The temperature starts to drop in the mountains very quickly in the hours after midday.
The winds blow from all directions when they hit the mountain walls.
Tikshna, Kara and I are searching in our third crevice.
"Nothing" Kara retracted her right hand. Dark shadows swayed in the air and seed to enter the palm of her hand.
In her left hand she holds her black twisted wood mage staff. Kara looks like a dark spot on a white blanket.
"Mm!
This place seems to be solid rock without underground caves or anything." In front of , a map floats in the air. With the help of a quill and red ink I marked the place with so symbols.
"Shall we go back?" Tikshna acted as guardian to one side. All this ti she has kept her Familiar form activated.
Tikshna looks like a female Minotaur with a height of almost two ters and that without counting the pair of white horns that grow on her head.
Her feet transford into hooves sink into the snow because of the weight and the little white cow that should be lying on Tikshna’s black and white hair is actually lying on my hair on top of my head.
Tikshna’s familiar when summoned is a cow with physical form, just like Professor Rudelle’s wolf. But few Beast-type Familiars have a fusion form with their contractor.
When Tikshna is in her minotaur form the little cow becos small and cannot fight on her own like when she is in her natural form.
But although it seems that she has a ghost form in this state she is actually tangible when she wants to, so I can hold her and even lay her on my shoulder or on top of my head. Like an accessory.
And since Tikshna has no exploration skills she can only keep an eye on the surroundings and be a kind of gate guardian.
Thanks to my spatial ability I can explore beneath my feet deep into the earth and I can fake my exploration with my earth elent magic.
On the other hand, Kara can explore using ghosts that if this were a horror movie it would be creepy. In this way we have already explored three places that according to Xuexue could be places with entrances deep into the mountain and to the ancient ruins.
Although we have found caves and crevices, so had a pair of wolves and other animals. We did not find accesses that go very deep.
Obviously we do not confront the animals of the mountain, they have their lives and we cannot just co and kick them out of their hos right?
With Kara’s abilities and mine we can explore without disturbing the fauna of the place.
As for the flora...
"We are leaving, just let pick that flower ~" I reply to Tikshna with a smile while returning the map to the magical space of the Na of Cards network.
A small sparrow with feathers of multiple colors chirped softly picking up the map that rolled up by itself in the air and after making a turn around disappeared entering so waves that spread in the air as if it were water.
Afterwards, jumping with the help of my spatial ability and wind magic I climbed a rock wall to one side. I had already spotted a special flower that is necessary for potions.
Throughout this day, apart from exploring the place, I have been paying attention to materials for the potions and alchemy classes. Maybe the alchemy teacher is a bit pedantic and looks at with disgust, but I have learned good things.
A small white-bluish Flower that grows in rocky crevices exposed to the wind. Its petals look like ice crystals and are collected only when they are covered with morning frost. It serves for cold resistance potions or to stabilize volatile mixtures with fire and lightning materials.
It is called Ice Tear or Mountain Cry Crystal since its crystal petals fall as if the mountain were crying.
Although it is recomnded to collect them only when they are covered with morning frost but with my natural fairy abilities that give a great affinity to flora, all the plants I collect almost jump into my hands on their own initiative.
My backpack already has new boxes of wood, tal and jade that carry Frozen Root Mud, Cold Moon Moss and many Stone Claw Roots.
I have also found Snow Tin and Mountain Lead, tals used in weapon forging and in alchemy.
Perhaps because of the place, I have found more materials than the ti we went to the Blue Crystal Grass Village.
Although among all the materials I have found I have seen algae, although we are on the northeast coast of the continent, there should not be this type of deep-sea algae near the equator. Besides how did algae get to the mountains?! Although they are pieces of dead and frozen algae it makes no sense that they are here.
Since it is sothing strange, I have noted it in notes on the Quest map.
In a few jumps, I reached the place where the Ice Tear flower is. Carefully and gently I touched the petals with my fingers. Transmitting a little fairy dust through the fingers of my right hand the small white bluish flower began to glow slightly.
So, taking out a white wooden box, I managed to place the white flower after unearthing it from the mountain stone. With my earth magic although it is not high level it is easy for to control rocks and stones and let the flower free itself without damaging its roots.
"Ready ~ " I said while closing the lid of the wooden box and returning it to my backpack.
I was about to go down when suddenly a strong wind blew hard.
"Ah!?"
"Vremya!!"
"Vrem!!"
"Ah! ~ I am fine ~
I can fly, hehehe ~ " after descending a couple of ters I stabilized in the air.
But I could not help but shiver from the cold.
Looking towards the sky, I could see that there were more and more clouds.
"Good! Let us go to the eting point. It is getting late." I said while falling gently onto Xuexue and hugging her fur.
"Good.."
"mm"
After a few minutes, I arrived at the agreed location.
"Vremya... You..." Dianeira was already there with a bonfire lit.
Xifia upon seeing Xuexue also showed an expression as if saying —I knew it—
After a few minutes Magen and Destan also arrived.
"Great! It is Xuexue! Yoo~
Vremya Here!!!" Magen raised her hands excitedly making signals.
When Magen arrived at the location. Magen hugged Xuexue and Xuexue seed not to mind.
Xuexue has already gotten used to the girls I suppose.
Then, taking advantage of the bonfire, I took out again the camping table, the grill and the ingredients for a new roasted at ~
"Wow, after eating roasted at so many tis does the weight not worry you?" Destan said suddenly from one side.
"I think only the boys worry about weight, look at Magen and Tikshna, how fat they are and they do not mind continuing to eat..." Dianeira replied.
"I... I am not..." Tikshna wanted to argue but with a piece of beef in her hand and her mouth full she did not seem very convinced.
"Tikshna is not fat. She looks good like that, I like it" in my heart I gave Tikshna a thumbs up.
Tikshna’s figure can be said to be chubby, but not to the point of being fat. She has all the air of a cowgirl from the old west.
"Vrem... ~ ~ ~ " Tikshna got excited when she heard . Her face turned extrely red. I almost feared she could faint. But it seems she is fine, she just lowered her gaze and hid behind the beef steak.
"I am not fat either! I have strong muscles look!" Magen stood up and pointed to her arms doing flexes.
"Do not talk with your mouth full, stupid." Xifia gave Magen a hit on the head.
"Besides, the one who seems to care the least about weight is Vremya who enjoys eating more than the won"
"Eh? Why should I worry about gaining weight? I have always eaten like this since I was little and my body never gains weight..." I replied while looking at Dianeira and shrugging my shoulders.
I do not care at all about weight, in fact, all this ti I have eaten a lot to help in the growth of my body and although a long ti ago I accepted that I would not build muscles no matter how much at I ate or how much exercise I did now I just like to enjoy the food.
Then I continued grabbing at and giving it to the three little kittys that I -summoned- from my personal space. This ti there is no blanket to lie on so they can only stand in the snow while I give them pieces of roasted at.
"Wow.."
"Vrem..."
"if the other boys heard you they would definitely want to kill you.."
While we were talking about trivial things during lunch a new cold wind blew hard again.
"We must hurry, bad weather is coming. We do not want the storm to catch us still in the mountain" Dianeira pointed out.
And it is true, for so ti now it seems that the weather is moving in a direction of climatic phenonon.
"Good! If everyone is already full, then let us pick everything up and leave!
Get ready to run back to the city! For those who care about weight this race back can help you lose a little ~ "
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