Chapter 839 [0826] Encounter in the Wild Area

Traveling through the mountains of Freljord with her guards, Lux was in a good mood.

As a native Demacia, hunting was a compulsory course for Lux when she was a child. According to the etiquette requirements of the Demacia nobles, hunting is a very important part, and the nobles often commemorate the ancestors of Demacia through hunting rituals.

After all, in the era of the ancestors, the Demacians drove away the many beasts entrenched in the current Demacia area and established the prototype of the Demacia country through group hunting one after another.

It is precisely because of this history that hunting has always occupied a very important part in the culture of Demacia, but the core of this part is not to obtain prey through hunting, but to commemorate their ancestors and feel their struggle through hunting.

Among the many rituals, hunting-related content is one of the few parts that Lux is interested in, and this interest only lasted until she actually participated in a hunting ceremony. Only after she really participated in the hunting ceremony did Lux ​​really understand why it was called a ceremony.

Most of the prey for the hunting ceremony was prepared in advance.

Most of the shooting in the hunting ceremony was just for show.

Only a few new nobles with low status would choose to express their bravery through hunting to attract the attention of the old nobles. Apart from these people, most of the participants in the entire hunting ceremony were more like attending a masquerade ball for hunters - after symbolically pulling the bow and shooting a few arrows, they would toast by the campfire in the camp.

Its essence was no different from the noble ball that Lux hated the most.

Since then, she has completely lost interest in all the etiquette of Demacia.

Karyaer's face-to-face education was not enough to make Lux realize that the etiquette of the nobles was essentially disguise and acting. Only real experience would make her feel that the core of the etiquette of the nobles was actually "to make the nobles sincerely believe that they are superior to others and that pretending is also a kind of difference."

In contrast, hunting is also a ritual in Freljord, but in this wild frozen land, although hunting is bloody and primitive, and the content is very inappropriate for children, it is also closer to hunting itself.

It is not to gather together in the name of hunting, but to prove one's strength by hunting more powerful prey.

Just like Lux's series of huntings while waiting for the transportation of supplies and slowing down her pace, she followed the local customs.

At the beginning, she was just trying to learn the way of Freljord and trying to play the role of Demacia War Mother.

But with one hunt after another, Lux gradually realized the core meaning of hunting in Freljord - not to commemorate the past, but for pure survival.

Only strong people can hunt enough prey to support the tribe - and those who are capable of commanding the tribe will surely be able to show their skills in hunting and return with a full load.

Here, hunting is for harvest, without so many fancy reasons, everything is so natural.

Moreover, just like the Demacians attach great importance to the boundary markers in the farmland, in Freljord, the boundaries of the hunting grounds between tribes are the forbidden food of the Freljord people.

In a sense, only by truly becoming a hunter can one better experience the primitive and wild culture of Freljord.

So, along the way, Lux's uninterrupted hunting is not only to accumulate prey and power for herself, but also to experience the feeling of being a war mother.

This "feeling" is quite precious, because only through this method can she try to think and solve problems in the way of a war mother.

For Lux, this can be regarded as a valuable experience. Since she has decided to accept the Freljord tribe and show the heart of the Demacia war mother, she must use a more "Freljord-style" method!

If before this Freljord hunting trip, when the supplies were about to arrive and the follow-up troops were about to catch up, facing the representatives of various tribes who were silently waiting on the west side of the Neuskara Pass, Lux's choice should be to establish contact with them as soon as possible and try to get the exact information she needed from them.

But as she became more and more able to understand the Freljord War Mother's thinking, she went directly to the mountains to hunt, because in the Freljord's way of thinking, communication can play a very small role, and the result of an exciting speech is probably far less than a huge snow monster corpse.

So, she chose to take her guards into the mountains when the logistics were about to arrive.

The prey obtained from the previous hunting was no longer fresh.

Now she needs something new.

Similarly, as Lux hunted all the way, her guards are now gradually accustomed to hunting and have more or less figured out some hunting experience.

Lux's guards were originally elite northern walkers, and many of the first batch of northern walkers were "transferred" from hunters - although with the formalization of northern walkers, the proportion of directly accepting militias has been getting lower and lower, but for them, hunting is more like a hidden gene.

Now following Lux over mountains and hunting wild animals, the guards have gradually figured out some hunting experience.

Unlike the relatively primitive methods of the Freljordians, the guards cooperated closely and also had special guardians to cooperate, and their hunting efficiency was far superior to that of ordinary people. If Lux had not deliberately controlled the range of prey and always named strong prey, I am afraid that they would have directly exterminated many subspecies along the way.

But even if there was some control, the high killing efficiency of the guards was enough to shock all the Freljordians. When the logistics team arrived at the Nuskala Pass, those Freljordians who were full of confidence and intended to use their prey to show their bravery would be ashamed of their complacency.

This hunting of the Yeti was the "final trip" of the entire hunt. Lux himself did not have too many ideas, but for the guards, they had to ensure that this hunt was successfully completed!

In addition to retaining the most basic guards, other hunters quickly formed teams and began a detailed search across the ice valley and snow peaks in the direction of the Yeti legend.

Under such a large-scale search, it didn't take long for the Yeti, a huge prey, to reveal its tracks and be completely locked.

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Unlike Lux and his guards, Olaf's hunting obviously had some problems.

Compared with group action, the biggest problem of hunting alone is not that he can't beat the prey when he meets it, but that he can't find the Yeti at all.

