Chapter 850 [0837] Ashe's Concerns

Although there was some misunderstanding when they met, Nunu's appearance did bring very important news to Lux and Kalya.

At least they can confirm that Ashe should not yet stand with Lissandra. Although there are Frostguard priests participating in the alliance, this should not be a precursor to the easing of relations between the Avarosa tribe and the Frostguard tribe - Ai Xi Nevia thought that Ashe was not part of Lissandra's group, so it was absolutely impossible for her to be.

As for Nunu's request to meet Ashe through the Demacia Mission, Lux naturally would not refuse. She simply invited Nunu and Willump to rest in the courtyard of the Demacia Mission, and they would have the opportunity to meet directly tomorrow. Go see Ash.

Nunu naturally accepted this happily, and jumped up and took Willump away to rest.

But Nunu can go to rest, but Lux and Kalya can't.

The mages of the intelligence team were awakened from their dreams. After a high-quality sleep, it was now their overtime time. Before taking Nunu to see Ashe tomorrow, Lux must come up with a plan. A valid charter will do.

Originally this was a task that would take at least three days to complete, but as Nunu brought critical news, part of the information about the possibility of Ashe falling to Lissandra no longer required special verification. Just bite the bullet and today I should be able to talk through the negotiation charter tonight.

To be honest, the intelligence team stationed in Rakstadt had not been working with such intensity for a long time.

As the largest "foreign consul" in Demacia, the intelligence team actually does not have much daily work. In addition to collecting, sorting and transmitting intelligence, they are only busy when the Northern Trade Amendment is re-signed every year.

Now with the arrival of Lux, these magicians suddenly increased their intensity, and they were a little dizzy for a while.

It can only be said that thanks to Nunu's song, if it weren't for that period of high-quality sleep, I'm afraid the intelligence team would be unable to hold on any longer.

Of course, not only the members of the intelligence team participated in this verification and decision-making, but also the accompanying civilian clerks who came to Lakstak with Lux. However, they did not completely belong to the intelligence team, and not everyone could participate. in this job.

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I have to say that Lux's luck is quite good.

Because Ai Xi has always had strong opinions on the Frost Guard tribe in the past, "Frost Guard Priest" is also a keyword that can be searched in the original records of the intelligence team.

After all the information about the Frostguard priests was found, cross-verified, and summarized, the Avarosa tribe's overall attitude towards the Frostguard tribe finally came to a more credible conclusion:

The relationship between the two parties is not hostile. They have been avoiding contact before and have eased slightly.

This is quite interesting information.

Because in addition to this piece of information, Ashe also had another piece of information that even the intelligence team didn't know about: Ashe had most likely participated in the battle against the void under the Howling Abyss, and had experience fighting side by side with the Frostguard tribe.

This piece of information can be used as a supplement to the previous information. Because there is a causal relationship, if the two are combined, the overall credibility will be improved, and it can basically be used as reliable information.

In this way, it is not difficult to explain the reason why the Frostguard Priest appeared in the alliance. Ashe's attitude towards this should be roughly within the neutral range. In the subsequent negotiation process, Lux can ignore the other party. Relationship with the Frostguard tribe.

With this conclusion, both Lux and Kalya breathed a sigh of relief.

Subsequently, the intelligence team conducted another large-scale search verification on the keyword "diplomatic attitude".

Judging from the intelligence collected by the intelligence team in the past, Ashe and the Avarosa tribe have always attached great importance to diplomatic relations and attitudes with Demacia, and have been very active in communication - although the frequency of Ashe's personal participation in communication has been decreasing. , but considering the expansion of Avarosa's influence and the intensification of Ashe's work tasks, this gradually decreasing frequency is a very normal phenomenon.

What's interesting is that more than three months before Lux was assassinated, Ashe had a very abnormal time.

