Trondheim, a heavy industrial city in the Northern Realm, had a population of one hundred and fifty thousand and advanced industrial plants. Its industrial output gave the Northern Realm a position of considerable importance worldwide.
Yet for the past half-month, Trondheim had been ravaged by thunderstorms, leaving the entire city in a state of near-paralysis. All corporations and industrial plants had been shut down, and workers and citizens received their minimum living wage simply by staying at home.
At first, the citizens found it rather novel—no need to go to work, collecting wages while staying at home, and even getting to watch such a rare spectacle outside their windows. But as time went on, people began to sense that something was wrong.
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