Chapter 135:
As soon as they left the parking lot and began climbing the mountain path in earnest, the air turned noticeably colder.
With each breath, white mist curled from their mouths, and bare tree branches swayed helplessly in the wind. By temperature alone, it felt like late autumn or early winter.
It was so different from the real-world weather—where spring had arrived in full, with blooming flowers and warm sunshine—that it felt like stepping into another world entirely.
I looked up at the sky, thick with dark clouds, and pulled a cloak from my inventory to wrap around myself. Just that made the cold far more bearable.
This wasn’t ordinary cold. It was a chill born of some kind of power.
Rather than layering up with normal clothes, wearing a defense item like this cloak was safer. Ryu Sunghyun had also thrown on a defensive jacket. Being S-rank, he could probably endure without it, but still—
‘It’ll only get colder the higher we go.’
About thirty minutes into our climb—my cloak flapping in the slicing wind—it suddenly began to snow.
Under the wide expanse of dark clouds, white flakes began to fall. Snow bloomed thick on the tree branches, like flowers of ice.
The wind that had seemed to block our progress earlier had calmed a little, but the cold deepened. With the snow piling up, walking became harder.
“Are you okay?”
“Of course.”