Chapter 296: Defeat Magic with Magic
One day later, Zaun.
The warrior expedition led by Jarvan and Garen, and the mage prisoner army led by Lux, all left Demacia through the Hexgate and traveled thousands of miles to Zaun.
They will meet up with their Zaun allies here, and after a brief training, they will all march to the Ionian battlefield together.
The Windleader is now allied with Demacia, and the visitor is a heavyweight figure like Prince Jarvan, so the Windleader naturally used the highest level of diplomatic etiquette to entertain him.
As the leader of Zaun, Levi not only personally attended the ceremony with his first girlfriend Seraphine to greet them, but also shook hands warmly and had a cordial exchange with Prince Jarvan at the meeting ceremony. By the way, he also made some formalized friendly alliance declarations on the stage in front of the soldiers of both armies.
The specific content is probably:
"His Majesty Jarvan is an outstanding leader of the Demacia people, an excellent leader, and a great friend of the Leader. He has devoted his life to resisting the invasion and expansion of the Noxian Empire, and has made indelible contributions to achieving regional peace in the Valoran continent and the stability and prosperity of Demacia... We are willing to work with the German side ..."
then……
After attending the meeting ceremony and returning to the prisoner army's barracks, Silas couldn't hold back his excitement anymore.
He grumbled in front of the mages: "The Wind Leader's great friend?"
"Listen to this, 'Your Majesty Jarvan', 'Great Friend'! Ridiculous... A leader should be the leader of the oppressed. How can he be friends with the king?!"
"What on earth is that guy Levi thinking?"
Silas vented his dissatisfaction here without any scruples.
"This..." Miss Sona frowned when she heard this.
She couldn't help but remind him, "Mr. Silas, you should be more respectful to President Levi."
"Don't forget, if you really think of yourself as a leader, then President Levi is also your leader!"
“Ha.” Silas didn’t care. “So what if he’s the president? I don’t think what he did is right!”
"He's always on friendly terms with the king, chatting and laughing with the prince... And look at that pink-haired girl following him. She's dressed in gorgeous clothes, has delicate skin and tender flesh. At first glance, she's an aristocratic lady who grew up in a honey pot!"
"He turned his class enemies into friends, brothers, and even wives... Ha, can such a person still be considered a leader?"
"You?!" Sona's chest heaved with anger.
Not only did Silas scold Levi, he even scolded her idol Seraphine.
She really wanted to point at Silas' nose and tell him that the people Seraphine had helped in practice along the way and the contributions she had made to the cause of Janna were things he would never be able to catch up with in his entire lifetime.
And if Levi really did as he said and mindlessly shouted for war and killing whenever he saw a noble, the Guild of Leaders might have been killed by the bullets of Piltover's law enforcers from the very beginning.
Sona really wanted to scold like that.
but……
"Ah..." Sona finally held back.
The propaganda work practice in the past few days, especially the ideological work targeting Silas, has turned her, who was originally unable to speak, into a salted fish who doesn't want to speak.
Because it is almost useless to reason with a man like Silas. He has his own special experiences and has formed his own unique personality. It is difficult for others to convince him with words alone.
What's even more troublesome is...
Among these mages, there are many who have the same experience and personality as Silas.
They have endured discrimination and exclusion, abuse and torture since childhood, as well as years of imprisonment... The pain brought to them by the nobles has made it impossible for them to escape from the vortex of hatred.
So when Silas made disrespectful remarks to President Levi and even publicly accused the current top leadership of the Leader of being "compromise" and "weak", many mages present actually agreed with him.
"You all still believe that as long as they are nobles, rich people, and class enemies, they should all be killed, right?" Sona stopped preaching and just asked helplessly.
"Of course!" Silas nodded without hesitation.
That’s what he thought before watching “Jana”.
After watching "Jana", he thought so even more.
After all, Goddess Janna had said in the book that the nobles were the enemies of the leaders. And they were not just ordinary enemies, but class enemies.
Enemies must be eliminated. If they are class enemies, then of course this class must also be eliminated.
It’s just that Levi, Sona and most leaders understand that “eliminating class enemies” means gradually eliminating the soil on which this class depends for its existence by promoting the development of productivity and production relations.
Physical elimination is only a necessary means in the process, not the goal.
But what Silas understood as "eliminating class enemies" was complete annihilation in the physical sense, without leaving any trace.
"Nobles are like shadow wolves. There may be some shadow wolves that are close to humans and can be domesticated. But wolves are still wolves after all. No matter how young a wolf is, it still grows up by eating the flesh of other animals."
