Lux's Farewell

Chapter 920 [0915] Siege and Provocation

With the relationship between Noxus being opened up, the commandos can finally enter the door of rebirth smoothly, and Noxus will also open the door to their logistics. If Kalya is not worried, Nok SAS can even provide logistical support to these people.

After all, there are not many people in this commando team.

In return, Demacia will help Noxus face the threat from the undead.

Specifically, the Noxians hoped that Demacia would send professionals to help seal the undead that emerged from the Well of Darkness.

Regarding this point, Swain also revealed it to Riel. Perhaps it was because there was some similarity between the two parties, or maybe it was just because they were both hostile to the Black Rose. Riel seemed to trust the former commander-in-chief recently.

When Swain revealed that "Demacia once encountered a black fog siege and successfully resolved it," Riel tentatively requested support from Demacia.

(Swain did not lie. Demacia did encounter a Black Mist siege, and it was successfully resolved from the perspective of Noxus at the time - the German steward joined the Black Mist Legion, and the nobles were in civil strife. If it hadn't happened Even with such a "satisfactory" result, Swain would not choose to launch a war, and then suffered several tragic betrayals in Tobitsia.)

Demacia was naturally happy to agree.

Anyway, the undead were originally attracted by Kalya.

Although only a signal could make the undead retreat, Kalya still created a huge formation to save face, and then "seal the undead in an embarrassing manner."

The Noxians actually had doubts about this sealing process.

Even if they couldn't think of such outrageous speculation as "Demacia and the Black Mist Legion are a team" for a while, if everything goes too smoothly, it will eventually arouse suspicion.

Fortunately, Kalya, who presided over the ceremony, was very experienced in bells and whistles - he arranged a huge illusion barrier, and the interlacing effect of light and shadow was simply amazing. It looked as if light and black mist had passed through. It was like a fierce battle.

But in fact, the real trouble is just the light and shadow effects themselves.

Taking this opportunity, he also warned the Noxians that the seal was not secure.

In her words, Kalya vaguely hinted that these undead might be related to the blood magic popular in Noxus.

Kalya does not discriminate between different types of spells, and he even uses demon spells himself.

But he cannot stand the blind casting of spells that ignores the ethics of magic and regardless of the cost of spells, and this is the key to Noxian blood magic - these spells are bloody and terrifying, magic experiments are inhumane, and the consequences are often extremely disastrous. control.

There is no absolute justice or evil in magic itself.

But there are relatively controllable and uncontrollable, following human nature and violating ethics.

If the threat of the Black Mist Legion can make the Noxians a little more restrained or more rational in their research on blood magic, then half of Kalya's goal will be accomplished.

As for the other half, it is the gradual normalization of the relationship between Noxus and Demacia. Kalya believes that as long as the two sides can have normal communication, Noxus will sooner or later be integrated into the new order.

Of course, those are all things for later.

Now Kalya's main focus is on leading the commando team and entering the Diver Fort along the secret passage.

This special operation, codenamed "Operation Bloom", will be fully commanded by Kalya and will provide magical support.

In conjunction with this, in Freljord, the main force of the coalition forces advanced into the Iron Thorn Mountains and actively surrounded the Diver Fort.

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In the area north of the Iron Thorn Mountains, the temperature is getting colder day by day.

Although the biting Breath of Anivia has not yet fully blown, the wind blowing through the Freljord is enough to cause a string of goosebumps to appear on the exposed skin.

And cold has always been a heavy debuff for large-scale battles.

Even though Avarosan warriors and Demacia snowwalkers were relatively adaptable to this kind of weather, their activities were not greatly affected after the temperature began to drop, but their logistics consumption suddenly increased a lot.

When the weather gets colder, you eat more, fuel needs arise, and winter clothing is more difficult to repair and replace than summer and autumn clothing.

As the supreme commander of the coalition forces, apart from arranging the march and communicating with Kalya to implement the bloom plan, Lux spent almost all of her energy on controlling logistics - the long supply line was a difficult task for the coalition forces. In order to maintain this supply line, in addition to mobilizing a large number of Avarosan furnace households, hiring caravans from the Principality of Valoran, and sending civilians to accompany the army, the coalition also divided nearly one-third of the main force and dedicated it to to protect supply lines.

As the supply demand further increases, this supply line, which was already operating at full capacity, is now somewhat overloaded.

If the battle were to be fought in another place, Lux could still consider surrendering to the enemy, but in Freljord, there really was no place that could afford the consumption of a large army.

Compared to the Frost Guard tribe, the coalition's numbers have an absolute advantage.

