"King Gavin, I agree with Lord Franks that the people of Demacia need not be afraid when war has not come, because there are the greatest nations and warriors here, and we do not need to worry about Noxus when there is no hostility, that would only be contrary to the justice of Demacia, and the state of war is a very serious matter for Demacia.

We don't need to pay attention to the life and death of the group of immigrants from the outer continent, the Valoran continent will only be more beautiful without those savage visitors, but it is still necessary to send a part of the garrison to the Green Tooth Peak Fortress appropriately, we are not prepared to cause a war, we just need to be prepared for war. ”

Demacia's Chancellor of the Exchequer, Britney Coster's words, made many people nod, and Ceci Garvin only saw hesitation on the faces of the heads of the Crownguard and Chrisman, and sure enough, Clark Crownguard said in a deep voice.

"Sir Britney, having said that, we must also take the initiative to grasp the movements of the Noxians, passivity should not be the idea of the Demacians, and we cannot wait for the Noxians to display their soldiers at our doorstep to understand the enemy's malice,

I suggest sending an elite squad of scouts into the city-state of Leinland in disguise to find out where the Noxians are going, and once it is confirmed that the Noxians are ready for a full-scale invasion of Demacia, we can take the initiative to meet them. ”

"I agree with Lord Clark and Lord Britney."

"Seconded ......"

"In that case."

Seci Gavin was the first to stand up, and said solemnly as everyone stood up.

"Clark, you Harrison and an elite scout team from the Dreadnought and Demacian Legion will go to the Leinland region to reconnoiter the movements of the Noxians, and report back as soon as the true intentions of the Noxians are discovered!"

Clark Crownback and Harrison Laurent get down on one knee.

"Obey the king's orders!"

……

North of the Forest of Tranquility, the wooden gates of the city-state of Leinland have been shattered by the onslaught of siege crossbows, and the city has been thrown by flaming stone throwers and dragon knights, and the entire city has been ablaze with fire, killing and wounding countless people.

Tens of thousands of Leinland soldiers were left outside the city, and the remaining remnants of the defeated soldiers had retreated into the city, and a team of Emerald Led soldiers in excellent black armor cooperated with the mages of Black Lightning, and quickly entered the city to occupy the key places of the fortress, and the heavily armed dragon lizard knights guarded the main roads to prepare for the second phase of the attack.

"Herod~"

The armored warhorse, which had long been familiar with blood and fire, snorted, and fearlessly shook its tail and stepped into the ruined city built by the Gentiles, and on horseback was Milton, the commander of the First Legion of the Black Guard and the executor of the westward strategy.

Milton, who had entered middle age with a thick beard on his lips compared to his youth, had proven his talent and loyalty to the true owner of the Emerald Collar thirteen years earlier, and in return, he had risen from the ranks of his contemporaries to become the commander of the Westward Expansion Strategy.

As long as this battle is fought well with the smell of feces, he is likely to ascend to the sky in one step and become the generalissimo of the Emerald Collar, and write his name on the heroic monument of the Emerald Collar. …

"Uh-uh...... It hurts, spare me, spare me, I surrender ......"

A Leinland man with a broken arm suddenly ran out of the burning houses on the side of the road, and without Milton saying anything, a crossbow arrow pierced the Leinlander's chest and ended his life, which also caused another scream,

It was an East Valoran woman in a fur skirt, a middle-aged woman wearing only a simple leather skirt, attached to the chest of the deceased and wept bitterly, and soon the soldiers with the emerald collar surrounded her, and Milton gently pulled his horse to the side, signaling the soldiers to leave him alone.

"Who are you? Who is he? ”

"I'm from the Duchy of Valques, he, he's mine...... Husband. ”

"I remember that the Duchy of Valks is a very rich country, and every Duchy has decent subjects, why did you choose to settle in Leinland?"

"I was taken by human traffickers when I was 12 years old, they loaded me onto a boat, and when I woke up, I was in Leinland, and he bought me."

