Although she had no idea how to make up doctrines for the time being, and every option she could think of amounted to copying from here and there, just two days later, the impatient Sara quit her job as a waitress at Snow Smoke Manor. She planned to first bid farewell to her parents in Ice Hammer City before returning to her hometown, Ice Stone Valley.
That was where Sara's paternal family lived. Every year during the Snow Emperor Festival, she returned there with her parents to visit relatives, so she knew the place well. As long as she demonstrated the protective effects brought by the sacred icon, curing the villagers' minor ailments and old injuries, she believed it would take only a few days to turn all of Ice Stone Valley into a stronghold of the Silver Witch Church.
Meanwhile, Ivette still visited the Snowfields at regular intervals. Wearing a thick gray fur cloak, she crossed rugged paths buried beneath snow, exploring as she went and carefully marking her discoveries in a sketchbook with a quill, constantly refining her map of the Snowfields.
Occasionally, she would also rescue people struggling through blizzards or being chased by magical beasts, giving them that seemingly simple yet mysteriously powerful wooden sacred icon.
Thus, the initial news spread by Icefang Squad—that "the Snow Witch served the Silver Witch"—received cross-confirmation and began spreading at a rapid pace, its influence growing by the day.
At the border between the Edge Belt and the Cold Mountain Belt, inside a tavern in some adventurer town, the clamor of voices nearly lifted the beams made from whole fir trunks. The air was thick with the scent of roasted meat and ale, pinewood crackled in the fireplace, and the flickering flames stretched the shadows of the gathered hunters long