LOL: Summoner of Goddess Janna

Not so long ago, on Commercial Street.

"Wait, I'm going to buy a newspaper." Riven stopped abruptly and said to her best friend and adjutant Marit.

"Newspaper? Yo." Marit couldn't help teasing and raised the corners of her mouth: "Captain Riven Legion, when did you become a cultural person?"

Riven was an illiterate serf before joining the army, but she learned to read and write later, but her level of education was not much higher.

She obviously didn't have the habit of reading newspapers before.

"It's nothing." Riven replied casually, "I just want to read the news about Leader."

"The leader?" Marit frowned slightly.

"Yes, I want to know more about our enemies," Riven said.

Know yourself and the enemy and you will never be imperiled in a hundred battles. This is the truth that all three-year-old children know.

Noxus has always focused on intelligence work. Wherever the imperial army went, the "war masons" in charge of espionage and intelligence work would go there in advance.

Riven fought in the past, whether it was in Demacia or Shurima, through the intelligence channel of the war mason or the military information provided by the superior, at least roughly figured out the enemy's details.

But this time...

Perhaps Zaun's anti-espionage work is so good that the war masons that Noxus is proud of have never been able to play a role.

And as the superior, General Amistan, not only did not provide his subordinates with detailed information on the enemy, but he also issued a death order, strictly prohibiting his subordinates from inquiring about the leader's information without permission.

Riwen, as the head of the majestic Rune Swordsman Legion, has been stationed in Picheng for some time, and she doesn't even know it until now...

What are the political interests of the enemy? What conflicts of interest do they have with Noxus?

Why did Amistan regard the other party as an enemy, but kept it secret and did not allow his subordinates to go to know the situation of the leader?

Riven wanted to know that.

In desperation, she could only learn about the enemy through the "Picheng Daily".

"What do you want to know about this?" Marit disagreed, "As soldiers of the Empire, we only need to follow orders faithfully."

"But..." Riven said hesitantly, "I just want to know, why are we fighting this time?"

To fight a war is to be famous. Even Noxus, like a mad dog, has to find an excuse before biting someone.

The Freljord was fought because the northern barbarians went south every year to plunder, killing and wounding the Noxian frontiers (and they did). It is a legitimate defensive war.

Shurima was fought because the natives were ungrateful and attacked law-abiding merchants in Noxus. It is to protect the legitimate trade of the Southern Land.

Playing Demacia, the excuse is even better.

Noxus and Demacia have been feuds for centuries. There is no need to forge claims, just put up a sign that reads "Punish Violent Virtue", and a large group of fanatical Noxus soldiers can be encouraged to go to the front line to fight for their lives.

As for fighting Ionia...

That is of course because the land of Ionia is nourished by natural magic, and the food production is astonishingly high.

However, the Ionians have been secluded and "maliciously hoarding food", which indirectly pushed up the world's food prices, causing innocent poor people in Noxus to starve to death without food.

This is simply too much.

In order to seize food from the greedy Ionians, to obtain the magic-soaked land for Noxus, and to prevent thousands of people from starving, His Majesty the benevolent emperor resolutely decided to send troops.

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Regardless of whether these excuses for war are reasonable or not, the soldiers of Noxus believe it anyway.

The morale of the army is only when the division is famous.

"what about now?"

"Why did we come to Piltover, why did we fight that leader?"

Riven wanted to figure this out.

Anyway, she is also a small legion commander. As a commander, she should also know this.

"Then have you figured it out now?" Marit didn't seem to care much. She just asked casually: "What do these newspapers say about those leaders?"

"Eh..." Riven thought for a while.

Then, she summed up the reasons why the leader should be regarded as the enemy based on the articles in the Piltover Daily that criticized the leader: "In short, according to the people of Piltover:"

"They are enemies of the leader because the leader tramples on human rights, infringes on private property, undermines democracy, and threatens the oil world."

"They also accused leaders of massacres in Zaun, looting legal property, persecuting innocent businessmen, scholars, intellectuals, building concentration camps, enslaving prisoners, forced labor..."

"Wait?" Marit was a little annoyed when she heard that, "Aren't these Pilters always criticizing and calling us Noxus?!"

"Eh..." Riven thought about it seriously, "Probably not."

"As far as the people of Piltover are concerned, that's really why they're against Zaun."

"Huh?" Marit didn't understand.

Trampling human rights, violating private property...In today's Runeterra, apart from what Piltover said, which other country would pay attention to human rights? Just this, can it be considered an 'excuse for war'?

The strong trample the weak under their feet and take everything from the weak... Isn't that very reasonable?

As a Noxian general, she was completely incapable of understanding the brain circuits of the people of Piltover.

"Yeah, that's why I'm also very strange..." Riven couldn't figure it out.

