LOL: Summoner of Goddess Jana

Chapter 352 Irelia's Despair

As the footsteps in the distance gradually approached and stopped, there were already many figures on the rocks around the valley.

They surrounded everyone condescendingly, turning this place into a hopeless situation.

But Irelia no longer cared about these killers from the Brotherhood.

She just looked at Master Qing Xia in pain and confusion, and asked unwillingly: "Am I the enemy of Balance?"

"Yes." Master Qing Xia confirmed with a calm expression.

Irelia was at a loss for a moment.

She never thought that Senior Qing Xia, who she regards as her mentor, would evaluate herself like this.

"Bah!" Xia, who was caught in a trap innocently, didn't like this at all.She spat disdainfully: "Human beings are hypocrites. It is obviously just out of selfish desire to fight for power, but they want to be named in the name of justice!"

Xia scolded harshly.

But Master Qingxia was still unmoved.

He said: "Justice? No. I never said I was after justice."

"What I am pursuing is righteousness, balance, the balance that keeps this nascent land from being destroyed, and protects the safe continuation of all souls and life forms in Ionia."

"In the face of righteousness, there is nothing that cannot be sacrificed. Including myself, as well as"

Master Qing Xia looked at Irelia: "You."

"I" Irelia asked bitterly, "What did I do wrong? Master Qingxia!"

"You are so naive that you can't see the situation clearly, but you are so powerful that you can influence the situation." Master Qing Xia no longer concealed his opinion.

He thought Irelia was naive.

It is impossible for Ionia to go back to the past, but Irelia is still naively imagining that as long as she can kill the "virus" brought by Noxus, it will be like restoring the factory settings of the computer. Let Ionia return to the peaceful society before the war.

"But can this be done?" Master Qing Xia asked: "Ionia has been able to maintain peace in the past ten thousand years because the forces of all parties have been able to maintain a stable balance of power under the constraints of the law of balance."

In the past, there was no country or army in Ionia, and all forces were peacefully guarding their own one-third of an acre of land, implementing regional autonomy managed by clans and sects.

There is not much difference in strength between regions, so they can only coexist peacefully.

And even if occasionally there are one or two powerful ambitious people who want to start a war and conquer the Quartet.
Then as long as the scale of the war is large and many people die, this ambitious person will immediately become a historical sinner because of disrupting the balance, and become the public enemy of Ionia.

The people will curse him, his subordinates will betray him, and all forces will scramble to attack him.

There are such cultural and traditional restrictions, coupled with the balance of power among the various forces, and what most people don't notice, or what they notice and don't care about, are the silent sacrifices of poor peasants and untouchables.
Peace was maintained for such a long time.

"But now, things are different."

"The Noxians changed everything."

The iron hoof of Noxus broke through the local balance of power within the internal balance, and also trampled on the cultural tradition of anti-war by the whole people, destroying everyone's belief in the way of balance.

In this war that lasted for several years, some clan sects were wiped out in the flames of war;
Some sects were reborn from the ashes of the war, rose against the trend, and grew into a huge overlord.

The soldiers and people who followed them no longer opposed the war extremely, but actively and enthusiastically supported the war.

Then, the masters suddenly discovered:

Fighting may disrupt the balance and lead to the invasion of evil spirits;
But if you don't fight, the enemy may kill you before Ionia is destroyed by the evil spirit.

What's more, war can bring so many benefits, allowing them to have more land, more subjects, and more resources, and become heroes praised by people and kings admired by all.

"Do you understand?" Master Qingxia sighed: "We can't go back! Ionia has changed!"

Now that Ionia is full of warlords and wars, it has become the second Noxus.

If you want to end the troubled times and restore peace, you should learn from Noxus!
More than 900 years ago, when Noxus was founded, the situation in the Roxy Plain was even more chaotic than in Ionia now.

So how do they do it?

The emperor used the enfeoffment system to unite a group of powerful tribes, gradually formed a powerful imperial center in the war, and finally used the always strong imperial center to suppress local warlords, forming a stable empire respected by an immortal fortress.

For more than 900 years, although there were occasional rebellions within the empire, it was generally able to maintain peace and stability.

And the Kingdom of Demacia, which has successfully continued for 700 years, and the Shurima Empire, which has lasted for 3000 years, almost did the same thing in history.

With these three precedents of enfeoffment and the successful maintenance of long-term internal stability, if Ionia doesn’t learn from them, who else can it learn from?

"I" Irelia was shaken by the words.

But she still stubbornly retorted: "The Shurima Empire is finally destroyed, isn't it?"

"Shurima has indeed been successfully maintained for 3000 years, but after it was started by the Shurima warlords, it lasted for a full 1500 years and almost destroyed the entire world's Darkin War."

"But we in Ionia have successfully maintained peace in the past nearly 10000 years."

In such a comparison, it seems that the method handed down by the ancestors is the best.

The systems of Shurima, Noxus, and Demacia are not working, and Ionia should return to tradition.

