LOL: Summoner of Goddess Jana

Chapter 397 The Future Enemy (Two in One)

Soon after, Ionia.

Through Janna's "Blue Bird Radio", Li Wei, who was supervising the land reform work on the front line, finally received the good news from Swain and Quilleta:

"Draius, have you decided to surrender anyway?"

"Yes, Li Wei." Janna confirmed: "Draius has become the leader. Maybe we can no longer call him the Hand of Noxus, but should call him the future Noxus Vice President of the Leaders Association."

"Now."

Darius felt that the world was wide open at that moment.

Now he has completely let go of his obsession with the empire, and is enjoying the family happiness that he has never felt before.

With a "sentimental iron hand", he pulled his own children who had been separated for many years into his arms, holding a little son in his left hand and a little girl in his right hand, and he was so happy that he couldn't think of it.

I only hate that I have been wandering for half my life, only to see the way today.

Therefore, facing the position of vice president of the Noxus Leaders Association promised to him by Swain, Darius naturally readily accepted it.

Delevingne was a little at a loss.

Both elder brother Swain and dear elder brother Darius have invested, and he must also have to invest.

But his hobbies and ideal job seem to conflict with the leader's values.

After voting for the leader, wouldn't he be unemployed again?
"It doesn't matter." Li Wei had already prepared a way out for this future glorious executioner: "The leader also needs an executioner."

"Noxus is so huge, there won't be enough streetlights to hang on the streets by then, and his job opportunities will be missing?"

"That's... the way he works needs to be changed. The process should be simple and humane, and it should not be too violent."

In fact, these oppressed people today can completely accept this kind of violence.After all, the violence and horror that those vampires are suffering now have been inflicted on them ten times and a hundred times in the past.

They hang the vampires on the street lamps because the chaebol merchants, alchemy barons, pirates and bandits, and warlord nobles in the past used this violent way of hanging street lamps/masts/city gates to deter those who dared to resist.

This is what the old man taught everyone by hand.It's no wonder that after turning over, they will follow suit and treat others in their own way.

It's just that Li Wei has a vision.

He knew that the current group of people supported him.

But after the world is peaceful in the future, their sons and grandsons may not support it.

Small citizens who grew up in peacetime would never see this kind of violence.

Hanging street lamps after shooting will frighten them.

If Draven, the "pleasure criminal", is allowed to mess around and be recorded by the literati, the future leader will have a black history of being criticized [-]%.

"Moreover, once the enthusiasm of the masses is aroused, it is easy to develop out of control. It is also necessary to prevent the extremeization and expansion of the liquidation work." Li Wei did not forget to emphasize this point.

Because the leader develops too fast, the number of grassroots cadres of the leader has been in a state of shortage for a long time from the beginning.

Without enough reliable grassroots cadres, the leaders will not be able to lead the grassroots smoothly, and the progressive struggle movement may become a reckless move like an ancient peasant uprising.

At the beginning, they liquidated the alchemy baron and the chaebol comprador in Zaan. As a result, the out-of-control people in Zaan not only took the opportunity to buy at zero yuan, but also regarded the small bosses who opened hardware stores on the street and the street vendors selling magic marsh frogs. The chaebol running dog" was caught.

Now the leader is trying to carry out land reform in Ionia, and occasionally similar chaos occurs.

In short:

Out of the needs of united front work, the leader is willing to leave a position of "Storm Executioner" for Draven.

But the way he works has to be a little too extreme.

As for whether Draven himself is happy or not.
Li Wei can only say that he likes to do things, not to fuck off.

If you don't do it, some people will do it. The most important thing for leaders is someone who can hang vampires on street lamps.

"With the help of General Darius, the situation in Noxus will become clearer." Li Wei withdrew his distracted thoughts, and lamented the further victory of the leader.

But his voice was not very excited.

After all, since Swain entered the Immortal Fortress, the balance of victory has already begun to tilt towards the leader.

LeBlanc never imagined that Swain would be treasonous, and she never imagined that a person could give up the title of "Emperor of Noxus" to pursue her ideals. From then on, it was impossible for her to make a comeback.

