Chapter 2264 Demons and Darklings
Lin Jiu suddenly remembered that Noxus was not a threat to them at all. On an overall level, Noxus is indeed unable to touch Shurima, but the power hidden in Noxus is still somewhat threatening. Mainly mixed in among these mortal forces are the original demons.
There are ten powerful demons in Valoran, including seven outer ring demons and three inner ring demons. In their heyday, Lin Jiu estimated that these demons could rival the gods.
As expected, Swain, the current military boss of Noxus, has obtained the power of the demon Ram. At the same time, there is an organization called the Black Rose hidden in the darkness of Noxus.
The founders of the Black Rose are the remnants of a group of ancient orders that have a history far older than Noxus. The later Black Roses have been secretly conspiring for hundreds of years, constantly attracting the powerful to join their ranks.
While few members of the Black Rose learn the origins of their leader, many have discovered the legend of a pale witch. The Pale Witch is said to have aided the crumbling barbarian tribes in their fight against the infamous Ironclad Wraith Mordekaiser. It was him who made the land already ravaged by the darkspawn even more desolate.
The Pale Witch has always had a gift for creating illusions, and her greatest trick is to make all of Noxus forget that dark power surges at its own center. Later, all records about her disappeared into history during the Rune Wars. And this pale witch also has another name, the trickster enchantress LeBlanc who is more familiar to Lin Jiu.
For hundreds of years, LeBlanc has been secretly advising dignitaries abroad, appearing in many countries at the same time, using her illusions to disrupt order and create chaos. Her actions have repeatedly pushed Runeterra to the brink of all-out war.
After experiencing desperate battles, the darkest magic began to spread again in the ice fields of Freljord, the mountains of Targon, and the deserts of Shurima, gradually surrounding and approaching Noxus. This shows the influence of the Black Rose. If LeBlanc is planning to do something with Shurima, it will be quite troublesome indeed.
But it's okay, mainly because her operation created a Swain who has mastered the power of the demon Ram. After the Black Rose helped Darkwill seize the throne, he refused to admit Black Rose's hand-picked advisors to the Council, so LeBlanc took the extreme measures necessary.
Control Swain to accidentally discover the existence of the black rose and fake his own death to escape. Then, LeBlanc promised Darkwill the secret of immortality and began to slowly poison Darkwill's mind while giving him powerful abilities.
Emperor Darkwill began to become infatuated, and under the secret bewitchment of the black rose, the old Darkwill began to vainly search for the elixir of life. This was one of the important reasons why Noxus attacked Ionia. First, Emperor Darkwill believed that there must be a treasure that could make people immortal in the First Land.
When Swain deployed his army to ambush Irelia, Emperor Darkwill suddenly mobilized his troops and asked them to search for the elixir of life in the surrounding area. It was clear that Irelia had stepped into the trap carefully prepared by Swain, but because most of the army was withdrawn by the emperor, everything Swain had deployed collapsed.
As a result, the Noxian army was severely defeated due to insufficient combat capabilities, and was killed by Irelia. It was also during this battle that Swain's arm was cut off by a flying knife from Irelia, and one of his legs was also directly broken.
When Swain was on the verge of death, a raven flew over and tried to devour Swain's soul. This raven belongs to Ram, the demon who hides deep in the Immortal Fortress, the capital of Noxus. Ram relies on the raven to fly around, devouring souls and memories to gain strength. Swain relied on his strong willpower to resist the devouring, and in turn took control of this power. He returned to Noxus, pulled the dim-witted Darkwill from the throne, and took control of Noxus himself.
So now Noxus was a powerful military empire among mortal forces, but in fact there was a Black Rose organization in the dark, and its leader was a guy with demonic power.
Swain took action to destroy Darkwill, but did not take action against the pale witch. Instead, he accepted the oath of allegiance of LeBlanc and the Black Rose, and established the Trifari Council, whose core strengths are foresight, force, and cunning.
Since then, the Trifalli Council, with Swain, Darius and the mysterious Faceless Men as the three giants, has replaced the throne of Noxus. The cunning and mysterious faceless man who represents the Trifari Council is most likely a new incarnation of the Pale Witch, or perhaps LeBlanc herself.
Lin Jiu knew that the problem in Noxus did not lie with Swain or the Black Rose, but mainly with the original demon hiding in the dark. These guys belong to the existence of the target gods. Those gods need faith, while the original demons need corresponding negative emotions.
Noxus, which continues to invade other territories through war, will create a lot of negative emotions, which is the best place to nourish the original demons. Lin Jiu is sure that the number of demons hidden in Noxus is definitely more than three.
As far as Lin Jiu knew, the demon Evelyn, who symbolized bliss, was in Noxus, and Ram, who represented the secret, was already two. Tam, the demon that symbolizes greed, may also be wandering in Noxus, and Fiddlesticks, the demon that symbolizes fear, prefers a military power like Noxus that brings a lot of fear.
At the speed of Lin Jiu and his group, they set out during the day and saw the former central city of ancient Shurima, Narimaj, at dusk. This city was once destroyed by the explosion of the sun disk energy and buried under the yellow sand. Now it has risen from the sand again because of Azir's return.
This ancient city and the skeletons of its citizens have long been integrated with the desert, and it is impossible to distinguish the skeletons and ashes from the yellow sand. Only the tallest towers can still extend above the sand dunes. From a distance, although Narimaj emerged from the sand, it is still extremely dilapidated. You can see that on a broken column base, a huge stone statue has long lost its torso, leaving only two legs standing in place, and the raptor head of the stone statue is half covered by the yellow sand.
The starting point of the outbreak of the once-called Darkin War was in Narimaj, the hometown of Xerath, the destroyer of the empire. Here, the desperate god warriors wantonly slaughtered the people in the city and burned down the place where the Shurima Empire's first civilization was born.
Since then, the glory of the Ascended, who were admired by all, has been quietly shattered. For their own rights and ambitions, the fallen Ascended fought against their former brothers. The Darkin gradually became a joke among humans for these fallen people.
Most of the fallen God Warriors were polluted by the void and lost their minds, becoming bloodthirsty and brutal demons. They relied on their extraordinary powers to slaughter and conquer each other wantonly. They enslaved the monarchs of various parts of the human world, making them follow them as life carriers, and even blinded their eyes, making them slaves of the Darkin for life.
They drove the human legions to wage war, fight each other, and destroy all the creatures that blocked their ambitions. The damage caused by the Darkin War to Runeland has far exceeded the disaster brought by the initial Void War.