The lone wolf of Freyrdrand

: The Nature of Ionia

Lothar looked at the sky fortress in the distance.

“What are you doing still in a daze, let’s go.” Karan patted his buttocks. Sitting on the ice boat for a long time made him feel like his buttocks were numb.

“Do you think…” Lothar pointed at the sky fortress, “Syndra seems to have let the fortress drift away from its original position.”

Karan and Sirik frowned at the same time, and Sirik was very irritable: “Can’t she stay there?”

Karan said in a deep voice, “She’s heading north…what does she want?”

After standing there for a while, Karan greeted, “Let’s go, we are in a hurry.”

“But after we came back, Syndra wasn’t here anymore.” Lothar stopped Karan.

“As long as she doesn’t leave Ionia, the venerable can find her.” Karan left a sentence, and began to discuss with Sirik how to disguise it better.

“Okay.” Lothar didn’t know who the “Honor” Karan was talking about, but he must be a character no weaker than Syndra.

“Are you sure you want to go to Weili?” Sirik looked at Karan in surprise, “There are other ways to go to the Palace of Eternal Existence.”

“Walley is the shortest distance.” Karan insisted.

“We can go to Weili…the risk is too high…we may not even be able to get by.”

“We are short of time, and you can see that Syndra will not stay here and wait for us.”

“Willie…” Lothar recalled the contents of the map and book that Swain gave him. Although they had gone to the sky with the fortress together with his salute, Lothar had already Almost memorized the above content.

According to what Swain wrote, Veri is indeed a very special place.

Lothar glanced away, and on the beach, a few ravens who were pecking at shells were looking at him.

“Unlucky.” Lothar cursed secretly, and followed Karan and Sirik on the journey.

…

Ionia is indeed a land full of magic.

Or in other words, the filling is a bit exaggerated.

Magical creatures that are rarely seen in other places are everywhere in Ionia. Walking on the forest path, there will be a bunch of elf-like squirrels coming to Lothar, as if they are very curious about this cold person. , has been rubbing around Lothar.

Lothar felt the cheering magic power in his body. Just stepping on the land of Ionia, Lothar felt that his magic power was slowly growing, which was many times better than the effect of his silent cultivation in Noxus .

Sirik took a look at the little creatures that covered Lothar’s shoulders. These intelligent magical creatures were playing and chasing after them: “Few people can be so liked by the spirit of the land.”

“It means I’m special.” Lothar scratched the chin of a squirrel with a big tail.

The two of them talked in Ionian. On the way, Lothar asked Karan and Sirik to teach him the local language, and the reward was that Lothar acted as their bodyguard.

Karan was fully hidden in a cloak, with his tail tucked into his trouser legs. It was impossible to tell whether he was a human or a vastaya from the outside.

Sirik also found Lothar a sackcloth shirt in a passing village, temporarily disguising him as a local.

Sirik pressed lightly on a big tree. Under Lothar’s amazed eyes, the big tree pulled out its roots by itself, and stepped aside to make way for a group of people.

“You are also a mage,” Lothar asked.

“It can’t be regarded as magic in the strict sense, it’s different from Syndra’s power.” Sirik touched the bark a few more times, the crown of the big tree shook, and a few fruits fell into her hands, “It’s just It’s just to communicate with the spirit of the land, as long as they are sincere, most of them will agree.”

“Is everyone in Ionia like this?”

“almost.”

“Then you still can’t beat Noxus.”

The faces of Sirik and Karan became very bad at the same time, and Sirik threw a fruit at Lothar fiercely: “There are also differences in the degree of communication. People with weak talents, like ordinary farmers, can at most Can only let the wheat in one’s own field growbe rich. ”

“The one with strong talent?”

“It can change the seasons and move mountains and forests.”

“It’s so exaggerated.” Lothar opened his mouth wide.

“It is said that someone can do it, but I haven’t seen it anyway.” Sirik peeled off the peel and threw it in the soil. “Maybe he has seen it.”

