Chapter 841 [0828] Neuskara Alliance

When Lux finally arrived at the meeting place, spring had already arrived in Demacia in the south, and on the Sagagra Plains of Freljord, the Breath of Anivia had only weakened. The howling and biting cold wind still blew from the great glaciers in the far north, and after crossing the frozen sea of ​​ice, it enveloped the entire Freljord continent.

The cold wind weakened after crossing the Valar Mountains, but its power was still extraordinary. Under the cold wind for many years, the bay area located south of the Valar Mountains and north of Frost Harbor was covered with thick ice all year round.

Here, the sea ice on the sea surface that has not melted for many years and the ice cover on the land are completely integrated, forming the largest mixed plain in West Freljord - the Sagagra Mixed Plain.

The further east you go, the more the flat Sagagra Plain is squeezed by the Dragon Spine Mountains in the south and the Ice Claw Mountains in the north, gradually converging, and forming the most spectacular natural pass in Freljord, the Neuskara Pass, at the closest point where the two mountains are close and the straight-line distance is less than a thousand yards.

From a distance, Neuskara Pass looks like a gap split in two tall and neat fences. If you want to enter the Rakstak Plain with the most superior natural environment in Central Freljord from the West Freljord subcontinent, this is the only passage unless you have the ability to cross the Dragon Spine Mountains and Ice Claw Mountains with an average altitude of more than 5,000 meters.

Therefore, it is no exaggeration to say that whoever controls Neuskara Pass controls the gate of West Freljord - it is for this reason that even for the Freljord people who have no tradition of building cities, Neuskara Pass is an ancient and magnificent pass.

Generation after generation of Westfreljord overlords or Rakstak leaders would build their own passes here, either as a bridgehead for attack or as a defensive barrier.

When the Winter Claw tribe was at its peak, Sejuani had set up a military station under her personal jurisdiction at the easternmost starting point of the Neuskara Pass, which was used as a frontier position for attacking and plundering the Westfreljord subcontinent. In response, Ashe reinforced the pass at the western exit as a defense.

However, in the later battle between the two sides, with the help of Silas, the pass was quickly captured, resulting in the Winter Claw occupying a huge advantage in the early stage until the supplies were exhausted and the troops were stationed in Frost Harbor.

Later, as the Winter Claw tribe fell into division after the Battle of Mithril City, the east and west ends of the entire Neuskara Pass fell completely into the hands of the Avarosa tribe.

However, as Ashe set out to enter the Rakstak Plains, wanting to follow Avarosa's footsteps and unite Freljord once again, the importance of the two passes in the east and west of the Neuskara Pass reversed - after the center of gravity moved eastward, the pass at the east exit became more important, while the west exit became a commercial checkpoint.

Today, the end of the Sagaragra Plain west of this pass, which provided a large amount of original commercial taxes for the Avarosa tribe, is already filled with tents of various colors.

The owners of these tents came from all over the West Freljord subcontinent, from the Port of Glazer near the Sea of ​​Ice to the Rockfar Peninsula in the northwest corner of the Freljord, from the towering Valar Mountains to the low-lying Icebreaker Port. Small tribes from different places, after learning about Laxana's alliance through the caravans that penetrated the West Freljord subcontinent like capillaries, either set out on their own or sent the bravest warriors to arrive at the Newskara Pass before the Breath of Anivia completely stopped, and set up tents with their own tribal style here.

Looking around, the tents made of fur materials dyed with various natural pigments are colorful. Although most of them are not bright, in Lux's eyes, they have a sense of déjà vu of flowers blooming and competing for beauty.

This made Lux, who felt a little empty in her heart and missed the spring speech for the first time since she became the Lord of Fosbyro, feel much better.

Or... the upcoming meeting was originally another different spring speech, except that the target of this speech became the Freljord tribe!

Thinking of this, Lux took the five-color paint handed over by the guards, skillfully applied it on her face, and specially separated a strand of hair to dye her long golden hair into five colors: black, red, blue, yellow, and green.

Here, she will temporarily give up her identity as the Lord of Fosbyro and the Emperor of Demacia, and appear in front of all the Freljord people who come to participate in the meeting as a war mother who will establish a new order in the West Freljord subcontinent.

For this reason, she did not choose to wear the Demacia rune steel armor that she had long been accustomed to, but put on a fur vest made of wolf skin, sea worm scales and Enuk velvet, and went shirtless in a very Freljord style.

To be honest, it was quite cold.

Lux is not of ice blood. If she hadn't climbed Mount Targon before and hadn't learned from Karya the little trick of "avoiding the negative effects of low temperatures on the body by transforming into elements", she would have shivered in this outfit for less than half a day.

But with the help of magic, although the chilly breath of Anivia still made Lux uncomfortable, she at least didn't have to worry about hypothermia - more importantly, in the eyes of most Freljord people, Lux was a complete Freljord war mother except that she was a little short and didn't have enough muscles.

This change in image can greatly reduce the resistance of the Freljord people. Although those who can take the initiative to participate in the alliance are tribes that are closer to Demacia and naturally approach Lux, it is actually difficult to tell whether they accept the change from the bottom of their hearts or simply for survival.

So for Lux, this kind of distance and influence that can be shortened by changing her image can be said to be a benefit without cost.

And as Lux, who has completely changed her appearance, rode the carefully selected and obviously taller Enuk to the destination of the alliance, the Freljord people watching around quickly cheered.

Especially when they saw the Malphites behind Lux, the cheers broke through the sky - these sharp-eyed Freljord people were surprised to find that the sticks held by these huge "ice giants" were actually engraved with the patterns of their own tribe!

