Lux's Magic Penetration Rod

Ashe knew nothing about what was happening in Demacia.

Ashe used to be curious about her neighbors to the south, and with a research and learning attitude, she learned a lot about Demacia.

But now Ai Xi has stopped this job.

It's not because Demacia's trade is no longer important to Avarosa, nor because Ashe thinks she knows enough about Demacia, but because the Avarosa tribe has now migrated to the Rakstark Wasteland. , became the master of Rakstar City, and she had little time and energy to think about issues about Demacia.

For her, the most important thing is to run the city of Laxtaq well and spread its sphere of influence to the entire Laxtaq Plain.

This ancient city was once the place where the three sisters met for the first time. It is also the "Holy City" of the entire Freljord. The tribes that have established a foothold in Rakstak City will be eligible to invite the surrounding tribes. Hold alliances to gain the recognition and allegiance of these tribes.

This is the way of the Freljord.

This is the path Ashe and the Avarosa tribe want to take.

After the Winter's Claw tribe fell into collapse due to the invasion from the south, taking advantage of the brief vacuum of power, the Avarosa tribe crossed the Newskala Pass and tentatively entered the Rakstak Plains, and then quickly participated in During the battle for Larkstar City, and relying on its strong strength and abundant supplies, it finally overwhelmed all competitors and finally succeeded in taking over.

Up to this point, things can undoubtedly be said to have gone very smoothly.

However, for Ashe and Avarosa, entering Rakstak is only the first step. How to gain a foothold in Rakstak, gain the support of surrounding tribes, successfully hold an alliance, and conquer Avarosa. Varosa's rules become Freljordian traditions, and that's the really hard part.

For this part, Ashe's initial approach was to use his experience in the previous Severeljord and use the penetration and share of material trade, as well as the share of tobacco and spiritual tea as resources to manipulate the situation.

However, it didn't take long for Ai Xi to find out awkwardly that it seemed that the travelers on the Rakstak Plain, and even the other tribes around Rakstak City, were not very willing to accept her promotion.

Compared to tobacco and tea, local tribes prefer spirits. They have better brewing technology and a wider drinking group.

Avarosa is able to promote new hobbies and avoid the proliferation of alcohol, largely because the food in Avarosa is strictly managed. The average Avarosan has little opportunity to make wine on a large scale, and cheap tobacco The influx of wine and tea successfully blocked the brewing industry, and this enabled the Avarosa people to get rid of their drunkenness.

But when Ashe wanted to use similar methods to continue to reduce the output of the brewing industry in and around Larkstake City, she was very embarrassed to find that her past tactics didn't seem to work so well.

So what should we do?

Fortunately, the Freljord itself does need tobacco and tea. After Ashe changed her mind and no longer used them as a substitute for alcohol, but as a supplement and distributed them through the Avarosa tribe trade, The new hobby is finally catching on in and around the city of Raxtak.

After tobacco and tea have established a foothold in the Rakstak Plain, Ashe, as "the only designated distributor of tobacco spirit tea in Freljord", can use it as a resource to influence and manipulate the surrounding areas. Tribal relations.

Of course, this is just a microcosm of Ashe's policies. In addition to hobbies, she will also organize regular and fixed-point trade exchange meetings, preside over the division of pastures and lakes, and strive to mediate conflicts between different tribes. Through these methods, she gradually established her own authority, and finally established her identity as the "Successor of Avarosa".

In a sense, what Ashe and Lux ​​want to do are very similar. Lux wants to build New Demacia, and Ashe also hopes that Freljord can get rid of the control of the Frostguard tribe. and influence, bridge wars and conflicts, and be completely united.

Although they are each other's most important trading partner, and although the trade in the North provided the first pot of gold for both parties, just as Lux soon began to build a complete magic industrial system in the North, Ashe's focus also changed. Rapidly moving westward, trade in the north was not affected, but the number of meetings between the two sides became less and less.

However, unlike the intelligence team that always left intelligence personnel - or messengers - inside the Avarosa tribe, the Avarosa tribe did not conduct similar operations.

The main reason for not doing this is that conditions do not allow it. The Avarosa tribe does not have any long-distance communication capabilities, and the cultural level of the tribe is also relatively low. In this case, even if an envoy is sent, what can be done is quite limited. It was limited, so after weighing it, Ashe's choice was to arrange a special messenger in the annual northern trade caravan to be responsible for communication issues.

This is a quite practical approach.

