Outside the eastern gate of North-Star Heated City, a hundred-square-mile heated pasture had been built for the three million Long-Hair Ice-Mammoths that the Woolly Ice-Folk had brought south with them.
In the freezing Northern Ice Wastes, an adult Ice-Mammoth was a walking mountain of fur. Each mammoth stood twenty-five feet tall at the shoulder, had two curved ivory tusks the size of tree trunks, and grew a winter coat of dense, silvery-white Rank 5 Spirit-Wool that was ten feet thick!
That ten-foot-thick coat of wool was designed by nature to let the mammoths sleep in minus-one-hundred-degree blizzards without feeling a chill, and it was so tough and springy that even a Rank 4 flying sword would get tangled in the curls and bounce right off.
Right now, however, inside the cozy 75-Degree Heated Pasture, that ten-foot-thick winter coat had turned into a giant fur sauna!
Puff... puff... pant...
When Pei Xuan, Hong Ling, Su Meiniang, and Abacus Su arrived at the pasture fence, they saw three million giant furry mammoths sprawled on their backs with all four legs sticking up in the air, panting like three million giant woolly dogs!
Every mammoth had its long pink tongue hanging three feet out the side of its mouth, and they were using their trunks to scoop cold water out of the drinking troughs and spray it onto their bellies. Several mammoths were trying to rub their backs against the stone barn pillars to scrape their heavy wool off, nearly knocking the barn…
