At least on Great Zhou's side, once they confirmed that the other side was a desert environment, they had made a series of preparations in advance.
Although some conditions after the actual merger still caused them a bit of trouble, they were at least within a controllable range.
The Smith Kingdom, led by Fisher, on the other hand, lacked experience in this area.
When they first observed the landscape covered in yellow sand, they had merely thought the place barren and desolate. They had never anticipated the situation before them.
The capital of the Smith Kingdom was not located in the center of the kingdom. Instead, it lay in the innermost part of the kingdom—in other words, the area now closest to the desert.
It would not be an exaggeration to say that only a sheer cliff and a small buffer zone separated their capital from the desert.
After the World Shard was pieced together, the extreme climate swept over them almost at once.
The Smith Kingdom had neither made preparations in advance nor received the boost of an Evolutionary Leader like Zhou Xu, which improved the physical constitutions of its people. How could ordinary people withstand the sudden erosion of such an extreme climate?
Not to mention that there were also large numbers of slaves with even poorer physical constitutions within the Smith Kingdom.
If Fisher had not cared in the slightest about the lives of a few slaves, then the grim news that arrived just a week ago had still weighed heavily on him.
The Hand of the King—the Smith Kingdom's chief administrator, Nalga—had fallen ill!
He did not actually like the old man. The old man's views had always been somewhat out of step within the Smith Kingdom.
At the same time, however, Fisher understood clearly that