(Written earlier: A large part of this chapter is an introduction to Sejuani, so if you're familiar with the background of the Alliance universe, you can skip it.) ）

Darkness was falling, but the royal palace of Alvarosa was bustling with activity.

Lu Yang sat on the chair and stood still. Anne snuggled up to him, and on the other side was Ash, who was holding the Ice Longbow, noble and beautiful, and heroic.

In front of them to the left were the Forbidden Hunters, many of whom had burn marks. In the foreground on the right are the same gray-faced, burned, but wary of each other. On the right is the Frost Priest holding a longbow in his right hand and his left arm frozen into ice.

Outside, the Avarosa warriors and the Forbidden Hunters were guarding each other.

The environment suddenly fell silent.

Several parties were opposed to each other, and no one spoke for a while.

"Hahaha, it looks like it's time for us to play."

A hearty woman's laughter rang out suddenly.

In the ranks of the forbidden hunters, several figures took off their hoods and walked in front of the people.

The leader, with a cold and tough face, wears a horn helmet with a broken horn on his head, and carries a steel whip to which is attached to an ice pick at the end.

The moment he saw her, Ash's face changed, and his voice was low and complicated.

"Sejuani."

Lu Yang's eyes showed a hint of suddenness, no wonder he felt familiar, but he couldn't remember it for a while.

Wrath of the Northlands, Sejuani.

Commonly known as the pig girl.

Because she always rides a huge boar in the game and is now alone, it's no wonder he can't get on the score.

In addition, it is worth mentioning that she is the mother of Winterclaw, one of the three poles of the future Freljord, Avarosa's biggest opponent, and Ash's best playmate when he was a child.

Ash's upbringing, except for a huge blow, can be said to be smooth sailing - when he was a child, he had a strong and caring mother, and after experiencing a great change, he was soon revered as the reincarnation of Avarosa and led the Avarosa tribe to rise again.

It is precisely this kind of growth environment that can create the character of Ash's idealist.

But Sejuani is different, she has experienced all kinds of hardships since she was born.

Sejuani is the product of a political marriage, and since birth, she has not felt any love. To make matters worse, her mother, the War Mother of Winter's Claw, abandoned Winter's Claw for love.

Without the guidance of the young War Mother, Winterclaw quickly fell into decline.

At that time, the leader of Winter's Claws was Sejuani's grandmother, and she initially cared for Sejuani, but for various reasons, Sejuani was never able to meet her demanding requirements, and she gradually gave up.

During this time, Winterclaw and Alvarossa were sister tribes, and they often interacted with each other, and Sejuani received a precious touch of care from Ash's mother.

After learning that Ash's mother was the most powerful female warrior in the neighborhood and had defeated her, she made Ash's mother her idol, and Ash and Sejuani formed a strong friendship.

However, it didn't last long.

When Ash's mother questioned her grandmother for not raising Sejuani properly, the two tribes cut off contact.

Later, news of Winterclaw's decline reached Sejuani's mother, and she returned to lead the tribe, and although she kept Winterclaw alive, she never returned to its former glory.

Although she is her mother's daughter, because of the product of Sejuani's political marriage, she not only does not receive her mother's love, but also often speaks ill of her.

As a result, Sejuani vowed early on to take back the leadership of the tribe from her mother.

The second meeting between her and Ash was when the homeless Ash met Sejuani again during the wanderings of Avarosa after Avarosa's extermination.

Sejuani shows a deep friendship for Ash and tries to get the homeless Ash to join Winterclaw.

However, because of their disagreement with Sejuani's cold style, the two eventually separated.

Ash, who joined and left, was undoubtedly a betrayer for Sejuani, which was the beginning of a change in the relationship between the two parties, although Ash insisted that he would never regard Sejuani as an enemy, but the change of fate was sometimes far beyond human resistance, and in the future, the two of them still went to strangers.

After this separation, Ash embarked on the path of re-establishing Avarosa, and Sejuani began her own path to power.

Once she had amassed enough strength and prestige, she challenged her mother directly – according to Freljord's ancient tradition, a duel between mother and daughter was unthinkable, but Sejuani did so resolutely.

The duel didn't go well, the Frost Priest made some unknown interference with the duel, and Sejuani's mother died, but she didn't touch her at all.

It is also for this reason that after becoming the War Mother, Sejuani is very hostile to the Frost Guards, and this attitude has attracted a large number of homeless shamans, beast spirit walkers, ice bloodlines, storm bloodlines, worshippers of the old gods, and other powerful beings, all of which provide a force for the rise of Winterclaw.

When Sejuani first took over Winter's Claws, she was a disgrace, a laughing stock, and a weakling in the eyes of others because of the disgrace of her superiority. But it took them only a few years to become the most powerful tribe in the North, known for their ruthlessness, cruelty, and loyalty to their War Mother, to the horror of all tribes.

They adhered to the most brutal traditions of Freljord, allied with the Bears, crushed the tribes of the North, fought against the armies of Noxus, and even plundered deep into Demacia, and there was only one tribe in the whole of Freljord that could rival them, Avarossa.

It seems that both sides are destined to be enemies.

Ash and Sejuani's philosophies are completely opposite, and both want to be the leader of Freljord, combined with Ash's betrayal of their friendship and now of their mother's heritage...... There are too many reasons for both sides to become enemies.

Everything seems to be reincarnation.

Ash inherited the power of Avarosa, while Sejuani was Serelda. Lisandro worked hard to erase the sisters' inheritance for thousands of years, but this generation, the lineage of the two sisters appeared at the same time, and both grew up smoothly, and both had early conflicts with the Frost Guardian and Lisandro.

Fate is the most difficult thing in the world to explain.

Even Zoe, who is suspected of controlling the law of fate, may not be able to get a glimpse of the trajectory of fate.

This information flowed through Lu Yang's heart, making him a little stunned for a while.

Even if his strength has reached the demigod level, Lu Yang knows nothing about fate, and can only get a glimpse of it through the information of his previous life, and he is always shocked.

"Ash, meet again."

Sejuani's face was flat, but there was some subtle nostalgia hidden in the depths of her eyes.