"Return to tradition?" Master Qingxia only asked her: "How do you plan to return?"

"As long as everyone works together, defeat those warlords and careerists who are unwilling to return to tradition," Irelia said.

"Childish!" Master Qing Xia interrupted her coldly.

Irelia's idea is correct, but this is another correct way of "locking the elephant in the refrigerator" with no practical possibility.

Because she has to face a problem first:
"Work together?" Master Qing Xia asked: "How do you get everyone to work together, let everyone give up the benefits they have already obtained, and follow you to work hard for the ideal?"

"You ask Master Ravi, ask them—"

Regardless of Master Lawei's ugly face, Qing Xia used him as an example:

"Are they willing to work with you?"

"." Irelia was silent for a moment.

She finally realized that she had overlooked one thing.

She fantasizes that the masters can help her eradicate those warlords and careerists who destroy tradition.

But these senior masters around her are warlord careerists who destroy tradition.

During these years of fighting, the masters have all made a fortune and grown stronger, and they don't want to go back to the past.

She wants to return to tradition, because she wants to kill these senior masters!

"Why, why is this?" Irelia, who is strong by nature, couldn't help but let tears soak her eyes at this moment.

These are not tears of fragility, but regret.

She looked at Master Lawei incomprehensibly, and at the six seniors with guilty faces.

These people in front of her are all Ionia's heroes, all her respected masters and trusted comrades-in-arms, but now, they have all betrayed their past ideals.

"Master Ravi, why?" Irelia wanted an answer: "In order to protect your compatriots and Navoli, you were seriously injured 4 times, nearly died 2 times, and lost 3 sons and 1 daughter."

"Did you pay such a high price just for land and power?"

Master Ravi was a little embarrassed at first.

But soon, he retorted indignantly: "Yeah, I paid such a high price for Ionia—"

"That's why I should be rewarded enough, shouldn't I?"

Tam says he's fallen, and Irelia thinks he's changed too.

But Master Ravi felt that he deserved all of this:

"Our Sharma family lost so many descendants in this war and made such a great sacrifice. Why can't we get more land and power as compensation for our Sharma family?"

"Why do Noxians get privileges by working their lives, but we can only get worthless honors by working our lives?"

"We've been fighting for so many years, what's wrong with enjoying ourselves?"

Irelia: "."

She looked at Master Lawei whose temperament had changed drastically, then at Qing Xia who had a firm attitude, and the masters who were also opposed to him.

Suddenly, she asked: "Besides the seven of you, are there any other undercover agents in the rebel army?"

"No." Master Qing Xia told her frankly.

"But does it matter?"

"Except for these three young men from the Galewind Sword Sect." Qing Xia glanced at Yi, Yasuo and Yong En regretfully: "The remaining 24 masters have long since ceased to be your comrades-in-arms."

"Even if they don't betray you, they won't be able to accompany you any longer."

"." Irelia was desperate.

But she wasn't desperate because she was surrounded.

Instead, she finally realized that her ideal was just a joke, an impossible fantasy.

Even if she survived today and walked out from here, she would not be able to bring Ionia back to its previous appearance.

The times have changed.

People are not with her.

"The new era requires a new way of balance."

"And Irelia, you're just a remnant of the old days."

At this time, a deep voice sounded from the air.

Everyone followed the prestige, only to see two men appearing in front of them, surrounded by a group of fraternity killers.

Everyone knows one of them, the notorious Kinkou traitor in Ionia, the Shadow Stream Master Zed.

And the other person, accompanied by Jiedu respectfully, was a mysterious old man wearing a mask.

"Master." Qing Xia nodded to him.

"Master!" The same is true for Ravi and others.

"He is." Irelia wondered in her heart: "The leader of the Brotherhood?"

She also has some understanding of the situation of the Navoli Brotherhood.

The founder of the Navoli Brotherhood voluntarily abdicated two years ago, and gave up the position of leader to a mysterious strong man who showed himself in a mask all day long.

No one knew the true identity of the new leader. Everyone only knew that he was strong and powerful, which allowed the Navoli Brotherhood to grow rapidly in the past two years.

Irelia has also been very curious about who this sudden master is.

And now it seems.
"Master Qingxia, Master Ravi." Irelia watched their expressions with concern: "You all know him?"

"Yes." Master Lawei sighed softly: "If I didn't know the true identity of this master, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to make up my mind to make this decision."

They all knew this mysterious leader, and they were very familiar with it before.

"Since everyone here is my own, there is no need for me to hide my identity." At this time, the masked old man said: "Irelia—"

"Look, who wants you to die?"

Saying that, the old man took off his mask.

Irelia's eyes widened in disbelief, and she instantly fell into the abyss of despair.

Because of the old man in front of him.
If even he says that Irelia is the "Enemy of Balance", then Irelia herself will think that she is the enemy of Balance that should be eliminated.

Because he is the one who holds the highest right to interpret the Dao of Equilibrium, the leader of the Equilibrium Sect, and the last Eye of Twilight—

"Master of bitter talk?!"

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