Reminds me of what I once asked Gran.
That's history about the relationship between east and west across Mount Snow.
People from the old Doren kingdom, we live in, follow its roots to the country east of Mount Big Snow.
Originally, man's world consisted east of Mount Big Snow.
On the other side, there were a number of countries, each running its own life.
And from that country stood the great snow mountain, which is called the Spiritual Peak, on this side.
Apparently this spiritual peak was a great mountain of God and at the same time a border with the devil, a border to the world of death.
There used to be demons and such in the east.
But it seems that the increase in the number of people and the expulsion of demons have made them rarely even see demons in the other countries.
From such a demon-free world, beyond the Great Snow Mountain, where demons were scattered, was also a symbolic place of death.
To that end, there was a custom of sending people to the spiritual peak to die.
Send sinners toward the spiritual peak instead of putting them to death.
The sinners are never allowed to return to their country.
They were given only a few pieces of food to head to the spiritual peak. They were forced to cross the spiritual peak with their lives.
Mountains that follow heaven that you would never be able to tread on if you were normal.
But because the custom of sending sinners to spiritual peaks persisted in many countries in the same way for many years, only then did some of them begin to cross the spiritual peaks and reach the western side of the great Mountain of Death, where they begin to live.
That's our ancestor.
I mean, I guess the land I was born on would be a place of exile for the nations of the east, descendants of sinners, if history were to be broken.
That was a long time ago, and I don't think it's just a theory.
In fact, some other people would have crossed Mount Big Snow in search of new heavens and earth themselves, looking east to west.
But that's how humans from the east settled in the land and created society.
And it was the first king of the Doren royal family who put it together.
It will also be that it was the Church that was created that allowed people to expand their living areas in this land where demons were found from before the advent of the First King.
But there is still no one who has created a stable route to and from the east and west.
Only very rarely did the relationship continue east and west enough for people to come from the east.
Gran told me a lot of other things.
Gran's country of birth seemed to be a small country not that big.
The country has maintained itself by making various things and selling them to other countries.
Maybe if I tell you, it's close to feeling like the Bootica family.
So it seems that Gran has also been making different things since he was a young girl.
But Gran was unhappy.
That's in that I couldn't handle the demonic material.
They had seen little demons in the east thanks to people expanding their forces.
As a result, I had little chance of obtaining demonic material.
but it is widely known that once materials and the like also used demonic materials to make weapons and the like on the east side.
How long did Gran use such demonic materials to make him want to make things, and as a result, he went west beyond the spiritual peak, also known as the Mountain of God, which symbolizes death.
but it doesn't mean you can't even see any demons on the east side.
They say the so-called neighborhood barbarians trade in demonic materials every now and then.
There were magical users of giantization called Atmos warriors in their supposed proximity to the barbarians.
They giants live in detail where the boundaries of the rocks have been swept away.
The land is not a good place to flatter.
I can't pick much food.
So from inside Atmos, the giants were out making money.
That was the figure of a mercenary known as the Atmos warrior active on the battlefield.
Atmos warriors, who make a huge impact on the battlefield even if there is just one, fought for their lives for money.
but they sometimes scorned it for being a barbarian even if it was recognized as brave.
Is that why Tanatos is worried?
What do the humans who have betrayed and attacked us while saying they will hire Atmos warriors do to the humans in Atmos who only see them as barbarians?
Having managed to escape and come west, Tanatos wonders what treatment he would be receiving if there were survivors inside.
Summarize your thoughts as you remember Gran's story.
The land to the east is an ancestral land for us, but now it's a story of a distant past, with little interaction at present.
A lot of problems could arise if such a crossover from the west visited the Atmos where Tanatos was born.
When that happens, does it also require some arming?
It's not safe to cross Mount Snow.
We will also have to think and act to ensure safety over there.
And the route Gran and Tanatos used over the pivotal mountain, but as far as I heard the story, it wasn't likely to work.
Looks like we're both on our way down the river.
Many who came east to west over Mount Big Snow have apparently floated boats to the river along the way.
Instead of rugged mountain roads, it would have been somewhat more viable to travel up the river stream.
but that's not like going back to the river, and for that reason it doesn't seem to work as a route from west to east.
I have no choice, so I'll have to manage to find a route that I can get to on land.
He was circling his thoughts that way, running off the wind on Valkyrie's back with horns.
A big snow mountain approaches in front of me.
High, steep, great mountains that have torn people apart.
A white world covered in snow that can never be solved.
Use [Ice Essence Summoning] to combat the cold before entering that snow mountain.
And the Oriental Expeditionary Army, riding on Valkyrie as it were, enters Mount Big Snow.
Autumn of 2 years of the Garrod calendar.
At a time when temperatures began to settle slightly after a hot summer, the Eastern Expeditionary Force, led by the Barca family of the Kingdom of Fontana, began to cross the mountains of heavy snow without common sense.