‘……’

'Brothers, go quickly, a few days further south, and we will be at Frost Harbor, and we will be safe by then!' ’

'Haha! Not only security, but we also made a fortune this time!! ’

'Shhh Be quiet, you're crazy, don't be heard! ’

'Huh? I'm sorry, sir, I forgot ...... again'

'Don't say anything, hurry up, may the great Anivia bless us, bless the great Freljord......

'Yes......'

'Yes! ’

In the ice field of Freljord, a group of traders were driving a small number of livestock back south in knee-deep snow, and looking at their appearance, I don't know why, it didn't seem too frustrated?

If you count the time......

It has been several days since the short battle that took place on the frozen frozen tundra of Freljord, which was like destroying the world, and even completely disrupted the frost energy of the entire Freljord, making the whole land tremble like an earthquake, and at the same time causing the collapse of many thousand-year-old snow-capped mountains near and far. Pinshu.com

However, the demigod-level battle that took place in this harsh environment and harsh cold Polar North Land still had a profound impact on this land of Freljord......

Except for the two parties involved and a certain big bird who was beaten up and given a new life and thanked Dade, as well as a group of vendors who escaped death, no more people know what happened at that time.

Whether it's the Avarosa tribal alliance led by Queen Ash, or the Winterclaw Pact clan led by the Wrath of the Northlands, or the northernmost Frostguard Fortress and its leader, the Witch of Frost and Darkness, the only surviving Lisandro of the Three Ancient Sisters, none of them currently know what is happening in the land of Freljord.

All they know is that the entire continent has been in violent turmoil for a short period of time, and the frost energy of this extremely cold land has also converged towards the south for a short period of time, and it seems that there is a powerful existence that is forcibly plundering the cold power of this land?

And then

Soon everything gradually calmed down again, and that was it!

After all, on the vast frozen tundra, most of the land here is uninhabited no man's land, and the harsh environment and small population have led to the majority of the Freljord people living in a small number of suitable places, such as the warm ports west of the Holy Land of Lakstak and the thriving peninsula of trade? In other harsh environments, tribes of all sizes and highland herders are scattered around.

So

No one can fully monitor the North, whether it's Queen Ash, Northland's Wrath Sejuane, or the Frost Witch Lisandro! Therefore, they may have to wait patiently for more information for a while before it may be known from the mouths of those who are fortunate enough to witness it?

That's right, those who were lucky enough to witness everything were frightened many times, almost hit the pond fish, and escaped death many times, and were now on their way home, and did not dare to continue to the north!

Although, in that seemingly devastating battle, most of the goods of the traders were affected and destroyed by the terrible battle between the demigods and the little girl, and only a few animals that escaped and a few wrecked sleigh carts with little cargo left......

Eventually, however, they thanked Anivia and Alvarosa for their protection and gifts, and after gifting a bald-headed wandering mage and a powerful little girl with two snowy oxen as mounts, they happily accompanied themselves and set out on their respective journeys.

And the reason why they are grateful is not because they saw a great battle, or because they saw the rebirth of the patron god Anivia, or because they were satisfied after seeing the ice crystal phoenix that had been reborn and became more beautiful, but because they ......

On the battlefield, they picked up countless ice fragments, and this is the key!

And Zhen Bing ......

It was a treasure countless times more valuable than gold, a specialty of the frozen tundra continent of Freljord!

In the entire world of Runeterra, whether it is in Demacia or Noxus, or even the newborn land of Ionia on the other side of the sea, a small piece of ice can easily be exchanged for great wealth!

Normally, in the northern land of Freljord, the Ice is mainly produced in the northernmost Frostguard Fortress and the extremely cold mountainous areas full of terrifying cannibal frost troll tribes, and the production is very small, making it a rare treasure!

Inside this magical ice cube is the power of the ancient Frost elemental, which is harder than the best steel and will never melt (relatively, of course...... Even in the hottest furnace, it's still cold! Therefore, even if it is only a part of the weapon made by Zhen Bing, or embedded a little bit into the blade, it will be an enviable and powerful magic weapon!

Maybe that's why they're so precious?

In the past, the inhabitants of the North, whether they were the Avarossa, the Claws of Winter, or the Frost Guards of the North, generally revered and cherished the Ice as a sacred gift from the Three Sisters to Freljord......

But now, the vendors are unanimous in their opinion:

It wasn't the gift of the Ancient 'Three Sisters', but the Ancient Guardian of Freljord, the grace of the powerful demigod Anivia to them mortals!

Obviously, those extremely precious ice fragments must have been knocked down from the body of the ice crystal phoenix Anivia in that great battle! And those who are left in the battlefield are enough for each of the merchants who survived the catastrophe to exchange for a huge amount of wealth that they can enjoy for a lifetime in a country other than Freljord! They will no longer have to trade in this dangerous frozen tundra at the risk of snow worms, frost troll tribes, bear people, or other dangerous ice creatures.

