LOL: Summoner of Goddess Jana

Chapter 464 Sejuani: Picked up a father
Time back to half a month ago.On the distant ice field, between the vast and heavy snow.

Sejuani's main force is temporarily stationed on this endless barren snowfield at this moment.

More than ten years ago, Winter's Claw was still Avarosa's sister tribe, and Ashe was still Sejuani's best friend, not her biggest competitor.

Now ten years have passed.The Avarosan Horde grew into a united confederacy under the hands of Ashe, who became the Ice Queen to many in the Freljord.

She successfully brought the powerful southern tribes under her command, led Avarosa to gain a firm foothold in the "warm" southern part of the ice sheet, and embarked on the successful path of farming, grazing and self-sufficiency.

Sejuani, on the other hand, took a completely different path.

Winter's Claw has no land to arable, no pasture to graze, only fierce fangs and deadly claws.

They have been the most ferocious raiders on the ice field since ancient times, relying on hunting and plundering to support their tribes.

This is how the Winter's Claw survives.

After taking over as the war mother, Sejuani undoubtedly succeeded in carrying forward this tradition.

She led the Winter's Claw to attack everywhere, plundered wantonly, and won a brilliant victory after another. It also allowed the Winter's Claw tribe to successfully absorb dozens of other clans and the entire Stonefang tribe, and finally grew to where it is today. .

Now Sejuani is already a real war mother - she has thousands of blood warriors, hoplites, mammoth riders and ice blood under her command.

She swore to prove that she alone was worthy to rule the Freljord.

"Battle mother! Battle mother! Let's sing for you~" The children's intimate calls brought Sejuani's thoughts back to reality.

The ambition in her heart dissipated in an instant, and the grievances and grievances with Ashe were temporarily put aside.

Sejuani looked down at the children who were surrounding her.

These children are all new generations in the tribe, and the oldest is no more than 5 years old.After all, those over 5 years old are considered adults who can help with chores, so they can't be carefree and play happily in the "nursery" like they are now.

Yes, there is a "nursery" in Winter's Claw.

The severe pressure of survival made every adult in the tribe restless and unable to take care of their children alone; many parents died tragically in the brutal battles shortly after giving birth to their children.

So it doesn't matter if it's Winter's Claw or other tribes.Everyone can only engage in social upbringing and bring the children together.

Sejuani always likes to come here to have a look.

After all, the tribe is a big family, and the children are the future of the family.

As the war mother of the tribe, Sejuani is of course also the loving mother of all the children in the tribe.

"Let's sing for you~" The children also liked her young "mother" very much.

"." Sejuani fell into silence again.

She looked down at the children.These small and thin ones are like snow rabbits after hibernation, all of them are sallow and emaciated, and some of them can even see skinny bones.

Although the tent made of mammoth skin was thick enough, the ruthless cold wind still seeped in through the gaps, making these thin little guys tremble when they spoke.

"War mother? Do you want to hear us sing?"

"En." Sejuani finally nodded with a heavy heart.

So the children huddled together excitedly, and sang the old nursery rhyme she had sung when she was a child in a sweet voice: "La~ they plow the fields hard, sow seeds silently~ we do whatever we want and burn everything~"

This song is very spiritual.

But the cheeks of the children were so thin that they could stick to their faces, which still made Sejuani feel distressed.

"Ogai." She couldn't help but turned her head and said to the female war priest beside her, "How much food do we have left, and can we give some more to the children?"

"War Mother." Ogai pursed his lips lightly: "The harvest from the last raid has almost been consumed. The few hunting teams we sent recently didn't have any big gains."

"Unless we can hit the big luck and meet the migrating herd. Otherwise, even if we save food, we can only last for another month and a half at most."

Sejuani heard this in silence.

She raised her lips with difficulty: "But children are the future of the tribe. If they don't have enough to eat, they won't grow up to be reliable fighters."

"I know." Ogai didn't change his face.

"My daughter is starving too, I know it," she said, looking at a small, emaciated baby lying in a corner of the tent.

