It's time to make our way through the mountains...
Head northwest from Caviar Village. You'll find a forest. One you enter, just follow the path. At the three way fork near the end, don't go west; it leads to a dead end. The Rind is a really easy enemy to defeat that drops 195 Experience and 315 Gold. The Wrangler is just as easy as the Rind and gives 155 Experience and 208 Gold. Ditto with the Eye Pie, which gives 169 Experience and 296 Gold. The Eye Pie tends to run away, but they never do that to me because I am too fast and too powerful.
You'll eventually find a building. Talk to the man to enter the hot spring. Before you can go into the next room, however, you will have to hand your inventory - and your clothes - to the man guarding the door. From there, go into the water. You'll heal your leg in storyline. When you leave the room, the man you gave all of your belongings to will be gone. Leave the building, and you'll find out that the guy was really one of Bio-Haz's soldiers. You'll have to go back through the forest in your underwear to find him. Thankfully, the enemies here are really weak.
You'll have to head back to the beginning of the forest to find the guy who took all your stuff, and when you do, the guy will be confronted by Marcela. Marcela will get your weapon away from him, then you'll face Lickick. Lickick has 900 HP, but he is a vanilla enemy and is easy to take down. He gives 2500 Experience and 2600 Gold when defeated.
When you beat Lickick, Marcela will reveal herself to be Gum Drop Greene, one of the princesses of the Greene royal family, and she will mention that the programmers gave them all strange names, immediately breaking the fourth wall. She says that she is here to spy on the enemy while relying on Pint's help, but she ended up falling in love with Pint and his son Junior.
Once you're out of the forest, you can talk to Gum Drop with Status. She will tell you to go to the mountain to the north. Keep going in that direction until you can't, then head west to find a sign. Read the sign, and you'll be able to climb the mountain.
When you enter the mountains, Gum Drop will put a magical barrier. This will protect you from the blizzard. She can also use it in battle in case an enemy casts a spell, and the barrier will protect you from the magic.
The Ham Man is strong against Freeze Magic and can cast Shove. It gives 257 Experience and 815 Gold (which is a lot for this point in the game), and has a chance of dropping a Gold Helmet. The Gold Helmet is the fourth-best helmet in the game, so if you get it, equip it. The Hogninja can cast Scare, and gives 252 Experience and 701 Gold upon defeat as well as a chance of dropping a Radcut, which is better than the Badcut. The Espresso is weak against Flame magic and strong against Freeze magic, and can cast Freeze 2. It gives 248 Experience and 718 Gold, and has a chance of dropping a Gold Sword. This is better than even the Radcut and is the fifth-best weapon in the game, so if you get this, equip it. You'll be good on needing a new weapon for a while.
The beginning of the mountain is pretty straightforward to get through. After about six screens of the same path, you'll find a cabin and a cave entrance. The cabin is an inn where you can heal. In the Japanese version, this is a weird mountain hut and not an inn, and if you rest here, you'll have to fight an enemy called "Naughty Illusion," which is a large naked woman with long hair covering her backside, and you'll have to beat that enemy to continue on. This was cut out entirely for the North American version.
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