The so-called "crimes" accused of leaders in the Piltover Daily were nothing to the Noxians.

They would be a hundred times more cruel than the leader of the "Picheng Daily Plane" if they slaughtered a city at random.

And Noxus is no world policeman. They won't come all the way to fight against the leaders just because they are "evil".

There must be other reasons for this.

"But why...General Amistan, didn't let us know?"

Riven was very puzzled. And the more she was puzzled, the more she wanted to know, the more curious she was about her new enemy.

"Well, maybe I know a little bit." Marit said hesitantly.

"Oh?" Riven looked over curiously.

Although Marit's position is lower than hers, but the other party is from aristocratic background, her connections are much wider than her Phoenix Girl.

What she didn't know, Marit might indeed know more.

"Actually, I don't know the specifics. I just heard from my acquaintances that the leader seems to be a True God sect."

"I generally understand that." Riven nodded.

It is no secret throughout the Twin Cities that the leaders are followers of the goddess Janna.

"And they are not only the Church of the True God, but also master the terrifying magic that can invisibly brainwash people and make people actively convert." Marit added.

"What?" Group brainwashing, this is powerful.

"And this isn't an ordinary brainwashing technique - I heard that even among the war masons we sent over, within half a month, 5 out of 10 defected to the enemy."

"Huh?" Riven was even more shocked.

Well-trained war masons can be brainwashed by the enemy, so how terrifying is this leader?

"No wonder General Amistan wants to garrison Piltover and trap the enemy in a corner of Zaun..." She seemed to understand.

If the True God Sect, which possesses this terrifying brainwashing technique, is allowed to grow, it will definitely be a threat to the empire.

"But..." Riven still couldn't figure it out: "Even if the enemy has the magic of mind control, it doesn't mean that we won't be completely denied access to the enemy's information, right?"

"Could it be that we can be brainwashed through the distance by reading a few materials about leaders in Piltover across the canal?"

Now the entire Piltover is digging deep to search the leader's promotional materials, as if there is some kind of world-destroying magic hidden in those little pieces of paper, and if they don't check it, the world will be overturned.

This instead made Riven curious, what exactly was written in those pamphlets?

The people of Piltover are not allowed to look at it. Why aren't even them Noxians, not even Noxian officers, allowed to read?

Could it be that these mass-printed ordinary papers really contain some evil brainwashing spells?

"This..." Marit wasn't too clear.

"Fine." Riven shrugged.

Marit was beyond her expectations. And she didn't know where to get the leader's pamphlet, learning about the enemy she wanted to know.

So, the two were speechless for a while.

And Riven finally took a step forward and walked towards the newsboy who was selling in front. ,

"Here's a copy of the Pilt City Daily." She stopped the newsboy and handed him two copper rings.

The newsboy glanced at the red and black Noxus officer's armor, and tremblingly handed over a copy of "Piltown Daily".

Did not dare to take money.

"..." Riven frowned slightly.

"Take it." She offered to hand over the money.

The newsboy still didn't dare to take it. Just shivering there.

"Cut. Don't give it to him." Marit said a little impatiently, "Do you want love?"

However, Riven turned her head and persuaded Marit patiently: "The money that should be given should still be given."

"Didn't General Amistan just issued an order in the past two days, asking us to rectify military discipline?"

Amistan is already managing Piltover as her own territory, and she certainly doesn't want this cornucopia to be smashed by the mischievous Noxus soldiers.

Only the progressive Piltover can earn more money for her.

So after a period of confusion, Amistan finally started to restrain his subordinates and rectify military discipline.

Bad things that damage the image of Noxus, such as buying for zero yuan, robbing civilian women, and unlimited fighting between soldiers and civilians, will not be allowed to do in the future.

"Well... yes." Thinking of the instructions of the leader of the war group, Marit finally softened his attitude.

In addition, their officer's armor is very eye-catching, and many people around are watching.

So she held back for a while, but forcefully suppressed a smile.

"Take the money." Riven also said to the newsboy, "Our Noxian soldiers are not as bad as you think."

Well... at least it's not that bad in Piltover.

She added silently in her heart.

And Riven is doing her best to perform "Pino Goodwill" and "Military and Civilian Fish and Water"...

Not far away, there was a commotion from a street-facing workshop in the commercial street.

A few drunken soldiers were making a scene inside, causing passers-by outside the glass windows to stop and watch.

"This..." Both Riven and Marit's expressions darkened.

The newsboy didn't even take the money, so he turned around and ran away in fright.

Passers-by around looked at them unconsciously. Who made them wear officers' armor.

"Stop!" Marit finally couldn't hold back anymore.

She walked over quickly and kicked open the store door: "Bastard, what are you doing?"