So, although they lost almost all of their goods and most of their livestock this time, they received a huge reward that no one else could have imagined compared to the loss!

And this is the real reason why they smile and are grateful to Dade! Not many people in this runeter's land will be at odds with those shiny gold coins, not even the simple, honest and enthusiastic northern Freljords!

In particular, they were traders, and their desire to pursue profits and gold coins was even more urgent than that of the average Avarossa, otherwise, they would not have ventured to trade on the harsh environment of the continent of Freljord.

……

When the traders could not return, in the extremely cold mountains to the north, some people were still braving the wind and snow......

Two huge black-gray snow field cattle, one foot deep and one shallow, struggled forward on the ice field in the face of the huge wind and snow, leaving two long hoof prints behind them...... However, under the howling cold wind and heavy snow, they could not go far before the footprints they left behind were quickly covered by the wind and snow, and disappeared into the vast snowfield.

The one on the left, with a long skirt in blue and white ornate fur on its saddle, with a mink fur cap of the same style on her head, and a stuffed toy bear in her arms, revealing a little girl with a ruddy face who kept exhaling hot air; On the back of the other cow, in addition to a large number of salutes, there was also a blue-purple skinned bald old man wrapped in thick felt, revealing only a blue-purple skin with a beard and eyelashes full of ice beads frozen by the cold.

That's right!

The old man among them is the wandering mage Ruiz who has a mission and needs to continue to go north to Freljord, and the other person is obviously a bad little girl Anne who has a dead face and wants to join in the fun, and her intentions are unknown!

In fact, it cannot be said that the intention is unclear......

Anne just wants to get a good look at the strange scenery in this runetera world, casually wander around this icy and snowy land, and then ...... By the way, find a chance to get those powerful runes from the hands of some old thief, and want to study and explore their rules and some kind of wonderful connection with this runetera world?

Therefore, Anne, who also has a valid reason on her body, will not be polite to a bad old man at all, she just wants to join in the fun and see what he can do with her? Anyway, she doesn't need the other party to care about eating and drinking, even her own safety, she can follow as long as she wants, and go wherever she wants!

Whoosh~Whoosh~

The bitter cold wind still howled......

“……”

The wandering mage Rhyze struggled to lift his head from his felt hood, squinting as the whistling of the raging blizzard continued to blow past his ears, allowing the large flakes of cold snowflakes to burrow into his hood and into his neck.

He needs to observe the environment and the direction......

Unfortunately, however, he couldn't see anything......

Because, as far as the eye can see, there are tall snow-capped mountains and glaciers all around those reckless snowfields, and as far as the eye can see, you can't see anything else ten steps away, everything in front of you, except for the white wind and snow, the rest is still wind and snow!

The snow is getting heavier and the wind is getting stronger......

If it weren't for the fact that he and a certain little girl with extraordinary perseverance next to him were all archmages with profound mana, I am afraid that they would have already turned into two ice sculptures on the ice field by now.

Ruiz also saw that at this time, not to mention the road ahead, it was not even clear whether it was up and down, left and right, and whether it was surrounded by mountains or cliffs, whether it was flat or downhill...... He could only let the two snowy oxen navigate the frozen tundra of Freljord, in the snow-covered northern mountains, and even whether they had lost their way or gone the wrong way, Ryze could no longer tell.

Because, the wind and snow are too big......

At least, for him, a mage who was not a native of Freljord, the horror of this blizzard was something that an outsider like him could not and did not dare to imagine in advance here in the North, especially in the mountains and mountains that were getting further and further north and closer to the traditional sphere of influence of the Frost Guards.

“……”

Turning his head, he looked at a certain little princess from the gray order beside him, and looked at the mysterious warlock Gregory? The freak daughter born to Hasta and his wife, Amorim, the Shadow Witch, saw each other's ruddy faces, and was still in high spirits, unaffected by the cold and blizzard, and even had time to reach out and pull the snow from the thick fur of the cow, and then build a snowman on the saddle? After playing, Ruiz knew that some of his plans had failed.

Before that, Ruiz had tried to use the snowstorm and the freezing cold Northland environment to force the little girl to leave on her own, so that the other party would not follow her idea again...... Therefore, after seeing that there was really no way to force the other party with this kind of indiscriminate move, but instead tossed himself a lot, he had to compromise and planned to find a place to rest first, and wait until the blizzard stopped before setting off.

"No more......"

"The snow is so great that our cattle are running out, Anne...... Let's find a place to shelter from the wind and snow first......"

