Devil's North Wind Belt

On the second day after leaving Saint Hena Island, the Aurora entered the Devil's North Wind Belt of the Oro Strait. The ten-thousand-ton behemoth officially entered rocking mode.

The Oro Strait lay at the southernmost edge of the Ice and Snow Wilderness, the only route from the Ewindara Archipelago into the northern Ice and Snow Wilderness. Only after arriving at the Oro Strait by ship did Zhang Tie truly understand why the Ice and Snow Wilderness could only be reached by sea—airships were useless here. The most direct reason was the terrifying Devil's North Wind Belt of the Oro Strait.

During his year at Hidden Dragon Hall, Zhang Tie had still learned a few things. At the very least, he had read in a geography book about the cause behind the Devil's North Wind Belt in the Oro Strait—a powerful atmospheric convection and cyclone formed by the subpolar low-pressure belt of the Ice and Snow Wilderness and the subtropical high-pressure belt of the Ewindara Archipelago.

The terrifying north wind came from the exchange between the different pressure belts of this planet. Since that exchange never ceased, neither did the dreadful north wind ravaging the Oro Strait. Driven by such powerful winds, the fastest ocean current in the entire Weiyi Subcontinent had formed beneath the Oro Strait—the "Wilderness Drift." Likewise, because of the unceasing winds throughout the year, the skies above the entire Oro Strait had become forbidden territory for airships.

In this age, no airship could pass through this Devil's North Wind Belt. Perhaps aircraft from before the Great Cataclysm could have done so, but for airships, with their enormous hulls in the sky and limited altitude, this dreadful wind belt was no different from a kite flown into the heavens. Any airship that came near would only be blown