Author: M_W Cancer 

Proofreader: M_W Miss Fierce

Initially, Elmont and Osborne were hesitating whether they should do as Leo had said or not. After all, traveling using the branches of trees is not as easy as walking on flat soil. One wrong move could potentially break a bone or two once they fall to the ground, or even worse, get seriously injured and die. Not to mention, with the heavy rain brought by the thunderstorm, the branches of the trees had become extremely slippery. 

Fortunately, such a hazard only applies to normal people. As for Mages like them, they could easily deal with that by simply;

"We will cast an Anti-slip spell onto our shoes so that we can avoid slipping onto the branches," Leo proposed. 

Just like what its name suggests, the Anti-slip spell prevents slipping or would make one highly resistant to slipping on slippery surfaces, such as branches of trees that were drenched by the rain. 

After casting an Anti-slip spell onto their shoes, Leo, Elmont, and Osborne felt like the branches they were standing on weren't slippery anymore. Even after deliberately trying to slide themselves, they were still unable to do it... or more like it was impossible to do it. 

Once they were done with checking and confirming whether it was safe or not to travel using the branches of the trees, Leo then led Elmont and Osborne as they continued with their journey to the northwest. 

"Tch! Why isn't there any Anti-mud spell? In such a way, we won't have to dangerously travel like this," Elmont can't help but complain as he stared down to his feet. Every time he jumps to another branch, he always gets this slightly fearful feeling of falling straight down to the ground instead of the tree branch. 

"I admit that this is a bit scary. But the more I jumped, the less scary it slowly becomes for me," Osborne expressed, evidently enjoying jumping from one tree to another right now. A total contrary of Elmont.

"Shouldn't Elves be more adept in jumping on trees than any other races in the Celestial World? After all, your Elf race lives in a forest, and I also read from some books that there are a few Elven territories that were said to live on top of huge trees," Leo really wonders why Elmont was so different from them. 

Elmont's face started twitching as he said, "I think you have misunderstood us for monkeys or apes," 

"Wow, I didn't expect that there would exist a group of beautiful and handsome monkeys and apes in the Celestial World. It seems like I need to learn more about Magical Beasts, lest the same situation happens again. Oh, by the way, what kind of monkey or ape are you, brother Elmont?" Leo sarcastically responded. 

"You..." Elmont was immediately rendered speechless by Leo's sarcastic response. It is indeed true that people of the Elf race are good when using the trees to travel from one place to another. But that doesn't literally mean every elf has such expertise, including him. Honestly, he hasn't trained a lot in such an area, as he always spends his time in battle arenas in the Emerald Tree Kingdom. That is the main reason why he is labeled as a battle fanatic in the first place. 

"Now, now, let's not continue any further with this argument. Instead, let's just focus on reaching our destination as soon as possible," Osborne interrupted to prevent their argument from escalating into something worst. 

With the argument between Leo and Elmont stopped by Osborne, they continued to silently travel towards their destination. Though they still talk from time to time, it would only be to discuss important matters such as the potential location of chests, plans to hunt for players, and possible obstacles that the hosts would throw at them.

Unlike earlier ago, the speed of their travel has noticeably increased by a large margin. They could cover up to ten meters or more in every single second, depending on how far the next branch they need to jump onto is. 

Not only that, the energy and stamina that the three of them had consumed has reduced by a lot. That is because most of their efforts are being spent on hovering mid-air after jumping from a branch of a tree. With the number of their actions reduced, it is only obvious that the energy and stamina they consumed are also low.

Before any of them could notice, an hour had already passed. This means that the next obstacle from the hosts is going to appear. 

As expected, after noticing the time, Princess Tifa and Princess Tila quickly announced the next obstacle. 

But before that, they first reduced the size of the map again by ten kilometers, causing the map to shrink even more smaller than before. Good thing that at this moment, they didn't reduce the size of the map by a quarter of the original size, like earlier ago.

And not too prolonged the wait of everyone, they finally revealed the second obstacle. 

It was a snowstorm!

The huge dark cloud hanging above everyone's head suddenly and strangely stopped raining. The loud roaring thunder noise was also no longer heard across the map, and the strong gushing wind from the thunderstorm slowly started mellowing down. 

But not long after that, numerous white-colored crystal-like snowflakes slowly started falling down from the sky. The mellowed wind strongly gushed forth once again and blew onto the surroundings, only this time it was bringing along an extremely cold wind. 

Instantly, the temperature of the stage turned really low, causing everyone to shiver from feeling really cold. 

As the snowflakes falling from the sky continues to drop to the ground, the once muddy ground slowly gets covered with snow. At first, the snow only mixed with the mud, creating something that looked like a pure beauty getting tainted by the disgusting mud. But as the snow continued to pile up higher and higher, the ground was soon replaced by it, creating a very beautiful scenery. 

Unfortunately, this wasn't in any least bit a beautiful thing, especially for the twenty-five players in the Survival Games right now.