Chapter 831 [0819] Provocation and Clues

Ashe knew nothing about what happened in Demacia.

Ashe was once curious about her southern neighbor, and with a research and learning mentality, she learned a lot about Demacia.

But now Ashe has stopped this job.

It's not because Demacia's trade is no longer important to Avarosa, nor because Ashe thinks she knows Demacia well enough, but because the Avarosa tribe has now migrated to the Raxtak Wasteland and become the owner of Raxtak City. She has little time and energy to think about Demacia.

For her, the most important thing is to manage Raxtak City well and radiate the sphere of influence to the entire Raxtak Plain.

This ancient city was once the place where the three sisters first met, and it is also the "holy city" of the entire Freljord. The tribes that have gained a foothold in Raxtak City will be eligible to invite the surrounding tribes to hold an alliance to obtain the recognition and loyalty of these tribes.

This is the kingly way of Freljord.

This is the path that Ashe and the Avarosa tribe want to take.

After the Winter Claw tribe collapsed due to the invasion from the south, the Avarosa tribe took advantage of the short power vacuum period to cross the Nuskala Pass and tentatively enter the Rakstak Plain, and then quickly participated in the competition for the city of Rakstak. With its strong strength and abundant supplies, it finally overwhelmed all competitors and successfully took over.

Up to this point, things can undoubtedly be said to be very smooth.

However, for Ashe and Avarosa, entering Rakstak is only the first step. How to gain a foothold in Rakstak, gain the support of the surrounding tribes, successfully hold an alliance, and turn the rules of Avarosa into the tradition of Freljord is the real difficult part.

For this part, Ashe's method at the beginning was to use her previous experience in the West Freljord, using the penetration and share of material trade, as well as tobacco and spiritual tea shares as resources to manipulate the situation.

However, not long after, Ashe found out embarrassingly that it seemed that the travelers in the Laxtak Plains, and even other tribes around Laxtak City, were not very willing to accept her promotion.

Compared with tobacco and tea, the local tribes prefer strong liquor, and they have better brewing technology and a wider drinking group.

Avarosa was able to promote new hobbies and avoid alcohol abuse, largely because Avarosa's food was strictly managed. Ordinary Avarosa people had no chance to brew on a large scale, and the influx of cheap tobacco and tea successfully copied the back road of the brewing industry, which allowed the Avarosa people to get rid of drunkenness.

But when Ashe wanted to use similar means to continue to reduce the output of the brewing industry in and around Laxtak City, she was very embarrassed to find that it seemed that her past set of methods did not work so well.

What should be done then?

Fortunately, Freljord itself really needs tobacco and tea. After Ashe changed her mind and no longer used them as a substitute for alcohol, but as a supplement, and distributed them through the Avarosa tribe, the new hobbies finally became popular in the city of Rakstak and its surrounding areas.

After tobacco and tea gained a foothold in the Rakstak Plain, Ashe, as the "only designated tobacco and tea distributor in Freljord", could use them as a resource to influence and manipulate the relationship between the surrounding tribes.

Of course, this is just a microcosm of Ashe's policy. In addition to hobbies, she will also organize regular and fixed-point trade exchange meetings, preside over the division of grasslands and lakes, and strive to mediate conflicts between different tribes. Through these methods, she gradually established her own authority and finally gradually solidified her identity as the "heir of Avarosa".

In a sense, what Ashe and Lux ​​are going to do is very similar. Lux wants to build New Demacia, and Ashe also hopes that Freljord can get rid of the control and influence of the Frostguard tribe, bridge the war and contradictions, and unite completely.

Although they are the most important trading partners, and although the Northern Trade provides the first pot of gold for both parties, just as Lux quickly began to build a complete magic industry system in the North, Ashe's focus also quickly moved westward. The Northern Trade was not affected, but the number of meetings between the two sides became less and less.

However, unlike the intelligence team that always left intelligence personnel - or messengers - inside the Avarosa tribe, the Avarosa tribe did not carry out similar operations.

The main reason for not doing so is that the conditions do not allow it. The Avarosa tribe has no ability to communicate remotely, and the cultural level of the tribe members is also relatively poor. In this case, even if an envoy is sent, what can be done is quite limited. So after weighing the pros and cons, Ashe's choice is to arrange a special envoy in the annual Northern Trade Caravan to be responsible for communication issues.

