Zelos immediately left Presidium, and he was going to Demacia to investigate the cause of the Great Elder's death. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

News of the Assassin who killed the High Elder from Demacia spreads, and he must find the truth before the events can have a greater impact.

Because Zelos has understood that Holy Keisha cannot lead the people to victory over Noxus, and that this war needs Demacia's assistance.

Zelos tells Irelia to wait for him to return.

On this day, Lin Feng saw Irelia for the first time, but he didn't say a word to her.

Lin Feng was pondering, only he knew that the assassin was indeed from Debang, but in fact it had nothing to do with Debang.

It was impossible for Divine Kaisha to know about Kevin's existence, she was just deliberately leading others to associate the sword wound on the Great Elder's corpse with another extremely fast swordsmanship, the unparalleled swordsmanship, the Laurent Family Heirloom Peerless Learning.

She targeted Fiona, not for the sake of the truth of the matter, but simply to take advantage of it.

Soon, Lin Feng's conjecture was confirmed.

Federated States of Demacia.

When the news of the assassination of the Great Elder broke, it immediately caused an uproar. In Intramuros and throughout the North, the Council vigorously refuted the Assassins' association with Debang, but reawakened attention to the war in the distance.

And in the South, where belief in the temple is broad-based, the general public is demanding that the Federation join the war in order to prove its innocence and rebuild the image of the defenders of peace.

The will of the people cannot be violated.

Unable to convince the Parliament to declare war on Noxus, Gavin III immediately sent a Royal Navy fleet to Ionia under the pretext of investigating the assassination of the Grand Elder.

A day later, the parliament presented its credentials to Noxus, demanding that its 100,000-strong troops stationed in the Freljord area withdraw so that the federal army could cross the river and continue to work on the desertified land. He also claimed that this was a major matter related to the fortunes of the country, and there was no room for concession.

Two days later, the Empire did not respond, and on the same day, a large army from each country left their homeland and advanced towards the northern ice fields.

From these two things, even the stupidest person can smell the signal that Debang is entering the war.

At this point, Ionia only needs to maintain the stalemate and wait for reinforcements to arrive to reverse the situation.

However, there is still a time lag in the transmission of information. And this is Noxus' last chance.

On October 25, a long-brewing battle was about to break out in Presidium.

On this day, the Supreme Command of the Empire issued a front-line order, and the great Imperial Army God Du. Cassiopeia, daughter of General Quekao. Quekao was promoted to Chief of Imperial Intelligence, and his position as Provisional Commander was succeeded by Grand General Darius as Commander of the Great Army.

As soon as the news spread, it had a huge impact on both the enemy and us.

The only regret of the Empire's war against Ionia was that it did not have the open support of the War God, and this regret did not exist at this moment, and the morale of the entire Imperial Army was greatly boosted. The glory of the god of war, Noxus will be invincible.

When Keisha heard the news, her mood was much more complicated.

A woman, I didn't expect that the previous deployments of the Imperial Army were all from the hands of a woman. Is this the style that the Imperials would have, it's ridiculous. What's even more ridiculous is that the Imperial people actually changed their commanders before the battle, and they also changed to a fool with no brains.

Keisha wanted to laugh, but she couldn't. She immediately wanted to give the order to the army and withdraw to the city, but suddenly it was too late to wake up.

The Imperial Army has changed to a brainless commander Darius, which can only show that the behind-the-scenes commander thinks that the Imperial Army no longer needs to use its brains in the next war. Svein, the military advisor in the High Command who controls real power, if anyone thinks that guy has no brains, is really stupid.

The only thing to do in the eyes of Darius is to attack, to attack forever.

As a result, the Imperial Army launched a general attack on Presidium on the 26th.

The news of Debang's imminent entry into the war finally reached Ionia, but unfortunately it was too late.

The Imperial Army attacked on all fronts, and the elite cavalry first entered the camp of the Northern Army, and rushed to the rear under the Prechdian high platform at great speed.

Although they were immediately repelled by the counterattack organized by the reinforcements in the city, on this day Presidium not only failed to withdraw a single unit from the front, but threw a lot of troops into it.

By the early morning of the 27th, fighting was going on everywhere on the vast battlefield.

The two armies invested a total of 200,000 horses, but there was no front line and rear at all, any army was fighting, and all the soldiers were fighting each other.

There was already a scuffle outside the city, and if the Imperial Army could not be completely defeated, the Northern Army in the battlefield would not have a chance to retreat to the city.

Will they be able to crush the Imperial Army? Keisha watched the fight outside the city, and for a moment had illusions.

The illusions were soon shattered, and the Imperial Army erupted in much greater combat power than it had at the beginning of the war.

It turned out that they had been pretending all along.

Keisha finally knew that she had been wrong when she took the initiative from the beginning, and that she had fallen into the trap of the Imperials.

It's a pity that she fell too deep, and the army that went out of the city to fight for half a month in a row accounted for almost half of the northern army. Even if she wanted to, she wouldn't dare, the price was too great for the Temple and Ionia to bear.

Moreover, the battlefield outside the city was almost occupied by a huge army, and there was no more space for expansion, so the city could only constantly send small forces to reinforce. In this way, it can only be slowly eaten away by the Imperial Army, and the impregnable Preshidian high platform behind it is useless.

"It's over, the barrier that has defended Ionia for thousands of years is gone."

Keisha muttered and walked down the high platform, which was lost by noon that day.

All the portals in the long wall opened from within, and the Ionians themselves abandoned the barrier.

The strong man broke his wrist, this is the sad song of Ionia in the war.

The battle outside the city continued, and large numbers of Northern and Imperial armies mixed together and flocked to the capital area.

Outside, the magnificent fortifications that have stood for thousands of years and witnessed the battle of the gods have been trampled by the iron hooves of the Noxian army.

The Imperial Army finally appeared outside the inner city of Presidium, this time with real troops on the city.

But at the same time, the retreating Northern Army was given a larger area of space, which could play with its numerical superiority, and also detached itself from the threat of long-range firepower of the Imperial Army. They quickly regrouped their front and finally managed to withdraw from the Imperial Army to the inner city.

However, a large part of this was due to the fact that the Imperial Army was not in a hurry to storm the city, and did not even make a decent pursuit of the Northern Army. They began to frantically loot materials to replenish the consumption of the war.

Outside the wall, a large number of villages scattered on the outskirts of the capital area were swept away by the fighting, and most of the civilians did not have time to evacuate.

All the food and anything useful for the civilians was collected for military supplies, and the slightest resistance was mercilessly slaughtered.

After the massacre, the old and weak women and children were left to fend for themselves, and the Imperial army captured a large number of young and middle-aged laborers and immediately began to build fortifications under the city.

Under the sabers and leather whips of the Imperials, those men demolished churches, temples and their houses with a single hand, cutting down centuries-old trees and newly planted seedlings.

The quaint village cluster stretching for dozens of miles outside the city of Presidium, a great spectacle of harmonious coexistence between man and nature, known as a wonder of Valoran's folklore and religious architecture, was made extremely vulnerable in the war.

In a short period of time, everything that had been left behind for thousands of years was completely destroyed.

And all this destruction, combined with the death of countless laborers every day, is nothing more than an earthen platform, an ugly and seemingly useless earthen platform.