LOL: Summoner of Goddess Janna

"So, kiddos." The veteran squinted and looked at the young soldiers: "Do you know what to do?"

While talking, a cold wind blew across the field.

The centurion was still riding his tall dragon lizard, watching all this silently. The adult soldiers also followed behind without saying a word, looking at this side with vague eyes.

Kayn: "..."

He suddenly trembled and reacted immediately: "Yes, sir! We will definitely attack the village occupied by the Wind Leader with all our strength!"

"Not bad. Kid, you are very sensible." The veteran glanced at Kayn with satisfaction, as if appreciating his cleverness.

So this commander, who usually didn't bother to look at the young soldiers, showed an affectionate smile to Kayn for the first time: "Just follow the Centurion honestly, and you will naturally benefit from it later."

"If you perform well, you don't have to wait until you reach adulthood. It's not impossible for you to become a regular legionnaire in advance."

"This..." The teenagers opened their eyes eagerly.

Becoming an official Legionnaire is every Scout's dream.

Although this dream is not difficult to realize in theory. Theoretically, as long as they live to reach adulthood at the age of 16, they can become regular legionnaires unconditionally and become official legionnaires with salary, allowances and pensions, and are also eligible to participate in spoils and profits.

But in fact... living to the age of 16 is a huge threshold that can eliminate 90% of young soldiers.

"Sir, we will not disappoint Centurion!" The young soldiers' eyes were burning with enthusiasm and excitement.

Only Kayn was still conscious.

If it were before meeting the leader, he might still be encouraged by such empty promises. He would think that as long as he gritted his teeth and persevered, he would be able to get ahead in the army, become a hero of Noxus, and become a master officer.

But now, he has become immune to this kind of pie drawn out of thin air.

So, while Kayn followed everyone to express his loyalty to the veterans, he watched all of this silently with a heavy heart.

It wasn't until the veteran gave everyone detailed instructions on the details of the subsequent village massacre mission that he finally couldn't help himself and tentatively asked the veteran: "Sir, I want to ask some questions."

"Huh?" The veteran glanced over immediately.

Noticing that it was Kayn who was the first to actively stand up and show his loyalty, his expression softened slightly: "You say it."

"I..." Kayn swallowed: "I heard that many teams have encountered the Wind Leader's guerrillas in the countryside recently. So, are these 'Leader's guerrillas' also..."

Are they all villagers who were innocently accused of military merit? !

Kayn had never cared about the lives of these strangers before. But now, he instinctively wanted to understand.

"Well...heh." The veteran smiled meaningfully: "Kid, what do you think?"

Killing good people and taking advantage of others is a traditional art of the old army. In this situation, in the Noxus Empire, there was no question of having or not having them from the beginning, there was only a question of more or less.

When the national power is increasing day by day and the military discipline is strict, this situation becomes less common.

This happens more often when the country is in decline and the military is corrupt.

In recent years, Noxus' national conditions have obviously been closer to the latter.

Of course, there are also inspectors in the military who are responsible for screening the so-called "results" reported by junior officers. If the battle was fought in other places, the inspectors would basically be able to distinguish the moisture in these battle reports.

For example:

Demacia takes the route of elite soldiers, and all soldiers wear armor. If you say you have captured a hundred heads, then you have to hand over another hundred sets of German standard armors along with the heads.

The indigenous warriors of Shurima and the barbarian warriors of Freljord are all muscular men who have been honed in harsh environments such as desert ice fields.

If you want to use the corpses of civilians with few muscles on their bodies to make up for the loss, the inspector will be unkind and send you to the slave army to experience a lifetime tour.

However, these tricks are not easy to use when it comes to Ionia.

Ionia has no regular army at all, and the civilian resistance forces are not much different from civilians in terms of equipment and physical characteristics.

Not to mention the leaders of the group like Riven.

The tens of thousands of people they rescued from the Yipu River Port half a month ago, and now the main force of the Ionia Leader, were originally civilians.

So, the superiors ordered an all-out search for the leader——

Like hungry wolves out of the cage, the grassroots soldiers rushed into the village and started a fight with the "Leader Guerrillas".

In the past half month, there have been no big battles, but countless small battles, and countless gains.

Suddenly, the entire Yipu River Basin seemed to have become the base camp of the leader.

"So you don't have to worry at all." The veteran smiled playfully: "After all, we are not the only team doing this."

