Just as Cassiopeia began to prepare for the expedition, some heroes in Ionia also ushered in their fate! The wheel of their fate has begun to roll!
Remember the toxic solvent information Katarina found in an abandoned laboratory in Zaun
Yep, fortunes are back on track.
This time, although Singed did not personally help Noxus prepare the medicinal solution, the medicinal solution brought back by Katerina was still used in the war!
As the leader of a frontline battle group, a female soldier named Raven suffered a backstab from her motherland!
Revan, who survived alone, turned into a lonely ghost and began to wander in Ionia to find his own home.
Soon, the elders of the Galewind Sword Sect died under the explosion of Raven's rune blade because they wanted to save Raven.
Gale sword hero Yasuo bears grievances, and begins his wandering journey to find the truth while escaping from pursuit.
Also in Ionia.
A monkey-shaped 'Vastaya tribe' apprenticed to a swordsman of the Wuji Sword Sect, and along with the swordsman named Yi, he devoted himself to the war against the Noxus invasion!
On the other side, a traitor appeared in the Balance Sect. The traitor named Jie established the Shadow Stream Sect, and also began to assassinate the invading Noxians.
Coincidentally, various reclusive masters joined the Ionian rebels one after another.
Although Ionia did not have a unified regime at all, and there was no unified command in the resistance war, those masters would always beat the Noxus army to pieces.
This has caused the Noxus line to retreat again and again. Seeing that the invasion of Ionia is about to fail!
Noxus has become even more politically chaotic because of this war situation!
More than half a month later, General Darius suffered another defeat at the northern border of the empire. His legion was driven into the fortress by Joanseini's tribe, and he could only use the majestic walls of the fortress for forced defense!
The ineffective General Darius returned to the capital and learned of Swain's coup and the imprisoning of the emperor.
But Darius didn't choose to be hostile to Swain, instead he stood by Swain's side!
General Darius killed the puppet emperor himself!
Afterwards, they contacted Swain and Du Kecao, and compiled a "Trifali Convention" and announced it to the whole country!
The convention says: The era of decadent monarchy is over!
In the future, Noxus will be ruled by three parties, the empire will reduce unnecessary wars, all citizens will receive fair rights, and promotion will be determined by meritorious service in war!
The contents of the convention are similar, and the main purpose is to cleanse the old system, eliminate the hereditary nobility and slavery, and make Noxus more fair and just.
This agreement has won the support of countless low-level people for the Big Three.
At the same time, they also received hostility from countless old nobles.
But the power of the Big Three was too strong, and those old nobles could only temporarily avoid the edge and quietly hid within the empire.
When the content of this agreement reached Shurima, Cassiopeia knew that she could not delay any longer.
She found her mother and said seriously: "Mother, I must set off as soon as possible! Swain has gained stronger strength! I must find an ancient force for the organization that can counter him as soon as possible!"
The general's wife did not object, but repeatedly reminded her daughter to be careful outside.
The next day, Cassiopeia immediately led the team to set off!
Under the guidance of the strongest mercenary Sivir, the expedition team approached the capital of the Shurima Empire that had collapsed for countless years, and began to search for the power of the ancients in the tombs under its ruins!
If it were an ordinary explorer, this trip might not yield any results at all.
But Cassiopeia is different! Her intelligence advantage is too great!
Before setting off, she found a lot of relatively reliable archaeological materials, which made the expedition team led by Cassiopeia bypass many detours!
A month later, in an underground tomb, the team successfully found the traces left by the ancient power!
"This employment is over."
In the depths of a mausoleum, Sivir stared at the miniature sun disc suspended in the mid-air of the tomb, and she said softly: "Miss Employer, do I need to escort you home later? But that is another employment." price."
"Thank you, but no need."
Cassiopeia responded with a light smile, she also stared at the small floating sun disc, and walked slowly behind Sivir.
She asked curiously: "Sivir, didn't you get a lot of final prize money in the competition in Pierwater last year? Why do you still travel around for that little commission?"
Sivir fell silent.