This is a very practical method.

But the problem is... it's practical, but it's not very efficient!

With this method, Ashe's envoys come to Demacia at most twice a year, and the news they bring back is only a few months old. If such an inefficient method is just to maintain the old trading management practices, there will be no problem, but once an emergency occurs, it will be too late.

And this is what Lissandra took advantage of.

In the battle of Howling Abyss not long ago, she saw Ashe's character and concluded that if it was related to Freljord, she would be willing to help her conceal it, so when she sent assassins to assassinate Lux, all the assassins passed through the city of Raxstark and received supplies from Ashe.

That's not the end.

When the assassins tried to assassinate Lux, the envoy sent by Ashe this year also encountered a large-scale assassination when he went to Demacia with Ashe's goodwill.

In other words, this can no longer be considered an assassination - the caravan where the envoy was located encountered a large-scale ice troll tribe. Although all the personnel fought bloody battles, due to the huge difference in numbers, these people were all killed by the ice trolls.

No, it can't be said that all of them.

Among the caravans traveling with the envoy, there was a person with Lissandra's emblem who was not attacked by the ice trolls, and the ice trolls even took the initiative to escort him through the most dangerous section of the road.

So, naturally, the person who got Ashe's letter and obtained the status of messenger became the new messenger.

At the critical moment, Lissandra unilaterally blocked the vision of the Avarosa tribe.

At the same time, the Frostguard messenger, who had arrived in Rakstak City long ago and shocked the intelligence team at that time, expressed the request of "Frost Witch hopes that you can strengthen the order on the ice field" after meeting Ashe, which made Ashe overjoyed.

Although the relationship between her and the Frostguard tribe was very bad, because of "the self-sacrifice of the previous generation of Lissandra", she still respected the Frost Witch very much. After receiving the affirmation and support of the new Frost Witch, Ashe finally decided to hold a large-scale alliance event.

The upcoming alliance made Rakstak City gradually lively.

And this liveliness put great pressure on the intelligence team still stationed in Rakstak City. They tried hard to collect intelligence, and then embarrassedly found that there was too much redundant information and their manpower was somewhat insufficient.

At this time, Ashe took the initiative to find the intelligence team, hoping to invite Lux to the alliance through the intelligence team, inviting "friends of Avarosa" to participate in this alliance and reaffirm friendship.

This is a very normal invitation.

But if you consider what the last Frost Guard envoy who invited Lux ​​to the alliance did, the meaning becomes subtle.

At the same time, the Internal Affairs Supervision Department in charge of the interrogation in Xiongdu also got a lot of useful information from the captives-although the captives all claimed that they were for Freljord, from the objective physical evidence, it seems that everything they have is inseparable from the support of the Avarosa tribe.

This result undoubtedly surprised Lux.

Why did the Freljord people assassinate herself?

For the Frost Witch?

After all, the witch had suffered a lot at the hands of the devil before. Judging from the situation of Kalya's hurried return, it is also very likely that she took the opportunity to retaliate against herself.

But in this matter, what role did the Avarosa tribe play?

Lux clearly remembered that Ashe hated the Frostguard priests the most!

However, unlike the result that Lissandra expected, which was suspicion and termination of cooperation between the two sides, Lux did not understand what the Avarosans were going to do and what Ashe's attitude was, but this did not prevent her from making up her mind to participate in this alliance from the beginning.

Malphite and his men had already landed at the port of Xiongdu. For Lux, the purpose of Ashe's alliance, who ordered the assassins, and whether Ashe provided some support and convenience in it were not as important as Lissandra's mind.

Lissandra's expectation that Lux would refuse the alliance and cause Ashe's dissatisfaction would not happen at all.

In this way, all the possibilities planned by Lissandra in the future, whether Ashe's show of goodwill in order to ease the relationship was interpreted as weakness, or showing toughness and being set up to cut off trade, did not happen.

A set of combined punches hit the air.

That's right, arranging a chain of suspicion that seems to be true is Lissandra's specialty.

But unfortunately, Lux never plays by the rules - even for her, this meeting is obviously a good stage. She wants to take this opportunity to take the Malphite Network and participate in the task of sealing the Freljord Void!

With such an opportunity to turn the tables, how could she let it go easily?

A little late.

LPL played well!