"The Duchy of Valques is in the Eastern Continent, Leinland is in the Western Continent, the Emerald Territory guards all the transportation arteries of the Eastern Continent and the Western Continent, and the carriages are strictly checked, we will never allow any living human traffickers to pass through the territory of the Emerald Territory, how did you get to the Western Continent from the sea?"

"Later I realized that in order to bypass the Emerald Collar, those human traffickers brought me to the Western Continent through the port of Demacia, and those slave traders only had to pay a large customs fee to safely transport Gentile slaves out of Demacia."

Hearing the woman's words, the corners of Milton's mouth became more sarcastic, and he knew that the show had just begun.

"Now that your husband is dead, I can see that you love him very much."

The soldier was still leading the conversation deeper, and the woman lowered her head, unable to see her expression.

"Yes, I love him so much, it was he who protected me from the slave traders, and I have promised to guard him all my life and give everything I have for him, and you are now ...... Kill him. ”

"You never thought that it was because of the Leinlands that you would be in this situation? Now you choose to lay down your arms and have a chance to return to the Duchy of Valques. ”

As she said this, the silent woman's eyes suddenly began to glow abnormally bloodshot and began to yell hysterically.

"It is the honor of my life to be bought by my husband! Why do you make irresponsible claims? Even if I die, I have nothing to do with you!! You disgusting pig! ”

The woman suddenly took out a human bone dagger from her leather skirt and stabbed it at the jade-collared soldier who was questioning, and the soldier who had been prepared for a long time directly slashed it with a sword, ending the woman's life, and the headless body held the dagger and stood in place for three seconds before falling to the ground.

The military mage put the human bone dagger in a hard magic leather bag, and after detaching the human bone dagger, the middle-aged woman's body quickly decomposed, and even the blood became dark brown.

The horses continued on their way, and with the exception of a few Gentiles who hated the Leinlands very much, most of the Gentiles living as slaves chose to avenge their masters by suicide attacks. …

This strange situation seems to be common in the city-state of Leinland, and the Black Lightning Mage who accompanied the army investigated and came to the conclusion that the Gentiles living in Leinland had received some kind of supernatural power that was different from magic, and seemed to be related to some kind of totem rooted in the spirit.

During the night, the Emerald Leader's troops were stationed in the DC area, setting up a tight defensive line.

Milton finally heard the unexpected news, and one of the Emerald Lords suddenly drew his weapon and killed two of his companions, and the soldier was defeated and tied up before the butcher's knife could swing at the third man.

In just ten minutes, there were several such cases.

Pushing open the wooden door of the house, which had been temporarily used as an interrogation room, Milton first glanced at the Emerald Collar soldier who was unconscious on a stake like a dumpling, and then looked at the mage Memmy who was sitting in a chair.

"Mage Memi, what's going on now?"

Without directly responding to Milton's question, Memmy, who was under a large felt hat, just shook her head, took out a bone dagger from her magic leather pouch, and motioned for the soldier to use the hammer to crumble.

Taking a piece of bone the size of a fingernail, Mage Meimi used magic to grind the large piece of bone into bone meal, and then the bone meal was sprinkled in the cup, Meimi motioned for the soldier to wake up the unconscious, and in the midst of semantic abuse, the soldier forcibly poured a purple solution mixed with bone meal and other alchemical potions on the man who had lost his mind.

Confused, Milton didn't want to continue to ask, just watched silently, and after a few seconds, the man-looking man finally calmed down, and Mage Memi stared at the empty-eyed soldier and began to ask questions.

"What do you see?"

"Gray Mist...... So much, so much...... Dead man with pustules...... A wooden ...... with a human face on it Tentacles, floating on the surface of the sea...... Speak...... A lot of dead people...... All came to life. ”

"Why did you kill your comrades?"

"I killed ...... Monster...... Not human...... You all ...... Not human...... Damn it...... Damn it......"

Seeing that the soldier had the intention of relapsing his old illness, Memi's voice was a little faster.

"Do you hear the voice? What is that voice talking to you? ”

The bound soldier's voice softened, but his nostrils and eyes began to bleed, making Milton feel a little furious.

"Hometown...... Back to my hometown...... Way...... Dead ......"

