Chapter 15: The Embattled Regime
On a stormy night, a merchant ship moves slowly through the waves in the Sea of the Watcher. In the midst of such uneasy waves, the passengers on the merchant ship still drank heartily, and a traveler with a thick beard raised his glass and talked loudly with the passengers at the same table.
"Ionia really doesn't stop for a moment, and it's starting to fight again, and they just forget about fighting, so that we have to leave our homeland for a deal, phew!" As he spoke, he poured a large glass of Ionian into his mouth. "Who's to say no, but I do hope that the dark army will win, Ionia has never been in business with us people, this time let's see what those dark heroes are capable of.
His table mate added. Amid the noise of the gang, a hooded traveler sits alone and drinks from the sidelines. When he heard the group talking, he smiled imperceptibly, drank the sake on the table, and then hid his personal weapon in his cloak. But it was such a very subtle action that exposed the identity of this person. In this small merchant ship, a sailor was assassinated a few days ago and then replaced by this merchant ship. And this killer is Tyrone from Noxus, who, after receiving orders from his superiors, LeBlanc, came to follow Yasuo who was alone in Shurima. However, due to the Shadow Force's secrecy work, Tyrone lost the target he was tracking. However, just now, Yasuo's small action of inadvertently hiding the Wind Piercing Knife into his cloak made Tyrone, who was silently observing from the sidelines, feel a hint of clues. Tyrone thought to himself, "This is a merchant ship, mostly merchants, and this traveler not only has no companions, but also seems to be too low-key.
As the top assassin of the Noxian Army, Tyrone was of course very familiar with all kinds of weapons, and he immediately felt keenly that it was a katana.
Tyrone was also sure that the man was Yasuo. Although Sindra had repeatedly instructed Yasuo not to drink and misunderstand before leaving, Yasuo couldn't help but drink a few glasses when he saw the merchants drinking happily, only to be recognized by Tyrone carelessly.
The voyage from Ionia to the continent of Valoran took nearly ten days or so, and Tyrone's martial arts were not inferior to Yasuo's, but Tyrone possessed the most important quality as an assassin, which was calmness.
Although Tyrone found his goal, he still didn't carelessly make Yasuo feel that something was wrong. On the Ionian side, the Shadow Stream Army also secretly cooperated with the Noxus Expeditionary Force after Yasuo's departure to defeat the Ionian army.
Elder Ukan joined all the other elders to form the Emergency Wartime Council, and isolated Karma from the Council, stubbornly believing that the Ionian Guards were the cause of the defeat.
Due to the suicide of Irelia the captain of the Ionian Guard, coupled with Karma's relationship. Believing that Ionia's government forces were not fighting wholeheartedly, Ukan and the other elders dismissed many of the generals, including Soraka, the son of the stars.
Irelia's brother Zelos rushed back to Ionia from Demacia after learning of his sister's death, he wanted to annihilate the Shadow Stream army to avenge his sister, but was removed from office by Elder Ukan, Zelos was very unwilling, he found Karma and asked how Irelia died, but Kalmar didn't know exactly what happened.
But Zelos knew that Irelia had been abandoned and died by Elder Ukan, and that he had now been deposed from military power.
After thinking about it, Zelos was going to take a risk, he wanted to turn against the Council of Elders and defeat the Shadowstream army again.
He told Karma about his idea, but he was opposed.
"This will definitely not work, now that Ionia is at war, you can't fight in the same room, otherwise you will definitely be seized by the Shadow Army." However, Zelos was so eager that he gathered all the soldiers loyal to Irelia in the Ionian Guard and secretly formed a separate team from the Ionian government army, and Zelos understood what Karma was saying, and he did not come out to overthrow the rotten Council of Elders in a critical moment.
He knew that the current Ionian government army would not be a match for the Shadow Army, and both Zelos and Karma knew that Noxus was not here to help, so the Ionian government army would be defeated sooner or later.
And all Zelos has to do is take their place when they are defeated, and Zelos is very confident in himself, but a little egotistical.
He thought that he would be able to defeat the Shadow Stream army and the Noxian army in one fell swoop.
Now the battle between the two sides has further expanded, and the leader of the robbery has occupied a large area of western Ionia, and the Ionian government has to keep shrinking its forces and firmly occupy the dense urban area in the northeast of Ionia.
LeBlanc, on the other hand, swore to Elder Ukan and the others that he would lead his army to defend the southern part of Ionia, and although the members of the Council of Elders were suspicious of Noxus' intentions, they could not care so much about the moment of crisis.
At the same time, LeBlanc secretly drew the Shadowstream Legion's march route into his own area, so that the Shadowstream could launch a large-scale attack on the Ionian army's stronghold without even realizing it.
In the evening, at a small outpost in the Ionian occupation zone, several horse-drawn wagons slowly drove into the outpost.
"Stop! Those who enter the pit stop are checked!
The soldier guarding the gate shouted. Your Excellency, we are merchants who have migrated during the war, so please make it easier.
The groom in charge said with a hippie smile. Then we have to check first, how do we know if you are a merchant or not?
The guard said as he approached the carriage. Just as he was about to open the tent for inspection, many smoke bombs suddenly exploded in the carriage, and in the blink of an eye, the smoke rose into the sky, enveloping all the carriages in smoke. "There is a situation!
Alert!
As soon as the soldiers at the whistle saw it, they immediately picked up the guy and prepared for battle. But as soon as the words fell, a long purple arrow went straight through the guard's throat. A purple hand gently pulled the curtain, "One is not left."
“。 With this order, the guards turned into corpses in less than a few minutes, and Varus stepped out of the carriage and squinted his eyes and waved his hand to order: "Forward, be sure to pay attention to concealment."
Not far away, LeBlanc looked at all this with a smile, turned back to Caterina and ordered, "Now you lead a small team of elites in disguise and follow the Shadow Stream army, we need to add fuel to the fire in an emergency." ”
"Yes, Lordship." As she spoke, Caterina led the team and immediately set off, following behind the Shadow Stream team, and entering the whistle together.