Chapter 842 [0829] Three Steps to the Alliance

No one stipulates that an ice wall cannot be built outside the West Gate of Neuskara.

But as long as the warband leader of the West Gate of Neuskara is not a fool, she will understand what this ice wall means - with this ice wall, the strategic value of the West Gate has been completely lost, and it has completely become a tax checkpoint.

Outside the ice wall, Laxana will completely control the order of the West Freljord subcontinent, and Avarosa will completely lose control of this inherent land, and even the news of Frost Harbor will have to go through twists and turns...

But, having said that, even so, is this situation important to Avarosa now?

I'm afraid... it's not important, right?

Since entering the Raxtak Plain, even the energetic Ashe has no time to manage everything in Frost Harbor - compared with Frost Harbor, Raxtak City, the birthplace of the three sisters, is undoubtedly more important.

With the most ancient heritage of Freljord and being the center of the entire Freljord, everything in Rakstak City is more important than Frost Harbor.

If she wants to unite the entire Freljord again, even if she screams at the top of her lungs in a remote corner like Frost Harbor, her voice will not be heard by the entire Freljord. Only in Rakstak can she make the entire Freljord hear her voice.

The upcoming alliance in Rakstak, supported by the Frost Witch, is the best explanation of this idea. If Ashe had not entered the Rakstak Plains and established a firm foothold in Rakstak City, she would never have been able to host such a large-scale alliance.

The warband leader of the West Gate of Newskara occasionally communicates with Ashe. In private letters, Ashe has expressed her expectations for this situation many times. She believes that her efforts will definitely be rewarded, and she is taking a path that no one in Freljord has ever taken before.

Before Lux came to Neuskara, the Lady of the Chapter had always believed that Ashe's choice was correct and that Raxtak was the essence and key to the Freljord.

However, watching the cheers of the representatives of many tribes in the West Freljord subcontinent from afar outside the ice wall, she felt something was wrong.

It seemed that with the rise of this ice wall, the Avarosa tribe had completely lost a lot - she couldn't tell what she had lost, but she always felt a little bit of subtle discomfort.

No, there was nothing to be uncomfortable about.

Shaking her head hard, the Lady of the Chapter could only force herself to calm down - the Demacians were allies, and Her Majesty Laxana was about to participate in the ceremony of the alliance. The discomfort in her heart should be just a persistence in the past.

How to face this unexpected alliance, after all, depends on Ashe's attitude!

That's right, it depends on Ashe's attitude!

In silence, the warband leader stationed at the west gate of Neuskara acquiesced to the rise of the ice wall and Lux's alliance.

And Ashe's subsequent instructions did not exceed her expectations - Ashe still believed that Lux was an important ally and friend of Avarosa. Ashe, who had not witnessed the alliance with her own eyes, did not realize the significance of the alliance itself, and did not realize what impact a Demacia emperor who tried hard to play the role of Freljord Warmother could have on the old order of Freljord.

Ashe, who entered the Rakstak Plain and took over the city of Rakstak, did not realize that she was gradually falling into an ancient trap called tradition.

Everything she experienced in the city of Rakstak gave her the expectation and possibility of "uniting Freljord in a traditional way". When the dawn of victory had some signs, she had gradually given up some of her insistence in Frost Harbor in a subtle way.

For her, learning from the Demacians has changed from a matter of life and death for the tribe to a policy of maintaining the tribal economy. She once set her sights on Ashe outside the Freljord, but now her attention is completely focused on the Rakstak Plains.

Due to the Freljord's war mother system, her change in attitude also directly affected the attitude of her war captains. Although she felt something was not right, she still congratulated Lux ​​on behalf of Ashe after the meeting.

With this statement, the last obstacle in front of Lux was also removed - from then on, the old order in the vast area of ​​the West Freljord subcontinent will be gradually replaced, and under the image of War Mother Lux, a new order that has never existed before is being born in Freljord.

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When Lissandra received the news of the Neuskara meeting, the Frost Witch, who has always been known for her calmness, showed anger for the first time on her ice throne.

There is no doubt that Lux's behavior was completely beyond Lissandra's expectations. She was indeed trying to sow discord between Lux and Ashe, but she never expected that the result of this provocation would make Lux reach out to the West Freljord subcontinent for the first time.

In the past, no warmbloods had ever been interested in Freljord. For them, this was a wild land where the management benefits far exceeded the investment. The tradition of the Freljord people made any warmbloods who tried to rule here rejected by all Freljord people.

However, under the influence of the Northern Trade over the past decade, this rejection has gradually softened - Lissandra noticed the blood transfusion effect of the Northern Trade on the Avarosa tribe, noticed the huge profits brought to the Avarosa tribe by trade exchanges, and realized that it was the Northern Trade that gave Ashe the courage to challenge the old order of Freljord and gave birth to the ambition to unify Freljord.

But before everything happened, she did not realize that through the Northern Trade, the Freljord people in the West Freljord subcontinent had lost their "bloodiness". They no longer looked down on the warm-blooded people in the south. Although the cultural gap between the two sides still exists, they have become more tolerant and accepting.

The barrier that once blocked the cultural exchange between Freljord and Demacia was quietly opened by the Northern Trade that has been going on for more than a decade - in the Northern Trade that has lasted for a generation, for many tribes in the West Freljord subcontinent, "Debon merchants" have become a very important non-staff member of the tribe.

