"Uh-huh......"

( ̄~ ̄) Chew!

Click! Click!

Little Anne, who threw a few pieces of fried sweet nuts into her mouth and chewed them, and made a 'click' sound, first turned her head to look at the villain in her house, who was now with a black face and trying to pretend to be listening carefully, and after thinking for a while, she reached out and grabbed the roast leg of lamb that she had just gnawed a few teeth marks and notches, and began to chew it again.

"Hah!!"

o( ̄^ ̄)o swallow!

Grunt!

Naturally, after the 'click' was over, the sound of the food swallowing, and the sound of the little girl snorting and letting out a long breath after swallowing, came back to the sound again......

“……”

The kind of voice, which seemed to be natural, but seemed to be deliberately pretended, attracted the commander of Noxus, Svein, who was talking and persuading the negotiators, so that he couldn't help but glance at a certain little girl who seemed to be maliciously mischievous from time to time.

"Huh?"

∑(△｀)？！

"This doesn't taste good, I'm going to eat that! Uncle Crow, please pass it over for me, okay, thank you...... By the way, would you like to come some?! ”

(') Delicious.

A little girl who didn't pay attention to the four adults who were negotiating and talking about important matters at all gathered around this big stone table, and ate unscrupulously in the middle of the two pairs of male and female adults who were sitting facing each other.

Moreover, she didn't count eating it, and she interrupted Svein's speech many times very rudely, either directly reaching out to the thing or asking the other party to help deliver her food...... And now, when the other party handed her the plate of fried big-eared rats that were far away, and made her cheer and thank her casually, she began to eat again.

“……”

, Crow, Uncle Crow?!

As the commander of Noxus, Svein's forehead couldn't help jumping for the first time, but in the end, he automatically filtered the title of 'Uncle Crow' that the little girl forced on him, and continued to smile without changing his face, introducing the two couples on the opposite side who also seemed to have a little unnatural expressions about the conditions that Noxus had prescribed for the gray order...... Of course, there are various obligations that the other party has to fulfill.

Because, the rising Noxus cannot do without the support of everyone......

As long as they are a member of Noxus, as long as they join this big family, everyone must unconditionally fight for the revival and rise of 'her' while enjoying the various war dividends brought by the empire!

"Uh......"

e=(o｀*)))

"It's delicious, I'm so full today......"

oo good fragrance......

Little Anne suddenly gasped heavily, touched her little belly, which was a little round, and then finally sat back on her stone bench contentedly, no longer standing between the two groups of negotiators as before, propping up the stone table to make a mess for both sides.

Sure enough, it's easy to be full after all......

"Huh?"

(w)

"The ......"

(*-)

"Uncle Crow, you go on, don't pay attention to me, anyway, I haven't been listening to it since the beginning, and I don't like to listen to the boring things you just said."

(*^^*) is like that!

Little Anne, who found that the scene had begun to slowly become quiet, turned her head and saw that the one-armed uncle with a crow standing on his shoulder and a devil's claw actually stopped to look at her again, so she quickly frolicked and grimaced at the other party, not caring at all that she had just disturbed the other party's important conversation.

（…… ）

(●￣￣●)

“……”

Call!!

After taking a breath of air, making his breathing become rapid for more than ten seconds, Svein finally reluctantly collected his mood, and when the little girl finally stopped eating and drinking, and finally began to stop a little, he turned his head again to look at the two couples who were pretending not to know a little girl, and continued his unfinished speech.

"Lalala......"

(^^)

However, little Annie, who had just stopped, began to toss again at this time......

While she was clutching her stuffed toy bear and rubbing the grease and dirt on it, she even began to hum some random nursery rhymes that everyone present didn't understand at all, and I don't know where she learned them.

（…… ）

(*。 ><)o

“……”

“……”

"At this point, whether it is us or the two of us, I believe that we have no other choice, so ......"

Fortunately, after the little girl's more intrusive behavior just now, it is difficult to attract more attention from this kind of small thing that is just a few words.

