LOL: Summoner of Goddess Janna

The setting sun blooms with its afterglow on the ridgeline of the desert, dyeing the endless yellow sand into a deep red sea.

The sky gradually darkened, and the clouds turned from orange-red to dark red, and then gradually darkened. The strong wind is still howling in this vast Gobi Desert, but the air it brings is no longer scorching hot, but instead bitterly cold and unbearable.

"Stop." Sivir looked up at the sky: "The wind may be very strong tonight."

"Yeah." Taliyah nodded secretly.

Don't travel at night in the desert. This is common sense that every Shuriman understands.

It’s easy to get disoriented at night and it’s freezing cold. Some dangerous desert creatures also like to take advantage of the cover of night.

And the sandstorms that the biting night wind may bring at any time are even more powerful forces of nature that ordinary extraordinary people cannot contend with.

Therefore, the merchant tribes walking in the Shurima desert would drive Skalas - a creature similar to a camel but several times larger - at night to form a giant circular "camel wall". Humans block the nightly sandstorms and provide them with a desert haven where they can set up temporary camps and light warm campfires.

These safe havens are like mobile cities in the desert, ensuring that the Shurima people can survive tenaciously in this cruel land and spend one cold and unforgiving night safely.

But Taliyah had no use for this.

She has a more convenient way:

"Rock Burst - The Art of Civil Engineering!"

Taliyah lightly jumped off the rock "skateboard" floating on the sea of ​​sand, tapped her toes lightly on the ground, and the earth began to tremble slightly in the earth-yellow magic halo.

Soon, the rocks underground protruded from under the long yellow sand and reached the surface.

They kept moving, deforming, and reshaping structures, and actually transformed into rough but solid stone huts on this endless desert.

"Tsk, tsk, this is really convenient." Although this was not the first time he saw such a spectacle, Sivir could not help but be amazed by it.

During her long career as a mercenary, she had dealt with many mages, but there were very few of them who used magic to create things instead of destroying them.

"Because this is the magic of our Wind Leader." Taliyah replied proudly.

The Wind Leader has been committed to researching how to apply magic to daily production and life, so that mages can also play their special role as extraordinary beings in other places besides the battlefield.

Speaking with high emotional intelligence, this is called further liberating productivity;

To put it bluntly, this is called taking precautions to solve employment problems for future mages.

Lest the world be peaceful in the future, they cannot find suitable jobs that match their talents, and they are too ambitious and unwilling to do the same work as ordinary people. Eventually, they will be collectively unemployed and laid off, becoming a destabilizing factor in society.

Levi wants to start a League of Legends sports league because of this consideration.

In short, in the leader, mages are not just humanoid war weapons.

Fire mages can be good cooks with perfect control over fire;

Water elemental mages can be firefighters who protect people's safety;

Wind elemental mages can engage in the aviation profession and serve as safety guardians for aircraft and airships;

Spiritual mages can follow Seraphine's example and shine in political propaganda positions...

Among the many categories of extraordinary beings, the employment issue of earth elemental mages is the least that people need to worry about.

Prospecting, mining, mineral processing, archaeological excavation, rescue and disaster relief, civil construction... there are so many places where they can be used.

"When I was a grassroots cadre in Zaun, I worked on construction sites." Taliyah recalled proudly: "Many magics used in the construction field were developed by my colleagues and I."

"Yeah." Sivir nodded casually in response.

Using magic to engage in production and construction sounds really interesting.

The drive of Taliyah and others to work together to build a better life, as well as their various achievements, make people instinctively yearn for it.

But after getting along with each other these days, Sivir has learned enough about the leader. She has become immune to all the beauties shown by the leader.

She realized that her longing for the Windleader was not that different from the Shuriman's longing for Piltover in the past.

Ultimately, it is the yearning for a better life and better material conditions.

However, Sivir could not accept the truly precious things of the leader - their ideals and beliefs, or the leader's ideology.

If she could accept it, she wouldn't have given up the "free" power and spent every day in the desert watching Scarlash baring his teeth and practicing boomerangs in the air.

"Okay, okay." Sivir looked at the sun that had completely set on the horizon, feeling the increasingly fierce sandstorm, and was even less interested in listening to Taliyah's introduction to her career as a leader in Zaun.

"It's night. Taliyah, come inside and take shelter from the wind."

With that said, she tied her Scarash to the outside of the stone house, then walked into the house carrying her luggage.

After Taliyah arranged the accommodation for her companions, she followed her into Sivir's room.

In the entire investigation team plus the mercenary team, they were the only two women.

In order to have someone to take care of them in the dangerous desert night, they have always lived in the same stone house.

