Zaun is from the Noxian faction, and the Scarlet Elite has always been hostile from the Noxian hierarchy. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info in Zu'an, a place where he is not familiar with life, there is a high-ranking official in the city, and it is difficult to distinguish between friend and foe. In case you invite you into the urn again, the group will be destroyed.

All communication with the city of Zuan should be led by Kieran, or it is safest for Kieran himself to pass the word.

Kiran still carries a clock behind his back, and the clothes he wears are very clean and plain, a little too simple, as if he has been worn for decades, and the overall temperament gives people a strange illusion: when this old man is motionless, you are like looking at an old photograph, and you are separated by generations, living in different eras.

The retainers who attended the meeting couldn't help but be attracted to Kieran.

When people are rushing to school and work, they sometimes stop on a whim and look back on their life experiences in the past few years and ten years. Kieran's temperament, or what is called aura. Under his guidance, everyone was surprisingly calm, and when a pin fell to the ground in the conference room, it would be considered noise.

The quiet picture scroll ushered in a woman with an embarrassed expression, she was worried about finding a seat, but it was difficult to break the atmosphere.

It's Jana. She had just rejoiced in getting out of the ranks of servants who served dishes and washed vegetables and entered the upper class, when she suddenly found that her seats were full and there was nowhere to sit. She was caught up in a complicated analysis, should she sit, should she go outside and move a stool. If the stool should be moved, will it break the quiet atmosphere of "solemnity"? Or is it too much to think about it, there is nothing to do with the council here, and she still waits for the errand of tea. But seeing that the council table is already full of tea, it doesn't seem like it...

Sometimes, subordinates will think in a complicated direction about the actions of their superiors.

Ezreal complained in his heart that he didn't appreciate the temperament of the big beauty Jana, and a group of people stared at an old man. Or is this the essence of Ezreal at all... Ezreal was the first to notice Cana's embarrassment. It was Ezreal who called Cana to the meeting, officially recognizing her heroism, and impromptu resulted in the loss of a stool, and that's it.

Ezreal was about to speak, but Cana's overwhelm said, "Excuse me, I'll go outside and move a chair." ”

All the heroes looked at Jana in unison, interrupting other people's thoughts on life, even if it was a simple and straightforward person like Jax, a nameless fire stirred in his heart. The heroes gathered and united, pressing down on Cana like a mountain.

Cana gave an unhurried salute, a wind shield around her to counteract the overwhelming pressure on her face, and with a creak, she pushed the door open and exited.

Jana said to herself, "This can be regarded as a test. ”

There was no test at all. Ezreal felt that Jana's courage was commendable, but she was inexperienced and reckless. What if the strength is not enough and the momentum of the heroes is injured?

Jana's courage to resist the morale of the heroes was very much to Caterina's appetite.

Caterina said in her heart: "As Sivir said, Jana and I have close personalities, and with the appearance of Sven, she prefers to solve problems brutally and rudely, and never hesitates. ”

Caterina knew that Ezreal would soon be on a long journey, and she was a little worried that she would not be around. There is a pair of eyes staring at Cana, which is much safer. And that was Sivir's last piece of advice before leaving.

Eyeliner is not a good suggestion.

Sivir's action made Ezreal feel a sense of disgust for this white rich beauty. The same disgust as Cassiopeia. The benefits that Sivir helped Caterina fight for, but he saw that the Duke Kao family still had value to use. As in the plot, for Sivir, everything in the world can be clearly priced.

"Stinky ditch" stared at "stinky ditch" staring at "stinky ditch", full of ridicule, disdain, and discrimination, Caterina didn't expect this, Ezreal can bend and stretch, and there are benefits to fish.

Everyone had different thoughts, most admired Ezreal's vision, and many thought that Jana couldn't awaken her talent, but she still woke up. Ezreal thinks it's the protagonist's troubles. Many things, knowing that the future result will be like this, but the starting point and path are completely unpredictable, and there is a kind of sigh that there must be a road before the car reaches the mountain.

Speaking of Bunitz, this robot with a bad brain, didn't let it go to parliament to avoid leaks.

Cana moved a chair from outside and sat down at the end. It was a backrest chair, and Jana leaned back relaxedly. Last night's ceremony made her still painful, her observation was still okay, and she was slightly puzzled why the retainers were all sitting upright, and why the chairs had backrests and were abandoned.

Cana's near-zero experience in etiquette made Caterina frown.

