In the alliance, the more they attack me, the stronger I become!

"Those monsters will savor your dreams, and that's enough to keep them asleep for a while..."

The voice was getting farther and farther away, but Cheng Xiao's consciousness was becoming clearer and clearer.

He realized with a start that everything he saw was just a dream—a nightmare from the depths of his memory. He didn't want to talk about it, but the other party helped him recall it.

That woman...

That despicable dream stealer...

Her name is...

"Lissandra!"

Cheng Xiao sat up from the snow, and a strong wind of ice and snow, with a burning coldness, gushed out of his mouth.

"Hmm..." The girl mumbled as her sweet dream was disturbed.

Cheng Xiao looked at Ashe, who was sleeping soundly beside her and getting closer and closer, and the bad feeling in her heart quickly faded away.

He touched his back, and the cold sweat that oozed out was almost frozen by the wind and snow.

He sat there for a long time.

What... is he doing?

Was this a nightmare? What kind of dream? It seemed... it seemed like I saw something in my dream... who was it?

Cheng Xiao was puzzled, but the intense uneasiness in his heart was truly real. He slowly lay down again, completely unaware of his sleepiness.

In the increasingly strong snowstorm, he looked at Ash's beautiful sleeping face.

A small ball of ice crystal floated over there.

He reached out to brush it away, and suddenly felt something watching him... but it seemed to move away quickly.

A strange thing appeared from his dream into someone else's dream.

Cheng Xiao shook her head and closed her eyes.

But he suddenly uttered a name unconsciously.

"Witch, Lissandra..."

Chapter 14: Join Miss Ashe's harem!

The next morning, Cheng Xiao was awakened by a gentle rocking.

As soon as I opened my eyes, I saw Ash's beautiful face. She was smiling, and the bright sunlight filtered through the ends of her golden hair.

The snow has stopped. It's sunny again after a long absence.

"It's getting late, we should set off."

Ashe sat next to him in a duck-like position, with a packed bag on her shoulder.

Cheng Xiao rubbed his eyes and sat up, still looking a little tired.

"Did you not sleep well last night?" the girl asked softly.

"A little bit...it feels like a nightmare." Cheng Xiao replied.

"A nightmare? You're just too tired. A lot has happened recently. Thank you for your hard work."

"Yeah...it's okay."

Cheng Xiao twisted her neck, and her powerful self-healing ability began to work - fatigue is also a negative physical state, and this effect can be completely solved by the body's self-healing function.

After cheering himself up, he looked at the girl in front of him again and suddenly felt a little unreal.

"What's wrong?" Ash asked, tilting his head.

"I feel a little... dreamy," Cheng Xiao said. "I'm truly flattered that you, despite the advice of your entire tribe, insisted on going with me to find Avarosa's legacy."

"Didn't I tell you the reason yesterday? Why do you still feel this way?" Ashe covered her mouth and chuckled. She was lively and cute, but also had enough elegance.

"Don't you blame me for killing Marukolo? His importance to the Avarosa tribe is self-evident."

"But you called him a traitor."

"You just believe me?"

"Well... to be honest, if you hadn't made a promise and taken action after killing Marukolo, I might have felt a little... and might not have believed you. But in a situation like this, I'm willing to believe you."

After a brief pause, Ashe stroked her hair and looked to the other side.

"Besides... um... actually I haven't really liked Marukolo lately... He always says bad things about me, and his attitude towards me is like he's obsessed with getting something, which makes me very uncomfortable."

"Some of his little actions behind the scenes even made me doubt him a little bit long ago."

"I believe you will help the tribe obtain the legendary treasure, and then all the rumors will be refuted. And in this process, I am willing to trust you. If I may be polite, I will say that by helping you, I am actually helping myself and the tribe."

"I trust you based on your help to the tribe."

"But I also believe that you definitely don't have any bad intentions, right?"

Ashe smiled brightly, and her sunny temperament made people feel comfortable.

But Cheng Xiao could also sense from her kind words and attitude that the girl in front of her was not as innocent as she seemed.

The basis for her willingness to believe in herself and give everything is that she is doing something that is beneficial to the Avarosa tribe.

As the daughter of the War Mother of the Avarosa tribe, her mind was naturally not filled with the muddled thoughts of love, but rather with clear plans and rationality.

Maybe there are indeed some... adolescent girl impulses hidden in her heart, but more of it is definitely the pursuit and persistence of tribal interests.

She was not indifferent to her act of killing Marukolo in public, but simply because she made a decisive and firm choice between the two.

As for those things that have passed and happened, she will no longer be obsessed with or regret them.

"I believe you, and please believe me." Ashe extended a hand gracefully, like the etiquette of a man inviting a woman in other countries or regions. "Let's go, Mr. Cheng Xiao."

