LOL: Summoner of Goddess Jana

Chapter 396 Hand of the Storm Darius (Two in One)

"Our child?!" Darius froze in place as if struck by lightning.

He had never cared before, who was the father of Quirieta's child.

Because he didn't want to disturb Quilleta's life anymore.It was enough to know that she was alright.

But now think about it carefully:
The two children appear to be about the same age as 9 years old, and they only broke up 10 years ago.

Before this peaceful breakup, Darius and Quilleta had the last 1V1 unequipped friendly solo match before Black Rock Lake outside the hometown.

Counting the time, it's totally right.

And on the immature faces of the two children, if you observe carefully, you can still vaguely see the outline of his firm face.

"Brother, don't say it." Draven felt the same way.For a while, he looked at the two little devils hiding in the distance, and for a while he stared at Darius and Quilletta.

"They really look like your kind!"

Darius: "."

He didn't bother to pay attention to his younger brother, but looked at Quirieta with a complicated expression: "What's their name?"

"Decius." Cuileta looked at the boy and the little girl: "Inphthia."

"Decius, Inphthia." Darius silently recited the two unfamiliar names, and then looked at the two children who were watching him cautiously from a distance.
He knew that this was his child.

He knew Quilleta.She couldn't lie about such a thing.

"Why?" Darius asked, "Why didn't you come to me then."

"Because I don't want them to have a father like you." Cuilleta said: "At that time, you only had war and killing in your eyes. If you let them grow up by your side, they will become the same people as you."

At that time, Darius had become an extremely fanatical imperial fighter, but Cuileta always maintained her innocence and kindness that seemed to be born with her.

It was because they disagreed in this regard, which caused all kinds of conflicts, that they finally broke up.

Queretta thought he was a war lunatic.

"But then, I realized I was wrong. It's not you, Darius. It's the world that's wrong."

"As long as this world remains the same, even if I get rid of you, I still can't give my children an ordinary and stable life."

As he spoke, Quirieta recalled what he had seen and heard on the leader's side.

And her experience of becoming a leader is actually not complicated.

She was an extremely rare humanitarian in the Noxus army, like a rabbit growing out of a wolf's den.

Before the Battle of Barua, Cuilleta had come into contact with and carefully read the book theory of the leader, and was deeply touched by it.

If she was still the wandering orphan she was back then, she might have gone for a long time.

It's just that as the lord of Besilico and the leader of Noxus' battle group, she has been treated favorably by the empire for many years, and she still can't let go of her loyalty to Noxus.

But her unsteady loyalty quickly collapsed because of the bloody rain that Vladimir rained down.

Quirieta lost almost all her comrades in arms under the backstab of the black rose. After surviving with difficulty, she was quickly captured by the leader who was chasing after the victory.

In the prisoner-of-war camp, she witnessed with her own eyes the Noxus soldiers' fear and resistance to the leader, to complaining, and then actively seeking to learn and reform, and witnessed the powerful inspiration of Janna's thought that transcended nationality.

Later, because she was the leader of the Noxus battle group and the general of the first army, she was transferred by the leader to Zaun's senior war criminal management center for "advanced studies".

Queretta has a positive and positive attitude towards transformation, has a solid theoretical foundation, and has always pursued Janna's progress.

That's why she only went in for a day, and she had already completed self-reform before she even attended much class, and became a goddess believer with the certification of the thread of faith—and she was not a superficial wind chaser, but a devout leader.

Li Wei was curious about this learning activist who suddenly appeared from the "Forest of Merits", and then he asked about the name of the female general and her background. After that, he knew who he had met.

"President Levi told me a prophecy that was said to be told to him by Goddess Janna." Quilleta recalled with a moving expression: "That is a story that will happen in the future in a world without leaders."

"A world without leaders?" Darius thought.

"Yes." Quilleta told the story.

If the leader does not exist, then she should still be on the Ionian battlefield, entangled with the increasingly powerful Ionian rebels.

This protracted war will eventually end in the defeat of the Noxus Empire.

It's just that without the "nuclear bomb" dropped by Vladimir, which killed 10 troops in one wave and sent away the "nuclear bomb" of the Darkwill regime, the empire could barely hold on.

The war will last longer and be more intense, and the casualties on both sides of the war will become heavier.

In the end, due to a disastrous defeat, Quirieta was accidentally infected by the alchemy poison brought by the friendly army Amistan on the battlefield, so that he had to amputate and lost an arm, and returned to his homeland with a crippled body and embarrassment.

And this was only the beginning of the tragedy.

"Without a leader, General Swain will still overthrow Darkwill. But all he can do is to relieve Noxus' illness, but he cannot really save the empire."

"So, within a few years, Noxus embarked on the road of unlimited external expansion."

"And our child, Decius—" Quirieta looked at the cute little boy, and said in a cold tone: "He will be conscripted to step down because of the conscription order signed by you, General Darius himself." On the battlefield."

"He'll die in the Freljord. Like all the boys you've sent to the North over the years."

After the death of Decius, Quirieta hated the empire thoroughly.

She will start a rebellion in Besilico, and Darius will put it down himself.

