Arise From Weakness (OC/ Male Reader x Arifureta)

(S3) Chapter 73 Schnee Snow Fields

No one's POV

As Fernir floated high above the clouds, it gave offthe illusion that it was gliding through an actual sea like a massive manta ray.

Shea: Wow. I can't see the ground at all. It's like how the Haltina Woods look from the sky.

Shea's bunny ears twitched excitedly as she looked out of the bridge's round window. The clouds they were passing through certainly did resemble the mist that covered the Haltina Woods. The sight reminded Shea of her favorite place in the forest, the tree that served as her mother's Mona's grave.

She thought back to the night she'd spent
with Nhazul there, where they'd gazed up at the moonlit fog and talked about their feelings.

After many trials and tribulations, she'd finally been able to enter the kind of relationship she'd wanted to with him. Shea giggled bashfully to herself and her ears and tail started wagging back and forth.

Yue. Mmm... It's always cloudy over the Schnee Snow Fields. And there's always a blizzard going. It's the coldest place on the continent.

Yue muttered, as she turned from her own
window and gave Shea a faint smile. The Schnee Snow Fields were a large tundra that covered the southeastern edge of the continent. They were bordered on the west by the Demon Empire of Garland, and on the north by the Haltina Woods. Supposedly they were covered by clouds twenty-four seven, and never saw the light of day.

Worse, the snowfields were covered by a perpetual blizzard. Everything was coated in layers of snow and ice, and the temperature never rose above a few dozen degrees below freezing. Its hellish climate was the most extreme on all of Tortus.

Hajime: There's no way that weather's natural...

Hajime muttered as he lounged on a sofa. His [Demon Eye] was glowing bluish-white through his eyepatch. Though he looked like he was relaxing, he was in fact constantly monitoring the external cameras installed on various places on the Fernir through his eye.

Tio: Both the blizzard and the clouds conspire to isolate the snowfields entirely from the rest of the world. I would assume this is the work of the Liberator who constructed this labyrinth.

As she'd said, the Schnee Snow Fields were entirely cut off from the rest of the world. What was even more impressive was that the blizzard never pushed past its boundaries into demon territory in the west or the Haltina Woods in the north. Some invisible barrier kept the weather confined to a set area. While Tortus may have been a fantasy world, Both Nhazul and Hajime highly doubted whether like that was a natural phenomenon. Kaori, who was hovering around Hajime, suddenly looked out the window.

Kaori: Umm... there's supposed to be this huge crevasse in the snowfields right? And the final labyrinth's supposed to be at its bottom?

Nhazul: Yeah. The labyrinth of snow and ice The Frost Caverns.

Kaori: The reason most people think there's a labyrinth down there is because the weather's clearly unnatural, and not a single person has returned from there alive, right?

Hajime: Basically. But we know for sure it's down there, Kaori. Since Miledi told us directly. We got our information from
one of the Liberators directly, so there's no doubt it's solid.

Kaori nodded in understanding. At the same time, she felt they were kind of cheating by flying right through the harsh polar environment of the snowfields, which were likely part of the labyrinth's trial.

Tio: So how is it, Master? Is the compass working?

Tio leaned over to get a better look at the compass in Hajime's hand. In doing so, her voluptuous breasts dangled right in front of Hajime's face. Hajime leaned back a little
and nodded.