LOL: Summoner of Goddess Jana

Chapter 435 Kassadin's Great Crisis

The discussion between the two about Zaun's immigration policy finally came to an end with Nasus's complicated sigh.

And at this time, Kassadin, who had been silently listening to their conversation, finally couldn't help asking: "Friends. Are you also the leader?"

"Yes." In front of her comrades, Taliyah no longer concealed it.

She gently spread her palms, showing Kassadin her thread of faith.

"I'm Taliyah, leader of the Shurima Social Investigation Team."

"It's you?" Kassadin was surprised: "The liberator of Belgun?"

The people of Shurima love to sing the praises of their heroes.After the slaves of Belgun were freed, Taliyah became their hero.

So in today's north shore of Shurima, Taliyah actually already has quite a reputation.

Kassadin had heard the name of the "Liberator of Belguen" on the way down from the north bank.

"Hmm." Taliyah blushed.She didn't think it was an honor.

Most people regard her as the liberator of Belguen, and although this is true, she is very clear in her heart how many troubles her heroic deed has caused.

And Kassadin didn't think so much.

He was only completely immersed in the surprise of meeting comrades by chance: "When I was passing by Belgun, the comrades who took over Belgun mentioned your team——"

"Your mission is to conduct a social survey of all of Shurima, right?"

"Yes." Taliyah nodded.

"Then where are you going next?"

"Deep into Monan from Vikola, and then go to the southern mountains," Taliyah answered truthfully.

"Then I can show you the way!" Kassadin introduced himself enthusiastically, "I'm just a guide. I'm familiar with Monan."

"From Vikola to the southern mountains, if you want to investigate along this route, then you can just drop in with me!"

"This..." Taliyah was a little moved.

She looked at Sivir tentatively.

Sivir shrugged: "I think it's ok. I'm usually active in Mobei, and I'm not very familiar with the situation in Monan."

"Since he can be trusted, it would not be a bad thing to have another guide who is familiar with Monan."

If it was in the past, she would definitely not agree to let a stranger join the team.

In Shurima, after all, no one can be trusted.

But leaders are different.Regardless of their status, whether they are close or distant, as long as they show the thread of faith, they can make people feel at ease.

"That's good." Taliyah nodded secretly, and extended her hand to Kassadin: "Thank you for your assistance, Comrade Kassadin."

"You're welcome." Kassadin shook hands with her lightly, and replied frankly: "Actually, I just want to contribute to the liberation of Shurima."

"It would be great if I could be called a hero with you guys. Haha."

As he spoke, he belatedly remembered: "That's right."

"Comrade Taliyah, you just asked me about the Prophet Order. Is there any organizational task?"

"No." Taliyah shook her head, "Actually, we are only here to free those slaves."

Speaking, Taliyah briefly introduced the ins and outs of the matter to Kassadin.

They actually have no conflict with the Order of the Prophets.

It's just that the Prophet Order bought those hundreds of slaves for some reason, which made them a little concerned.

"The plantations on the north bank have stopped buying slaves. In the desert, there are many people and few oases, so raising slaves is a loss-making business. What is the use of this Prophet Order buying so many slaves?"

"It's strange, isn't it?" Taliyah worried a little about the fate of the slaves.

"This." Kassadin looked delicate: "It's hard to say."

Anyway, this prophetic sect is full of evil, almost labeling itself as a follower of evil gods.

Most of the slaves who fell into their hands would have no good end.

"And the so-called prophet should also be a real person." He still reminded carefully: "Many city-states and tribes in Monan have surrendered to this prophet. If you want to deal with him, That’s a long-term plan.”

Taliyah hesitated when she heard that.

At this time, Nasus woke her up: "Taliyah, don't forget your mission."

"All we have to do is save the group of slaves in front of us. Save the hundreds of slaves and arrange them, and that's it-don't worry about other things."

"It is!" Taliyah also nodded secretly.

Yes.She came here to do social research, not to be a hero.

Also, being a hero won't save Shurima:
She can save these slaves, and then deal with the Prophet Order, but then?

After overthrowing the Order of the Prophets, what should they do with the large power vacuum left behind by the city-states and tribes who followed the Order?

