An Infinite Journey From the Sea of ​​Stones

"It's not your fault, it's the fault of the Demacians and Noxus, you don't have to blame yourself."

"...I should blame myself, but what I blame should be why I didn't develop Hex's power as soon as possible."

Jess slowly clenched his fists, lowered his head, and said in a hoarse and low voice

What he regretted was not his inability to protect these people because of his own reasons, what Jess regretted most was the humiliation and powerlessness.

Noxus and Demacia can fight each other unscrupulously on their land, passing the loss on to Mrs. Piltover, but they can pat their ass and leave directly afterwards.

Maybe the Demacians would even blame them for their faults, and openly list them as hostile forces.

At this moment, Jess really understood a sentence in the textbook, a weak country has no dignity, and being weak is the biggest fault in this world!

The dignity of a country cannot be obtained by relying on economy and culture, even if Piltover is always known as the city of progress, so what?So what if their city is the most civilized and grandest in all of Runeterra?

It may take ten years to build a tall building, but less than five minutes to destroy it.

He regretted that he shouldn't limit the development of Hextech. If he had developed all of this one step ahead, perhaps Piltover would have embarked on a powerful path, and perhaps Victor would not have left just yet...

Regret and pain were deeply rooted in Jess's heart, his clenched fists seemed to bleed out.

Mel looked at Jess like this worriedly but happily, patted her shoulder lightly, and said in a low voice

"I will support you no matter what you do."

"..." Jess looked down at the noble lady of Noxus, his words choked in his heart, and he was speechless for a long time.

55. Primal Hex Core

Late at night, Victor was still immersed in his work design.

He has completely given up the act of sleeping now, not that he cannot fall asleep, but the inefficient act of recovering energy is no longer necessary.

Under his design and transformation, several large factories in Zaun have been transformed from the production of uptown equipment into industrial assembly lines for the production of alternative weapons.

In this regard, Viktor should thank Silko, the former ruler of Zaun has not only developed Shimmer and bribed law enforcement officers in the past three years, but also made quite a lot of changes to the base of Zaun.

This is much easier than developing from scratch. After all, the predecessors of those large factories in Zaun were the factories that produced the industrial equipment needed in Piltover. If the assembly line is modified, it can become an assembly line for the production of weapons. .

As for resources, the unfortunate explosion not only caused Zaun to sink hundreds of meters, but also exposed many rare mineral resources in the ground of Zaun.

Even though it has been mined by Piltover for many years, Zaun is still rich in minerals, and the minimum resource problem can be solved.

but......

With Piltover's supply chain broken, Viktor had to admit to the sad reality that many of the hex weapons he designed were completely unmanufacturable.

Without the supply of resources in key parts, it is impossible to synthesize those complex and expensive alloys with Zaun's minerals alone.

And it is obvious that Shirko, the gang leader who specializes in alchemy biology, has never studied this aspect, so he can't even talk about accumulating materials.

Difficult, in short, it is particularly difficult.

The number of people in Zaan that can be put into the armament is less than 1000. It is not that the population of Zaan is so barren, but that the army and civilians have always been two concepts.

Civilians with weapons may be just as deadly, but it's far more difficult to get them to protect themselves and actively kill others.

Even the thousand so-called soldiers, except for some of the shimmering biochemical warriors, most of them were members of Shirko's former gang.

Soldier?Zaun has never been a place for such specialized things to exist.

But fortunately, Victor had already done research on getting rid of the combat power other than the flesh and blood a long time ago.

He stopped the work at hand and took a step back silently. The hex crystal in the chest of the machine shone with dazzling light. The next moment, steam was sprayed, and the joints shone with electric arcs. His whole body was made of cheap brass alloy. The robot left the restraint frame, and silently walked to the queue automatically.

This is the result of research Viktor made a long time ago, a mechanical construct called a steam robot.

That was the result of Victor’s learning before he followed Heimerdinger’s back. At that time, he wanted to create a helper robot that could rescue an alchemy material leakage accident. At that time, he devoted all his efforts to build the first prototype. It took three days and three nights to carefully set the cognitive cycle instructions of the robot's internal learning, and he also completed Victor's order very well, saving dozens of people in that disaster.

He remembered that the robot had been named Blitzcz, after a giant in Shuriman mythology.

But after that... what happened after that?

Victor thought about it carefully, and he remembered the bad things that happened next.

