Chapter 334: 332 Snow Mountain Collapse_1

Translator: 549690339

Upon Gold Coin’s intervention, Otto simply picked up his teacup and played the part of a bystander.

Compared to Otto, Gold Coin was much more professional and knowledgeable about the various specialties of the Snow Field.

He had even personally visited Norton Kingdom before, met with Gia once or twice, and had a reasonable estimate of the prices of the various goods he brought.

In truth, both parties had a rough idea of the value of the goods and how much food they could trade for it.

However, Gold Coin and Gia argued incessantly over trivial profits.

Though Otto wasn’t well-versed in the details, he noticed that Gia seemed very concerned about the total amount of food and the timing of its supply.

Logically, while food is already scarce in the Snow Field, some food should still be available for a while from previous trade exchanges with merchant groups.

It shouldn’t have been that urgent after all.

At Otto’s prompting, Gold Coin changed the topic and began discussing the situation in Snow Field and Norton Kingdom with Gia.

Gia didn’t seem to be good at keeping secrets, and after a few shots of strong liquor, she spilled everything.

There was chaos in the Dragon Lake Wilderness, and the Snow Field was no better.

Not long after the great battle between the Death Lord and the Metal Dragon, a great disturbance occurred in the Snow Field.

The core of the Snow Field, Snow Mountain, which had remained unchanged for thousands of years, broke apart, triggering a massive avalanche that destroyed numerous Norton Kingdom’s peripheral villages.

This not only weakened the Norton people’s homeland but also increased the number of refugees.

These refugees, who had not died in the avalanche, lost their homes and long-stored food.

The Norton people are much more resilient than humans in typical regions, so instead of waiting for help, they dug their relatives and everything they could find from the snow and headed for safer villages and towns.

The supplies they dug out from the snow weren’t much and were quickly consumed on their journey.

Apart from those who reached their destination, many Norton people perished on the way, buried in snow within a night.

Those who made it became a burden on Norton Kingdom.

To the villages and towns unaffected by the avalanche, these refugees were no less than a disaster.

That’s because humans need food to survive.

Moreover, in the freezing Snow Field, shelter and clothing are indispensable.

Houses were easy to build – using the abundant ice and snow as materials – and the refugees provided free labor.

Warm clothing could also be managed, as luxury furs stored from previous trades could be put to use.

Though somewhat wasteful for refugees, it was better than letting them freeze to death.

Moreover, with a little cleaning, these furs could be sold as brand-new goods to cunning merchants.

The precondition was that those merchants still wanted to come…

Unfortunately, they did not see any merchants from the Dragon Bone Wasteland.

This was unusual because usually, by now, gold-driven merchants would have arrived and complained about the limited goods offered by the Norton people.

However, the troubles for the Norton people didn’t end there.

While they didn’t see merchant groups from Dragon Bone Wasteland, the number of refugees kept growing.

Following that, the Frost Trolls attacked.

In addition to the Frost Trolls, Frost Giants were also keeping an eye on them.

The Norton people were plagued with so many refugees and no signs of relief because of them.

Soon, the Norton people realized that they were not the only ones affected by this disaster.

Frost Trolls, Frost Giants, and even other creatures living in the Snow Field were all affected by the calamity.

To survive and carry on, plundering from others became an attractive choice.

Among them, the Norton people were the perfect targets.

Although the Norton people were also severely affected, their food storage was still the most abundant among the creatures, and their weak selves were also suitable as food.

Of course, this was assuming that the Frost Trolls or Frost Giants could first remove the Norton people’s fur clothing or fish scale armor.

An inevitable war broke out, with no distinction between justice and evil – only a fight for individual survival.

As war caused drastic consumption of food, Norton Kingdom sent Gia to seek help when it became desperate.

If they didn’t get more food soon, they would have to expand their menu choices in various ways.

In fact, some daring pioneers had already begun studying the taste of Frost Giants and Frost Trolls.

However, as thick-skinned as Gia was, even she wouldn’t easily reveal such important information. Otto inferred some of this on his own.

Otto didn’t care about the Norton people’s current difficulties.

He couldn’t be bothered with these trivial concerns; the life and death of Norton people were unrelated to him. His thoughts had already become assimilated with the body of this massive dragon.

From his perspective, humans were no different from ants.

Among the information Gia revealed, Otto was most interested in the shattering of Snow Mountain.

Otto had some impression of Snow Mountain.

He had heard that when the demons invaded the continent in full force, there was a formidable demon comparable to a deity that was sealed in the far north of the continent.

It was said that this demon had a terrifyingly colossal size, and even the deities couldn’t vanquish it. In the end, they could only put all their efforts into sealing it in the Snow Field.

To prevent its escape, the Winter Goddess Auril condensed an ice mountain over the seal.

This ice mountain was Snow Mountain.

Auril was a capricious and vain evil goddess, known for her cold and ruthless heart. Her followers worshiped her mainly out of fear.

The Winter Goddess didn’t suppress the demon to resist its invasion, nor did she do it out of pity for her followers.

What she cared about was that the damned demon, after intruding into her temple, had done something unbearable to her statue…