After returning the bowl to Marukoro, Ashe turned around and returned to his mother's tent.

The pine torch coated with whale oil was burning. Grena was under the torch at this time, carefully looking through an ancient map.

Ashe had seen that map, and it is said that the map described the legendary "Third of Avarosa". It was the appearance of this map that made Glena finally choose to lead the entire tribe south.

"You're here." Hearing the footsteps, Glena turned her head and stretched out her hand to stroke her long white hair. "Have you just gone to see Heerno?"

"yes."

"What did she say to you again?" Glena's lips curled up slightly, as if she was mocking, "I'll advise me not to continue to do whatever she wants?"

"No, no." Ashe shook his head when he heard this, "Auntie said that the failure of the battle means that the order is established..."

"It seems that my sister has finally put her position right." Glenna seemed to be in a much better mood when she heard this, "This is really good news."

Ashe blinked, and while hesitating whether to talk about the Frost Priest, Glena suddenly stood up and waved to her.

"Come here, Ashe." Glena pointed to the weapon placed on the table, "Come here and try it."

Following Glenna's finger, Ashe looked at the three weapons that were still deep and deep under the light of fire - tomahawk, short spear and dagger, and three ice-cut weapons.

Taking a step forward, Ashe reached out and grabbed the battle axe.

Her fingertips just touched the handle of the battle axe, and an indescribable cold spread. Even though Ashe quickly grabbed her left hand with her right hand, her body still instinctively stiffened.

The ancient frost cold spread like this. Within a few breaths, Ashe lost consciousness of his right hand. With a clang, the sharp axe fell to the ground. Ashe seemed to have all the heat removed, and he was completely relieved.

Seeing this, Grena took her daughter forward. She hugged Ashe in her arms, then stroked the bright blonde hair on Ashe's head with her thick hands, her tone was filled with comfort.

"Very good, dear." Glenna's wide body made Ashe feel an indescribable safety, "You've done a good job."

Very good...?

Maybe.

Ashe knew very well that on this ice field, few people could directly contact Zhenbing when they were less than 20 years old - most soldiers could only familiarize themselves with this deep cold through weapons equipped with wooden handles.

However, Asi also heard Marukoro say that in the Claw of Winter not far away, her former friend and playmate Sejuani can now hold the Ice weapon.

Although Glena seems to be very satisfied with her performance, in Ashe's opinion, she is still far from it.

Moreover, Glena seems to be consciously strengthening her adaptation to Zhenbing recently. Is there any other reason?

The messy thoughts filled Ashe's head, making her somewhat confused.

Fortunately, Glenna's warm arms slowly relaxed her stiff body. After a long time, she finally recovered completely. Then she stood up embarrassedly and quickly left her mother's tent. When she went out, she also met her oath father Iru. The narrow smile on the other party's face made Ash subconsciously speed up his pace.

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The night is dark.

The Avarosa people who had been busy all day slowly fell asleep, but Ashe tossed and turned and couldn't sleep. Finally, she stood up quickly, put on her clothes, and left the tent alone.

He skillfully climbed up a huge rock, and Ashe was silently looking at the dark sky - in the wind and snow, the moon was just hazy.

"You really can't sleep." Just as Ashe was slowly emptiing her body, a creaking sound of snow suddenly came from behind her, "Are you still worried about Zhan Mu and Heerno?"

It is Marukoro - this Frost Priest who was born in the same year as Ash and named in the same year.

Although Heerno did not trust him very much, in Ash's heart, Marukolo was one of the most trustworthy people. His magic brought a lot of help to the tribe and relieved the pain of many people.

Although in Glena's mouth, these are "actions of hiding behind the warriors", Asi knew very well that Marucoro made an indelible contribution to Avarosa's ability to reach this day.

"It's not because of this." Ashe shook his head, "both mother and aunt knew very well what the duel meant, and in a sense, it's good to have a fight."

"Then why do you look like this?" Marukoro sat silently beside Ash with a stick. "The Ashe I know is not a little girl who will be secretly depressed in the middle of the night."

"Mother hopes that I can master Zhenbing as soon as possible." Ashe lowered her head and hugged her knees and said softly, "She has never been so anxious before. I think this may... something is wrong."

After hearing Ashe said this, Marukolo was also stunned. After hesitating for a while, he could only dare to express himself hard, "Maybe it's because she hopes to see your growth."

"Don't comfort me." Ashe calmed down a lot in Marukolo's Ai's period. "I know what this means. Although I often say that Heerno's daughter is also qualified to be a war mother, in fact... this is my responsibility after all."

“…”

Marukoro didn't say anything, but just looked at Ash quietly, and after a long time, he finally gritted his teeth.

"Do we still keep going south?"

"No doubt." Ashe nodded, wondering why Marukolo asked, "Since Aunt Heerno lost, no one can change his mother's mind - you should know this too."

"But... the furnaces are almost unable to hold on." Marukoro's tone was full of helplessness, "Even if I try my best to make the north wind not so cold, most furnaces are still unable to keep up with the team."

"...It will get better." Ashe was also very helpless, "Mother said that as long as we climbed this mountain, there was a plain in front of us. Then we could replenish supplies on site, and the journey would be much smoother-"

"But the physical strength of the Luhu has reached its limit!" Marukoro rarely interrupted Ash's words on his own initiative, "If this continues, no child in the tribe can survive the naming day. More than one-third of the people will be frozen to death in the wind and snow due to exhaustion of physical strength!"

Ashe was silent. In fact, she knew very well that what Marukolo said was true - the Luhu is not the Wargiver, and this kind of trek through mountains and rivers could be fatal to them!

"And to the east is the territory of the lost." Marukoro speeded up his speech, "The rolling thunder is so close, and no one knows whether the loser in winter will leave the territory crazy!"

"What do you want to say?"
Chapter completed!