But the problem is... reality is reality, its efficiency is not high!

Relying on this method, Ashe's envoys can come to Demacia twice a year at most, and what they bring back are news from a few months ago. Such an inefficient method would only allow Xiao Guicao to maintain the old transaction management practices everywhere. , that would not be a problem, but once an emergency occurs, it will be too late.

And this is what Lissandra took advantage of.

During the Battle of the Howling Abyss not long ago, she saw Ashe's character and concluded that if it concerned the Freljord, she would be willing to help her hide it, so she sent an assassin to assassinate Lux. At that time, all the assassins passed through the city of Laxtaq and received supplies from Ashe.

This is not the end.

When the assassins tried to kill Lux, the envoy sent by Ashe this year also encountered a large-scale assassination when they went to Demacia with Ashe's goodwill.

In other words, this can no longer be regarded as an assassination - the caravan the envoy was in encountered a large ice troll tribe. Although all the people fought bloody battles, due to the huge disparity in numbers, they were all killed by the ice giants. In the hands of the devil.

No, not all.

Among the caravans traveling with the envoy, there was a man with the emblem of Lissandra who was not attacked by the ice troll. The ice troll even took the initiative to escort him through the most dangerous section of the road.

So, very naturally, the person who got Ashe's letter and obtained the status of an envoy became the new envoy.

At the critical moment, Lissandra unilaterally blocked the Avarosa tribe's vision.

At the same time, the Frost Guard envoy, who had arrived in Larkstadt City a long time ago and had shocked the intelligence team at that time, after meeting Ashe, expressed, "The Frost Witch hopes you can... The request to "strengthen order on the ice sheet" made Ai Xi overjoyed.

Although the relationship between her and the Frostguard tribe is very bad, she still respects the Frost Witch because of "the self-sacrifice of the previous generation Lissandra". After receiving the affirmation and support of the new Frost Witch, Ashe Finally decided to hold a large-scale alliance activity.

The upcoming alliance has gradually made the city of Laxtaq become lively.

This kind of excitement put great pressure on the intelligence team still stationed in Laxtaq City. They worked hard to collect intelligence, and then embarrassingly discovered that there was too much complicated information, and their manpower was somewhat insufficient.

At this time, Ashe took the initiative to find the intelligence team, hoping to send an alliance invitation to Lux through the intelligence team, inviting "friends of Avarosa" to participate in this alliance and reaffirm their friendship.

This is a very normal invitation.

But if you consider what the last Frost Guard envoy who went to invite Lux to the Alliance did and what bad things he did, the meaning becomes more subtle.

At the same time, the Internal Affairs Supervision Department in charge of interrogation in Xiongdu also obtained a lot of useful information from the prisoners. Although the prisoners claimed that they were doing it for Freljord, from the objective physical evidence, From the looks of it, it seems that everything they can do is inseparable from the support of the Avarosa tribe.

This result undoubtedly surprised Lacus.

Why did the Freljordians assassinate themselves?

For the Frost Witch?

After all, the former witch suffered a lot at the hands of the devil. Judging from the situation of Kalya's hurried return, it is very likely that she will take the opportunity to take revenge on herself.

But what role did the Avarosa tribe play in this matter?

Lux clearly remembers that Ashe hates Frost Guard Priests the most!

However, unlike Lissandra's expectation of the two sides becoming suspicious and terminating cooperation, although Lux did not understand what the Avarosans were up to and what Ashe's attitude was, this did not prevent her from continuing. From the beginning, I made up my mind to participate in this alliance.

The Malphites have already landed at Xiongdu Port. For Lux, questions such as what is the purpose of Ashe's alliance, who is the assassin, and whether Ashe provides some support and convenience, etc., in fact, Not as important as Lissandra's heart.

What Lissandra expected, that Lux refused to form an alliance and caused Ashe's dissatisfaction, would not happen at all.

In this way, all the possibilities that Lissandra had planned in the future, whether Ashe's show of kindness in order to ease the relationship was interpreted as weakness, or she showed toughness and was stood up to cut off trade, did not happen.

A combination of punches hit the empty space.

Yes, setting up plausible chains of suspicion is Lissandra's specialty.

But it is a pity that Lux never plays according to the routine - even for her, this alliance is obviously a good stage. She will take advantage of this opportunity to take the Malphite Network and participate in Frey Go to the sealing mission of the Erdhord Void!

How could she easily let go of such an opportunity to turn her back on customers? (End of chapter)