LOL: Summoner of Goddess Jana

Darius led the army to the City Lord's Mansion.

But Quirieta isn't here.The servant told him that the castellan of Quilleta took her two children to the port.

"Port?" Darius was surprised when he heard this.

He thought it was because Cuileta had received news of the arrival of the counter-insurgency army and wanted to run away with the child.

But when he led his troops to the port of Besilico, what he saw was such a surprising scene:
"Cody Schultz, who is Cody Schultz's family?"

"Osa Lehman, are the Lehman family there?!"

Countless citizens of Besilico gathered here with mournful expressions.

Several people who looked like military officers held the electric speakers imported from Zaun, and several lists that were so long that they almost dragged to the ground, and read their names one by one.

The names are unfamiliar.

But Darius soon realized what they meant.

Because not far ahead, there are countless urns engraved with these names on the open space that should have been used to store goods——

Yes, these people are dead.

There are so many urns with names engraved on the pier that they are piled up into a hill.

At the same time, those sea ships coming from afar were still unloading more dead onto the pier without stopping.

"Next, Val Cross! Val Cross!" The officer was still calling out his name mechanically.

Perhaps because he read too much, his expression seemed a little numb.

And every time he announced a name, one or several people in the crowd would come forward to collect the ashes of their sons, daughters, brothers, and sisters.

Then, under the guidance of the officers, they will go to the side to receive pensions.

Report your name, get the urn, and get the money.leave.

Sign up, get the urn, get the money, and leave.

The scene is orderly, just like the assembly line of a factory.

The family members were emotionally stable and so quiet that they were a little scary.

"You're here, Darius." Just as Darius was meditating on this scene, Quirieta quietly appeared beside him.

Darius woke up with a start.He looked at his lover who had been away for ten years. Well, the former lover.

Quereta is still beautiful.Snow-white skin, a graceful figure, and most importantly, her blond hair as bright as the sun, and her soft and charming face like an angel.

The years did not leave her any traces of vicissitudes, but only added a little mature charm to her beauty.

However, Darius was not in the mood to appreciate Quirieta's beauty at this time.

Subconsciously, his attention was attracted by the two children following behind Quirieta.

One of them is a little boy with blond hair, and the other is a little girl with black hair. They seem to be only 8 or 9 years old, with tender skin and some cute baby fat on their faces.

The two children timidly followed behind Quirieta, and cautiously poked their heads out from behind her, looking at Darius curiously.

"This is." Her child?
Seeing the pair of sons and daughters of Quilleta, Darius' mood became inexplicably complicated.

If he hadn't broken up with her back then, and hadn't given up the chance to be with her in pursuit of military exploits, maybe...their two children would be so old now, right?
"No!" Wake up, now is not the time to talk about these children's love!
"Quieta." Darius' eyes became firm.Then, he looked at her vigilantly and suspiciously: "You know I'm coming?"

"Hmm." Quirieta shrugged noncommittally: "You made such a big noise when you came, I don't think it's impossible to know."

"Then do you know why I came here?" Darius asked again.

"Why?" Quirieta answered calmly.

"Because the Immortal Bastion has received information that you are conspiring to plan a rebellion." As he said, Darius observed her expression with great concern.

"No, I'm not planning a mutiny. I'm not against Swain."

Darius breathed a sigh of relief.

"But I did betray the empire. The country of Noxus is no longer worthy of my allegiance to it."

Darius: "."

Quirieta's overly frank and overly calm caught him off guard.

He couldn't help asking: "Why?"

Quirieta didn't answer this time.

She just looked at the mountain of urns piled up on the pier, and asked him in turn, "Do you know who they are?"

"I know." Darius could indeed guess where the urns in front of him came from.

The Noxus Empire lost 10 elite soldiers in the Battle of Balua a month ago.

Among the 10 people, only a few thousand people were lucky enough to escape from Ionia and return to their hometown like Cuileta.

In addition, about 4 people were caught up and captured by the leader after the collapse, and became prisoners of war who could not go home.

As for the remaining about 5 soldiers. They all unfortunately became the nourishment of Vladimir and Elise, sacrificed to the blood red pool and the vile throat, and turned into monsters with twisted flesh and blood, and Bones eaten away by spiders.

And Noxus was defeated in the first battle in Balua, and no one even went to collect their corpses after the war.

It was the leaders who, in the spirit of humanitarianism, collected these corpses that were almost blown into pulp, and according to the name tags they carried with them, they tried their best to match the ashes of these soldiers who died in battle with their names and identities one by one. , packed and sent back to Noxus.

Thus, the scene in front of him appeared.

"I am the lord of Besilico." Quilleta said, "Many people in my battle group are from Besilico."