After Taliyah entered the house, she saw that Sivir was already gorging on water and devouring several large pieces of dried meat and bread.

Then she took off the leather armor and cloth boots that had long been stained with sweat and stinked with sweat, and then used her toes to rub off the wet torn socks——

Before Taliyah called her, she lazily wrapped herself in a dirty windproof blanket and collapsed on the simple stone bed.

As soon as his eyes closed, the bridge of his nose trembled, and he seemed to be snoring in the next second.

"You...are going to sleep now?" Taliyah hesitantly installed an alchemy battery on the camping lamp, illuminating the room brightly.

"What are you doing if you don't sleep?" Sivir lazily raised his eyelids: "At night in the desert, there is nothing else to do except sleep."

"Don't worry. My mercenaries will stand guard for everyone. If anything goes wrong, I will wake up as soon as possible."

With that said, she wrapped herself in a blanket and turned over, ready to fall asleep to the sound of the howling wind outside.

"Don't you read?" Taliyah asked with some concern.

She has been silently observing Sivir's thoughts and learning.

Sivir's original enthusiasm for learning was still very high. But in recent days, Sivir not only became more and more obsessed with boomerang training during the day, but he also read less and less at night.

Today...

"I won't read it anymore." Sivir simply gave up completely: "I can't understand it."

"What don't you understand?" Taliyah approached enthusiastically and sat down on the single stone bed next to her: "You can ask me if you don't understand anything like you did a few days ago."

Sivir, however, did not rush to ask questions as before, but remained silent and lost in thought.

After a long time, she shook her head seriously: "Forget it, I won't ask anymore."

"I realized that it's not that I can't read your books."

The "Brief Description of Janna's Thoughts" in Sivir's hands is already the most user-friendly version that the Wind Leader Association has iterated many times in order to take care of the per capita cultural level of Runeterra.

This is at most an introductory guide to Janna Lord Yi, and the threshold for understanding is not that high.

So Sivir actually understands it.

"I just can't accept it." Sivir replied with a frown.

"Why can't you accept it?" Taliyah was puzzled: "Isn't the belief of our leader bad?"

"Okay, of course." Sivir took out the crumpled booklet from her chest and sighed: "It's just too good, making it unrealistic."

"You mean?" Taliyah thought thoughtfully.

"That's your ultimate ideal!" Sivir pointed directly at the core point of the leader's theory: "The so-called great harmony society."

"Taliyah, I believe in the ability and character of your Wind Leaders. I also believe that you can make Zaun, Shurima, and even the entire Runeterra better."

"But this one is better, at most it's just a little bit better."

"For example... no matter how well you do, you can't always let everyone in Runeterra live the same wonderful life as Piltover, right?"

"This..." Taliyah nodded frankly: "At present, it is indeed impossible."

Piltover and Zaun are the only developed industrial cities in Runeterra today.

If we use the leader's definition of human life quality, in the vast area outside the Twin Cities, more than 99% of the world's population is actually still in a state of extreme poverty.

Just two cities can lead the world out of poverty and become rich. This is easier said than done.

"But if we can't do it now, it doesn't mean we can't do it in the future." Taliyah said confidently: "As long as we keep walking on the right path and keep working unremittingly, we will definitely make the world Everyone lives a good life comparable to that of Leather City."

"How long will it take?" Sivir asked.

"Um..." Taliyah was speechless.

Although leaders are good at making plans and setting out to complete them. But the Wind Leader's power is far from spreading all over the world. They don't know enough about the overall situation in Runeterra. How can they formulate a long-term plan now that is guaranteed to lift the whole world out of poverty and become rich?

"Look." Sivir slumped back wrapped in blankets again, looking like a squirming caterpillar: "You can't even tell when we can let us live the old life in Piltover."

"Then how dare you promise to realize Janna's dominant society?"

Sivir's questioning was very forceful.

But Taliyah's expression became firm: "Sivir, of course we dare to promise."

"Because this is the truth and the objective law of the development of human society, not our wishful imagination."

"Janna's lordship will definitely be realized. Just like the slave society in history replaced the primitive society, and the feudal society replaced the slave society -"

"The Ziben-dominated society that emerged from the Twin Cities still has a certain vitality, but it will eventually be completely replaced by the Janna-dominated Datong society in the future!"

"Impossible!" Sivir retorted.

She believes that the harmonious society mentioned by the leaders is simply a fairy tale that is impossible to realize.

"I would rather believe that Azir, the Eagle King, swindled corpses from the tomb and allowed the Shurima Empire to rise again, rather than believe in the Great Harmony society you are talking about! If nothing else, just one thing -"

“On-demand allocation, how is that possible?”

