The lone wolf of Freyrdrand

: The Barbarian Boy

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

Three sharp arrows hit Canyalan’s neck one after another, and Canyalan let out a painful wail. It couldn’t see anything and could only find a way to escape by its sense of smell.

Lux mustered up the courage to open her eyes. The strong light in her hand hadn’t dissipated. She could only vaguely see a figure rushing towards the fangs, and then heard the ear-piercing screams of that dirty beast.

The screams became weaker and weaker until they disappeared.

“Someone came to save me, is it Auntie? Or Dad?” The joy of being saved filled Lacus’s mind. Although the light on her palm was still there, she hugged the blurry figure desperately, her tears seemed to be broken Rolling down like beads.

“Ahhh!” Lux cried and hugged the man, buried her face directly in his body, and cried loudly, “You guys finally came to save me! I’m so scared!”

Lacus was crying happily. She wanted to cry from the moment she found out that she was lost, but she just kept holding back. Now fear and joy burst out together, and she couldn’t stop crying no matter how hard she tried.

“Who is he?” After crying for a long time, Lux finally realized that she should thank this person well. She clenched her hands tightly, dimmed the light, and looked at her savior through eyes full of tears.

To Lux’s surprise, the person who rescued her was not tall at all, even about the same height as her.

She looked as old as Lacus herself, about ten years old, with jet-black hair, jet-black eyes, what seemed to be animal fur, and some animal teeth and knives hanging on her body. He held a bow in one hand and a serrated ax that was still dripping blood in the other, and he carried a large bulging backpack on his back.

A Freljord – just one look, and Lux ​​knew the identity of the person who rescued her – although his appearance and the Freljord she had heard were basically light-haired and light-colored The skin is different, but his attireAnd dressed like a savage from the North.

This is the northern border of Demacia, bordering the Freljord, and Lux ​​was so unlucky to run into a barbarian from the snow-capped mountains.

Lax’s hands and feet were cold, and the excitement of surviving disappeared in an instant, replaced by the fear of falling into an ice cave.

Lux was educated since she was a child that the barbarians in the Freljord are terrible. They drink hair and blood, they burn, kill and loot, and they roast the captives on the fire to make them into oil and so on. Thinking about these stories made Lux sleepless with fear, and she remembered making a Freljord doll and boxing it every day to exercise her courage.

But obviously, Lux’s courage has not been tempered.

Lux’s knees gave way, and she fell to the ground uncontrollably. She felt that she might as well let herself be eaten by the poor teeth, and fall into the hands of the Freljord. The ending would definitely be worse than death.

“No! Laxanna! You are a child of the Crown Guard family! Even if you die, you should die with honor! You can’t lose to the barbarians!” The honor education she received since she was a child drove Lux to stand up again, and she clenched her fists , ready to go, as long as that little barbarian dares to rush over, she will shine a bright light to blind him.

“Don’t be afraid, Laxanna, you can do it, he is about the same age as you, you can defeat him!” Lacus clenched her teeth, but the fear in her eyes still revealed her inner thoughts.

Lux waited for a long time, but the barbarian boy still didn’t attack her.

“Come here! I’m not afraid of you!” Seeing that the boy was just staring at her motionlessly, Lacus felt even more uncertain, so she could only yell at him to embolden herself.

The young man tilted his head, with a confused expression on his face.

Lux was taken aback for a moment, and then she realized something—this Freljord youth seemed to be unable to understand Demacian.

“What should I do?” The language barrier stumped Lax all of a sudden. Since the young man couldn’t understand, her yelling seemed useless.

The two stalemate silently.

“Goo…”

A funny voice broke the silence between them.

Lacus blushed. It was her stomach that was growling. She hadn’t eaten anything for a long time.

“Damn! Laxana, how embarrassing you are! You are still in front of the enemy…” Lax wanted to punch herself in the stomach.

“Goo…”

Her stomach growled again.

“Pfft…” The boy laughed out loud.

Lacus felt her face become hotter than an oven, and tears welled up in her eyes once again. She had never felt so humiliated in her life.

The young man shook his head, raised his ax and chopped at the miserable corpse.

Before Lax could react, the boy swiftly chopped off the miserable head. Lax saw the bones and flesh in the cross-section of the wound with her own eyes, and felt a strong sense of nausea in her heart. Lax couldn’t help vomiting .

“It’s over, Laxanna, you really lost the entire Crown Guard family… no… the face of the entire Demacia.” Lux looked at her vomit in despair, if there was a crack in the ground, she really wanted to jump into it forever Not coming out either.

Lux had already given up the idea of ​​resistance: “The disgrace of Demacia like me doesn’t deserve to live, so let’s just be killed by barbarians…”

But the young man’s ax didn’t respond to Lacus’ expectations. He just dismembered the poor teeth, then used a knife to peel the skin and cramps, finally smashed the bones with a hammer, and dug out the bone marrow with a small chisel.

Lux was stunned. She had never seen a hunter handling prey, but this was the first time she saw a barbarian boy who was as skillful and quick as a barbarian boy. When the boy cut off the whip and testicles, Lacus was even more shocked. Before Lux could recover from the shame and surprise, the barbarian boy had already wrapped the cut meat in a leather bag, and he took away almost all the useful things from Cangyalang’s body, leaving nothing behind.

The young man clapped his hands, and then took out a handful of leaves that Lacus didn’t recognize from his luggage. He crushed them and washed his blood-stained hands with the juice. After a while, his hands became very clean, without any blood stains .

“It’s amazing.” Lux seemed to have forgotten that she was still in danger of being in close contact with a barbarian, and stared intently at the boy’s hands.

The young man also stared at Lux’s hands. The sky was almost completely dark, and the warm yellow light on Lux’s palm was undoubtedly the most conspicuous thing.

After washing his hands, the boy threw away the leaf residue and walked towards Lacus.

—————————————————————————————————————

The Freljords often went south to plunder the cities in the northern border of Demacia, and the local residents suffered greatly from it, and they hated the Freljords. Due to the isolation of natural dangers and the coldness in the north, the Demacian army only defended against the invasion of the tribes of Freljord most of the time. But there are also records of the Demacian army taking the initiative to enter the Freljord and burn villages in order to take revenge.

——Excerpt from “Valoran Travel Notes: Demacia