Chapter 16: Ionia's Counterattack
As the war spread, Noxus' cavalry spread across half of Ionia, and the army led by Darius was stationed in the three southern provinces, ready to attack at any time.
Thanks to the technology provided by Zaun, Darius and his key men were waiting in front of a machine called the telegraph, waiting for the battle ahead.
The "tick-tick" telegraph machine rang, and a sentence came out of the telegram: Our army has approached the city of Presidium.
"Haha, this group of ants in Ionia, just the advance force has already hit their capital!" An officer beside Darius scoffed.
"Hmph, I'm disappointed in Ionia, it's time for us to go." Darius ordered.
In Presidium's palace, Karma, the temporary leader elected by the elders, is deliberating with the elders whether to surrender.
Although Karma strongly objected, the other elders agreed to surrender.
In the end, Karma decided: "If you lose this time, then vote." After saying that, Karma turned around and left alone, is this really the end of this time? She sighed helplessly.
Outside the city of Preschidian, the Noxian army and the Ionian army are engaged in a fierce battle. Due to the previous defeat of Ionia several times, although the strength of the two sides is equal this time, Ionia is still defeated.
One by one, the Ionian soldiers fell, but there was a woman who became more and more courageous, dressed in red and silver armor, her long hair was tied up by two headdresses, draped over her shoulders, and her sword-like eyebrows added to her ease. She wields a sword and slays an enemy with a wave of her hand.
Two fists are hard to beat four hands, and as time goes by, this free and easy female soldier is also exhausted. With her crumbling body, she plunged her sword deep into the ground and fell to one knee to keep herself from falling.
She muttered, "I must hold on until my brother returns." At this point, she was unconscious, unaware that she had been surrounded by Noxian troops, and that all the other Ionian soldiers had been killed.
Unconscious, she drifted into a dream, surrounded by white flowers and terrifying brightness, while her brother stood in front of her with his back to her.
"Irelia, if it were you, you would be able to save Ionia, you would surpass me sooner or later, and you will be able to use the heirloom sword left by your father one day and stand up!"
Her brother's majestic voice shook her, and she woke up from her dream.
Confused, she saw a familiar sword, which instantly slashed at the enemies around her, and flew back to Presidium with her shoulder armor.
The sword carried Irelia back to the wall, and then lost its strength and lay quietly beside her. She said in her heart, the sword of the world? Then he fell into a coma again.
"Oh my God, take Irelia to first aid!" A soldier shouted. Immediately afterward, several soldiers carried Irelia on a stretcher.
In a quaint wooden house, a very beautiful woman casts a spell for Irelia to condense her dissipating soul. The female physician wore long water-blue hair, dressed in the traditional costume of an Ionian physician, and wore a pair of high platform shoes, as sacred as a goddess.
"Soraka-sama, may I ask Irelia if she can still be saved?" One of the soldiers carrying Irelia asked.
"Don't worry, she'll be awake soon." Soraka said calmly.
It wasn't long before Irelia woke up, as Soraka had said, "Where am I?" ”
"This is the Healer's House, you were too badly injured just now and were carried back." Soraka replied softly in her voice, which seemed to calm everything.
"The Sword of Inheritance!" Irelia exclaimed. At this moment, a silver sword with a circular pattern on the hilt of the sword, and a sword inlaid with a red mysterious gem hovered outside the house.
"It's too late to go, the elders of Ionia are preparing to surrender." Soraka seemed to be reminding Irelia. She sighed and said no more.
"Won't you come with us, Lord Soraka?" Irelia asked respectfully.
Soraka shook her head, and the maid beside her replied, "Lord Soraka punished Warwick of Noxus nineteen years ago, because he couldn't kill people with his strength when he first entered the demigods, so he suffered a backlash, and it took him nineteen years to return to the realm of demigods, if it weren't for that time, the lord would have been promoted to the realm of gods." ”
"Well, thank you, Lord Soraka, for saving your life." Irelia didn't press too much, she got out of bed and said to the soldiers in the room, "Will you go with me to kill the enemy?" ”
The soldiers on the city walls had already seen the power of the Awakened Sword of Heritage, and perhaps Irelia could indeed lead them to victory. After a moment's hesitation, they said, "I want to follow Lord Irelia." ”
"Okay, now go and gather those who are willing to fight with me." With that, Irelia rushed out of the house, sword in hand, and walked quickly towards the city gate. And the soldiers behind her also went from nothing to one, and then to an army, and the number of them increased. Under Irelia's leadership, he walked forward with great momentum.
