Chapter 862 [0859] Grudges

This is not the first time Ashe has fought with Sejuani.

The two are childhood friends. They used to live together as partners. In Freljord, partners not only mean friends, but also often mean people who can learn from each other. Moreover, even if this kind of learning is not counted, when Ashe chose to leave with Hearth, she also had a battle with Sejuani.

Later, when the Winter Claw besieged Frost Harbor, the two had a head-on conflict, so Ashe was not unfamiliar with Sejuani's moves and habits.

This is not the first time Ashe has fought with the Lost.

Although Lux won the battle this morning, Ashe, as the Warmother of Avarosa, has actually had many conflicts with the Lost. Even though those beasts have their own fixed hunting grounds, they will expand their territory as long as there is a little opportunity. The surrounding Warmothers must take tough measures to prevent them from going too far.

Ashe had led the Hearthmen to migrate nearly 10,000 miles from Ornkal to Frost Harbor. During this journey, she had used her bow and arrows to intimidate the Lost Ones more than once. She had a lot of experience in this regard.

However, facing Sejuani in the Lost One state was undoubtedly the first time for Ashe.

When Ashe tried to suppress the firepower first and try to close the distance between herself and Sejuani according to her previous habits, Sejuani, who had received the power of Volibear and transformed into the Lost One, did not dodge as before, nor did she stupidly resist like the other Lost Ones. Instead, she turned around and used her half-ice body to meet Ashe's arrows.

"Tap, tap, tap--"

After a short and dull sound, the ice arrow shot by Ashe nailed Sejuani's body.

These arrows, which were enough to cause partial frostbite and slow down the target's movements, were meaningless in front of Sejuani. Her half-ice body, shoulders and upper arms were full of ice arrows, but her movements were not delayed at all, not even deformed a little.

When Ashe leaped back and tried to distance herself, Sejuani strode forward and suddenly raised her other flesh and blood hand holding the flail.

Then, accompanied by a low roar of storm and thunder, the storm flail stretched a lot and smashed directly at Ashe.

Perhaps because of the characteristics of elemental weapons, or perhaps inspired by Lux, the suddenly stretched storm flail was quite deceptive in the process of swinging and stretching. It was not until the flail was about to get close that Ashe realized that she seemed to have misjudged the length of the stretched flail.

As a result, the flail flashing with dangerous arcs forced Ashe to lean forward to dodge. She was forced to stop her backward movement and suddenly lowered her center of gravity, thus avoiding the fatal sweep of the flail.

Fortunately, Sejuani herself was not a spellcaster. Although the Storm Flail she used was an elemental weapon, it could not be used as freely as Lux used the Lightforged Longsword. The elemental deformation of the elemental flail seemed to be a considerable inertial burden for her. After the first attack missed, when she pulled the flail back and retracted the flail door, her movements were more or less a little slow.

So while Sejuani was retracting the flail and swinging it again, Ashe stood up and took the opportunity to pull the bowstring again.

The last shooting had proved that ordinary multiple arrows did not even have a slowing effect on Sejuani, so this time Ashe did not release the arrow immediately, but stretched the bow like a full moon, trying to condense a magic crystal arrow that could cause damage to Sejuani.

However, whether it was due to the intuition of the Lost or Sejuani's understanding of Ashe, before the magic crystal arrow was formed, the Storm Flail attacked again, forcing Ashe to release the bowstring earlier and continue to retreat.

This time, Sejuani was more radical. When she retracted the flail, she also used herself as part of the axis of rotation. While retracting the elemental flail and shortening it, she also swung herself towards Ashe. After testing that ordinary ice arrows were ineffective against her, she used her ice half of her body as a shield and smashed towards Ashe without hesitation.

Ashe barely raised the True Ice Longbow to block Sejuani's ice fist attack.

The ice fist hit the back of the bow hard. Although it only made a very dull sound, Ashe could clearly feel the vibration of the entire bow.

Then, an irresistible force was transmitted to Ashe, making Ashe unable to stand. Her feet left the ground, and she flew into the air and fell backwards. This powerful blow knocked Ashe out.

