Yes, I'm afraid there will be no room for maneuver by then. Jeno said, holding his arms. The bears are a bunch of war maniacs, even more extreme than Winter's Claws.

Volibel just doesn't want to be forgotten by the world, so he keeps waging wars to find a sense of existence. Just like those veterans who have gone off the battlefield, they don't know anything but to fight, so they are eager to return to the battlefield, and this mentality is the old after-effects of war.

When the entire tribe is threatened, then winning or losing the war is less important in the eyes of Udil. He changed his words and said something that even Jeno was surprised by: "Moreover, things are more than that simple. I noticed that some of the Ice Weapons in Sejuani's hands had turned black, and I might have something wrong at some point. ”

"What? You say Zhen Bing has turned black? Jeno's eyes widened, wondering how Sejuani could have come into contact with such a thing.

"Will Zhen Bing also turn black? What would happen? Ash looked at the longbow in his hand, showing that he didn't understand. She had never seen an ice weapon blackened.

"I don't know what to expect, the blackened Zhen Ice is called Dark Ice or Black Ice, something unique to the Frost Witch's territory."

"Yes, the black ice is sacred in the eyes of the frostguards, and all of it comes from the hands of Lisandro." Udir nodded, Jeno's perception was the same as his. He only learned about this when Sejuani's mother, Kogiya, attached to the Frost Guard with the Claws of Winter.

"When did Sejuani come into contact with Lisandro?" Jeno asked, his fingers tapping into a rapid rhythm on the plank on the edge of the bed.

"I don't think so, the weapon was the trophy that her Blood Pact had scoured in the towns that had been captured by the Claws of Winter, and he said he had found it in his dreams." Udir told the truth.

"It's Lisandro's conspiracy."

"Do you think so too?" The wild man lifted his eyelids and opened his mouth slightly.

"Well, Lisandro wants Winterclaw and Alvarosa to kill each other, and she wants to be the queen of the Iceplain Freljord." Many of the things on the ice field showed signs of Lisandro's involvement, and Geno thought to himself that the old witch had finally shown her feet. He then asked, "Udil, do you know why Sejuani is not satisfied with the status quo and has to conquer all of Freljord?" ”

"I think it had something to do with the Frost Priest, who told her that she was going to rule all of Freljord one day when I was most confused when I left Freljord, and that became her ideal."

"Frost Priest...... None of those people are a good thing. Ash frowned, and the betrayal of the Frost Priest Sima Karlov seemed to be vivid: "Sejuani should know what the Frost Priest is like, after all, her mother was killed by the Priest, but why should she believe them?" ”

"Because she hates the Frost Guards, she has to raid everywhere, absorb the strength of other tribes, and finally launch a decisive battle against the Frost Guards. And you, Avarosa, are the biggest obstacle in front of her, but after Volibel joins, the nature of this war has changed. Udir clenched his fists, and the paranoid Sejuani had already gone to her death with the Claws of Winter.

"It has something to do with Ash, too." Jeno said.

"Me?" Ash's snow-white brow furrowed into a puzzled look as she wanted to see what Jeno knew about her and Sejuani.

Jano inhaled a breath of cold air, then said to Ash:

"The Frost Priest and the Frost Guard are in a group, and Sejuani discovered this, so she shifted her anger to the Ice Guard. But there's no denying that she's spurred on to conquer everything.

Sejuani, who has never been cared for by her birth mother, thinks your mother is the best mother in the world, but Ash does not inherit your mother's inheritance, and even betrays her. She thinks you should be like Glenna, as the Mother of War, who conquers and crushes all enemies, rather than being a Mother of Mercy for the weak.

Ash, your greatest betrayal of her is that you don't cherish what she desires but can't get.

So, when she heard that you had joined the Warmbloods to form a rapidly growing tribal union, Sejuani went crazy to defeat you and the Avarosa clan in order to prove that she was right.

So, even though Sejuani knew the Frost Priest's sinister intentions, she went the way they wanted her to go - to fight the other tribes and lose both. ”

Jeno's words were like a warm summer breeze, causing the glacier in Ash's heart to melt gradually. With her motherly love, she ignored Sejuani's feelings, which led to all this. Once again, Jeno impressed her, and as an outsider, he saw it better than she could herself.

"And what about Ash, the War Mother? Why do you want to unify Freljord too? Even if your approach is different from Sejuani, the result is the same. Jeno continued. Udir also became interested in Ash, and he found many things in common with Sejuani in the young war mother.

"Me? I just got the bow of Avarosa under the guidance of fate, saved some people according to my own wishes, and then I was praised as the reincarnation of Avarossa. I was born for war, I am of cold blood, and the ideal of creating a war-free Freljord was imposed on me by the people I saved, and I was able to become a war mother and a patriarch only because no one else dared to take on this responsibility. The myth of the Three Sisters has killed our people, and that is a legend about failure. ”

Memories wreaked at his heart with pain, and Ash clenched his longbow hard. In fact, she didn't want anything now, and what she wanted most was to live like she had done in the past, to live in harmony with her mother, her sworn fathers, and Sejuani.

She was never Alvarossa, she was just herself...... She's Ash!

Ash looked up, and she saw Jeno holding his arms and looking at her with understanding but pity in his eyes, as if he had seen through what she was thinking.

But he just watched and kept silent, which made her heart ache.

If only someone could let her share her distress, she wouldn't have to freeze all her grievances in her heart.

She knew that Jeno had something very important to do, and that it had to be done with her help. He didn't say it, was it so that she could continue to be a good mother-in-arms?

Finally, Jeno moved his lips as he watched her, but Ash didn't hear the words she wanted to hear that would break her inner defenses.

"Ash, have you ever wondered why the bow of Avarosa came to you?"