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Chapter 604: Anna's Deterhtning flew into the castle's office and passed the last bird's eye view map of the snow mountain to Roland

"You've worked hard" Roland caressed the young girl's forehead "Do you have any new discoveries?"

"There was only snow and"Don't talk about dee aniined too ether thoroughly—although they were only drawn in sketch forraphs", he could at least make out a full view of the snow e, and its height was approxi on the mountaintop, one could clearly see the sea of clouds The mountain peak was not as steep and sharp as Roland expected Instead, it was a vast and flat area, and the e volcanic crater The only difference was that the concave portion was filled with a frozen lake, whose entire surface rese, she could see floater beneath the thick layers of ice

"What did you iine there would be at the peak?"

"Ruins, blackstone pagodas, rehed "I find itthat it's completely bare" He pointed at the newly-drawn htning turned her head and took one look at the map "It's within the clouds If it wasn't for the sound of rushing water, I wouldn't have noticed it There are ly large Their widths could be two to three hundredwater is comparable to that of thunder"

"Did you attempt to enter these cracks?"

"Uh"

"Be honest"

"I did try, but I couldn't" The young girl pouted her hts were sufficient to accommodate half a castle The problem was that the mist created by the rapids was too dense and thus I couldn't see anything It was also acco winds which pushed erous in the future" Roland glowered at her "Do you remember what you promisedany kind of exploration" Lightning drooped her head low

"That's right I'll forgo the hoie"

"Aye how about the snow mountain?"

"We'll halt the work for now" He stacked the maps neatly and kept them in a drawer "We shall wait until Sylvie returns before we talk about deeper explorations I have to placenodded and flew out of the

"What do you think?" Roland looked behind hiale appeared on top of the desk, where she sat cross-legged "The snowcold Who would choose to set up a ca shoes, Roland could not help taking a few more looks at her feet, which were cutely wrapped in white socks "Eh do you also think that the Mega within the snow uess If they are as skillful at burrowing as we believe, it won't be difficult for them to build dens in the ale see, could there be a connection between thee?"