Chapter 34: The Crystal Trace

"Every time I come here, I feel unwilling...... This place almost belongs to Noxus. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info”

Touching the fence net with a no-entry sign in front of her, Caterina sighed.

"If it weren't for the intervention of the old guys in the Alliance, I would have made sure we could win that war. ”

Seeing Caterina's unwilling appearance, Lines was confused, but Tyrone knew what was going on.

This is the old Karamanda, and now, it has a new name, the Crystal Trace.

A large open-pit vein stretches from one end of the village to the other, and if you look down from above, you can easily see the countless crystal mines in the veins that have not yet been mined.

Such a rich vein is also very rare in history, and if the crystal ore inside is mined, the value generated can instantly put the holder in the position of "Valoran Overlord".

But what is surprising is that such a gold mountain has now been deserted and unmined, and even the surrounding dozens of kilometers are blocked by the League of Legends with barbed wire and sealing magic.

In fact, no one would want to come to this ghost place even without these things.

Due to the excessive use of magic here, the magic in the air is already quite unstable, and any little intense action has the potential to cause a series of magical reactions, producing various unpredictable effects.

Lighter, at most how many arms and legs are broken, or seriously injured by things like flame ice cubes, heavier ones may be instantly evaporated by the violent magic elements, and there will be no ashes left, and some will be involved in the time fault line, and live a lifetime in the space where time will not flow, and even worse is that they are eroded by the magical energy here, and part of the body is crystallized, and the person who is entangled by this symptom may be better if he dies on the spot, otherwise even if it is eroded by a finger, then the rest of your life will be spent in the pain caused by continuous crystallization。

As for why this place is like this, the source is the huge mineral deposits buried beneath this town.

Originally, Karamanda was just a barren town sandwiched between Demacia and Noxus, and both sides had small garrisons in each other's towns, but neither had any intention of putting more effort into this town.

But as explorers and treasure hunters explored, a historically rare vein was discovered beneath the town, and in just one week, the garrison of Demacia and Noxus in the town had multiplied tenfold, with a steady stream of reinforcements coming from behind.

Faced with the prospect of a great war, the inhabitants of Karamanda formed an alliance and prepared to choose a city-state with the support of the League of Legends to sign an exclusive mining agreement with it, but due to the stalemate between the two sides, the matter was at an impasse for a while.

Just as the Coalition was hesitant to sign a deal with the city-state, an explosion occurred in a mine mined by Demacia, which the Demacians claimed was the work of Noxus, as they found the corpse of a Noxian soldier and some magic explosives around the corpse that had not yet been detonated in the collapsed mine.

In the face of the evidence, although Vinnes had always claimed that it was a false accusation, the Coalition decided to give the rights to the Kalamanda deposit to Demacia.

But as everyone thought, it couldn't have ended so simply.

At the signing ceremony four days after the Alliance's decision, Wiennes suddenly appeared and claimed that a Demacian soldier had been instructed by King Gavin IV to murder a Noxian soldier and put his body in a mine and detonate explosives to cause an accident, as a way to frame Noxus and demand that the Alliance reassess the mining rights.

But the fat Jiawen IV who reached his mouth naturally did not spit it out, and under the dispute between the two sides, there was no way to carry out the signing ceremony.

As the armies on both sides grew, and although both sides stated that they did not immediately go to war "only to protect the safety of the leaders who would negotiate", the inhabitants of Karamanda mostly chose to leave their homeland and leave the land of right and wrong.

At this point, things have not yet reached the point of irreconcilability, and the real trigger for this incident was the murder of General Darkwell, the leader of Noxus who went to Karamanda to negotiate.

On July 1, 21 A.D., the first anniversary of the Karamanda stalemate, General Darkwell, who had been escorted to Karamanda by the Reeser garrison for negotiations, suddenly disappeared, and his body was found three days later.

The head of Noxus was assassinated, and the most suspicious was of course the enemy country of Demacia.

At that time, Wiennes immediately declared to Gavin.

"This is a declaration of war!"

Although Gavin IV always denied planning the operation, Demacia was still willing to decide Karamanda in the simplest way possible...... No, decide on the ownership of Valoran.

On July 22, 21 years of the alliance calendar, the two sides fought a decisive battle in Karamanda, and both sides used large-scale military magic banned by the alliance, which directly led to the confusion of Karamanda's later magic, and even if the two sides continued to fight at that time, the entire crystal mine might explode directly, blowing the entire Valoran in half.

In order to stop the two sides, League of Legends used force to intervene in a political dispute for the first time since its inception 12 years ago, and the magicians of the League, with the help of Kieran, the guardian of time, unleashed a large-scale time magic to forcibly stop the war between the two sides.

However, due to the release of large-scale magic, the entire Karamanda has become the biggest time bomb on Valoran, and until now, neither side of Denor dared to easily intervene here.

"Of course, I naturally know some secrets, but now is obviously not the time to talk about this, the eldest lady is already impatient to wait. ”

While Lines was listening with relish, Tyrone closed the notebook in his hand and pointed to Caterina with his waist in front of him.

"Tyrone, what are you telling him this?"

For some reason, Katerina's expression was a little gloomy and she looked a little angry, an expression that Lines had only seen twice, once in a fight with Vinnes and another when she was in a fight with herself.

"I'm sorry, Miss, but I'm talking too much. ”

Tyrone humbly bowed his head and bowed.

"Okay, the seal of the alliance is still a spell from a few years ago, but it's not easy to crack, so let's go in while it's still early. ”

Caterina clapped her hands, the first to step through the gap in the seal, and beckoned to the two behind her

"Wait...... Wait a minute. ”

Hearing this, Lines suddenly snapped into a dozen wits and stared at Caterina in disbelief.

"You mean we're going from here?"

Seeing Lines' expression, a smile leaked from Caterina's face.

That smile made Lines feel uncomfortable.

"Or else? Do you think we brought you here to tell you stories?"