The Noxians are in the dark, while Irelia and Oriana are negotiating a special agreement between the Twin Cities.

And at this time, the goal of the Twin Cities was finally put on the surface for the first time.

It's a ...... Weapons Cooperative R&D Program.

In this invitation to develop weapons signed by the leaders of the two cities, Ike and Camille invite Ionia to participate in the research and development of special weapons.

Of course, the exact content of the invitation is still kept secret, and only Irelia can see it - Rhodes, who is on guard, only knows that he has a plan to research weapons.

It's kind of interesting!

Rhodes hadn't heard of the Twin Cities working together on weapons - although Ike and Camille couldn't report everything to him right now, there was such a thing as conducting weapons research with Ionia...... Their choice was not through their own connections, but to send a secret mission, which took a lot of effort, which was already very special!

What exactly is the cooperation agreement?

It has to be said that at this time Rhodes was aroused.

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So, why did Ike and Camille pull the Ionians together to create a cooperation agreement?

This brings us to the top-secret ignition plan.

In fact, with the full cooperation of Zaan and Piltover, the ignition program was able to move very quickly, relying on Piltover's existing annihilation weapons base.

In less than five years, the destructiveness of weapons of annihilation increased exponentially and soon to a jaw-dropping point.

Just three months before Rhodes' departure, the Twin Cities Joint Ignition Team conducted an annihilation weapon experiment in the no-man's land of the Shurima Desert, and after the annihilation occurred, the desert within nearly a kilometer was severely crystallized......

After the Annihilation Weapon exploded, the entire desert "evaporated" out of thin air, and after the annihilation of that part of the sand, only a few crystals with exhausted energy remained.

This level of attack is not something that can be described as "one kilometer of explosion", but "one kilometer of destruction" - one kilometer here also includes the direction of the underground.

But...... After many checks and calculations, this is already the limit of annihilation weapons at this stage.

If you want to increase the radius of destruction of annihilation weapons, then annihilation weapons will become extremely unstable, and they will explode at the slightest contact; If you want to increase stability, the energy required for ignition will reach an unacceptable level.

All in all, the development and research of annihilation weapons have reached a bottleneck, and this bottleneck is even theoretical, as long as you use annihilation weapons, then its radius of destruction is so large!

Strictly speaking, the lethality of the Annihilation Weapon is strong enough that its devastating effect can even be compared to that of the World Rune - but considering the complexity of this weapon, in actual combat, the Annihilation Weapon is still completely inferior to the World Rune.

Whether it is Ike or Camille, they are very clear that the annihilation weapon is the most important reliance of the two cities, and the most important guarantee for the two cities to maintain their transcendent status after the war, in their plan, the annihilation weapon should be used in the Void of Confrontation, and then it will be shelved and exist in a deterrent posture, so that Shurima does not dare to say that since ancient times, let Noxus go south to avoid the area of the two cities, and let Demacia admit that the explosion is justice.

And if this is to be achieved, the current weapons of annihilation ...... That's not a lot off.

It is precisely because of the difference between the needs and the theoretical limits that the Ignition Project calls for the evolution of the Annihilation Weapon into the Rune Annihilation Weapon - although so far, the Twin Cities do not have a set of quantitative research data on the World Rune, but according to the known information, the estimated effect of the World Rune Energy is barely accurate to several orders of magnitude.

These orders of magnitude are naturally far more than needed—but the estimation of the energy orders of magnitude of the secondary runes is fully in line with the requirements.

Therefore, the Twin Cities put the focus of cooperative development on "annihilation weapons that use secondary runes as annihilation materials".

And then...... I ran into a bottleneck again.

Although Hextech has reached a jaw-dropping height, this is an extremely biased technology, although this technology has an amazing level in terms of structure and energy, but in materials is the biggest shortcoming of this technology.

Although Hextek materialists have long proposed the concept of Hexalloy, so far, Hexalloy has been concentrated in the range of common metal alloys and non-metallic alloys - in the absence of experimental materials, Hextek materials scientists in the Twin Cities have not been able to use those uncommon materials with runic energy for Hexial casting.

However, the requirements for materials of rune annihilation weapons are extremely demanding, and in preliminary calculations, no known hexalloy material can withstand the energy impact of secondary rune annihilation - which means that rune annihilation cannot be carried out at all!

Although the Hex technologists in the Twin Cities are willing to focus on special materials, due to the scarcity of materials and the weakness of the foundation, it may take decades or even hundreds of years!

This is obviously unacceptable to Ike and Camille!

In this case, Victor came up with a bold idea.

"Perhaps, we can cooperate with some people and use some of their technology to meet the conditions we need......"