The Sandmin girl sat by the fire with her knees folded, silently watching Katarina pluck the snow goose.

"What's your name?" Katerina asked suddenly.

"Ah my name is... Taliyah... how about you"

"Katerina." Katerina took out a knife, wiped it on Xue Yan's neck, and started bleeding.

"Katalina..." Taliyah chewed on the name and said in Noxian, "Are you a Noxian?"

Katerina raised her head. In order to come here, she has trained Freljor German for a long time, and she should have no accent: "You can hear it"

"No, it's just the feeling." Taliyah's Noxian was obviously much more fluent than Freljord. "You feel like a Noxian."

"How does it feel?"

"I can't tell... Swiftly"

Katarina blinked: "What about you? You're from Shurima, right?"

"Um……"

"Noxian Territory"

"That's right..."

Taliyah didn't want to talk anymore, her memories of Noxus were rather unpleasant.

Katarina didn't talk to her anymore, she cooked the Snow Wild Goose soup in silence.

The two women ate the soup and meat separately, and the hot soup and fresh meat were eaten. The whole body was warmed a lot, and the strength returned slowly.

"There is a village at the foot of the mountain," Taliyah said. "I can drop you there in a while."

"Thank you, but I don't need your protection."

"But your body..."

"I said no, I..." Katarina raised her voice a little, but the second half of the sentence stuck in her throat.

She noticed something.

Taliyah also received a message from the stone that some big guys were approaching them.

"It's a troll!" Katarina said viciously, even from a distance she could smell the stench of the beasts. "Damn it! I thought I got rid of them!"

Taliyah hurriedly put out the fire and motioned for Katarina to keep silent.

"It's useless to hide! Those animals' noses are better than dragon dogs!" Katerina walked directly outside.

"Oh wait!" Taliyah hurriedly packed her luggage and followed Katarina out of the cave.

"Kaho!" The two of them were discovered by a troll not far from the hillside as soon as they exited the cave.

"It's really them!" Katerina counted them roughly, "but not all of them, only four of them came, maybe they could be killed."

"Let's run first!" Taliyah grabbed Katarina's arm.

"It's useless, it's impossible to run over trolls on this terrain." Katarina took out two curved blades from her pockets, her eyes full of anger, "You run, I'm going to kill them."

Taliyah tried to persuade Katarina, but the trolls screamed in excitement.

There were two delicious-looking pieces of fragrant meat ahead, and the trolls thumped their chests happily.

They roared and rushed towards the two women at a terrifyingly fast speed.

"Follow me! I can outrun them!" Taliyah grabbed Katarina who was about to rush towards her.

"Don't be silly! How could you outrun a troll!" Katarina pushed Taliyah away, "Let you run and run!"

The roars of the trolls were getting closer.

Taliyah was stunned.

"Still dumbfounded! Let's go!" Katarina kicked Taliyah.

Taliyah pointed to the heights of the mountain and stammered, "Snow...snow...snow..."

"Snow" Katarina looked up at the top of the mountain, her pupils tightening all of a sudden.

A huge snow curtain was falling down the hillside.

Whether it was the roars of the trolls, or Taliyah changing the terrain of the mountain, or both, the avalanche that had piled up on the mountain collapsed.

The mountains are shaking, and avalanches are coming.

Taliyah suddenly realized something, she turned to look at the bottom of the mountain, the location of the village would definitely be affected by the avalanche.

"Come with me!" Taliyah didn't hesitate for a second, grabbed Katarina's arm.

"what are you doing!"

Katarina was surprised to see a rock emerging from under her and Taliyah's feet.

"Go!" Taliyah lowered her body, "Hold me tight!"

The rock charged down the mountain with the two girls, leaving the angry roars of the trolls behind.

Katerina felt as if the cold wind was about to split her skin, and she hugged Taliyah's waist tightly: "Why didn't you say you were a mage earlier!"

"You didn't even ask!"

"Where are you going? Can you outrun an avalanche?"

"I'm not trying to run past it!" Taliyah looked back at the snow, "I'm trying to stop it!"

"You're crazy!" Katarina yelled.

"That's it!"

Taliyah waved back, her long sleeves danced, and a towering stone wall rose from the mountain.

The avalanche hit the stone wall, and the stone wall was washed away in an instant.

Taliyah did not give up, stone walls rose one after another on the mountain, she gasped for breath, her physical strength was rapidly draining.

Katarina didn't expect this unremarkable sandman girl to be such a strong geotechnical mage.

But even that didn't stop the avalanche.

The four trolls had been devoured by the avalanche miserably, and Taliyah's stone wall failed to dampen the avalanche's surging power.

"You can't stop it!" Katarina shouted. "Let's run!"

Taliyah didn't answer.

She stopped not far in front of the village.

