"First of all, I know about the disagreements between you. The clash and conflict of ideas have caused you to split apart," Li Ke said first.
"Aren't you making it sound a bit too easy, Li Ke? Isn't a difference in ideology more troublesome than personal grudges?" Sejuani couldn't help but speak up. She crossed her arms and looked at Ashe, saying seriously, "I can be friends with people of different personalities, but I can't be friends with people whose views are different from mine."
"Those who walk different paths cannot make plans together," Ashe murmured.
Lissandra, however, found the topic rather boring. She even thought Li Ke was being a bit long-winded, because since she had come in person, Sejuani and Ashe's opinions were completely irrelevant, weren't they?
So what if they are the reincarnations of Avarosa and Serylda? Now, even if Avarosa and Serylda were resurrected, they would still be no match for Lissandra. Lissandra has not been wasting her time for thousands of years.
Going back further, while the Three Sisters once struggled to truly control True Ice, Lissandra is now even able to create and True Ice.
In the face of the momentous event of the Void, Ashe and Sejuani's decisions were utterly unimportant.
However, Lissandra gave Li Ke face, since she had pushed the matter onto Li Ke, so it was up to Li Ke to decide how to proceed, as long as the final result was good.
"No, having different opinions isn't necessarily a bad thing. Let me give you an example."
"For example, take the concepts behind your respective clans and create a pattern. If Ashe's Avarosa concept is a circle, then Sejuani's Winter's Claw concept is a triangle." Li Ke glanced at Lissandra, then didn't mention Lissandra ideas.
He continued, addressing Ashe and Sejuani, "Circles have their advantages, and triangles have theirs. When two shapes are combined, they become larger. Although different shapes are difficult to combine and present a challenge, successful fusion results in even more unique patterns."
"Freljord is large, but Runeterra is even larger. You've been trapped in Freljord for too long. You don't know what the outside world is like now, and you think Freljord is the center of the universe. But in reality, it's not. Not to mention Runeterra, even in Valoran, Freljord only occupies a quarter of the area."
As Li Ke spoke, he shook his head. "Even so, Sejuani, you and Ashe only know and have been to parts of Freljord, don't you?"
Ashe and Sejuani were both over twenty years old and had established the first and second largest clans in Freljord, respectively. However, even so, their clans had not been able to spread throughout Freljord because the transportation in the area was too underdeveloped.
They either travel on foot or by mount, but in the harsh environment of Freljord, there are many places that are inaccessible even with a mount.
Ashe and Sejuani hold high positions, but according to Li Ke, their vision is quite limited.
They only knew their own small plot of land and were completely ignorant of the outside world. In fact, if it weren't for Sylas, the leader of the traitors, entering Freljord and meeting Sejuani, Sejuani wouldn't have known that there was such a wealthy country in the south— Demacia.
But this is also related to Lissandra. For thousands of years, her Frostguard has carried out a major purge of Freljord every so often, and much knowledge and history can only be passed down in songs, so the civilization of Freljord has naturally been interrupted.
Ugh, Lissandra, you've really done a lot of bad things!
Bad woman!
Thinking of this, Li Ke couldn't help but glance at Lissandra. Lissandra raised her silver-white eyelashes, her lifeless pupils conveying no emotion, but the gesture of raising her eyebrows was enough.
She was Li Ke viewed her that way.
But Li Ke continued, "I'm about your age, but I've already been to many places: Ionia, Bilgewater, Noxus, and in the future, I'll go to Demacia and Shurima."
"But what about you? If you continue like this, you'll only remain trapped in Freljord until one day the outside world changes so much that you can no longer keep up, and then someone will push open your door, leaving you defenseless."
"Them?" Ashe's voice was displeased, feeling that Li Ke was underestimating the Freljord.
The people of Freljord, living in harsh conditions, are all valiant warriors. The hardships they endure to survive are unknown to outsiders. Southerners have no idea what kind of difficulties they face or how many challenges they have to go through in life in Freljord.
Therefore, even in the eyes of the idealist Ashe, Southerners were weak and unable to withstand the challenges of wind and snow.
"Yes, with us." Li Ke said seriously.
Sejuani remained silent, which puzzled Ashe, because normally it should be Sejuani who reprimanded her, not Ashe.
After all, everyone knows Sejuani has a fiery temper.
But now Sejuani remained silent.
Ashe couldn't help but touch Sejuani's arm and ask her, "Sejuani, what are you thinking? Aren't you going to argue with what Li Ke said?"
"A rebuttal?" Sejuani's eyes showed a hint of helplessness as she said softly, "You haven't seen weapons made by Southerners, Ashe. Li Ke is telling the truth."
Didn't Vi get Winter's Claw a while ago?
Because she couldn't go hunting in winter, Vi was bored, so she started fighting the warriors of the Winter's Claw using Hextech Gauntlet.
Vi played a total of seventeen matches and won all seventeen. Sejuani, of course, didn't play. If she had, using True Ice weapons and magic, Sejuani would naturally have been able to defeat Vi.
But is it really something to be proud of for a Warmother of Winter's Claw to use every trick in the book to defeat a single soldier from Zaun?
Not to mention, the girl with hair as Winter's Claw some weapons: an iron pipe that could hunt winter deer from hundreds of meters away, shoes that allowed for brief flights, and longboards that allowed them to fly freely in the snow and ice.
Those were things Sejuani had never seen before. If they hadn't been brought by Li Ke's men, many of the Winter's Claw warriors would have even knelt before Zeri.
Because she can fly!
"The Zaunite can already manufacture magical weapons. The Hextech rifles they talk about are more powerful than our bows and spears. Their rocket boots allow them to fly briefly, leaping over ten meters high. The pocket Pocket Watch they hold can release magical shields to block arrows and axes."
