In the morning when Izze had not yet left Ionia. In the windswept primeval forest in the northernmost part of Ionia, two people stood silently with their hands in their hands. One of them was dressed in a black suit, and his black hair was mottled with a bit of white. The dark and bottomless eyes were like a pool of deep water, without a trace of waves.

"We haven't seen each other in thirty years." The air of murder pervades the air between the words.

"Thirty-three years." The person who answered him was the Master of Rio that Ize had met in Stone Mountain when he first set foot in Ionia, and he was also Irelia's father. Master Rio was just like what Ize had seen before, with long snow-white hair and a straight waist, but the sword that had hung on the wall before floated strangely beside Master Rio, spinning slowly.

"You've got a good memory." The man in black smiled, "Then you know why I'm here this time." After speaking, he looked at the Rio master fixedly, with a playful smile in his eyes.

Master Rio's still deep gaze seemed to see the distant horizon through the figure of the man in black, "You are here to clear our obstacles for Noxus to invade Ionia." Du, Cocao! "There wasn't a ripple on my face.

Du, Cocao! Noxus' most famous military strategist, strategist, and... Assassin!

"Rio. If it weren't for each other, maybe we would have become good friends. Du and Cocao looked at Master Rio with regret.

As the two spoke, the horizon began to be noisy, followed by a rumbling sound, like thunder in the distance. Gradually, even the ground began to shake slightly.

The cloud of sand and dust got closer and closer, dozens of meters away from the two of them, and then slowly slowed down. But there are countless strange beasts, like a bear but a leopard with an elephant's trunk, and like a leopard with five tails, a beast that screams like a boulder. They gathered behind Du and Cocao, roaring in the sky or digging into the ground, and they looked very terrifying.

Master Rio faced a tide of tens of thousands of beasts, and the strong wind blew his clothes and hunted. There was still no trace of waves on Master Rio's face, and he said lightly: "Ionia, how can such filthy things touch. ”

"Heh," Du and Cokao said, standing at the head of a strange beast at the head of the beast tide, and stretched out their hands.

"Whew!"

Several large gray birds soared into the wings, with a wingspan of only tens of meters, and the strong wind brought up destroyed the trees like a wither, and swooped down towards the Rio master with an unpleasant cry.

"Zheng!"

There was a sword roar, and the Rio master did not make any movement, and the sword beside him rose into the sky by itself. A huge sword slashed through, and the giant bird that was still flying in mid-air was slashed in two, falling to the ground and sending a cloud of dust and mist to the ground.

"Hehe, we still brush this little trick between us, but it's not mine." Du and Cokao shook their heads slowly, stepped on the head of the giant beast, and ran towards Rio with an endless tide of beasts, "Rio, you can't hold anything!" ”

Ten thousand beasts ran wildly, and the earth shook as if it were about to collapse. The master of Rio in the middle of it is a flat boat in the great waves, as if it will be swallowed up in an instant.

Feeling the gusts of wind and rumbling roar brought by the beast tide, Master Rio's sword spun faster and faster, emitting a sharp sword roar. Master Rio slowly raised his head and looked at the sky that was gradually darkened by the wind and sand, "Old man, I'm sorry. I'm going to trouble you this time. ”

I saw a flash of golden light in the dim sky, tearing apart pieces of black clouds, revealing a crack that shone with golden light. Then a strong claw was revealed, and a large head poked out of the clouds. The golden eyes looked at the black beast underground, and with a roar, they raised their heads and rushed downward. The figure hidden in the clouds is finally revealed. It was a figure of dozens of meters, covered in dark green scales, and the rain and mist were shrouded in spouts. It has the horns of a deer, the body of a snake, and the claws of an eagle. It's like a dragon in an ancient Chinese story.

