บท 43: From Across The Dance Hall

"My potential bride and her bumbling husband," -- Ragnar

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Sophia had heard that the Metaena Mountains were a cruel environment when it came to the availability of food, game, and agriculture, as well as being filled with wild creatures, but they had been very generous with natural resources.

The main resources they mined were precious metals such as gold, silver, and platinum. Extreme temperature conditions in icy or glacial mountainous regions had helped form precious metal crystals.

They also had mines for gemstones like diamonds, emeralds, and sapphires. Remote and hard-to-reach areas in icy regions often held beautiful gemstones, including the Barsphirine Sacred Stone that Sophia had been wearing as a pendant hanging from her forehead on the head chain.