Before heading to the shrine on the mountain, the group returned to the houses of the villagers where they had briefly stayed.

Although it was true that the waddling walkers who looked like villagers had disappeared since the sun had risen, Henry directed the group to check the surrounding environment to ensure safety. After that, he removed the non-functioning alarm and repacked it for later use, and then went inside the house.

A shambled villager's hut, where everything in the house was covered with hoarfrost because a wall was kicked by a small unicorn while fleeing.

The surface of the unfinished soup froze, and the part that Caleva had stepped on turned into a dazzling white crystal clear next to the fire pit. The broken paper windows swayed in the cold wind, and because the sunlight was blocked by the eaves, it was much colder to stay inside than outside.

Shaking their heads, shaking off the thought of greedy for the warmth of the sun under the clear sky, the group walked into the house and began to check the supplies left behind.

"Wow. Kaleva began to make a fuss again, which made the troubled girl of Luoan, who had not fully recovered her spirits, very dissatisfied. The young porter's exclamation was due to the drying of the laundry, and the cloak hung near the bathroom to dry was also frosty because it had not been dried by the temperature of the flue that had not burned. When you pick it up, you shake it and drop the fine ice ballast.

Cloaks made of wool are not too problematic because they are waterproof, at least compared to warm clothing made of cotton and linen.

Because the paper windows were destroyed and the walls were kicked down, the whole house lost its ability to protect from the wind and rain. The damp sea breeze blew the damp sea breeze all night, so when the group got their warm clothes made of cotton and linen, they were frozen hard enough to be used to beat people.

"Let's get some sun, we need something to eat too. After checking his surroundings, the sage spoke.

His judgment was always sound. Last night's dinner was interrupted in the middle of the meal, and although they had barely rested underground for a few hours, and now they didn't feel tired because of their high spirits, several people in the team, including Mira, vomited their stuff, and they had to eat something for the rest of the trip, even if they had no appetite at all.

The unnamed hill where the shrine is located is some distance from here, and although it doesn't look particularly high from this distance, according to Lulu, who has been there before, the stairs on the mountain are narrow and steep, and it is very difficult to climb. If you want to solve your doubts or escape from this area as soon as possible due to the fear in your heart, most of you will not be able to climb the mountainside, and some people will be tired and lie down.

If you don't eat to replenish your energy, you can't do anything. This kind of thing is something that even Aggie, who has a weak mental capacity, can understand. If the scholars had not been left behind, the pampered Lisa and other younger generations might have started complaining that they had no appetite to eat, and then lost their temper and refused to eat, and then became a drag on the way forward.

But the missionaries knew how to survive, and even though they had just buried a companion and were exhausted by many unexpected circumstances, those who survived had to move on.

No one is obligated to take care of you, and even if a companion does, don't take it for granted and enjoy it with ease.

The people of mainland Rigal are considered to be adults at the age of 14, and no country has the concept of a "child" except for Padrosi and the Southern City-State Alliance and the wealthy capital area of the Ottolo Empire.

Children should enjoy the support of adults, and grow up in a happy way of playing and learning, a mindset that only wealthy upper-class citizens can produce. In most of the other impoverished kingdoms and remote areas, children are weakened versions of adults in every way, so they should do what adults should do, and they should have the consciousness that adults should have.

The missionary group, the Kaleva and our Loan girls all grew up in this cultural context. Self-reliance and trying not to cause trouble to others is a thought that has been cultivated since childhood. In contrast, Lisa and others, who grew up in a wealthy upper-class society and embraced the ideas of "advanced civilization", are more childish, despite their age – the average age of the scholars is 18 – and it is precisely because they have been overly pampered.

They spend more time demanding rights than being responsible. Even in the case that everyone suffers from a certain predicament equally, they will ignore the facts and think that they have been wronged and targeted, and thus begin to lose their temper childishly.

It is true that avoiding pressure on children and allowing adults to take on more is a sign of social development and progress, and there is room for more tolerance. But they are no longer in the civilized society of the Empire, which is rich in materials. Since we are going to embark on this kind of adventurous trip across the ocean to a strange continent that most people will never have in their lifetime, the basic ideological consciousness must still be done well.

After going through some hardships, maybe Lisa and the others will slowly become mature and self-reliant, but it will take too long. Scholars are too arrogant. Those who have been educated in the classical Lamanite are too proud. This is not unique to them, and many cultures that believe that their civilization has a long history have this tendency to put on a show. If the sense of superiority is combined with poor social skills and the city government, it will evolve into an attempt to overpower others by changing identities and seniority, resulting in unnecessary conflicts within the team.

If he had been traveling in the peaceful countryside of the Empire, Henry might not have chosen to exacerbate the conflict and split the team. Because annoying guys still have the possibility of growth, tolerance for fools is also a sign of maturity.

But they are now in a strange continent, operating in an unfamiliar sphere of influence, and as foreigners, they are hostile to the mainstream society. In this case, in the face of a situation that can change at any time, what is needed is a team mate who is adaptable and independent, not the trouble of not only being unable to support itself, but also causing trouble.

All in all, the fact that everyone is a sensible person is an important reason why the sage's command is effective. No one was working against you, and even if you really didn't have an appetite, in order to warm up your body and gain enough energy to continue moving, the group silently processed the food, and chewed and swallowed it with a slight compulsion.

No matter how strong the sun is in winter, it can't compare to the middle of summer, but fortunately, after a series of preparations and repacking, their clothes are finally dry.

Putting on familiar clothes again, the warm clothes made the mood a little better. And after changing back into the adventurer's costume that is fully protected and easy to move, Mira and Henry are finally back to their best.

The girl was lucky not to be seriously injured by her own sword, and the cushioning of her clothes and armor effectively protected her. Despite some slight bruising and some soreness when moving, she was able to move freely.

