The sled in the sky rapidly accelerated, and Rot instinctively gripped its sides.
At that moment, Kaila seemed to notice something. The ice track, which had been extending smoothly forward, abruptly changed direction and began plunging downward.
And the slope seemed rather steep.
Rot stared straight ahead and watched as the Ice Reindeer stepped down, seeming to drop vertically out of sight.
Rot was not afraid of death, but the place they were in seemed to be at least as high as twenty or thirty buildings stacked together.
He had never been somewhere this high before. Looking down from such a height was a little frightening.
Still, it was not such a big deal. So what if it was high?
He comforted himself inwardly.
Then, it felt as though the ground beneath the entire sled had vanished.
"Aaaah!!!!"
Accompanied by Rot's scream, the sled began racing down the slanted ice track.
Amid the clouds below, densely packed monsters blocking the street came into view.
He Ao raised his head and looked ahead.
The transparent monsters covered in cracks collapsed one after another before him, turning into scattered ice crystals.
But the narrow street was quickly filled by new monsters.
Little Girl hugged the wooden box and nervously watched everything around her.
A faint outline of an eyeball embedded in an inverted triangle seemed to take shape in the void.
As those monsters rapidly drew near, cracks swiftly spread across their bodies. Then, just as they reached Little Girl, they exploded into scattered ice crystals.
The ice crystals drifted through the air, mingling with the blizzard and giving off a faint scent of hunger.
As this batch of monsters shattered into ice crystals, new monsters filled in from behind and approached He Ao and Little Girl.
He Ao raised his