In the lower city of the Immortal Fortress, at the Black Rose Mage Academy, Lester, wearing a formal robe and a magic steel mask, walked out of the gate and waved to Tali and his teacher Terenna who were bidding farewell to him.
"Tali, work hard and try to complete your study tasks as soon as possible.
Terena, if you still want to see me, be careful, I don't have the magic to revive you."
"Lord Lester! I will work hard to learn from Teacher Terena!"
Tali held her hands in front of her chest and tried her best to make a firm voice.
"Who used this guy like you to resurrect him?"
The fish-eyed female mage who rolled her eyes was not a person who was dragging her feet. After saying a few words, she pulled Tali by the collar of her robe and walked back.
"If your woman is not good enough, I will kick her out. Then don't say that I won't give you face."
"How dare you say you're awesome when you can't take Tali with you?"
"cut."
Watching the two of them leave, Lester did not leave. He just turned his back and waited for something.
Sure enough, after the two female mages had completely left, a guy with his face covered sneakily walked out of the mages academy.
Looking back, the man sighed.
"You're still here."
"I knew you would wait for me, so I came."
The woman with her face covered stood one meter away from Leicester.
"When are you coming back?"
"Maybe three years, maybe five years, maybe... ten years, twenty years, although it is a long time, you will always come back. Is this what you came here to tell me?"
After shaking her head, the woman hesitated and spoke.
"I have no other intention, I just want to give it to you."
"Then the farewell is done, it's time for me to leave."
Lester turned around and began to move.
One step, two steps, three steps, stand firm.
The woman with her face covered was still tangled in place, looking at a loss.
The man turned around and felt a little funny when he saw a woman who was as shameless as him and had to sneak around with something to hide her face.
Outside the gate, two people wearing black mage robes and masks were talking to each other. They didn't look like good people, and that was the fact. Neither she nor she was a good person.
If you think about it carefully, what a woman says about "I am like her" is not completely unreasonable.
"Anyway, your scroll really helped me a lot. I owe you a favor."
"I know you will definitely recognize it, that's why I gave you such a precious thing, otherwise I wouldn't be able to part with it."
After holding it in for a long time, the woman who didn't want to regret it finally said something.
"I know I may not be clean in your eyes, but can you hold my hand? I have changed my skin and flesh, and I have never held anyone else's hand since then. It is no longer the same hand as before. .”
The man was silent for a moment, then turned around.
"You must have killed a lot of people."
"very many."
"Is it valuable?"
"Yes... they have all become part of my body. To be honest, I don't think you will hate this."
"Because I have no right to hate. I have killed many, many innocent people, and my hands are not clean. How can crows laugh at the blackness of coal?"
"So, can you pull..."
"look."
The man interrupted the woman and raised his right hand.
"Even if the blood on this hand can never be washed away, I will try my best to make him a little cleaner in the days to come. Valuable and meaningful killings should be recognized, but under certain conditions
Under the circumstances, I will try to make myself feel more at ease,
The reason why people can create value and burst out huge energy is because they can change and will never change. There are only dead people."
Taking a step back, the female mage lowered her raised right hand and remained silent for a long time.
"I see……
Every time I talk to you, it's like looking in the mirror. I always find something I've never considered before...
Thank you and wish you a safe journey.”
The female mage turned around and was about to leave, but she suddenly found that the man's arms had wrapped around her from behind and hugged her gently. The unexpected situation caused the woman's brain to freeze in place, completely losing her ability to think.
"Did you know? I hugged a rotten piece of maggot-infested meat for a scroll."
By the time the female mage recovered from her daze, the man's figure had disappeared.
…
Walking up the mirrored corridor, Lester left the underground world of the Immortal Fortress. Knowing that Rose was not at home, Lester was not going to go to Black Thorn Rose Street, so he hired a carriage and headed out of the city.
go.
Amidst the crisp sound of kicking, the curtain was pulled down, and the man in the carriage took off his mask and quietly thought about the current situation.
Nowadays, Noxus' frontline development is tense. Even Nadarz, who is firmly seated in the rear, has no time to spare. He presides over the newly created Noxus Supreme Command. This Roxy bandit leader can't even take care of his wife.
Tianliangtou and Standal held meetings with other chapter leaders at the headquarters to continuously allocate new logistics materials and mobilize the chapter to the battlefield. In ten years of development, the war in Valoran has increased from a hundred people to a thousand.
degree of human scale.
It has to be said that in times of peace, the people of Runeterra are really able to survive.
As the most important part of the Noxian faction, the lords of the Emerald Territory naturally have the right to know the latest battle status, which is the highest military secret. At the end of each meeting, the important matters decided at the meeting will be personally delivered by the envoy sent by Nadarz.
into your own hands,
Lester was still very touched by Nadarz's regard for him. It had to be said that this silly-looking bearded man successfully prevented him from finding a reason to betray Noxus.
Lester's own thoughts are also very simple. Since there is no reason to betray, he will not betray.
"The howling cold wind of Dalmo Plain has not only not been defeated in the war with Noxus in recent years, it has also become stronger and stronger.
This new force, which combines the advantages of Freljord and grassland barbarians, has reached a scale of ten thousand people in its hinterland.
Taking advantage of the prairie horses, the cold-winded war mother Jelena used her wife who was born in the Dalmo Plain to form a thousand-man cavalry unit that came and went like the wind. In addition, the prairie barbarians had grown up
With the riding and archery skills they had mastered, the Noxians in heavy armor could only be kited, unable to advance or retreat. If it weren't for the mage from Black Rose who acted as a back-up force, great rout might have become the norm.
Coupled with the heavily armored troll troops tamed by the Freljord Iceborn and the Iceborne sorceresses from Lissandra, it is understandable that the ten years of fighting have not made any progress, but why Lissandra's hands are
Stretching so long? What benefit does conquering the south have for her ultimate goal of sealing the big eyes?"
In the previous world, the Mongolian horse archers were an invincible force. It was not without reason that the Mongols were able to defeat unrivaled opponents across three continents.
In Lester's opinion, unless a way can be found to restrain the cavalry and light cavalry, and then use the Darkblood Demon Crossbow, a strong bow with armor-piercing properties, to defeat the troll troops, Noxus can win this tug of war.
