Chapter 3099: ()° Never Throw Away Good Stuff!
The next afternoon, after Tibbers had finished sending off another group of yaksha monks who had come to patrol the snowy path leading to the mountain gate and check on things, the troublesome little girl—who had woken up, eaten and drunk her fill, and had nothing better to do—finally set off for Mirror Lake, led by that big macaque.
Yes, the place the birdman from last night had mentioned—the one who'd been beaten up and thrown out.
At first, Annie hadn't wanted to go.
But considering what the local earth god from Little Western Heaven had said last night, and that the other party wanted to lure her and Tibbers over there—and considering that Lesser Thunderclap Temple wasn't going anywhere—her curiosity had been piqued. She decided to go take a look first and see what kind of scheme they were up to.
There was no path leading to Mirror Lake. At least, Annie hadn't seen one. There were only rugged, difficult-to-traverse gorges and abysses, and ordinary people certainly couldn't make it across.
Fortunately, their guide—the big macaque, namely the Red-Bottomed Horse Monkey—wasn't human. For such a powerful ape, climbing, leaping, and swinging between the gorge walls was no challenge. He might even have been more practiced at it than at walking on flat ground.
And Annie wasn't an ordinary person, either!
Even with the deliberately feeble-looking black wind she conjured, she could easily fly across the perilous, frigid gorges with her own "monkey," Tibbers.
So it didn't take them long to reach the lake, deep in the snowbound mountains.
Of course, calling it a lake might not have been quite right, because it was completely frozen over.
"Hmm?"
(.)
"This place is..."
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(゜-゜)
Looking at the scene before her, Annie scratched