Chapter 362 Leblanc's Mission
Garen's thick eyebrows, big eyes, heroic square face, coupled with the mighty armor, gorgeous sword, and his clean, clear and bright eyes, can be said to perfectly fit a girl's imagination of a knight of justice.
Catalina just glanced at him and...
He lost too much blood and passed out.
When she opened her eyes hazily and woke up again, she only saw an unfamiliar ceiling.
Looking out through the window of the tree house covered with green vines, you can see Wuji Village not far away, which has been completely transformed into a military base with anti-aircraft artillery, an airport runway, and fortress sentry towers.
It looks like the battle is over.
And she had been transferred by the Leader to the Wuji Village base behind the battlefield as a wounded soldier.
"I'm not dead?" Catalina instinctively touched her neck.
The hideous wound on her neck had healed as before, and her fingers were touching only fair and smooth skin. Even the blood and stains had been wiped clean and disappeared.
It was as if the previous despair that almost brought him to death was just an illusion.
"Great! You're awake, Sister Kana!" Leblanc's harmless girl face suddenly appeared, bringing her thoughts back to reality.
"You almost died just now, Kana." Tailong also appeared on the scene and called her alias: "Fortunately, Lord Garen saved you, and please ask the master wizard to heal your injuries."
At Tyrone's silent reminder, Catalina immediately noticed the fourth person standing in the tree house.
That was Galen.
The knight who had saved her earlier.
"No!" Catalina's thoughts changed. Years of assassin training had quickly made her mind return to rationality.
He is not a savior or a knight of justice, but a Demacian, a leader, and an enemy of the empire.
As the Ominous Blade of the Empire, she had no need to thank this man.
If I have to thank someone, I should only thank him for his stupidity.
"Lord Galen." Katarina quickly got into the mood: "Thank you for saving me."
She perfectly played the role of an inexperienced village girl, struggling to get up from the bed, and gratefully bowed to Garen, who was wearing gorgeous armor and had a noble status.
"No, no." Garen quickly helped her up and said seriously, "As a knight of Debon, I have to eliminate evil and protect the people. This is what I should do."
"Knight Debon?" Catalina blinked in confusion.
After just a few words, she quietly began to extract information from Garen: " Debon , is it the Demacia Kingdom that is so far away from here in the legend?"
"That's right." Garen replied proudly, "We are the Demacia Expeditionary Force that has come all the way from the Kingdom of Demacia to volunteer to aid the people of Ionia."
"Expeditionary Force?" Catalina asked again: "Lord Galen, aren't you the Leader of the Wind? I thought it was the Leader of the Wind in Wuji Mountain who saved us."
"Haha...that's not wrong. It was indeed the Leaders who saved everyone, you have to thank them." Garen said with a smile.
"But I'm not some leader." He explained: "Ms. Kana, you just need to know that we Demacians are friends of the leader, and we are here to help Ionia."
"Oh." Catalina nodded, not quite understanding.
Seeing that she was fine and in good spirits, Garen took the initiative to end the conversation: "Since you are out of danger, Miss Kana, I won't bother you any more."
"You three brothers and sisters should have a good rest in this tree house. Later, the staff of Leader will come to help you solve the placement problem."
Having said that, Garen said goodbye , and hurriedly left the tree house with several guards at the door.
After they left, Catalina carefully checked the surroundings of the tree house to make sure no one was watching...
She then said to Leblanc with a serious look, "I didn't expect that Demacia has formed an alliance with Levi and Irelia, and even sent such an elite expeditionary force to support Ionia."
"Then what we have to face now is not just the leader and the resistance army... "
The undercover work had just begun, and such crucial information was obtained.
Katarina couldn't help but look at Leblanc with concern: "Captain Lanfu, what should we do?"
"Well... there's no rush." Leblanc didn't seem to care.
She took off her harmless disguise, sat down on the side of Catalina's bed with her legs crossed in a seductive manner, and looked at her with a raised eyebrow.
"Katrina." Leblanc asked her with a smile: "What do you think of this General Galen?"
"Hmm?" Catalina frowned slightly.
She didn't know why Leblanc asked her how she felt about Garen, so she answered intuitively:
"A typical Demacia noble knight, simple-minded and strong-limbed, has already entered the battlefield of the survival of the fittest, yet still believes in the hypocritical way of chivalry."
The biggest difference between Demacia and Noxus is that Noxus won't waste time talking to you when they attack you, but Demacia will first prove that you are a cunning villain in the public opinion field, and then kill you as a knight of justice.
This is what Katarina, as a Noxian, hates most about Demacia:
We all came out to rob. You just can't beat me so you robbed less. Why are you pretending to be a knight of justice here?
