Darius saw that West looked distraught, and said with some amusement, "Okay, don't be cranky, you're a Noxian soldier, is that guts?" ”

"That's at least the caster of the Seven Rings, my chief, you don't know what that concept is, let's just put it this way, if these twenty people in our team are targeted by him, the end will not be much better than that group of adventurers. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info"

West's expression was very exaggerated, his eyes were round, and his thin body was jumping up and down around Darius like a monkey, Darius wanted to say something like a monkey, "You dare to disturb the hearts of the army, drag him down and behead him" to scare him, but after thinking about it, no one should understand this stalk, but Demons couldn't help but scold him.

"Fool, don't you go to shepherd sheep because there are wolves in the mountains? We are people who spend every day in fire and sword, and the more timid and afraid of death are, the easier it is to fall into the arms of death. Haven't honed your guts for so long? ”

West said weakly, "I...... I'm just a rookie. ”

"Captain Darius is also a recruit! This is not a reason for you to be cowardly. ”

West was so choked by Demmons' words that he couldn't speak, but Darius estimated that West didn't know what shame was by nature, so he quickly put this matter behind him, and leaned over to Darius with a salivating face, "Chief, your axe is an enchanted weapon, right?" I don't think any of the beasts I encountered along the way can take an axe, you said that we are all soldiers who enlisted in the same period, why are you so strong, no wonder you are the leader. ”

"Could it be that Captain, you have also been a knight's apprentice before?"

West was clearly trying to get close to Darius, and Darius glanced at him, only to find that the other people's eyes were also shining with curiosity, and this time he brought out some of the soldiers he had beaten in the barracks, and it could be seen that these people were interested in his past.

"Knight apprentice? Hehe, how could a noble knight lord let someone like me be an apprentice? ”

There was a hint of sarcasm in Darius's tone, and it was hard for him to look at 'himself' memories without a hint of emotion, at least in the eyes of him who had grown up in peacetime.

But there is nothing to be afraid of him, the suffering past has made him now resilient, and the torture he has suffered is the source of motivation for him to forge ahead. He asked in a low voice, "Have any of you ever been to Noxus City?" ”

Noxus City, the capital of Noxus, is the most majestic city-state in the far eastern center of the Valoran continent, hence the name.

Deemons and the other soldiers looked at each other, then shook their heads - most of the soldiers of the garrison were from Hazekama Province, and the mountain people made up a large part, and most of them would never leave the vast mountains for the rest of their lives.

Instead, West, who had been a mage's apprentice, interjected, "I've heard my mentor say that the headquarters of the Eye of Arcane is in the city-state of Noxus, and he goes there every once in a while. ”

"Oh? Say, what do you know? ”

"Noxus City is built on the southwest side of the Appalachian Mountains, a huge granite mountain range with a formidable artificial moat filled with witches' evil rancid potions, and the moat is the best barrier to the outside world, leaving only a few heavily guarded levels. ”

"I heard from the instructor that the buildings in Noxus City are towering into the sky, especially the headquarters of the Supreme Council that stands on the top of the hill, which is the core of the power of the whole of Noxus, a place that everyone dreams of entering."

Darius sneered, "It seems that your apprentice is indeed not in vain, but your mentor told you about the glorious side of Noxus City, but he certainly didn't tell you that there are countless poor people struggling to survive where the sun can't reach." ”

West was frightened by Darius's sneer, and didn't know how to answer, but heard Darius continue: "There are always intertwined shadows behind the sun-shining tall buildings, and behind civilization lies a cruel and cold-blooded dark world, in addition to the towering high-rise buildings on the top of the mountain, in the dark belly of the mountain, in the damp underground, there is a labyrinthine dense underground network, it is as large as the above-ground part of Noxus City, and I firmly believe that it is still expanding. ”

"Countless shops, taverns, and residential quarters fill this dilapidated dungeon like a giant beehive, no nobleman will come to this place where the sun does not see all day, this is the place where poor people like me and my brother live, the center of this underground world is paved with winding streets, a refuge for all the evil in the world, and countless fanatics, witches, and secret societies call this labyrinth home."

The sun above his head was gradually sinking in the west, Darius took the lead in the front of the group, the afterglow of the setting sun sprinkled on his face, reflecting his calm face red, and West next to him looked at his resolute side face, and suddenly felt that this peer had a maturity that did not belong to this age in addition to being far superior to himself.

"Do you know how a poor man who has lost his parents since childhood survives in Noxus City, West?"

West obviously didn't know the answer to this question, so he replied with some hesitation, "That's ...... This, sir, I don't know......"

"I didn't know that before...... But I know now. Darius didn't say this, but said to himself in his heart, after all, two very different life experiences were his biggest secret.

He grinned, "Then I'll tell you, it's begging." ”

"Huh!?"

"You heard it right, it's begging! In the face of the question of human existence, the so-called face, dignity, and backbone are all not worth mentioning, not to mention, I was just a child at that time, and I had to support my younger brother who was younger than me, and we had nothing but an extremely simple and dilapidated house. So my brother and I went out into the wider streets of the dungeon every day, hoping that the rich people who came up from the ground would give us a few insignificant coppers. ”

"Of course, it's not every day that the people of the ground come to the filthy and dark lower town, and when we don't have to beg for money or food, we have to rummage through the garbage heaps, and the hungry and dizzy people can eat anything."

"Growing up, I learned to steal, stealing much faster than asking for handouts, there are no laws and no police in the dungeon, as long as you don't get caught, it doesn't happen. Although I was caught a few times at first, and each time I was beaten half to death, I survived thanks to God's blessing, and I have not missed a shot since, so I can now stand here and tell you this. ”

Darius began to speak, his tone calming down, as if he were telling someone else's story—of course, in a sense, it was. He glanced at West, who was swept away by his gaze and responded with a smile that was uglier than crying.

"But then I found out that stealing was no longer possible, I was already as strong as a cow at that time, and my brother Draven was also starting to grow physically, and we needed more food and water, stealing was no longer enough for me, so I joined the Reynolds brotherhood."