Chapter 698: A coal in a cold weather (1/2)
Author: M_W Cancer
Proofreader: M_W Miss Fierce
At this moment, Leo, Elmont, and Osborne had stopped moving and gathered together under a part of a tree where there were a lot of branches and thick enough leaves to cover them from the snowstorm.
”Are they perhaps planning to freeze us all to death?!” Leo expressed his thoughts.
From thunderstorms, it soon after became a snowstorm. The effect of these two phenomena combined altogether is extreme coldness. It is like drenching oneself with water and then afterward walking into the snow.
The body being drenched with water has already caused one's own body temperature to go down. And to make matters even more worst, they were soon after exposed to something even more, colder, which further lowered one's own body temperature.
If this continues, it would only take some time before they finally freeze to death, just as Leo had thought.
Shivering from the cold, Osborne asked, ”Your Highness, Elmont, does being one of the hosts of the Emerald Elven Battle Competition before allow you a perk of knowing the obstacles in advance?”
”I'm afraid not,” Elmont shook his head while his arms were now crossed between his chest due to the cold. But he quickly added, ”But I am guessing that the reason for this second obstacle is because there is still no one that got eliminated,”
Although Princess Tifa and Princess Tila had reduced the size of the map by twenty-five square kilometers, causing the map to only have seventy-five square kilometers remaining, it was still big enough nonetheless for twenty-five players to move around the place without encountering other players.
In addition to that, because of the thunderstorm, the majority of the players were unable to travel a large distance, unlike Leo, Elmont, and Osborne. This further causes them to not be able to find other players.
Evidently, this only means to say that Princess Tifa and Princess Tila's first obstacle had backfired on them. And in order to fix this problem, they decided to choose snowstorms as the second obstacle, hoping to eliminate players through natural phenomena.
Hearing Elmont's words, Osborne immediately realized the direness of their current situation. He hastily exclaimed, ”This is extremely bad! We need to look for a good place to hide ourselves from the cold, or at least somewhere that could lower the cold we are experiencing right now. Otherwise, it would be possible for us to be eliminated due to getting frostbite all over our body, or worst, just like what Guild Leader Loki had just said, freeze to death,”
”I agree, but the question is, where exactly can we hide?” Leo asked as he turned to look at Elmont for suggestions. The latter has already shown how good he is at explaining things. And maybe from his explanation alone, another similar situation as before would repeat once again where Osborne would find a solution to their problem.
As if understanding what Leo wanted him to do, Elmont didn't hesitate to shake his head and reply, ”Don't look at me like that! I also don't have any idea about dealing with snowstorms. As a matter of fact, I haven't even experienced a snowstorm in the Emerald Tree Kingdom in the past. Our geographic location apparently prevents us from having one,”