The baby was crying from hunger, but Ogay still looked away resolutely: "But the soldiers need food more. If they have no strength, how can we win the next plunder?"

Sejuani fell silent again.

She hesitated for a moment before finally saying: "Let those old guys over 35 years old eat less. The extra rations will be given to the children."

"." Oguy froze for a moment, then quickly nodded: "Yes."

Icemen care about children, but ignore the old and weak.This is the morality that Winter taught them.

After calmly accepting Sejuani's order, she couldn't help but say, "War Mother, it's time for you to make a decision."

"Where should we go next?"

"This..." Sejuani was silent.

This is a very important question, and it is also a fatal question that Winter's Claw, as a hunting tribe with no fixed place, needs to face several times a year:

The ice sheet is so big, which direction should I move to in order to survive?
Go fishing in the icy seas of the north?

But there is close to the North Pole of the planet, and the weather is not only extremely bad, but also unpredictable.Maybe a cold wind blows overnight, and a desperately thick layer of ice will form on the sea.

Then go east and plunder Noxus?

But Noxus is not easy to mess with.

Although the Winter's Claw once defeated Noxus' Northern Legion, it also caused the famous Darius to suffer a humiliating defeat, and became a shameful "Icefield student".

But Sejuani knew that this was just a moment of luck.

Noxus is, after all, a brutal beast.Go for it, and it's easy to be bitten back hard.

Then go to the west to plunder Avarosa?

Go southwest into Kodemacia?

Or simply continue wandering in this ice field, searching for those migrating snowfield herds?

No matter which option is chosen, there are huge risks behind it.

Once a wrong decision is made, the tribe will pay a huge price.

And Winter's Claw's hunger and distress at the moment is actually because Sejuani made a wrong decision earlier, which caused the tribe to fail to complete the KPI for this quarter and failed to grab enough food.

"I don't want any child to freeze to death or starve to death because of my decision." Sejuani sighed.

"But no one can keep winning." Ogai also lowered his eyelids and said, "War Mother, you should be mentally prepared for this."

Sejuani slowly clenched her fists.Indeed, it is time for her to take up her responsibilities as a leader.

So she pondered, ready to make a decision: "Next, we will go west."

At this moment, a ranger warrior hurried to the door of the tent and sent her a message: "War Mother, we found a wandering beast spirit walker on the ice field. He said he was your old friend , Battle Mother."

"Oh?" Sejuani was slightly taken aback.

A beast spirit walker who can wander alone on the ice field. That is no ordinary person.

Moreover, is she an old acquaintance?
"What's his name?"

"Udyr, he calls himself Udyr." The Ranger replied.

"It's him?" Sejuani was a little surprised.

Udyr was an old friend of her mother's.Although it is not a formal blood alliance, the relationship between the two is almost the same.

Therefore, Udyr can almost be regarded as her sworn father.

That doesn't mean their relationship is that close, though.After all, a battle mother often has many blood alliances, and Sejuani naturally has many sworn fathers.

Udyr was just one of her many godfathers, and Sejuani didn't get along much with him when she was a child.

Later, Udyr was banished from the tribe by her grandmother for being unable to control his powerful and dangerous gifts.

And since then, Sejuani has never seen him again.

The world is vast, and a parting on the ice field is often a farewell.

She never thought that one day she would be able to see this old friend again.

"Please come here." Sejuani didn't know why Udyr returned to Winter's Claw after so many years.

But after all, he is an old friend, so she is still willing to entertain him.

"Yes." The ranger quickly turned around and mounted a Juvask wild boar, and hurriedly drove the pig away.

After a while, a familiar figure appeared at the door of the tent.

I saw him with a big beard, shirtless arms, and arms as strong as iron lumps, and he looked like a standard strong man in the ice field.

"Udyr, you look the same as before." Sejuani's attitude couldn't be described as enthusiastic.

After all, Udyr's abilities are often out of control.She had heard about his bloodthirsty and violent deeds when she was a child, and she was still wary of this powerful and "crazy" beast spirit walker.

But Udyr has completely changed.

Although his appearance is similar to that of the past, the irritable and crazy that could get out of control at any time has disappeared from his eyes.

