At this moment, the War Legion soldiers huddled one by one around the fires on the walls of Nuk City, shivering, were the best proof of it.
Before the snow had fallen yesterday, they had still thought Nalant was a monkey, specially sent over to amuse them.
But as it grew colder and colder, they finally realized they were the monkeys.
If they had known Nalant would use this move, they would have prepared enough wood no matter what, kept their clothes dry, and even gone bare-assed rather than wear them while being drenched in the rain.
Besides that, they would have tried every possible way to make the canopy over their heads watertight.
But now, everything was too late.
The sturdy yet simple canopy above them could withstand immensely powerful thunderbolts, but it absolutely could not keep out rainwater that moistened all things in silence.
Drop after drop of rain fell from above, and as long as it landed on a person, it felt even colder than having someone stuff ice into their chest in the dead of winter.
What was even more terrifying was that their wood would not last much longer.
Even though they had already gone into the city yesterday to search ahead of time, by then most of the buildings in the city had already been submerged, especially the houses of ordinary civilians.
And what remained were basically the residences of wealthy and noble families.
But most of the roofs on the houses where wealthy families lived were paved with stone slabs, precisely to make them more durable and sturdier.
On the contrary, only ordinary civilians, because they had no money, would use cheap thatch and wooden planks as roofing.
As a result, the wood they found was nothing more than a cup of water