As she led her bodyguard through the mountains of Freljord, Lux was in a pretty good mood.
As a native of Demacia, hunting was a required course for Lux when she was a child. According to the etiquette requirements of Demacian nobles, hunting is a very important part, and nobles often take part in hunting.
A ceremonial way to commemorate the ancestors of Germany.
After all, in the era of the First Men, the Demacians drove away many wild beasts entrenched in the Demacian region today through group hunting one after another, and established the prototype of the Demacian country.
It is precisely because of this period of history that hunting has always played a very important role in Demacia's culture. However, the core of this link is not to obtain prey through hunting, but to commemorate one's own life through hunting.
Ancestors, I appreciate their struggles.
Among many rituals, hunting-related content is one of the few that Lacus is interested in, and this interest ultimately only lasted until she actually participated in a hunting ceremony - only after truly participating in the hunting ceremony, Lacus
Only then can I truly understand why it is called a ritual.
Most of the prey for hunting rituals are included in advance and gradually.
Most of the shooting in hunting rituals is just for show.
Only a few new nobles whose status is not high enough will choose to express their bravery through hunting to attract the attention of the established nobles. Apart from these people, most of the participants in the entire hunting ceremony are more like participating in a
The hunter's masquerade - after symbolically pulling the bow and shooting a few arrows, they mingled and drank together by the campfire.
Its essence is no different from the noble ball that Lux hates most.
Since then, she has completely lost interest in all Demacia etiquette.
The education of Kal Yal's fortune-telling was not enough to make Lux realize that the essence of noble etiquette is disguise and acting. Only real experience can make her feel that the core of noble etiquette is actually "to make the nobles sincerely think that they are superior to others."
"Pretentiousness is also a kind of difference."
In comparison, in Freljord, hunting is also a ritual, but in this wild frozen land, although hunting is bloody and primitive, and the content is very inappropriate for children, it is still closer to the hunting itself.
They came together not in the name of hunting, but to prove their strength by hunting more powerful prey.
It was like a series of hunts where Lux followed the Romans while waiting for supplies to be delivered and slowed down her progress.
At the beginning, she was just trying to learn the ways of the Freljord, trying to play the role of the Demacia War Mother.
But with one hunt after another, Lux gradually realized the core meaning of hunting in the Freljord - not to commemorate the past, but for pure survival.
Only strong people can hunt enough prey to support the tribe - and those who have the ability to command the tribe will definitely be able to show off their skills in hunting and return with a full harvest.
Here, hunting is for harvest, there are not so many fancy reasons, everything is so natural.
Moreover, just as the Demacians attach great importance to the boundary markers in their farmland, in the Freljord, the boundaries of the hunting grounds between tribes are the forbidden areas of the Freljord.
In a sense, only by truly becoming a hunter can one better understand the primitive and wild culture of Freljord.
Therefore, along the way, Lux's continuous hunting was not only accumulating prey for herself and accumulating power, but she was also experiencing the feeling of being a war mother.
This "feeling" is quite precious, because only through this method can she try to think and solve problems like a war mother.
For Lux, this can be regarded as a valuable experience. Now that she has decided to accept the Freljord tribe and show the heart of the Demacia War Mother, she must use more "Freljord"
The "Leljordian" approach will do!
If before this hunting trip to the Freljord, when the supplies were about to arrive and the follow-up troops were about to follow, Lux's choice would have been to face the representatives of the tribes who were waiting silently on the west side of the Nyuskara Pass.
Establish contact with them as soon as possible and try to get the exact information you need.
But as she became more and more aware of the Freljord's war mother-like thinking, she went directly to the mountains to hunt, because in the Freljord's way of thinking, communication played little role.
, the result of an exciting speech may be far inferior to a huge snow monster corpse.
Therefore, she chose to lead the guards into the mountains when the logistics were about to arrive.
The prey obtained by hunting before is no longer fresh.
Now she needs something fresh.
Likewise, as Lux came hunting all the way, her personal guards were gradually getting used to hunting, and they had gained some experience in hunting.
Lux's bodyguards are basically the elite Northern Walkers, and among the first batch of Northern Walkers, many were "transferred" from Hunters - although with the regularization of Northern Walkers, the direct
The proportion of people who accept the militia is getting lower and lower, but for them, hunting is more like a hidden gene.
Now following Lux over the mountains and hunting wild beasts, the Guards gradually gained some hunting experience.
Different from the relatively primitive methods of the Freljord people, the Guards cooperate closely, and there are also dedicated magicians to cooperate, and the hunting efficiency is far beyond ordinary people - if Lux hadn't deliberately controlled the range of prey, always using the name to be strong
They mainly focus on prey, and I am afraid that many subspecies will be directly exterminated as they travel westward.
But even if they are under control, the efficient killing efficiency of the Guards is enough to shock all the Freljordians. By the time the logistics team arrives at the Nyuskara Pass, those who are confident and plan to use their prey to show their bravery must be
Everyone in the Freljord would be ashamed of their complacency.
This hunt for the snow monster is the "final trip" of the entire hunt. Lux herself doesn't have many ideas, but for the Guards, they must ensure that the hunt is successfully completed!
While retaining the most basic bodyguards, the other hunters quickly formed a small team and started a detailed search across ice valleys and snowy peaks following the direction of the snow monster legend.
Under such a large-scale search, it didn't take long for such a huge prey as the snow monster to reveal its traces and be completely targeted.
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Unlike Lux and her bodyguards, there was obviously something wrong with Olaf's hunting.
Compared with hunting alone, the biggest problem is not that he can't hit the prey when he encounters it, but that he can't find the snow monster at all.
Don't look at the many legends about snow monsters circulating around Newskala. It seems that you can encounter three or five different snow monsters once you go into the mountain on a snowy day, but in fact, snow monsters also need to be vast, at least several hundred square kilometers.
hunting ground.