Du and Cocao looked at the creatures falling from the clouds with a look of disbelief. He muttered, "Ao Xing! ”

Ao Xing crossed his knees above Master Rio and lowered his huge dragon head, "Rio, you are a lot older. ”

Master Rio looked up at Ao Xing, showed a smile, and did not speak. Then he stretched out his hand and shook it, and the sword flew in. The long sword was held in his hand, and the aura around his body was agitated, as if he had returned to the days when he was young and frivolous and fought side by side. With a wave of his long sword, he flew towards the huge beast tide, "I can hold it!" ”

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In the entire Valoran Continent, the demigod level and above masters all sensed a huge energy fluctuation from afar, and they all looked in the northeast direction, as if they had seen Ionia through thousands of mountains and rivers.

And in the windy forest of Ionia, no, it can no longer be called the windy forest, here, it has been displaced by a great force, and the ground is endless. Here, it was called by later generations: the Great Wasteland in the Wind.

On the previous battlefield, tens of thousands of beast tides, Du, Kekao, and Ao Xing were all gone. Only Master Rio sat quietly on the ground, with the broken sword next to him.

For a long time, Master Rio slowly looked up at the cloudless sky, "Thank you, Ao Xing." Please bring Du and Cocao into the endless void and accept the cycle of time. Then Master Rio slowly stood up, and the broken long sword next to him suddenly screamed sadly, and the sound of the sword was desolate and indescribably anxious. Master Rio slowly turned his head and rubbed the broken blade, "And you, old man. Thank you for being with me through these many years. Now, go to Irelia and do my fatherly duty to protect her. With that, he walked step by step into the depths of the wasteland.

"Zheng Zheng!" The sword body roared mournfully, as if it was crying. Until the figure of the Rio master is out of sight.

At the same time, Irelia, who was in the Nanwu Academy, suddenly felt empty in her heart, as if something very important was missing, she was stunned for a while, and shook her head suspiciously.

There are a few masters on the Valoran continent.

Piltover, the great inventor Heimerdinger suddenly stopped what he was doing and stared at the table in a daze, "Rio, are you leaving... ”

Freljord, the Ice Tribe, the king of this generation held his youngest daughter's hair, looked at the northeast with a sad face, and was silent for a long time.

Freljord, a natural warrior who was teaching his son, suddenly shuddered and bowed deeply to the northeast.

Demacia, Demacia II sat alone on the throne and said to himself thoughtfully, "Rio and Du, Cocao... ”

Noxus, the Supreme Administrator of Noxus, "General Cokao, succeeded. ”

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And now the Great Wasteland in the Wind has become a dead domain with no grass under the raging energy. Surrounded only by a violent energy and an indomitable will, it seems to be looking at this beloved island all the time.

At this point, the first generation of grandmaster Rio fell. And this day was later called "Ionian Godless Day." Of course, Ize, who had already set foot on the sea to Bilgewater, did not know all this, and he was now sailing on the waterway he hated the most... The merchant ship that Izawa was on to the port of Bilgewater had to pass through pirate-infested waters, so Captain Raghu brought all kinds of equipment with him, from a hand-thrown harpoon to a well-developed breech-loading gun on the foredeck. Ize thought that a warship was nothing more than that, not to mention that the sailors on board were all burly and strong.

The sea is much cooler in August than on the mainland. In the distance, a white wave rushed towards the shore, like a galloping horse, and like an angry white dragon. Just hear a "pop", and it hit the rock hard. It was like a landslide and the ground cracked, and then the tide reluctantly retreated into the sea. What a tragic scene! Although it knew that its power was insignificant, it had been rushing to the shore since time immemorial, as if it wanted to break through the rocks and out of the lonely and lively sea. Ize lay lazily on the deck, the cool sea breeze with a faint salty taste, looking at the spectacular waves one after another, Ize had a different vision: the sea, you are all water...

The sailors were busy on the deck, and the old merchant captain Raghu walked towards Ize, who was lying on the deck, on crutches.

Izawa felt a shadow obscure the harsh sunlight, and couldn't help but squint his eyes at Captain Raghu, who was smiling at him.

