Chapter 483: Recruiting the Commander-in-Chief

Swain's claim that Du Cacao wanted to redeem the two was completely nonsense.

Based on Li Lin's understanding of this legendary Noxian assassin general, he is a being who cannot have any sand in his eyes.

Catalina only failed once and was abandoned by him without giving her a second chance. She was still his biological daughter.

Although Tai Lung was very strong and extremely talented in the art of assassin, he still failed after all.

For several months, Noxus had not sent anyone, not even a war mason or an assassin, to inquire about the two of them, which meant that Du Cacao had completely given up on them.

Assassins don't get second chances.

Although it experienced the Rune Wars in ancient times, Noxus was extremely short of survival resources.

But with such a huge land area, it is not difficult to find another assassin whose talent is not weaker than Tai Lung.

This is Li Lin's thought in the mind of Du Kecao's character by putting himself in his shoes.

However, for the master assassin, both his daughter and his disciple were abandoned children, but it was different for Swain.

With Ramo's ability, he clearly knows the help Catalina and Talon can provide him in the future.

Du Couture had strict requirements on his disciples and could discard them as abandoned children at will, but Swain could not.

Heimerdinger had no idea what they were talking about, and Li Lin didn't even tell him about Katarina and Tyrone.

In fact, even if he said it, this yordle who only focused on studying science wouldn't care too much.

Caitlin, Karina and Mel all shifted their gazes in unison, looking at Li Lin who took the note and checked it, a look of surprise flashed through his eyes.

In exchange for Katarina and Tyrone, Swain really spent a lot of money!

Not to mention the Noxian Golden Sword, which has an exchange rate of almost 2:1 with the Twin Cities' Golden Hex, the Grand Commander directly gave out 200,000 pieces, and there are also dozens of tons of Noxian gold swords, which are abundant in iron ore and coal mines. Mainly various minerals, and even includes several trade preferential policies.

According to Li Lin's original idea, Swain actually offered tens of thousands of gold hex. He then indicated that it was more difficult for him. This was because Swain wanted to save face so that he could let Katarina and Talon go, making the other party feel that they owed him. A favor will do.

But looking at it now, Swain didn't leave any chance for Li Lin to plot against him.

After all, Katarina and Talon were sent by him to test out this rising star in Piltover.

He couldn't let these two Assassins who would play an important role in the Noxian Assassin world just lose their lives in Piltover.

Li Lin stared at the paper in silence for a moment, then passed it to Caitlin, Karina and Mel for review. Everyone had shock in their eyes, but they tried hard to suppress it and did not let it show on the surface.

One hundred thousand pieces of gold are just a drop in the bucket for the top families, even iron ore and coal mines are nothing.

But more important are the trade preferential policies that no amount of money can buy.

Karina quickly gave Li Lin a look.

Due to various recent expenditures, especially the reform of the big family, Piltover's apparent financial revenue has decreased by several percentage points compared to the past.

But now with Swain's generous trade preferential policies, he only had to pay two insignificant assassins in exchange. It was a completely profitable deal.

Even Caitlin, Mel, and Heimerdinger, who didn't pay much attention to this, all hoped that Li Lin would agree.

Swain couldn't see through Li Lin, but he could still see through their minds, and the corners of his mouth curved slightly.

He endured the pain and paid such a high price in exchange for the Ominous Blade and Blade Shadow in the future. It seemed like he was almost successful.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but regret the decision he made before because he didn't pay much attention to Li Lin...

"Commander Swain, the reward you gave is indeed generous."

Li Lin's words stopped abruptly, and Swain and Darius on the opposite side frowned involuntarily.

They all felt that the stupid boy in front of them seemed to have a big appetite.

"President Li, I remember there is a legend in Ionia called: The greedy snake swallows the elephant."

Swain's tone was slightly displeased, but before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Li Lin who chuckled and shook his head: "You misunderstood me, Swain."

"oh?"

He paused for a moment, glanced at Darius, and continued: "Actually, I only have one insignificant additional condition. If I insist on it, it can be regarded as a request."

Swain pondered for a moment, "But it doesn't matter, as long as I can do it."

"You have Ramo's power, so you must know the void, right?" Li Lin said without thinking.

Void...

As soon as he heard this word, Swain suddenly felt an unreasonable throbbing and panic.

Especially his left hand, which was shaking slightly uncontrollably.

But this is not a change in his own mood, but a manifestation of Ramo who he accepts as part of his body.

The devil is actually afraid...

Swain's heart trembled.

Not even the iron-armored wraith that once ravaged the continent of Valoran and imprisoned Ramo was not so afraid of it. How could a mere void that it had never mentioned make it behave like this?

"Unfortunately, I only know that there was a void war in Shurima, but I don't know much about the void."

Swain shook his head and naturally pressed his left arm under his clothes with his right hand to prevent it from being exposed to the air.

Except for Li Lin and Caitlin, who discovered some clues, the other three people didn't notice anything unusual.

Noxus was founded nearly a thousand years ago. Although there were dark descendants who once occupied the territory east of the Valoran continent, most of the dark descendants were affected by the void and forgot what happened back then.

In addition, the Imperial Great Library was annihilated along with the City of the Sun in the huge astral magic produced by the fall of the sun's disk, and records about the void are even more scarce.

The main threats Noxus has faced are Rune Wars and Mordekaiser, so it is relatively normal to not know much about the Void.

