After the Mind Flayer Empire had wiped out the resistance forces led by Fredos.
Time had not paused in the slightest.
A full three hundred and fifty-seven years had passed since then.
At the far end of the world.
Within that desolate region located in the bitterly cold lands, a place virtually devoid of outsiders.
At this moment.
Though the sight of boundless white snow still occupied the vast majority of the area.
Beneath that thick white accumulation of snow and ice.
If one carefully observed through some special spell.
Then, from time to time.
One might spot objects resembling chimneys, concealed by special spells as they continuously expelled murky hot air and drew in pure cold air, exchanging airflow!
They were the special structures that the seeds chosen by Fredos back then had only managed to construct after spending a considerable amount of time.
The existence of these things was also one of the main reasons their people had been able to survive in this region!
Following a hidden passage down eighty meters underground.
At the end of that spacious underground corridor stood a massive bluish-green metal gate!
It stood roughly twenty meters tall, around twelve meters wide, and nearly two meters thick.
Though it bore no patterns whatsoever, with only frost clinging to it as nature's decoration, under the effect of some power, it faintly emitted a dim red halo.
Simply looking at it with the naked eye gave one a profound sense of mystery!
And behind this gate, which could only be opened through a special ritual.
There was only one thing.
A vast city!
After countless expansions.
It had evolved from its original cramped and crowded state into a sealed circular underground space roughly ten kilometers in diameter!
Its entirety was enveloped by countless barriers, isolating