Chapter 878 Riven

How many times has this been to the Freljord?

Sitting next to the bonfire in the ice cave, looking out at the vast world of ice and snow, the purple-skinned bald mage Ruiz couldn't help but recall his long life.

It's been almost a thousand years.

That was when the Noxus Empire had just been established, and the foundation for all magic in Runeterra was derived, and the world runes were discovered.

The Rune War broke out as a result. Countries large and small fought to obtain the world runes and master the power of the world runes. The world runes were abused, and the energy contained in them easily caused the land to sink, and millions of innocent people died. .

At that time, Ryze was just a young mage from Blessed Island. In order to protect the world, he followed his master on the road of collecting world runes. More than nine hundred years passed in the blink of an eye.

He had personally killed his master who had become twisted due to the power of runes, he had been reluctant to say goodbye to his old friends, and he had been sad and silent for his disciples who had gone astray. This changed appearance and long lifespan It really can't be called a gift from the world runes, but more like a curse.

But he never stopped.

There are only the last few left to be found. Find and seal the last few world runes, and I will disappear with them!

This time he came to Freljord not because he captured traces of the world's runes, but because he accidentally discovered some actions of the Sentinels of Light.

For Ryze now, in addition to the world runes, probably only his original hometown of Blessed Light Island and now Shadow Island can make his mood fluctuate. He has also encountered the soul-eating night and the undead. Even the bad situation there is He felt some headaches.

Is it time to have to solve it?

From the couple who came to the ice field to look for the Winter's Claw tribe, Ryze learned a lot of news, including the active actions of the Light Sentinels around the world, and even Sewell, the rising mage from Piltover.

He decided to pay attention and lend some help when necessary.

Of course, the premise is that he does not find any clues about the world's runes during this period, and he will not forget to delay his 'job'.

"Where are they?"

Breathing out a long white mist from his mouth, Ryze suddenly looked shocked and cast his gaze to the distant south. The will in his body that always resonated with magic seemed to have caught an extremely familiar wave at that moment.

A fleeting moment.

There are some deviations from the world runes he has come into contact with, but they are definitely the same kind. He will not admit his mistake!

"Disappeared...but you finally appeared again. The location is approximately...Noxus?"

The bonfire in front of me went out with a roar.

With a flash of lightning around Ryze, he was teleported hundreds of kilometers away. In just a few seconds, he walked from the ice field to the land of Noxus, standing in the border city and looking around.

Where did you go?

Was it hidden by someone?

…

The magic in the staff was absorbed, and time was like going back. The targets that were damaged due to the dagger test quickly returned to intact with the repair of Ji Xing's magic. But compared to what was revealed before, this 'simple' repair technique It’s no longer worth Eugenie and Catalina’s special inquiry.

Katarina carefully put away the six daggers and made them turn invisible to fit her skin-colored pants, and took a deep breath.

"Mage Sevier, thank you for the weapons you forged for me. Do they have names?"

"Leave it to you to get it yourself." Ji Xing said.

Catalina nodded. Many mages are willing to name their masterpieces after themselves, but Ji Xing in front of him obviously has no such intention. Maybe the dagger that took him a day to make is really nothing in his eyes. Bar.

She thanked Ji Xing again, and her sincere look made Eugenie curl her lips. When the three of them left the equipment testing place, Catalina said again:

"Mage Sewell, Commander Swain has two more things for me to tell you. He already knows that you were invited to the arena by Draven. That guy has merit for helping the Commander, and he is a Noxar." The younger brother of Si's Hand often doesn't know what's right and what's important. He may have some bad thoughts because of your rejection.

The commander-in-chief cannot directly restrict it, because that will only have the opposite effect. He asked me to tell you that if Draven takes any bad actions in the future, you can teach him a lesson. I just hope you don't kill him. "

"I know." Ji Xing replied without any surprise: "Where's the second one?"