Sighing, looking at the cow under his crotch who was slowly burying his head in the snow against the cold wind and snow, looking at the big mouthfuls of heat that the other party spewed out from the big mouth of the cow's nose, and seeing that even this kind of alpine snow cow that is good at surviving in the extremely cold environment is extremely difficult, Ruiz just groaned and thought about it, and finally decided to temporarily trim first to avoid the snowstorm in the north.

Obviously, in the silent battle of wits and courage with the little girl next to him, he lost......

"Oh!?"

∑(￣□￣; )

"But I think it's cool...... Well, Ryze blame...... Grandpa, since you want to rest, let's rest, anyway, you have the final say! ”

(lll￢ω￢)

Originally, Anne wanted to keep going until it was dark! Because, she is really not afraid of the cold at all, after all, she can freely control the frost flames that are even more ruthless than this weather, so in this kind of ice and snow, she is actually like being in flames.

Of course, this kind of thing must have been thought of by a bad old man, otherwise, the other party might not have that outrageous idea just now, and wanted to force her away with those snowstorms.

"Hmm......"

"If you don't leave, let's decide to be here in this mountain pass, find some dry wood to make a fire, and then get an arcane shield, let's rest for a night for a while."

Feeling the bad weather in the Northland, knowing that it would definitely not be possible to travel at night, and that the weather would not easily clear, Ruiz lowered his head again and observed for a moment, and quickly made a decision.

In this situation, it is definitely not possible to find a cave, besides, now in this wilderness, ice and snowy place, it is difficult to even walk, and everywhere is white, and in the case of not being able to distinguish between the southeast and the northwest, where can he go to find a cave or a tribe where he can rest?

Therefore, he felt that he could only use magic for now in this col, in this place where he could shelter from the wind, for a little night...... When the weather clears tomorrow, they will continue to set off north, trying to reach his destination as soon as possible!

Because he remembers that it doesn't seem too safe here in this mountainous area?

"Going camping?"

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"Then change me today, I'm going to make a big polar bear igloo like the one I saw on TV, it must be super warm and comfortable!"

(*?′╰╯`?)?

There's so much snow here, the ice is so thick, and the weather is as cold as the North Pole on TV, so Anne thinks it would be super fun for her to dig out pieces of ice and build them into an igloo like in the cartoons.

Thinking about it seriously, it seems that she really rarely sees this kind of snow-covered weather!

The place where she grew up Queen Anne was a voodoo land with a tropical swampy climate, where mosquitoes were abundant, rain flowed, it was hot all year round, and it never snowed! And if she hadn't gone to different worlds by herself, I'm afraid she wouldn't have seen snow like until now!

“……”

"What is TV?"

Bears and igloos or something, of course Ruiz knows!

Because in the northern mountains of Freljord, there are quite a few bear tribes here! He'd heard from the traders that they had allied themselves with the Winterclaw Sejuani to fight the frost trolls of the Northlands, the Ursones? Moreover, there is also a powerful demigod giant bear in the bear tribe called Thunder Roar Volibel?

So, he can understand polar bears or snowrooms and so on, but he can't figure out what ...... 'TV' is.

"A TV is a TV, it's the same as the kind of magic props or spells that transmit magic images, except that it uses electricity, it's a technological item!"

╮(ˊ????? ˋ)╭

As she explained, Anne jumped down from the cow and prepared to cast the spell.

Soon, she used her powerful magic and extreme manipulation to pull out huge blocks of ice that had been cut squares from under the distant earth, and then, with a wave of her hand, with the help of her mage's hand, they quickly flew over against the cold wind, and began to build up on the relatively flat col ground in front of them.

Bang!

Bang! Bang!

Large, tough ice bricks soon began to be built in circles in the high mountain col of Freljord...... The sound of their impact was particularly harsh in the howling cold wind around them.

"I see......"

Waiting patiently for the little girl's spell to cast, Ruiz also nodded at the other party's vague explanation, and began to wait patiently for the little girl's spell to cast, while also sighing at the precise magic operation ability of the other party's magic.

He could see that the other party was not only stronger than him, but even in this subtle spell casting, he was no worse than him, an old archmage, which made him feel faintly guilty......

“……”

"Ahem! What a waste......"

Originally, Ruiz wanted to say that he only needed to make a fire casually and then open a shield to prevent the wind, but who would have thought that this little girl would squander her magic so recklessly...... Although he himself is not unable to do this, after all, the spells of cutting ice cubes and mage's hands test the precise control of magic and spells, and it must not be difficult for him Ruiz, an arcane archmage!

But......

He wasn't crazy, how could he waste so much of his precious magic just to build an igloo and then stay overnight and leave? Moreover, this snow room, which seems to be a bit big, has a hall and two bedrooms, is it really necessary?