"LeBlanc's failure is doomed, but" Li Wei still couldn't relax.

He knew that after LeBlanc and Black Rose, the leader had even more terrifying enemies to face.

"How's the situation in Shurima?" Li Wei couldn't help asking Janna.

"I have found Du Kecao Cassiopeia, and her mother, Soliana." Janna replied.

"As you predicted, the mother and daughter seem to be devastated by the recent upheavals in the political situation of the empire, and they have a bold idea to prepare for an adventure to find the ancient relics of Shurima."

Cassiopeia, sister of Caterina, youngest daughter of Du Cucao, and sister-in-law of Galen.

At the same time, both she and her mother are members of the Black Rose organization, and have been secretly serving the interests of the Black Rose.

In the original world:
Swain will still successfully launch a coup, and the power of Black Rose will still suffer a heavy blow.

The temporary loss of power of the black rose will stimulate the mother and daughter Cassiopeia, causing them to make an extremely risky decision-to find and excavate the lost tomb of a mysterious ascendant, and to explore the legend that can rival the gods. Ancient mighty force.

Then, by chance, Cassiopeia hired Sivir, who was working as a mercenary in Shurima, as a guide.

And this person who gave her the nickname Wheel Mom cough cough, Miss Sivir, who is known as the "Goddess of War" by people in the world, happens to be the owner of this tomb, the direct bloodline of Azir, the last emperor of Shurima.

Then, [Desert Emperor Azir] was resurrected by the blood of his descendants, and fortunately completed the ascension ceremony that he failed to complete before his death, and became an official god warrior.

In the end, Azir, who was resurrected with full blood and strengthened a hundred times, rebuilt the sun disc with divine power, and vowed to make the lost Shurima Empire great again——

The ancient Shurima Empire was thus reborn.

And following this story, it is not difficult to find:
"It is actually a very low probability for Azir to be resurrected and successfully become an Ascended."

"First of all, we must ensure that Sivir is in that expedition team; secondly, Sivir must follow the original script to wake up the sleeping Azir with her blood."

"As for the general location of the cemetery, only Cassiopeia and her daughter know. If someone else leads this expedition, it may not be possible to find Azir's tomb in the vast desert."

As long as there is a slight mistake in this process, the direction of the plot may change.

And the emergence of leaders has already brought a huge butterfly effect to the world.

Swain launched a coup in advance, the Ionian War was terminated in advance, and Black Rose suffered a more fatal blow.

Du Kecao didn't turn to Swain, but followed Katerina and directly surrendered the leader.

Levi can't guarantee whether Azir can be resurrected smoothly.

"Li Wei." Janna also heard these "prophecies" from Li Wei.

Now seeing Li Wei's expression of serious thinking, she realized: "You asked me to find Cassiopeia, it seems... Didn't you want to stop her exploration and stop the resurrection of Emperor Azir?"

"That's right." Li Wei nodded.

The facts were exactly the opposite of Janna's initial guess.He didn't want to stop Azir from cheating, but to help Azir return.

"Why?" Janna didn't understand: "Azir and his Shurima Empire should be our enemies."

Shurima is a feudal empire with slavery, more reactionary and backward than Noxus.

And Azir sounds like a staunch Shuriman Restorer.No matter how he looked, he didn't look like the leader's friend.

Not to mention, the Shurima Empire forged a relationship with Janna more than 3000 years ago.

At the beginning, Janna's believers were mainly fishermen and sailors along the coast of the Shurima continent, and her faith also flourished as Shurima expanded overseas.

However, the Shurima Empire destroyed her temple and banned her beliefs, causing her to become a useless bird of Vazuan step by step from the guardian of the wind across the world.

"One moment, another moment." Li Wei laughed.

The Shurima Empire has been dead for 3000 years, and it has been destroyed long ago.

Back then, Shurima was full of Ascenders, it was really gods walking all over the place, demigods are not as good as dogs.Goddess Janna had to be beaten up there, and she didn't dare to come out to fight back when the temple was destroyed.

But the current Shurima has long since lost its glory in the past, and there is only a ruined wall hidden in the desert.

