The lone wolf of Freyrdrand

: Miserable Victory

“Lothar!” Ashe’s voice was full of uncontrollable joy, the blue light in her eyes receded, and the longbow in her hand also subsided from the cold light. She spread her legs and ran towards Lothar, ignoring Wei En, who was lying on Lothar’s shoulders, crashing into Lothar’s arms like a baby swallow from her parents who had been away for a long time.

“You’re fine! Great!” Ashe hugged Lothar tightly, pressing against his forehead.

“Well, I’m fine.” Lothar smelled the bloody smell from Ashe’s body, but he didn’t hold back, and kissed his wife’s lips gently. At the same time, she stroked Ashe’s arm. She had used the True Ice Weapon for too long, and the backlash made her arm red and trembling uncontrollably.

“That’s great… that’s great…” Ashe’s shoulders slumped all of a sudden, as if the strings that had been tense all the time suddenly relaxed.

“Hmm…” Lothar let Ashe hug him quietly for a while, and asked, “How did it turn out?”

Ashe trembled all over, let go of Lothar’s arms, and said in a sad voice: “We won, but it was a miserable victory.”

“How many warriors died”

“I took a rough look with Eagle Spirit… just thisIn the battlefield here, at least nine hundred warriors and dozens of shamans died… As for the furnace… countless…”

Even if you have a heart in mind [resource; source group]: 9? 8; 0; 2? . 0′. 5,,8″5.;6 Bei, upon hearing this result, Lothar was still speechless.

Ashe sobbed softly.

The Avarosa tribe had just been established, and to suffer such a blow was like stabbing a newborn baby in the stomach.

Lothar was silent for a while, and solemnly said to Ashe: “The result of the battle is already like this, and we cannot change it, but we must do well in the next thing.”

Ashe wiped away her tears, her eyes were red: “Well… I know… If you can’t appease everyone, Avarosa may be about to break up…”

“I believe in you.” Lothar said, “The tribesmen also believe in you. Use your name as Avarosa’s reincarnation and try your best to appease the people. We will talk about the rest when we arrive at Lax Stark.”

Ashe thought for a while in silence, then nodded: “There is no better way now…”

Lothar looked at his wife’s slender body. Although she had the blood of ice, her shoulders still looked so fragile. She is obviously still an underage girl, but she has to fight against the rise and fall of the entire tribe: “I’m sorry.”

Ashe was taken aback for a moment, then smiled forcedly: “What are you apologizing for…”

“If I can be stronger, maybe I can stay by your side and fight with you.” Lothar’s face was full of guilt.

“It’s okay, Lothar.” Ashe gently held Lothar’s face, “It’s okay, you just need to do what you can… All of us can only do things within our ability… ”

After leaving these words, Ashe went to find the land leaders and shamans of various tribes. She still has a lot of things to deal with.

Lothar stood where he was and stayed there for a long time.

He lightly shook his shoulders and said, “Is it fun to pretend to be asleep and eavesdrop?”

Wei En slid off Lothar’s shoulder, embraced the wound on his right arm, and said calmly: “I didn’t pretend to be asleep, I just woke up when you were talking.”

Lothar didn’t say anything, and looked around: “Where’s Frey?”

“What are you looking for her for?”

“I need to know why.” Lothar’s eyes were cold, but there seemed to be a raging fire burning in the depths. “Why did the troll and the frost priest join forces to attack us?”

“I can tell you.” Frey’s voice suddenly came from behind Lothar without any warning.

Lothar was taken aback. Although he was in a bad state now, it wasn’t that Frey was so close to him and he didn’t even notice it.

Lothar and Wei En looked at her at the same time. Frey was still holding the head of a troll in her hand. She threw it on the ground and said indifferently: “The fish that slipped through the net, I just chased it.”

Lothar suppressed his fear of Frey’s strength. He wanted to step on the troll’s head, but because of a broken leg, Wei En took the lead.