Today, this advantage is visibly turning into a liability.

Moreover, the more manpower was invested in the logistics, the fewer manpower was on the front line. When the siege officially began, Lux finally felt that the manpower was a little stretched.

Fortunately, although the terrain of the Iron Thorn Mountains is complex, the number of exits is also very limited. If you want to complete the broadest siege of Fort Diver, you only need to focus on guarding a few passes. By controlling the six paths, you can ensure that the enemies in the Diver Fort cannot get out and that supplies cannot be transported in.

The process of seizing the exit of the trail was quite smooth. It seemed that the Frost Guard tribe didn't seem to care about the fact that their supply line was cut off.

Judging from this result, they should have taken advantage of the coalition forces' eastward advance to stockpile supplies in Fort Diver that were at least enough for them to get through this winter.

Unless the coalition forces can continue to maintain the siege despite the heavy snow that seals the mountains after the severe winter in the Freljord, there is no point in blocking the exit from the Dredge Fort now.

Now the members of the Frost Guard tribe can just sit back and wait for work, stay in the steep Diver Fort on the Iron Thorn Mountains, sit back and watch the coalition forces spread out the encirclement net in the mountains, and then be shaken into a ball by the north wind.

Although the members of the Frost Guard tribe do not quite understand why the invincible Frost Witch adopts such a defensive posture, judging from the current situation, it seems that the coalition forces have no way to deal with the Iron Thorn Mountains and the Diver Fort. Encirclement and then a little tentative attack were unable to go deeper, and they did not dare to attack the head of Fort Diver.

The Freljordians, who had experienced the pain of siege in the past, were suddenly surprised to find that they had completely changed their roles in a short period of time.

Only at this time will they discover how satisfying it is to defend the city.

If you have the guts, come up!

It's not like Lux hasn't tried a tentative attack.

However, even though she had been mentally prepared, the price of the tentative attack still gave her a toothache.

The Frost Guard Warriors who are experienced in combat and are good at small-scale battles, and the Frost Guard Priests who specialize in frost magic and engage in positional warfare, when combined together, when defending on the city wall, it can really be said to be impeccable.

Even if you go through all the hard work and send the first troops full of buffs to the city wall, they will not be able to completely clear an open space for a swarm at the first time - after the first troops arrive at the top of the city , the next step is often that their connection with the follow-up troops is cut off, and then they are eaten bit by bit.

Even this is not the most terrible thing.

What's even more terrible is that there are obvious anomalies in the elemental tides within the Diver Fort.

With the exception of the frost element, most elemental tides fluctuate greatly and are extremely irregular.

Even ordinary people who do not understand magic and have no sense of magic will obviously feel that it is cold outside the current Diver Fort and it is not warm enough to light a fire.

This means that there is a problem with the elemental environment within the entire Diver Fort.

Except for the frost elemental magic, the difficulty of casting other elemental magics has suddenly increased.

Just like Ixtar's elemental gradient barrier, a huge invisible barrier is completely covering the Diver Fort. Within this range, the Frostguard tribe has an absolute home field advantage.

Lux also tried to figure out what was going on, but this huge abnormal elemental barrier was obviously beyond her scope of knowledge, so her research failed several times.

At this moment, Lux regretted more than ever that she had not spent more time on the introduction to advanced elements.

Her own spellcasting would not be greatly affected, but the mages suddenly lost their advantage of versatility and could only use the simplest elemental impact as fire cover.

In this environment, the effect of elemental impact may not be as good as the arrows and spears of the Avarosans.

Of course, Lux can also choose to stand still and fight a sit-down battle.

But in order to prevent Lissandra in the city from discovering the abnormality and to implement the Bloom Plan more smoothly, she must find a way to attract the attention of Lissandra and the Frostguard tribe.

The scene of forcibly sieging a city is very real, but the price is really too heavy.

After thinking about it, Lux thought that she could make use of the fake she caught before.

It's that fake frost witch.

Kalya reminded her not to take the initiative to seek opportunities for duel with Lissandra.

But what if you just provoke but don't accept the challenge?

Although Lux has gradually learned to be hard-hearted and accept sacrifices, she still can't bear to cover the execution of the Bloom Plan through meaningless sieges.

If possible, she still prefers to take a little risk.

So, after another failed siege, Lux came to the forefront of the coalition's front for the first time.

And what she was holding in her hand was the "Frost Witch" she had caught before.

　I did neck traction and felt a lot more comfortable.

　　Today's is a little shorter.

　　

　

(End of this chapter)