Standing on the deck, Rhodes quietly leaned on the railing and watched the sea.

Because of his unspeakable obsession, Rhodes abandoned the use of teleportation and instead chose sailing as his way to Ionia.

Rhodes consciously walked in the world.

Accustomed to standing in the clouds, Rod clearly felt that the part of himself that belonged to "people" was rapidly disappearing - yes, he had always been proud, but this pride must not turn into the self-righteousness of a giant god.

So, Rhodes is going back to earth.

It's not an easy thing to do – a lot of times, people aspire to detachment, but Rhodes is now looking for the opposite, and for him, the best state would be to be close to the hustle and bustle.

Easier said than done.

Rhodes could not allow himself to indulge in ordinary grievances, but also avoided being completely ignorant of ordinary things, and this kind of size was not easy to grasp.

Maybe...... Is it a good idea to make friends with some of the best people in the market?

With this in mind, Rhodes joined the cruise ship for a dinner party – and as a result, his biggest takeaway was not the people he met, but the food he enjoyed......

Well, if nothing else, the cruise ship meal on this Piltover departing for Weili is really good.

As for knowing some people or something...... Rod really doesn't have a common language with these second generations of Leather City.

Once upon a time, he once longed to be one of them, but now, after standing above the clouds, Rhodes finds that he can no longer look down on these ordinary drunken gold fans.

For the current Rod, material enjoyment is pure material enjoyment, and there is no pleasure with showing off or any other spiritual attributes, so at the end of the banquet, he can only silently work the table.

Well, I ate a lot.

After the dinner, Rhodes politely declined the invitation of several young women from Picheng to further in-depth exchanges, and stood silently on the deck by himself, holding on to the railing and blowing the sea breeze.

Rhodes was summing up the previous dinner.

Why do you seem to have lost the joy of showing off?

Is it boring to show off, or is it ...... Showing off in front of these people is too low-level for your current self?

Rhodes thinks it's the latter.

Although in the countless episodes of pretending to be X slapping in the face, a waiter who has no vision can go out for ten or twenty chapters, but in fact, Rhodes thinks that the real strong people should not pay attention to those at all.

Or...... I also want to be Long Aotian again, take the steps that the six relatives don't recognize, and walk in style?

Words in terms of time...... Maybe it's really possible!

When the sailors changed their shifts and began their vigil, Rhodes finally left the deck and returned to his room—this time, he had made up his mind to change his identity, bring all his bad tastes, and have fun!

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The Nogley was the first step in the Ring Plan.

Although Rod never said it, whether it is Ike or Camille, everyone is human - don't look at the fact that they almost accept all of Rod's requests, but other than that, they still have their own thoughts.

Rhodes was fighting against the Void, and he never hid it from anyone else.

Although Rod himself did not know the victory or defeat, he ...... Whether it's Ike or Camille, they're actually convinced that Rhodes will win.

Don't ask why, they are so confident – or rather, Rod deserves them.

So, for the most part, both Ike and Camille are looking to the future after the fight against the Void.

Although it is said that Rhodes wants to gather the power of the entire Valoran, and everyone fights side by side against the Void, but what about after the battle?

Will the Noxians stop expanding by fighting side by side? Or will the Demacians stop the theoretical output of "justice" because they are fighting side by side? Or will Shurima sit back and watch the Twin Cities continue to ride the dust?

Just think about it for a moment, once the Void is defeated, Valoran will come to an era that truly belongs to mortals.

And if you want to seize the opportunity in this era, the twin cities themselves are congenitally insufficient.

Although Hextech has made new achievements, and although Hex's annihilation technology has also made new discoveries, the limited population and resources still limit the further development of the Twin Cities.

Both Ike and Camille knew that if a large-scale war did happen, it would be difficult to be the victorious side even if the twin cities played all their cards.

Either the twin cities are defeated, or everyone loses in the Rune Wars.

In this sense of crisis, the two cities worked together to finally reach a secret plan around the city - this plan was extremely secretive, and the true exact content was even known to Ike and Camille, not even Camille's husband.

The core of the plan is simple, which is to keep the Twin Cities in a transcendent position after the Void War, and become a permanent neutral country for Valoran as much as possible.

Broadly speaking, the plan is divided into three parts.

First of all, the Twin Cities need to continuously exert soft power influence on Valoran, using means including but not limited to art, culture, and entertainment to exert influence on all areas of Valoran, and create an image of the Twin Cities within Valoran, which is neither humble nor arrogant, advanced and free.

Second, the Twin Cities need to conduct multilateral diplomacy, reach a complex diplomatic alliance, become the core area of Valoran's diplomacy, and strive for the position of diplomatic mediator to maintain the particularity of the Twin Cities in terms of diplomatic means.

The last, and most top-secret, is the ignition plan.

For the first time after Rhodes became a Rune Annihilator, the Twin Cities focused their attention on Annihilation - this time, their goal was not the Annihilation Rune (which had already been achieved to a certain extent with the Hex weapon using the power of the Annihilation Rune), but a higher level of Rune Annihilation.

The entire Twin Cities, including Jace, Victor, and Levik (Oriana's father), have pulled out all their technical reserves and focused on rune annihilation, hoping to create a weapon that can annihilate the world's runes or secondary rune energy sources.

Although the number of rune casters in the twin cities itself is small, it ...... As long as this plan succeeds and the flame of annihilation is ignited, then the whole of Valoran will usher in a completely different new era!!

And this [Nogli] is the first chess piece of Ionian diplomacy in the second article of the Ring City Plan.

In order to be "like a person", Rhodes did not entrust Camille to get a ticket for himself, so no one knew that there was such a ...... on this ship with the expectation of two-city diplomacy Different characters.