She stared at the disc of the sun with a complex expression, and after a while, she replied vaguely: "There are many people who need to rely on me to support them, and that is the responsibility that my blood has bestowed upon me."
"Really? That's how it is."
Cassipeo shook his head slightly regretfully.
She stretched her hands to her waist and said at the same time: "Unfortunately, those people may lose their support."
"What?"
Sivir turned around in astonishment.
However, in the next instant, a sharp dagger pierced Sivir's back!
After the sound of '呲', Cassiopeia smiled and exchanged glances with the astonished Sivir.
She smiled lightly and said, "Sorry, the less people know about things here, the better."
After finishing speaking, Cassiopeia sent her palm forward, causing Sivir to fall directly into the puddle on the ground of the tomb.
Seeing the scene of blood smearing in the puddle, Cassiopeia stopped talking to Sivir, who had already been destined, but loudly directed the guards in the expedition team to receive the sun disc.
The guards also ignored Sivir, they listened to the order to build a simple high ladder, and went to collect the sun disc suspended in mid-air.
Sudden change!
The moment the ascending soldiers touched the sun disk, the entire tomb suddenly trembled!
A crack appeared from the ceiling of the tomb, causing a beam of sunlight as thick as an arm to shine in, illuminating the originally dark tomb a lot!
Everyone in the expedition team was shocked!
But after waiting for a while and seeing no other visions, the expedition team continued with the mission!
Soon, the two-meter-diameter solar disc was picked from the sky.
Cassiopeia stepped forward to check immediately!
Even if there aren't any magicians present, everyone can feel the extraordinary power from that disk!
This made Cassiopeia very happy, which proved that she had found the right one!
Just when Cassiopeia was observing the disk carefully, a scream suddenly sounded from behind!
"Assault—"
The hoarse screams suddenly resounded through the entire tomb!
Everyone was shocked! And quickly organize the defense!
But the expedition had no idea what they were facing!
Those are the magic guards protecting the mausoleum! They are ferocious and powerful!
The guards brought by Cassiopeia are all elites of the family legion, but under the pursuit of those tomb guards, all the guards are so vulnerable!
All kinds of screams did not last long! Soon, only Cassiopeia herself was left in the mausoleum!
At this moment, she regretted not inheriting her father's assassin skills like her sister did!
But Cassiopeia did not give up!
After she gritted her teeth, she immediately chose a desperate escape!
Life matters! Cassiopeia gave up the sun disc she had obtained, and she quickly ran out of the mausoleum along the way she came in!
Following her movements, the guards hiding in the shadows also moved!
The guards meandered on the ground and started chasing and killing Cassiopeia!
The speed of those guards was obviously very fast before, but now, they didn't directly kill Cassiopeia!
The guards were like a cat playing with a mouse, chasing Cassiopeia and fleeing in embarrassment in the passage of the tomb!
It wasn't until Cassiopeia was about to escape and ascend to heaven that one of the guards suddenly accelerated!
The fangs pierced Cassiopeia's calf and went away.
Cassiopeia screamed! But the surge of adrenaline made her temporarily ignore the pain!
In the next moment, Cassiopeia finally managed to escape from the tomb! And join the guards who stayed outside!
Sunshine and companions instantly shattered Cassiopeia's forceful energy!
She didn't even have time to explain the situation, she fell into a coma and fell into the hot sand sea.
The guard was shocked!
The two guards who did not enter the mausoleum hurried forward to check on Cassiopeia's situation!
They briefly helped Cassiopeia deal with the wound on her calf, and then immediately packed up and started to return!
Inside the mausoleum.
The guards who killed the intruder and left the curse on Cassiopeia returned to the hall.
They meandered around the load-bearing stone pillars of the mausoleum, and turned into stone reliefs one after another.
The entire tomb returned to silence, only the occasional soft splash of water, and Sivir's unconscious moan of pain when she was in a coma.
Time flies.
The cool sun is gradually heading west.
Inside the mausoleum, the beam of light projected from the crack also began to move gradually.
At one point, the beam moved above the sun's disk tilted toward the ground.