"Young man, why don't you lie on the deck and bask in the sun, come and see this magnificent sea of defenders." Captain Raghu pulled up Izawa, who was sitting on the deck. "It's hard to have such a spectacular sight in other seas."

"Well, that's what I said. But I don't like water by nature, and I don't like to walk on water. Izawa said listlessly as he glanced at the rolling waves.

"Hahaha, young man. Across the continent of Valoran, the ocean is more than twice as large as the land. And as an explorer, you only explore the continents that you can set foot in, and the larger and broader unknown ocean cannot be approached, how can you be considered a qualified explorer? Captain Raghu said as he looked at the mysterious sea, "You know, its depths have not been accessible to this day. The unknown does not only include continents. ”

Izawa listened to Captain Raghu's words in a daze, and thought silently in his heart: I thought I could go to all kinds of uninhabited places and explore unknown continents. But he couldn't overcome even a small shortcoming in front of him.

Then Izawa jumped up from the deck and walked to the bow of the ship, letting the waves crash against him. Looking at the sparkling sea surface of the sea and sky, I suddenly had an unprecedented yearning.

Captain Raghu looked at Ize, who was facing the waves on the bow of the boat, and nodded with a smile on his face.

The merchant ship carrying Izezer to the port of Bilgewater was in the evening of the third day of its departure from Ionia. Izawa sat in the cabin and took out his notes, writing: It was the third day of leaving Ionia, and it was expected that there would be two days left before the port of Bilgewater. I don't know what my friends in Ionia are doing, I miss them. Ezreal in the Sea of Defenders on August 14. Suddenly, Ize heard someone outside shouting his name: "Explorer, come out and see something you haven't seen before." Izawa stepped out of the cabin and looked at the sailor who had just called him, Nilan. Nilan: About thirty years old, with a sturdy physique, tanned and cheerful when he goes to sea all year round. And, both hands are vigorous, so that one hand is a good harpoon.

"What's wrong, Nilan." Izawa pushed open the hatch.

"Whoa." Nilan faces the sea, Nunu's mouth.

"Uhhh Ize walked to Class A and looked at the endless, white waves. "That's ... Whale? Izawa nervously looked at a gray and black back showing out of the sea, and excitedly called this, "Hahaha, is it the first time I have seen the explorer?" The sailors on board laughed.

Izawa watched intently as the mysterious sea creature slowly surfaced until it revealed half a mountain-sized body. "Uh, that's big."

"Hahaha, Izawa. There are so many things in the sea that you can't think of. Nilan bared a mouthful of white teeth as he spoke.

"Tuk-tuk." Captain Ra came over and looked at the endless sea under the sunset, "There is also a legend about the protector of the sea. ”

"Uh." The sailors gathered around with a whoop.

Captain Raghu stroked his beard, "Legend has it that hundreds of years ago on the Valoran continent, there was a notorious, but powerful figure. He does not belong to this continent, but he intends to invade all of Valoran. After conquering many parts of the continent, it is finally about to conquer Ionia, and this is the only way to get to Ionia. At that time, this sea area was not called the Defender's Sea, but a sea without a name. It was here that the man of great power ran into obstacles. It was a race that had lived in this ocean for generations, the Fish-People. It has the appearance of a fish, the shape of a human being, and is flexible and active by nature. It was in this sea that the fish-men finally drove away the enemy with all their might, and paid a terrible price for it, and the whole clan was crushed to the bottom of the sea by the one. So since then, no one has ever seen the fish-people on the mainland. It is because of the commemoration that the Fishmen defended their homeland and protected Ionia. Therefore, this sea is named: the Sea of Defenders. By the time the old captain had finished telling the story, the moonlight was already shining all over the shore.