"What are you going to do?" Katarina asked. "You're not trying to save the village, are you?"

Taliyah was unmoved, she took a deep breath: "Master Yasuo, bless your apprentice."

Taliyah danced with her long sleeves, and dozens of high stone walls rose one after another in front of her.

Katarina was dumbfounded. Even the strongest mages in Noxus might not be able to do this kind of battle.

The avalanche was almost touching the first stone wall.

"It's better to block than to sparse."

Taliyah suddenly remembered a sentence her master taught her - to manage the rushing river, sometimes building dams blindly, it is better to try to steer the river in a new direction.

The stone walls began to change, no longer facing the avalanche directly, but sideways.

Katarina saw what Taliyah wanted to do. Instead of trying to prevent the avalanche directly, she wanted to direct the flow of snow elsewhere.

"Smart." Katarina couldn't help but glance at Taliyah.

The avalanche slammed into the stone wall, and the first stone wall was washed away in an instant.

The second is the same.

But the third way, the stone wall lasted a second longer.

"Useful!" Katerina was pleasantly surprised to see that a small part of the snow flow was directed to the other side of the mountain by the stone wall.

The fourth stone wall held up longer.

"Yes! There is hope!"

Katarina looked at Taliyah, but the joy on her face disappeared.

Taliyah was sweating, gasping for breath and blinking, as if she was about to collapse soon.

Even if Taliyah was a powerful mage, she wasn't made of steel, she was just a girl, a tired girl.

"Hold on!" Katerina couldn't do anything at this moment, she could only cheer up Taliyah, "If you fall, we'll all die!"

Taliyah gritted her teeth, and the stone walls were broken one after another, but she had no strength to raise even one more stone wall.

"Come on... Taliyah..." she said to herself, "you have to protect..."

Taliyah couldn't hold it any longer, and she fell.

"Damn it!" Katarina picked up Taliyah and ran towards the village.

The last stone wall was broken.

The snow was guided away a lot by the stone wall, but the weakened avalanche was still an avalanche, no man could stop it, and no one could run over it.

Katerina clearly felt that the cold death had grabbed the back of her neck and was about to pull her into death.

"Am I going to die? To die in this kind of place" Katarina was very unwilling, "That's not right! I should die under the mouth of the wolf spirit!"

Her ears could no longer hear anything, and the huge rumbling sound was close to her, and was about to devour her.

"Damn..." Katerina closed her eyes, and the image of a boy appeared in his mind, "If it was him... it should be able to save me..."

Everything is over.

"Hey!" A loud voice cut through the rumbling of the avalanche, and Katarina felt a gust of wind blowing by her side.

She opened her eyes, looked behind her, and saw a powerful back.

He held up an absurdly large shield, and ice crystals appeared on the shield, blocking the snow flow that was about to swallow Katarina.

"It's alright!" The back shouted the Freljordian, full of savage aura, "Stand behind Braum!"

Katarina hasn't figured out who this person is yet, and the sound of beast roars and trampling on the ground can be heard in the distance.

It was an army of barbarians, some on Ernyuk, some on Warg, each holding a shield, and they stood in a row, forming a wall of people.

"For Avarosa!" The loud battle cry sounded, and the army was fighting with high spirits. They used their bodies to resist the rushing snow flow.

Katarina also saw shamans, who unleashed all kinds of magic, making ice, breathing fire, blowing wind, and doing their best to weaken the power of the avalanche.

Katarina was in a trance. She saw what she thought she could only see on the Noxian army—

The discipline of unity.

Avalanche was blocked.

A loud eagle sounded in the sky, announcing the victory of the people.

They cheered, shouting praises to the gods, the tribe, and the war mother.

Katarina was holding the unconscious Taliyah, not knowing what to do.

"Can you stand up?" The strong man who protected them crouched down, stretched out his hand to Katarina, and showed a smile that would make even the sun feel ashamed, "Bron will protect you!"

"Bron..." Katarina knew the name, the protagonist of a very famous folklore in the Freljord.

She took Bron's hand and was pulled up by him.

"It seems that you and your friends need a rest." Bron said kindly, "Don't worry, Avarosa will give you a warm stove and hot goat milk!"

"Avarosa..." Katarina was taken aback, isn't this tribe her target?

"Oh! The War Mother is here!" Braum suddenly said, "Don't worry, she is a very gentle War Mother."

Katarina looked at where Braum was pointing.

A girl approached her, surrounded by troops, surrounded by shamans, scouts, and warriors, obviously revered.

Her long hair fluttered in the wind, the color of the purest snow.

Her eyes are purer than the sky and the sea, and there is a firmness and depth in her eyes that does not belong to her age.

She held a longbow that looked like it was made of pure ice, and Katarina had never seen a weapon so breathtakingly beautiful.