"Why do these people live in a place like this?" Uchiha Madara asked, somewhat puzzled. "Leaving aside the environment, resources are scarce, and passersby are practically nonexistent. How could anyone live here?"
"There must be some special reason why they live here," Uchiha Madara said after thinking for a moment.
"It's understandable that they would live here," Xing En said with a smile. "Uncle Madara, haven't you already been to Winterfort? There was a Mirror Lake there, and the family of three who lived by it had stayed near Mirror Lake for countless generations, hadn't they?"
"Mirror Lake..." Uchiha Madara said helplessly. "It's gone now."
"Gone?" Xing En looked at Uchiha Madara and asked. "That shouldn't be possible, should it? Although that place has been getting colder and colder, people who have lived in such bitter cold for so many years shouldn't be afraid of it now."
"It wasn't a problem of cold," Uchiha Madara said. "It was because of the Magic Stone. A lot of things happened."
"The child died, and the mother went mad," Uchiha Madara said. "Mirror Lake vanished because of the Magic Stone."
Uchiha Madara told Xing En everything that had happened at Mirror Lake along the way.
Xing En could only sigh helplessly after hearing it. "There really was no way around something like that. Although the person's death was caused by a natural disaster, and disasters like that can't be avoided, the parents were both affected because of the Magic Stone."
"Uncle Madara, you should take away the Magic Stones on the Elzeran Continent as soon as possible," Xing En said to Uchiha Madara with a smile. "Leaving them on the Elzeran Continent is truly dangerous."
The two of them slowly made their way to this remote, deserted place.
When they entered the small