"Sejuani." Udyr looked at her young face, with a hint of love in his eyes: "You have grown up."

"Yes." Sejuani was not in a hurry to reminisce.She only cared and asked: "How did you find our tribe?"

It is risky to let people know whereabouts on the ice sheet.

"I have many animal friends on the ice field." Udyr smiled.

"I spent a lot of time, inquiring all the way, and looking for it all the way."

"Troublesome spirit walker." Sejuani muttered.

Then she said bluntly: "My mother is long dead. If you came back for her, you came for nothing."

"I know." Udyr's expression darkened: "I'm on the road, and I heard about it from the wild boars in your tribe."

Sejuani froze for a moment: "Weird."

"Then you want to go?" She asked directly again.

"No." Udyr shook his head: "I came back not only for your mother, but also for Winter's Claw."

"You want to go back to the tribe?" Sejuani's eyes became serious.

She is clear about Udyr's strength.After many years of absence, Udyr now seems to have controlled his abilities.

A strong and sane spirit walker, welcome to all Iceborne tribes.

"Yes." Udyr nodded: "I hope to return to Winter's Claw. This is the place where I was raised, and I swore to protect your mother and everything she cherishes."

"That's fine." I didn't expect this old guy to be quite infatuated.Sejuani thought.

But it's also good.If she prostitutes a powerful Beast Spirit Walker for nothing, she will certainly not lose money.

She was thinking about this, but Udi paused for a moment, then raised her head and said seriously: "I also hope that it can bring new opportunities to Winter's Claw."

"Opportunity?" Sejuani was slightly taken aback.

She said vigilantly: "Do you have any prey that is easy to snatch, do you want to show me?"

"No." Udyr shook his head: "I want to show Winter's Claw a bright road, a road that no longer has to suffer from hunger and cold."

"This" Sejuani felt that he was a little crazy.

Don't have to starve and suffer from cold again?Even the richest Avarosa Alliance would not dare to say that.

"What are you trying to do?" Sejuani asked.

"I hope you will go to Ionia with me." Udyr said surprisingly.

"Huh?" Sejuani was taken aback.This old thing is really crazy!

"You want us to cross the vast sea to snatch Ionia?"

The last one to do this was Ivern the Ruthless.

As a result, this ancient strong man who could break the wrists with the three sisters never came back after leaving the sea, so that he became a negative teaching material in the myths and legends of the Freljord.

In short, even if you don’t consider the distance that can starve people to death on the road, is this newborn soil across the sea so easy to grab?
"Don't worry." Udyr shook his head and said, "Because I didn't take you to plunder, I took you to settle there."

"Settled? Go to Ionia?" Sejuani was even more astonished.She suspected she was listening to a nasty joke.

"Yes." I didn't expect Udyr to be serious: "I have been enlightened and practiced in Ionia across the sea for the past few years, and I have met many friends in Ionia."

He went to Ionia with an oriental monk named Li Qing, just to find a way to completely master the power of the gods.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he went, he ran into Noxus' invasion of Ionia, so he had to follow Li Qing to be an anti-Nox man for several years.

The war has been going on, and Udyr is also practicing with Li Qing while defending the land with him.

Then, the leader came.
"I met many friends in Ionia, and they are all good people." Udyr tried to explain in words that the ice plains could understand:

"My friends will accept us generously, so that Winter's Claw can live in a harmonious and peaceful land forever."

"Fertile land, warm sun, endless vegetables and bread, these will no longer be dreams."

Udyr casually drew a dreamlike and beautiful picture, which stunned the children next to him.

But Sejuani is not a child: "You mean, there is a group of strangers thousands of miles away, who are willing to give us the land for free and let us live there?"

After drinking a few dishes, even this kind of dream came true?

"And" Sejuani's expression was weird: "A harmonious and peaceful life?"

Harmony, or tranquility?

She finally found the worst thing about Udyr.

Who was Udyr?

He is a pure animal spirit walker, a person who uses the power of the gods and sticks to the ancient ways of the old gods.

