LOL: Summoner of Goddess Jana

Chapter 175 How did the empire become like this (please subscribe~)

Riven's mother died of dystocia when she was born, and her father died in the war a few years later. She had no home or family since she was a child.

These acquaintances and friends in the Triwell countryside were already the closest people to her in the past.

So for this trip back home, Riven always has some subtle emotions that she can't explain clearly.nervous?expect?miss?It seems that there are some.

But when she returned to the small village in her memory, wearing the armor of an imperial officer and riding a tall dragon lizard, all she saw were panicked women, fleeing men, and crying children.

This is exactly the same as when Riven led the Noxus army to raid the villages in Demacia.

"Alas" Riven sighed dispiritedly.

"Stop!" Marit immediately shouted.

She opened her bow and set an arrow, and an arrow pierced through the calf of a fleeing farmer, causing him to fall to the ground screaming and nailed to the ground by the long arrow.

The wailing sound resounded all over the field, and none of the villagers dared to escape.

"What are you doing?" Riven frowned, "We're not in Demacia now, Marit."

"But they upset you." Marit replied calmly.

"No need." Riven felt a little uncomfortable: "They are from my hometown after all."

"Then they should be welcoming home heroes rather than fleeing," Marit said.

As she spoke, she watched with satisfaction those villagers who were already trembling and did not dare to run away, and then she drove the devil bird to catch up and walked to the side of the farmer who was injured by the arrow:

"Lord Riven asked me to reward you, take it."

Marit casually dropped a bag of gold coins and a bottle of expensive magic healing potion into the soil soaked in the farmer's blood.

"Thank you, my lord! Thank you, Master Riven." Sure enough, the farmer didn't even care about his injuries, so he hugged the bag of gold coins like crazy, and thanked them tearfully.

He kept yelling, trying to express his gratitude.But Marit ignored him.Riven looked at it a few more times, and then stopped looking.

Marit just looked back at the villagers who had calmed down, and said loudly:
"Villagers, you should be honored—"

"Because the hero of Triwell, the warrior honored by His Majesty, the Lord of the Blackstone Rune Greatsword, the head of the Rune Swordsmen Legion, Lord Riven, returned home to visit you today!"

"Riwen? Is it Riven?" The villagers looked at each other, talking a lot.

Some of them recognized the poor girl from back then, while others didn't.But this does not delay everyone to make a correct response.

They came obediently from all directions, stood in front of Riven's tall dragon lizard car, and then knelt down on the ground: "Huan, welcome Master Riven"

"Yeah..." Looking at these folks kneeling together, familiar and unfamiliar, Riven felt irritated for no reason.

No fun, no fun at all.

Turns out, Triwell wasn't her home at all.She doesn't belong here anymore.

"Get up." Riven was no longer in the mood to play Homecoming.

She just wanted to settle the business as soon as possible, send the ashes of the soldier Ona home, and return to the city and the barracks with Marit.

There are also her comrades-in-arms in the barracks, her Jinlan sisters.Maybe there is her real home.

"Who are Ona's parents?"

Riven sat on the dragon lizard's back and asked condescendingly.

"I. I am Ona's mother." An old woman stood up.

"Where's her father?" Riven asked.

"Died in battle a few years ago," replied the old woman.

"Oh." It wasn't an unexpected answer, Riven wasn't surprised.

"Oona died too." Riven said directly.Noxians don't mince words, and they don't shy away from bad news.

"I know." The old woman's answer was also very calm.

"A few days ago, the herald sent back the news of Ona's sacrifice."

The death notice has been conveyed to the family members long ago, but Ona's remains have not been sent back yet.

"So this time I helped you and brought her back." Riven said so, and casually took off the small package on Dragon Lizard's back.

She subconsciously wanted to drop it, but was stunned for a moment, then carefully held the package, turned over and jumped off the back of the tall dragon lizard, and stood on the flat ground at the same height as the old woman:

"Ma'am, this is Ona's remains."

Riven solemnly handed the package to the old woman.

"." The old woman hugged the package in silence for a while.Her figure was trembling slightly, but not by much.

It's like getting used to it.

Tears rolled in her eyes, but the old woman said calmly, "Thank you, Lord Riven."

Then she hugged her daughter's urn, hesitated for a moment, and then asked eagerly: "Master, is it just Aona?"

