Karin and Soren stared at the vast snowy plains.

"It's the north!"

"This is my first time here! There really is nothing but snow here!"

Kang Oh's party crossed through the snowy plains, their horses leaving footprints in the snow. They were ambushed by white-furred, dog-like monsters, or Snow Hounds, along the way. They were only level 200.

Kang Oh didn't even need to intervene. Sephiro's arrows killed them instantly. After that, they didn't encounter anything in particular.

Sometime later...

Kang Oh's party stood before a giant wall of ice. It was their destination, the Alkasha Canyon. The wall was so high that it was obscured by the clouds. 

"There's a path here." Sephiro pointed towards one side of the wall. 

There was a passageway that cut through the wall. No, there was more than one.

"Which one do we use?" Karin asked.

"It doesn't matter which one we use. They all lead to the same place," Kang Oh said, recollecting what he'd heard from Santana's Adventurer Guild.

Kang Oh's party entered the closest passageway. 

Flap, flap, flap!

All of a sudden, a swarm of blue-eyed bats came flying out. They weren't your average...