And the saddest part of this story is: Quereta did not die in the hands of the empire's counter-insurgency army in the end, but died under the backstabbing of her daughter, Infertia.

There was only one reason why she would kill her mother - because Quillieta betrayed the Noxus Empire.

And Darius would never know in the end that he personally sent his son to the battlefield like a meat grinder, and witnessed his daughter kill her mother.

"This..." After hearing this extremely depressing ending, Darius looked very heavy.But he still said stubbornly: "It's just a story, Quilleta."

"No, this is not just a story!" Quilleta said in a serious tone: "As long as Noxus does not change, stories like this will continue to happen to countless families!"

"Dreyus, ask yourself—if there is no leader, wouldn't the future be like this story?"

"This" Darius could not refute.

Although the prediction given by Li Wei, there are many details that cannot be proved by deduction.

But his child joined the army and died, and Quilleta rebelled, which eventually led to his death. This series of tragedies is very likely to happen.

Because the expansion of the empire can never stop, it must consume fresh blood continuously.

And in this huge machine that all serve the war, joining the army and serving the country is like LGbtqiapkdxrew in the 21st century, it is the absolute political correctness that the imperial nobles must abide by.

The imperial nobles also knew that their power came from strength, so they did not resist sending their descendants to the battlefield to accept the training of blood and fire, so as to achieve the purpose of training their heirs.

Under this extreme cultural atmosphere and strict legal system, almost no one in Noxus can escape military service.

Children from mid-level general families like Decius will become the seeds of future officers who will be recruited by the empire first.

He will definitely go to the battlefield when he grows up.

Judging from the battle situation in Noxus in recent years, the probability of a rookie officer returning alive from the battlefield is not high.

He would most likely die, and Queretta would most likely lose his child.

And with Queretta's character, if she loses her son because of this, then she is likely to choose that extreme and dangerous path.

"And I'm still the lord of Besilico, the upper class of Noxus. If even I can't protect my child and avoid this tragic ending, what about the others?"

Quirieta asked again and again: "Draius, is this the Noxus you want?"

Darius was completely speechless.

He tried hard to tell himself in his heart that you are the hand of Noxus, and you should be loyal to the Noxus Empire.

But the prophetic story that Cuilleta told, that depressive and tragic future, always echoed in his mind.

"Decius, Inphthia..." Darius couldn't help looking at his two children.

The two children, still blinking their big clear and lovely eyes, looked at him cautiously from a distance.

They are still living under the protection of their mother, innocent and carefree.

Strange to say.
Darius had sent countless children to battle, and saw their sacrifice as a "necessary price."

But when he thought that his own child would also set foot on the battlefield in the future, he was instinctively a little reluctant.

"No! They are Noxians, and this is the responsibility they must bear. As long as the empire needs it, even my children must sacrifice for the empire!"

Darius is worthy of the hand of Noxus.He restrained his selfishness in an instant, and murmured to himself.

"I won't just because of my own selfishness." He was about to say this.

However, the mountain of urns on the pier caught his eyes again.The homeless man who fell beside the bustling street of the Immortal Fortress, and the countless soldiers buried in the snow and ice in the north, all these scenes quietly came to his mind.

Darius was suddenly speechless again.

He finally realized that he had actually been persuaded by Quilleta.

Regardless of whether it is from selfish or public considerations, he has absolutely no reason to refuse the leader's invitation.

"I" Darius could no longer refute.

Under the entanglement, he almost surrendered.

"Brother!" At the critical moment, it was Delevingne who stood up.

Delevingne saw his brother's wavering, so he quickly grabbed him and said, "Brother, you can't surrender!"

"Huh?" Darius looked at his brother suspiciously.

He knew Draven was not a political person at all.

This guy joined Swain's coup d'état group purely because of his personal friendship with Swain.

And the reason why Draven is unhappy with Darkwell is also very simple-it is because Darkwill wages wars every day and fails to do a good job in the economy, which leads to the loss of audience in the arena where Draven works, and makes him fall into a hacking situation. A depressing situation where no one applauds.
So Draven rebelled.

Just such a dangerous person who dared to cut off the emperor's head when he got hot, how did he become a more steadfast imperial loyalist than him now?
Darius was puzzled, and Draven said seriously, "Brother, don't forget Commander Swain!"

"He is not bad to us! If we take refuge in the leader here, how can we be worthy of him?"

Draven and Swain had a close personal relationship.And he is the most loyal person.

"Besides, we just betrayed Darkwill, and this time we are going to betray Commander Swain again, this"

"How can there be such a thing in the world, changing the retainers of three masters in a row?"

Hearing this, Darius was instantly troubled again.

yes.He just voted for Swain, and now he's going to vote for Leader.This ability cools down too fast.

As the hand of Noxus, he is somewhat ashamed.

Moreover, this time is different from last time.

The last time he betrayed was Darkwill, a perennial perverse puppet emperor.This kind of insect deserves to be overthrown.

But this time, it was Swain who he betrayed.This great commander has always been Darius' most respected senior.

