Chapter 7: A Dull Conversation

Augustus enjoyed both years in the Stambod Forest.

Although these two years were not comfortable and peaceful, the daily life was full of danger and death, but there was little intrigue. For Baulet, since he has become a companion without any threat, he will naturally not make unwarranted temptations. As for Tyrone, this is a guy who only wants to be stronger, with few words, and he has less eye for others.

Augustus was not averse to staying with two nobles and commoners with very different personalities, Borlet and Tyrone, but if they were comrades-in-arms? Nine times out of ten, Augustus will exclude the unstable factor of Borlet.

"No matter how much you give to a nobleman, he will not hesitate to abandon you when the greater good comes, so when you help the nobleman, don't expect to be rewarded, but always be on guard against the nobleman's counterattack." This sentence circulated privately among the nobles, Augustus, who had experienced countless deceitful things in his past and present lives, agreed very much, and added a sentence in his heart: whether it is a nobleman or a commoner.

As for Tyrone, choosing to be a comrade-in-arms, Augustus did not feel any danger. But if he completely handed over his back to Tyrone, even Augustus himself would not believe it. He had never been a man to trust anyone easily, including his adopted father, Saud, and Augustus was wary of awe.

"Borlet, a nobleman can talk to his friends about interesting things, he can also exchange the thoughts of the royal maiden, and even some bigwigs who can be used for after-dinner pastime! But today you don't act like a nobleman, but like a commoner. But I like your civilian demeanor today. Augustus looked at Borlet with a smile and whispered, "In exchange, I am willing to share one of my secrets with you!" ”

"Do you know why I came to Stambod Forest??" Augustus looked up at the distant mountain and whispered.

Not unexpectedly, Borlet and Tyrone did not respond. They looked at Augustus calmly and pricked up their ears. Wait for the following.

The corners of Augustus's mouth hooked up a faint smile, his eyes suddenly burst into a bright light, his voice suddenly froze, and he said solemnly: "When I came to the Steinbod Forest, Master Fransted once said to me: As long as you can successfully get out of the Steinbod Forest, you can get everything you want. I smiled at the time, knowing very well that making it out of the Stambod Forest was just the first step closer to my goal! Only by getting out of the Stambod Forest can I be qualified to continue to pursue my goal, and if I can't get out, then there is no hope in my life. ”

The next words of Augustus made Bollet and Tyrone resolute. The veteran young man, who was far more than his peers, was instantly stunned.

Augustus whispered, "There was a saying in a certain family of the ancient Aeolian Empire that a man's success must be accompanied by looking up to the back of another strong man, but a man's greatness must first conquer a great woman. I, Augustus, have decided to conquer her, a woman who walks on the clouds and looks down on all beings, to witness my greatness! The Enchantress - LeBlanc. ”

The voice was calm and not loud, but there was a sense of unquestionability in the words.

In Alder City, when Augustus was on Alder Mountain, he felt that the woman was not an ordinary person, but with the idea that even if the toad could not eat swan meat, it was good to see swans, Augustus went to Alder Mountain every day in the hope that he could get acquainted.

Maybe under the attack of the dead skin, or maybe it is the favor of the goddess of luck. By an unexpected chance, Augustus knew the name of the wand-wielding woman, and Augustus would always remember the complicated look on the woman's face when she said her own name, "I was once called LeBlan!" ”

Immediately, the woman standing on the pinnacle of the Valoran continent whispered to herself, "What an unfamiliar name. ”

The little commoner was destined to be unaware of the power of the name LeBlanc, so even Augustus was wiser than ordinary people. His mind was higher than that of ordinary people, but he didn't know the influence of the woman named LeBlanc, and even when the lord of Urgart gave a speech, so that he still had a thought of arrogance in his mind. The man he hoped to conquer was not Du? The two jewels of General Quekao, Caterina and Cassiopeia, were the LeBlanc who had stood at the pinnacle of worldly imperial power and the magical world, a terrifying woman that would be admired and feared by any man in Valoran.

Stunned for a moment. Borlaite looked at Augustus with a wry smile on his face and said, "I have to say, this is really a more difficult thing than climbing the Yama Holy Mountain!" This is also something that any man in Valoran longs for but has not yet achieved, and although I am unkind enough to tell you that you are doomed, I wish you success, Augustus! ”

The sorcerer Queen LeBlan, a woman who exists like a god in the wizarding world, and a strong man who exists like an emperor in the secular world, wants to conquer such a woman is not inferior to climbing the Yama Sacred Mountain, where only a few people have been able to successfully climb the mountain in the past hundred years. It's even more difficult.