Just like the Frostguard priests in many tribes on the Raxtak Plains.

Lissandra can use the Frostguard priests to exert influence on many tribes in Freljord.

Similarly, Lux can also exert her influence in the West Freljord subcontinent through Demacia's northern traders.

In the past, Lissandra never thought about this - although she had rich experience and experience, sometimes this experience would make her fall into the misunderstanding of thinking and habitually think along the old line of thought.

She subconsciously thought that for Lux, Freljord was just a money bag, and she only wanted to monopolize the northern trade.

However, when the news of the Neuskara Alliance came, Lissandra realized that the warm-blooded man named Lux ​​was actually trying to use a similar method to establish the order she wanted in the West Freljord subcontinent.

This cunning guy even pretended to be a "Freljord Warmother" to gain the trust and support of other tribes, and used a funny performance to fool those idiots who had never seen the world!

What, why did Lissandra say that this was Lux's performance?

Nonsense, of course she knew - because Lissandra herself used this method to perform in Freljord for thousands of years!

At this critical juncture, Ashe, who was holding an alliance in Rakstak, unconsciously covered for Lux. No matter how furious Lissandra was, she could not withdraw her forces to the West Freljord subcontinent in a short time.

Lux's behavior is indeed intolerable.

But now is the critical period to close the net for Ashe, and Lissandra is too busy to do anything!

In this situation, the Frost Witch could only suppress her anger and focus more on alienating Lux and Ashe. As long as the relationship between them completely collapsed, Lux, who had no support from local forces, and Ashe, who had no financial resources behind them, would end up in a mess!

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Lux obviously didn't know what Lissandra was thinking.

At this moment, all her attention was on this meeting and on maintaining her status as a war mother. It was only after she presided over the meeting that she gradually figured out what the Freljord-style meeting meant.

Why hold a meeting?

For the hosts of the Freljord meeting, the meeting was not only to establish a new order, but more importantly, through the meeting, they could show their organizational strength to all participants, and use the meeting as a platform to provide new interests that could attract more people.

According to tradition, there are three important steps in the Freljord-style meeting: duel, communication, and oath.

Among these three steps, the competition is a link to show off one's muscles and also a link for the leader to show his organizational ability. The participants of each tribe are either the war mother herself or the strongest warriors in the tribe. Most of them are unruly and even if they are willing to follow the rules of the competition, they are always prone to various troubles.

In this case, if the leader wants to ensure the normal progress of the competition, he must have the ability and skills to handle it properly.

For Lux, this is not a difficult task - with clerks and law guardians as the basic base, the alliance competition she can preside over is much more reliable than all the alliances in the past, and if she is willing to come forward in person, any conflicts can be quickly resolved.

Moreover, Lux, who knows the nature of the Freljord people to admire strength, also personally went down several times during the competition in the form of resolving fights and demonstrating, completely calming those guys who were ready to move because they saw her "weak appearance". The entire competition can be said to be calm and smooth.

Then, on the evening of the end of the competition, a grand bonfire party will be held in Nuskara, and this is the second step of the Freljord Alliance, communication.

For the Freljord tribes, communication is extremely important - only through communication can different tribes learn from each other's strengths and weaknesses and get what they need. Before the rise of the Avarosa tribe and the start of the northern trade, the alliance's communication was even once the main commercial circulation platform of the Freljord. Before there was a complete commercial system, the alliance often shouldered the mission of trade exchanges.

However, with the development of trade in the north, there has been a bit of a "meeting with netizens" style among the tribes in terms of communication.

Because Demacia's official caravans would cycle through various tribes in the Freljord twice a year in the spring and autumn, this directly led to trade exchanges between different tribes and indirectly through the Demacian caravans.

Although for Demacia, the core of the northern trade is to exchange cheap Demacian food for cheap furs from Frel Drow, but because the caravan will expand its customers as much as possible and pass through many Frel The Zod tribe, so at every stop in the northern trade, in addition to the most critical food and fur trade, they will also purchase and sell some of the local Freljord products.

The initial purpose of this process was to promote ice gold coins, promote Demacia gold coins, and establish an economic order that relied on Demacia. However, it also promoted indirect economic exchanges between different tribes. Therefore, in the bonfire At the conference, many tribal representatives met and drank together, and soon they were surprised to find that some of the products purchased by their own tribe were actually produced by the other tribe.

Although due to cost reasons, it is difficult for different tribes to separate from the Demacia caravan and conduct trade exchanges independently, this discovery has greatly deepened the relationship between different tribes, making the atmosphere of the bonfire meeting obviously lively.

Then, the day after the bonfire meeting, the most important part of the alliance finally came.

Oath of alliance.

The Freljord people attach great importance to oaths, especially oaths and promises made with blood. The War Mother's spouse is called a blood pact because he and the War Mother will make an oath with blood and dedicate their loyalty to each other.

For the alliance, the oath is equivalent to the signing of a treaty - the signature is important, and more importantly, what should be written on the treaty.

If it is a tribal oath like Winter's Claw, Sejuani's oath is often "I will take the lead in the next plunder of XXX, fight to the death, and I will ensure a fair distribution of the spoils."

However, for Lux, the situation is very different.

In this part of the Oath, she will no longer play the role of the traditional war mother of Freljord.

There was no competition, so it suddenly felt a little empty.