Chapter 108🎀 · BMMAW

Strange Tree Vines

To live in the mountains, you must understand the surrounding land and the kinds of animals living there.

Places that look solid might suddenly sink. Cliffs or steep slopes could be hidden under grass and trees. There might be caves where bears live or dens where wolves stay. There were countless things to check.

But it was impossible to inspect such a wide area in just a day or two.

Gus had taught him to expand outward in a spiral from where he lived, checking little by little.

You couldn’t do everything at once—and you shouldn’t. First, confirm the basics and gradually widen the area. The details would come over time, added bit by bit each day while living there.

Juhwan suddenly remembered a phrase he had once read.

“Do not try to boil the ocean.”

Trying to check every single thing in one place was like…