When he devoted himself to curing those poisoned Zaunites, he returned to the academy to find that his mentor, Professor Stanwyck, was organizing an academic seminar on Blitzcrank, and he grandly presented it in his own name. The research results originally belonged to Victor.Victor to the Master of the Academy

Although they made serious complaints, emphasizing that Britz was his own design, his overly aggressive words fell on deaf ears.

Yes, he'd approached a lot of people since then, even Jace back then, but everyone had turned down his pleas to help.

Simply because he's a Zaunian.

However, all this is irrelevant.The reality that he hated so much in the past is now reflected in Victor's mind, but it is just a calm memory. His brain and central processing unit's memories of this incident can't arouse him to secrete excess hormones .

But even if it is secreted, it will be decomposed quickly.

Rational thinking wins everything, and rational thinking doesn't need a poison called emotion.

The robots prepared by Victor himself are the main force to win the war for Zaun. They don’t have the intelligence of Blitz that has been refined by Victor, but the simple and straightforward thinking circuit is just right as a war machine.

Take out the mechanical flying claws that Blitzcranks were designed for and replace them with deadly machine guns and hex death rays, these machines are deadlier than any soldier.

Although only more than 40 units have been produced until now, it is enough.

The military power that Victor is preparing now is undoubtedly more than ten times that of Van der in the past, and if it is just to fight for power, these military powers are enough to make every member of the Upper City Council feel afraid.

But not enough, not enough at all.

Victor believes that wars that bring destruction will also lead to technological progress and the reallocation of resources.And the distribution of resources is absolutely necessary to destroy those who occupied the resources in the past.

Only when the old overlords are destroyed, the new people will occupy their resources.For Victor, he also needs more authority to achieve his more ambitious goals!

"Seeing that you can prepare so much military strength, I am really relieved for you."

Pleasant laughter suddenly sounded in the quiet workshop. The mechanical arm behind Victor instantly aimed at the direction of the sound, and the death ray aimed at Yunjuan sitting on the workbench.

"Are you here to get that thing?" Victor asked calmly

"Yes, of course, I'm here to get what I should get." Yunjuan said with a smile

Naturally, his help to Victor would not be without remuneration, just like the hex technology he got from Mel when he was doing no-cost business, he also got his technology on human body transformation and mechanized implantation from Victor.

However, this is obviously not enough.

"I have never made such a powerful hex core. Since I made him, the core of this original crystal has been radiating its...wavelength to me all the time."

Victor said with some difficulty, the man who had almost made himself as strong as steel dragged out the heavy lead box at the bottom of the workbench and handed it to Yunjuan

"I thought you would take this core." Yunjuan lifted the lead box and laughed

"It's too powerful." Victor said without hesitation

"The power of this core is completely beyond what my body can bear. Even the best alloy will start to crystallize when attached to it. At the same time, my thinking will fall into a chaotic state under its influence."

"Yeah, that's...fascinating."

Yun Juan said softly, and he slowly opened the lead box, and what was placed in it was a shining Hex crystal!

Like a beating heart, this octahedral mechanical structure constantly emits azure light, and just like Victor said, the outer mechanical metal of this hex core has been almost completely crystallized.

This makes this Hex crystal look like a gem-cut artwork, and the ancient runes that emerge seem to have an incomprehensible singing voice.

Yun Juan held it in his hands, he stared at the radiating light obsessively, and listened to the incomparably clear singing in his ears.

The old, crystal ballad...

The hex core made of an original hex crystal, held by Yunjuan, is undoubtedly the treasure of this world.

Ancient and intermittent songs echoed in his ears, but what was contained in that song was mysterious and supreme knowledge.

Intoxicating, intoxicating, ecstasy...

Even a man of steel like Victor seemed to be shaken by the ballad of the crystal core, but Yun Juan's eyes quickly recovered.

He put the original Hex core into the storage space.

Undoubtedly, this gem is also a precious puzzle for him to go to greatness and a higher level.But now, is not the time to use it.

He has also done many investigations on the origin of the original Hex crystal during this period. To be precise, he hypnotized Professor Heimerdinger to obtain relevant knowledge.

There have been several different inferences about the origin of this gem in the past, and the two most reliable inferences are runes and void.

Some people think that the original Hex crystal is a world rune of the enlightenment system. It is the only rune that Ryze has not collected for thousands of years, and it is also the only rune that has not participated in the Rune Wars.