"The things Jinx and Ekko created can keep the houses of Winter's Claw warm in winter without the need for fires. We have indeed become disconnected from the outside world."
"Ashe, Li Ke is right," Sejuani said quietly.
Having experienced Hextech magic, she knew that what Li Ke said was true.
No matter how strong the bodies of the Freljord are, what can they do against weapons like those?
Not to mention Jinx has also mentioned Chemtech Bomb, death nukes, and so on, saying that given enough time, she could kill a dozen mammoths with a single shot.
Hunting a single mammoth would require Winter's Claw to deploy at least dozens of elite warriors, and there would likely be casualties. But what does Jinx say about it?
She will only need to press her finger lightly at that time.
How could Sejuani not be shocked?
Initially, perhaps because of the food, Sejuani agreed to Li Ke's conditions in order to continuously obtain food from Zaun. But now, after seeing all sorts of things and events, even without food, Sejuani believes that Winter's Claw should cooperate with Zaun.
After all, if the Winter's Claw also be obtained in the future, then it would truly be a force to be reckoned with against the Ursine.
Ashe fell silent.
"Moreover, the real reason I want Freljord to unite is for something else." She didn't speak, Li Ke continued.
He looked at Lissandra and said, "Tell them what happened. Sejuani and Ashe are qualified to know these things. After all, once Freljord unites, you won't be involved. Sejuani and Ashe will be in charge, won't they?"
Upon hearing Li Ke's words, Lissandra's silvery-white eyelashes trembled slightly. Her pale lips barely moved, and then her ethereal voice rang out. "You tell them. They won't believe what I say."
Li Ke nodded, then looked at Ashe and Sejuani.
"Haven't you always wanted to know the history of Freljord? Haven't you always wanted to know the truths buried by Lissandra in the songs you sing?"
"Now I'll tell you."
Li Ke took a deep breath, and then he told Ashe and Sejuani about the Three Sisters, Lissandra, and the Void.
Of course, Li Ke will give Lissandra a little embellishment in the story. After all, to be honest, Lissandra is indeed a heinous person, and the things she did cannot be undoed no matter how much she tries to make amends.
It's not that Lissandra is the first person on the front lines fighting the Void, so she's a great person.
Merits are merits, and faults are faults. Lissandra's achievements cannot erase her past mistakes, after all, she did slaughter countless people in Freljord.
As Lissandra listened to Li Ke's voice, although her face remained expressionless, her beautiful face as cold as ice, her lifeless white eyes narrowed slightly, and the way her hands clenched indicated that she was not as calm as she appeared.
She sensed that Li Ke was embellishing his past, which left Lissandra with mixed feelings.
One hour later.
Sejuani's furrowed brows gradually relaxed. She looked at Li Ke and said, "No wonder Donna said you asked her about the location of Frost Fortress and asked a lot about the Lost Bridge."
"But Li Ke, how did you know all this?"
Sejuani was confused.
These were things that she, a Freljord, didn't know, but Li Ke, a southerner, did, and he spoke of them as if he had experienced them himself.
Ashe also looked at Li Ke, hoping Li Ke could give her an answer.
The hostility in her eyes when she looked at Lissandra was gone, though wariness remained.
"Does it matter?" Li Ke muttered.
"Isn't that important?" Sejuani asked seriously.
"Alright, alright, because I've dealt with quite a few Deity, I know these things from them. In Zaun, we have a storm goddess named Janna, and she lived, well, she lived for a very long time." Li Ke's voice became much softer.
Janna's age compared to Lissandra's... Ha, forget it, Lissandra is way older than Janna.
After all, even Azir, no, Azir's ancestor Setaka, is a junior in front of Lissandra.
"I understand." Sejuani nodded. "If it's really as you say, that there are such monsters lurking in Freljord, then of course I agree to join forces."
"I agree too," Ashe quickly replied.
Her ideal was to unify Freljord, with each tribe helping each other and sharing intelligence, so she naturally agreed with it. Even without what Li Ke said, Ashe would have agreed with unification.
Then, Li Ke looked at Lissandra.
"So, Lissandra, what about you? What are your thoughts?"
"Now that I'm here, I won't go back empty-handed," Lissandra.
"Alright, then, within two days, this news must spread throughout Freljord." Li Ke shouted excitedly, raising his arm high.
This is probably the biggest thing Li Ke has done during this period of time!
Helping Sarah in Bilgewater and talking to Irelia Ionia not as important as the current situation in Freljord.
This is the unification of Freljord!
In a small town in western Freljord, a number of residents were drinking in a restaurant.
The tavern became even more lively after a group of merchants entered.
The hotel owner approached them and asked what they needed. After the drinks and food were placed on their table, the group of businessmen began to talk.
As he drank more alcohol, his body warmed up, and his voice became louder.
"I heard that Avarosa and Winter's Claw are forming an alliance."
"How is that possible?" A merchant who had just returned to Freljord instinctively denied it.
"Yeah, are you kidding me? Winter's Claw and Avarosa teaming up? Have you been drinking too much?"
"I've heard about it too, but as far as I know, it's not just Avarosa and Winter's Claw; the Frostguard is also getting involved."
"What? Frostguard? Are you kidding me! How could those monsters possibly ally with humans?"
"Babu, tell me, didn't you just come back from Avarosa?"
"It's true, Avarosa did indeed cooperate with the Winter's Claw. After Warmother Ashe went to the Winter's Claw, she stayed there, preparing for the alliance. The Frostguard's involvement also seems to be true."
"It's a merchant named Babu," Babu said quietly.
Then, in a low voice, he said:
"Ladies and gentlemen, we are about to witness history."
"Just like Freljord ten thousand years ago."
"Freljord, is it really going to be unified?"