The tribes that took the initiative to come to the alliance were all small tribes, but even the smallest tribes had their own names. In Freljord, although there was a common Freljord language, few people could write this language except for a few knowledgeable ice travelers and frost guard priests, as well as the war mothers of each tribe.

In this case, most Freljord people's sense of identity with their origins was reflected on paper, which was the crest of their own tribe.

The source of the crest may be the image of a certain ancestor, the embodiment of the tribal name, or some patterns that all tribesmen think are cool. For the Freljord people, these crests are the representatives of their own tribe.

As part of the preparation for the alliance, the clerks collected the crests of all known tribes in the West Freljord subcontinent through the channels of northern trade, carved them on wooden sticks, and added colors as ceremonial weapons.

In order to make it easier for the Freljord people to accept, Kalja personally spent a lot of effort to change the Malphites into a "snow paint", not only wrapping these stone men with ice, but also attaching snow that will not fall off on the ice.

It is true that the Freljord people are usually conservative and stubborn.

But being conservative and stubborn does not mean that they reject all new things - for this new thing that is very consistent with their aesthetics and cognition, they will not be stingy with their cheers.

Behind the Malphites, the newly reorganized Northern Army also changed into snow uniforms.

These professionally trained professional soldiers marched in neat steps, carrying all kinds of prey that Lux personally hunted along the way, and entered the alliance site in a mighty manner, and automatically separated to both sides, quickly changing from a guard of honor to the maintainer of order on the scene.

In order to show military appearance, the Northern Army participating in this operation are all elites. They change their formation very quickly. The onlookers of the Freljord people have not even reacted before they have been separated to both sides and a wide passage has been separated.

Unlike Lux, who entered the venue with a high profile, and the cheering West Freljord tribes, the Avarosans at the Neuskara Pass felt something was wrong.

Since Neuskara Pass is an important trade route, the Avarosan defenders did not realize there was any problem when the tribes began to gather here.

But as more and more people gathered here, they finally got the news that Lux was going to hold a meeting - in this case, although they sent an envoy to inform Ashe as soon as possible, when Lux arrived, the envoy had not returned yet.

In this case, the decision on how to deal with this meeting fell into the hands of the person in charge of Neuskara Pass at this time.

But the problem is that she has no idea what to do.

The Demacians are allies, which is certain for the Avarosan tribe, otherwise Ashe would not have sent an envoy to invite Lux to Laxtak to watch the ceremony.

It is true that the Avarosa tribe has basically given up control of the West Freljord subcontinent, otherwise her base would not be Neuskara Fortress, but Frost Harbor.

So, when the Avarosa tribe withdrew from the West Freljord subcontinent, an ally came here to host a meeting... Although this kind of thing is a bit strange, it is quite normal for the Freljord.

Even when Ashe left Frost Harbor and moved her base to Rakstak, if she did not want the tribe to split and always maintained the idea of ​​​​making the Freljord completely united again, Ashe could even split the tribe into two and leave a part of the people to control the West Freljord subcontinent.

In addition, Ashe's ability to go to Rakstak is also closely related to Lux. If the battle of Mithril City had not destroyed the Winter Claw, even if the size of the Avarosa tribe continued to expand steadily, it would be difficult to move eastward.

In short, it stands to reason that Lux held a meeting west of the Neuskara Pass, which should have nothing to do with the Avarosa tribe.

But the problem is... Lux is a Demacia!

A Demacia warmblood came to the Freljord to host a meeting... This is simply an unprecedented miracle!

What's even more bizarre is that the local Freljord people welcomed her very much. Judging from the current situation, if there is no problem with the meeting, these tribes will even be willing to fight for Demacia!

Although Lux did not show any intention towards the Neuskara Pass, the war captain who was ordered by Ashe to stay here still felt a little bit uneasy.

The feeling of being cut by someone is not pleasant at all.

In this case, all she could do was to comfort herself silently, "Anyway, my responsibility is to guard the pass and collect money from the Demacians passing by. If they are willing to join the alliance, they can go to the alliance. Maybe I can get more money."

However, since the alliance has been decided, Lux naturally cannot simply hold a ceremony - it has been determined to hold the West Freljord subcontinent in her hands, so she must hold it tightly!

There is no need to conflict with the Avarosa tribe now, so she will not make any plans for the Neuskara Pass.

But this does not prevent her from establishing a new border as a division of power!

So, just when the Avarosa war captain on the wall of Neuskara West Pass breathed a sigh of relief, a group of Demacians with light hair walked out of the queue.

Then, amid the cheers of the Freljordians who participated in the alliance, they stood in a line.

A long chain that looked like it was made of rock connected them together. With a huge "ice giant" at the head and tail of the team grabbing the chain, the chain was completely stretched straight, and these people also followed the stretched chain and lined up in a straight line a hundred yards outside the western gate of the Newskala Pass.

The next moment, under the astonished eyes of the Avarosa war captain, more than a hundred people squatted on the ground in unison, with their hands supported in the ice and snow that had not yet melted.

A silent impact rippled, and the magic power of these people began to resonate on a large scale. Even those who did not understand magic and had no magic perception would feel an indescribable irritability and coldness.

And as this indescribable irritability and coldness spread, under the feet of these law guards, a very thick ice wall rose from the ground at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Less than a quarter of an hour later, further west of the western gate of the Neuskala Pass, a new ice wall made entirely of solid ice was formed.

Let us congratulate KT, this team is really interesting.