So

The four people present, whether it was the Noxian commander Jerry Kosvein or his companion, the one who sat upright in his place, who had been smiling all the time, and who didn't know whether he was listening intently or wandering in the world, or the mystic sorcerer Gregory Hasta and his wife Shadow Witch Amoline, they didn't pay any attention to a little girl who was sitting on a stone bench humming a song, but quickly shook out everything they wanted to say and discuss.

Of course, most of the time it was the leader of Noxus, and that Jerry Kosvein was making a statement, while the occult warlock Gregory Hasta and his wife, the Shadow Witch Amoline, asked a question or two from time to time, frowning and pondering from time to time, and did not say anything directly.

And the tricky queen LeBlanc was like a foil the whole time, just smiling and watching the three of them discuss, without any thoughts of speaking out and participating in it.

"That's probably it, I've finished my words today, and I think the two of you should have made up your minds......"

After finally explaining the matter clearly, and making sure that he had just explained it to the two couples on the other side who could make decisions for the entire gray order, and did not omit any of the things that had been prepared in advance, Jerry Kosvein finally breathed a sigh of relief.

I don't know why, he always felt that today's negotiation was more tired and more tormented than any difficult battle he had commanded before.

"Aside from what I just said, please take a look here!"

"Above, this is an explanation of all the rights and obligations that we, the Noxus High Command and the Trivary Council, have given to you after the joint resolution of the Gray Order!"

"What do you two think?"

"Rest assured, in addition to this, Noxus will definitely give you the treatment and status that matches your status...... Believe me, Noxus never disappoints anyone who has contributed to the Empire! ”

"Never, I promise!!"

After slowly saying that the two of them came to this voodoo land today, and came to all the words and conditions in this gray order that became more and more prosperous and became like a small city-state, Jerry Kosvein, the leader of Noxus, slowly took out a parchment document that had been prepared long ago from his space pocket.

Then, glancing at the two couples opposite, who had been contemplative, still undecided, he gently handed them from the stone platform full of food scraps and plates to the mystic sorcerer Gregory Hasta and his wife, the shadow witch Amoline.

The requirements and conditions he just said were actually all written on the magic contract document, and there was no discount or concealment at all.

As long as either of the other parties signs that contract, everything he said before can be fulfilled immediately!

Because, that contract was signed and sealed by the Council of Trevary, and it was undoubtedly valid in Noxus!

At the same time, it also has a powerful magical effect to ensure that both parties will fulfill it.

And this,

It is the greatest sincerity that he Jerry Cosvein brings to this gray order!

He believed that the two old friends in front of him, this mystical sorcerer Gregory Hasta and his wife Shadow Witch Amoline, must be the kind of people who know the times! Knowing that he is invincible and unable to resist the Noxian Empire, signing that contract is already a sure thing, and there will definitely be no other suspense.

“......”

Without waiting for the other party to make a decision, he first turned his head and glanced at the female companion beside him, and when he found that the other party gave him a positive and obscure look, the corners of Jerry Kosvein's mouth inadvertently flowed a knowing smile.

Then he nodded, and began to turn his head, and sat down on the stone bench with relief, leaning on his marshal's scepter, and waited patiently for the two couples, who were reading the agreement one by one, for each other's reply.

Now, his lobbying assignment has been completed......

Although the process was a little imperfect, and he was constantly messed up by the rude little girl who treated the two couples, he still persevered until the end of the negotiation, and did not make any waves because of that small thing.

“……”

“……”

After a cursory glance at the agreement on the parchment in the form of a magical contract, and finding that there was no discrepancy between what was written on it and the conditions that the Noxian commander had just put forward to them, the mystic warlock Gregory Hasta and his wife, the shadow witch Amoline, also looked at each other tacitly, and when they both saw some kind of decision in the depths of each other's eyes, they tacitly turned their heads and looked back at the two messengers opposite.

"Two messengers ......"

"We have seen that the conditions you Noxus gave are very sincere and generous! We can't think of any reason to refuse......"

At this point, the Shadow Witch Amoline's words paused, and when she saw the ease and hidden ecstasy in the eyes and faces of the two opposites, she smiled slyly, and suddenly changed her words:

"But, unfortunately, our choice is: no!!"