Sejuani's physical strength was outstanding among the ice blood. Now that she has received the blessing of Volibear, she has a bit of a domineering posture. Just one punch made Ashe completely give up the idea of ​​fighting her in close combat.

What a close combat, it's all about power!

Fortunately, Ashe has a good balance. Even if she was knocked out by a punch, she adjusted her posture when she landed, and did not fall to the ground in embarrassment and be chased by others at will.

On the contrary, with the help of this amazing force, Ashe also pulled away for a distance and took the opportunity to run towards the exit of the col.

Sejuani would naturally not allow her to escape.

Following a roar that was not like a human voice, the Storm Flail suddenly stretched out and flew towards Ashe like a lasso, as if it was going to blow her head off on the spot.

Fortunately, Ashe had already opened the True Ice Longbow and shot several arrows in succession, which barely blocked the Storm Flail.

While Ashe was standing still and shooting, Sejuani had thrown herself over again and blocked Ashe's escape from the col.

In a flash, Ashe saw Lux cleaning up the Lost Ones with her peripheral vision. Seeing the Lost Ones on the back mountain retreating in front of Lux, Ashe suddenly changed direction and ran towards the stone house.

Although Sejuani swung the Storm Flail again at the first moment, they still passed each other in the horizontal movement from east to west. When Sejuani took back the flail again, Ashe had already come to the side of the stone house and used the stone house as a shooting barrier, and opened the True Ice Longbow again.

Seeing that the magic crystal arrow was gradually taking shape, Sejuani roared like a beast again and threw the Storm Flail in her hand directly.

Ashe had seen the power of Sejuani's flail. Any target hit by her flail would be instantly frozen, and then destroyed by brute force and turned into debris on the ground.

Fortunately, Ashe was leaning against the outer wall of the stone house... something was wrong!

Seeing that the flying speed of the flail was very wrong after being thrown, Ashe did not dare to condense the magic crystal arrow again, but suddenly fell to one side.

This caution saved her life, because the flail thrown by Sejuani was like a flash of lightning, instantly hitting the stone house where Ashe was, and attracted a thunderbolt, which blew the stone house into stones all over the ground!

If Ashe hesitated a little, she would taste the taste of being struck by five thunderbolts.

Something was wrong, very wrong!

The Sejuani in front of her was completely different from the Sejuani that Ashe knew in the past. She was no longer the brave descendant of Serilda who used the North Wind Flail, but a terrible half-ice and half-beast monster who used the power of wind and thunder!

The greater the pressure of the battle, the calmer Ashe became. When Sejuani threw her over again, she did not rush to draw her bow and arrow, but focused all her attention on Sejuani's half body made entirely of ice.

Under the illumination of Lux's "flare", this half of the body even looked a bit crystal clear, as if it was not half of Sejuani's body, but half of an ice statue.

In contrast, the other half of Sejuani's body was twisted and terrible. Because she was directly hit by Lux's light-forged sword in the battle of Mithril City, the wounds that almost penetrated her entire body had obvious charring and necrosis. However, many twisted flesh and blood resisted this necrosis with terrible vitality, and "pieced" this half of the body together with the other half.

After seeing this body, no one would be willing to observe it carefully, because just a glance would make people's scalp numb.

However, after Ashe carefully observed Sejuani's body, she was somewhat surprised to find that through the half transparent body, she could see the flesh and blood that were growing and dying, and the blood vessels that were growing but shrinking rapidly at the wound of the other half of the body.

And the liquid flowing in Sejuani's blood vessels at this time did not seem to be blood, but a liquid that looked like flowing lightning.

When she looked carefully, Ashe even found that half of Sejuani's icy body was actually "grasped" by the twisted flesh and blood of the other half - the two sides were not a system at all!

This made Ashe suddenly think of the enemies who used shields that she had faced before.

Maybe there was something wrong with her thinking before. She should not regard Sejuani as a whole, but as a half body holding an ice shield!

