Chapter 12: The Angry Grand Duke of Morse

Please call me Full Time Little Teddy (QAQ). Change it back tomorrow

"Okay Mr. Mayor, then I'll tell you what I think. First of all, Mr. Leonardo, what is the relationship between our tech city Piltover and Iron Noxus? Ex stood up from his seat and asked the young foreign minister with a confident smile on his face.

Faced with the young man's inquiry, Leonardo thought about it and said cautiously: "Noxus has no good relationship with our Piltover, after all, his die-hard supporter, Zaun, is the least popular city for our Lady Piltover. But Piltover also exports a large amount of arms to Noxus every year, so our relationship is not bad. ”

"Yes," Ex retracted from Leonardo and turned to the other bigwigs in the room, "Do you think so too?" ”

Lexar wanted to say something, but finally glanced at Holman in agreement, and nodded reluctantly, and Sparker and Jace sat in their seats drinking tea and did not express an opinion.

"It's a pity I don't see it that way." Eck, who took everyone's performance into his eyes, smiled slightly, and then continued according to his own train of thought: "Everyone knows that our title in the Valoran continent is technology, city. There are a large number of yodelers and human researchers under the leadership of the teacher. Not to mention civilian, even the degree of progress in military technology is one or two stages faster than that of other city-states.

But on the other hand, we cannot deny that not only Noxus, but even most of the other countries on the Valoran continent have purchased our arms. So in the eyes of the iron-blooded Noxus, whose slogan is to dominate the Valoran continent, we Piltover are not friends. ”

looked at everyone present with a thoughtful look. Ex smiled slightly. Continue to put pressure on them: "Even in the eyes of the nobility of Noxus." If you can get our technology from Piltover, you will be one step closer to your dream of dominating the Valoran continent! If it weren't for the fact that our Piltover military might and ultimate weapon made Noxus jealous, I think they would have joined forces with Zaun before they attacked Ionia. ”

"But I think Director Ex's words are a bit alarmist, right?" Leonardo pushed the gold-framed eyes on the bridge of his nose, and disagreed with Ex: "Although Noxus is domineering and arrogant, we Piltover have no interests with them, and we have never fought a war in history. I don't think they're going to do anything to us Piltover just because of this unreasonable 'domination' reason, do they? ”

"No, I have proof." As soon as Ex said this, the other five giants all focused their attention. Mayor Sparky put down the thermos teacup that Catherine bought for her and said in a deep voice, "Ex, have you noticed something wrong with Noxus recently?" ”

"Of course," Ex's face turned serious, "I've found Noxus spies near my institute more than once. ”

Hearing this, several people sitting there breathed a sigh of relief, and Jace rolled his eyes and said, "It's just a spy, not to mention Noxus, and even the self-proclaimed righteous Demacia has planted people here with us?" ”

But Ex wasn't joking: "But in the last half month, the number of Noxus spies who have appeared near my laboratory has tripled as usual, and there was even a time when the camera in my research institute failed for more than three minutes. Luckily, I quickly figured it out and fixed it. However, in the final shot, a reddish black-brown shadow can be faintly seen flashing under the monitor. ”

Now a few bigwigs finally paid attention. Ackes had been studying with Master Heimerdinger for less than two years. But he already holds a number of patents in his hands, and he is also a shareholder in several technology companies, and he is worth a lot of money.

For this reason, the anti-theft facilities in his research institute were jointly developed by himself, Jace and Master Heimerdinger, and they will be upgraded every six months, and the defense level is not lower than that of several other bigwigs. But in this case, there are people who can sneak in, doesn't that mean that those of them who are not heroes are in danger of dying in the middle of the night?

Seeing that the faces of the big guys sank, Ex continued: "So, I think we Piltover must give Noxus a warning. As you all know, Noxus is rich in deadly assassins, so I think it's important for us to let Noxus know how good we are and let them put their rampant arrogance away. "The implication is that Noxus needs to be warned for your safety.

"No problem, I'm going to gather my subordinates and set off immediately to give Noxus a good look!" As the head of the military department, but Lexar can only train with Warcraft and bandits every year, he stood up and geared up, ready to take someone to give Noxus a good look.

"No, no, Minister Lexar, it's not a good time to send troops." Ax didn't want to start a war with Noxus because of this, which was not in line with his life credo of putting his interests first: "Although Noxus has invaded Ionia, we are not the same as Noxus' feud Demacia. If we send people to attack Noxus now, not to mention that the division is unknown, it is easy to be looked down upon by other countries, saying that we Piltover are bullying the weak and afraid of the hard, and we dare to attack only when the Noxian army is not there. ”

"What do you think you should do with little Ex?" Lexar shouted impatiently, "You can't let a Noxian assassin come to us to make trouble, and we won't let a fart go, right?" Isn't this just a way to make people underestimate us! ”

"So, let's get back to what we just said." After a big circle, Ex finally turned around and stated his purpose: "I think we should sell Ionia Tech Guns or even more powerful individual weapons. Zaun is a hardcore on Noxus' side, and as Piltover, who is not very friendly with Zaun, unless we form an alliance with Noxus, the relationship is no better than Zaun, so we should ignore the possible threat of Noxus in this arms deal.

On the other hand, although the laws of Demacia are strict, there is a lot of filth in private. But on the surface, it's easier to deal with than Noxus. In addition, Demacia's national strength has always been much weaker than that of Noxus. We're a little bit more biased towards them. It can also maintain the balance of power on the Valoran continent and curb the pace of wars that have become more and more frequent in Noxus recently.