I don’t know what Ai Xi has been busy with during this period. There have been some changes in the itinerary that the intelligence team is not aware of. This part of the content is marked "changes in attitudes" and "unknown risks", but if compared with the timeline, this " "Ashe doesn't know what to do," the time coincides with the results of the assassin's interrogation.

That is to say, Ashe did provide some support to some assassins on their way to Demacia.

The intelligence team was unable to find out reliable information about why she would provide such support, but thanks to the Frost Guard Priests, among the relevant information, the most important one was "Frost Guard Priests' visit."

Combining the above information, it is not difficult to find that Ashe's provision of material support for the assassins is closely related to the visit of the Frostguard Priest.

Coupled with what Lux and Kalya knew, Ashe had most likely fought side by side with the Frostguard tribe, and a clear clue was gradually clarified.

Everything starts with that strange movement in the void - at that time, whether it was Icathia, the Freljord, or even the Sea of ​​Mermaids, the void was unusually active.

As the talker of Rakstark, Ashe naturally participated in a battle against the void as the leader of the alliance, and remained silent after the war, sealing off the news very tightly. Only a few crazy warriors were exposed in their gibbering. information.

If Kalja had not participated in the Battle of Icathia and had some guesses about the situation in Freljord, I am afraid no one would know the threat under the Howling Abyss.

Perhaps because Ashe saw the important role played by the Frostguard in fighting the Void, perhaps because Ashe witnessed some of the sacrifices of the Frostguard, or perhaps because of the friendship of fighting side by side, the cold relationship between the Avarosa and Frostguard tribes began to ease, and Frostguard priests entered Rakstak.

It is unknown how these Frostguard priests persuaded Lux ​​to provide supplies for the assassins - and from the results of Nocturne's interrogation, there were many tribes providing supplies, and the assassins did not know what orders the Frostguard tribe relied on or persuaded the tribes along the way to provide supplies and assistance.

But if we combine Ashe's experience, perhaps Lissandra chose to pull the tiger skin and pull the flag, linking this matter with the void, otherwise it is hard to explain why Ashe would provide excellent weapons, supplies and mounts to the assassins passing by when the relationship between the two sides was only eased but not normalized.

When this clue was fully presented to Lux and Kalya, the master and apprentice smiled at each other.

They didn't say anything, but they didn't need to say anything.

Now they have found a very obvious breakthrough!

"Retrieve the tax statistics for trade in the North." Without Karya speaking, Lux had already found the key data, "For the long-distance trade, the tax records of caravans that crossed the Neuskala Pass."

"The intelligence team compared the number of caravans that visited Lakstak and the number of registered people in the past three months - no, half a year." Karya added, "If you want the original records, the intelligence team should have them, right?"

"In theory, caravans that come to Lakstak will register here." The leader of the intelligence team nodded, "But it's just a simple registration... not very detailed."

"It doesn't need to be too detailed." Karya narrowed his eyes, "Compare the two sides, and there should be a conclusion!"

Soon, the relevant information was found and placed on the table in front of them.

The tax records are very complicated, but because there is an additional tax refund for direct trade with the Avarosa tribe in the North, this part of the share is compared with the size of the caravans that arrived at Lakstak. If you are determined to investigate, many things cannot be concealed.

"It's really interesting." Karya, who was almost multitasking, flipped through two original records at the same time and soon smiled. "In the past three months, the trade share of the Avarosa tribe has increased significantly. Although the increase in trade volume is highly consistent with the preparation for the alliance, this growth share is really a bit exaggerated, right?"

"You mean, Ashe is hoarding supplies?"

"And it's a large-scale hoarding, because the trade volume of tea and tobacco is even decreasing!" Karya pointed to the tax refund record, "But many other commodities, such as special metal products, herbs and sugars, have seen a rapid increase in trade volume. These things will not be used in the alliance!"

Special metal products, herbs and sugars, Lux can understand their properties without Karya's explanation - there is no doubt that these things are military supplies!