Ezreal thought that this was expected, and Jana took it with her to support her and teach her slowly.

As usual, Caterina asks Zyra, the guardian of the fortress, if there are any infiltrators. Zyra's plants are all over the fortress, and the plants are Zyra's eyes. Zyra took her sunglasses off, her beast-like pupils constricting and dilating in her sockets, two vines sticking out of her sleeves and burrowing into the ground, and her shoulders in the shape of wriggling thorny rattans.

Every time Caterina saw this, she felt unnatural bumps all over her body, and she looked at Ezreal with some confusion, who was looking with admiration... Caterina swept her gaze back at the retainers, whose expressions were spitting out breakfast, and she finally understood that she was still normal.

Caterina said to herself, "Only Ezreal thinks Zyra is beautiful...", unconsciously touching the scar on her left eye, her heart warmed, Ezreal also loves it, although I don't know why.

Ezreal's penchant for collecting rare and genuine items is at work. Zyra covers the optic nerve in the vegetal net of the fortress, capturing all targets within the field of view. The plants that form the surveillance network on the outside are all on the trunks and flowers of Zyra's fuzzy faces, and in the conference hall, Zyra's face has become irregularly colored, such as a person's face being burned and implanted with different people's skin and patchwork.

The feeling of vomiting after eating in the morning was fermenting, and the retainers looked away, and Jax, who had always been calm, was no exception.

Jax thought to himself, "Wearing a visibility-enhancing mask was a mistake. ”

Caterina glanced at Ezreal, who was still fascinated.

Collecting information will convection magic with all plants, and of course Zyra's skin will change color, and the original pollen fragrance concentration will decrease, mixing with the smell of other parts of the plant, which will inevitably make the people around you unbearable.

Zyra finally changed her face back and opened her mouth to say, "No problem. ”

At the beginning of the meeting, Kiran was quick to talk about the situation in Zaun and the conditions offered.

Kiran: "Rest assured, Svein will no longer be able to draw his forces against you. Svein's battle with Karen Darkwell has reached a critical juncture. "As for the cost of Ergarth's resurrection, Professor Stantik said that if you were willing to transfer to him the right to make the invention of Britz, he could waive all the costs. ”

Katerina: "Two hundred million free?"

Katarina, who had been suffering from financial constraints, was overjoyed. Let Caterina carry a knife to kill the enemy, and lead the charge without fear, but counting the money against the ledger, the tight expenses here and the lack of budget there will torture Caterina almost crazy.

Kieran added: "Yes, the budget and all subsequent expenses are free. But the invention rights to make self-aware steam robots were to be transferred to Stanrick. ”

Caterina hurriedly said, "Yes, of course!"

Morgana chimed in: "A man who has been hungry for many days suddenly gets a treasure. The psychological weakness of human beings is fear, the essence of greed is fear, and sometimes the two coexist. ”

Sensing that something was wrong, Caterina swept sharply at her retainers.

Jax: "I don't know how to settle accounts, so let's take what we need." ”

Zelos also roughly understood the operational difficulties of the Scarlet Elite, and nodded in agreement.

Gulagas nodded again and again: "That can save a lot of money and buy a lot of wine!"

Caterina finally looked at Jana, and Jana nodded, and Jana only knew that there were two hundred million, a lot of money.

Morgana had a foolish expression: "This invention will make Stanrick a lot of money, definitely far more than 200 million." ”

His sister's gaze passed, and Kyle took over: "Mechanization, we can see it everywhere in the streets and alleys of Zaun. The higher the docking efficiency of biological cells and machinery, the stronger the combat effectiveness, but the greater the risk when the flesh is transformed by mechanization. The heart of the famous female warrior of the Philos family, Camille, has been replaced with a mechanical one, but she loses most of her emotions and never marries. This is another example of success, and if the modification surgery fails, the absence of a heart means death. ”

As soon as the conversation changed, Kyle added, "Picheng and Zuan are both trying to overcome the difficulty of being self-aware. If successful, even the most basic biological signals are formed in the machine, it means that there is no need for high-risk, high-side surgery like Camille, and another way to make an ordinary person gain great power. This kind of technology is not something that two hundred million can measure, at least two billion. ”

Kiran was silent, and the retainers looked at Ezreal with inexplicable reverence. A lot of money has been solved by getting a little bit of technology, and he is worthy of being the new head of the family.