The soldier swallowed his breath completely, his body turned purple and blue as if he had been poisoned, his skin melted away, and melted into a slowly spreading thick bubble, and the onlookers took the initiative to retreat, seeing that Mage Meimi was still thinking in place, Milton was about to reach out and pull it, but was skillfully dodged by Master Meimi.

"I'm fine."

Hearing Memmy say this, Milton's heart breathed a sigh of relief.

In the room, everyone who witnessed the strange scene in front of them turned their eyes on Meimi, and Meimi, who lived up to expectations, began to explain her findings.

"In this city, there is a gray wooden totem with tentacles, which is very dangerous, this is a spiritual evil weapon that can affect reason, and it must be purified with flames to break the effect of the evil weapon on people, you can't look at it, you can't listen to it." …

The crisp voice fell, and everyone's faces changed directly, Master Meimi, who cherished words like gold, would never speak more than five words, but this time he directly said a large paragraph, which was enough to show that the situation was very serious.

Semanticly, it's going to burn all the people who are affected, and sure enough, the world is going to be finished, right?

"How do we find the evil weapon? Is there anything we can do to resist the psychic influences? ”

"You can't do it, the closer you are, the more dangerous it is, and you can only rely on willpower."

After speaking, Master Meimi pointed to the bone utensils in the belt.

"Be careful, when you encounter someone with a bone weapon, don't hesitate to kill it directly."

……

"The terrain here is complicated, easy to defend and difficult to attack, I will only say it once, you are not allowed to speak Demacian, and you are not allowed to do anything that will remind the Noxians of Demacia."

With the help of the Dragonbird Knight, the five of them took advantage of the cover of night, and Blofeld and his four subordinates successfully parachuted into the west of the city, found a remote house that had been abandoned, and Brofield began to assign tasks.

As the Sword Captain of the Dreadnought's First Shield Formation, Blofeld was well aware of the importance of this mission, and he had already thought of a course of action before he set off.

"Leach, you and Carl scout the neighborhood all the way, remember, be sure to come back before dawn,

Gallup, you keep supplies and pigeon cages in the cellar, and when I leave, you will move the bedboard to the cellar trapdoor to cover the tracks, Tina, you move with me.

Remember, we are merchants from the Kingdom of Nosland, and we are not allowed to take refuge due to the invasion of Noxus, so remember the identification I gave you, so as not to be mistaken by the Noxians.

In this operation, we should try to avoid the Noxians, secretly investigate whether Noxus have the intention of invading Demacia, and if we really can't avoid it, don't do it, and act according to our pre-made plan,

Even if we are captured by the Noxians, we will never be able to tell our true identity, let alone the merchants who will not be embarrassed by the Emerald Collar's way of doing things.

I think you'll go back to Demacia to the Hall of Valor, not to be a traitor that everyone revilates.

Do you understand everything? ”

A few people nodded, smeared an even black ash on the merchant's thick old skirt and face, and pulled a few cuts in the already old clothes from the broken wooden thorns on the ground, and looked at the same situation, Leach and Carl left first.

The pigeon cages and sufficient food supplies were placed by Gallup in a breathable cellar with a door that was hidden enough to be undetectable when obstacles were placed.

Using himself and Tina in the same way as the two of them to turn into embarrassed-looking merchants, Blofeld emerges from the house and begins to observe the ruined streets.

The road was strewn with blood, and the burning houses were not well lit, only to loom Brockfield and Tina with a few indescribably mutilated corpses.

"It's hard to imagine what kind of tragedy is happening here, we must not let Noxus ......"

Blofield grabbed Tina's hand and whispered a whisper to the shieldguard.

"We only do what we have to do and say what we have to say, my wife, I repeat, we just want to leave the dangerous city of Leinland as soon as possible and return to the kingdom of Norsland, understand? We will definitely not get involved in the war between Noxus and Leinland. ”

Glared at by Brofield, Tina nodded against her flushed cheeks.

"You're right, we just want to run for our lives."

"That's right, let's look around, maybe we can find some refugees like us, in this case, only by helping each other can we escape this hell on earth."