"I can't tell you the specifics. I can only tell you that the book "The Thoughts of Janna" has been sold out in the military camp recently."

Kayn: "..."

He clenched his fists tighter and tighter, but his palms were cold.

He didn't dare to think deeply, and asked again: "But, sir...how did I hear that due to the incident involving the Wind Leader guerrillas, there have been many casualties and even a lot of supplies lost in the battle group recently? ?”

If those leaders were just civilians, how could their battle group suffer so many casualties?

"Casualties? Bah!" the veteran sneered and spat: "I think that's all news spread by General Lester!"

"Those stupid senior officers earn much more money than we do! I have to work hard to behead people, but they can make a lot of money just sitting in the camp and correcting a few ledgers."

"So of course they expect us to have 'casualties'. Without casualties, they can still record a large number of casualties in their accounts."

"W-what?" Kayn looked confused. After all, he has little knowledge.

At this time, the veteran explained: "Idiot, think about it if you were General Lester."

"The headquarters allocates military expenses for a regiment with a full strength of 30,000 men, but your regiment actually only recruits 20,000 soldiers. Will the 10,000 military pay saved go into your own pocket? "

"This..." Kayn couldn't believe it: "Sir, you, you mean..."

Is General Leicester taking his pay? !

How can this be? !

Kayn's position in the military was too low. Even after these days of self-awakening, his knowledge of the imperial army is still very limited.

To him, and to most people in Runeterra, Noxus looked like an efficient killing machine.

People would curse its brutality, but no one would believe that this horrific machine was rotten and rusted from within.

But that's the truth.

"How is it impossible?" the veteran snorted disdainfully: "General Lester is also a big-headed soldier like us. If he doesn't make money like this, where else can his family get so much money?"

The war groups in Noxus can basically be divided into two types.

One is an independent war group that was transformed from various small countries, city-states, and tribes that were annexed and recruited in the past. It still has a considerable scale of autonomous territory and has extremely high autonomy in terms of personnel and finance.

This kind of war group, which is actually an independent warlord, will only be able to pay for itself if it eats empty pay.

Their war group leaders are also prince-level nobles, so there is no need to make money in this way.

But General Lester was different.

He is a new-generation general with a grassroots background. The battle group under his command was formed by the empire's central government and is not an independent battle group. The personnel appointments and financial lifeline of the battle group are also firmly in the hands of the empire's senior officials in the Immortal Fortress.

In the past, when Swain was in power, an upstart like him could still follow the impartial and selfless teacher Swain and use his military exploits to get promoted and make a fortune in a dignified way.

But in recent years, Swain has been repeatedly suppressed within the empire. Last year, he was chopped into a commoner by a 14-year-old girl.

A new generation of generals like Lester, who had the misfortune of being with the wrong person and on the wrong team, naturally followed Swain's loss of power and was targeted within the empire.

If Lester hadn't given enough money to the old nobles of the Immortal Fortress in time and showed enough loyalty, he might not even be able to keep his position as leader of the war group, let alone continue to make progress.

After some operation, he managed to stabilize his official career.

But the problem is...

Where should this money come from?

An upstart like Lester with no family background would definitely not be able to afford such a huge sum of money just by relying on military merit rewards.

no way. He can only eat empty wages and drink soldiers' blood.

As a result, in the past two years, the Noxian army, which was already on the decline, deteriorated rapidly at an alarming rate that gave Swain a high blood pressure attack.

Of course, this low-level veteran, who could only show his knowledge in front of Kayn, could not see the discord among the high-level officials of the empire.

But what he knew was: "General Leicester not only ate empty wages, but also smuggled military supplies on horseback."

"That's why our battle group's 'casualties' are so high every time we fight - think about it, every time we fight there are more casualties and material losses, can this account be settled?"

The "air soldiers" and "air supplies" in those accounts became real "real things" once consumed in battle.

Not only can the accounts be settled, but one can also receive an additional pension for "killed personnel" from above.

"You see, the officer is no different from us." The veteran smiled: "We use the heads of those Ionians to make money, and they use our heads to make money. It's the same."

"This..." Kayn was shocked.

It turns out that there are so many ways to fight and make a fortune.

Unconsciously, he clenched the "Brief Description of Janna's Thoughts" in his hand.

Levi said in the book that Noxus was about to self-destruct, but Kayn initially refused to believe it. He really couldn't imagine that such a powerful giant would fall.

But now, he only has one thought in his mind:

"This empire...is going to end!"