Ezreal was tempted to bask in the gaze and pretend to be a few minutes longer, but had to get down to business: "Blitz is not a self-aware robot. It was a self-aware magic crystal, and the mechanical exterior was just a metal shell. Archmage Kieran, you should know this, why does Stanrick still want this technology?"

Kieran: "I'd suggest you transfer it to Stanrick. Stanley's idea was to show the world that his products were likely to be self-aware. There is a probability, a disguise, Stanrick intends to use this to make a wave of advertising. ”

Ashgam chimed in: "I agree that we don't have the means to monetize our technology. ”

Ezreal: "Alright. Resurrect Urgart as soon as possible, soaking in formalin solution for too long will not be good for resurrection. He stood up and announced, "I may not be able to return to the fortress for a long time after I go to Zuan. Kyle, Morgana, Cana, and I go to Zaun. The others remained to guard the fortress carefully, and the situation in Valoran was still unclear and could not be paralyzed. ”

Ezreal looked at Zyra with a entrusted gaze, and swept Ezera's state: the three major pieces of Justice and Glory, Nature's Force, and the Armor of Thorns, and then superimposed with the attributes of lord-level magical creatures, and the defense was very strong.

Zyra: "Master, you're going far away, do you need me to hand over the magic marking equipment to you?" With just one look, Zyra sensed that Ezreal was looking at her attributes.

Ezreal: "No, you keep it for yourself." You are the heart of the entire fortress's defenses, and you can't afford to lose it. Looking at Katarina, "You give Zyra a dagger, leaving a space-time coordinate on her." ”

Caterina did as she was told.

Morgana and Kyle were still talking, and Ezreal was the first to adjourn the meeting.

The retainers left the meeting room, and Caterina called Jana to instruct her on etiquette.

Taking advantage of Katarina's absence, Morgana called out to Ezreal, "We can bargain with Stanrik." Kyle added, "Why cover up for Katerina?"

Ezreal: "We're going on a long journey, and the head of the defense of the fortress is Caterina, so there's no point in swaying her authority at the right time." ”

"I have a suggestion on how to defend better after you're gone. ”

The three of them were startled, it was Kieran's voice.

Kyle was slightly startled, and his hand unconsciously pressed to the hilt of his sword, "Didn't you just walk to the front of the hallway?

Kieran: "I've been standing by for a while, but you haven't noticed. I don't have a good memory, old man, and I forgot to mention something very important in the meeting. Privately, it's more confidential, because I saw in the meeting that you have two elven species, and I don't know if they are reliable. ”

Elven species: Zeroth, Jana?

Ezreal: "They're absolutely reliable. Of course, the less people know about the things that should be kept secret, the better. ”

Kiran's white eyebrows were like fluttering hair, and his eyes looked into the distance deeply. Ezreal followed his gaze and looked out the window. The fortress is the commanding height of the North Fortress, and you can vaguely see the opposite city wall.

Ezreal: "Something to do with Piltover?"

Kieran didn't answer and asked: "According to the original plan, you and Victor go to Picheng, how should you go?"

Kyle thought of something and wondered, "The fortress is just a stronghold on the defensive line, and this front has been facing each other for hundreds of years. The confrontation between the two armies is not easy to go over directly. Do you want to take a detour, take the waterway, and take a boat to the port to the south?"

Kieran nodded, "If you want to go straight, that's fine." I have an apprentice named Jinx, who is an expert in technological weapons, including ballistic technology for missiles. Let Jinx launch the missile, and you stand on the missile to accompany the bombardment of Piltover. ”

Standing on the missile and landing in the air? What an exaggerated way of traveling, the three of them couldn't help but have black lines on their heads.

Kyle: "Will it be intercepted by the other party's missile?" Morgana: "Is it reliable, will we get separated?" Ezreal: "Will the missile we ride on explode?"

Kieran regretted, "The answer to your question is yes, all of them. So you still have to go around by boat. But the sea route was not all smooth sailing, and there were even troubles. There are merfolk on the coast of Zu'an, the ancient elven ruins you just disturbed, and the guardians of the ruins have a deep relationship with the merfolk clan. ”

Night Elves, Moonlight, Merfolk (Degenerate Night Elves)?

Ezreal was a little angry and said, "We haven't gone out yet, and the matter of going to sea has only been decided today, who will leak the news to the guardian of the ancient elves?!Is it Victor?!"