And Galen...
He happened to step on Catalina's sore spot.
This guy didn't say a few words just now, but he kept talking about eliminating evil and protecting the good, protecting the people and saving the people. He was just about to carve the four big words "Knight of Justice" on his face and walk around with them.
"The Way of Chivalry is nothing more than a story to trick children, and that General Galen..."
If he really believed it, he would be a great fool;
If he doesn't believe it, he's a hypocrite.
That's what Katrina thought.
But Leblanc curled her lips noncommittally: "That's not what I'm asking you, Katarina."
"I 'm asking you, do you think he's good-looking and suitable to be a boyfriend?"
"Huh?" Catalina was slightly stunned.
She didn't blush and feel her heart beating fast like a young girl in love, but Leblanc's gossipy questions, which sounded like a matchmaker urging marriage, still caught her off guard.
"You...what do you mean?" Catalina asked puzzled.
Leblanc laughed and said, "That General Galen really likes you."
"This..." Miss Carter was even more confused: "Is there?"
Garen just said a few words to her, and left immediately after seeing that she was fine. How could you tell that he was interested in her?
"He is a busy general."
"If that guy had no interest in you, why would he personally ask a mage to treat you in his busy schedule, and even wait until he was sure that you were awake and fine before saying goodbye and leaving?"
"It's just because I was rescued by him personally, right?" Katarina thought Leblanc was overthinking it. "What these Debon knights love most are novels about heroes saving beauties. It's normal for them to take better care of the people they rescued personally, isn't it?"
"Yeah, a hero saves the beauty." LeBlanc blinked and stared at Katarina's face jokingly.
Miss Carter was undoubtedly a beauty.
Earlier on the battlefield, she didn't look that stunning because of her dirty, unkempt refugee look.
But afterwards, Galen asked someone to treat and clean her wounds, and also helped her simply wash her face and comb her hair... Katarina's beauty could no longer be hidden.
"A hero saves a beautiful girl..." Leblanc smiled meaningfully: "This is a good story, isn't it?"
"Because you were saved by him personally, and you are also a beauty - so he will definitely treat you differently." Leblanc seemed very happy: "And this is our chance."
"Katerina, do you remember our mission?"
Of course she remembered.
Their mission this time was to sneak into the leader's base in a low-key manner, and this step has been completed.
But after this step, what LeBlanc asked them to do was not big things like assassinating Irelia or Riven.
"Our mission is to find a 'suitable target' and replace him secretly."
Yes, their mission was to help LeBlanc steal a suitable identity, not just a simple assassination.
"The Wind Leaders are blessed by the divine art of faith determination, which can protect their important figures and core intelligence in a team of absolutely loyal Wind Leaders."
"If we approach Riven, Levi, or Irelia with our current identities, or try to get some core information, we will end up like those War Masons who failed before, and fall into the Faith Test of the Wind Leader."
"So, we need a 'proper target'."
LeBlanc talked about her plan again:
"This target cannot be the Leader." Because the Leader will hold faith tests regularly.
LeBlanc can imitate the leader's face, but she cannot imitate the leader's beliefs.
“This goal cannot be too low.”
If the target's status is too low, it will be impossible to get in touch with the leader's senior figures and core intelligence, so it will be useless to change them.
"The target must be easily decoyed and can be taken out without causing any disturbance."
After all, they were going to cause trouble on the leader's territory. If they wanted to act without making any noise and being discovered, they had to make the target act as "cooperative" as possible.
Simply put, the target must be stupid enough.
"Who could be more stupid than a man in love?" Leblanc sighed playfully.
The target of her plan was originally a master in the resistance army.
These masters are the top brass of the coalition forces, and can approach Irelia at will, and even get access to important intelligence from the Wind Leader;
However, they are not leaders with faith certification and do not need to undergo regular faith tests, so their identities can be replaced by Leblanc without any flaws.
Without a doubt, the masters are her best targets.
But now, after discovering the existence of the Demacia expeditionary force, LeBlanc changed her mind.
She found a more manageable and worthy target:
"Galen, Galen Crownguard, the next generation heir of the Crownguard family, the guardian of the Jarvan royal family."
Garen did not reveal his family background, but Leblanc told him his family origin right away.
And Garen just admitted that he is not a leader.
"He is not a leader, but he is a top noble in Demacia. He can get enough respect from the leader, and he can act more freely and conveniently."
"This man's identity is much more useful than an Ionian Grandmaster."
"So, Katarina..." Leblanc looked at her with a smile: "I want to give you a task."
"What, what mission?" Catalina suddenly had a bad feeling.
As expected, Leblanc commanded her in the tone of a superior, or even a master:
"Katerina, I want you to seduce him."