If in the process of dealing with the Prophet Order, she finds out that there are other evil forces colluding with it, what should she do?
Kill all the way?
Kill Shurima, then pat his ass and leave, and the world will be peaceful?
"What Shurima needs is not knights, but order." Nasus said: "The most important thing you should do now is to complete your Shurima investigation report as soon as possible, and then bring it back to Zaun to let your superiors decide what to do." Time to liberate this land."

"Yes." Taliyah nodded secretly.

"I see." She figured it out.

It is enough to save these slaves and be heroes this time.

Ignoring the mission assigned by the organization to the investigation team, and taking actions against the local forces in Shurima without authorization, that would be a reckless act of personal heroism.

"Thank you, Mr. Giant." Taliyah said gratefully, "Compared to me, you are more like a mature leader."

"Hmm..." Nasus said nothing with complicated eyes.

"Okay." He picked up the giant axe and changed the subject, "Don't worry about the Prophet Order."

"Let's save these slaves and leave—it's as simple as that."

The next day, a few miles outside Vikola City, in the desert of yellow sand.

Nasus and his party are in ambush here.

Their plan to save the slaves is very simple, that is, to wait for the group of prophets to leave Vikola with the slaves, and then rob the group of evil god believers on the way.

This kind of "black eating black" happens all the time in the desert, and no one would think of the leader who is thousands of miles away.

Doing so can minimize the impact, lest Vikola's situation, like Belgun's, become out of control because of their appearance.

"Hey, big man." Sivir took his hands and hid behind the giant rocks in the Gobi, playing with the Chali Kaer in his hand boredly.

She asked Nasus, "Have those followers of evil gods come?"

After more than a month of getting along with each other, Sivir already knew that Nasus's nose and ears were very sensitive.

Even the leader who is good at listening to the wind and distinguishing the position cannot catch up with Nasus's keen hearing.

He could even hear people's conversations ten miles away through the wind and sand in the desert.

Therefore, Sivir also regarded her good teacher as a useful enemy radar.

"Soon." Sure enough, without lifting his eyelids, Nasus looked at the vast yellow sand and said, "They have already left the city, and they are coming here now—as we expected, they are going south. direction."

"Where are the slaves?" Taliyah asked concerned.

"Don't worry." Nasus' jackal ears trembled slightly: "From the sound, they all seem to be in good condition."

After finishing speaking, he quietly fell into silence again, as if he was listening to something quietly.

"What's wrong?" Sivir was a little curious.

"I'm listening to the conversations of those believers." Nasus turned to look at her: "I have to say, it's quite interesting."

As he spoke, his eyes moved slightly, and he used magic to replay the conversation he had heard in everyone's ears out of thin air:

"We have brought back so many sacrifices this time, the prophet will definitely reward our contribution." Religion member A said.

"Yes." The voice of believer B was a little fanatical: "Perhaps, the prophet will allow us to participate in the sacrifice——I can't wait to merge with that great nothingness."

"This" believer C seems to be a newcomer to the church.

He asked carefully with some concern: "Participating in the sacrifice. What do you mean?"

"Just like those sacrifices." Cultist B replied excitedly: "Sacrifice your body to the ethereal spirits in the ground, and let the great nothingness merge with us."

"What?" Disciple C turned pale in surprise, "We also want to offer sacrifices?"

"Of course." Both believers A and B replied in a natural tone.

"Then what's the difference between us and these slaves?"

"Of course there is no difference." Congregation B calmly replied: "In the embrace of the great nothingness, each of us is equal. We will all be a part of Him, brothers and sisters who blend in spirit."

"This..." Christian C still felt something was wrong: "Is this considered equality?"

"Of course! This is real equality!"

"People are not created equal. Some are rich and some are poor, some are strong and some are weak, some are smart and some are stupid."

"The strong will always trample the weak under their feet, and the wise will always ride on top of the stupid. But the poor can only serve the rich as cows and horses for a lifetime, and they will almost never stand up."

"True equality will never be possible if we are alive as human beings."

"Mankind alone will never be able to solve the problems of human society."

