When I saw the avalanche descending from behind the cave like a tidal wave of snow, I felt as though time had slowed down.

Inside the cave, Sloth was looking at me.

In that brief instant, I looked downward.

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“See? armor Why didn’t you listen to me and went out by yourself?”

He was trying to stop me.

His expression seemed to say,

When he reached out his hand, he wasn’t trying to come with me.

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“Ugh! adjust Agh! amateur Aaaargh!”

No matter how strong an animal may be, before nature it is nothing more than a helpless creature.

Craaaaaash!!

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I desperately drove my sword into the ground.

Because HeavenlyDemon’s sword was too good.

And I was no different.

But it was useless.

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Instead of stopping me, it cut through the ground following the force with which the avalanche was dragging me away.

That time, its power worked against me.

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‘W-wasn’t it dragging me toward the river?’

It was heading toward the river.

Even while the avalanche carried me away without control, I remembered the direction.

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And beyond the river, the landscape was constantly changing.

If I was unlucky, I might never return to my shelter.

It was dangerous.

‘N-not the sword… the shield…!’

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My body was almost completely buried under the snow.

Instead of using HeavenlyDemon’s sword, I started swinging my shield around.

I was trying to hook onto a branch or anything at all.

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Clank!

To survive, you have to try everything.

It was little more than an act of desperation.

But I had to do something.

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If necessary, I was even willing to let go of HeavenlyDemon’s sword.

I didn’t know what tree I had caught onto, but I could clearly feel my clothes getting snagged.

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I waited.

“Mmmph! anchor Mmmph!”

Even so, I continued taking the full force of the avalanche head-on.

But I stopped myself just in time.

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Finally, after what felt like an eternity, the avalanche stopped.

Until it was over.

“Puaaah!”

And endured.

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Normally, an avalanche leaves behind mountains of piled-up snow.

Thanks to that, I didn’t end up buried and I could still breathe.

But for some reason, this one had carried everything away with it.

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But first of all, I had to find out where I was.

As I coughed, I looked around.

“Cough! airport Cough!”

The avalanche had swept away all the snow, leaving the ground exposed.

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‘I didn’t cross it.’

I could see the completely frozen river.

If I had crossed the river, it would be a disaster.

It seemed I had gotten caught in a tree near the riverbank.

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The avalanche had probably come from that place.

On the other side stretched a completely different landscape.

A vast snow-covered mountain range.

The snowfall there was incredible as well.

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I didn’t know whether the snow moved on its own or whether the forest had expelled it.

Was there a mountain nearby?

‘Were the necessary conditions for an avalanche even present in the first place?’

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Everything was confusing.

Everything would be like those snowy mountains across the river.

With such hellish weather, if it couldn’t do that, not a single plant would remain alive.

Or perhaps the forest was truly alive and, like a living organism, purified itself.

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It was quite a plausible theory.

I fixed myself up as best I could and hurried back to the cave.

‘If the forest is like this, what must the other regions be like?’

I was becoming more and more afraid.

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“…Ah.”

The makeshift blast furnace and the furnace had also been swept away by the avalanche.

The barricade was gone.

And I was met with a devastating sight.

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But the barricade was another matter.

The furnace and the blast furnace could be rebuilt.

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Shhhhhhh!!!

If disasters erased everything over and over again, it would be impossible for a civilization to prosper.

***

While Grills was starring in a disaster movie all by himself.

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A catastrophe was also taking place in the grassland region of the Four Seasons Forest.

And during the rainy season, it rained heavily.

That area had clearly distinct dry and rainy seasons.

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“Glup! amber Glup!”

What happens when it rains too much?

But.

Wouldn’t the grasslands simply absorb it all?

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The grasslands suffered a massive flood, causing damage to countless animals.

“Kuuuong! palette Kuuuong!”

The ones affected the most were those without shelters.

Not at all.

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They were too small and weak and were swept away by the current.

“Hmm.”

Especially the young.

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Ludwig.

And someone was watching that scene unfold in real time.

He was still wearing that heavy armor to maintain his defense.

“So that’s why this animal has such long legs.”

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“……”

Giraffes were known for having terrible tempers.

At that moment, he was riding a giraffe to escape the disaster.

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But Ludwig didn’t bother it.

‘If it hadn’t been for this animal, I would have been in serious trouble.’

The strange lump on its head had shown him how it judged things.

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It had merely moved beneath a huge tree to take a little shelter from the rain.

Riding on the giraffe, Ludwig looked up at its face.

Even in the middle of the flooded grasslands, the giraffe remained steady.

And it still stood there, unfazed.

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Accompanied by the trembling of the earth.

Then a tremendous roar reached his ears.

He turned his head toward the source of the sound.

Boom! attic Boom! arena Boom!

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Boom! wizard Boom! adapt Boom!

It was a tortoise.

And saw something difficult to believe.

Not a sea turtle.

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On its back, it carried an enormous mountain.

And it didn’t have an ordinary shell.

A land tortoise.

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With rains capable of causing floods, the animals began climbing onto its back.

If Grills had seen it, he would have called it a living “Noah’s Ark.”

Its size was just as terrifying as the mountain it bore.

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He was becoming more and more curious about Grills.

Ludwig silently watched the tortoise disappear into the distance and then looked away.

‘Can a person really live in a place like this?’

“……”

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It wasn’t a horse.

‘I’ll have to find a shelter on higher ground. alien Besides, I already have an excellent mount, so it won’t be that bad.’

The irony was that, at the very same time, the yard around Grills’s shelter had been completely destroyed.

It was a giraffe.

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