Chapitre 863: Extreme Heat (Part 1)

The weddings had to be deferred though, because the event they dreaded had finally happened. 

A heat wave blanketed the entire world. Temperature soared, and the air was thick, heavy, and oppressive. Even the winds felt like hot breaths of a furnace, as if someone was pushing their faces close to the fire. 

Overnight, a drought spread out the entire continent and shallow water sources immediately dried out. The soil cracked in dryness and plants wilted under the brutal heat. 

The heat distorted the sights outside, with stones shimmering in the waves of heat and radiating warmth and adding to people's suffering.

The only bright side of this was that there were no monsters attacking at all during this time, but that wouldn't have mattered because most people wouldn't have been able to move anyway.