Chapter 294: Misleading
The master's moves, even the slightest disadvantage and inadequacy, will be infinitely magnified - this is the situation of Svein now.
The enemy knows Svein well, knows Noxus very well - but Svein himself doesn't even know who the enemy is, and in this case, he can't use his strength!
The previous prophecy was simply a slap in the face of Svein, making his good mood in the past few days disappear without a trace.
But fortunately, Svein finally found useful evidence.
Traces of crushing.
You know, unlike the ashes left behind by the flames, it's much more difficult to create a crushing trail than it is to set a fire, even if it's an unusual lava flame.
There are only a handful of people who can leave such crushing marks in Valoran, and they can even be said to be among the gods.
Whether it's the demigods of Freljord, or the giant star spirits of Giant God Peak, or ...... A certain big octopus that used to work together but turned out to be very unpleasant.
When he saw a large amount of lead bullet, Svein was not unsuspicious of Bilgewater, but no matter what Svein thought, he couldn't figure out how the Bilgewater people could have made such a level of crushing marks.
Why?
And this trace is clearly not left by the new storm god - the traces left by the lightning whip and the wind blade don't last long!
According to the mages who were well-versed in the marks, it was the immense, flexible but powerful whip that caused the crushing marks—only the whipping would leave such marks.
And judging by these mages, many places have been treated before, and all possible traces have been erased, which happened to remain under the lava before they were disposed of.
Considering the way those previous mages had died—the soul was stripped away—Svein quickly zeroed in on his target—Naga Kapolos.
In this way, Svein fell directly into Rhodes' misleading trap.
So then again, how exactly did Rhodes mislead Svein?
The method is simple, destroy all the traces, leaving only a few plausible ones, and then make a whip out of the Suffron lava, imitate the Aloy, smash them on the ground a few times, and then "inadvertently" keep these traces under a hollow lava.
Others may not be able to imitate Naga Kapoulos's lash, but Rod, who has fought Aloy head-to-head, can—and with the right control, Safron Flame can reappear as a fluid tentacle.
Rhodes could have carefully examined the battlefield before leaving, and for fear of leaving anything else, he simply burned the place several times with the flames of Safron, so that the entire valley would be full of solidified lava slag, and all other traces would simply disappear into the flames.
One might be able to tell what had happened before by the ashes of the flames, but the Suffron Flame was no ordinary flame, and everything that the Suffron Flame had burned was the same!
As for the prophecy...... In fact, Rod didn't think about this stubble at all - in Rhodes's opinion, the prophecy is not reliable at all, if the prophecy is really so powerful, Svein still needs to ink with LeBlanc? Directly manually locate and then arrest it soon?
Rhodes didn't know that LeBlan's attainments in prophecy spells were quite different, and she rarely left any traces of herself, so Svein couldn't catch her at all!
But...... This can be regarded as an unintentional insertion, and Rod's origin is really a bit big, so that Svein not only didn't figure out who Rod was, but even hooked up with a group of prophetic mages......
What's more, because of the soul flame, Svein is even more sure that this is Naga Kapolos doing something - among all the gods, you and Qianjue are studying the soul realm, isn't it you, is it the god of death who took those people away and set them on fire?!
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After identifying the killer, Svein fell into deep thought again.
Why did Naga Kapoulos do this?
Svein was completely out of his head.
There is no doubt that Naga Kapoulos's forces suffered a severe blow after they were expelled from Bilgewater.
In particular, Svein also heard that this was mainly the reason why Naga Kapolos's deity was defeated in battle with the God of Storms.
No one knows anything about the Battle of Bilgewater except for Rod, Jana, Sarah, and Aloy, so Svein couldn't have imagined that the God of the Storm, who seemed to be worse than anyone else, was among the gods...... I can't do it at all.
Svein, who didn't know what was going on, believed that the God of Storms was a powerful god, so Noxus didn't do anything during the Bilgewater turmoil - and then the news of the purification of Shadow Island gradually spread, and Svein temporarily restrained his thoughts to the east.
Mordekaiser and Noxus on the Isle of Shadows are inextricably linked, and Svein is well aware of Mordecaesar's strength.
It was because of a series of changes that Svein focused his attention on the storm god and the queen of doom, and subconsciously ignored the loser Naga Kapoulos.
Although Svein had heard some rumors about "Aloy returning to the Anaconda Islands to move the rescuers", he didn't take it seriously.
Anyway, if you move the rescuers, you have to recapture Bilgewater first, right?
But now, what Svein never expected was that Naga Kapoulos actually did it to Noxus, and the target of the attack was ...... It's a batch of Fendo light horses!
What do you mean?
If the Shurima had done this, Svein was sure they were trying to delay the conquest of Noxus, but Naga Kapoulos did it......
This lost deity wants to get his hands on Shurima?
Or did the Shurima pay a lot of money?
Svein couldn't judge.
But when he thought of this, Svein was not in a hurry.
Since you have stolen the war horses, it means that those war horses are useful to you.
If Naga Kapoulos wanted to take a territory in Shurima, the horses would have been transported to the Anaconda Islands - and if they were sent directly to Nashramme across the coast, it would mean that Naga Kapoulos and Shurima had reached some kind of cooperation.
Thinking of this, Svein made the next step.
"Tell Piltover's spies to keep an eye on the harbor, if there are any forbidden trespassers - I know that Piltover has no more war stonemasons, those peripheral members are enough, I don't believe those East China Sea savages will obediently cross the port."
"The war stonemasons of Nashram keep an eye on the harbor all day—and the war stonemasons of the other port cities of Shurima, cheer me up! There are only a few ports available to Shurima, so make sure you know where those horses have gone! ”
"Also, the naval brigade of the Blood Bluff was ordered to anchor south and temporarily stationed in Findor...... No, Besilico - waiting for my next instruction! ”