The wizard had left. To the people here, it had been nothing more than an insignificant little interlude.
At the same time, the weather began to turn strange.
According to Stormworld's records from previous years, the rainy season usually lasted seven days, or half a month at most. Yet this rainy season had reached an astonishing twenty-three days, even causing flooding in the main city. What an unprecedented irony!
The desert sandworms had consequently suffered a massive decline in numbers.
"Green, what do you think that wizard meant by Spring Ancestor? Could the Spring Ancestor World Cluster really be planning to interfere here and wage war against the wizards?"
Milly speculated, then shook her head. "With the Spring Ancestor World Cluster scattered like loose sand, fighting the current Wizard World would be no different from courting death."
Green thought for a moment, then said, "Perhaps this world originally fell within the Spring Ancestor World Cluster's sphere of rule?"
"How could that be? If it did, then given the Spring Ancestor World Cluster's unique mode of existence, this world would surely contain an enormous concentration of water elements. It could never be as drought-stricken as it is now."
After instinctively rejecting the idea, Milly immediately denied herself again from the all-encompassing perspective of a wizard. "Could it be a Spring Ancestor with some special function? For example, a Spring Ancestor that siphons away water elements?"
Green said nothing, as if he too were considering this bold hypothesis.
In the distance, several dark-skinned miners approached, their faces brimming with enthusiasm. This unusually prolonged rainy season was a loss for the palace nobles in the low-lying areas of the city, where flooding had occurred, but it had not affected the impoverished people scattered outside the city in the slightest. Not only had they