Another theory is that the hex crystal comes from the void, but this inference is only because the iris of the eyes of the human body will turn purple when the human body touches the crystal.

Yunjuan believes that the former is undoubtedly more reliable, and the memory retrieval of Heimerdinger undoubtedly pushed this result.

In the ancient rune war that Heimerdinger witnessed, the nations of Valoran used the power of world runes to fight each other. The holder can devour life to obtain an infinitely powerful rune, and someone who holds it can

A rune that increases power infinitely, but without exception, in that rune war, the derivation direction of all rune holders seems to be an endless war.

But there is no trace of the 'teaching' rune.

In fact, the so-called Enlightenment Rune is only derived from Riot's official game rune system. This is definitely not a reliable statement, but the original Hex Crystal seems to have this power.

His original individual hiding under the yellow sand attracts life by splitting itself, and then expands itself by transferring itself to other individuals, and preserving the soul and memory is another way to expand itself.

And those who have been in contact with the original Hex crystal will indeed gain a kind of incredible "enlightenment". The master of Philos who excavated the Hex crystal is the best example.

The original Hex technology did not originate from Heimerdinger, who has the most technological inventions in the world, but from a Felos Patriarch who was just an adventurer in the past.

He is like the protagonist in a novel who got the system, and suddenly became enlightened and mastered the incredible Hex technology.

And after Yunjuan got the Hex crystal, he further confirmed this fact. The "song" conveyed by the consciousness stored in this crystal is actually a kind of knowledge endowment.

And not only that, the crystallization of this crystal after implantation in the human body is both a symbiosis and a teaching that teaches the soul and heart of the bearer to 'infuse the crystal'.

The world rune is alive, and the wandering mage once proved this fact with his disciples.So if this is the case, this is very likely to be the original Hex crystal of the world rune, perhaps it is such a creation.

He needs this crystal, this heart, to fulfill his great vision further.

"We're both cleared."

After accepting this treasure, Yunjuan smiled at Victor

"But I also want to bring you a word by the way. Your old friend is coming to see you. If you want, you can go to see him in advance."

After finishing speaking, Yun Juan's figure disappeared in place, leaving only the silent Victor.

56. It's better to lose both than to lose

With a bright moon and few stars, Piltover, which was restless during the day due to the destruction of the city and a large number of casualties, fell into a long period of tranquility as night fell.

The city will also fall asleep at night, even if it has experienced great pain and torture during the day, it still needs a peaceful sleep to soothe the body full of scars.

But Jess couldn't sleep, he left Mel's mansion and came to the broken bridge.

He sat alone on the edge of the broken bridge, looking at the dark hole opposite, like the huge mouth of a monster.

Jace felt as if he could understand Victor's feelings.

The kind of helplessness when facing the strong who oppresses oneself, full of resentment but can only endure bitterly, seeing the pain of everything that is cherished being ravaged wantonly.

After becoming a member of Taris, Jess discovered the truth of history.

He went to consult the historical documents that only congressmen are qualified to read, and then he knew the truth of the past.

It turned out that Mrs. Piltover had been stepping on the Zaun people to suck blood.

Even before that bomb sank Zaun, the few families and great merchants that made up the city began exploiting the poor at the bottom in various ways.

Just with that bomb, let these people divide their territory into noble Piltover, and then abandon those poor people who fell into hell in poor Zaun.

The most authentic records are just piles of shocking things, Zaun was abandoned by them, but they were treated as a cheap labor market, garbage slopes, mines......

The gorgeous clothes worn by the wealthy Mrs. Piltover, and the cheap food enjoyed, all contain the blood and sweat of the Zaunites.

But their school taught them that Mrs. Piltover's good life came from their own efforts, and Zaun was a symbol of lazy, stupid, and unseeking superiors.

Evolution Day was their Evolution Day, and that day was Zaun's greatest day of mourning.He built his prosperity and civilization on eating his compatriots, but later he still considered himself noble and civilized.

The reality of the truth made Jace want to vomit.

Thinking about it differently, if Jess's hometown is like this, then he believes that he will do everything possible to save it, and then destroy those who eat and oppress them!

Yes, Jess has grown up again.Under the ravages of the Demacians and Noxians, the immature Jace once again learned some pure and cold truths of reality.

"I heard you were looking for me?"