"And they." She looked up at the mountain of urns: "They are all here now."

Darius was silent for a while.

He heard the antipathy, disgust, and even resentment toward Noxus in Quieta's words.

"But it's all the fault of Black Rose." Finally, Darius said, "It was Black Rose who used you as cannon fodder and betrayed you on the battlefield."

"Now Grand Commander Swain has overthrown the Black Rose. With him leading us, Noxus will definitely get better."

"Really?" Quiletta looked straight into his eyes: "Do you really think that Noxus now is different from before?"

"." Darius hesitated subconsciously.

"No, there won't be any difference," Quilleta said. "Regardless of who rules the empire, the expansion of Noxus will never stop and cannot be stopped."

"There will be more children like them, who were sent to the battlefield by you under the high slogan of 'For Noxus', and then returned quietly as ashes."

"This is a necessary price." Darius said in a deep voice: "Noxus must expand, otherwise it can only disintegrate. There are only two ways to go, and there is no other option."

"Quieta, that's what you believed too, wasn't it?"

"Yes." Quilleta nodded: "I used to believe it—but that was because, at that time, Noxus, as you said, had only two paths of expansion and disintegration. "

"I can't find a better third way than to support the war."

"But now, I've found it."

As soon as this remark came out, Darius' expression changed immediately.

Besides disintegration and expansion, is there a third way for Noxus?

Don't think about it, the only person who can say such a thing is
"You are the leader?!" Darius quietly clenched the giant ax in his hand.

"That's right." Quirieta raised his hand, and a whirlwind formed in his complicated eyes: "Actually, I didn't escape from Barua Province at all."

"In the province of Barua, I experienced a lot and saw a lot. It was that experience that made me agree with the concept of the leader, and officially became a member of the leader."

"And then, I returned to the Noxus Empire."

"You" Darius knew what this meant: "Are you a spy sent back by the Leader?!"

"It can be said that." Quirieta replied calmly: "I come back this time for only two purposes."

"One, take my child away." She tenderly looked behind her, at the two little devils who were hugging her thigh and refused to let go.

Then, she looked at Darius with a serious expression: "Second, assist the organization to instigate you."

"Instigating against me?" Darius seemed to have heard some fantasy.

Who does the leader think of him?
He was not a speculator like Amistan, nor a naive idealist like Mel Mirdard.

He is the Hand of Noxus, the spiritual symbol of the new generation of the Noxus Empire!

It is an exaggeration to say that even if Swain voted for the leader, he would not be able to betray Noxus.

Even under the impact of the leader's concept, Noxus' past national concept of the strong preying on the weak and natural selection has revealed various drawbacks and shortcomings.
Darius' position will never be shaken by this.

Even if he died, he would not betray the Noxus Empire by jumping off this pier and drowning!
Eh. Darkwill doesn't count that time.

That time was for the side of the Qing emperor, not a betrayal of Noxus.

"Quieta, it seems that you don't know me well enough." Darius said in a complicated tone: "I can't betray the empire because of you, I will only"

"Why?" This time it was Quirieta's turn, and asked him in turn: "You clearly know that Noxus has a better choice."

"Then why do you still want to go this way?!" Quirieta asked him in a serious tone, pointing to the pile of ashes in front of him.

"I" Darius was speechless for a moment.

As far as Noxus' simple and crude natural elimination rules are concerned, it is completely impossible to confront the leader in theory.

And the leader's system of sage politics has shown in practice that it is far superior to all previous systems in terms of purity and efficiency.

Darius couldn't speak to her at all.

If he went on like this, he himself would not be able to figure out why he was so loyal to the Noxus Empire.

"Enough!" Darius tried his best to ignore the scene in front of him, ignoring the family members of the soldiers walking past him holding the urn with mournful expressions.

"Look at them, Darius. Do you still think they are a necessary price?"

Darius didn't want to argue any further.

So he gritted his teeth and said, "Yes!"

"." Quieta's eyes were full of disappointment.

"Go and play over there first." She motioned the children beside her to leave.

The two children nodded obediently, then looked back at their mother step by step, and avoided them reluctantly.

"Draius." After the children had gone away, Quirieta said, "You just asked me why you betrayed the empire."

"My answer is simple—"

"Because I don't want our children, like them in the future, to become a 'necessary price' in your mouth."

"But these prices are necessary!" Darius said stubbornly: "Even the leader needs someone to sacrifice for their path, right?"

"The development and stability of Noxus is built on."

uh, wait
Is he missing something important?
"Our child?" Recalling what Quirieta said just now, Darius was stunned for a moment.

He looked at the still-beautiful Quilleta in front of him, and then at the two little devils standing in the distance with familiar faces.

"us??"