The Angel incident became a small episode - although both Gavin IV and Pan Sen were curious about why Rod suddenly disappeared, but since Rod didn't take the initiative to say, they didn't ask.

After Rhodes returned to Demacia, Gavin IV told him about one of his plans for the Void War.

A plan for the division of troops on two fronts.

And after listening to Jiawen IV's plan, Rhodes frowned - although he didn't see through everything at the first time, he instinctively felt that the plan proposed by Jiawen IV seemed to have something to say.

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Gavin IV did have something to say - although he said to Rhodes that "in order to be able to quickly deploy Demacia's forces to the front line of Acacia, Demacia needs to establish contact with Shurima first", but in fact, his fundamental purpose was to use the relationship between Rhodes and Pansen to find an opportunity to contact the Shurima people.

The transfer of troops was only a façade, but in reality, the most important purpose of Govin IV was to find a way to form an alliance with Shurima.

In fact, the Hex Dawn in Leather City not only caused a lot of pressure on Noxus, but even Demacia, far to the west, had a strong sense of crisis.

Considering the geographical advantages of the twin cities, Gavin IV was keenly aware of their plans.

Want to be Valoran's arbiter?

How can this be!

You know, in the past, Demacia has always regarded himself as Valoran's "representative of justice", the twin cities or something...... It's just a little guy who can do business.

But because of the previous mage turmoil, Demacia fell into huge trouble, although now there are some clues, but it is still very difficult to want these mages to completely integrate into society and make Demacia the spokesperson of justice again.

After all, Demacia is in trouble, and while the national strength is weakening, the two cities form gangs and factions, and they also make Hex Dawn.

As a great power, Jiawen IV obviously did not want to see the Twin Cities rely on their geographical and technological advantages to choke the most important pass of Valoran and become the arbiter of the Runetera Continent.

But at this time, even if Demacia is unwilling, his countermeasures are limited.

In the long collision and run-in, the current Runetera has formed a relatively stable pattern, although it seems that Noxus is constantly stirring up trouble and constantly starting wars, but in fact, they are at most a small fight.

After the failure of the invasion of Ionia, it was actually difficult for Noxus to expand rapidly, although they were still tough on the outside world, they were already mainly taking advantage, and it was difficult to start a real war for a while - after all, Noxus was now attacked on all sides.

In the case of peace being the mainstream, once the Twin Cities, which have technological and geographical advantages, want to rely on the power of Hex's annihilation weapon to pose as arbiters, even Demacia can't say much.

And this is clearly not in line with the great power status that the Demacians wanted.

As a result, Gavin IV began to seek a force that could oppose this arbiter, in order to maintain Demacia's advantage in the next peaceful competition, and it seemed that it would be a good way to find an ally to advance and retreat together.

After all, the arbiter needs to have a relatively balanced situation to arbitrate, and if the international environment in Runeterras is one-sided, even the Twin Cities must honestly return to the table and not think about being a referee.

With this purpose in mind, Gavin IV plans to pull Shurima together and form a grand alliance - once this alliance becomes a reality, then the two cities will automatically lose the qualification of arbiters, after all, when Demacia and Shurima stand together, this alliance has occupied a pole of the entire Runemar Lands, and in terms of size, this alliance has nearly half of the territory and population of the entire Runemares.

As long as this alliance is reached, then no matter how hard the two cities try, they can't guarantee their transcendent status.

As for why Govin IV had this plan...... This is because the complementarity between Shurima and Demacia is so good.

First of all, there is no conflict between Shurima and Demacia - two countries, one to the south and the other to the north, are separated by the sea, except for the coastline.

Secondly, in the international relations of the Land of Runeterra, there is no form of conflict of interest between the two sides, and now what Demacia hopes is to maintain Demacia's status as the "righteous leader", and at the same time seize the time to sort out domestic relations, in international affairs, Demacia actually has no demands.

And Shurima is more special - because the ancient Shurima empire is so large that the entire south of the Valoran Strait, Shurima can claim since ancient times.

That's right, including the Giant God Peak, including Kumangu, including Eshtar, including the Twin Cities, including Acacia, although these places are not under the rule of the Shurima Empire now, if you go back to the ancient Shurima Empire, it is all "since ancient times".

These countries that have developed their own civilizations and have their own cultures were once part of the ancient Shurima Empire, and now, after the revival of Shurima, they will naturally be a little unable to sit still.

That's where it gets interesting.

Although Gavin IV was not sure if the Empress of Shurima had any intention of recovering the land, since the Azir was still there, it was impossible for them to give up the territories that once belonged to the Gushurima Empire.

It is precisely for this reason that everyone now says "for Valoran" and "kill the Void Invaders", but in fact, everyone is full of wariness of Shurima,

Most directly, if it weren't for the fact that the Twin Cities were wary of Shurima itself, why did the Twin Cities unite with the Bilgewater in their "Joint Statement on the Void War" and find an opportunity to land and establish a stronghold in Acacia, instead of going directly overland and advancing towards Acacia step by step with a stable rear?

Gavin IV's idea is very clear, after the War of the Void and the War of the Void, the main contradiction in Valoran will be the contradiction between the revival of Shurima and the contradiction between the region of Shurima about unity and independence.

Under this premise, what Demacia should do is to develop, so the best choice is to stand behind Shurima, and provide a little help to this huge empire when necessary, so that he can wrestle with those scattered small countries, only in this confrontational environment, Demacia can achieve corner overtaking, in order to be great again!

Contacting the Empress of Shurima is an important first step.

King Gavin IV believed that as long as he met with Empress Shurima and explained his interests to her, his plan would be successful!