Chapter 29: Guardianship and Devotion

The story of Storm's Fury is long.

Cana didn't know when she was born - in her memory, she was a happy blue bird, able to hear the sailors with the help of the wind.

Instinct made Cana want to help those who were struggling in the storm, she didn't know why she was doing it, and she didn't care about it, for her, it was nature, it was a natural choice.

Countless ships survived the eye of the storm, and at first they thought it was their luck, but then they found out that a god was helping them - so they prayed to the god by hanging wind chimes made of seagull bones and shells on the bow of the ship.

And the sound of this wind chime has also become Cana's favorite sound.

Thus, Jhana became Jana, the guardian of the ancient Shurima language.

It was an age of ignorance.

Zaun and Piltover were still in their infancy, and Piltover's canals were not imaginary, and sailors had to make a great circle from the Sea of Watch to the Sea of Conquest, passing through Karamanda, bypassing Shurima, and repairing at Birgewater.

As fleets explore new passages, Cana protects them from the reefs of the sea; When the sailors miss their homeland on a starlit night, Cana will embrace them with a warm breeze; For those with bad intentions, Jana will use the violent winds to distract them from their course and educate them harshly - or summon the winds when they spot their prey, allowing otherwise unlucky ships to escape.

In this way, Jana has always guarded the ocean.

Later, everything changed.

After the rise of Zaun and Piltover, in order to better develop and ease the fatigue of navigation, people decided to use the rich alchemy resources here to open a canal to connect the two seas.

The canal allows sailors to no longer need Cana's wind and shelter, as they no longer need to navigate through the rocky flats of southern Valoran, nor do they need to keep an eye on the bluebird's storm warnings.

Gradually, the safety and speed of the ships no longer depended on the moody winds, but on the ingenuity of human design – so in the decades that followed, as the canal project progressed, Cana faded into oblivion.

Jana's shrine began to crumble, beaten by the waves, pecked by animals, and her name rarely appeared in silent prayers, even during the stormy winter months.

Jana felt herself weakened and weakenedβ€”when she tried to summon a gust of wind, she could only create a light gust; If she turns into a blue bird, she will have to stop and rest after flying for a few minutes.

Just a few years ago, she had held a premium in the hearts of the voyagers, and could it be so easy for them to forget the man who had blessed them with peace and answered their prayers?

Yet the truth is always so cruel that humans are always utilitarian and forgetful.

While embracing the evolution of Hex's technology, humans have forgotten about Cana, and they have completely forgotten that Cana brings them not only actual protection, but also a positive spirit - with them the spirit of exploring and moving forward, never retreating, punishing evil and promoting good.

As Cana drifted away, she saw that the canal was about to be completed, and all that was left of her existence was a light breeze.

But even so, Jana did her duty, sheltering those who worked at sea and digging canals.

Soon it was the day of the completion and opening ceremony of the canal, and people celebrated and applauded happily at the ceremony.

Thousands of alchemical technology blasting devices were placed in the middle of the isthmus, and the city's elders gathered to launch the ignition ceremony with their own hands, and travelers from all over the world watched with bated breath, waiting to witness the miracle, their faces full of antiquity, and their hearts filled with pride.

Then, because of some kind of mistake, it caused a series of earthquakes and poison gas leaks.

At such times, I don't know who was the first to whisper Jana's name.

And that prayer quickly became a wave, and countless struggling people began to whisper the name of the Guardian - as if it had been a long time ago.

A sudden desperate prayer hit Jana, and she felt her power coalesce into a substance, she had never felt so much power.

Countless people have seen the goddess, who has rushed into the poisonous clouds of dead silence, the sour mist that is robbing people of hope, all witnesses to the birth of the canal, but who are about to become martyrs.

Cana raised her staff, closed her eyes, and a violent whirlwind began to blow around her, her staff emitting brighter and brighter blue light, until finally she smashed her staff to the ground, blowing away all the poison gas with a strong last gust of force.

It could have been an opportunity for her faith to recover.

But neither the top brass of Piltover nor Zaun wanted to see this.

Cana has been described as the "Goddess Hex" by various literary works, as if it was a soulless Hex mechanical product that helped them.

And education also made people's understanding of Hextech far higher than the knowledge of history, and soon, the name Jana gradually disappeared under the tacit understanding of many people.

Admittedly, Hextech may be able to do better than Cana in some ways, but there is no substitute for the goodness and guardianship of this god - but alas, neither Zaun nor Piltover, the powers in power need any damn goodness and goddamn protection.

That redemption also became the last return to the light of Cana.

Jana is getting weaker and weaker, and she has lost almost all of her strength - no one needs her, or rather, no one knows they need her.

And because of the expansion of the Bilgewater Aloy faith, Cana was no longer favored by sailors, who tended to appreciate the "paid Aloy" and his priestly team more than Cana, who never hurt anyone.

The former goddess of the storm of the sea lost her priesthood of the sea and the storm and became the patron saint of Zuan - but in fact, there were very few people in the entire Zuan who truly believed in Jana.

This is Zu'an, who needs a violent revolution, and believing in Cana is really not as direct as joining Zu'an's fans.

And just like that, Cana became what she is now.

After listening to Cana's story, Rod narrowed his eyes slightly.

The goddess in front of her needs some change now.

And their plans need to be changed.

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The decline of Cana's faith has a lot to do with the belief in Hex's magic and the expansion of the Aloy priesthood, and her non-hurting nature has made her less popular in many cases.

In addition, Aloy is a certain large octopus in the trench near Bilgewater, the belief of the sea beast priest, who is in charge of the sea, storms, sea spirits, etc., and is a very powerful god.

I'm going to be recommended tomorrow, so I'm so nervous - so ask for a recommendation ticket!