"Our world is not only made up of the part we see in front of us. Just like Runeland has a material realm and a spiritual realm, the heavens also have corresponding dimensions."

In order for Swain to understand it more easily, Li Lin did not mention the subspace and antimatter plane, but directly talked about the void plane.

"With the beginning of the heaven, the corresponding plane of nothingness was born, which represents some kind of unknowable nothingness on the other side of the realm.

"They have tried to invade Runeterra more than once, devour this vibrant world, and turn everything in the world into nothingness, but they all failed.

"But now, after thousands of years of sleeping and waiting patiently, the nothingness in the underground abyss of Runeterra is ready to move, and they are about to return."

Li Lin took a deep breath, "More than four months later, in the former port city in the southeast of Shurima, a void life form calling herself the Queen of the Void will emerge from the ground and bring voidness to the world."

"Is this true?"

"Of course it's true."

Swain frowned, the red light in his eyes flashed, and he stared unblinkingly at Li Lin, who had an equally solemn expression.

He didn't seem to be lying.

Immediately afterwards, Swain used Ramo's ability to find out the secrets of several other people, and his heart gradually became heavy.

Except for Mordekaiser, the iron-armored wraith who is destined to return to the realm of the living again, Noxus...

No, the entire Rune Land will face a crisis that threatens the world in advance.

Swain has never liked war. In his opinion, fighting is just to stay alive.

It's just that he has never expressed his opinion in public.

Because if there is no fight to plunder the resources of other countries, the Noxus Empire will fall apart and completely collapse.

This is not in line with the current national philosophy of Noxus, and Swain, who has dedicated everything to the empire, does not allow this to happen.

Moreover, Black Rose will use this to criticize him verbally and incite the people and nobles to impeach him and step down.

If those short-sighted guys who have no ability to think for themselves and only care about their own interests really listen to the Pale Lady, Noxus will be in ruins.

Swain took a breath and felt a tightness in his chest.

He thought he had done his best to prepare in advance and help Noxus as much as possible to survive the future when the army of the dead returned from the Immortal Fortress to the world of the living.

Unexpectedly, there is now a crisis comparable to the return of the iron-armored ghost, or even more serious.

There was dead silence in the meeting hall.

After an unknown amount of time, Swain put all the messy thoughts behind him and looked up at Li Lin again, "What do you want to do?"

"First of all, according to legend, a former dark descendant, Raast, was sealed in the coastal city-state of Noxus. I would like to ask you to allow my mechanical engineers to enter Noxus to find the living weapons of the dark descendants. .

"Azir has mastered the method of contacting the Darkin seal and reshaping his body as a god. We are confident to deal with the Queen of the Void."

first?

Didn't you just say that you only have one request... Forget it.

Instead of worrying about this, it would be better to worry about the rising Ascension Empire.

Feeling that Ramo had finally stabilized, Swain couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

"I agree, what next?"

Li Lin quickly sorted out his thoughts, "There is also the matter of establishing the last defense front of mankind - the League of Legends, which is equivalent to the United Nations of mankind."

Noticing the confusion on Swain's face, he added: "Belvis is just a part of the void, and its threat is nothing. The one who can really endanger the entire Runeterra is the master of the void, who I usually call For - Void Watcher.

"When the Void Monitor comes to Runeterra, it will be the end of time, space, and everything in the world. We must gather all living forces to stop them."

It was clear that there was only the Queen of the Void just now, but now it is becoming more and more serious.

Swain's mouth couldn't help but twitch.

After thinking for a moment, he said: "If you want to form a League of Legends, I actually have no problem with it, but I advise you to think about it carefully."

Swain smoothed the folds of his clothes with his right hand, "You know, Noxus invaded Ionia a few years ago. Although it was not my order, as an enemy, the people in your hometown won't care about this.

"Let's not talk about Shurima for the moment. Azir recently wants to regain lost territory and retake the three ports in the north. I will just return it to him. There is no need for a military handover.

"But Demacia..."

Swain raised his chin and gave Li Lin a look.

Noxus and Demacia have been enemies for centuries, and the two countries hate each other far more than Ionia hates Noxus.

If you want these two countries to join forces, it will take more than the consent of the rulers. The people will definitely not agree.

This is a tough question.

"Just leave this matter to me, you don't have to worry." Li Lin said, "All I want is your attitude, Commander-in-Chief."

He glanced at Darius, who was sitting next to Swain, somewhat casually.

Noticing Li Lin's gaze, he curled his lips and said, "Don't look at me. This matter is entirely arranged by the commander-in-chief."

Swain laughed and stood up. Li Lin and others followed him and stood up from their seats.

"Like I just said, I don't mind, as long as you can solve Demacia's problem.

"Otherwise, without Demacia, just having Noxus join the League of Legends would naturally be in line with my thoughts."

Li Lin shook his head helplessly, not taking his next words to heart.

"Since you agree to join, that's the best. However, the establishment of the League of Legends is just an idea of ​​mine at the moment. There are many issues that need to be considered before it can be implemented.

"It's too late now. After we finish dealing with the matter in Belvis, I will personally visit the Immortal Fortress and discuss this matter with you in detail."

Li Lin walked up to Swain and stretched out his right hand.

Amidst the hearty laughter of the middle-aged man, he also stretched out his hand and shook it with him.

"Then I'm looking forward to your visit."