At the gate of the city, the two soldiers guarding the gate were frightened when they saw that such a large wave of troops was about to go out to meet them. Because after the defeat of Irelia, the Council of Elders ordered that soldiers and civilians should not leave the city and wait for surrender negotiations. If Irelia were allowed to go out again, they would be at fault.
"You can't go out!" One of the janitors shouted.
"Get out of here!" Irelia grabbed the doorkeeper by the collar and threw it aside.
She glanced coldly at the other soldier guarding the door, and when she saw that he did not dare to stop her, she left behind a sentence: "Ionia will not perish!" ”
Then Irelia didn't look at the soldier, she opened the gate and walked out with the army behind her.
The gates slowly opened, and the Noxian army outside the city saw Irelia walk out, followed by an army.
The commander-in-chief of Noxus smiled and said to the officers around him: "It seems that Ionia is not worried that we will really make peace with them, so he sent an army to protect this woman, which really laughs at me." The surrounding Noxian soldiers laughed as they heard this.
The Commander-in-Chief walked towards Irelia and stretched out his fat right hand, "Beautiful lady, you look so beautiful in military uniform, negotiations will begin soon." ”
Irelia raised her eyebrows, "Negotiations? ”
"Yes, come with me here, and we can negotiate right away." The commander-in-chief thought that Irelia was stage frightened, and patiently explained. But he was secretly happy in his heart, what a waste the people of Ionia were!
"Oh? Good! Irelia looked at the Commander-in-Chief playfully, and in her right hand was a sword, making a wide cut on him.
The commander-in-chief looked at the opening on his chest in astonishment and fell to the ground.
At this time, Irelia exuded a fierce murderous aura, and she slowly raised her sword to the sky: "Kill!" Irelia then rushed towards the Noxian army with her army.
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Somewhere in the northern Plains of Ionia, a huge Sky Fortress floats high in the air, and beneath it is a gathering of Noxian troops, who are driving the behemoths of Zaun to pull a chariot with its own ladder to the front of the Sky Fortress.
The ladder descended from the chariot into the sky and was set up in front of the main hall of the Sky Fortress. In the depths of the palace of the Sky Fortress, it was pitch black. It was as if someone had heard movement outside, and a pair of purple eyes opened in the darkness. Then a dark orb flew out of the palace, directly shattering the ladder, followed by several more dark orbs flew out, exploding in the Noxian army below, screaming and wailing.
The Noxian army fled in all directions, but the Dark Orbs escaped one after the other, and only a few escaped in the end.
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A man with silver hair and bloodshot red eyes walked out of a temple. His arms were carved with demonic lines, and his eyes lit up with anger as he looked at the village beneath the mountain that had been ravaged by Noxus.
The flames of hatred ate away at his sanity, and he couldn't help but say word by word: "Noxus! ”
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Darius led his troops to Presidium quickly, where he encountered several severely wounded Noxian soldiers on the way. One of the soldiers panted and said, "General, it's not good...... Presidium's vanguard army was broken by an army led by a woman named Irelia, and they are now preparing to head south, and it is estimated that they will be here in two days! ”
Darius laughed sinisterly, "It seems that Ionia still has someone to let me shoot, and this time it was not in vain. ”
After a while, another soldier ran up to Darius out of breath and said, "Annihilation! Our army marched into northern Ionia when they encountered a man with a reddish arrow, and he wiped out our troops alone! ”
Darius's face darkened, and he was about to speak when he heard a scream.
Darius looked in the direction of the screams, and a Noxian soldier was scurrying around. Behind him was a woman floating in the air, wearing a black crown, a black power suit, a bumpy figure, and a pair of purple eyes, full of indifference and contempt for life. There were also three dark orbs around her.
From time to time, the woman fired orbs at the fleeing soldier, each time she almost hit, and it was clear that she was letting the soldier lead the way.
As if sensing herself being stared at by a somber gaze, the woman looked at Darius as well. Her lips rose slightly at the sight of Darius and the army beside him. Then one by one, dark orbs shot out from her side, flying towards Darius and them.
The sound of explosions was incessant, and screams followed.
They were enveloped in an instant by terrifying magical energy, and Darius stared incredulously at the woman floating in the air.
If he wasn't mistaken, this woman had the same terrifying aura as their Noxian Supreme Commander, General Darkwell!
That's the breath of a demigod! Darius regretted that he had taken the lead with pride, which was completely different from what the intelligence said.
Intelligence, however, said that Ionia was a closed and ignorant country, and it was impossible to have demigods.
Escape!
There was only one thought in Darius' mind, he didn't want to die in the remote land of Ionia.
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