Izawa listened fascinated, "The fish-people are really a brave race. At night, the sailors who had listened to the story fell asleep. The night is like a thick inkstone, so deep that it can't be dissolved. Izawa stood quietly on the deck and looked at the sea in the distance, "Old captain, you say, are there really fish-people?" ”

"Stories, as the name suggests, are things of the past." Captain Lagu stood on the deck with a cane and said calmly: "Although no one has seen it, as long as you are willing to look for it, whether it is in the 10,000-meter deep sea or on the other side of the continent, you will always find it." ”

"Yes." Izawa nodded, and a gust of sea breeze blew the hair on Izawa's forehead to reveal a handsome face. "Old captain, it's windy outside, so go and rest first. I'll stand a little longer and then go back. Izawa said as he walked over to the old captain and tightened his shirt for him.

As the night wore on, Izawa was still standing quietly on the deck, the moonlit sea sparkling from time to time. Izawa's eyes blurred as he watched the glittering light of the sea, and a smiling face appeared in his mind: the great inventor must not have worked and rested on time, and he didn't know if Catelyn had become a sheriff. I thought of the friends I had made in Ionia: alas, I still didn't see Kenan, and Sana and Starboy before leaving. Thinking of this, Ize suddenly frowned, "The Void Clan has appeared, I don't know if Jiawen has learned the news." I also have to speed up, this time in Blue Flame Island, I can't stay too long. "The situation on the mainland is like the calm sea in front of us, and there is not a trace of waves, but no one knows what is hidden under the calm...

"One, two, one, two." Early in the morning, Izawa was woken up by the trumpets shouted by the sailors. The old captain looked at the sea in front of him with a telescope, and because the weather was good and the wind was sufficient, he lowered the sails. Plus, there's another reason ...

Izawa rubbed his sleepy eyes and looked at the busy sailors on the deck, called out to the sweaty Nilan, and pointed to the sails, meaning why all the sails were lowered.

Nilan wiped his sweat and pointed to the front of the merchant ship, "Well, after coming to this sea area we passed, there will be about half a day's voyage, and we will approach the adjacent waters of Blue Flame Island." At the same time, that sea area is also the most infested place for pirates. Raising our commercial flag would be too revealing of the target. ”

"Pirates?" Ize pointed to the breech gun on the foredeck, "There are such inconspicuous pirates?" ”

"Hahaha, generally speaking, the scattered little pirates would not dare to rob us. Recently, however, in Bilgewater Harbour, a group of notorious and powerful pirates has emerged in a tendency to unify the waters around Blue Flame Island. Many passing merchant ships have been looted, and in the past, pirates were nothing more than a search for money, but I have heard that this group of pirates did not spare the women and children on board, and threw them all into the sea. So, let's be careful. Nilan said.

"So, this is a bunch of pirates who have lost their conscience?" Izawa looked at the bright sea in front of him, and a cold light flashed in his eyes.

As he spoke, the ship had sailed into the sea, and the old captain had been standing at the front of the deck with a telescope and watching for any anomalies that might occur at any time.

"Everyone, as long as we get through this sea safely and enter the port of Bilgewater, we can trade our goods with confidence. Therefore, during the voyage in this sea, I hope that everyone will be in good spirits. Nilan had a harpoon in his hand to cheer up the sailors.

"Yes!" Sailors held aloft their weapons, from hand-thrown harpoons to short shotguns.

Although Ize had never seen pirates, he was also disturbed by the atmosphere of the sailors as if they were facing a great enemy, so he tightened the goggles on his head and looked at the sailors' somewhat rudimentary weapons and thought: This is not good. I'll have to talk to Captain Raghu later, and I'll have time to make a trip to Piltover and ask the great inventor to equip the ship.

The blue sea was still as calm as ever, except for the waves brought by the merchant ships and the "chirping" of seagulls in the sky. The ship was moving faster and faster, and under the clear sky, Captain Raghu could already see the shores of Blue Flame Island far away through his telescope.

Izawa also took a harpoon handed over by Nilan, stood on the deck and looked left and right, in fact, in his heart, Ize still hoped to meet pirates. Because of the professional habits of an explorer, he still wants to see and see.

As they got closer, Ize and the sailors could see the craggy reef from afar. If nothing else, you can sail out of this sea in half an hour.