However, because the sword was completely damaged, Mira had to take over Caleva's one-handed sword and add a small shield, and they also found time to make many spears from knives collected in nearby houses combined with sticks, and then made simple shields out of nails and planks to arm everyone.

A well-stocked village has everything you need, and with enough tools and materials, it's not difficult to make some makeshift weapons and armor.

Even though you can get better quality Luna Nation-style armor and weapons if you go underground, even the most powerful sages don't want to take unnecessary risks.

Wrapping everyone in thick armor and picking up a high-quality weapon may sound like a desirable goal, but it doesn't really mean much.

Because the only people in the team who are truly professionally trained in combat are Henry and Mira, Lulu is better at tracking and hunting, while Caleva only looks tall and mighty, and although he has strength, he lacks the experience to use it properly.

The remaining three missionaries had no idea what fighting was all about. Belong to the kind of beings who give them a sword to swing, and they have a far higher chance of slashing their own people or spraining their waist and wrists than if they hit an enemy.

Therefore, it is enough to simply stab a spear forward and hold a shield that can form a protective shield.

If you have to take the risk of taking those armors and swords, they can only become a burden that consumes physical strength, and cannot constitute actual combat effectiveness.

It is not that just by picking up a weapon and putting on armor, a person will instantly go from a layman to a top warrior. It is true that a well-made suit of armor can greatly increase the survivability of the layman, but this is only limited to the situation where the opponent is also a layman.

As long as the opponent is well-trained and understands where your armor weaknesses are, you will have a higher chance of stumbling and dying faster because of your clumsiness while wearing armor.

Knowing this, Henry and Mira only made some simple weapons, but while searching for tools, Lulu also found a large bow in the house of a nearby hunter. The bow with a length of 1.5 meters was much taller than that of a small aboriginal girl, which made the Luoan girl, who was born in Arvenella and knew something about the bow, very worried about whether she would be able to pull it away, but Lulu held it against her cognition in the bottom three-quarters of the bow instead of in the center, and successfully pulled the bow in a very skillful manner, tested the pull and then slowly released it.

"Those of the Moon Country, you have to take it like this. Seeing Mira's curious eyes, Lulu answered in a short sentence.

She had no real cultural education, so she couldn't say anything, and the white-haired girl understood this and just nodded.

After obtaining the hunting bow and twenty arrows, combined with the three crossbows they recovered and the matching crossbows, the group was armed to the teeth this time.

With a shield nailed out of long vertical planks and stubby horizontal bars on all four sides, four spears made of kitchen knives, and three crossbows and a bow, with the small unicorn as the center, the seven were now able to form a well-balanced armed squad with both long-range and melee combat.

Although it was still a question mark over how much combat power the sharpening preachers and the stunned young man would be able to use, it was not admittedly that they at least looked quite intimidating.

On the way to the shrine, the people who had become habitual offenders "borrowed" the sleds that the villagers used to haul goods, and although it had not snowed for several days and the snow had melted, it was easier to drag things in the still hard frozen soil with a sled with a smooth bottom.

They packed all the supplies in their backpacks and put them in it first, dragging them out of a distance of several hundred meters in a labor-saving way, and only when they came to the bottom of the steep stone steps did they carry the backpack back onto their bodies.

This method of saving their physical strength prevented them from expending too much energy before climbing the mountain, but despite this, the group involuntarily took a deep breath as they looked at the steep staircase that had already reached hundreds of knots in the winding and disappearing into the mountain forest.

"Let's go. Leaving the sleigh behind, a group of seven people, including the little unicorn, began to climb the long staircase.

"It's magnificent, and, it's—" Mira thought as she thought about the words, "it's so old." ”

Climbing stairs are not uncommon in mainland Rigal, but they are usually found near the most prosperous cities. The shrine roads near such small villages are all paved with stone-hewn steps, and the construction period is at least a feature that can only be found in a country with a long history, regardless of financial resources.

"The god of the land of the moon .......," said the little gasping Age, "it is said that there are eight million." ”

"In a place like this, there are a lot of villages that are old. ”

"But because it changes every few decades, and because of the renovation and reconstruction, there is no way to tell how many years the foundation has existed without digging it out. ”

When they encountered something specialty, the missionaries became talkative. Their explanations more or less relaxed the atmosphere in the team, and in the second half, because Lulu was also interested, they changed to the language of the Moon Country and began to communicate.

The stairs that slowly ascended were more than 1,000 years old, and some places were so narrow that only half of the soles of their feet could be placed, and the frost made everyone slow down and be cautious.

It took them nearly an hour to climb two-thirds of the way, and after a turn, the end of the stairs finally came into view.

From here on, the conversation stopped because of exhaustion and some nervousness. The group fell silent again, and the novices couldn't help but clench their weapons and shields in order to draw courage from them.

"Ha-huh, ha-huh. Many of them began to gasp, and at the end of the staircase there was a huge red pillar standing high, with two horizontal stacks on top of each other, and the one on top of it was slightly cocked on both sides. From this distance, it is not clear whether it is wood or stony.

After walking for a while, they finally stepped onto the level ground.

The mountain wind was bleak, and there were some traces of snow on the ground, and it seemed as empty as the village. This somewhat eased the tension, but Mira frowned after looking at it for a moment.

"How do you feel..... It's more than you think. ”

"It's small. She said this, because the staircase was long and all stoned, and the girl expected to see a magnificent shrine when she reached the top, but the so-called "shrine" on it was only about the size of the village chief's house.

"Well, how to put it. The people of the Land of the Moon have a different concept of God than we do. Edge didn't know how to speak, he thought about it for a long time, but finally couldn't come up with an explanation. And the sage in front of them also interrupted them at this time - he waved his hand: "Prepare to go in and investigate." ”

So said.

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