Karan pressed his paws on the ground, and several mushrooms burst out of the soil. He picked off the mushrooms and put them in his mouth: “I haven’t seen them either.”

Lothar looked at Karan and Sirik with envy. Ionia is indeed a fertile land, and the spirit of nature is extremely generous. But thinking about how much energy it takes to find food in the Freljord…

“It’s no wonder Noxus is jealous of Ionia… Why is there such a big gap between regions…” Lothar sighed helplessly, and took a bite of the fruit.

The extremely sour juice made Lothar’s facial features twisted together: “Doesn’t the fact that this thing is edible mean that all products from Ionia are top-grade?”

“It used to be like this.” Sirik said coldly, “but the invasion of your Noxus has harmed a large area of ​​land spirits in Navoli Province. Now it is good to find food in this area. We are here Didn’t you see a lot of refugees on the road, they were all people who didn’t have enough food or clothing, but didn’t want to leave their homes.”

Lothar was a little stunned. It has been several years since Noxus’ war against Ionia, but the wounds of this land have not yet healed.

If it continues like this, maybe this place will become a barren land like Feilor’s.

With a hint of sympathy in his heart, Lothar distributed the fruit to the drooling little guys on their shoulders. These intelligent creatures seemed to know that the fruit tasted bad, and none of them ate it.

Lothar thought for a while, and simply froze the fruit into ice cubes. Now these little guys became interested one by one, and grabbed a piece and started to lick it.

“After the war, the spirits of the land in Navoli province became sensitive and fragile.” Karan raised his head and swallowed the mushrooms. Judging from his expression, the taste of the mushrooms was obviously not very good, “Be careful, thousand Don’t cut down trees and pick flowers without authorization, if you hurt the spirit, the consequences will be very serious.”

Although he didn’t know what the consequences Karan was talking about, Lothar still agreed.

Lothar suddenly moved his ears, and immediately whispered: “Shh! Someone is coming towards us! There are a lot of them!”

Karan also heard the movement, and the three climbed to a high place at the same time, using the dense branches and leaves as cover, and hid themselves.

After a while, they saw a crowd of people running towards them in the distance.

“It’s the Navoli Brotherhood!” Sirik cursed in a low voice, “How did they find it!”

Karan’s complexion is also very bad. The Navoli brothers may not be strong, but they are really difficult to deal with.

“This is the Navoli Brotherhood.” Lothar looked at those people from a distance. They were all human beings, holding simple weapons such as simple knives and earthen forks.

“Oops! Footprints!” Sirik said suddenly. The land in the forest was very wet, and the footprints left by the three of them were very clear. The members of the Navoli Brotherhood should have chased them through their footprints.

“Damn it! It’s too late to clean up, let’s run!” Karan was about to jump off the tree, but was stopped by Lothar.

“what are you doing!”

“Hush…” Lothar signaled Karan to keep silent, then pointed down.

The small animals who were begging for food with Lothar jumped to the ground at some point, some dragged leaves and corpses to wipe off the footprints of the three Lothars, and some puffed up their cheeks with the spirit wind to wipe the three The scent of people was blown away, and some ran towards the Navoli Brotherhood, as if they wanted to delay a little time. .

“Is this communicating with the spirit of nature?” Lothar ignored the astonished gazes of Karan and Sirik, and waved thanks to the little guys on the ground.

Lothar himself was also surprised. When the Freljord was practicing with the beast spirit walker, he obviously couldn’t establish contact with any beasts, but these little guys who had just met were very willing to help him, and he didn’t even About to make no request, they acted on their own: “Is it because I gave them iced fruit to eat… Ionia… What an interesting place…”

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The Ionians have followed the principle of living in harmony with nature since ancient times.

Most of their food sources are vegetables, fruits and crops. Occasionally, they need to repent and thank the spirit of the land for killing animals for eating meat. They do not log or mine, and by communicating with nature, the Ionians can let nature give them the materials they need. For thousands of years, Ionia has maintained this extremely harmonious mode of existence.

The Ionians call it—Equilibrium.

——Excerpt from “Ionian Travels