Chapter 722: Ash's Wish
Lakstak Moors, Freljord City.
Spring in Freljord is never "cold" – it's even colder than the winters in Noxus and Demacia.
But whether it was for Avarossa's negotiating team or the Frost Guard's negotiating team, it was as if the cold of minus ten degrees did not exist.
In order to show their strength, the negotiating teams on both sides dressed cooler than the other.
It's trivial to wear a shoulder or something, and it's medium at best to be shirtless - if it weren't for Rhodes to stop him, Olaf who came out to "see the world" would even be able to wear a bikini.
No way, this is the rule of the Freljord people, the more resistant to frost, the stronger they are.
The competition between the two negotiating delegations began after entering the city of Freljord, and although the two sides did not do it directly, they never stopped flexing their muscles, and as long as they had the opportunity, they would come up with various ways to prove their strength.
As a result, many of the Neutral Tribal Elders who came to Freljord City as witnesses to the negotiations saw a lot of real commotion.
For example, an elder from the Furnace Country would be woken up at 4 a.m. because Oral, the head of the Frost Guard negotiating delegation, was leading his Frost Guard warriors for daily training - they would line up, everyone yell, and punch or kick the black iron pillar that had been half fixed to the ground beforehand, promising to break it into two pieces before dawn, and no one would be allowed to use weapons during the process.
Black iron is known for its strength and toughness, and even very thin black iron needles are difficult to break, and the black iron pillars kicked and hit by the Frost Guardian warriors every day are more than twenty centimeters in diameter......
Soon, the news of the Frost Guard getting up at four in the morning to strike irons spread to all the neutral tribes.
This intuitive show of force appealed to the Freljords, and for a moment, the elders of the neutral tribes considered the Frost Guardians terrifying.
On the other hand, Olaf, who learned about the iron-striking incident, couldn't sit still, and he immediately planned to come to a thicker pillar to lead the team to strike iron, but unfortunately, the Avarosa people did not prepare in advance, and there was no use for black iron for a while.
So, at Rod's suggestion, Olaf simply pulled the archers of Avarosa to hold a shooting competition, and graciously invited the elders of the neutral tribes to watch the ceremony, in which the first level of the introductory competition was a 100-step target.
All of the escort archers of the Alvarossa negotiating delegation passed the introductory test, and the winner fired seven arrows, each hitting the bull's-eye at a distance of 200 paces and penetrating three targets.
The Avarossa soon changed the tide of public opinion, and the elders of the neutral tribes began to think that Avarosa's marksmanship was invincible.
Naturally, the people of the Frost Guardian clan also wanted to take back a city, but unfortunately, before they could come up with any new tricks, the neutral clan elders who were witnesses came together and negotiations began.
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After Ash and Lisandro swore an oath at the statue of the three sisters, negotiations officially began.
Ash recited his prepared statement with emotion, trying to prove to everyone that in this day and age, only a united Freljöd could face Valoran's new challenges, and that internal divisions in this barren land meant that if famine came, war would ensue.
Ash's logic is clear, and she makes it clear that the reason for the Freljord War is to fight for space to survive - but both Noxus and Demacia have more people than Freeljord, but their combined territory is not necessarily as large as Freljord.
Why is that?
Because Freljord was frozen for at least six months of the year, and the long ice period led to a severe scarcity of property, the same land area could support a hundred people in Demacia, and fifty in Noxus, but not even ten in Freljord.
In this case, once the population of Freljord grows, it will inevitably face a huge pressure to survive, and this pressure is difficult to release except for war.
In the past, Freljord had tried to release pressure southward, but in West Frejord, the natural plateau that separated Frejord from Demacia (the northern plateau of Demacia, on which the city of Miyin is located) blocked the cold of Freljord and the southward movement of the Frejords.
In the middle of Freljord, the Black Forest and the Iron Thorn Mountains became a natural defensive line and a détente zone, and the Noxians held this line to the death, and even the Claws of Winter, known for their bravery, could not defeat the Noxian army of the North and tear through this line - the gap between attack and defense was too great.
Finally, in East Freljord, this is the most topographically complex area in the whole of Freljord, with continuous mountain ranges stretching for thousands of miles, likewise separating Frejördjord from the rest of Valoran.
To sum up, the terrain of Freljord is extremely self-contained, and it is almost impossible to expand externally.
For this reason, whenever faced with the survival pressure from the population, the various tribes of Freljord would start and fall into wars - although the original intention of these wars was to fight for the means of subsistence such as forests, arable land, and rivers, but under objective circumstances, these wars only killed countless Freljords, and relieved the pressure from the population in the way of dead people.
In order to be able to convince others, Ash put a lot of effort into her statement, and she explained to everyone in the most plain language what Freljord's predicament was, which was justified and vivid.
Ash's words didn't resonate much, and while the elders understood what she meant, they didn't understand what it had to do with Freljord's unity.
Faced with the bewildering elders, Ash began the second part of his case.
So, how exactly does Freljord get out of this predicament?
Simply don't have children, so that Freljord's population remains in a sustainable range?
This is not possible - the power to procreate is innate, and in Freljord, even the most brutal elders do not restrict the population from procreation.
The only way to solve this problem is to unite and make use of all the available land, and to vigorously develop foreign trade on the basis of the ice-free port in the west of Freljord, and only in this way can Freljord get out of its predicament!
And all of this has a premise.
Freljord must speak with one voice!
The Night Shadow said
A hundred are gone, and the author feels very lost inexplicably......
As much as I like Black Seven Sauce, there was a moment when I really wanted to see Clearlove come on and take out Evelyn with the last hand on the red side.