"Of course, please don't get me wrong, this has nothing to do with your conditions, it's just our own problem...... Because, we mages and people of the Grey Order don't want to be involved in that great maelstrom of Noxus again......"

"So, I'm really sorry, I'm afraid I can only let the two of you run for nothing today?"

Knowing that her husband Gregory may be a little embarrassed to refuse the request of an old friend he hasn't seen for more than ten years, he ...... His wife, Shadow Witch Amorim, politely smiled in front of the two messengers, and handed back the agreement, and spoke of the final decision on behalf of the voodoo lands, the Grey Order.

In fact, when the other party had not yet arrived, she had already guessed the other party's intention and made a decision...... Therefore, when she said those words now, she did not mean a little regret.

"Please take this agreement back, and you may be able to give it to those who need it? Because it's so good, we can't afford it......"

Completely ignoring the frowning LeBlanc on the other side and the ugly and surprised face of the Noxian Warlord Jerry Cosvein, the shadow witch Amorien directly grabbed the magical parchment protocol with a mage's hand, and gently 'sent' it back to the two of them, floating in mid-air.

In fact, this is just as she said, their gray order, since the time they broke away from Noxus and risked their lives to climb over the grand barrier, they have been an independent organization! Therefore, the seemingly generous merger request put forward by the other party is actually unreasonable!

Therefore, they will neither accept nor compromise, and will not be easily persuaded by the other party!

No matter what the Valoran Continent will develop into in the future, no matter what the power of the Runeterrasp will evolve into in the future, their Gray Order, a mage organization, will definitely always be hidden in the depths of the Voodoo Land, and will definitely not have any connection with any forces in the outside world.

They must maintain their preeminent status as an organization, not against any outside power, and at the same time, not with any nation!

This is the common will and voice of everyone when Gray Order came here!

And the outrageous merger demand that the other side has just put forward, and the delusional agreement to annex them, is obviously contrary to the core principles of their gray order, and there is also a very serious conflict.

This is not only the will of herself and her husband Gregory, but also the voice of the entire gray order!

Therefore, the shadow witch Amorien simply rejected the Noxian Lord's offer, and even said that her husband Gregory could support some mages in friendship before the other party arrived!

Back then, after going through countless hardships, they finally broke away from Noxus and took root in this voodoo land where ordinary people could hardly survive, away from war and suffering...... Now, how could they, who were enjoying peace and freedom in this paradise, return to Noxus?

"Did I hear me right?"

"What were you just saying...... Say you 'say no'? What do you say...... You don't want to get involved in the 'Noxus maelstrom' anymore? ”

Jerry Cosvein didn't care about the magic agreement that the other party sent back with a spell, but with a face full of consternation, he asked the two couples on the other side with a straight face, obviously very clearly refused, and the attitude was very resolute.

"Heh......"

"W-This is ridiculous! Do you think you're no longer the sons and daughters of Noxus?! ”

In a sarcastic and mocking tone, Jerry Cosvein slammed the parchment magic agreement that stubbornly floated in front of him onto the stone table, and then tried to suppress his anger, and shouted in a majestic tone with a hint of excitement and trembling.

Before coming, although he had thought about many possibilities, he had thought that the other party was conditional to accept, and he had also thought that the other party was insatiable and wanted to get more things...... For this reason, he also deliberately prepared a lot of rebuttals and rejections?

But what do you think......

Now, the other party really didn't accept it at all, directly rejected all his proposals, and said that he didn't want to have anything to do with Noxus anymore?

These people, these pacifists who defected back then, how dare they think like this?!

Sure enough, the other preparation that LeBlan, the female companion next to him, asked him to do, was not completely unreasonable...... For the two couples in front of him, for this gray order, he Svein was still a little too optimistic.

"You're right!"

"Although I am sorry to let the two of you run away, I still have to remind Your Excellency Svein again!"

"We all ......"

"We, the Grey Order and our people, were no longer part of the Noxus Empire when we were persecuted more than a decade ago and had to leave Noxus."

