A lot of mechas and various other machines were working in The Fields Region—most of it was out of the way of the ash cloud and safe for machines to work. But now they all stopped, because their fuel was being carried away and thrown into the massive fire.
Workharder would've been pulling her hair out, counting the economic damage this was causing us, if she weren't so busy managing this process and routing extra supplies toward The Fields Region.
The fields there burned for three days straight. As per the calculations, this was exactly how long it took for the ash cloud to reach the mountains.
In these three days, storms formed on the edge of the burning areas, where hot air from fires met cold air from the usnea tree fields. On the first day, these storms poured gallons and gallons of water below, flooding roads and train tracks and paralysing all work for a while.
