264 – Milestone
Even the same words have different interpretations depending on the time and situation.
Even if it’s something you don’t normally want to hear, sometimes it can be a compliment.
“It’s boring.”
Loka yawned and muttered. Her child’s tail seemed to agree with her words, and she wiggled here and there with a bored expression.
Roka is a child who doesn’t know how to hide her raw expression. Her words and facial expressions are not indifferent, and when she is upset, she lets it out.
If a child is bored, they are really bored, and if a child says they are bored, they are really bored. Well, it’s not strange. This is the North Pole, where there is only snow and ice, and there is nothing to see.
I’ve heard that there are at least some animals like seals and walking birds in Antarctica, but the North Pole is really empty. No matter how you looked at it, our group was the only living thing. No, technically there is one more under our feet.
“It was amazing at first, but now it’s a bit weird.”
Yanid also agreed. This trip to the North Pole was extremely dull and boring. From the beginning, it was impossible to encounter adventurers or monsters while walking down the street. Even wandering merchants, who were found wherever people lived, would not be able to withstand the extreme cold of the Arctic.
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“Even though the terrain seems to be changing, you only see the same sight…”
In some places there were large cliffs, and in other places there were hills made of snow. In most cases, there is only a wide snow field. These few features appear repeatedly at every turn along the way, so Roca and Yanid, who found it fascinating at first, have long since lost interest.
“I thought it would be a fun trip since it said it was in the North Pole.”
“I knew you would say that. “Because it was like that before.”
So I smiled and answered. I used to think that way, even before I set foot on the North Pole for the first time. Still, since the name is the North Pole, I felt like I could experience something amazing. I was secretly hoping that I would be able to greatly broaden my perspective.
It wasn’t just me, our entire party at the time thought that way. Yunelle, who usually had little emotional agitation, was somewhat moved by the fact that she was traveling to the North Pole, and Parnell was completely excited and prepared for the trip. After all, it is the North Pole. It is the most unknown travel destination in the world, with the average person never having the opportunity to set foot on the Arctic land even once in their lifetime.
-Now I understand why the Arctic is still an undeveloped land. Of course, there is nothing to see if you come here.
What I came to see with such interest and anticipation is exactly what I am seeing now. Perhaps even time had frozen, and the scene between then and now had not changed at all.
-I had high expectations, but I’m disappointed.
There is no one living there, so there is no change and the things to see do not change no matter when you come. Of course, I was happy then and now. The fact that these complaints came out in a place like this meant that I was doing my job properly.
The Arctic is originally a place that pushes the human body and spirit to the limit. This is a place where all your stamina is used up just to withstand the extreme cold. In a place like this, it is difficult for even masters who have reached the limit of humanity to maintain their strength.
Being able to complain about being boring. In a way, that means I’m doing my job right. Having some stamina left to vent your boredom would never be a bad thing in a place like the Arctic.
-It doesn’t seem like that is necessarily the case. I think I can see something other than snow and ice.
And there really isn’t much time left to feel that boredom. Once the harsh cold stopped blocking our path, there was nothing in the North Pole that could stop us any longer.
It was worth picking up the pace. We are now almost at the North Pole.
I crossed the line of cold that no one could cross and entered an area that no one could cross. To be exact, we wouldn’t have been the first.
-It’s not worth coming all the way to the North Pole to see it.
A lifeless body that was once human can be seen wherever people live.
Corpse. There was also a frozen body sitting half buried in the snow, as if to tell us that this was not the first time we had arrived here.
The entire body was covered with a high-quality coat made with generous amounts of fur, but it was unable to block the cold of the North Pole. I couldn’t help but sigh at the sight of the person frozen solid, like an ice statue. The body was not one of them. There were several people around.
-They are like idiots. If you want to die, you can just hang yourself. Should you have come all the way to the North Pole and died painfully? The closer you get to the North Pole, the colder it becomes exponentially stronger.
Perhaps a group of adventurers came here to conquer the North Pole, but were ultimately defeated and frozen by the North Pole. I tried using divine power just in case, but still. They had already died a long time ago. He has already gone beyond the scope of recovery and has gone to the world beyond death.
-A person must know how to give up. I must have come all the way around here before and returned. It’s already close enough to the North Pole. Even if you move forward a little from here, the cold can become several times stronger. Even as a rookie, I guess I can see it as the price humans pay for not being afraid of the cold.
Unlike us who came here after miraculously protecting our bodies, these brave adventurers who came here feeling the pain of their hands getting cold and their bones freezing, buried themselves well in the snow. Perhaps because they had already frozen, their screaming expressions could still be seen vividly.
Roca must have been shocked, but he never mentioned being bored again. We are reminded of the fact that what we are doing now is a polar exploration where even the slightest mistake could lead to death.
I only reached this place thanks to the Lord’s protection and the protection of feathers, as if I was on a cruise. The North Pole area we have now entered is a kind of ban where humans should not visit. Even if you manage to survive, it is a place you cannot return to alive.
Nature ordered it that way.
And he breathed his coldest breath into this North Pole.
Nevertheless, it seems that humans have challenged, challenged, and challenged again. The group of brave adventurers we buried were not the only ones.
“There are more bodies. Still, I think these people have come this far.”
We encountered several more dead people, as if this was a signpost indicating that this was the road to the North Pole. Everyone wore different clothes, and sometimes their appearance was also different. There were also cases where they appeared to be of a different race rather than human.
Instead of being a heterogeneous race that is relatively close to humans, such as elves or beastmen, I actually discovered a race that I had never seen before. It may be a species that has already gone extinct and disappeared from the continent, but unfortunately, it was impossible to recognize it.
We humans were not the only ones who challenged the North Pole. Even though all their predecessors knew that they had lost, there were adventurers who courageously attempted to reach the North Pole and aimed for it.
I have never seen the devil in person,
I have never suffered any harm from the devil,
There is no benefit to cutting off his head and taking it, but
Nevertheless, there were always people on the continent who challenged Grimudo.
Just because they could challenge the most powerful Demon King, they were willing to do so. They may not have known that they could die as a result, but that didn’t stop them.
Whether we succeed in subduing Grimudo,
Whether we succeed in conquering the North Pole,
Either way, it is definitely something that can bring great honor.
His name will probably be engraved in history and remain forever.
But I don’t think that fame would have lured them to the North Pole.
If someone was wise enough to calculate all that, they wouldn’t have thrown away their lives in a place like this. These people had no such grand calculations or goals. I just gave myself a task.
[There are so many fools who throw away their lives with their own hands… If they had turned around a long time ago, their lives could have been saved!]
The dragon clicked its tongue and muttered as it looked at the group of corpses. Among those who have discovered so far, they came closest to the North Pole, but ultimately did not succeed in reaching the North Pole.
-It’s not that I can’t understand. The North Pole is really right in front of our eyes. An adventurer can never refuse it. Do you think there are people who would rather die at the North Pole than return alive? Of course, there is no such thing as normal, but an adventurer who comes to a place like this is no longer an ordinary type.
They were the last bodies we found. It was also the greatest achievement that humans had achieved in the Arctic.
From then on, only snow and ice were visible again, and only the wind blew.
Pushing through the snow, braving the wind, walking on a path no one has walked on since the beginning of time.
Finally, we reached the North Pole. And I could finally see it standing there.
What was waiting for me there.
It was neither good nor evil.
It was a miracle achieved with just one persistence.