Realizing this, Ashe avoided another sweep from Sejuani and simply gave up the idea of ​​fire suppression. Instead, she used a series of arrows for precise shooting. Each arrow was aimed at Sejuani's atrium, not giving Sejuani the opportunity to use her ice body to resist her shooting.

At the same time, she took the initiative to circle around the stone house, running back and forth, and walking around the house, which could not only avoid direct attacks, but also make Sejuani more irritable.

In this case, although Sejuani still waved her flail and turned her body sideways, Ashe flexibly walked around these stone houses, not only was her offensive limited, but she was also accidentally hit by several arrows on half of her flesh and blood body.

When these arrows hit the target, Sejuani finally showed a reaction similar to that of ordinary losers - the pain made her eyes red and scary, and her movement frequency was significantly faster, but in Ashe's eyes, she had completely lost the oppressive power at the beginning.

The physical fitness and spellcasting ability of the Lost are terrible, but their biggest weakness is that they will lose their minds due to pain, anger, and various reasons, and become completely violent warriors. In this state, the Lost are more agile and stronger, but they rely entirely on muscle memory and beast instincts when fighting.

In Freljord, there are many creatures that are stronger and more flexible than the Lost, but none of them can compare to the threat of the Lost. This is partly because the Lost has spell-like abilities from Volibear, but also because the more rational Lost have a considerable degree of combat wisdom and will judge the situation and face the enemy in a targeted manner.

And Sejuani was not very rational to begin with, and now she was stimulated by Ashe, she almost turned into a mad beast. She even gave up using the flail as a weapon and turned to biting and scratching Ashe fiercely.

In this situation, although Ashe could not pull the distance between the two sides temporarily and had no chance to draw her bow, in her opinion, the balance of victory had already tilted towards her.

However, before Ashe could find a chance to kill with one blow, Sejuani, who pounced on her again, suddenly swelled up after failing to hit the target.

Without any warning, half of her ice body suddenly exploded, turning into a rain of ice blades like a whirlwind of blades.

Caught off guard, Ashe could only raise her arms and barely defend herself, but when the ice blades came like a rainstorm, her defense seemed meaningless - many ice blades were stained with blood red.

When Ashe raised her arms to defend, Sejuani controlled half of her body, picked up the Storm Flail, and took the opportunity to smash Ashe, who was still under the threat of the ice blade rain, again.

The Storm Flail suddenly stretched out and smashed Ashe in the ice blade rain. With no way to avoid it, it seemed that Ashe was doomed!

However, when the flail stretched to its maximum and passed through the rain of ice blades, it failed to hit the target.

Not only did it fail to hit the target, but even when Sejuani tried to retract the flail, the Storm Flail seemed to be frozen, as if it weighed a thousand pounds. No matter how hard Sejuani tried, she could not shorten or retract it as before.

At the same time, Ashe's cold voice finally sounded after the ice blades landed. In the ice mist, the True Ice Longbow in her hand, which had been pulled open at some point, was flashing a dangerous light.

"Do you think you can control Sejuani like this?" Ashe stretched her bow like a full moon, as if she was talking to Sejuani, but her eyes seemed to pass through Sejuani and looked at Volibear behind her, "Do you think the Ice Bloodline will really willingly become a lackey of the Old Gods?"

"The Sejuani I know will never admit defeat. Even if she encounters the irresistible power of the Old Gods at her weakest, she will not be willing to become a carrier of the beast!"

As if to verify Ashe's words, the ice flakes that had previously cut Ashe's body in the form of ice blades, as if they had received an order, gathered on the bowstring of the True Ice Longbow at this moment, and in the panicked one-eyed, it turned into a magic crystal arrow as thick as a giant tree.

The next moment, the bowstring sounded.

A stream of light flashed, and the twisted flesh was hit by the magic crystal arrow and frozen in place.

Ashe picked up the flail from the side, swung it completely in a circle, and smashed it heavily on the ice sculpture.

"Sejuani said she refused to accept the decision."

Sejuani's relief.