“Go to hell! You pickled bastard!” Wei En’s eyes were full of ferocity, as if she was venting, she kept stepping on the troll’s head, seeing that her energy didn’t look like she was injured at all. look.

“The troll’s head is very hard, you can’t crush it.” Frey said to Wei En, and then turned to Lothar, “You are the blood alliance of this tribe’s war mother, right? I want to see you Warmother, tell her something.”

Lothar frowned: “Is it a good thing or a bad thing?”

“Things related to the trolls and the Frost Guard.” Frey said, “It’s very, very important.”

“Can’t you tell me first?”

“The situation is very complicated. The Freljord has become very uneasy recently. I want to communicate directly with your war mother.”

“My wife is still busy dealing with the post-war affairs, so please tell me what’s going on first.”

Frey was silent for a while: “Can you represent your war mother?”

“No one can except me.”

“That’s it… But I really can’t explain it for a while…” Frey thought for a moment, and said, “Simply speaking… a king emerged from the trolls.”

…

The sudden attack by the Frost Guards and the trolls severely damaged the vitality of Avarosa’s migrating team, and the number of personnel capable of fighting was directly reduced by nearly half, resulting in heavy losses.

The most important thing is that the victory of this war did not bring any benefits to the Avarosa tribe – there is almost no place to use the dead trolls, and no one will touch the armor and weapons of the Frost Guards, because They are symbols of bad luck.

Under Ai Xi’s command, the migration team took a day to adjust their formation, and the whole team tightened up a lot. At the same time, they arranged for Fudo to dig graves for the dead warriors.

When it got dark again, Ashe, who hadn’t closed her eyes for two whole days, dragged her tired body back to her and Lothar’s tent.

Lothar was already in the tent. Besides him, Olaf and Wayne were also there, and there was a woman whom Ashe didn’t know.

Wei En rested her chin with one hand, and sat next to the strange woman. It seemed that they had a good friendship.

Olaf was covered in injuries. This Lokfar berserk could be said to have killed all directions on the battlefield last night. Ashe estimated that he should be the one who killed the most enemies. In the end, the bloody aura on Olaf’s body even made Ah The warriors of Varosha dare not approach. But now he was sitting downcast, as if he was sullen again because he didn’t die.

“Ash.” Lothar was the first to greet her with a limp, “How is it handled?”

Ashe smiled very reluctantly: “I did my best, nowMorale in the entire tribe is very low, but we still have to continue to set off tomorrow, and we must reach Rakstark as soon as possible. ”

Lothar nodded: “Your decision is correct… By the way, let me introduce it to you.”

Lothar pointed to the strange woman: “She is Frey, Wei En’s acquaintance, and she also helped us in the battle last night.”

Ashe bowed to Frey: “Thank you, Frey, for being willing to lend a helping hand to us.”

Facing a war mother’s salute, Frey didn’t say anything, but said to Ashe: “You are much younger than I thought.”

“Is there a problem?” Ashe asked.

“No.” Frey shook her head, “I just admire you.”

“There is nothing to admire.” Ashe put the Ice Longbow on the weapon rack, held Lothar’s hand and sat down together, leaning on Lothar with some fatigue, “If I am a qualified battle mother, Not so many people died last night…”

“You’ve done well enough.” Lothar touched Ashe’s forehead and kissed it.

Wei En looked at Lothar and Wei En without saying a word, tapping her fingers on the table boredly.

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New tribes are born in the Freljord every year, and refugees who can’t survive gather together, and if there is a leader who dares to stand up, a tribe can be declared established. But in the same way, many tribes in the Freljord perish every year. No matter how powerful this tribe is, if there are no beasts in the hunting grounds, no fish in the fishing grounds, and the plundering war against other tribes is unsuccessful, it is impossible to survive anyway. long winter.

Because the tribes are constantly changing from old to new, the territory of the Freljord is different every year. It is completely unpredictable which tribe will die and which tribe will rise.

——Excerpt from “Valoran Travel Notes: