"Is it raining?" Countless residents of Flame City looked up at the sky, momentarily forgetting that a raging fire was consuming the city.
For Flame City, rain... was practically the stuff of legend.
It was simply too close to the Fire Element Pool. The climate was dry and scorching, and even overcast days were rare.
Long ago, it used to rain here once every year or two.
But ever since Flame City had been built, getting a single rainfall every eight or ten years was already a blessing from the heavens.
Yet a large city inhabited by people could not function without water, so they had invited quite a few water-element Wizards to make it rain.
The water-element Wizards were naturally experts in their field. The moment they arrived in Flame City, they understood: it simply could not rain in this place!
No matter how thick the clouds overhead were, the raindrops evaporated back into vapor halfway down and drifted away.
It had rained once every year or two in the past because there had been no Flame City and hardly anyone had developed the Fire Element Pool!
Once Flame City existed, people began collecting all kinds of materials above the Fire Element Pool, which affected the formation of water elements.
Naturally, rainfall became even scarcer—unless they stopped collecting resources.
The water-element Wizards used their own theories, but those theories did explain the relevant phenomena rather accurately.
If Feng Jun had heard those theories, he would have been reminded of certain explanations from Blue Star.
Basically, the air had become cleaner. In particular, there were fewer condensation nuclei, raising the required saturation level for moisture in the air.
The water-element Wizards had never studied Blue Star's theories, but the conclusions they reached were more or less the same.
But how