Chapter 395: Frosted Trance

"Are you saying they encountered a monster…?" He asked, feeling his heartbeat begin to climb. 

"I'm just saying that something had to come along that made them realize they couldn't just stand around," Jae-Seong affirmed. 

It was a possibility he didn't want to accept, but it was the most reasonable explanation for the group marching ahead without them. 

Fedrin kept his free hand close to his chin as he nodded to himself, "I see. That would be the most plausible reason, wouldn't it?" 

It was sparsely seen through the layers of gray, damp mist that skewed his vision, but he could make out the land that they were introduced to: a gaping cove that seemed to lead into the innards of the mountain walls--thriving with thick, intertwined foliage and flowers--unseemly for the dank realm. 

A ceiling of protruded stone from the mountains that enclosed around them loomed over their heads now.