Chapter 301 Rome Stories February 21 New Share
As the elevator ascended, Leon could clearly feel the temperature rising. The chilly draft from before, which had felt so cold in the shaft, was nothing compared to the bone-piercing freeze of the fifty-first floor—it was practically a warm breeze now.
By the time he stepped back onto the surface, beads of sweat had begun to form on his skin without him even noticing.
When he first acquired the Frozen Soil Boots on the fiftieth floor, Leon had been fairly confident. But the moment he stepped onto the fifty-first floor, he learned what true cold meant.
The instant his feet touched the stairwell landing leading down to that floor, it felt as if every last bit of warmth had been ripped from his body. The biting cold pierced straight through his thin clothes, sinking into his very bones. The temperature was so terrifyingly low that Leon almost felt as if his blood had frozen and his heart had stopped—like he was one breath away from death.
If not for the Frozen Soil Boots shielding his feet and offering some relief from the stiffness caused by the cold, Leon doubted he would have been able to climb all the way back up to the fiftieth floor to catch the elevator.
That was the main reason he left the abandoned mines’ fifty-first floor without looking back. He was genuinely worried that, if he stayed there any longer, he’d end up half-frozen to death and trigger Nature’s Shelter, which would send him back to the surface.
Next time he went down, he’d have to prepare warmer clothes—but he suspected that no matter how many layers he wore, they wouldn’t be enough to withstand that kind of extreme cold. He’d probably need some special way to keep warm.
The first person who came to mind for a solution was Marlon, followed closely by the Hat Mouse.
Though Linus and the wizard Rasmodius were also options, Leon didn’t want to trouble either of them over something this minor.