Ordinary steel will break under the erosion of Anivia's breath. With the development of trade in the North, in order to pursue higher profits, the Forsbyro Ironworks has developed special metals that can cope with the long-term erosion of Anivia's breath. As the Avarosa tribe moved to the Raxtak Plain and the scale of oat trade between the two sides decreased, this part of the trade soon became a very important export commodity in the North.

Metal products that can be used for a long time are very important to the Avarosa tribe. In the past, only a few fine products in Freljord that were finely forged and produced in extremely limited quantities could withstand the erosion of Anivia's breath. Due to the scarcity of materials and difficult processes, these fine products were often used as weapons.

And with Forsbyro's special corrosion-resistant metal, the Avarosa tribe has been steadily importing metal tools, a small part of which are weapons, and most of which are various tools.

But in the past three months, the import volume of special corrosion-resistant metal products has increased significantly, almost showing a posture of "I want what you sell".

Moreover, the proportion of corrosion-resistant metal ingots in the import share has also increased significantly. Combining this with the intelligence team's "I heard that a coal mine was discovered in the Ice Claw Mountains in the north and a new city is going to be built", I am afraid that behind the large-scale import of special corrosion-resistant metals, the Avarosans are trying to manufacture weapons on a large scale!

From the import of metal ingots instead of weapons, it can be seen that the Avarosan tribe is consciously keeping secrets, but the means of keeping secrets are a bit rough.

Similarly, the large-scale import of herbs and various sugars are undoubtedly signals of preparation for war. Due to the huge scale of northern trade, and the fact that the Avarosan tribe is no longer the only northern trading partner of Demacia, in addition to some franchise projects, Demacia and other tribes are also conducting large-scale transactions, so this part of the information did not attract attention at the first time.

But when they were specially picked out and put on the desk for multiple comparisons, the meaning could no longer be concealed.

The Avarosan tribe is trying to prepare for war!

So, the question is, what is the goal of Avarosan's preparation for war?

When the intelligence analysis reaches this step, the final conclusion is about to come out.

Howling Abyss.

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Karlya and Lux’s judgment was generally correct.

On the surface, Ashe was indeed busy with the alliance.

But in addition to the alliance, the Avarosa tribe, which has always advocated peace, is indeed preparing for war as Karlya and Lux ​​judged.

The only difference from the judgment is that it was not that Ashe discovered the threat of the Howling Abyss, but that the preparation for war was actually a cooperation between the Avarosa tribe and the Frostguard tribe.

Lux and Karlya believed that the relationship between the Avarosa tribe and the Frostguard tribe had eased.

But in fact, this judgment was a little conservative. The actual situation was that, perhaps because she had personally seen the surging swarm of insects, Ashe attached more importance to the threat under the Howling Abyss than they thought. When the Frostguard priest expressed the hope to reach a cooperation and completely solve the problem, Ashe agreed without any hesitation.

Therefore, the reason why Ashe didn't seem to care much about Demacia's expansion of its sphere of influence to the north, and even had some tolerance in her attitude, was because she wanted to focus her main energy on the subsequent problems in the west.

Even this alliance itself was part of her cooperation with Lissandra, and it was a mutual test between the two sides.

However, although Ashe didn't know that Lissandra arranged assassins to assassinate Lux and provoke the relationship between Avarosa and Demacia, and the intelligence network of the Avarosa tribe was not enough for her to know about an assassination far away in Xiongdu, she was always wary of Lissandra and the Frostguard tribe.

In a sense, Ashe was also dancing on three eggs.

She wanted to cooperate with Lissandra to fight against the Zerg under the abyss, but she also had to prevent the Frostguard tribe from infiltrating and taking advantage of the issue at all levels.

She wanted to carry out arms through Demacia trade, but she also had to learn to absorb some technology and put some processing links in her own hands.

She wanted to be an innovator of the Rakstak order, but she also had to guide the tribes to follow the will of the three sisters and fight for the Freljord.

It was midnight again, awkward.