"What?" Riven wondered.

The old woman said, "Ona's two older brothers died in battle the year before last. The herald said they were buried in Shurima and could never return."

"Oh." Riven understood.

In the past two years, Noxus has no policy of sending the remains of fallen soldiers back home.Ona was just sent back by her way because she died close to home.

As for Ona's two older brothers who died in Shurima, of course it is impossible to come back.

"My condolences." That was all Riven could say.

When Marit heard this, she couldn't help asking the old woman: "Your husband, two sons, and a daughter are all soldiers fighting for the empire?"

"Yes." The old woman nodded.

"You have a family of heroes," Marit said.

Then she turned over and jumped off the devil bird's back, and stood respectfully in front of the old lady, showing respect to her.

"Oona died in the honor of the Empire, she died a hero."

"Ma'am, everyone in Triwell should be proud of you and your daughter."

When Marit said this, the villagers immediately agreed.

All the stars surrounded the old woman and worshiped her and her sacrificed daughter as the greatest heroes.

"Ah..." Riven's expression was a little subtle.

Because according to the cause of death she saw on the death list:

Ona was actually negligent while robbing things in a Demacia village, and was forked to death by a savage German farmer with a pitchfork.

For a Noxian to die this way, it can be said to be a great shame and humiliation.

So later the Noxus army directly slaughtered the village, killing all the men taller than the wheel, and the women and children were used as slaves, packaged and sold to the colonial farm on the northern shore of Shurima.

"Yes, your daughter is a hero."

"She died heroically on the battlefield for the empire's great conquest of the Demacian barbarians."

Although her mood was a little delicate, Riven finally showed her impassioned expression and said this to the old woman.

The old woman was moved to accept the loud praise from the crowd.

But after a moment of hesitation and stammering, she cautiously asked Riven, who seemed to be quite talkative:
"That, Master Riven, Ona her."

"Did you bring back her death pension?"

"Huh?" Riven was slightly taken aback.

"Haven't you received your pension yet?" She couldn't believe it.

Shouldn't the pension be sent back together as soon as the death notice is sent to the family?
"Not yet." The old woman said, "The herald only told me that Ona was dead and didn't give us a pension. He said that the army's funds are tight now, and I have to wait."

"How is this possible!" Marit was also shocked.

You must know that Noxus may treat workers badly, it may treat farmers badly, but it is absolutely impossible to treat soldiers badly.

As long as the Noxians join the army, they can get a large amount of housing allowance, and the family members of the dead can also get generous pensions, and they can also get enviable salaries and allowances during their service.

Even the spoils they snatched in battle will be distributed by officers to soldiers in proportion after the war.

In other words, being a soldier can not only get a high salary, but also legally rob.If you are lucky, you might get rich in one battle.

So even though Noxus has been fighting since its birth, and it has been fighting for more than 900 years without stopping, the morale of the Noxus army is still solid and the fighting spirit is high.

Because the empire has been expanding smoothly, soldiers have always been paid high salaries and have things to grab.

So everyone is happy to fight, likes to fight, and has the courage to participate in the war, and respects, envies and worships the soldiers of the empire.

But now.
"The army doesn't even pay pensions?" Even Marit was angry now.

"But, maybe it's just later." The old woman said with some fear, "When my son died the year before last, the pension was also paid a few months late."

"I'll wait a little longer, it should be fine"

It turned out that it wasn't not released, it was just delayed.

But is this really all right?
"Our Noxus Empire, when will we even have to delay the soldiers' pensions?" Marit was upset for a while.

Riven's mood was even more complicated.

She still remembers less than ten years ago, when the imperial conscription officer came to the village, the villagers enthusiastically signed up and enthusiastically sought after, and the beautiful scene of vigor and vitality.

At the beginning, under the envious eyes of everyone, she was selected by virtue of her extraordinary talent and physical fitness, and she became a member of the glorious Noxus Empire army.

Why is it less than ten years
The imperial army began to rob the peasants, and the peasants began to regard the army as a plague.

Even the pensions of the fallen soldiers of the empire have to be delayed for several months before they can barely be paid?
"On horseback." Riven couldn't figure it out: "How did the empire become like this?"

　The second is later_(:з」∠)_
　　
　
(End of this chapter)