Chapter 353 Irelia: I'm AFK

"The leader of the Navoli Brotherhood is Master Kushuo??"

Among the people present, except Master Yi who already knew the inside story, the rest...

Irelia looked desperate.

The brothers Yasuo and Yone were so shocked that they were speechless.

Xia and Rakan couldn't believe it. The Navoli Brotherhood, which had always adhered to the extreme Greater Ionia doctrine and targeted the Vastayans, was actually led by Master Kushuo!

He is the Master of Balance who is respected even by those Vastaya people who hate humans!

"Master Ku Shuo, wasn't he killed by Jie a long time ago?" Xia muttered to herself.

Then everyone saw Zed in a flash:

Jie, the traitor who was rumored to have killed Master Ku Shuo, now follows Master Ku Shuo respectfully like a loyal minister and filial son.

So, the truth is about to come out.

"Master Kusho..." Xia asked, "Have you also given up the way of balance and chosen the way of Noxus?"

"Give up the path of balance?" Master Kushuo smiled: "No, I didn't give up the path of balance. I just chose a new path that suits this new era."

"To restore balance, we must end the chaos."

"To end the chaos, we need to unite the four directions."

“If you want to unite the four directions, you must follow the will of the people.”

"Now that the situation has changed and people's minds are changing, everyone wants to emulate Noxus's approach, and I am just following the trend."

There was something wrong with his tone, with a strange fanaticism.

It is hard to tell that he was once the calm master of balance.

But Irelia was no longer able to question.

Who is Master Ku Shuo ?

He is the Eye of Twilight, the leader of the Order of the Kinkou.

It can be said that no one in the world understands balance better than him.

Even Master Ku Shuo has chosen the "New Balance Path", so how could the old path that Irelia has been obsessed with be the right one?

“Irelia.” Master Kushuo seemed to see through her wavering heart: “If you really want Ionia to regain balance, then exit here with dignity!”

"After your death, the Navoli Brotherhood will be able to merge smoothly with the resistance army and form a super-powerful political force."

"We will use our absolute power to subdue the heroes, quickly end the chaos, and restore peace and balance in Ionia!"

Every word of Master Kushuo's words is heart-wrenching.

Irelia is the one who hindered peace. As long as she dies, peace can return to this land.

And Irelia...

"I hope you can do it, Master Ku Shuo." She just sighed.

Her ideals were shattered and she no longer had any reason to fight on.

So, Irelia gave up resistance. The row of blades floating around her also fell to the ground in her despair.

"Hey, hey, hey!" Xia yelled angrily, "Come on, human!"

Being inexplicably drawn into a trap is bad luck enough.

Now, the game hasn’t even started yet, and the teammate with the highest rank has been defeated by the enemy’s big talk and has just gone AFK.

How can we fight this?

"I'm sorry..." Irelia then remembered that she had implicated innocent people.

Yi, Yongen, Yasuo, Xayah and Rakan, and those vastaya warriors .

She humbly asked Master Kushuo: "I can die. But can you, can you leave them a way to live?"

"No." Master Ku Shuo coldly refused: "Balance requires sacrifice, and they are the necessary sacrifice."

"You?!" Irelia's eyes widened. She could not imagine that Master Kushuo would become so cruel and ruthless.

But Master Kushuo laughed at her: "Irelia, you are so naive..."

"Have you just now realized that the way of balance in Ionia has always been based on 'necessary sacrifices'?"

"Do you think that if we return Ionia to its traditions, there will be no sacrifices and no one will suffer?"

"No!" Master Ku Shuo asked in a murderous tone, "Miss of the Zan family, have you never thought that there are still poor people and untouchables in Ionia?"

"Let's not talk about anything else, just your family..."

Before her family was brutally murdered by Noxus, Irelia was from a noble family and her family was quite powerful.

"Do you know how many untouchables your ancestors have driven out of the clan over the years because they lost their land, and how many of them have died of starvation and freezing outside? How many of the landless tenants who farmed for your family couldn't even get food to eat, and had to throw their children into the mountains to feed the wolves?"

Irelia: “…”

"Yes, you don't know." She was only 13 years old when her family was destroyed. Of course, she didn't know what kind of filth was hidden behind her glamorous and great family.

The old era that she longed to return to was nothing more than an era of cannibalism.

“Those untouchables who died silently, they…” Master Ku Shuo sneered: “They are necessary sacrifices to maintain balance!”

"You can't see the sacrifices of millions of people, but you're shouting and screaming for the sacrifices of a few people right in front of you. Don't you think you're hypocritical?"

Irelia was speechless.

At this time, Master Qingxia also spoke up: "Don't blame Master Kushuo."

"If everything is out of balance, everyone will die; sacrificing some people to protect all living things is what a master of balance should do."

"I'm sorry, but for the sake of the survival of the majority of Ionia people, please... die."

Master Qingxia said in a calm tone.

"Shameless!" Xia couldn't help cursing at his natural expression, "You keep talking about balance and sacrifice. If you want to sacrifice, why don't you sacrifice yourself?"