The light was instantly refracted and projected onto the center of a circular relief on the wall of the mausoleum!
With the sound of 'cracking', the mechanism on the wall automatically opened, and a figure slowly flew out from inside the mechanism!
The refracted sunlight kept pouring on that figure, and the scorching energy began to heat up the entire mausoleum.
At a certain moment, the eyes of the fully enclosed flying eagle helmet on that figure's head suddenly shone with a golden light!
The figure slowly opened his hands, and began to actively absorb the light energy projected onto him!
The light made Sivir, who was dying, slowly opened his eyes.
Without looking up, she directly saw the figure floating above her.
Sivir's eyes widened in surprise.
And at the next moment, the figure floating in mid-air also lowered his head and looked down.
"It turned out to be a descendant of my blood..."
A slightly dry voice sounded, and the figure floating in the air said slowly: "Why are you so desperate and embarrassed?"
After the words fell, the figure in mid-air slowly opened its palm to Sivir who was in the puddle below.
A beam of powerful energy instantly submerged into Sivir's body!
That power restored Sivir's strength a little, and stopped Sivir's loss of life.
"Who... are you?" Sivir asked weakly.
"I am Azir! The master of this continent! The emperor of Shurima!"
"Emperor... heh..."
Sivir sneered: "For so many years, countless impoverished people of Shurima have been praying for an emperor to lead them out of their predicament, then!"
She encouraged her to sit up halfway, and asked loudly regardless of the blood spurting from the wound again: "All these years! Where is your so-called emperor?!"
"That's an infuriating story." Desert Emperor Azir said softly, "But none of that matters! Now, I'm back! The emperor Shurima's people have been looking forward to! I'm back!"
"How about coming back?"
Sivir had a lot of resentment towards her ancestors, she gritted her teeth and growled: "You will only lead the people into an even more desperate abyss!"
"Pay attention to your words! Descendants of my blood!"
Azir was slightly dissatisfied, and for a moment he revealed the aura of controlling life and death with his words.
Sivir suddenly groaned, and spurted more blood from the wound.
Seeing this, Azir quickly restrained his strength.
He projected flame-like light energy at Sivir again. Although his power could not heal injuries professionally, it could at least save Sivir from life-threatening.
But Sivir didn't appreciate it!
After feeling that his injury was enough to move, Sivir immediately backed up and left the range of light energy!
She looked up at Arez and said in a cold voice: "You don't need to be kind! The desert emperor! When you see Shurima with your own eyes, you will know how ridiculous your return is!"
After speaking, Sivir walked directly outside the mausoleum, dragging his seriously injured body.
"My descendants."
Arez, who was still floating in the air, asked softly, "What's your name?"
Sivir's leaving footsteps paused, and then she continued to walk while replying flatly: "Sivir."
After the words fell, Sivir's figure quickly disappeared into the shadows.
"Sivir..."
Azir pondered for a while, and then he said in a deep voice: "Sivir, either rise up with Shurima or fall under it, as my descendant, this is my destiny!"
"but… "
Azir looked up at the ceiling of the mausoleum.
He let go of his perception, and the power of his perception almost covered dozens of kilometers of the desert outside!
He 'sees' everything in Shurima today!
With a cold snort, Azir slowly raised his arms.
rumbling—
The capital ruins of the entire Shurima began to tremble!
The buildings that collapsed and buried deep under the sea of sand began to recover, and the various destroyed buildings recombined and rose again!
The Ascension Altar in the center of the ruins also slowly healed as if going back in time!
The huge sun disc rose from the altar again, and slowly rotated in the air.
The sky and the earth seemed to darken for a moment, and an unknown amount of light energy was absorbed by the sun disc.
Not long after, a voice seemed to resound through the entire Shurima Desert!
"Shurima!"
The voice seemed to come from the ground: "Your emperor! He's back—"
boom-
The entire desert buzzed and trembled, as if responding to that announcement!
At this moment, countless people in the entire desert looked in the direction of the capital ruins...
(end of this chapter)