Chapter 1190: I Just Want an Ice and Snow World!

That's right, the Ice Queen demon is obsessed with turning the world into ice and snow.

It's their unique habit.

It's just like how, before the Great Catastrophe, some idealistic people in the Huaxia Federation loved to plant trees and control desertification!

They simply enjoy transforming vast stretches of land into the form they prefer.

Every winter is when they are most active.

They use their ice-based skills to further freeze and reinforce the already frozen earth.

The following year, the land they reinforced melts extremely slowly, causing the entire icy plain to steadily advance northward toward the Federation.

The ice they congeal melts at an extremely slow rate, especially when formed into vast sheets—its melting slows even further... This seems to be their unique racial ability!

If only a single King-level Ice Queen demon did this, it certainly wouldn't affect the big picture.

But when all the Ice Queen demons in the north do this, it becomes a problem.

Ice Queen demons are rare, social King-level beasts.

Some live alone, others gather in twos or threes, and some even congregate in groups of seven or eight.

They kill any beast or Yushoushi who tries to stop their "work."

Some packs of Ice Queen demons are so formidable that even Emperor-level beasts dare not provoke them lightly.

When facing powerful opponents, they also employ flanking maneuvers.

First, they freeze every area except the target beast's territory, forcing those powerful beasts to abandon their original domains!

Beasts are fine—they can migrate south if they can't adapt to the icy weather.

But for humans, continuing to migrate south becomes problematic.

Because across the entire Federation, beasts are everywhere—there's no truly safe place.

Moreover, relocating defenseless civilians and building new cities demands an enormous cost.

Even if they relocate, they might still encounter beasts even more troublesome than the Ice Queen demons.

Especially, after a century of long-term monitoring, the Northern Junbudou Society has found that for over a hundred years, the Ice Queen demons have tirelessly carried out their iceification operations, seemingly never tiring, as if they intend to turn the entire world into ice and snow before stopping.

So the question arises: if the Northern Junbudou Society does nothing and keeps evacuating cities every time the Ice Queen demons advance, will there come a day when ice permanently covers the Federation's north?

And then continue advancing southward?

Scholars in the north who study Ice Queen demons, analyzing over a century of Northern Junbudou Society observational data, have discovered that over the past hundred years, as the World of Ice and Snow has expanded... the number of Ice Queen demons appears to have increased as well.

There seems to be a direct proportional relationship between them!

This is entirely logical—Ice Queen demons are elemental beings; as their preferred World of Ice and Snow expands, their population naturally grows!

Thus, the conflict between the Northern Junbudou Society and the Ice Queen妖族群 began.

Relying on beasts to fight the Ice Queen demons is hopeless—most beasts, upon sensing their environment has become unsuitable, simply migrate south...

Su Yang's primary mission this trip is to identify the five northernmost defense cities under the Northern Junbudou Society's jurisdiction.

Every winter, the Northern Junbudou Society deploys at least half of its Starshine-level and King-level Yushoushi to those cities to combat the Ice Queen demons!

That is where Su Yang is most likely needed.

Of course, some Yushoushi have attempted to investigate why Ice Queen demons turn the world to ice and snow, hoping to solve the problem at its root—but the findings left the entire Federation both amused and exasperated.

…They just like it. They love ice and snow. Deep in their hearts, they possess an irresistible impulse and desire to turn the world into ice and snow!