Catalina continued: "It's about a pair of sisters who were born in Zaun, Wei O'Lai and Explosive O'Lai. Do you know them?"

Ji Xing raised his eyebrows: "I know, what happened to them, that they actually came into the sight of you and even Commander Swain?"

"They are very good." Catalina replied: "They entered the selection list of the Trifari Legion, so I, who is currently responsible for the background verification of the Trifari soldiers, discovered them. Because they were born in Zaun, the Grand Commander specially asked me to Ask Master Sewell if he knows them."

"Oh? Are they going to join the Noxian army? Or the Trifari Army?" Ji Xing said unexpectedly.

"It's also a coincidence."

Catalina said: "Because of their talent and beauty, they were spotted by a small nobleman in Port Anros. They eventually killed the nobleman and surrendered to Besilico's army."

Talent and... beauty? Ji Xing felt a little weird, but it was right when he thought about it. If Jinx wasn't crazy, she would still be pretty good-looking.

He heard Catalina continue: "General Swain was already cleaning up those nobles who did not do practical things and oppressed the common people. The nobles they killed were also in the next round of purges, and they were only peripheral figures. This case It's nothing in Noxus. According to the usual practice, a military exploit can basically offset their guilt.

Just because Besilico is the territory of the Hand of Noxus, General Darius' subordinate Maha saw that they had good talents and directly recommended them to the Trifalli Legion. "

At this point, she paused, looked into Ji Xing's eyes and said: "Because they have a crime, the way to review them is no longer a regular assessment, they must show enough potential and strength...

So they were captured and are now locked in the prison of the arena. Only by winning at the hands of the liquidators and surviving can they join the Trifali Legion. As for failure..."

Nature is death.

This is very Noxian.

But the weird feeling in Ji Xing's heart became even stronger, and he smiled and said: "Don't tell me that the arena where they were imprisoned is the same as the one where Draven invited me to? Um...or tonight?"

"That's right." Catalina said: "Of course, the liquidator they need to face and defeat will not be General Draven.

The Commander-in-Chief also asked me to bring you an extra sentence - 'There are countless black roses growing in the soil of Noxus. I don't know when or where, someone will always be pricked by them. ’”

Is this eye drops for LeBlanc?

But this is really a coincidence.

Catalina asked again: "How is the relationship between Master Sewell and the sisters? The commander-in-chief has made an explanation. If you need it, I will bring them here now."

"The relationship...is neither far nor close."

Ji Xing didn't know when there was an extra card in his hand. As his fingertips rotated, the color of the card kept changing, and finally settled on yellow.

‘Proactive’, and ‘mixed surprise’?

"I understand this. You can return to Swain with your weapons. Everything in the arena will be fine as usual."

He narrowed his eyes slightly, and his figure suddenly disappeared from Catalina's sight, and moved to the entrance of the Magic Academy two seconds later.

There, the strong female warlord was shouting to the apprentice who was guarding the door today: "Go and inform Master Sewell that Mel Myrdal's mother, Ambersa, wants to see him!"

"General Ambesa." Ji Xing smiled and his voice spread: "I'm here. You came just in time. Are you interested in accompanying me to watch a performance in the arena tonight?"

Ambersa looked at him in astonishment. She was fascinated by the dazzling staff for the first time, and then she realized what Ji Xing said.

She grinned: "As expected of a powerful mage, did he know that I would come? Of course I am interested, or I am grateful to Mage Sewell for inviting me to such an occasion!"

The purpose of her risking to come to the Immortal Fortress was to hope that Ji Xing could provide more background support for the Myrdal family. What more effective way to declare than for the two of them to go to a place like the arena together and be seen by various warlords and nobles?

But... why did Sewell suddenly go to the arena to watch such a sensational performance?

…

Arena, prison.

"Pfft..." Jinx twisted her mouth and spat out a piece of bone, commenting: "It tastes good. The food here is much better than that of Stillwater Prison."

