LOL: Summoner of Goddess Janna

Time goes back half a month ago. On the distant ice field, among the vast snow.

Sejuani's main force was temporarily stationed on this endless barren snowfield.

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

Now more than ten years have passed. The Avarosan tribe grew into a united alliance under Ashe's hands, and Ashe became the Ice Queen in the hearts of many Freljordians.

She successfully brought the powerful southern tribes under her command, led Avarosa to establish a foothold in the "warm" southern ice field, and embarked on the successful path of farming, herding, and self-sufficiency.

Sejuani took a completely different path.

The Winter's Claw has no land to farm or pastures to graze, only ferocious fangs and deadly claws.

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

This is how Winter's Claw survives.

After taking over as War Mother, Sejuani undoubtedly succeeded in carrying forward this tradition.

She led the Winter's Claws to attack everywhere, plundering wildly, and achieved brilliant victories. She 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 a true war mother - she has thousands of blood warriors, heavy infantry, mammoth riders and ice blood under her command.

She vows to prove that she alone is worthy of ruling the Freljord.

"War Mother! War Mother! Let's sing to you~" The children's affectionate calls brought Sejuani's thoughts back to reality.

The ambition in her heart instantly dissipated, and her grudges with Ai Xi were temporarily put aside.

Sejuani looked down at the children surrounding her.

These children are all the new generation in the tribe, and the oldest is no more than 5 years old. After all, anyone over 5 years old is considered a little adult who can help with some chores. He cannot be as carefree and play happily in the "nursery" as he is now.

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

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

So it doesn’t matter whether it’s Winter’s Claw or other tribes. Everyone can only engage in socialized parenting and bring children together to raise them together.

Sejuani always likes to come here to visit.

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 to all the children in the tribe.

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

"..." Sejuani fell silent again.

She looked down at the children. These little and thin ones are like snow hares after hibernation. They are all sallow and skinny, and some of them can even be seen with skin and bones.

Although the tent made of mengo hide was thick enough, the ruthless cold wind still penetrated through the gaps, making these thin little guys tremble when they spoke.

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

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

So the children happily huddled together and sang in a sweet voice the old nursery rhyme she had sung when she was a child: "La~ They plowed the fields hard and sowed seeds silently~ We do whatever we want and burn everything~"

This song is very spirited.

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

"Ogai Yin." She couldn't help turning her head and said to the female war priest next to her: "How long do we have food reserves? Can we give more to the children?"

"War Mother..." Ogayin pursed her lips slightly: "The harvest from the last robbery has been almost consumed. The few hunting teams we sent recently have not gained much."

"Unless we are lucky enough to encounter a migrating herd of animals. Otherwise, even if we save on food, we can only hold on 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 into reliable warriors."

"I know." Ogayin's expression remained unchanged.

She looked at a thin baby lying in the corner of the tent and said: "My daughter is hungry too, I know."

The baby was so hungry that he cried, but Ogayin still looked away decisively: "But the soldiers need food more. If they don't have the strength, how can we win the next plunder?"

Sejuani fell silent again.

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

"..." Ogayin was stunned for a moment, then nodded quickly: "Yes."

Ice people care about children, but ignore the elderly and the weak. This is the moral 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 pondered silently.

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

The ice sheet is so big, which direction should we move to next to survive?

Go fishing in the frozen sea of ​​the north?

But it is close to the North Pole of the planet, and the weather is not only extremely bad, but also unpredictable. A cold wind might blow overnight, and a hopelessly thick layer of ice would form on the sea surface.

Then go east to plunder Noxus?

But Noxus is not someone to be trifled with.

Although the Winter's Claw once defeated the Noxian Northern Army, it also caused the famous Darius to suffer a humiliating defeat and become a shameful "ice student".

But Sejuani knew that this was just temporary luck.

Noxus is a ferocious beast after all. If you try to grab it, you will easily get bitten back hard.

Then go to the west and plunder Avarosa?

Go to the southwest and invade Demacia?

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

...

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

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

The reason Winter's Claw is hungry and trapped at the moment is actually because Sejuani made a wrong decision before, which caused the tribe to fail to complete the KPI for this quarter and fail to grab enough food.

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

"But no one can win all the time." Ogayin also lowered his eyelids and said, "War Mother, you should be mentally prepared for this."

Sejuani slowly clenched her fists. Indeed, it's time for her to take on her responsibilities as a leader.

So she pondered and prepared to make a decision: "Next, let's go west..."

At this moment, a ranger warrior hurriedly came to the tent door and delivered a message to her: "War Mother, we found a wandering beast spirit walker on the ice field. He said he is your old friend , War Mother."

"Oh?" Sejuani was slightly stunned.

A beast spirit walker who can wander alone on the ice field...that's not an ordinary person.

Moreover, he is still an old acquaintance of hers?

"What's his name?"

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

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

Udyr was her mother's old friend. 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.

However, this does not mean that their relationship is very close. After all, a war 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 with him much when she was a child.

Later, Udyr was expelled from the tribe by her grandmother because she was unable to control his powerful and dangerous gift.

And since then, Sejuani has never seen him again.

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

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

"Invite him to come over." Sejuani didn't know why Udyr returned to Winter's Claw after so many years.

But after all, they were old friends, so she was still willing to entertain him.

"Yes." The ranger warrior quickly turned around and rode on a Juvask wild boar, and hurriedly rode the pig away.

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

I saw that he was bearded, shirtless, and his arms were as strong as iron lumps. He looked like a standard ice field strongman.

"Udyr, you look much the same as before." Sejuani's attitude could not be described as enthusiastic.

After all, Udyr's abilities are often out of control. She had heard stories of 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 before, the irritability and madness in his eyes that could lose control at any time are no longer there.

