Epilogue to Volume Seven: The Great Advance

After Lux's rallying speech, the Northern Wanderers, fired up with the idea of a "new glory," began their large-scale mobilization in an orderly fashion.

The nobles who had reached an agreement with the United Front opened their city gates and welcomed the Northern Wanderers in to garrison their cities.

Most of the nobles who chose to resist, however, were swept aside by the Northern Wanderers in a single push. Many cities in the north kept private armies, but their quality varied wildly. And since they weren't on the front lines, most cities stood in places with convenient access, where a force of a thousand Northern Wanderers could often sweep through unopposed.

The detachment Yin Nuo led toward Irondale, for example, maintained a marching pace of nearly a hundred miles a day. No city along the way could withstand them.

During this time, quite a few northern lords tried to stand atop their walls and denounce the "rebels" with righteous indignation. Unfortunately, most didn't even finish speaking before they were forced to flee in panic. Yin Nuo couldn't have cared less about their bluster—she simply led her people straight into an assault on the walls.

The lords would be watching with keen interest, expecting the "rebels" to die beneath their arrows. Then, a moment later, they would be left gaping at the sight before them.

Under the protection of the Northern Wanderers, the second-sequence mages, led by Yin Nuo, swiftly created a vast stretch of solid ice, easily forming a ramp that led straight to the battlements.

Without waiting for Yin Nuo to tell them, the Snowfield Wanderers charged up the ice ramp and attacked the walls.

The northern nobles had never seen anything like it.

No, forget the northern nobles—even across all of Runeterra, this kind of coordinated combat between