He had fought side by side with Swain on the battlefield many times in the past, and was even saved by Swain once when he was hopelessly defeated.

After the successful coup d'etat, Swain trusted him with almost half of the power of the empire, making him the "Executive Deputy Emperor" of Noxus.

Commander Swain's kindness, he will never finish in his lifetime.

How could this make him ashamed to betray?

"Draius, actually" Quirieta was about to say something.

Darius had already woken up amidst the self-blame and guilt: "Stop talking, Quirieta."

"There are no two suns, and the only sun in my heart is the commander-in-chief! No matter what, I can't live up to his trust!"

"But." Quilletta wanted to explain.

But Darius has already made up his mind this time: "Commander Swain is different from Darkwill, and different from all previous emperors."

"His character is not inferior to your leaders. Noxus will flourish and get better in his hands."

Saying that, Darius took one last look at his two children.

His eyes were full of entanglement and reluctance.

But in the end, the man still clenched the giant ax in his hand, and forced himself to look away: "Let's go, Quilleta—"

"I will go back and report to Grand Commander Swain that you have escaped from Besilico by boat before I arrived. This is the limit of what I can do."

"Okay." Quirieta finally got the chance to speak.

She saw it.The only reason Darius persisted now was his personal loyalty to Swain.

In that case
"Draius." Quirieta sighed helplessly: "I said, I have no objection to Commander Swain."

"What do you mean?" Darius couldn't understand.

However, Quirieta carefully used the whirlwind to isolate the surrounding sounds before saying to him: "I have no objection to Swain, because..."

"Commander Swain is my upline."

"The plan to instigate you this time was formulated by Chairman Li Wei and Commander Swain from the very beginning."

Darius: "???"

He doubted his ears.

However, in the next second.
"Draius." An inconspicuous red-eyed crow quietly descended from the sky full of seabirds.

"This, this..." Darius and the Delevingne brothers widened their eyes in shock at this moment.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with this sound, this familiar wave of magic.

This is Commander Swain!
"Commander, you..." Darius' brain was completely shut down: "When did you become a leader?"

"No, it's impossible!"

"Why is it impossible?" Swain said to him through the crow's mouth: "Have you forgotten? I said that my allegiance has always been 'Noxus'."

Darius was shocked beyond words.Only then did he realize that he had misunderstood Noxus in Swain's words.

In other words, it was Swain who redefined Noxus.

The "Noxus" here does not refer to the military empire built on the infinite oppression of the Noxus.But the people of Noxus themselves!
"Dreyus." Swain said, "Actually, we are the same people. It's just that I have found the right path, and you always walk slower than me."

"So, Darius—are you willing to catch up with me again and continue to fight with me?"

Darius could hear his brain buzzing.

At this moment, he finally figured out many doubts before:
Why did Swain hesitate to attack the leader?Because he himself is the leader!
Why did Swain call him to investigate Becilico?Because this is the bureau specially set up for him!

Darius wasn't stupid either.

He had already seen that when Swain made this plan and lured him here, he didn't want him to go back at all.

Otherwise, Swain would not take the initiative to reveal his identity and let him know such a big secret; otherwise, Queretta would not take the risk to instigate him and bring the two children with him.

The leader must have set up an ambush here.

If he doesn't take the initiative to surrender, he can only be passively invited by the leader to be a guest.

"Do I have a choice?" Darius pondered for a long time, and finally looked at the crow with a complicated expression.

"No." Swain replied frankly: "You are the number two figure in the empire. If you are so firmly on the opposite side of me, then the future situation will become difficult to control."

So he won't give Darius a chance to choose.

Coswain added: "But you've already made your choice, haven't you?"

Darius was silent.

Yes, he has made his choice.

He is the Hand of Noxus.But in the end, he, the hand of Noxus, needs to rely on his personal loyalty to Swain in order to maintain his loyalty to Noxus.

Doesn't this just mean that everything he believed in in the past has completely collapsed in front of the leader's theory?

"Wait!" A terrible thought came to Darius' mind.

In order to gain an in-depth understanding of his enemies, he usually studied the knowledge theory of leaders.

Could it be that these theories that he had read into his mind had already...
"Jana, please give me strength!" Darius tried to call Goddess Janna in his heart according to the popular method.

then
The storm surged out of his body.

His figure became extremely light, as if he was running a sprint with no time limit.

"Welcome." Swain's voice sounded at the right time: "Comrade Darius."

"." Darius didn't answer.

He stood in this storm for a long time, as if he couldn't accept the cruel fact that he had "mental treason".

And this time.
"Come here, come to me." Quirieta waved to the two little ghost heads in the distance.

"Huh?" Darius instinctively cast his gaze.

He knew that Queretta had resisted him before.She still doesn't want her children to know that he is their father.

That's why she let the kids go.

That now.
"Now you are qualified to be their father." Quirieta looked at the pair of children walking towards them, and said to him, "Draius, you."

"Would you like to be their father?"

Darius: "."

The last layer of blood rage that overwhelmed his mentality was filled up just like that.

He put down his giant axe and embraced the fresh sea breeze: "I am willing!"

(End of this chapter)