"Fortunately, the great nothingness will come to Runeterra—"

"We can all shed our bodies and blend our souls with them."

"At that time, we will no longer have to starve and struggle to survive. There will be no inequality between people, and there will be no more oppression and bullying of individuals."

"Because at that time, all human beings will cease to exist, and there will only be one individual left in the world-that is 'us'!"

"We are all great nothing, and the great nothing is us!"

"We... will become gods!"

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In the silence, believer C seemed to be persuaded by the bright future he described.

Being a human is too hard.

Joining the great nothingness and becoming a part of the gods seems to be the best destination for human beings.

"."

After listening to these conversations, Taliyah, Sivir and the others couldn't help being dumbfounded.

They originally thought that this prophetic sect was just a heretic sect common in the desert, and at most it had a special doctrine.

Unexpectedly, their teachings are not only unique, but also quite perfect.

"There are thinking and analysis of social contradictions, and there are also ultimate solutions."

Although this solution to social problems by eliminating human society is indeed a bit weird.

But the teachings of this Prophet Order are indeed logically perfect and self-consistent.

If you can't get equality as a human being, you can't be human.Let all human beings merge into a collective consciousness, and there will no longer be any oppression of people on people, and there will be no social contradictions.

"Are they really just ordinary believers of evil gods?" Taliyah murmured.

Ordinary evil gods, such as the spider god that Elise believed in, and Vladimir, who was sought after by the scarlet believers, ordered the believers to offer sacrifices, all of which simply wanted to eat people.

And these evil gods generally don't design too complicated teachings for themselves.

Because they are all real gods, possessing powerful power enough for believers to follow faithfully.

Therefore, the evil gods don't need to tell stories to fool the believers, they only need to give the believers a little favor, so that the believers can offer living sacrifices for them.

"But this prophetic sect designed such a complicated set of rhetoric for their sacrifice."

"What's the point of doing that?"

Taliyah and Sivir exchanged glances, then looked tentatively at Nasus.

Nasus lowered his eyes, quietly lost in thought.

He thought for a moment before saying, "I think there is only one possibility."

"What?" Taliyah and the others asked curiously.

"Their teachings, not the stories."

"Their Lord, the collective consciousness of all things, the great nothingness that will eventually devour everything—maybe it is real."

"This..." Taliyah and Sivir couldn't believe it.

Is there really such a god in the world?
An ultimate collection of consciousness that devours all things and can fuse all things?

"I don't know." Nasus shook his head: "As far as I know, there has never been such a special existence."

Even if he is a grand scholar of the Shurima Empire and an ascendant who has experienced thousands of years, he has never heard of any existence similar to this "great nothingness".

This made him wonder again:
"Maybe I'm overthinking. Maybe...their teachings are really just a story."

Just as Nasus was saying this, his jackal ears hidden under the hood began to vibrate slightly again.

He fell silent and listened carefully to the voices coming from afar.

"What did you hear again, big man?" Sivir asked hastily.

"Nothing." Nasus shook his head this time.

The few believers did not continue to discuss the doctrine.

Their discussion ended in a burst of urging: "Stop chatting, move faster!"

"Don't forget, the Prophet will hold the next sacrificial ceremony at Mount Balat."

"We started too late. If we don't make it, we will have to wait for the next sacrificial ceremony."

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After hearing this, Taliyah and Sivir didn't react much.

After all, they had already decided that they would only save the slaves this time and not do anything else.

It has nothing to do with where these prophets will go, and where the so-called prophet will hold a sacrifice ceremony.

But
"Mount Balat?" Kassadin, who was just quietly listening to his companion's discussion, suddenly shouted excitedly.

He grabbed Nasus's robe without hesitation, and asked, "Mr. Giant, what did those Prophets just say?"

"Where the Prophet will hold the next sacrificial ceremony is Mount Balat?"

"Yes." Nasus confirmed.

The Ascendant's ears can't go wrong.What's more, what he has is a pair of jackal ears.

"What's wrong?" Taliyah and Sivir asked curiously.

Kassadin replied with a pale face: "I"

"My home is on Mount Balat!"

(End of this chapter)