Above the mage!

Chapter 437 Sheep Family

The strong wind from the north howled through the blizzard, but it stopped and weakened in front of a stretch of undulating glaciers.

The glacier is shaped like a giant wolf crawling, with sharp ice edges like erect mane and dark blue ice cracks like slightly closed eyes.

In the natural canyon at the foot of the glacier, tents built with animal bones and skins are arranged in an orderly manner.

Outside each tent, there are one or more snow wolves as big as war horses.

The snow wolf, one of the most ferocious creatures in the North, is a source of fear or headache for countless Iceborn tribes. But here, it has changed its ferocious appearance and is rubbing its nose affectionately against the palm of its owner's hand.

This is the base of the Frostwolf Clan, one of the three major Iceborn tribes in the North.

The current War Mother of the Frostwolf Clan, Helica, finally met the person she had expected after waiting for a week.

The tent door curtain was opened, and the biting wind and snow blew a few snowflakes into the tent.

The chief elder of the tribe lifted the door curtain with one hand, and the wolf tooth necklace hanging on his chest jingled. Half a step behind him was a woman in a white animal skin cloak.

Her face was angular, with a hideous burn mark at the corner of her left eye, and a huge war hammer slung across her waist.

It is the contemporary War Mother of Winter's Hammer, Yarna.

She strode into the tent, glanced at the horseradish water boiling on the stove, and the wolf cub in Helika's arms whose eyes could not yet fully open, and snorted.

"Helica, you are really patient. Even at this time, you still care about raising your wolf cub."

"What time is it now?" Helika remained expressionless. She took the clay pot off the stove, poured it into a cup, and handed it to Yarna who was sitting cross-legged.

Yarna was not polite either. She took the cup of horseradish water and then picked up the wolf's milk beside her and poured it into the cup.

Give the glass a little shake to mix the two, then drink it all.

"It's impossible that you haven't received the news released by Phoenix yet?"

"Are you referring to the new king of the Zhenbing tribe who awakened his Zhenbing bloodline?" Helika remained calm and took a sip of the spicy horseradish water without adding the wolf milk.

"There's no need for us to be so pretentious, right? We all experienced the strange phenomenon seven days ago. The tribesmen already had different thoughts about it. Once the Zhenbing tribe released this news, the situation became even worse."

"It's impossible that your Frostwolf Clan has no influence at all." Yarna frowned and spoke in a loud voice.

"Yes, how can there be no impact? But what can I do? It is impossible for me to surrender to the Zhenbing tribe, and I can't defeat them either. Can I just pretend that nothing happened?" Helika spread her hands.

Her words left Yarna speechless.

There was silence in the tent for a moment.

Yaerna glanced at Helika, then at the Great Elder of the Frostwolf Clan who was also sitting cross-legged. After thinking for a while, she spoke again: "The problem is, we can pretend that nothing happened, but what about the Zhenbing Tribe? Will they do nothing?"

"Zhen Bing intentionally released the news that the new king has awakened the Zhen Bing bloodline, which is a precursor to action. There will definitely be other actions in the future."

"In the past six months, the Zhenbing tribe has been constantly absorbing and annexing those small tribes, and even sent people to bring small tribes that are far away to Phoenix."

"Sunaifa's intention to unify the North has become very clear."

"As two tribes as famous as Zhenbing, we will definitely be regarded as a thorn in the side of the unification process by Sunaifa, and they will be eyeing us covetously."

"Zhen Bing has both the ideas and the strength. Are you really going to do nothing? Are you just waiting here to be swallowed up?" Yarna stared at Helika.

"Then what do you think I should do? What can I do?" Helika asked back, while picking up the wolf milk, pouring it into a bowl, and handing it to the mouth of the wolf cub in her arms.

The little wolf cub didn't even open his eyes, but his nose smelled the fragrance of milk. He instinctively stuck out his tongue and slowly licked the milk in the bowl.

Yaerna narrowed her eyes slightly, looked at the little wolf cub, and said word by word: "We really can't do anything to Sunaifah. Her bloodline is pure, and coupled with [Blizzard], she is too powerful."

"One Sunaifa has already put us under so much pressure, and now there is a new king who has also awakened the True Ice Bloodline. After two or three years, when he grows up, he may become another Sunaifa. How can our two tribes protect themselves by then?"