Only a hunting ground of this size is sufficient for wendigos to find food and survive.
Although the mountains near the Neuskala Pass are relatively steep and there are not many shelters on the mountain, as long as you have good eyesight, the traces of the snow monster are easy to spot, but seeing the snow monster in the huge snow monster hunting ground is still a big deal after all.
A small probability event - Therefore, although Olaf entered the territory of the snow monster first, he wandered around for several days without gaining anything.
Not to mention the snow monster, I didn’t even see a single hair on the snow monster!
Seeing that he would not be able to find the snow monster for a while, Olaf, who was a little impatient, could only kill a white deer, and after a feast, he hung its body on a tree upstream.
The Yeti's nose is the best.
After Olaf hung up the white deer, he stayed by it. After the blood was frozen, he opened new wounds, always maintaining the smell of blood.
Fishing is also part of hunting.
Although Olaf's hunting method is simple and crude, the effect is undoubtedly very good.
The cunning snow monster has an IQ that is not inferior to that of a child. They will not be stupid enough to set any traps, but Olaf appeared alone in its territory and specially used his favorite white deer as bait. This is
There is no reason why the snow monster is not moved.
If there were more humans, the snow monster would not be fooled and would hide cautiously to curb its greed.
But when Olaf is alone, he naturally won't get used to it easily - this is his hunting ground, and even if the humans wielding weapons are not easy to provoke, it doesn't mean that the snow monster is really afraid!
So, lured by the white deer, the snow monster walked down the mountain ridge and began to move in the direction of Olaf.
Olaf's fishing plan went smoothly, but on the other side, he finally found traces of the snow monster, but the guards who were following him from a distance were dumbfounded.
You must know that although the snow monster is tall, it is quite agile and is especially good at climbing over mountains and ridges. After this snow monster was stimulated by Olaf, it directly chose not to take the usual path. After jumping off the mountain ridge, it walked along the
He started climbing up a cliff that was almost 90 degrees.
Under this situation, the Guards could only watch from a distance while eagerly informing Lux.
Lux, who was rushing to the scene of the incident, did not expect this.
But fortunately, there are still many magicians in the Guards, and Lux's own spellcasting level is quite good. A mere mountain ridge is not enough to stop her.
Therefore, after re-locking the location of the snow monster, Lux quickly began to climb over the mountains and ridges, heading straight for the snow monster.
However, when Lux arrived at the mountain peak, what she saw was not the Yeti, but a Freljordian wielding two battle axes, trying to dismember the Wendigo.
There was no one else around, and judging from the wounds on the snow monster's body, it seemed that it completely matched the tomahawk in this person's hand - from this point of view, this snow monster seemed to have been killed by the opponent alone.
This undoubtedly piqued Lux's interest.
You know, creatures like snow monsters have always been more than fifteen feet in size. Under the thick white fur, there are frightening strong muscles. Although they are huge in size, they are very agile in movement. In addition, the height of large creatures
Due to the density of their muscles and the mountainous environment they live in, even if an ordinary tribe sends a dozen or twenty skilled warriors, it is not easy to hunt snow monsters.
Hunting snow monsters is still very valuable, otherwise Lux would not be able to make it the last part of her hunt.
However, the snow monster in front of him, which was obviously oversized, seemed to be chopped down by the person in front of him. This is enough to show the bravery of the other person.
For Lux, who has fully entered the role of war mother, when she meets a warrior, it is natural to recruit him - so she took the personal guard and took the initiative to meet Olaf.
"Well done, it's not easy to clean up a cunning snowman, huh?"
Hearing what Lacus said, Olaf raised his head and glanced at her. Although his face covered with snow monster blood had almost no expression during the process, Lacus could clearly feel it from his eyes.
It's a bit sarcastic.
"If I were you." The other person didn't seem to want to speak at first, but in the end he couldn't help but mumbled in a just right voice that Lux could hear, "Then I would leave the mountains as soon as possible."
"?"
"If you call this kind of silly snow monster cunning, then when you meet a pack of direwolves, won't you be torn to pieces?" Olaf continued to mutter loudly, "If you don't have a good brain, you will be torn apart."
It’s useless to have more.”
It was hard to imagine that the Freljordish language, which had an increasingly simple structure and relatively poor vocabulary, could be filled with so many emotions in the mouth of this strong man, so much so that Lux immediately became furious.
But the next moment, as a protective circle on Lux's body was triggered, she realized that she seemed to have been provoked.
What's going on?
In Freljord, as long as they are not from hostile tribes, ice travelers are happy to hug each other for warmth - but the lone traveler in front of him showed an air of needing to be beaten when he opened his mouth, and his words even had a few words.
With the taste of Kalya, just opening one's mouth will make people furious.
If it were Demacia, Lux wouldn't have any reaction to this level of provocation.
But now in the Freljord, when he was about to make an alliance in Newskala and take control of the West Freljord subcontinent, an ice traveler he met by chance pretended that he was the most sober...
Is it tolerable or not?
According to the procedure, Lux, who had experienced Karya's special teaching, began to make targeted counter-mockery.
"The cunning snowman will estimate the strength of the enemy. It will avoid me and be smashed out by me like a gopher under the ice cap. But it thinks you are safe and foolishly falls into your trap. Maybe in
In the eyes of the snow monster, you are just a piece of unpalatable food."
"But the snow monster is my prey." Olaf, who had already thought about taking the heart of the snow monster away, snorted, "not an idiot who mobilizes an army."
"The purpose of raising troops and mobilizing people is to challenge the cautious snow monster." Lux also smiled in return, "Rather than taking a shortcut to ambush the idiot who has lost his mind.