Chapter 217 [0215] A Heavy Blow

At the request of her superiors, Tamara began to develop in the direction of cross-border development - War Masons are indeed stonemasons, builders, and surveyors in name, and they actually do the work of spies, but kidnapping important figures is indeed a cross-border for them to be responsible for it.

Under normal circumstances, Darkwill would not issue such a random order. Even if he really wanted to kidnap important figures, he would send professional assassins to cooperate with the war masons.

However, after the failure of the Ionian War, the rule of His Excellency Commander Darkwill has come to a precarious situation, and the professional assassin groups have also shown a tendency to take the commander-in-chief's orders lightly.

It's not that Darkwill is forcing the war masons to do tasks beyond their capabilities.

It's that His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief has no cards to play and can only rely on the war masons!

Although the order says "Noxus will not hesitate to start a war for this", in fact, unless Tamara and the war masons can directly obtain reliable Hextech body modification technology that can be used directly to prolong human life and revive his rule, the war masons will not get any support from the empire!

Today's Noxus has already come to the brink of a reshuffle. The failure of the Ionian War is not enough to seriously damage the empire, but it is enough to make this war machine take the initiative to change a wave of people in charge.

And Tamara knows nothing about this.

Although she is thoughtful and has a strong ability to adapt to changes, her loyalty to Noxus has made her never think that the empire will abandon her children. In Tamara's view, this task was assigned to the war masons to a large extent because other organizations are really unbearable - the previous Miss Cassiopeia, who was born noble, ended up messing up the good situation and even indirectly helped the rise of Zaun.

This time, the Empire directly assigned the task to the war masons and provided the possibility of starting a war as the final guarantee. It must be because the commander-in-chief trusted the conscientious war masons more!

Therefore, although the bold and careful Tamara faced a very daunting task, she still chose to face the challenge and took on the task without hesitation. She also quickly began to cross the border and study the difficult things such as kidnapping for the country.

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Tamara was trying to kidnap the Hextech prosthetics expert in Piltover.

The Piltover Parliament was caught in an endless quarrel.

For three whole years, Camille used her identity and strength to suppress all dissatisfaction and made Piltover's Hextech technology take off. With the official opening of the Hextech Flying Gate not long ago, everyone saw the huge profits brought by this emerging technology.

This was originally a good thing.

However, with the end of the Ionian War and the sharp decline in the income of the Sun Gate, the contradictions between the new and old chaebols gradually emerged.

The birth of new industries will inevitably squeeze out the investment in old industries. This is a very normal thing. In Camille's expectation, Sungate Trade and Hextech will be the two legs of Piltover, the former providing sufficient funds and the latter guiding a bright future.

However, the situation in Runeland will not change according to Camille's idea.

After the Ionian War, without large military orders, the income of Sungate began to decline sharply.

Even so, the toll income of the Piltover Canal can still be described as making money while lying down, but for the related families and chambers of commerce that rely on this canal to make a fortune every day, making less money is losing money.

Losing money... This is unacceptable!

At this time, Hextech made rapid progress, and the vast space in it made these old money see opportunities. They began to enter the market one after another, hoping to get a share of it.

Unfortunately, the Hextech circle had already been formed at this time. With the help of Mel, many people who were "abandoned" by Noxus gathered around Jayce, forming a stable interest group, and a solid professional barrier had been formed at this time.

Why didn't you come to invest earlier? Now you want to get a piece of the pie?

Go wherever you want!

In this way, the upper class of Piltover finally divided into two circles. One is the old money that relies on the Sungate Canal, Sungate Port Transportation, Sungate-related materials and machinery, and Sungate Port Service Industry; the other is the new rich circle with Hextech technology patents as the core.

When the economy is booming and everything is thriving, everyone can still be safe and develop separately.

But when the economy is not so good, both sides begin to tear for investment resources.

The old money believes that Ionia is a big market, and Piltover's geographical location is unique. We should make good use of it, and the focus of the commercial city should return to business.

The new rich believe that Hextech is the direction of the future. Even the Sungate Port can be upgraded and managed through Hextech. Instead of focusing on new trade routes, it is better to upgrade the industry.

Both sides argued over the future of Piltover in the Piltover parliament.

Camille originally wanted to do both, unite with Zaun to engage in Ionia trade, and continue to develop Hextech, preferably through the advantage of dumping goods, so that Zaun would voluntarily return to Piltover to serve as a factory.

However, just today, the headlines of the Zaun Daily gave Camille a blow that made stars appear in her eyes.

"Strategic Partners - The Same Rise from the Ruins".

As the official mouthpiece of Zaun, Zaun Daily directly announced the news of the cooperation with Bilgewater after receiving the agreement.

As a public media, Zaun Daily has well captured the pain points of the Zaun people. Although the pirates of Bilgewater are notorious, they have one thing that is naturally the same as the Zaun people - poverty!

Everyone is barefoot, so everyone is suffering haha!

And don’t forget, in addition to pirates, gamblers and villains, Bilgewater also has many sea monster butchers and fishermen!

If Bilgewater had been mentioned in Zaun before, people's first reaction would have been "shameful stinking pirates."

But now, that impression is quickly starting to change.

The pirate leader who did all kinds of evil before is finished!

The people of Bilgewater are now willing to cooperate with us in trade. Trade can make money to buy better daily necessities, so that everyone can live a better life together. In this case, there is no problem if everyone cooperates!

Kalja's Little Classroom Piltover's Hex Flying Gate:

This invention took Jess three full years. In the eyes of many uninformed people, this is simply teleportation magic, but in fact, its principle is based on the levitation of the Hex force field, and Space doesn't matter.