When Rhodes probably began to deal with his own private affairs in addition to Freljord's official affairs, the twin cities, thousands of miles away, finally ushered in a historic moment.

After five years, the ignition project, which concentrated the highest level of research and resources from Piltover and Zaun, finally came to the most important moment.

For five years, on the basis of the existing and usable weapons of annihilation, including the future guardian Jace, the mechanical pioneer Victor, the clockwork master Levik, the energetics expert Lemire, and the great inventor Heimerdinger, almost all the masters of the two cities worked hard to find a way to improve the weapons of annihilation.

Calculation and deficiency of theoretical knowledge, design and improvement of structural models, proposal and research and development of new materials, discovery and repair of design problems......

This group of almost the smartest people in Valoran came together in this way, and contributed all their strength for one purpose.

In the beginning, the ignition plan was just an idea and a primitive feasibility argument, and it is no exaggeration to say that when Ike and Camille first met over the ignition plan, it was all just a possibility.

Jace and Victor then became special advisors to verify the possibility – and as it did, the outline of the ignition plan took shape.

In order to maintain their transcendent position after the coming war, the Ignition Project became the most important and fundamental undertaking of the Twin Cities, as Ike and Camille agreed, "The Twin Cities need a fist strong enough to intimidate the whole of Valoran, and we need a means to defend themselves without war." ”

Carrying the expectations of the Twin Cities, the ignition program began in a top-secret situation.

And the beginning of this study was a full five years.

Although the Twin Cities have been through a lot and participated in many of these five years, the Twin Cities have provided the highest level of support for the ignition program at all times - even in order to be able to obtain a safe enough testing ground, the Twin Cities have even hollowed out the base of the previous Annihilation Weapon, dug it out of the ground, and turned the Sinking Hook Mine of Zaun into an entire underground base!

Such a huge project cost a lot of gold and hex in the twin cities, and even caused some criticism - fortunately, the secret expenditure was not announced to the public, and the plan itself did not suffer any way.

And now, five years later, the ignition plan has finally come to a critical juncture.

Through a lot of experiments, the members of the Ignition Project have basically mastered the basic method of rune annihilation - the holder of the secondary rune will use sufficient energy to annihilate their runes, and in the process, terrifying energy will explode.

But the trouble is that the process is extremely uncontrollable.

Although he learned about the rune construction method from Rhodes, Victor can already make some small, messy runes by himself, but if he follows this rune annihilation method, even if he creates a rune annihilation weapon, I am afraid that it can only be used by Victor, and it is a one-time - Victor will become a rune annihilator with one shot, and naturally he can't fire a second shot.

As for finding a few other rune wielders......

Aside from Victor, who else has the skills of Hextech?

The purpose of Project Ignition is to create a controllable rune annihilation weapon, not "a one-time weapon that requires a certain world rune wielder at the cost of turning himself into a rune annihilator".

This problem brought the ignition program to a halt almost for a while - but a peculiar presence allowed the ignition program researchers to find a new direction.

Britz.

In Victor's whim, the steam robot has mastered the method of rune construction!

This is undoubtedly a huge breakthrough!

With this discovery, the direction of the entire research group quickly changed - after proving that robots, or mechanical creations, can be "igniters" of annihilation weapons, the question now becomes "how to make reliable mechanical igniters".

On this issue, everyone began to cross the sea with eight immortals, each showing their magical powers.

Using Britz as a sample, Victor began to look for a way to create a truly mechanical one—but unfortunately Britz was still unable to replicate it, and the rest of the robot samples were unable to generate self-consciousness and become owners of secondary runes.

Jace tried to start from the perspective of energy, trying to use pure energy to build a rune engraving and create a substitute for the rune owner - and because of the instability of energy, Jace's direction was also limited.

And in this link, it was Livik and Lemire who made the breakthrough.

Liwick is Piltover's most famous clockwork master and mathematician - and Professor Lemire is his best friend and a professor of mathematics (of course, he is also Ezreal's uncle), and the two guys who are not very good at robotics have found an interesting way to find an interesting way from a mathematical point of view.

In essence, the rune construction method is "a means of constructing endless runes using the rules of runes", and if you start from a mathematical point of view, theoretically speaking, you can master endless runes by mastering the rune construction method.

Of course, since mastering runes itself requires a high level of rune magic, it is impossible for ordinary people to construct runes even if they know how to construct runes—and even if ordinary rune casters construct runes, it is difficult to use the power of these artificial runes.

But...... When Liwick and Lemire started from a mathematical point of view, they found something very interesting.

Theoretically, runes can be constructed using rune construction and base energy (in this case, energy can be any form of energy), and the strength of the runes is determined by the base energy.

But runes need carriers after all, even if you are the "Jace's Chest Hair" rune, it also represents the existence of Valoran Jace's chest hair, if this rune is annihilated, Jace will not have any chest hair in his life.

Therefore, although the rules of rune construction are simple, they are difficult to master, and even more difficult to express in other ways.

But...... Math is different.

Thanks to the efforts of Levik and Lemuel, they succeeded in constructing the Imaginary Rune.

Imaginary numbers, while a reliable tool, don't exist in reality – you can't find anything in Valoran.

In other words, the law of runes admits that there are imaginary numbers, but imaginary numbers cannot be mapped to Valoran's reality!

Therefore, no matter how many imaginary runes you annihilate, it will not have any effect on Valoran.

And even better, this imaginary rune can be done mechanically!