"This really is a region suited to Ice-type Pokémon."
Dian glanced up at the sky. Gray storm clouds piled layer upon layer, and countless snowflakes drifted down like feathers falling from the heavens.
Strangely, though, there was no wind!
Wind and snow went hand in hand, yet the snowy scene before him had only snow, without any wind.
"It's only been a few days, and this place is already completely uninhabitable."
Dian looked at the ice-covered paths stretching before him and the snow that kept piling higher.
He knew that unless he dealt with this, forget a Gym—he probably couldn't even build a town here.
Otherwise, anyone who came would suffer. Even someone who loved snowy scenery couldn't live here year after year.
"This is easily on par with the ice fields of the Far North."
Beneath the towering gray sky lay an endless glacier stretching across the land, where hardly any plants could survive.
It was almost impossible for humans to sustain themselves in a region like this.
Dian's expression grew a little more serious. He knew that going any farther meant holding "friendly negotiations" with wild Pokémon—or, more precisely, with the Ice-type Pokémon gradually settling here.
The weather before him certainly wasn't caused by Kyurem alone. Wild Pokémon were also using Hail, Blizzard, the Snow Warning Ability, and the like to assert their claims and mark out their territories.
In a sense, what he was doing now was also asserting a claim, seizing territory.
Pokémon had no concept of the law.
"Wasn't it the same when people in ancient times built city-states and cleared the wilderness?"
Dian gazed into the distance, knowing he at least had to secure enough land to build a town and a Gym.
Likewise, he needed a "road" connecting Luoxiang City to the Gym