Those who ascended died, and those who were sealed were sealed.Even if Azir is resurrected, he will definitely not be able to make Shurima great again by himself.

"In fact, in the future as far as I know:"

"Even after 10 years, the colonies on the north coast of Shurima are still firmly in the hands of the Noxus Empire."

"Noxus is even capable of maintaining their hold on the northern shores of Shurima while launching a second invasion of Ionia."

This shows that Azir's resurrection is the resurrection of loneliness.

He simply wasn't capable of making Shurima great again.

Don't say anything else.Just his old enemy Xerath, who cheated with him, can make him burnt out.

Not to mention.
"The faith of our leader is like a spreading flame, spreading rapidly throughout Runeterra."

"Last month you were just a 'false god' comparable to Vladimir, but this month you have recovered to the state of demigod. What about next month, next month?"

"We are fully capable of ignoring the threat posed by Azir's resurrection and talking to these Ascended as equals."

So Li Wei is not afraid of the resurrection of the Shurima Empire.On the contrary, he still needs Azir to come back to life to enhance the overall strength of Shurima.

the reason is simple:
"The enemy of an enemy is a friend." Li Wei knew how dangerous the world was.

Void monsters, black mist of the undead, rune crisis, Mordekaiser's resurrection...there are too many extinction crises that can destroy human beings.

"No matter how reactionary Azir is, he is still a member of our Order-side humans."

Moreover, Li Wei also knew that he was a progressive emperor who opposed slavery.He might not be that reactionary.

"It's entirely possible we could work together."

"If he agrees to cooperate, then we will have an extra powerful ally when we face the crisis of annihilation in the future."

"And if he doesn't agree to cooperate, that's okay."

South of Zaun is Shurima.

South of Shurima lies Icathia, which has become a hotbed of the void.

Li Wei knew that sooner or later the next round of void invasion would break out here.

And the revived Shurima Empire is just a natural strategic buffer between the Void Explosion and the leader in the north.

To put it bluntly:
Regardless of whether Azir casts his hat or not, when the void crisis erupts from Icacia, he will be the first to suffer.

At that time, even if he is unwilling to cooperate, he can only follow the leader and fight desperately for the fate of all mankind.

"I see." Janna understood Li Wei's intention.

The enemies that the leader will have to deal with in the future are too terrifying, and he must do everything possible to get a strong enough helper for himself.

So Li Wei welcomed Azir's resurrection, and even supported the temporary restoration of the Shurima Empire.

"But." Janna thought of a more serious question: "If the Shurima Empire is revived, will the people of Shurima suffer more?"

"No. You are wrong, Janna." Li Wei shook his head.

Janna has been the leader's god for a long time now, so she subconsciously believes that the slavery feudal empire of Shurima is an extremely reactionary and backward historical garbage.

You are right to think so.But the problem is.
"Now the tribal warlords in Shurima are more reactionary than the feudal empire!"

After the fall of the Shurima Empire, the civilization of the Shurima Continent has completely regressed back to the primitive era of slavery and tribes.

Those tribal chiefs were both warlords and slave owners.

Even after the invasion of the Noxus Empire, many of them became comprador lackeys of the Noxus.

"These insects don't do anything all day long, they only know to attack each other every day, grabbing money, food, and territory."

"They sold the compatriots captured in the war as goods to the Noxus as slaves; then they took the money, food and weapons exchanged from Noxus, turned around and provoked more wars, and sent more countrymen as goods”

Let this group of insects rule Shurima, it would be better to restore the Shurima Empire.

At least, in the Shurima Empire 3000 years ago, the living standard of the people was much better than it is now.

"That's true." As a 7000-year-old comrade, Janna quickly recalled the grand occasion of the Shurima Empire.

At that time, the territory of the Shurima Empire was peaceful and peaceful. Although the commoners could not say that all of them lived affluently, they generally had enough to eat and drink, and lived their lives peacefully.

Although the low-level slaves at that time also had a miserable life, but now this slavery has not disappeared from Shurima, has it?

Not only did it not disappear, but it was also carried forward by those Shurima warlords.