Miss Sivier had obviously thought carefully about this.

She gave an example and questioned: "Taliya, you also saw what happened in Bergun a few days ago."

"Those slaves were not satisfied after being liberated. They wanted revenge; but after revenge, were they satisfied?"

"No! They still want to rush into the streets to rape, plunder, and divide slave owners' wives, and they want to steal more money from their own pockets!"

"Human desires are endless, and they are distributed according to need. How can it be distributed?"

“How high must this ‘highly developed’ productivity be in order to satisfy everyone’s endless needs?”

Sivir asked plausibly.

But Taliyah smiled instead.

She was not afraid that Sivir would have a problem, but she was afraid that Sivir was not thinking when he read, and really didn’t understand anything.

The question raised by Sivir is actually a common fallacy among beginners in their understanding of Janna's main character.

So Taliyah replied in a familiar tone: "Sivir, you're mistaken."

“What we leaders mean by distribution according to needs is to meet people’s reasonable needs, not unlimited desires.”

This is an important distinction.

Only if the infinite desires of human beings are satisfied can a harmonious society be considered. Then the Great Harmony Society is really just like the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss mentioned by those religious believers, it is a pure fantasy.

If you look at Janna's thoughts with this kind of illusion, you can only draw a wrong conclusion——

Only when the productive forces are extremely developed and materials are extremely abundant, so abundant that nearly unlimited resources can be used to satisfy people's desires, can a truly harmonious society be realized.

But the reality is that human material resources can never be infinitely rich.

Therefore, a Datong society cannot be realized now, and it will not be realized in the future. The future of the future is also impossible to achieve.

"Those with vested interests will always have appropriate reasons to resist change, which will indefinitely postpone the day when a harmonious society will be realized."

"But Miss Sivir, is the unified society in the Leader's theory really what you misunderstood? No!"

Distribution according to needs means distribution according to people's reasonable living needs.

Human desires are unlimited, but reasonable needs are limited.

"Just like if you want to eat delicious food, even if you imagine it in the most luxurious place - you want to eat the top-quality sea animal steak produced in Piraeus."

"Even if you can eat a ton by yourself, you should still be full, right?"

Since we can eat enough, there is an upper limit to this demand.

Since demand has an upper limit, these demands can theoretically be met through the development of productivity.

For example, this ton of top-quality sea beast steak may be more expensive than a ton of gold now.

But with the development of science and technology, it is entirely possible for humans to invent large-scale marine animal breeding technology in the future, allowing everyone to eat marine animal meat until they vomit.

"The purpose of a Datong society is to reasonably distribute materials according to everyone's needs when the material is abundant enough - do you understand, Sivir?"

"Uh..." Sivir was a little confused.

She stopped and thought carefully for a long time, but she still felt that something was wrong.

"No, no, no..." She wiped her face with her hand and said, "Not all needs can be satisfied like this, right?"

No matter how much we can eat, we can only eat a few bowls of rice at a time. No matter how well we can wear clothes, we can only wear a few pieces of clothes at the same time. a car.

It seems that human beings have a reasonable upper limit to their normal daily needs.

In the Datong society, which is extremely rich in materials, people can eat whatever they want, wear whatever they want, live in whatever house they want, and drive whatever car they want.

As long as you don't squander and waste, don't ask for excessively. These reasonable needs appear to be met.

"What about the woman?" Sivir asked carelessly.

Fullness, warmth, lust, and sex needs are also basic human needs.

Thinking of her and Taliyah's gender, she changed her words: "There are men."

"If I want your President Levi to be my concubine - not more, just him alone. Is this reasonable?"

“Can Datong Society provide me with distribution according to my needs?”

Sivir felt as if he had caught the weakness of the leader's theory.

Unexpectedly, Taliyah looked at her with a helpless expression: "It seems you still don't understand, Miss Sivir."

"Treating people as objects, treating sex as resources, and treating spouses as one's own private property. These are the values ​​of a private ownership society, and they are the most naked alienation of people."

“In the Datong society of public ownership, everyone is a free person with equal social status.”

"If President Levi is willing to be your concubine, then no one can stop you; but if he doesn't want to, then no one can force him to do so."

Do you still expect the leader to send you a husband/wife? Dreaming!

The life of the husband/wife is also life. Why are people being sent around as objects?

As she spoke, Taliyah did not forget to look at Sivir with helpless eyes and the horrifyingly dirty blanket on her body——

Miss Sivier is a beauty though. But years of living as a mercenary in the desert have obviously made her lose her gender.