According to his Ruiz, at most, he can build an ice wall around it to avoid the wind, and he has long been accustomed to sleeping in the wind and sleeping in the open in the past years of running around the Runeterra.

"Don't worry! Soon to be fine! ”

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With that, little Anne no longer cared about the ugly face of some bad old man next to her and the rambling words of Rory, but continued to work in the roaring blizzard, and continued to use magic to build up her funny big building blocks.

She hadn't played with building blocks for a long time, and this time, she had to get a big house out!

“……”

Alas!

Ruiz could see that the other party was not building some kind of temporary igloo for one night, but building a small castle?

Because, after the little girl built a rough, two-bedroom and one-hall big snow house and successfully capped and reinforced, she didn't stop, but continued to build up, continued to make a room on the second floor, and even ...... He also made the spire of the castle, and quickly polished and decorated it, and even put a statue of a giant bear on top of it?

To be honest, he really just wanted to rest for a little and leave for the night, why is this little girl still addicted to playing with this now? I don't know, how will this little guy toss in the next task?

Sure enough, he Ruiz himself is still more used to being alone......

That's all this time, when the matter here is over for Freljord, he will definitely get rid of this little girl and go somewhere else, without any retinue, and he will not let some little guy follow him!

I only hope that this eating task will go smoothly and there will be no waves......

‘……’

‘……’

However, what Ruiz didn't know was that while he was watching a focused little girl busy and grumbling, on the other side of this col, in the snowdrift of a high mountain in the distance, two stout figures about the size of two or three humans, with blue skin, red hair, and a faint blue glow in their eyes, were secretly watching them?

However, because of the distance and the heavy wind and snow, he did not notice the highland creatures watching them.

Whoosh~Whoosh~!

The howling of the blizzard grew louder as little Anne struggled to cover her castle of ice, as some bald-headed archmage with a long beard waited patiently for the other to mess around, and as some ill-intentioned snow-capped creatures spied on and ill-intentioned in the distance......

"The weather in this Freljord ......"

The howling and fierce wind, in addition to the snow and ice in the sky striking down diagonally, made Ruiz's skin feel stinging, and they even blew the top layer of floating snow on the ground directly like dust, so that he could not even see the situation three or five steps away now.

Sure enough, he Ruiz didn't like this icy continent......

But it's a pity that he, who has a mission on his shoulders, has to come for the sake of this world and the safety and survival of the Land of Runeterra!

"Okay!"

?★，:*:?\\(￣▽￣)/?:*?°★*

"That's it! Grandpa Ryze, come on in and welcome to Queen Anne's Ice Castle! ”

(*′▽')◇ゞPlease enter!

In the midst of the cold wind and snow, a castle made entirely of huge ice crystals appeared in this col, in the eyes of the wandering mage Ruiz, who was slightly amazed.

Moreover, he also saw that as the little girl pushed open the heavy castle gate, which was also made of solid ice, and made a gesture to herself, the inside of the great ice castle, there was a wall lamp composed of fiery red beating flames, and their light directly passed through the thick ice crystal wall, reflecting into the wind and snow outside, the orange-red wall, the fiery red windows and the ice-blue spire, and even refracted colorful light in some places, It looks beautiful, like the dwelling of fairies in a fairytale wonderland.......

Moreover, what surprised him even more was that although this small ice castle looked smooth and translucent on the outside, when he looked in from the outside, he couldn't see anything inside except for the light that came out.

Ruiz remembers that when the little girl cut the ice cubes, they were all square ice cubes, and in this case, she shouldn't be out of sight!

"Hey!"

~(￣0￣)/

"What are you waiting for, I'm going to close the door if you don't come in?"

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A little girl's little head in a blue and white mink hat peeked out half of the castle's ice-solid gates, urging some bad old man who was still outside.

"By the way, I'm going to tell you!"

? Huh?

"Just take the cow to the room on the left and let them stay, you sleep in the empty room on the right, the big room upstairs is mine, don't trespass, otherwise, my little bear will beat you!"

(o゜▽゜)o☆

（…… ）

????? Super fierce!

“……”

Ruiz finally got it......

It turned out that those two small rooms were reserved for him...... And the treatment of him, an arcane archmage, in the eyes of the little girl, is the same as two cows?

That's a ......

Cough!!

……

'Gollum! ’

'Purr! Fast! Go back and tell the Troll King that we've got something to eat tonight, and we're a human mage! ’

At this time, when the gate of the ice crystal castle in the distance slowly closed, when the two humans, one large and one small, and the two snowfield cattle, entered the fantastic castle, the monster that was originally lying on the snow on the high mountain in the distance slowly stood up, let out an inexplicable snoring and excitement in its throat, and then quickly ran in another direction at high speed, and soon disappeared in this snowstorm flying in the sky.

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