"For that, we're pretty sure! And you, too, better admit it?! ”

Seeing that the other party seemed to have signs of turning his face, the shadow witch Amorien retorted without humility or arrogance, and did not put the somewhat hideous look on the other party's face and the invisible and powerful pressure on her body on her heart at all.

Because

This is the land of voodoo, the home of their grey order, not Noxus, not the Immortal Fortress!

In their own territory, she obviously wouldn't take this Grand Commander in charge of the whole of Noxus and the tricky queen LeBlan!

Actually, even if it's not here, but in another place where there is no support and mage tower assistance, if it is about individual strength, in a two-on-two situation, she Amorien and her husband Gregory next to her will not necessarily be afraid of the two opposite!

Even if there is a real fight, at most it will be like five or five?

And if it's like the one here, in their gray order station...... Then, she has a full chance to win, and she will never leave the other party the slightest chance!

"Heh......"

"I seem to get it...... You people, your gray order, you self-exiles, seem determined to rebel and disobey the will of our Great Noxus?! ”

After a short silence, Jerry Kosvein's expression slowly changed from anger, incomprehension, and regret to the cold and cruel appearance that only when facing an enemy.

Noxus has never had mercy on the enemies of the Empire!!

Because, he could already see from the expressions on the faces of the other couple that the negotiations he came here today must have undoubtedly failed...... The other party, as LeBlanc guessed before, was really not ready to compromise at all, and rejected all his kindness unreasonably?

In that case, it seems that there is no need to continue the discussion today......

"Humph!"

"Your Excellency Jerry Kosvein! I repeat one thing again: our gray order has been separated from the empire more than ten years ago, and it has long since fallen out of your Noxus!! ”

"So, what you say about 'rebellion' and 'disobedience' is illogical!!"

Seeing the change in the other party's expression, the shadow witch Amorien sneered while secretly being vigilant, and refuted it without any emotion.

If it weren't for the old days, if it weren't for the fact that her husband Gregory didn't want to put the relationship between the Grey Order and the Noxian Empire to an antagonistic level, if it weren't for the fact that the foundation of the Grey Order was shallow now and not enough to compete with a huge empire that was expanding wildly...... She Amorien may not even accept the other party's request to negotiate, and she will not open the space coordinates for the other party to come here!

After all, Noxus wasn't friendly to them at all!

And if they hadn't made up their minds to lead the people to escape from Noxus and flee to the land of voodoo, I'm afraid they would have been persecuted a long time ago, and where would they still have the right to live in this world?

Because of this, for the current result, she Amorien actually doesn't have too many surprises and regrets, let alone many feelings, after all, she has long guessed that the result will be like this, but the other party and her husband Gregory still seem to have some unrealistic fantasies.

If you think about it carefully, what she Amorien and their gray order want is freedom and transcendence, and the other party, whether it is the Noxian leader Jerry Kosvein in front of her, or the Noxian Empire represented by the other party, they will only want, conquer and annex arrogantly and unreasonably?

And this is enough to show that the contradiction between the two of them has already become irreconcilable!

Presumably, one day in the future, their gray order will definitely compete with the Noxus Emperor ** team that has expanded to the Voodoo Lands, right?

It's just that it's still a long way off......

In any case, after all, their voodoo land has that dangerous and magnificent barrier, and there is a large swamp with high poison, and the army will definitely not be able to pass through it under normal circumstances! Besides, the Noxian Empire is still at war with the kingdom of Demacia, with Freeljord, and with Ionia, and it won't be so easy to come to their voodoo land!

Unless, the other party is really crazy and wants to overdraw the strength of Noxus to go to war on all sides at the same time?

Therefore, Amorim felt that they still had enough time to slowly develop and strengthen themselves, until the Grey Order could be fearless of anyone or force in this land!

Through the development of more than ten years, the gray order is now getting stronger and stronger day by day, and this paradise that is slowly showing the appearance of a magical city-state makes her Amorien very confident and confident that she can do what she imagined.

All they need now is time, and that's not too difficult.