Kieran waved his hand in a didactic tone, "Don't be impetuous, young man. This is not a leak, Victor has been warned by Mrs. Juno and does not dare to mess around again. It was the prophetic magic of the Prophet, and Zaun's path to Freljord was more than just an ancient elf. The Icefields natives don't like outsiders, they are hostile to some of your ambitions and help your enemies. ”

Ezreal was stunned, he never thought that there would be a prediction that would be unfavorable to him, and he said that the aura of the protagonist would be good.

Ezreal took a few deep breaths and asked sincerely, "Is there any way to block this magic?"

Kiran released a magical barrier, isolating the aisle and asked, "You'll have to tell me what you're going to do." What do you want to do in Freljord, and for what?"

Ezreal fell silent and said, "I once had a wife stranded on the Isle of Shadows. I swore to save her. Shadow Island is a huge force, and I don't have enough strength alone, so I'm going to form a strong force to land on the island. Entering Freljord is a borrowed road. ”

Kieran's deep gaze was fixed on Ezreal's heart. Ezreal played the emotional card, how could the grand plans for the future be said casually.

Kieran: "You're not lying, but you're only partially speaking, and it seems that trust will take longer to build." You want to block the foreknowledge of prophetic magic? But think clearly, once the block is set, the people who want to help you will not be able to perceive the future for you. ”

If the shield is unfavorable, it will be shielded with the advantageous part, which has advantages and disadvantages.

Ezreal opted for shielding. Blocking out the prediction of future information is equivalent to cutting off a basis for judgment of all parties, and highlighting one's advantage as a traverser. In this sense, prophetic magic is a real danger to Ezreal.

Kieran nodded appreciatively, and he pulled out a pocket watch and handed it to Ezreal.

Kieran: "You bring this pocket watch." The time magic on the pocket watch, in addition to shielding the perception of the prophet's magic, also has a time rewind attached, which can save you once when you are seriously injured or killed. ”

Kieran's ultimate?!Ezreal was shocked, and there was nothing more enjoyable than making a decision and getting the benefits immediately. The fly in the ointment is that there is only one time.

Ezreal took it and asked, "Will the shielding disappear after the save me spell is activated?"

Kieran: "Yes." ”

It's a one-off thing. When Ezreal heard this, he carefully put away his pocket watch.

――

The port of Zaun.

Mavi followed the prompting of a prophet and came here. The sound of the sea, like the snoring of a sleeping strong man at night, rises and falls. Mavi threw a blue stone into the sea, and a moment later, somewhere in the sea seemed to boil and bubbled, and the figure of a mermaid emerged from the sea. The merfolk shook its tail gracefully, from far to near, and the glittering scales quickly made Mavi recognize that it was a female mermaid. With a woman's delicate curves, she is a mermaid.

"I am a tide caller, are you the trader you have agreed with my people? I brought the pearls that my people had gathered. ”

The voice was soft, and Mavi judged that it was a young mermaid. Ma Wei secretly rejoiced in her heart that the little mermaid with little experience would help her take the initiative in the next negotiations.

Mavi is an alert hero, and once she realizes that she is under siege, she will retreat and will not be teamed up to spawn bosses like other heroes. Mavi will flee and then gather another force to find the field. Mavi intends to use the power of the merfolk to snipe at the sea. Mavi received important information from a prophet that Ezreal was going to sea. As it happens, Mavi has a deep connection with the mermaids. The merfolk are actually degraded Night Elves, and some of the Night Elf troops that were originally teleported to this world have merged into the human realm, and some have sunk to the bottom of the sea. The degenerated merfolk who sank to the bottom of the sea, but still needed a moonlit stone, which only Mavi could make today.

Without the Moonstone, merfolk babies cannot hatch from fish eggs. The tide caller was looking forward to this transaction, but he didn't expect the other party to open his mouth and say that he didn't want pearls.

Mavi: "I don't want pearls this time. I want you to gather the best warriors and mages of the merfolk to help me eradicate my enemies. When it's done, I'll give you the Moonstone. ”

Pearls of the deep sea are a rare commodity in the human realm. Mavi used to buy military quarters in exchange for wealth, and then she became the commander of the light pole, so why do you need pearls?.

When the tide caller heard that Mavi didn't want pearls, he fell into despair for a while, but fortunately the other party offered other conditions.

"I know, for the sake of the Moonlight Stone, I will definitely call the strongest warriors and mages of my clan and swear to follow them!"

The respectful attitude made Mavi very satisfied.

"Wait, what's your name?"

"Nami!"