Rise Of The Worm Sovereign

Lin Wu didn't know why Lord Geng Zilai hadn't taken the matters into his own hands. Even if the man wasn't able to do it directly with his own strength, there were still formation arrays and other spirit tools that could be taken help of.

"Of course, I've tried that. But this storm is strange. It is very thick and returns quickly even after I try to blow it away several times." Lord Geng Zilai replied. "It is only you who has managed to clear out the entire Circle Peak Lake like this." He added.

Hearing this, Lin Wu was now even more confused. 

"And you took help from other powers too?" Lin Wu inquired.

"I did indeed. The storm is too persistent. Even if we wipe away a part of it, it will soon return." Lord Geng Zilai spoke. "It was never like this in the past. This is something that only started in the recent decade." He stated.

"I see…" Lin Wu furrowed his brows. "Snow storms are common though here, right?" he asked.

"They are indeed. But none like this. The snow from this storm has extremely chilly energy that penetrates all crops and herbs. Most of them die due to it and even my people are easily frostbitten if they are not careful." Lord Geng Zilai answered.

"This happens to cultivators too?" Lin Wu asked further.

"Yes. Even they have a hard time dispelling this cold energy." Lord Geng Zilai replied.

Hearing this, Lin Wu knew that it was not simple.

"Strange…" Lin Wu looked around, trying to see if there was anything unusual here but could not.

'System do a deep scan of the area first.' Lin Wu ordered.

~DING~

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SCANNER: Activated

AREA SELECTED: Circle Peak Lake

SCANNING: please wait patiently…

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While the system did its task, Lin Wu decided to talk to the Lord about the details.

"Tell me how it all started." Lin Wu stated.

"Like I said, this first started nearly a decade ago. A snow storm appeared, that simply didn't go away for a month. We were confused since the storm had come during the summer time, when there are no such storms.

Even if our climate is freezing in the summers, there still aren't storms like these. The cold clouds blowing in from the ocean are stopped by the mountain peaks after all and pass around it, rather than covering our land.

We found the storm to be strange, but still got through it. It didn't have the same cold energy like before, thus we just thought of it to be some random weather event. 

But as the year passed, such unexpected storms became common. And the more time passed, the longer they got.

Eventually they started to get colder and the strange cold energy appeared. It killed our people, our crops and our livestock. 

I searched for its causes but was unable to find anything after all these years." Lord Geng Zilai narrated in an emotional tone.

Lin Wu carefully listened to it all, and wondered just how it all could have happened.

'It happened ten years ago, so this is very recent as compared to the Wide Crag Kingdom's problem. Hmm… this occurred right around the time I also started to expand my scope of power.' Lin Wu tried to see the time line.

The system also assisted him and showed him a record of all things that had happened all around the world in that time duration. Lin Wu tried to see if there were any links or information about this weather phenomena, but did not find it.

"What do you think, is the most likely cause system?" Lin Wu questioned.

~DING~

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ANSWER: Considering all the parameters and the localization of this snow storm, the system concludes that this is the side effect of a Natural treasure that might have appeared in this area. It should belong to the ice element and is causing this storm.

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Seeing this, Lin Wu found it to be likely.

"Have you thought about there being a natural treasure being born here?" Lin Wu asked Lord Geng Zilai. 

"I did think about that. The sudden change in the weather did seem like something that could be caused due to that, but my searches still came out to be empty. If there really is such a treasure, it must be really well hidden." Lord Geng Zilai replied.

"Seems like I'll have to take a deeper look then." Lin Wu said before activating his Radiation Perception.

His gaze pierced through the thick ice below them, and tried to look for anything suspicious. 

'If Lord Geng Zilai was unable to find it even after all this time, it is bound to be under the lake.' Lin Wu reckoned. 

The Circle Peak Lake was well known to be frozen all throughout the year. In fact, it was said that ever since the people of the Steel Frost Island settled here, this lake was always frozen.

They were said to have come from an island in the ocean originally. 

They shifted here after their island started to sink due to a natural calamity and moved to the Long Continent. After struggling to pass through the mountains, they eventually reached the Circle Peak lake.

Of course, in their time, the lake was hidden underneath thick layer of snow thus they didn't even know it was a lake. To them, the island at the center was the same as a oasis that had food for them.

They eventually settled here and grew to find out that they were actually located over a lake.

Ever since then the people of the Steel Frost Island simply stayed here and were only discovered in the recent two hundred years. They were very new inhabitants of the Long Continent and were thus given freedom for the most part from the other powers.

Even the Long Clan approved of them being a indentation city state and didn't mind their existence. After all, the Steel Frost Island didn't really have much that would interest the other powers.

Plus their location ensured that no one was interested in coming so far.