"Whew." While everyone breathed a sigh of relief, "Bang, bang." A few small collisions sounded, and at the same time, bubbles bubbled up in the water, and there were also traces of merchant ships moving forward on the surface of the hull.

"Below! A lot of people," Nilan shouted anxiously, "they're in the water, and they're going to destroy the hull in the water." As he spoke, he ran to the edge of the boat and looked at the water. Izawa also ran over, but there was no one in sight, only strings of bubbles rising. Nilan raised the harpoon in his hand and threw it vigorously under the bubbles.

"Snort." A stream of blood suddenly drifted on the surface of the sea.

"Hit!" One of the sailors cried out in surprise and followed Nilan as he threw his harpoon. Some hit it in a daze, and some threw it down and only splashed a splash. Izawa didn't do anything, because he didn't want to attack these pirates who he had never met and didn't know if they were enemies. He is not a sailor who sails on the sea all year round, so he doesn't know that the sailor's hatred for pirates is in his bones.

The water around the ship was gradually covered with a touch of blood, and several corpses with vague faces in tights floated up in the water. After a while, several teams of unknown, strange-looking fish floated up and scrambled to bite the corpses. There were no breathing bubbles around the ship, and the pirates seemed to have fled far away. Captain Raghu lowered his binoculars and made a stop gesture, "Alright, the pirates have retreated. ”

The sailors finally relaxed their tense nerves, threw down their weapons and hugged each other and cheered. And merchant ships are getting closer and closer to the coast.

Izawa looked at the corpse that had been bitten by fish in the water, and felt very uncomfortable and had an indescribable feeling. Nilan looked at Ize, who was standing on the deck in a daze, and walked over and patted Ize's shoulder, "Don't you think, we did too much." ”

Ize didn't speak, perhaps didn't want to say anything, and shook his head slightly.

Nilan sighed, "You're a carefree explorer, and you may think it's too much for pirates to be shot by us without even showing their heads, but you know how many people they killed. Just as the police are to criminals, we are to pirates. The reverse is also true. If we don't do it, we will die, and it may be even more cruel. ”

Izawa listened silently to Nilan's words, "Are you carefree... That has been for me for a long time. "The carcasses on the surface of the water have been eaten by unknown fish, and only the red water remains." Just like we are to Noxus ... ”

Captain Raghu stopped the sailors from cheering, "Well, just a bunch of weak little pirates, nothing to be happy about. Go and do your own thing. ”

The merchant ships were getting closer, and the sailors were already preparing the cables for docking. At this moment, from the heavy rocks on the shore, suddenly a ship sailed out, with a high mast and a wide hull, like a big fish with a high back, revealing the whole picture from the reef, and most importantly, a pirate flag hanging in front of it!

"Meet the enemy!" Nilan nervously watched the huge pirate ship that suddenly sailed out of the reef forest, and clenched the harpoon in his hand. Captain Raghu also looked at the big ship, pulled out the pistol he had with him at any time and walked to Ize's side, "Explorer, the pirates who came this time are very large, and we can't handle them. If something goes wrong for a while, run away by yourself and don't take care of us. Before Izawa could say anything, he walked to the front deck, "As you can see, this pirate ship in front is three times the size of our ship. In any case, do not fall into the reputation of our Ionian sailors. ”

The sailors did not speak, but simply clenched their weapons. Nilan was directing the cannonballs to be loaded, and the entire ship was busy preparing for the enemy.

"Isn't it okay, just ignoring my existence?" Ize looked at the sailors with a sad face and looked at death as if they were home, "What do you want me to flee first, I'm your specially hired bodyguard for merchant ships, hey!" ”

The entire crew was ready to meet the enemy, and they were just waiting to make contact with the pirate ship. However, after the huge pirate ship sailed out of the reef, it quietly anchored on the sea, and without any movement, it just watched the merchant ship get closer and closer.

