Ashe had hurried as fast as she could, but she still failed to arrive before Freljord City fell.
The city had changed hands and become a forward base for the Noxians. Retaking it now would be next to impossible.
Avarosa had engineers of its own, but these Hearthguard engineering teams were usually responsible for repairing equipment and setting up camps. Asking them to handle a siege was simply too much.
So when Ashe led her forces to the walls of Freljord City and launched a probing attack, she achieved almost nothing.
Even if Avarosa's archers could suppress the defenders' ranged attacks for a short time, they had no way to scale the walls.
Besides, although some of the Raiders had already left, plenty were still lurking nearby. If the Avarosans devoted themselves entirely to the siege, the Raiders would hardly hesitate to strike them hard from behind.
If anything happened to the troops under her command, the Avarosa tribe would truly be in danger.
In these circumstances, no matter how anxious Ashe was, she could only halt for now and entrench her forces, preventing the situation on the Lakstak Plains from deteriorating further.
The only good news was that Avarosa had been preparing for war ever since she completed Anivia's Trial. Her army would not run short of supplies anytime soon, and more reinforcements would arrive later.
She could afford to wait.
Unlike Ashe, the Noxian army in Freljord City had the absolute upper hand for the moment. But with their supply lines stretched so far and enormous losses in transit, they were actually running short on supplies.
This was especially true now that Ashe had begun setting up camp outside the city.
To hurry along the arrival of more supplies, Draven, who hated writing and paperwork with a