When the Shurima Empire existed, the slaves only had to serve Lord Shurima.Now they have to serve not only the Shurima lords, but the Noxian lords of the colony as well.And in this chaotic world of endless fighting, they are often starved to death or killed before they die from exhaustion or disease.

In short, it is really worse than bad, the current warlord of the Shurima tribe is the runner-up, and I am afraid that no one in this world can win the championship.

"But." Janna still had doubts.

The warlords of the Shurima tribe are true insects, but the Shurima Empire is just a slightly better insect.

Let good insects replace insects, aren't they still insects?

"Why don't we just take over Shurima?" Janna asked concerned.

"What?" Li Wei explained slowly.

On the one hand, of course, because of the aforementioned, he needs an ally against the crisis of annihilation, and needs Azir's resurrection.

And on the other hand:

"We're still too weak," Levi said.

He was not talking about military weakness, but administrative weakness.

"We have expanded too fast, and the number of cadres has been seriously insufficient. Now we are only carrying out land reform in Ionia, and we are only trying to do it in some areas, and we have already encountered such great difficulties."

"Under such circumstances, if we rashly take over the entire Shurima continent, then..."

The grassroots transformation work on the Ionian continent will take at least a few years for the leaders to slowly advance.

The situation in Shurima is much more difficult and complicated than that in Ionia.

"Ionia is at least a feudal agricultural society. As long as we try to break the feudal land ownership system and destroy the backward personal attachment of the land, we can quickly achieve results in governance and bring a better life to the Ionians. .”

"Shurima is still stuck in the tribal era. If the theories and policies of the leaders are copied in the past, it may only have the opposite effect."

Shurima has a dry climate, barren land, and an extreme lack of natural resources, which naturally limit the development of a civilized society.

There is no industry here at all.The combination of improving welfare, labor security, restricting benzene, and state-owned reform that the leaders practiced in the Shuangcheng has no place to play here.

There is also little to no agriculture here.The land reform and personal liberation policies practiced by leaders in Ionia cannot be copied.

This is still a tribal society.

An oasis is a tribe.And between the oasis and the oasis, there is an endless desert.

The closed nature of geography has led to the closed nature of tribal society.

The lack of resources made people only unite to form a small and medium-sized political entity, that is, a tribe, based on blood ties and family and clan-based units.

Here, even personal land and personal attachments do not exist.

Under such circumstances, if the leader came here to hunt down the local tyrants and divide the fields, the tribesmen would only wonder why you killed their "parents" and redistributed their fields to them.

"If we mess around there, we might not be as good as the Shurima Empire."

"This is the same as the Baru tribe we encountered in Bilgewater. If you want to truly liberate them, you must first help them develop their productive forces, instead of blindly changing production relations unrealistically."

Shurima's backward production relations are ultimately determined by backward productivity.

If leaders want to transfer the struggle experience of agricultural society and industrial society to them, they must first help them develop agriculture and industry and increase productivity.

"This is not something that can be accomplished overnight."

"And we still don't have the ability to transform Shurima, and we don't even have the ability to end the chaos and maintain the internal stability of Shurima."

Let alone Shurima, Ionia is still in chaos.

The Noxians have withdrawn, but the various warlords, bandits, and local forces that rose up during the Anti-North War still exist vigorously in various parts of Ionia.

Although they are doomed to perish, this result also requires countless leaders to personally promote it.

The leaders don't even have enough manpower to pacify Ionia, so how can they have the ability to govern another continent?

"So it's better to bring Azir back to life and let him put together the chaotic Shurima first."

It is easier to deal with an integrated empire than a group of scattered warlords.

It's like
You can't catch fifty thousand pigs in three days.

However, the [-] organized imperial soldiers may be wiped out by the leader in just one day.

In the same way, Li Wei would rather face a Shurima Empire than face 100 desert tribes.

"In short, we need Azir to be resurrected."

"If he is willing to improve, then we will have a powerful ally."

"He is unwilling to cooperate, and we also have an additional strategic buffer with the void outbreak, and a 'sufferer' who helps us integrate the Shurima Desert so that we can easily take over in the future."

Li Wei smiled and said his plan for the future Shurima strategy.

Janna was silent for a while.