"I will." Master Qingxia actually replied: "I swear to you all on the soul of Ionia - as long as Ionia returns to peace, I will immediately commit suicide to apologize to you all."

"Since balance requires sacrifice, then include me in the equation."

Xia: “You…”

Madman, this is a madman!

"What about you?" Xia looked at Ku Shuo, Ravi and others sarcastically: "Do you dare to swear too?"

"Ahem..." Master Ravi suddenly looked embarrassed.

The other masters couldn't help but stare at Qingxia with displeasure, this guy who didn't fit in.

He earned fame by martyring himself, but he also put all his colleagues on a moral high ground where they could not get down from it.

"Okay!" He still said that the master was very skilled.

He said: "Who to sacrifice and who not to sacrifice, everything depends on the current situation and the needs of justice. Ionia will still need your strength in the future, why do you think about this meaningless sacrifice?"

"That's a great idea, leader !" The masters all agreed.

Therefore, this only effective moral offensive was easily resolved in the name of justice.

Master Kushuo has mastered the righteousness of balance, but Irelia has completely lost the battle of beliefs.

Her way is not feasible.

Her sacrifice was necessary.

So why does she still fight?

Irelia fell into confusion again. And at this moment, confusion was fatal.

Master Ku Shuo had destroyed her faith, and the next step was to completely destroy her body.

And at that critical moment:

“Irelia!” Master Yi’s voice echoed throughout the room. “Come on—your fight isn’t over yet!”

“I…” Irelia was like a drowning person grasping at a straw, with a gleam in her eyes.

It suddenly occurred to her that she was not alone.

She still has supporters and comrades...

Irelia was thinking this, but unexpectedly, Master Yi's next words dealt her another blow:

"In fact, Master Qingxia is right. Your path is simply not feasible."

Irelia: “…”

Even her only comrade said so. She no longer just wanted to hang up and wait for death, but wanted to commit suicide by slitting her throat.

"Your path is wrong, but -" Fortunately, Master Yi made a turn in time: "Your soul is pure , and your original intention is not wrong!"

"As long as someone can point you in the right direction, you can realize your ideals and make the lives of Ionians better!"

"The right path?" Irelia was slightly stunned.

What is the right path?

Master Ku Shuo said that his new way of balance was the correct one.

So what does Master Yi think is the right path?

"Is it... the land distribution plan?" Irelia thought of Master Yi's words "Let those who till the land own the land."

This is a plan that does not require sacrificing the majority of the untouchables, but only requires sacrificing a small number of vested beneficiaries.

"No, that can't be done." Irelia sighed.

Yesterday she naively didn't understand, but now, she has figured it out.

Doing anything requires strength, and strength is in the hands of extraordinary strong people.

Therefore, if you want to accomplish anything, you must satisfy the demands of the extraordinary and powerful people, give them land and privileges, and make them willing to be loyal to you.

Therefore, only Master Ku can win people's hearts, while she will lose people's hearts.

And Master Yi...

"Yi, you are more naive than me." Irelia murmured, "It's a pity that there are too few people as naive as us."

"No." Master Yi shook his head solemnly.

"Too little?" A whirlwind condensed in his palm.

"No, not less." The air current turned into a blue bird. Then, Master Yi said to the blue bird, "It's time to start, everyone."

You have to know that the Gale Sword School doesn't have any magic tricks that can transform airflow into a blue bird.

Irelia was puzzled, but Master Kushuo's pupils suddenly shrank: "That, that is..."

"The blue bird incarnation of the Wind Leader?!"

"You——" He looked at Master Yi warily: "Are you the leader?!"

"Yes, we are the leaders." A voice answered.

The one who answered him was not Master Yi, but...

"Robbery?!" Master Ku Shuo widened his eyes.

His face showed the same expression as Irelia's, the expression of being abandoned and betrayed by someone you trusted.

There was no trace of reluctance in Jie's eyes. He quickly flew to Master Yi's side with the shadow assassins behind him.

"You, you..." Master Ku Shuo was angry and confused.

But Zed simply responded calmly, "Master, you have found your new path to balance."

"And I have also found my 'new path to balance' - this path is the path of balance guided by Janna's thoughts!"

“Asshole! Asshole!” Master Kushuo was surrounded by black mist and shadows, and he had completely lost his previous master’s demeanor: “Jie, don’t forget who raised you!”

"You are an unwanted bastard, a lowly servant, an abandoned child of poor peasants... Oh, no wonder you believe the lies of those leaders and the fantasy that everyone is equal!"

Master Ku Shuo cursed hysterically, as if he had gone crazy.

And just at this moment...

"Father." A sigh.

"Master..." Two sighs.

"It's so bitter..." Three sighs.

"Master, what a shame!" A shocked and disappointed voice sounded.

At some point, a group of uninvited guests appeared silently in the valley.

Master Ku Shuo looked back in disbelief.

He saw a strange puddle of water that appeared out of nowhere on the ground, and many people quietly emerged from the puddle.

He was very familiar with these people.

That's his son, Shen.

His predecessor, Kenan.