Chapter 40: Time Assassin - Ike
(The following setting about Ike is taken from the official website of the League of Legends universe.) Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info)
Ike is a wizard from the bad neighborhood of Zaun.
He can manipulate time to make any situation work in his favor. By using his own invention – the Z-drive – he can explore other branches of parallel reality and create the perfect conditions. As much as he loves this freedom, he will do whatever it takes to protect his friends whenever they are threatened. In the eyes of onlookers, Ike always manages to do the impossible on the first attempt, and that's always the case.
Ike is a high-IQ genius who learned to make simple machines before he even learned to climb. His parents, Inna and Weiss, are delighted with their son's talent and vow to provide him with a bright future. In their eyes, Zuan was full of pollution and crime, and was not worthy of his natural intelligence. They work overtime and hard work every day in high-risk occupations to create a future for their son. But Ike thinks otherwise.
He watched his parents grow old and support the family with their meager salaries, while the goods they produced were sold to the wealthy people of Phi City at sky-high prices, and the profit difference between them was firmly in the hands of the mill workers and shrewd middlemen. Some of them wander the dance hallways for a cheap pastime, or head down to the Slow Terrace Square for a "no-holds-bar" bar. Therefore, the good life in the city of progress that his parents envisioned for him did not allow him to identify.
Looking at Zaun, his parents could only see layers of overwhelming pollution and lawless crime, but Ike could see the vibrant city behind them, full of power and potential at all times. Zuan is a hotbed of innovation, a melting pot of culture, and immigrants come here to be the forerunners of the future. But even these forerunners cannot be compared with the native-born Zuanke.
Zuanyan wasn't talking about the prosthetic-enhanced villains, or the bully bastards who often featured in the Piltover news, but the low-level gutter fighters, alchemists, and plant breeders who tended to the towers. Countless people like them make up the heart and soul of Zu'an City. They are resourceful, tenacious, and hardworking. They built a thriving civilization from the rubble of the catastrophe and thrived in the desperate situation where others were certain to die. This Zaun spirit inspires Ike to make his own inventions out of the trash discarded by others, and to experiment with them.
Every child of Zaun has heard the story of the Hex Crystal, the source of power for the gods and heroes, who can generate their own energy and have the potential to change the world.
And now, Ike had a broken Hex crystal in his hand.
During a less scientific experiment, the crystal exploded into a swirl of crystal dust that triggered a time-warping cyclone. Ike opened his eyes and saw many branches of reality, and many mirrors of himself at this moment, and the mirrors were also looking at him in horror, overwhelmed by the shattered space-time. This time he really did. Ike worked heavily with his alternate reality mirror, and finally took control of and repaired the rift he had torn in real space.
Eventually, Ike harnessed the space-time power of the shattered crystal through a device that allowed him to manipulate it for a brief period of time, at least in theory.
Rumors and anecdotes of Ike's reversal of time soon reached the magnates in the upper and lower cities. Victor, a revered Zuan scientist, wanted to test this unruly little genius in person, armed several of his men with powerful augmentations in an attempt to persuade the boy to serve him. And Jace, a well-known Picheng innovation scholar, is bent on catching up with the title of "Boy Who Breaks Time" and trying to crack his technology. However, Ike values his freedom and independence too much to be involved in anyone's projects.
A handful of pursuers may have a chance to catch a glimpse of Ike, but their plans for a hunt can quickly come to naught, often ending awkwardly, as the Trench Kid is naturally adept at searching for their weaknesses.
Ike's wildest dream is that one day his hometown will rise to the point where the city of progress is now dwarfed. Piltover's sparkling exterior will be shrouded in the ingenuity and unapologetic courage of the Zaun people, and the gap between the two is not a privilege passed down from generation to generation, but from a simple sense of adventure. He may not have a concrete plan yet, but Ike has plenty of time to turn this dream into reality.
After all, if he can change the past, why is it so difficult to change the future?
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"Hey, are you sure Ike will come to this garbage dump in the middle of the night where you can't see a ghost?"
Near an industrial ruin in the middle of Zaun, there is a large garbage recycling station, which mainly stores alchemical waste and metallurgical waste, and sometimes some Hextech failures are transported here for disposal. At this time, Dick and Jinx were sitting sneakily in a corner of the place, and they knew who they were waiting for, looking at Dick's impatient face and Jinx's looking around.
"Ike the boy likes to stay awake in the middle of the night, and come here to look for good things, he always ...... Eh, I didn't tell you who we were waiting for? How do you know it's Ike? Could it be that the fact that Ike has a crush on me has been spread all over by Zuan? ”
“……”
Dick said he was surprised that Jinx still had the attribute of narcissism.
In fact, Dick guessed that it was Ike when he knew that Jinx's suitor had met him in league tournaments. After all, the heroes who knew and grew up with Jinx could only be Zaun and Piltover, and Jinx's impression of Leather City could obviously be ruled out. In addition to Jinx, the only Zaun heroes who have played league matches with Dick are Ike, Britz, Sinjid, and Victor (Cinjid and Victor were played by Zaun and Picheng, the first league arena that the protagonist participated in, but since they are not yet available, they are not mentioned). Britz is a robot, so it is ruled out, and Singid and Victor are both science maniacs and are not the right age, so Dick is naturally certain that Jinx's suitor can only be Ike.
But there is a little strangeness, in fact, the streets of Zuan have been spread all over the streets, saying that it is ......
"Jinx, did you and Mistress Ike really grow up together? And he's still having a crush on you? ”
Dick asked cautiously, not that he didn't believe Jinx's words, but ...... This rumor is about to go crazy.
"But how did I hear that Lord Ike is actually after the goddess Jana?"
Jinx was about to express her dissatisfaction with Dick's questioning, but when she heard him say that Ike was pursuing the ethereal Cana, she was immediately stunned, in fact, she had heard these rumors.
Then Jinx said with some atmosphere: "This hateful Ike, although I made it clear that we are just friends, ...... But can't he have a crush on someone for a while longer? What a big carrot ......."
Eh, Dick was a little speechless, saying that you have rejected Ike, why do you still ask people to continue to have a crush on you......
"Ahem......"
Just as Dick was about to complain about Jinx, a voice suddenly appeared behind them.
"Actually, I'm looking up to Goddess Gana, not pursuing her......"