The expeditionary war on the Storm Continent had ended ten years ago, though it hardly seemed that long.
"It's snowing again."
Lola came up behind her husband and watched him standing silently by the window. He had been there for a long time.
She knew he was thinking about their child again.
Ever since the war ended and the Academic World had accepted the invitation to move its remaining resources and foundations to the Frost Continent in a bid to give the world one last chance, his mood had changed along with the Academic World's increasingly strange weather.
Only Lola knew that he missed the child who had gone missing in the war, though he never said so.
When Reilo didn't respond, Lola wrapped her arms around him from behind.
Feeling the warmth of his body against her chest, Lola continued, "It seems the intelligence from the Frost Continent was right. These wildly erratic weather patterns must mean the Superhumans are unleashing the El Nino Cataclysm."
Just a few days ago, temperatures here had soared above fifty degrees Celsius. Now, only days later, snow was falling in great flurries.
If the Academic World hadn't achieved energy independence through its controllable Artificial Sun technology, building countless greenhouses and shelters, an ordinary civilization would have faced extinction under the increasingly extreme weather of recent years.
And according to the investigations, that was exactly what had happened.
This bizarre shift in extreme weather wasn't directed at the Academic World. It was an ecological catastrophe engulfing the entire world. The weak civilizations that had eked out an existence by hiding in the Death Storm had already suffered mass extinction in this unprecedented calamity.
If these extreme weather conditions continued, even the most gifted and adaptable creatures would inevitably die out without the protection of