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

"Yeah." Sejuani was not in a hurry to reminisce about the past. She only asked with concern: "How did you find our tribe?"

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

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

"I spent a lot of effort, asking all the way, and looking for it."

"Troublesome beast spirit walker." Sejuani muttered.

Then she said bluntly: "My mother is dead a long time ago. If you came back for her, you came back in vain."

"I know." Udyr's expression darkened: "I heard this from the wild boars of your tribe on the road."

Sejuani was stunned for a moment: "Weird."

"Are you leaving then?" she asked directly.

"No." Udyr shook his head: "I came back not only for your mother, but also for the Claws of Winter."

"You want to return to the tribe?" Sejuani looked seriously.

She knew how powerful Udyr was. After many years of absence, Udyr now seems to have control of his abilities.

A powerful and rational beast spirit walker, he is welcomed by all ice 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 what she cherishes. everything."

"That's...okay." Unexpectedly, this old guy was quite infatuated. Sejuani thought.

But that’s fine. She would definitely not lose money if she prostituted a powerful beast spirit walker for nothing.

Just as she was thinking this, she saw Udi pause for a moment, then raised his head and said seriously: "I also hope that it can bring new opportunities to Winter's Claw."

"Opportunity?" Sejuani was slightly startled.

She said with vigilance: "You have some prey to grab, do you want to point it out to me?"

"No." Udyr shook his head: "I want to show Winter's Claw a clear path, a path that no longer has to starve and freeze."

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

No more hunger and cold? Even the most affluent Avarosa Alliance would probably not dare to say this.

"What exactly do you want to do?" Sejuani asked.

"I want you to come to Ionia with me." Udyr said surprisingly.

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

"You want us to cross the vast sea and grab Ionia?"

The last person to do this was Ivern the Heartless.

As a result, this ancient strong man who could compete with the three sisters never came back after going to sea, so that he became a negative example in the myths and legends of Freljord.

In short, even if you don’t take into account the distance that can starve people to death on the road... Is the virgin land 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."

"Settle down? Go to Ionia?" Sejuani was even more stunned. She suspected she was hearing a bad joke.

"Yes." Unexpectedly, Udyr was serious: "In the past few years, I have been studying Taoism and practicing in Ionia across the sea, and I have made many friends in Ionia."

He followed an Eastern monk named Li Qing to Ionia, just to find a way to fully master the power of the gods.

Unexpectedly, he encountered Noxus invading Ionia as soon as he went there, so he had to follow Li Qing as an anti-Noxian for several years.

The war continues, and Udyr is also practicing with Li Qing while defending this land with him.

Later, the leader comes...

"I made many friends in Ionia, and they are all very good people." Udyr tried his best to explain in words that the ice natives 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 painted a dreamlike and beautiful picture, leaving the children nearby stunned.

But Sejuani is not a child: "You mean, thousands of miles away, there is a group of strangers who we have never met before, willing to give us land for free and let us live there?"

After drinking a few dishes, you can even have such a dream?

"And..." Sejuani looked strange: "A harmonious and peaceful life?"

Harmony and peace?

She finally discovered what was most wrong with Udyr.

Who is Udyr?

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

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

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

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

This would make it too easy for people to survive in the Freljord, which would mean no struggle or growth, which would prevent the spirit of the Freljord from lasting...

To put it bluntly, it means letting everyone be savages, the more savage the better.

It's just fine if everyone lives as a small tribe. Otherwise, if there are more people playing in a group, the difficulty of the game will decrease and it will become boring.

Udyr's philosophy actually has a bit of Volibear's flavor.

However, Volibear is even more extreme - this ancient god believes that the ice field should always remain as it was in ancient times.

She believed that ice people should constantly fight and hunt, and even farming and grazing were breaking the ancestral methods.

She once destroyed a dam built by her followers during an advent, just because she felt that dams, a creation that could increase productivity and make humans live more comfortably, went against the ancient ways of the Freljord.

Anyway...

In Ashe's eyes, Sejuani is extreme.

In Sejuani's eyes, Udyr is extreme.

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

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

But now he...

"You actually talked to me about harmony and peace?" Sejuani couldn't believe it: "You also asked us to move to a warm place and live a stable life like those farmers?"

"What exactly have you been through?"

She really couldn't imagine what kind of power could cause such a big change in this extreme animal 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 peace does not necessarily mean stagnation.”

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

"Um..." Sejuani didn't understand. I just feel like he's a bit distracted.

And this is normal. As the most powerful beast spirit walker in history, Udyr can originally communicate with the gods and use the power of the gods.

She just thought it was because Udyr had gained some new divine power in Ionia, which affected her brain.

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

Then predictably she said, "I reject your offer."

"Winter's Claw will not leave the Freljord, let alone go to Ionia."

She must be crazy to move the entire tribe across the sea because of Udyr's few words.

Normal people would refuse.

"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 about what I saw in Ionia."

"I think you'll understand me then."

"You can stay if you want." Sejuani had no intention of listening to Udyr's chanting, but she didn't turn him away either.

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

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

This made Sejuani feel a little uncomfortable.

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

"I will not go to Ionia." Sejuani couldn't help but emphasize again.

"I won't go to the east either." She had already decided just before Udyr came: "Then we will go all the way west and plunder Avarosa or Demacia."

"Udyr, are you still willing to follow?"

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

The journey from Ionia to the vast ice field 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 then find the Claw of Winter on this vast ice field.

Before he set off, the Demacian Expeditionary Force had not yet returned home, and was still helping to reform the army in Ionia.

But now...they should have gone back, right?

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

"I will go to the West with you, Sejuani."