Although there are many legends about Yeti around Neuskara, it seems that you can meet three or five different Yeti every time you go into the mountains on a snowy day, but in fact, Yeti also needs a vast hunting ground of at least several hundred square kilometers.

Only a hunting ground of this scale is enough for Yeti to find food and survive.

Although the mountains near the Neuskala Pass are steep and there are not many shelters on the mountains, the traces of the Yeti can be easily discovered as long as the eyesight is good enough, but it is still a low probability event to see the Yeti in such a large Yeti hunting ground. Therefore, although Olaf entered the Yeti's territory first, he wandered around for several days without any gains.

Not to mention the Yeti, he didn't even see a single hair of the Yeti!

Seeing that he couldn't find the Yeti for a while, Olaf, who was a little impatient, could only kill a white deer, and after a big meal, he hung its body on a tree in the upwind.

The Yeti's nose is the best.

After hanging the white deer, Olaf stayed by it, and after the blood was frozen, he cut a new wound to keep the bloody smell all the time.

Fishing is also a part of hunting.

Although Olaf's hunting method is simple and crude, the effect is undoubtedly very good.

The cunning snow monsters have an IQ not inferior to that of children. They will not foolishly fall into any trap, but Olaf appeared alone in its territory and used its favorite white deer as bait, which made the snow monster tempted.

If there were more humans, the snow monster would not be fooled. It would hide carefully and curb its greed.

But when Olaf was alone, it would naturally not indulge him easily - this was its hunting ground. Even if those humans wielding weapons were not easy to provoke, it did not mean that the snow monster was really afraid!

So, under the temptation of the white deer, the snow monster walked down the ridge and began to move towards Olaf.

Olaf's fishing plan went smoothly, but on the other side, the guards who finally found the traces of the snow monster and were following from a distance were dumbfounded.

You should know that although the Yeti is tall, it is very agile and is particularly good at climbing mountains and ridges. After being stimulated by Olaf, the Yeti chose not to take the usual route. After jumping off the ridge, it began to climb along a cliff that was almost 90 degrees.

In this case, the guards could only watch from a distance and inform Lux anxiously.

Lux, who was rushing to the scene, did not expect this to happen.

Fortunately, there were still many spellbenders in the guards, and Lux's own spellcasting level was quite good, so a ridge was not enough to stop her.

So, after re-locking the Yeti's position, Lux quickly began to cross mountains and ridges and headed straight for the Yeti.

However, when Lux arrived at the peak, she did not see the Yeti, but a Freljord man who was swinging two battle axes and trying to dismember the Yeti.

There was no one else around, and judging from the wounds on the snow monster, it seemed to be completely consistent with the battle axe in the man's hand - from this point of view, the snow monster seemed to be killed by the opponent alone.

This undoubtedly aroused Lux's interest.

You know, the size of a snow monster is always more than 15 feet. Under the thick white fur is a terrifying solid muscle. Although they are huge, they are very agile. In addition, the high muscle density of large creatures and the mountainous environment they live in, even if ordinary tribes send out more than a dozen or twenty good players, it is not easy to hunt snow monsters.

Hunting snow monsters is still very valuable, otherwise Lux would not have made it the last link of her hunting.

However, the snow monster in front of her, which was obviously oversized, seemed to be chopped down by the man in front of her, which was enough to show the bravery of the other party.

For Lux, who has completely entered the role of a war mother, when she meets a warrior, she naturally recruits him - so she took the personal guard and took the initiative to meet Olaf.

"Well done, it's not easy to deal with a cunning snowman, huh?"

Hearing Lux say this, Olaf raised his head and looked at her. Although his face, which was covered with snow monster blood, had almost no expression during this process, Lux could clearly feel a bit of sarcasm in his eyes.

"If I were you." The other party seemed reluctant to speak at first, but in the end he couldn't help but mutter in a voice that Lux could hear, "Then I would leave the mountains quickly."

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"If this silly snow monster is called cunning by you, then you will be torn to pieces when you meet the pack of direwolves?" Olaf continued to mutter loudly, "If your brain is not working well, no matter how many people you have, it will be useless."

It is hard to imagine that the Freljord language, which is increasingly simple in structure and has a very scarce vocabulary, can have such abundant emotions in the mouth of this strong man, so that Lux was a little furious at the first time.

But the next moment, as a protective magic circle on Lux's body was triggered, she realized that she seemed to have been provoked.

What's going on?

In Freljord, as long as they are not from hostile tribes, ice travelers are happy to huddle together for warmth - but the lone traveler in front of him, as soon as he opened his mouth, revealed the breath of asking for a beating, and his words even had a bit of the flavor of Karya, and his words made people furious.

If it was in Demacia, Lux would not have any reaction to this level of provocation.

But now in Freljord, when he was about to hold an alliance in Neuskara and take control of the West Freljord subcontinent, an ice traveler he met by chance pretended to be the most sober...

How could he tolerate this?

According to the process, Lux, who had undergone Karya's special teaching, began to counter-taunt in a targeted manner.

"The cunning snowman will estimate the strength of the enemy. He will hide from me and be smashed out by me like a mole under the ice. But he thinks you are safe and foolishly falls into your trap. Maybe in the eyes of the snowman, you are just a piece of unpalatable food."

"But the snowman is my prey." Olaf, who had already thought about taking the snowman's heart away, snorted, "not the idiot who mobilized a large force."

"Mobilizing a large force is to challenge the cautious snowman." Lux also smiled, "not to take shortcuts and ambush the stupid fool.

This Swiss round schedule is a blessing for KT - and all this starts with their draw with T1 in the playoffs.