"What?" Li Wei looked at her suddenly serious expression——

Yes.After getting along day and night in the past year, he could read the emotions of the goddess from Janna's bird face.

"Is there a... good news?" Janna said in a complicated tone.

Obviously, she couldn't tell whether it was good news or bad news.

"Li Wei, maybe before we face the void, we have to think about how to solve the problem of the underworld invasion."

"What?" Li Wei looked over in surprise.

According to his understanding of the plot, the outbreak of the void crisis may precede Mordekaiser.

Because in the "future", even the Empress of the Void has begun to be active secretly, and there is still no movement on Mordekaiser's side.

"But the future has changed." Janna knew that what Li Wei could predict was a future without the interference of leaders.

And now.
"I heard the prayer—"

"A prayer from the underworld."

"Huh?" Li Wei was confused.

Prayers can still come from the underworld. Could it be possible that people can provide the power of faith after death?

"Yes. As long as the soul exists, faith will not disappear."

The power of faith is transformed from the spiritual power in the human soul.

As for what spiritual power is, no one can say clearly yet.

The scientific community has only various conjectures and hypotheses that cannot be verified.

In short, represented by Professor Heimerdinger, the current mainstream conjectures in the Shuangcheng scientific community are:
Be it spiritual power or power of faith, they are all magic power, a special form of magic power.

The magic power is speculated by scientists that it is a kind of energy that exists widely in the universe and can be regarded as almost infinite.

Every soul has the natural ability to develop this "infinite energy".

They can draw magic power from the universe and store it in the form of spiritual power.

It's just that ordinary people have less reserves, and they don't have the ability to mobilize this power hidden in the soul.

But those fighters can, through continuous sharpening and training, use a mechanism that is still completely inexplicable in the current academic circles to convert spiritual power into magic power, inject it into the body, strengthen physical power, and even transform it into the so-called "blade glow" that comes out through the body. "Sword Qi"——

These sword radiances are actually magical powers.

Mages can rely on their special souls to directly complete the transformation process of absorbing cosmic energy-transforming spiritual power-converting spiritual power into magic power-exporting spells to the outside world.

The transformation process of leaders is relatively more complicated:
The soul absorbs cosmic energy-transforms spiritual power-spiritual power transforms faith power-faith power is converted into magic power through Janna-finally exported.

The role of the human soul here is a "water pump" that draws energy from the universe and a "reservoir" that stores this energy.

The route of warriors and mages is to expand the flow of the "pump" and the storage capacity of the "reservoir" through practice, so as to achieve a more powerful output.

Janna's route is to connect countless such "pumps" and "reservoirs" together through faith, and condense them into a vast ocean.

And this kind of almost infinite wonderful energy exists widely in all realms of the universe - including the underworld.

So, even if a person dies:
As long as the soul is still there, the consciousness is still clear, and the belief has not changed, he can still provide Janna with a steady stream of power of faith.It's just that this confidence will be severely depleted when it penetrates the barrier between the underworld and the human world.If the power is too weak, it will be completely blocked by the barrier.

"And some of our sacrificed comrades went to the underworld where Mordekaiser was after death."

"Li Wei, the weak souls you know will soon lose consciousness when they get there, turning into eternally lost souls, and finally dissipating in the endless fog of the wasteland of the underworld."

This Levi did know.

Only a very small number of strong-willed people can survive the baptism of the mist of the underworld and maintain their consciousness and soul.

Mordekaiser is the most heaven-defying example among them-this guy not only retained consciousness in the underworld, but also comprehended the language and magic of the undead there without a teacher, thus possessing the power to "penetrate between different fields." curtain" capabilities.

"Wait." Li Wei suddenly had a bad feeling.

Is it?

"Yes. Some of our comrades have gone to the underworld where Mordekaiser is. Very few of them, the leaders among the few leaders, have maintained their souls and consciousness in the wasteland of the underworld with their tenacious will The presence."

"Finally, the power of faith gathered by these people penetrated the curtain between different realms and reached the physical realm."

"So, I just found out."

"The Underworld Branch of the Leader has been established on Mordekaiser's territory."

(End of this chapter)