Yama Sacred Mountain, a forbidden place where gods are said to exist. The Valoran Continent has known the Yama Sacred Mountain for thousands of years, and all along, there have been devout believers on the continent, such as the Holy Dome Magician, the Holy Coffin Knight, the Bard, etc., looking for the Yama Sacred Mountain, but the Yama Sacred Mountain seems to be like a living creature at all, it never appears in a place at all, it is erratic, sometimes it appears near the Shadow Island in the far north of the Valoran Continent, and sometimes it appears in the mysterious Dragon Mountain Range and many other places, so even if the residents of Valoran have been looking for the Yama Sacred Mountain for thousands of years, even if there are lucky people who have climbed the Yama Sacred Mountain, But it is also difficult to find the exact location of the holy mountain.

Therefore, Baulett made it as difficult to conquer the sorcery queen LeBlanc as it was to climb the sacred mountain of Yama, and you can imagine how difficult it has been.

How could Augustus's difficulty in ascending the sacred mountain of Yama be compared to the conquest of the god-like woman of LeBlanc? There are at least traces of the ascent of Yama Sacred Mountain, but what about the conquest of LeBlanc?

Compared with Borlett's euphemism, Tyrone, who was full of realism, behaved very explicitly, and said: "The wish is very good, but with the distance between your current position and LeBlan, who stands above the Holy Dome Magician of the Supreme Sage in the wizarding world, you are not qualified to consider this matter at all, so Augustus, the only thing you can do now is to narrow the gap with LeBlanc step by step." Maybe one day your shit will come, and if you get the favor of Lady Luck, you will have a slim chance of conquering this woman who is above all living beings in the Valoran continent! ”

Augustus laughed, he didn't care about Tyrone's bloody sarcasm, but with a faint smile on his face, he looked at Tyrone and said: "Tyrone, I have always regarded you as an extraordinary civilian with outstanding talent, but in terms of your insight and knowledge today, you are definitely not a little talented, and you have some insight into things. Ambitious civilians. ”

Tyrone's face was still cold, but the smile on the corner of his mouth was not cold, his eyes first swept over Borlet, who knew that he was smiling like this, and then looked at Augustus who was looking at him calmly, and said lightly: "Everyone has their own secrets, and some secrets are not allowed to be shared with anyone, I have already said when I met Lord Guliglan that the knighthood is not the reason why I came to Stambo Forest, but power!" ”

Words cannot go any further here.

Augustus, Borlaite, and Tyrone are not stupid. So they stopped talking right here. Noxus's immortal chapter "Curiosity" has such a very classic passage. "It is human nature to seek the roots. Therefore, there are naturally two kinds of people in this world, one who can control their instincts, and they are high. Manipulate their lives and the lives of others with a cold and rational attitude. A kind of humble creeping, chasing instinct, seeking the shaky and endless path to the source. ”

The next three all avoided sensitive topics, although they ventured into training in the primeval forest of the closed Stambod. But that doesn't mean that Augustus, Borlight, and Tyrone are ignorant of the outside world.

Not to mention Augustus, who has a very strong curiosity about the outside world, let's just say that Borlight, a guy who has always taken pleasure in gathering intelligence, retrieves a crumpled copy of the "Imperial Weekly" from Guliglan almost every few days. And then lying under a big tree, quietly reading in front of Augustus and Tyrone, even if Augustus no longer wants to pay attention to the affairs of the world, they will not know about the outside world.

Especially when encountering something particularly surprising, Borlight couldn't help but open his mouth to discuss with Augustus and Tyrone. There was even a time when the three of them were arguing about the ranking of the Knights of Noxus for five or six hours, and finally the impatient Guliglan used a leather whip to solve the matter.

Therefore, apart from very acute class questions and ideas, the three of them did not have nothing to talk about.

"Although I want to erase the traces of the Demacian Empire on the Valoran Continent, I have to admit that this is indeed a country that is difficult to erase with words! If Noxus wanted to conquer Valoran, the first thing he needed to eliminate was the old enemy of the Demacian Empire, which bordered it. And if you want to destroy a united and stable Demacia, it is simply a more difficult thing than ascending to the sky, and even if the Demacian Empire is really destroyed by Noxus, the strength of Noxus itself will be greatly weakened, and after weakening, it will need to face the joint resistance of the Zaun Dynasty, Ionia, Acacia, and Bandel City, which is really a very bad thing! Borlaite analyzed and looked at Augustus with a wry smile.

Tyrone has never paid attention to national wars, so Bollet's statement is not so much about Augustus and Tyrone as it is about discussing Augustus.

