I Got 999 Level With One Cut

After Riko and Meiko packed up their things and stopped for a short while, they left this lifeless town and headed into the distance.    

Before they left, the old man sitting in the inn manager's seat slightly opened his eyes to the last two guests who left.    

"Where are you going?" He dragged his voice and slowly asked.    

Meiko thought about it. She originally did not intend to admit it, but after thinking about it, she could not find any other excuse.    

Who would come to a place like Bentham, which was almost removed from the official map of the kingdom?    

Wasn't it to investigate the secrets of Harrenbrook?    

Therefore, she admitted it rather straightforwardly.    

"We are going to explore that place." Meiko pointed at the huge mountain range in the distance.    

" Oh."    

The old man slowly nodded and turned to look at Riko.    

"What is your relationship?"    

Meiko thought about the relationship between her and the silver-haired girl. She felt that it would be a little troublesome to explain, so she simply began to fabricate a story.    

"She is my younger sister."    

Riko blinked her eyes and did not speak. She tacitly agreed.    

"Okay."    

The old man sighed heavily.    

"What happened to the young people recently? Just a few days ago, there was a little girl who looked a bit older than you. She didn't look like a mage or a warrior. Then, she broke into the mountain alone. I don't know if she's still alive or not."    

He waved his hand.    

"Anyway, take care of yourselves."    

When they bid farewell to Bentham and the hotel, they took all their luggage and set off towards the west.    

The Palewhite Region was actually a very small Plane. Even if they were to head in any direction from the capital city in the center of the Plane, it would not exceed three thousand kilometers at most. They would encounter an insurmountable obstacle. Regardless of whether they were heading east or west, they would always bump into this mountain range that stretched from the North Pole all the way to the South Pole, the Harrenbrook. If they walked north or south, the explorers would have to face an incomparably terrifying low temperature. At a latitude close to the Polar Region, the snow and wind from the Plane in the Palewhite could even threaten the lives of Great Devil Instructor warriors. And the creatures that lived under such extreme conditions, every single one of them had extremely powerful strength.    

Sealed Duke, Barents, had gone into secluded cultivation in that environment for three years before he walked out of his own path. He became the first mage in the world to specialize in Ice element. It was because of his existence that the attribute of "ice", which had always been regarded as a Water element branch, officially gained the status of an element.    

Bentham was already the border of the Palewhite Region in the far west of Aldran. No matter which map it was on, this town that was about to disappear would always be the first stop beside the mountain range in the west that marked danger and could not be approached.    

At the same time, this meant that if they left the Bentham and continued to walk west, there would be no road waiting for them in front of them.    

Unless they could cross the entire Harrenbrook and appear on the east side of the Palewhite Region.    

However, until now, no one had ever done this.    

Including Sealed Duke and Barents, everyone had returned from their original route.    

Although no one knew how vast this mysterious mountain range was, some mages speculated that it was between 300 to 400 kilometers wide based on the curvature of the ground in Palewhite Region.    

All in all, from the moment they left the town, Riko realized that there were no more roads ahead.    

"It seems like we are still very far from there."    

The silver-haired girl looked into the distance and blinked. She stretched out her hand towards Meiko.    

"Let me take you there."    

The blond Shield Knight looked at her outstretched hand and was momentarily stunned.    

Riko did not know if Meiko was hesitating or if she suddenly remembered something. She would not use psychological magic on people she was familiar with.    

But Meiko still held onto her in the end.    

A cold metallic feeling came from her palm.    

After a short incantation, the wind sent them flying.    

Even though the mountain peak in front of them looked incomparably huge, it occupied two-thirds of their field of vision. It was towering and out of reach, but the Bentham was still a few dozen kilometers away from the true Harrenbrook Mountain. The wide area between the Bentham and the Harrenbrook Mountain was filled with debris and small stones.    

The clear and cloudless sky looked at the grey and boring land. Among those stones, Riko could find a few magical plants with tenacious vitality. However, they were all too small. As a pharmacist, it was common knowledge not to pick these young plants.    

Riko was basically certain that even if there was soil in this place, it was definitely not suitable for magic plants to grow.    

The botanical gardens in the core area of Palewhite Region, no matter how advanced the magic plants were, were cut one wave after another. They grew faster than humans.    

Occasionally, Riko could see a few stone piles that were obviously higher than the rest of the ground in her field of vision. Some of them had a stone slab inserted into them, while others were just a small pile. A mark that was easily forgotten. These things were used to commemorate the tombstones of those who died in the exploration of the Harrenbrook.    

The family of the adventurers did not dare to venture deep into this mountain range to find out where their family was. For what reason did they die? Thus, they had no choice but to come to this small town and stare at the distant mountain peak. To build a small memorial.    

Even if the real tombstone had been weathered over a thousand years, and the words on the stone had been eroded to the point that they could no longer be read, even if the last person who remembered their names had died a thousand years ago, the marks were still there. It was as if it was a sign that such a group of people had once existed in the world.    

Even though Meiko's armor looked especially heavy, with the addition of the shield, it might be a few hundred or even a thousand kilograms in total.    

But when Riko held Shield Knight's hand and flew into the distance, she did not feel this weight at all.    

It was like she was holding a bird.    

The Wind Element in the group flight skill could also be used on Meiko's body to make Riko have the illusion that she was not holding a few hundred kilograms of iron.    

Riko used half an hour to fly over the distance of dozens of kilometers. It was not considered very fast. This was indeed not the fastest time she flew.    

However, the debris below disappeared bit by bit. When the dark stone walls of the mountain extended out from the ground like the claws of a giant dragon, Riko suddenly felt that there was an obstruction in front of her.    

It was as if someone was pressing on her head to make her return to the ground.    

Even if this strength was not very strong and even if Riko could easily break through this barrier, she still suspended in the air and turned her head around.    

"There seems to be a restriction that prevents mages from flying here. It might be a high-power Forbidden Air Formation, or some kind of force field, but I can ignore it. Do we still need to continue flying? "    

" No need, let's return to the ground. "    

Meiko smiled and rubbed Riko's head.    

She turned her head and her eyes revealed nostalgia.    

"When we reach this place, we will be considered to have truly entered the border of the Harrenbrook."