"Huh?" Nilan and the other sailors looked at the pirate ship in front of them suspiciously, "What are they waiting for?" ”

Captain Lagu walked to the forefront of Class A with a pistol in his hand, and looked at the pirate ship that stopped on the merchant shipping route, "It's a blessing or a curse, it's a disaster that can't be avoided." It doesn't matter what the hell these pirates are up to. All the staff obeyed the order, full horsepower, and rushed over! ”

"Yes!"

Knowing that there were pirates several times larger than him in front of him, he rushed forward without dodging or dodging, Izawa held his forehead, "Sure enough, I want to, I see death as home." ”

"Prepare for shelling!" Captain Raghu ordered.

"Smack." An old gunner with a gray beard walked to the cannon with a calm face and a calm face, set up the gun position, loaded it and aimed at the pirate ship.

Before Captain Raghu could give the order to launch, he heard the rumbling sound of water from behind the ship. I saw a monstrous wave chasing after the boat with a gust of fishy wind.

"What's that?" Izawa looked at the waves that were approaching the merchant ships. There was a shadowy figure looming in the waves.

"That's ... Offshore Fear! Captain Raghu looked at the monster in the waves, a long black body, dragging behind a locomotive that looked like an express train, leaving behind it a cloud of smoke and gas. Crashing into the merchant ship with a monstrous wave.

"Offshore fear?" Izawa had never heard of such a creature, and looked at the monster that was getting closer and closer, unlike any fish we usually saw, two streams of water and vapor spit out from its nostrils, and spurted straight to a height of more than ten meters.

"Lef, stop it." Captain Raghu shouted at the battery, and it turned out that the old gunner's name was Leif.

"Boom."

A roar followed, and the cannonballs flew towards the waves with a puff of smoke.

And on the pirate ship opposite, a group of people gathered around a young man sitting on a seat. The young man wore the usual peaked cap of the captains, wore a short shirt with a sturdy chest, a revolver pinned to his waist, and a telescope with only one perspective in his left hand. I seem to enjoy the feeling of being crowded. And at his feet, there was a pirate who had just run out of the water, and said respectfully: "Young master, everything is arranged." ”

"Yohehehehehe," the young man known as the Young Master squinted his eyes and looked at the merchant ship where Izawa was located with contempt, "Then wait to see the show." ”

On Ize's side, the cannonballs did not affect the speed at which the offshore fear approached the merchant ship. Captain Raghu looked at the behemoth suspiciously, "What is it that attracts this monster... ”

"Is it blood?" Izawa pointed to the red waters stained by the blood of the pirates he had slain, as the waves had all stained the ship's hull, like a red dye on a merchant ship.

"Yohehehehe, they seem to have found out." The pirate master put down the telescope in his hand, "But what if you find it." The little fish eat the little dead carcasses, and my pet, the offshore fear, wants to eat the bigger stuff, of course. Otherwise, it would be in vain for me to send so many men down to dye that merchant ship red. Yo hehehe. The words were chilling, and the group of men who surrounded him clapped their hands.

Of course, Ize didn't hear that. Izawa didn't know what the pirate master was thinking, but the well-informed Captain Raghu did, "Because our ship is stained with blood, I think the Offshore Fear must have treated us like a bigger food." Moreover, the first wave of pirates we encountered was supposed to be deliberately sent to death to stain the sea red, and then the merchant ships were also covered with blood to attract the lords of the near sea. That would also explain why the pirate ship was standing still. Their purpose has never been to rely on pirates, but to tear us apart with this offshore fear. After saying that, Captain Raghu paused, "If that's the case, then our opponent on the other side of the ship is really a terrifying person." ”

Izawa still can't believe what Captain Raghu said: let his men send them to death, just to use the blood of his men to stain the merchant ship with blood!

But time was no longer for him, and the fear of the offshore sea was already rushing from behind with monstrous waves. And in front of the route of the merchant ship, there are still pirate ships guarding it.

Izawa jumped on the mast to face the overwhelming water, and put the goggles on his head on his eyes, "This offshore fear, I'll come!" ”