"Okay." Cheng Xiao smiled and accepted the tradition of the Freljord's female-dominated society as the Romans do. He gently helped the girl's hand and stood up to leave.

The two of them stood arm in arm, looking at a map together intimately, and then headed towards the glacier where the legendary treasure was hidden.

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Cheng Xiao didn't have Glenna's ancient treasure map, but he could roughly remember the location marked on the treasure map after just one glance.

On a glacier in the far north of the Freljord.

The map in his hand was of modern Freljord. Although the description of the destination was very rough compared to Glenna's treasure map, the planning of the route was clearer and more realistic.

Anyway, even if he didn't have a treasure map, he roughly knew where the treasure was hidden.

It comes from a deep understanding of the "history" of Runeterra.

He knew that in the original timeline, Ashe was found high up in a mountain "under the aurora."

Just keep moving north with Ashe and find the highest iceberg.

"You don't look like you hesitated at all."

In the windy and snowy valley, Ashe expressed her surprise and doubt.

"You know the Avarosa heritage better than my mother... It's like you've walked through it all before? And you only glanced at the mark on the treasure map. This is incredible."

"You have a good sense of direction. It's something you're born with." Cheng Xiao smiled and moved a little closer to the girl.

A cold wind howled through the cracks in the valley, sounding like the wails of wronged souls. Even someone with icy blood would find such an environment difficult to withstand, and Ashe was already shivering with cold.

Cheng Xiao was also cold, but his powerful self-healing ability prevented him from catching a cold, nor from losing his mobility due to the extreme cold. He took off his coat and forced it onto the girl despite her righteous refusal.

"If you get frostbite, I won't care..." Ashe wrapped her coat tightly around her. The scent of the opposite sex made her feel a little embarrassed. "It's not good for a little boy to always act so arrogantly. Be careful that no girl will like you..."

"Do you mean I won't be able to get married?" Cheng Xiao said with a smile.

"Of course it would be if you were always like this! Freljord men are either strong and powerful, attracting people with their muscles, or beautiful and charming, attracting people with their looks. You are clearly the latter, but you are doing the former. This style is very strange!"

"Oh, that's terrible..."

"So, you can't keep trying so hard. You won't be able to arouse women's desire to protect you, and your attractiveness will be greatly reduced." Ashe said as she took off the other person's coat, "Here, dress properly."

"That's not necessary." Cheng Xiao didn't answer, but continued, "Because I have a good way to avoid this problem."

"any solution?"

"It would be fine if you just accepted me."

“Huh…? Eh…!”

The sudden "confession" made Ashe a little overwhelmed.

Cheng Xiao really enjoyed teasing this innocent girl and continued, "Do you also hate me because of my stubbornness? This really makes me sad. Maybe I'm just being too sentimental..."

"No!" Young Ashe quickly waved her hands in denial, "I don't mean to hate you! Absolutely not! I just... that... um..."

"Which one?"

"That is to say... I just hope you feel better... I'm afraid you might get frostbite..."

"So you don't hate me?"

"Of course not!"

"Oh~" Cheng Xiao smiled playfully, "So you just want to... huh?"

"Huh?" Ashe was stunned at first, then quickly reacted.

She was in a panic again and didn't know what to do.

After panicking for a while, she pursed her lips, as if she had made some kind of decision.

The pair of red lips that had not turned pale due to the cold wind and snow opened slightly, and a few syllables were hesitantly uttered:

"I am very..."

call out--!

Suddenly, a sound broke through the air.

An incoming arrow interrupted Ashe's shy words and almost brushed her hair before hitting the rock wall nearby.

"careful!"

Ashe reacted extremely quickly, dragging Cheng Xiao towards the nearby hillside in almost the blink of an eye.

The next moment, no less than ten arrows were shot at the place where they had just stood.

"How could someone attack us in a place like this..."

The shyness and excitement from a few seconds ago disappeared in an instant, and all that remained in Ashe's heart was the caution and fighting spirit of a warrior - she was a young girl with budding love, but she was also a qualified Iceborn warrior.

In comparison, Cheng Xiao seems much more casual.

He even felt a little sorry - he was about to see Ashe blushing, her heart pounding, and talking incoherently.

Compared to this regret, those fatal arrows are nothing to mention.

He wasn't surprised at all.

He had long anticipated being attacked on the road.

He didn't know when or where those people would attack, but he knew they would come.

The problem is not big.

"The Frost Witch won't allow anyone to touch Avarosa's legacy, so they came."

Cheng Xiao patted Ashe's little hand, then walked out of the shelter under the girl's uneasy gaze.

"Cheng Xiao! Come back soon!"

As soon as Ashe finished speaking, another round of arrows shot over.