Generally speaking, although Shuriman people rarely bathe due to lack of water, they will clean themselves as much as possible as long as they can.

But Sivir, who has been with a bunch of rough guys as mercenaries for a long time, doesn't care about this at all - after all, even if she cleans herself, she will soon become sloppy due to high-intensity fighting and training.

So Sivir simply gave up on personal hygiene altogether.

Her leather armor, boots, and blankets were like Zaun's alchemical and chemical weapons. Those two stinky socks thrown aside can be used directly as alchemy grenades.

Every time Taliyah lived in the same room with her, she had to secretly use magic to isolate herself from the space and ventilate the room so that she could sleep peacefully.

For this reason, she once vaguely mentioned to Sivir that in fact, their investigation team had a water elemental mage accompanying them, so bathing in the desert would not be difficult.

But Sivir boldly told her that a desert mercenary would never need to take a shower in his life.

Once the "shield" on her skin was rubbed clean, she would no longer be able to ignore Shurima's scorching sun and sand.

"Miss Sivir." At this point, Taliyah couldn't help but remind her: "Even in Datong society, people are not absolutely equal. After all, people are born with beauty and ugliness, and their living habits are also acquired. difference."

"If you are always so sloppy and don't care about cleanliness, no man will like you even in Datong society."

"If you don't work hard to change yourself and expect the leader to give you a husband, it will definitely not work."

Sivir: "..."

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While Taliyah and Sivir discussed Janna's theory and Miss Sivir's personal hygiene:

At a distance that even the most elite desert mercenaries cannot perceive, between the biting night wind and violent sand dust on the lonely and open endless sea of ​​​​sand where mortals simply cannot survive——

There was actually a figure walking alone in the desert at night.

He was extremely tall, too burly to look like a human being.

But this burly figure was completely covered by a dirty coarse robe, making it impossible to see the outline of his body clearly.

His face was also hidden under a stretched turban, and his fingers were wrapped in leper-like bandages - as if he was really suffering from some incurable disease that he didn't dare to show even an inch of his skin to others.

But this person is obviously not a terminally ill patient.

Because the desert storm that could blow even the Gobi rocks to roll all over the ground couldn't even shake his body.

A heavy weapon wrapped in rags, with the outline of a giant ax vaguely visible, was also carried on his shoulders effortlessly.

And the most terrifying thing is that he can actually hear clearly the voices of travelers in the distance through the howling wind at night and the unknown distance.

"Someone is resting there... is it a traveler?" He murmured to himself in a vicissitudes of voice, and then let the voice dissipate alone in the thousand-year-old wind of Shurima.

Then he stopped.

Listening to the conversations of travelers in the desert is his only pleasure now.

Or maybe it was the only thing he still cared about.

He was not interested in the private stories of these little people, nor did he want to learn about treasure secrets or current affairs news from the travelers' conversations.

Treasures have long been meaningless to him.

Whatever happened in the world outside the desert, he had long since stopped caring about it.

The only thing he cares about is knowledge.

Yes.

Even though he was tall and carried a giant axe, he looked like a berserker.

But he is actually a scholar and a great intellectual.

He had the most instinctive interest in all knowledge.

He wanted to know whether the ancient knowledge had been passed down to the Shuriman people today; whether the Shuriman people today had created any new knowledge that would dazzle him.

The answer to this question has always disappointed him in the past.

Since the demise of the Shurima Empire, the civilization of this land has completely regressed.

The cultural inheritance of Shuriman has almost been cut off, and the Shuriman people have long lost their thirst for knowledge - after all, for the current Shuriman people, survival is enough for them to do their best.

For thousands of years, the conversations he heard from travelers always left him disappointed and sighing.

The Shurima Empire is dead.

The Shuriman no longer have the ability to look up at the stars.

Until now...

"Datong...society?" He heard the conversation between the two girls.

This is an extremely unfamiliar word. It is also a knowledge that is extremely unfamiliar to him.

From the beginning, just like the little man named Sivir, he thought this was an unrealistic fantasy of religious people.

He was also curious about how the goddess Janna, whose temples they had easily destroyed and their faith exterminated, would come back three thousand years later with such a ridiculous set of inventions.

But listen, listen...

His pointed ears stood up uncontrollably.

His eyes also glowed green in the night.

"This...this is not a fantasy."

"This is knowledge, knowledge I have never seen before!"

He stopped completely and looked far away in the direction of the sound.

He hasn't had any contact with humans for many years. Seeing Shurima's current state, he only felt more guilty and regretful.

But this time...

"Even if knowledge is far away in Ionia, we should seek it there."

Nasus murmured to himself and walked towards the biting wind.