Wei, who was beside her, glanced at her who was enjoying her meal, ate the cake with normal appetite, and said thoughtfully: "Don't eat too much, we don't know how many tough battles we have to fight tonight."

"You will have strength only when you are full." Jinx spread her hands: "Get out of here quickly, and look for an opportunity to go back and blow Maha's head off!"

Wei sighed: "Didn't you see that this was the assessment given to us by General Maha? She took good care of us during those two days. She didn't look like an inconsistent villain, and she didn't need to use it when she had an army. Plot against us."

"Yeah." Jinx was chewing food in her mouth, her words were a little unclear: "You can see it, but use a net to knock us unconscious, put us in shackles, and escort us from that port city to this competition in the Immortal Fortress. A prison...I won’t let her go if she torments us like this!”

Wei shook her head and said in a low voice: "But Explosion, looking at this kind of battle, the army we will join after passing the assessment will not be simple. It is likely to be... Cui Fali, the core of Noxus."

"That's a good thing, isn't it?"

Jinx said: "Since we want to join the Noxian army, we must join the strongest one, so that we can get more."

"Maybe." Wei was a little uneasy, fearing that it would be easier to get in than to get out, but... we have reached this point, let's go and have a try!

At this time, a low-pitched female voice suddenly came from not far away: "Why do you want to join the army? Noxus should have stopped its external wars now, and its military strength is also declining. In Swain Before taking power, the death rate in the army was getting higher every year.

What's more... have you ever seen a real war? Do you know what war is? "

The two sisters looked over at the same time.

As early as when they were imprisoned in this prison, they had observed their neighbors. There was a very strange guy in the cell on the left.

As if they were afraid of the sun, they always sat curled up in the corner. They couldn't even see each other's appearance clearly. Judging only from the faint outline and voice, the other party should be a woman slightly older than them.

This was the first time in two days that the other party took the initiative to talk to them.

Jinx looked at her for a few times, then retracted her gaze and continued to eat her meal. Wei was somewhat interested in her words and said, "It sounds like... you have participated in a real war? Were you a Noxian or a captured prisoner?"

The woman did not answer, but said in a dry tone: "War is killing, war is sin. Your knife must kill the old man who can't even walk, and you must also chop off the head of a child. Maybe when that head falls to the ground, his eyes are still looking at you innocently, because he doesn't understand what happened, and he doesn't know how to be afraid."

Wei's expression froze, and Jinx couldn't help but He raised his head again and snorted, "You look like a deserter from Noxus? Were you caught because you were soft-hearted to the enemy during the war?"

The woman in the shadow shook her head, then nodded, without answering, but continued to talk to herself, "In the war, you have to face countless eyes. Some are hateful, some are desperate, some are puzzled, some are unwilling...

357 people, this is the number of people in my team. I can remember the faces and names of each one. They are all dead, and I can remember the despair of each one at the end of their lives."

Vi and Jinx paused slightly.

"They didn't die in the war, nor did they die at the hands of the enemy. They were just abandoned by the Noxian Empire. In order to destroy a village in Ionia, the dangerous alchemical potion burned the area within a kilometer radius to the point where nothing grew. My subordinates and I were abandoned, and only I survived."

The figure stood up and finally walked to a place where the light could shine. The bright light in his eyes made Vi and Jinx solemn.

This guy...

They finally saw the woman's face clearly. She was unexpectedly fair and cute. Her short silver-gray hair added a little embellishment, but her aura was enough to make people ignore her beauty.

Heroic and heroic, a heroine, nothing is more suitable than these two adjectives.

Compared to Maha, whom they just mentioned, the woman in front of them obviously has more style of a female general and more demeanor of a strong man. Her overall feeling is completely different from the discouraged words just now!

Only by looking carefully can you faintly discern the hesitation and confusion hidden in the female general.

"Joining the army is not a good idea." She said to Jinx and Wei.

Before the sisters responded, someone outside called out: "Riven 'General', it's your turn!"