Therefore, she now has the confidence to face this Jerry Kosvein in front of her, face this Noxian leader, and sarcastically mock this man who is said to be the most powerful and majestic in the Runeterras, and who will push the entire Noxian Empire to glory or destruction!!

"Oh ......"

oo

At this time, Anne was ravaging her little bear Tibbs by herself, and while humming a little song, she rubbed the greasy dirt on her hands and face on the other party, until all the enchanted fur on the other party's body was glued into a mess.

This situation made her a little puzzled for a while......

Why did the two sides seem to be talking with a smile just now, why did they become about to fight when she was not paying attention?

“……”

(_)

Turning her head to look at her mother Amorim and father Gregory, and then at Uncle Raven and Aunt Pale on the other side, Anne finally understood:

It turns out that these adults turn their faces faster than they turn books, and even faster than her Queen Anne?

Look at them, just now they looked like hello, I'm good, everyone's good, and then they seem to have dinner together......

But now?

They annoying adults, I don't know why, suddenly went crazy and were ready to copy the guy and fight?!

（…… ）

s(·｀·; )

(Uncle Tibers, who has been tossed by his own bad little master for a long time, has no clean place in his body, and now he is angry, and of course he is in no mood to pay attention to the two groups of people who are confronting each other, and he didn't pay attention to listen to the conversation between the two sides just now, but desperately struggled weakly on a pair of white and tender little hands, as if he wanted to break free from the clutches and control of a big demon king?) ）

"I see......"

"Is this the ultimate attitude of you and your grey order? However, I have to warn you here: I will not tolerate any power in this voodoo land of our empire in the south of the hinterland of the Empire! ”

"In particular...... A bunch of mages like you!? ”

As soon as he stretched out his hand, he directly grabbed the magic contract parchment and crumpled it, and then Jerry Cosvein slowly stood up from his position with a gloomy face, staring at the two couples opposite who were also standing up on guard with a very unkind face and warning fiercely.

His words were not discounted in any way, and what he said was also the attitude of the Noxian Empire towards the gray order now.

After all, the Voodoo Land is just south of Noxus, just south of the Great Barrier!

And if, here, there is a group of ordinary people...... Surely they wouldn't be so nervous, and they wouldn't have sent someone to discuss merging into the Empire! Because, not including their elite army of Noxus, no one could easily climb over the magnificent barrier and the Voodoo Land full of death traps.

But......

If the other party is a group of mages, the situation is very different.

Almost the entire population of Runeterrall knows that it is not too easy for any powerful mage, or a growing group of mages, to travel freely to any part of the Runeterras!

Therefore, with the development and growth of the gray order, the other party inevitably entered their Noxus field of vision not long ago, and became a group of beings who were like thorns in the eye and thorns in the flesh...... And that's why he Svein is here today.

But the result......

"I've heard the most ridiculous words in this runeterra."

Hearing that the other party said that the land of voodoo belonged to Noxus, the shadow witch Amoline blew up on the spot, and shook off her husband Gregory's hand, stepped forward angrily, and refuted with the gloomy face of the other party:

"Lord Svein!"

"Now, I have to state to you a fact that the entire Runeterrao Land knows: as far as I know, the land of Voodoo Land is not your Noxus, whether it is ten years ago or now, it is not within the territory of your empire, nor does it belong to any country or force!"

"Even, before we arrived, there wasn't even a living person here!"

"So there is no doubt that after more than ten years of survival and transformation of our gray order here, this borderless land, it already belongs to our gray order!"

"I'm more sure of that than you do!"

"If you have any objection to this, I suggest: Your Excellency Jerry Kosvein, the forgetful commander of Noxus, if you are too old to remember certain facts, then, when you have time, go to the library of the Noxian Empire and look through your territory records, lest you accidentally throw your troops into the sea while commanding the army in battle?"

In a fit of rage, as soon as Amorien opened her mouth, she made a series of bitter and caustic words that did not give any face!

Then, after saying that, she was still a little puzzled, and even mocked the other party's broken and decrepit body, and signaled to a certain old immortal guy, it's time to retire from the position of commander of Noxus?