He firmly believes that the mysterious land of the Freljord must be nourished by strife and conflict.

Harmony and tranquility only make people weak.It is impossible to resist the fierce wind and frost of the ice field.

Therefore, the ice sheet cannot be united, cannot be united, let alone have any harmony and tranquility.

This would make it too easy for people to survive in the Freljord, it would mean no struggle or growth, and it wouldn't keep the spirit of the Freljord alive
To put it bluntly, I want everyone to be savages, the less savage the better.

It's good for everyone to live as a small tribe.Otherwise, if there are more people in the group, the difficulty of the game will drop, and it will be boring.

Udyr's idea actually has a Volibear feel to it.

It's just that Volibear is even more extreme - the ancient god believes that the ice field should remain in its ancient form forever.

He believed that the people of the ice plains should continue to fight and hunt, and even farming and grazing were ways to ruin their ancestors.

He once destroyed the dam built by his followers during one of his comings, just because he felt that the dam, a creation that could increase productivity and make human beings live more comfortably, violated the ancient ways of the Freljord.

In short
In Ashe's eyes, Sejuani is extreme.

In Sejuani's eyes, Udyr is extreme.

In Udyr's eyes, Volibear, who completely denies human civilization, is even more extreme.

Udyr's original extreme level was probably at such a level second only to Volibear.

But now he.
"You actually talked about harmony and tranquility with me?" Sejuani couldn't believe it: "And let us move to a warm place and live a stable life like those peasants?"

"What the hell have you been through?"

She really couldn't imagine what kind of power could cause such a big change in this extreme beast spirit walker.

But Udyr just replied calmly: "Because I met a new god in Ionia."

"She made me understand that unity does not necessarily mean weakness, and tranquility does not necessarily mean stagnation."

"The world is in constant motion. Not only will the unity of all people not bring about stagnation, but it will burst out with incredible power, bringing earth-shaking changes to the world."

"Hmm." Sejuani didn't understand.I just think he's a little naughty.

And that's normal too.As the most powerful beast spirit walker in history, Udyr could communicate with the gods and use the power of the gods.

She only thought that Udyr had gained some new god power in Ionia, so that her brain was affected.

"Okay, I roughly understand what you mean." Sejuani rubbed her eyes, looking impatient.

Then, unsurprisingly, she said, "I decline your offer."

"Winter's Claw won't leave the Freljord, let alone Ionia."

Because of Udyr's few words, she led the whole tribe to migrate across the sea, then she must be crazy.

Normal people would reject it.

"I understand your concerns." Udyr had already expected this: "But I still hope that you can let me stay in Winter's Claw."

"Perhaps, you can give me some time and let me slowly tell you what I have seen and heard in Ionia."

"By then, I think you'll understand me."

"You can stay if you want." Sejuani didn't have the heart to listen to Udyr's chanting at all, but she didn't turn him away either.

She just reminded: "You can return to the Horde, but you must contribute to Winter's Claw, hunt and plunder with us."

"No problem." Udyr nodded.There was patience in his eyes, and a hint of concern that couldn't be concealed.

This made Sejuani a little uncomfortable.

Perhaps Udyr saw her as a long-lost child because of his old relationship with his mother.But she still can't accept this "father" who was picked up halfway.

"I won't go to Ionia." Sejuani couldn't help emphasizing again.

"I won't go to the East either." Just before Udyr came, she had already decided: "After that, we will go all the way west to plunder Avarosa or Demacia."

"Udyr, are you still willing to follow?"

"The West? Avarosa or Demacia?" Udyr was taken aback for a moment.

From Ionia to the vast ice field, the journey is not easy.Finding people on the ice sheet is even more difficult.

It took him half a year to cross the sea from Ionia and return to the ice field, and found the Winter's Claw on this vast ice field.

Before he set off, the Demacia Expeditionary Force hadn't returned home yet, and they were still helping with the reformation in Ionia.

But now. They should have gone back, right?

Thinking of this, Udyr couldn't help but smile: "No problem."

"I'll go west with you, Sejuani."

(End of this chapter)