Bollet had not thought that Augustus, a man from a civilian family in Alder, would be able to give him an answer that would make him pleasant or even a little thought-provoking, and he regarded the conversation about the Imperial War as a pastime and a link between himself and the two of them. But then Augustus suddenly said without being shocked: "No battle can escape interests, and war is not so much controlled in the hands of politicians who are hidden in the dark, but because of irresistible interests." ”

Since then, Borwright has had the contempt for Augustus as a commoner, and has placed him on an equal footing.

"The dynastic struggle for hegemony is already full of blood and carnage! The Demacian Empire itself is an obstacle that Noxus must remove to unify the Valoran continent, so the contradiction between the two has been decided when Noxus's goal is set! I don't think that any external force can destroy Noxus, but I am afraid that when Noxus fights the Demacian Empire, the noxian upper class, which is not cohesive, will cause an incalculable turmoil because of this rare opportunity to compete for power! ”

"For any country, internal disorder. Far more terrifying than external opponents! Augustus said intellectually.

"It's a pity that this is a hidden threat that is impossible to stop, if there is a major reshuffle of the upper class of Noxus before the war between Noxus and the Demacian Empire, maybe the mighty Noxian Empire will fall before it is a showdown with the Demacian Empire!" Naturally, Borlet was aware of the heaviness of Augustus' words, but he was also helpless, this in itself was not something that could be solved with their abilities!

Augustus looked relaxed, stretched, looked up at the verdant mountain in front of him, and said softly: "Politics is the simplest and most difficult thing in the world!" The politics of Noxus is one of the most difficult in the world, the succession of power between the old and the new aristocracy. The rise of civilian power, the expansion of rotten power, etc. A good Noxian politician needs to be clear about these basic facts about Noxus. A good Noxian politician needs to know how to take advantage of the intricate relationships within the Noxian Federal Empire to strengthen his voice in Noxus step by step. And a great Noxian politician is not just faced with going back and forth between these intricate forces, but needs to find a way to purify Noxus without causing great damage to Noxian power! ”

"Noxus needs the strong, and there will be the weak! Noxus needs nobles, but also commoners. But Noxus doesn't need decadent hedonistic aristocrats. There is no need to be humble all your life and can only look up to the nobles of the commoners! ”

Tyrone and Borlight were not surprised that Augustus had this almost detailed analysis of Noxus. Although Augustus is a civilian, Tyrone and Borlight maintain this suspicion of the power behind Augustus, but they do not deliberately pursue it.

Tyrone sighed softly: "I'm afraid no one can solve this problem now, otherwise how could this problem exist in Noxus for nearly fifty years or even a hundred years?" ”

Borwright nodded in agreement.

At this time, Augustus smiled: "Maybe not necessarily. I know of a guy who might be able to solve this problem, and he's the wisest person I've ever met. ”

"Who is he?" Borlet asked, slightly surprised.

Augustus shook his head and said calmly, "I've seen him twice. I only know that his name is Svein! ”

Borlaite was stunned.

Tyrone was also stunned.

Such arbitrary, such capricious words, really do not conform to the logic of everything that Augustus has always had. Based on theory, the temperament to be cautious in the face of anyone and anything.

What kind of person is this Svein? Tyrone thought to himself, and suddenly Tyrone thought in his mind, a Noxian military soul character Du? General Quekao's slightly regretful but very proud tone said: "Every Noxian soldier and even ordinary civilians know that I am Du? Kekao is the military soul of Noxus, but very few people know that there was a person who could become the second military soul of the Noxian army before, and he could even surpass me to become the symbol of the Noxian army, but he gave up, and he took a difficult and rugged lonely path without any companions. ”

Tyrone, who was only ten years old at the time, looked up at Du? General Kekao, curious and puzzled, asked, "General, can you tell Tyrone his name?" ”

Prevent? General Kerkao lowered his head, touched Tyrone's head with a smile, and said solemnly: "Remember him, his name is Svein!" You will call him Lord Svein henceforth! ”

The memory that had been forgotten in the past, the name that had been forgotten was now awakened by Augustus's words.

"Svein, the man who is as wise as a demon!" Borwright pondered in silence.

"The army is nothing but a slave to politics!" In the past, this phrase was secretly circulated among the upper nobility. But as a soldier gave up the existence of becoming a myth of the army and silently entered the political world, in just five years, almost no nobleman dared to say in private that the army was a slave to politics.

For the next fifteen years, the military stood on an equal footing with politics.

This thin old man in his fifties, who is not tall, but has a majestic back, and is as wise as the sea, with a golden cane, once said: "The army is not a tool in the hands of politicians, what I need is not a slogan, but a fact that cannot be tampered with!" ”

In fifteen years, this thin old man who resolutely gave up his position in the army and engaged in political and political affairs has fulfilled the promise he once made.

Now, will this old man be able to bring another miracle to Noxus? Borwright expressed anticipation. (To be continued.) )