'How could there be snow with no clouds?'

  System gradually stopped flying. Although snowfkes kept falling, the temperature at noon was still very warm, so they gradually melted in the process of falling. By the time the snowfkes nded on the dead leaves and pnts on the ground, they'd completely melted into water.

  System fpped his wings and flew high into the sky. He wanted to find out why snowfkes were forming.

  Whether it was rain or snow, they were both a form of water. It was extremely abnormal for there to be snow in a clear sky without clouds.

  ...

  Even though snowfkes were falling, the temperature at noon hadn't changed much. It was even warmer than the first time System had flown into the clouds.

  There was no wind in the forest today. Even after he flew high up into the sky, the wind wasn't very strong. Although there were snowfkes hindering his wings, the pleasant temperature allowed System to fly thousands of meters high without consuming too much physical strength.

  At an altitude of more than a thousand meters, System discovered the source of the snowfkes.

  He felt a strange aura, which was faint and deep, but also possessed a hint of coldness. As this aura spread through the air, ice crystals began condensing in an unbelievable way.

  When the ice crystals condensed to a certain weight, they'd start to fall, and in the process of falling, they'd further condense, gradually forming snowfkes of various shapes.

  As the snowfkes drew closer to the ground, they'd begin melting little by little due to the warm temperature.

  System, hovering in the air, stretched out his tentacles to grab an ice crystal that had just condensed. He put the ice crystal into his mouth to taste it.

  Apart from being slightly cold, he didn't taste anything unusual. These ice crystals seemed no different from ordinary water.

  However, unlike ordinary water, eating an ice crystal caused his experience bar to increase slightly. Obviously, these ice crystals contained some strange power.

  'Is this how snow in this world is formed?'

  System's recent pnning and development had been going smoothly, but he'd obviously overlooked that he was currently in a world full of magical power.

  While the various natural ws from his previous life appeared to still apply here, he couldn't simply assume that they'd be completely the same.

  This first snow caused by an unknown magical power undoubtedly told System that winter had arrived. It was more than two months earlier than the time he'd estimated, which completely disrupted his upcoming pns.

  It was now no longer realistic to use slimes to attack the ant nest. If this snow continued, the weather would definitely get colder.

  With an insect's cold-blooded body, it was impossible to survive out in the cold winter weather. When the blood in its body was frozen into ice, an insect would die.

  He could only let Shava quickly control the worker ants to carry as much food as possible into his wintering nest while the weather hadn't yet completely transitioned to cold, then spend the winter closed up inside.

  System fpped his wings and decided to return immediately so that Shava could control the worker ants to take action as soon as possible.

  However, as he scanned the forest below, he unintentionally discovered a very strange scene in the goblin vilge more than ten kilometers away.

  On the small road near the goblin vilge, five young and strong goblins showed excited expressions. They were dragging the cart full of food back, and on the cart, System saw the bodies of the three gnolls.

  The bodies of the gnolls seemed to be covered in a yer of white ice crystals, and it was clear that they'd frozen to death.

  'Could it be the Lord of Gciers?'

  System looked at the hazy gcier mountains thousands of kilometers away. These three gnolls frozen into ice crystals and the snow that had suddenly started falling above the forest were probably the work of these goblins who worshiped the Lord of Gciers.

  'But when it gets cold in winter, how will the goblins survive?'

  Looking at the goblins who were half-dressed and living in extremely simple conditions, System couldn't imagine how they'd survive through winter.

  Perhaps the Lord of Gciers would give them shelter, but was worshiping this being really a wise decision?

  System didn't think any further. He fpped his wings faster and rushed to return to his nest.

  As snowfkes continued to fall, System felt that the temperature had already dropped slightly. There clearly wasn't much time left for him to prepare for winter.

  However, as System was flying, he suddenly heard a long and mysterious sound. It wasn't very loud, but it still seemed to ring in his ears.

  The sound didn't seem like the voice of a human, but was closer the roar of an animal, like a tiger or bear. At the same time, if you listened carefully, it really didn't sound like those types of animals at all.

  It seemed to be the roar of some kind of creature that System had never come into contact with in his previous life.

  Roar!

  As the roar bellowed out again, System turned his head and saw a huge figure in the direction of the gcier mountain range. It had suddenly appeared in the sky hundreds of kilometers away and was flying leisurely. If System guessed correctly, that creature should be a giant dragon.

  It had huge wings, silver-white scales that seemed to be covered in a yer of blue ice crystals, and its mouth was tightly closed, revealing a majestic visage. This was the giant dragon that had appeared in Western mythology in System's previous life.

  The body of this giant dragon was slender, and it measured nearly twenty meters from its head to the tip of its tail. Even from a distance, he could feel a sense of beauty from the dragon.

  Even System, who had strong self-control, couldn't help but take a few more looks. As he stared at the dragon, System felt the blood inside his body tremble slightly.

  The dragon was obviously a higher-level life form. Even though it was hundreds of kilometers away, it had an unimaginable suppressive force on System's body.

  System specuted that when this giant dragon appeared, even ants, who were notoriously unafraid of death, wouldn't have the courage to approach it.

  After the appearance of the frost dragon, System could feel the air getting colder and colder. It seemed as if the culprit for the falling snow in the forest was this frost dragon.

  'Could this giant dragon be the Lord of Gciers that the goblins worship?'

  System decided to take one st look at the giant dragon flying in the distance, after which he'd ignore it and concentrate on his own affairs.

  However, it was this st look that brought unimaginable trouble to him.

  He observed the silver-white scales on the dragon's body. Just one of its scales was rger than System's entire body.

  He observed the horns on the dragon's head, the white gas that occasionally spewed out of it nostrils, and its ice-blue eyes with ptinum pupils.

  System sensed a hint of nostalgia from the dragon's eyes as it gazed out over the nd. The dragon obviously possessed wisdom. While looking into the dragon's eyes, System noticed the dragon's head slightly turn, causing their eyes to meet.

  At the same time he was watching the dragon from a distance, the dragon also noticed him.

  System's heart began to beat violently, and the dragon that had been in his sight moments earlier suddenly vanished.

  After more than a dozen seconds, System still couldn't locate the missing dragon, but his [Intuition] gave him a feeling of uneasiness.

  In the next moment, while System was still searching for a trace of the dragon, a huge dragon head containing a pair of ptinum pupils suddenly appeared directly in front of him.