Rod's appearance was completely unexpected by Svein - although in his cognition, Rod belongs to the kind of person who does not play cards according to common sense, but it is a little abnormal to appear in front of him with such a swagger.

“…… I didn't expect Mr. Rhodes to be so free. Svein was stunned for a moment, and did not follow Rhodes's words, "Without prior notice, I came to the Immortal Fortress." ”

It sounded like something inconsequential, but it was always threatening - though it didn't seem like much to Rod.

"Didn't I hear that Noxus was looking for development?" Rod Mali climbed through the window and sat in the guest's seat, "So by the way, let's take a look at how a Noxus that doesn't wage war with the outside world develops." ”

Irony, absolute irony - albeit on someone else's turf, but Rhodes is clearly emboldened.

"It's not like an integrated twin city." Hearing the irony, Svein didn't feel the slightest excitement, he just leaned his whole weight back and leaned on the wide back of his seat, "Sometimes I also envy a small country, anyway, even if there is a lack of depth, lack of resources or other such and such problems, but the ship is always a good turn, as long as you are willing, you can always quickly change the road, and there will never be a problem that is difficult to return." ”

"Hahaha." Hearing Svein's words of envy on the surface, but in fact threat, Rhodes continued to play dumb, "It's okay, the Twin Cities are just lucky, and they have some reliable allies - to be honest, if it weren't for the trade between Bilgewater and Freljord, the Twin Cities would not be where they are now. ”

“……”

This time, Svein was silent.

The two seem to be greetings, but in fact they have already had a round of confrontation - Rhodes sarcastically satirized that Noxus is only starting to develop now and is a temporary cramming; Svein threatens the size of Rodnoxus here, and it still has the ability to crush the twin cities that lack depth and resources; In the face of Svein's threat, Rhodes expressed "regret" that the twin cities with political and military alliances could not be judged only by depth and resources in the war.

At this point, Svein was stuck.

Although it can be strongly argued that Noxus is okay with one dozen or three, everyone understands and knows that this is not possible.

Clearly, Rhodes has captured Noxus' biggest problem – that there is no political ally in Valoran's environment.

To make matters worse, because of the mess left by his predecessors, Svein couldn't even be an honorably isolated spoiler — considering that the surrounding countries had fought with Noxus, it would be almost impossible for Svein to use diplomacy to mediate.

After all, when it comes to political credibility, Noxus is completely negative in Valoran......

Seeing that Svein stopped talking, Rod finally breathed a sigh of relief.

At least for now, Svein is aware of Noxus' problems and seems to need to find a solution.

This attitude is an opportunity for me.

Luckily, Svein is a smart man - if it was Darkwell's idiot who was now in charge of the Immortal Fortress, he would have jumped up and shouted at Rhodes to kill him, and if Rhodes wanted to involve Noxus in the battle against the Void, the only way might be to have a Noxian Revolution.

And given the size of Noxus, it would be quite a trouble.

"So, Mr. Svein." Looking at the silent Svein, Rhodes leaned forward without a trace, "In this wave of Valoran's nationalization, isn't Noxus going to be involved?" ”

Svein didn't answer immediately, but raised his head and stared at Rhodes with a pair of eyes.

And Rhodes was not in a hurry, he also sat in the guest's seat like this, quietly looking at Svein, waiting for the Noxian Grand Commander to give him an answer.

……………………

The clock ticked by.

Svein was waiting, waiting for Rhodes to lose patience and reveal more information.

Rhodes was also waiting, waiting for Svein to hold back and ask for more information.

But for now, it seems that both Rod and Svein are very patient people.

So both of them watched each other in silence, letting time pass, and neither of them spoke.

It was getting darker and darker, and Svein's study was gradually buried in the shadows, but neither Svein nor Rhodes cared about the gradually diffusing darkness, but continued to maintain their patience and continue to wait.

Until...... On the bell tower of the Immortal Fortress, the bell that represents the curfew rings.

Almost at the moment when the bell rang, several strange shadow lines appeared around Rod, and these tangible and intangible shadow lines were like iron bars that appeared out of thin air, forming a cage that did not leak, enveloping Rhodes in it - I don't know when, Svein had already begun his own attack.

In the face of the attack from Svein, Rhodes originally planned to get away with a flash - but almost the moment the shadow line appeared, there was a serious lag in the surrounding space, and this feeling of atherosclerotic made Rod stop the spatial teleportation, because he was not sure whether he would be directly squeezed into a large pie under such spatial conditions.

Seeing that the shadow lines were getting denser and denser, Rod didn't panic, he stretched out his left hand and snapped his fingers lightly.

The next moment, with Rhodes' left hand as the center, an invisible ripple of time rippled out, and the time of these shadow lines began to accelerate—so that the shadow lines that could theoretically last for several days quickly disappeared and became invisible in less than a second.

And with the ripples of time, Rod just got out of the cage that Svein had carefully weaved, and even waved his hand to release a light spell, making the entire study as bright as day.

"Sure enough, I still have to do it."

Freed from Svein's shackles, Rhodes didn't look at the slightest bit annoyed by the sneak attack, but instead looked like he should have been, holding his staff in his hand, and then looking up at Svein, who stood up and spread his demonic wings.

"I'm not going to bully you this time...... I won't use banishment spells against demons, I hope you can figure out where Noxus should stand after the battle! ”

Svein didn't speak, but in response, a pair of big black hands grabbed Rhodes directly - although the shadow energy always disappears with the passage of time, the immortal demon is not afraid of the erosion of time!