At the same time, Ionia has a lot of specialties, and we can offer to replenish our arsenal with rare minerals, runes, and magic crystals in exchange for equipment. I wonder what you think? ”

Sincerely, Ex My Friend:

It's been months since we parted from the War College, how are you doing?

It's just like we agreed to do it. Everything is going according to plan. As long as the Noxus raid on Ionia fails, we have a good chance of completing the plan and letting the strife on the continent of Valoran be resolved by the summoner game of the War College.

But I have bad news for you lately, my dear cousin, Gavin IV, the prince of our city-state of Demacia, was surrounded by the enemy behind enemy lines with his own guards during a battle against Noxus half a month ago, but fortunately reinforcements arrived in time to rescue him, and after treatment and recuperation, Gavin is now fine.

Although Gavin is in good health, he is not in a good mood. This sudden defeat, there is not one out of ten robes that have intersected for several years. The attitude towards our friends was a little rough, not to mention the palace maids and guards who took care of him.

I was going to have Lux, Gavin's favorite friend, come back to comfort him, but Gavin had recently gotten the horns of the bull, believing that he had killed his own guards, and was depressed and easily manic. I felt that Lux's comfort might have backfired, irritating him again. In addition, I think my sister may be a little interesting to Jiawen, but her magic cultivation has finally encountered a bottleneck recently, and after the rapid improvement some time ago, she can't control the huge magic power in her body very well. So after we discussed with her teacher, we thought it was best not to let her know about Jiawen's defeat this time, so that her mood fluctuated and her magic went violent, so I teamed up with Steward Zhao to seal Jiawen's defeat this time and hide her from the top and bottom.

But Lux's identity means she'll be able to hear about it one day, but I think it's better to let Lux meet him after Gavin recovers, or when Lux is more proficient in controlling all the magic in her body. So here I ask you to hold my sister for a while, at least until Jiawen recovers a little.

So please find a way to keep Lux in Piltover for a month or two, and then we will have our own thank-you gifts.

Your faithful Galen? Corona

"How's it going, what's the letter?" Looking at the changing look on Ex's face, Lux stretched her neck with some curiosity to come over and take a look, her brother asked her not to read the letter when she was delivering it, but she didn't say that she couldn't read the letter with Ex! People are also curious about its contents!

"It's fine." Looking at Lux's little hand, Ex used his electrical energy to ignite the letter, and threw it into the metal trash can in the room.

"Cut, it's nothing, nothing, do you need to dispose of the evidence so quickly?" Lux looked at the letter that slowly turned into ashes and pouted her lips in disdain, and got up from the bed angrily: "What's the big deal, people won't read it if they don't read it!" Hmph, ignore you, I'll go back to Demacia. ”

Back to Demacia? How does this work?

Thinking of Galen's request in the letter, Ex sighed secretly and wanted to ignore it. But seeing that Demacia's family had a big business, and the thank you fee for helping them a few times ago was also very large, he still reached out and grabbed Lux.

"Don't go, there's really nothing to say in the letter. It's just that Galen sees that you've been working too hard lately, so in the letter I asked me to keep you in Piltover for a while, and give you a month's paid vacation. ”

"What?" Lux looked at the only male among her few friends with some surprise and confusion, and said curiously: "Isn't it, my brother's kind of person who does things with a clear eye and never cares about his relatives in business will also give me paid vacations?" You're not making fun of me, are you? ”

The Radiant Lady looked at Ex in disbelief, but sat back on the bed.

Ex shook his head and tried to keep his face normal, so as not to be seen by the observant Lux, and continued, "Why do you think that? Although Galen is indeed very serious, you are his only sister after all, and as an older brother, he always feels sorry for his sister, just like my sister has always felt sorry for me since she was a child. ”

Hearing this, Lux looked at her friend as if she was recalling something, and suddenly showed a smile that made people feel warm and tempting, and unconsciously saw her pretty face, and her heart was like a deer pounding.

In fact, Ex is also very handsome, unlike the heroic masculinity of Cousin and brother Jiawen, Ex's smile is more like a warm sunshine shining on his body, which makes people feel more comfortable the more they look at it. He's still a research genius, he has a lot of very good inventions, and he feels like he's been with people during this time, so he seems to be a very good man?

The more he thought about it, the more red his face became, but suddenly he remembered that he was his childhood sweetheart, Jiawen, who had taken care of him since he was a big brother, and quickly shook his head, forcibly taking his eyes off Ex's warm smile, but at the same time felt an inexplicable loss.

Putting aside the mess in her heart, Lux showed a cute smile again, and was relieved to find that Ex was still immersed in sudden memories, and she was relieved that she didn't notice her nymphomaniac appearance just now, but suddenly became interested in Ex's past. So Lux reached out and shook him on the shoulder, waking him up from the memory, and the latter froze for a moment, and then suddenly looked back at Lux, whose face had returned to normal.

"I'm sorry Lux, I just suddenly remembered the time when my sister and I were dependent on each other when I was a child, and it made you laugh."

But Ex didn't expect that Lux hurriedly shook his pair of smooth and white little hands moistened by magic power, and the sincere tone made Ex, who was originally just a scene, a little inexplicable: "No, no, as your good friend, how could I laugh at you!" ”

Lux didn't know why she reacted so much. She withdrew her raised hands, smiled a little awkwardly, and forcibly changed the topic: "By the way, Ex, I'm curious about what happened when you were a child?" Can you tell me about it? In exchange, I'll tell you some of the happy things I did when I was a kid! (To be continued.) )