"Sunaifa has fully grown up, but the new king will still need a few more years."

"Zhen Bing wants to command us in the name of the new king. Why don't we just do the opposite and use the new king to counter the Zhen Bing tribe?"

As she spoke, a hint of ferocity flashed in Yarna's eyes, causing the wolf cub who was drinking milk to unconsciously hum uncomfortably.

"Are you going to attack the new king?" Helika's expression changed slightly, surprised at Yarna's boldness. "The new king has been in Phoenix all the time. How can you attack him under Sunaifah's nose?"

"That's not true," Yarna shook her head and said, "The new king doesn't stay in Phoenix all the time. He goes to the nearby Valar Bay every now and then, and most of the time he doesn't have anyone to escort him."

"This is our opportunity."

"What do you want me to do?" Helika seemed to be moved. She put down the wolf cub and looked at Yarna.

"The people we planted in Phoenix were basically cleared out by Zhenbing last year, and we spent a lot of resources to redeem them back to the tribe.

But to tell you the truth, there are still two or three fish that slipped through the net and escaped their investigation by chance, and are still lurking in Phoenix."

"I didn't dare to contact them this past year, for fear of exposing them as well."

"I assume the same is true of your Frostwolves."

Hearing this, Helica was silent for a moment, then slowly nodded, "I also have three people in Phoenix, all of them are elderly."

"How strong are they? There are three of us on my side, two second-ring Ice Mage and one third-ring Ice Mage." Yarna asked.

"Then you are not as good as me. The remaining three people on my side are all second rings."

"That's fine, it's better to have it than nothing."

Yaerna nodded slightly and continued, "If our two tribes join forces, we can gather five second-ring Iceborn mages and one third-ring Iceborn mage. We just need to wait for the new king to leave Phoenix and head for Valar Bay, and then we can attack together and capture the new king on the way."

"how?"

“It’s too dangerous. If Sunaifa is really controlled by us because of the new king, then everyone will be happy.

But what if Sunaifa doesn't care about the new king? How can you and I withstand Sunaifa's wrath?"

After thinking for a long time, Helika chose to shake her head. "Facing Zhenbing, who has two pure-blooded Iceborn, I should think about how to protect myself instead of gambling my life with you."

"No, I have a backup plan."

After Helika finished speaking, Yaerna realized that it would be impossible to convince Helika to take action without showing her something real. She gritted her teeth and decided to reveal some of the clan's secrets.

Yarna knocked on the huge war hammer hanging at her waist, and her knuckles collided with the steel, making a clear sound like metal hitting stone.

This hammer, which became the symbol of the Winter's Hammer tribe, is actually called "Ice Breaker".

The hammer head of the Ice Crusher is an irregular polyhedron, cast from three pieces of molten meteorite. The surface is full of grooves. A closer look reveals that the grooves are inlaid with red crystals, like magma flowing in the metal.

The handle of the war hammer is three feet long, and a fiery red gem in the shape of a dragon head is inlaid at the end of the handle.

This is a powerful hammer that allows the Iceborn mage to master the power of fire.

"You should know that the Ice Breaker's origin is not simple, right?" Yarna asked.

Helica's eyes moved, sweeping across the huge warhammer, hiding the greed in her eyes well, "Of course, everyone knows that without this Ice Breaker, your Winter Hammer clan would have been wiped out long ago."

"Back when we were the Winter Claw tribe, our tribe declined and was on the verge of extinction. At that time, War Mother Valathea chose to leave the tribe and head east alone at this critical moment."

"Her original intention was to seek refuge with the Frostguard tribe that had fled to the eastern region."

"But in fact, Warmother Valathea did not find the Frostguard tribe, and could not even enter the eastern restricted area of ​​the North."

"When she entered the central area of ​​the North, she encountered a terrible thunderstorm. In order to avoid the thunderstorm, Warmother Valathea lost her way and accidentally came to a place called Molten Plain."

"On the Molten Plain, there are thousands of furnaces, eighteen peaks of the Sky Forge, and nearly a hundred volcanoes."

"At the foot of these volcanoes, there lived a group of remnants who called themselves the Sheep Family."

"They are very powerful, mastering the power of fire, and are highly skilled in crafting various sophisticated weapons and tools, using volcanoes as furnaces."

