Chapter 37: The Trouble of Water Thieves
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Akali hid her body in the darkness, her tight-fitting green ninja suit outlining the girl's figure, a pair of short sickles hanging from either side of her slender waist, hanging upside down under the eaves along with her body, staring at the flickering torches not far away.
They were fighting each other.
Mortal battles are inevitable, and that's not something ninjas should meddle in.
Moreover, the Dragon and Tiger Society has been roaming the Ionian people for hundreds of years, and has long since become a monopoly gang, and there is nothing wrong with someone challenging its authority.
As long as any organization grows, it will begin to corrupt continuously, and that corrupting power is the dark juice that flows from the human heart, and the more people get together, the more it can catalyze this process.
When people are weak, they still know how to restrain their desires, and when they are strong, they will gradually unseal the devil in their hearts, as if that is the real purpose of their righteous slogan.
Greater power, greater appeal, never-ending desire.
The essence of the organization is to huddle together with the weak people to keep warm, to achieve desires that are far beyond the reach of one person, and then to take what they need.
But it was the Noxians who fought against them.
Although she doesn't see any signs of Shadow Stream involvement, and her main task is to monitor Shadow Stream's activities, she still sees it all.
Should I step in?
She saw the influx of Noxian refugees, the new weaving mills of the Ionian Chamber of Commerce recruiting cheap Gentile labor, and the flourishing of cotton weaving. Within the towns, the Noxians prospered with their very different habits, and they used the money they earned to eat and drink, rather than being like the locals, leaving their savings to buy land and live a self-farming life.
This prosperity was brought about by the Noxians.
They are outsiders after all. At first, they were turned away by some local shops, but now they have more than a dozen Noxians running their own shops, and they actively take out the hard-earned money from their bags, attracting more and more Ionian shops to open their doors to them, and even start to hire Noxians as shop men, so that the Norbans can see their sincerity.
However, the Ionians began to lose their jobs, and more and more Norbons took their place, with cheaper wages and better able to attract their fellow Norbons and bring business. Any boss knows it.
As a result, more and more Ionians who had lost their homes joined the Dragon Tiger Society, and they had only one wish, which was to completely drive these Norborns out of the land of Ionia.
Normen have also established their own organizations to avoid bullying by the locals.
Should I step in?
But neither side was at fault, and the Normen, in a manner of free competition, drove the Ionians from the land where they were born and raised, from their original trades, and without resorting to any violent means of plunder.
On the contrary, the dragon and tiger would smash the shops of the Norbons and beat the outsiders in the streets.
When equilibrium is broken, only a protracted struggle can bring it back to equilibrium.
Akali didn't know what that meant, and she had a vague and indescribable premonition in her mind that could burst out at any moment. But it is impossible to act on the basis of a hunch.
She is a ninja of the Balanced Sect, not a warrior who fights for a sense of justice.
Suddenly, there was a loud sound of killing outside the city, and Akali was about to check what was going on, when a deep male voice appeared behind her, "Long time no see, junior sister." ā
The man was breathless, startling Akali, and the scythe from his waist shot out, halving everything in half.
But there was only a shadow behind her. The body of the shadow was cut off from the place where the scythe blade passed, and the black gas rolled through the fracture, and it did not mean to dissipate, but slowly put it together into its original form.
The sharp wrist blade, even the shadow still emitted a sonorous armor crashing sound like the main body, and the mask was worn on the head, so he couldn't see his face, but Akali still recognized him, and his change was too great.
"You did all this?"
"Nope. I have no interest in killing the weak. Their struggle, after all, is theirs. There is a constant stream of mundane troubles, and only power is eternal. ā
"Power exists to protect the balance of the world."
"So is the Sect of Equilibrium like the Adjudicator and the Shadow Stream also two sides of the same balance?"
Wouldn't pay attention to him, she climbed onto the roof, leaping between the arches and cornices, as light as a swallow, and the shadow was really like a shadow, always following closely behind. She saw where the killing had begun, and the intruders were wearing linen scarves, armed with scimitars, and some had small firearms.
Thieves of the seas.
They have always been a problem for Ionia, they robbed merchant ships, and many Ionian homeless people also left their homeland to become unforgivable thieves, and it was because of the rampant pirates along the coast that there is now a tradition of closing the harbor and leaving only one port tightly controlled.
Why? Here they are again.
They robbed houses like robbers, slaughtered civilians with their scimitars, and then set their houses on fire, laughing like hellish devils in the light of the fire. But Akali couldn't think of what they were trying to rob. Starfall is not a place to hoard large quantities of goods, and there is no place to find in all of Ionia, this out-of-this-world island has long since learned how to be self-sufficient.
"It seems that the equilibrium has been broken." The shadow laughed.
He's right.
Anti-guest outsiders, pirates who suddenly invaded......
"What is your role in this?"
"Me? You and I are both curious people and spectators. I do have one thing I want to tell you, to the Sect of Equilibrium: I will go back, and this time I will get back what belongs to me. Tell the Great Elder this, and only he knows what I am saying. ā
"What are you going to do?"
Shadow ignored her words and continued, "Also, junior sister, don't be too confident in your perception, if it weren't for your inadvertence, you would already be a corpse. I don't want to do that, but that doesn't mean that others in the Shadow Stream Sect won't take advantage of others. ā
"...... robbery" Akali looked at the former senior brother with complicated eyes, the black shadow dissipated in front of her, and the long-standing friendship of the same family had long since disappeared in the biting cold rain of that night.
Akali gritted her teeth, unwilling to continue thinking about the old past, the ninja scythe flipped in her hand, stepped on her heels, and shot her body like an arrow into the evil pirates, the two scythes clasped their hands, and slashed in a gorgeous arc in the air, like open wings, and the surging energy shimmered faintly.
The two pirates were immediately separated.
Another group joined the fray, moving almost as fast as hers, Noxians, led by men clad in angular cloaks and armed with a sharp sword, not yet in contact with the pirates, but already stained with undried blood.
"At the moment of foreign enemies, meet the enemy first!" He shouted, and the heavily armed Noxians behind him responded in unison. He stepped forward and took the initiative to take on the blind spot behind Akali. "Need help?"
"Sect of Equilibrium, Akali." She declared her name.
"Dragons, Taylor."
This man, the man who founded the Noxians Gang, seems to be extraordinary, but the resolute and cold temperament between his eyebrows is like a blade he hides under his cloak.
They gave up the infighting with the Dragon Tiger Society, but at the critical moment, it was these outsiders who were the first to stand up to defend the Ionian town.
"Then it's up to you to keep up with me." The female ninja smiled slightly, flew like an arrow, and two cold lights instantly tore through the enemy formation.