"It's okay......"

"I'll go back later, and I'll ask the clerk to merge the territory of the Voodoo Lands into the Noxian Empire, it's really easy to ......"

"What do you think, Lady Amorim, Shadow Maiden?"

Whether the Voodoo Land is from the Noxian Empire or not, Svein didn't pay attention to this little thing.

Because, just as he said, even if this place did not belong to the Noxian Empire before, then after they marked the emblem of the Empire on the map, this place began to be, and it didn't be!

As long as he, Svein, the commander of Noxus, wants this to be the territory of the Empire, then this is it! Regarding this, their current Great Noxus has the absolute strength to do it, and no one can doubt it!

"Humph!"

"That's a real pity...... We, the Grey Order, will always recognize that this land belongs to us! Therefore, any stranger or 'strange army' that appears south of the Great Barrier will be expelled from us or...... Enjoy the most relentless spell strike from our Grey Order Mage Regiment?! ”

Seeing that the other party could be so shameless and try to annex the Voodoo Land unreasonably, the Shadow Witch Amorien became calm and laughed in a hurry. Then, in contrast to the other party's attitude, it was the kind of murderous-sounding threat and indifferent eyes that she Amoline rarely showed.

Amorim wasn't joking, because here in the Voodoo Lands, their mage towers were up and running, and the kind of strategic spells were enough to threaten any enemy who set foot in this vast voodoo land! Then, before they can get close here, they will be ruthlessly attacked by various spells!

Presumably, at that time, under the natural threat of the land of spells and voodoo, there will definitely not be too many people left who can get close to their station alive.

"Really?"

"If you do that, when the time comes, all that awaits you will be the ruthless conquest of Noxus!!"

He, Jerry Cosvein was never afraid of any threat, and neither was their Great Noxus!

Over the years, countless city-states and forces have been wiped out by the Iron Legion of Noxus, and countless powerful enemies have been reduced to dry bones...... So much so that now the Empire has become the most powerful country on the continent of Valoran!

They Noxians have long been accustomed to fierce confrontation with enemies of any kind, and they will be victorious! If the final decision of this gray order is what the other party just said, then, there is no doubt that their fate is actually sealed.

“……”

"I'm sorry, Lord Svein......"

"I'm afraid, that's the main reason we left Noxus in the first place! Because, we can't accept your kind of crazy external expansion****! ”

"We don't approve of your constant conquest, your expansion, your constant conquest and destruction, your extreme worship of power! Because we are a group of mages, we are exploring the mysteries of the world, not the blood and war you want! ”

"So, Svein ......"

"Please give up! Please don't embarrass us again? And I, too, can assure you here that we of the Grey Order will not be involved in any war in the Runeterras, and that you don't need to see us as a threat, and that there is no need to be as aggressive as you are now......"

After his wife had finished singing blackface, the mystic sorcerer Gregory naturally began to sing red-faced, and said soft things to the unstable Noxian Commander, to the Jerry Kosvein that would not be too embarrassing to both parties.

Although the gray order now hiding in the Voodoo Land is not afraid that the army of the Noxian Empire will dare to climb over the magnificent barrier and attack, for Gregory, if he can lose a powerful enemy by saying a few soft words, it is obviously extremely cost-effective!

"No ......"

"Noxus is never conquering for the sake of conquering, the reason why we fight, we kill, we conquer, it is just to live!"

"Gregory ......"

"The Noxian Empire doesn't need allies, and it doesn't need friends......"

"If you don't give in, I'm afraid we'll be enemies...... And for the enemy, my Great Noxus will always have nothing but conquest and killing! ”

"So, could you please think carefully about the agreement I came up with earlier?"

Although he felt that it was impossible to change the other party's decision with three or two sentences, after thinking about it, Svein finally persuaded this last sentence with good words for Gregory's sake.

If the other party is still obsessed, then the ending of the other party, the ending of this gray order, is already doomed!

I haven't finished changing it.,I'll see if I can add a more chapter.,Because it's 00 o'clock.,It's too late oo rich Chinese.