Beneath the Sky Pillar.
"This cataclysm has slowed our collection plan as well..."
Snow Deer sighed under her breath. The El Nino Cataclysm had thrown the laws of the Frost Continent into chaos, and the collection plan—one of the core tasks of her work, which meant gathering more Burning Heaven Holy Fire—would likely fall far short of its target.
"There's nothing we can do about that."
White-headed Eagle tried to comfort her. "A thousand years—at most, a thousand years. That's our limit. After that, even the most powerful guardians will wither as Law Aura falls out of balance. The world will enter its true, irreversible end. By then, even with the Sky Pillar built, it will be hard to make it work as intended."
They fell silent for a moment. After spending so long maintaining the Sky Pillar, the two of them had developed an understanding of one another that ordinary people could hardly comprehend. They could read each other's thoughts.
For a moment, they seemed to think of something else at the same time.
"At the recent technology exchange conference, the Academic World displayed many remarkable skills. They truly deserve their place as one of the Storm Continent's three top civilizations. But I've sent people to sound them out several times, hoping to obtain their controlled Artificial Sun technology, and they've always brushed us off in one way or another."
White-headed Eagle murmured, then asked, "What do you think?"
Without hesitation, Snow Deer replied, "The Academic World's controlled Artificial Sun technology is indeed the most advanced energy-generation technology in the world, surpassing even the High Tech of the Superbody Civilization. If we could combine it with our technology for making matter superconducting under normal conditions, we might really be able to turn the idea of trading quantity for quality