"Since we want to exterminate this species, how can we be lenient towards them and raise their wolf cubs?"
Silas said indignantly, and his words resonated among some mages.
“……”So, Sona stopped trying to persuade him.
She just remained strangely silent.
Then, she looked up at the barracks door with a look of surprise.
"Huh?!" Silas was also suddenly startled.
Because he possessed the ability to perceive magic over a wide range, he did not realize until this moment that a powerful source of magic suddenly appeared without any warning just a stone's throw away from him.
This feeling is like the head teacher suddenly appearing behind you during evening study...
Silas was so frightened that he subconsciously got goosebumps.
“Who is it?!”
How did he hide from my perception and suddenly appear here? !
Silas instinctively tensed all his muscles and looked towards the door with extreme vigilance.
Finally, the uninvited guest showed up.
"La, Laxana?!" Silas and the mages were all shocked.
The person who came was Lux.
Following behind her was a dark, round creature that looked like a magical pet... a humanoid magical frog? ?
“You…” Silas instinctively ignored the “Magic Swamp Frog” and cast his gaze on Lux: “ When… did you come?”
"Me?" Lux said with a smile, holding the mechanical staff in her arms, "I've been here for a while."
"???!" The mages were so terrified that their scalps went numb.
This woman was able to appear beside them silently, and had been "there for a while". Doesn't that mean... that what they just said and their long-standing conspiracy have been known to the other party?
The atmosphere suddenly became extremely tense.
Silas subconsciously used his magic power to attack, and then the next second, he suddenly realized:
He was wearing an explosive collar around his neck!
But the remote control key that Sona promised has not been obtained by everyone yet.
"Oh no!" The mages suddenly fell into panic.
Lux had already noticed their plan of riot, but the explosive collars on their necks had not been removed.
What should I do? !
A layer of cold sweat broke out on the mages' foreheads, but Lux had already taken out the remote control device to control the collar in front of them.
Now, if she pressed a button, their heads would explode immediately.
"It's over!" The atmosphere was filled with despair.
Finally, Silas couldn't hold back any longer.
If he delayed any further he would die, so he didn't waste even a second and took out the remote control device that the Demon Hunter Commander had given him and that he had carefully kept in his arms for the past few days.
He pressed the button hard...
Snap——
There was a crisp sound of mechanisms colliding, and the collars on everyone's necks were all untied.
"Huh?!" But Silas was stunned.
Because he didn't even have time to press the button, the person who untied everyone's collars was not him, but...
"It's me." Lux waved the remote control in her hand and threw it on the table beside her nonchalantly.
"W-what?" The mages stared in astonishment.
Only then did Lux slowly walk to Sona and said, "Yes, I am also a leader."
"I was the one who devised the plan to rescue the mages from Demacia this time."
"It's just that I have been in Demacia before. As the commander of the prisoner army, I have received too much attention from all parties. It is not convenient to reveal my identity, so I have not told everyone ."
After these words were spoken, the mages fell silent.
Some of them were stunned and shocked, some couldn't believe it, and some gradually reacted in confusion.
"I see..." A wizard came to his senses and said, "No wonder Miss Sona has been advising everyone not to treat the nobles in an extreme way. It turns out..."
It turns out that the reason they were able to be rescued this time was a joint plan from the very beginning by the noble lady Lux, and one could even say it was the Crown Guard family behind her, and the Leaders Association.
"This... No, it's impossible!"
Silas' face flushed.
A few minutes ago, he was criticizing the cooperation between the Leader and Demacia in front of everyone, and criticized Levi and others for their compromising attitude towards class enemies.
Now, it turns out that he can stand here and speak now, thanks to the help of the leader and the progressive nobles of Demacia.
"Even so..."
Silas almost stuttered.
But he still insisted stubbornly: "Even if you nobles do good things, it is impossible that you do it out of kindness. There can't be a true leader among you..."
"Sigh..." Lux sighed.
She had also heard from Sona about Silas's situation.
So she wasn't going to preach anymore.
"Mr. Silas, before we talk about other issues, I have to ask you a question first—"
In front of everyone present, Lux cast a murderous gaze at Silas's hand:
"Sona and I haven't given you the remote yet."
"Who gave you this remote control device?"
"Huh?" Everyone was shocked when they heard this. They also suddenly realized that something was wrong.
"Besides me, the legion commander, only the demon-hunting corps escorting you is qualified to possess this remote control device."
Only magic can defeat magic. Since Silas is so obsessed with talking about origins and checking background, then:
“Go on, Mr. Silas—”
"Who sent you here?"