"Moreover, the Yang family all believe in a master craftsman who has lived for an unknown period of time and was born in a volcano."

"War Mother Valathea got to know the Sheep Family because of this thunderstorm and told them her identity and origin. After learning about it, the kind-hearted Sheep Family made an Ice Crusher for War Mother Valathea."

"I don't need to say much about what happened next," said Yarna.

The surprise in Helika's eyes could no longer be concealed.

Rongyuan, the Sheep Family
She never imagined that such a powerful tribe existed in the uninhabited central area of ​​the northern border.

And they only spent a little time to make a hammer that could bring the Winter Claw back to life.

"But," after being shocked, Helica frowned and asked, "What does this have to do with the plan you mentioned earlier to attack the new king?"

"Of course it matters," Yaerna smiled mysteriously, and then said, "Don't worry."

"The Sheep Family is a reclusive family. When War Mother Valathea left Molten Plain, it was the Sheep Family who sent her out."

"After returning to the tribe, War Mother Valathea told the tribe members about this experience. Many years later, many tribe members tried to go east to find Rongyuan and the Yang family, but they all returned empty-handed. Many people even never came back."

"We gradually realized that the Sheep Family didn't want outsiders to know about themselves. War Mother Valathea accidentally entered the Molten Plain because of the thunderstorm, so we gave up the idea of ​​looking for the Sheep Family."

"But just a week ago, our Winter Hammer tribe welcomed a special guest."

"You mean," Helika, as the war mother of the tribe, naturally reacted very quickly, "the Sheep Family?!"

"correct."

"How could that be? Didn't you say they were hiding from the world?" Helika was puzzled.

"It was the master craftsman they believed in who felt that something extraordinary was born in the western part of our northern border last year."

"This thing has a powerful force that can change the North."

"This power makes the master craftsman uneasy. He wants to find out the source of this power to ensure that it will not bring disaster to the North."

"So, he wanted the Yang family to send someone to come to our western region to investigate."

"The North is so vast that we can't even find a large molten plain, let alone they are only looking for one thing. They must seek help from the locals, that is, us."

"The Yang family has been isolated from the outside world for a long time, and they only had some contact with us, the Hammer of Winter."

"This Sheep Family member found our Hammer of Winter through the mark left on the Ice Crusher and told us his purpose, hoping that we could help him find the thing that caused the Master Craftsman to be uneasy."

"Not to mention that the Yang family has done us a great favor in the Hammer of Winter, we cannot refuse his request just based on his strength."

"His strength?" Helika caught the point.

"At least the fifth ring, and even higher than the fifth ring is possible."

"And unlike Ryan, the Yang family is good at making weapons. They are well-equipped and have a strong grasp of the power of fire. Even if they are only five-ringed, it is impossible for Sunaifa to cross levels and defeat them."

"We are helping him find what he is looking for, while he is temporarily staying as a guest in our tribe, waiting for our news."

“This is the best time.”

“Capture the new king and escort him to our Hammer of Winter.

If Sunaifa could be lured to come and attack, how could this member of the Yang family just sit there and do nothing?
I will find a way to use him to capture Sunaifa, so that we can achieve our goal in one fell swoop, and we will no longer have to worry about being annexed. Then I will use the new king to force the Zhenbing tribe to hand over the Northwest Barley No. 1 seed."

"Opportunities are rare and will never come back. There is only one chance like this." Yarna's voice became a little higher.

"But," Helica frowned slightly, realizing something was wrong, "From what you said, it seems that it doesn't matter whether our Frostwolf clan joins or not. Why do you have to come and persuade me to join your plan?"

"Because I am worried that my people cannot capture the new king with certainty, and after capturing the new king, I will need your cooperation and help me escort him to the tribe.

Besides, for such a big event, I need someone to share the pressure with me." Yaerna said frankly.

"Yarna, what do you think of my wolf cub?" Helika suddenly changed the subject at this time.

Yaerna didn't know what Helika meant by this. She glanced at the wolf cub and answered subconsciously: "It has a broad head, thick neck, strong bones, bright fur, dense patterns and no other colors. It's a good breed."

"Indeed, it is a rare good breed. Mother Yarna, please come back in half a year. By then it will be weaned. I will give this wolf cub to you then. I wish you success." Helika said with a smile.

(End of this chapter)