Lissandra knew nothing about the Blooming Plan.
Although the Frost Witch knew Karya existed and had always been wary of him, even pulling together a reserve force specifically to guard against this unpredictable variable,
she clearly never imagined that this unstable factor had already arrived at her doorstep with a strike team.
The fire Valrokan had started had, it seemed, been useful after all. It had wrecked the mine's surface structures, and the underground section had been blocked off beforehand. Lissandra had sent people to investigate, but the complicated network of ironspike tunnels was so misleading that the Frostguard Tribe had found nothing amiss.
No matter how cautious Lissandra was, the most she could do was position her reserve forces in places inaccessible by conventional means, such as cliffs and steep slopes. With her mind still sound, she would never divert her already insufficient manpower to defend an empty mine.
Who could have guessed that the end of the mine had only been blocked off later, and that a subterranean passage led from here to Druna?
After receiving word from Karya, the allied forces finally began their first large-scale preparations for a siege on the main battlefield.
The Malphites that had been kept in camp were finally brought to the front lines. In addition, the air force, which had previously been assigned only reconnaissance missions, was now equipped with a large number of throwable weapons for the first time.
Each magic bomb, which used a Hextech Core as its detonator, cost nearly as much as an Ice Gold Coin. These unremarkable-looking spheres, coated in pale blue paint, were actually the Northern Expeditionary Army's most important strategic supplies.
Under the current weather conditions, getting Dragonbirds airborne was extremely difficult. As a result, only a handful of elite air force soldiers