Moments before joining forces with Ryex I managed to unlock the next area:
I took the liberty of taking some pics for your amusement,
apparently PSO2 maximizes the pic a lot so I'll just spoiler them to avoid unnecessary expansion.
Your standard winter wonderland! (hypothermia not included, thankfully)
as any good JRPG, NPC's do their best to warn you about the obvious yet required task to do in order to carry on...
You get to meet the big bad wolf and promptly tell him where to shove it...
and nothing says "We're having wolf steaks tonight" like a katana-boomerang down your throat.
And even the nauseatingly cute critters appear as well! awww..... so kawaii <3
it's a rather touching sight....
Unfortunately Kawaii and Homicidal-Maniac don't mix so good as you can see.... so I proceed to harvest their oh so valuable items from their lifeless bodies.
Why?.... For the glory of Satan of course!
Afterwards I found Ryex and helped him out on his journey to become a badass braver XD
unfortunately I didn't take pics on that, sorry about that Ryex...
also sorry for the large images, the game scales them so yeah.... things get rather crazy later on XD