He Comes From the Void

After listening to Kahn's words, Kaisha glanced at Annie who was sleeping soundly with the teddy bear in her arms.

"Let's wait until she wakes up to ask."

The tavern was extremely quiet tonight, the rain outside had stopped at some point, and when Kaisha woke up, the large wine glass in front of Kahn was already empty. He was afraid of waking her up, so he didn't refill his glass, and sat on the chair for her all night.

A sense of warmth surged from the bottom of her heart, and Kaisha, who was in a good mood, got up and moved her slightly numb limbs, and helped Kahn press the shoulder that had been pillowed by her all night.

Then she looked at the unfinished milk in Annie's jug, and went to the tavern owner to heat it up. When the milk was heated up, Annie just woke up.

Annie, who had just woken up, was still in a daze. When she saw the ready-made hot milk in front of her, she picked it up and drank it without saying thank you. She drank it in sips.

"Annie, a new day has arrived. Do you have any plans for yourself? Is there any place you want to go?"

Kai'Sa didn't get straight to the point, but made a side note first. If Annie has a place to go, then forget about it.

Annie shook her head: "Tibbers and I have been wandering in the forest, and sometimes we meet kind-hearted uncles and aunts to take us in, but we will soon leave or be driven away for various reasons."

After she finished speaking, she continued to drink milk without paying attention to it at all.

"For various reasons, tsk tsk..." Kahn smacked his tongue meaningfully, which shows that Anne is a troublesome person, and those colonists who came to the border from the imperial capital are afraid to avoid it.

"Then we're going to the Freljord, do you want to follow?" Kai'Sa asked again.

"Okay." Annie thought for a while, and then answered very simply.

"Do you really understand what we're talking about?" Kahn asked. Can a ten-year-old really understand the choices he makes?

Annie looked at him suspiciously, not knowing what he was emphasizing: "If you encounter those savages, I will ask Tibbers to help you beat them away!"

Kahn didn't have anything to say here, and reminded Kaisha: "Go back to Fort Drever and buy some clothes for Annie."

Leaving the tavern, Annie followed the two into the city. She happily chose a blue and white padded jacket, changed into a thin skirt, and hid her ears in the fur balls of her felt hat. She put on fingerless gloves, and replaced the small round-toed leather shoes with thick snow boots, making her more cute than less cute. Just to keep concealment in the snow, the winter clothes don't have her favorite red, otherwise she would definitely choose a red suit.

All of these were bought by Annie with her own money. At a young age, she had already achieved "financial independence". On this issue, she insisted on not accepting favors from others, and even wanted to give Kahn travel expenses.

Leaving Drever Castle again, the three of them descended along the northern slope of the Ironthorn Mountains, leaving the border of Noxus and entering the border of the Freljord.

From the beginning of the descent, the snow on the ground began to increase. By the time they came to this mountain road, the snow was already waist deep.

This fifteen-mile-long downhill road was built by the imperial general Darius during Darkwill's time. Now Darius has been invited to join the Trifari Council of Three, promoted to Hand of Noxus, the embodiment of the might of the Empire.

There are steep cliffs on both sides of the mountain road, which is a terrain that is easy to be ambushed. Kahn's eyes are fixed on the sky, alert to suspicious figures that may appear on the cliff at any time.

"It's not like someone is ambushing us right now. We're just traveling with three people, and it's not a planned large-scale march. How could it be such a coincidence." Seeing that Kahn's attention has not been on her, Kaisha couldn't help saying For a moment, let him not think too much.

Worrying about this and that every day, aren't you tired? With their ability, even if a whole army comes, they are not afraid, why are they so cautious.

"I'm not sure, what if I'm unlucky." The extremely cold weather made Kahn wear a scarf and cover his mouth deliberately, so his voice was muffled.

The Freljord is not a nation, and tribes struggle to survive in this harsh, unforgiving land. Because of the scarcity of local resources and the solidification of ideology, some of these tribes will unscrupulously plunder the neighboring countries, thinking that only the strong deserve to enjoy everything.

Therefore, in the border area, it is easy to run into these barbaric marauders. Back then, Darius built this mountain road to defend against these invading barbarians.

"Better than this, you might as well care about our mounts. They are shaking, don't you feel it?"

As Kai'Sa said, the horses under them were not the tall horse breeds native to the north, and they did not adapt to this environment after they brought the Freljord. They can't wear thick clothes like humans. They shiver in the cold climate, breathe heavily, and their manes shake like a sieve.

"Their legs are almost broken from the cold." Annie said with a smile. "If they don't have feet, no one can force them to walk."

"You can't walk on the ground, the height of the snow can bury you, unless you want to swim in the snow." Annie's laugh made the atmosphere suddenly a little weird, and Kahn had to joke with Annie.

"I can't swim." Annie answered seriously.

"Then wait until we find a new means of transportation, and then I'll let the horse go."

As soon as the words fell, there was a booming sound from above. Because he was distracted by Kai'Sa, Kahn failed to notice the abnormalities around him in the first place.

Two giant white blankets shook off the cliffs on both sides above their heads, filling the mountain path almost instantly.

Groups of huge and solid snow blocks poured down, smashed in the middle of the two horses, surrounded them, and swallowed them in one bite.

Kahn originally thought that the greatest threat would be the barbarians from the Freljord, but unexpectedly, the environment here is also extremely dangerous for outsiders who are not familiar with the situation. He shrank back, but it still felt like he was directly knocked over by the charging dragon lizard. First came the roaring horror, the terrible weightlessness, and then the darkness, pressing down with Winter.

Annie's presence made Kahn hesitate, and he didn't have time to cover the skin armor, but the avalanche didn't overwhelm Kahn. He crawled out of the snow, shook off the snow on his body, and then looked around blankly.

Kai'Sa was nowhere to be seen, and she must have been buried in the snow as well. Kahn's heart trembled, and he began to dig people in the surrounding snow.

Relying on the induction between the void skin armors, Kahn dug out Kai'Sa in the snow. When he found her, she was holding Anne tightly, and she was not hurt at all. But the two horses they were riding had already frozen into lumps of ice.

"The first lesson Ice Field taught us is never to put yourself under the threat of an avalanche." Looking at the frozen corpse of the horse, Kahn couldn't help sighing, but he didn't know who he was speaking to.