Extreme Cold Era: Shelter Don't Keep Waste-Chapter 790 - 19

Although stopping the blizzard requires a weather controller, even Perfikot can't change this fact.

After all, it is a blizzard sweeping across the entire Northern Territory, with a scale far exceeding the disaster limits that might have been triggered when the original atmospheric circulation still existed.

If the original atmospheric circulation still existed, the warm, moist air from the equator would clash with the cold air represented by the blizzard. Although it would create heavy snow, it could also greatly weaken the intensity of the cold air, thereby shortening the duration of the severe weather.

But with the original atmospheric circulation collapse, even near the equator, only relatively less cold air remains. So when the polar cold air sweeps down, it encounters no obstacles or weakening, and the extremely harsh weather will only persist.

As the temperature drops and the oceans freeze, the original climate regulation and atmospheric circulation dependent on the ocean have already collapsed. Strong winds sweep across the vast ice plains, and nothing can withstand such fierce winds and the ice and snow carried within them.

The Northern Territory itself lacks east-west mountain ranges, and during a normal winter, cold air would sweep straight down across the Northern Territory. One can imagine what the situation is now with the original atmospheric circulation having collapsed.

In fact, for Perfikot, if she hadn't harnessed the power of the Jade Record to acquire knowledge about the weather controller, she might be helpless against the rampant blizzard now.

Of course, merely being helpless against the blizzard doesn't mean she can't do more in this disaster.

However, that's another possibility and doesn't have much to do with the problems Perfikot currently needs to face and solve.

Perfikot does not intend to get involved in the manufacturing of the weather controller; she had exhausted too much of her energy in manufacturing the one in Chernobyl before and does not want to do it again.

Moreover, twice overexerting herself in a short time is a heavy burden even for her, causing irreversible damage to her body.

For Perfikot, it's a loss that outweighs the gain.

If she were to participate in manufacturing, merely assisting in the production of the weather controller, it would be a great waste of her abilities.

What can be done by an engineer or an ordinary alchemist doesn't need her personal intervention.

She needs to focus her energy and time on another matter to end this present disaster.

This was originally Perfikot's plan, but it was disrupted by the 'inaction' of the cabinet and the issues surrounding Empress Annie.

Now, however, everything is back on track. She intends to launch an unprecedented alchemical ritual using Beloburg's massive dreamscape to simulate the effect of the weather controller, dispersing the blizzard over Beloburg.

Unlike directly using the weather controller, the effect of this alchemical ritual is one-time, whereas the weather controller can continuously disperse the blizzard.

However, for the Northern Territory now, with Chernobyl's weather controller continuously weakening the blizzard, Perfikot's large-scale dispelling at Beloburg can reduce the blizzard's intensity to an acceptable level.

Moreover, she just needs to buy some time until the weather controller in Beloburg is completed, and then everything won't be a problem.

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In Beloburg's underground city, a massive alchemical array is being constructed.

This is the critical array Perfikot deconstructed from the weather controller, with its effectiveness relying on this alchemical array's effects.

However, within the weather controller, this array functions perpetually and can convert thermal energy from other components to power the array directly, without relying on the alchemist's spiritual power.

After all, this is a large alchemical array intended to change regional weather, and relying on a single ordinary alchemist's spiritual power would probably require all of Beloburg's alchemists just to use it once.

It's not about emptying them; it's about killing them.

The many components on the weather controller are there to convert ordinary thermal energy into energy for the array, thereby replacing the alchemist's spiritual power.

Otherwise, just starting it up once would require at least dozens of alchemists, and the Empire, no matter how vast, cannot withstand such consumption.

After all, it's not like the Star Torch, which requires burning a thousand souls every day.

But speaking of souls, Perfikot has prepared an Ancestral Spirit to serve as fuel to enhance the effect of activating this alchemical array.

This is the last complete Ancestral Spirit in Perfikot's possession, which she had specially preserved for research purposes before.

Although there are other Ancestral Spirits in the Northern Territory, they all serve as totems for various indigenous tribes.

With Perfikot's moral principles, she can't do something like pulling out someone else's ancestors to burn unless there's an absolute necessity.

As for the unclaimed Ancestral Spirits, most of them have already been collected and used up in her laboratory during previous research and experiments related to Divinity.

The remaining Divinity still has some stock, but clearly burning Divinity isn't as effective as burning a complete Ancestral Spirit.

In the vast alchemical array, a totem pole that seems severely decayed stands in one corner of the array.

Although the Ancestral Spirit within the totem pole is too weak to maintain even the basic appearance of the totem pole, faced with Perfikot's obvious intent to burn it as fuel, even a dead fish would react.

Though Perfikot has meddled with this thing long enough, and since she dares to use it as fuel, she naturally ensures that it won't cause any accidents.

"Your Grace, the array has been set up and calibrated. Is there anything else we can do?" An elderly alchemist, with graying hair, approached Perfikot, reporting the situation to her with an uncontainable excitement.

For this old alchemist and the other alchemists drafted here, being able to follow the most talented and powerful alchemist of the Empire and witness her initiating such a large-scale alchemical ritual is a worthy endeavor even at the cost of their lives!

In fact, if Perfikot had said that activating this alchemical array required these alchemists to sacrifice their lives, there would probably be quite a few willing volunteers.

After all, for some old-school alchemists, the truth of the world is their sole pursuit.

However, Perfikot merely glanced at the elderly alchemist before her and said, "Observe carefully and learn well. I'll only teach this once."