Chapter 375 Leblanc's Insurance Measures

Galen and Catalina walked out of the cinema and strolled on the street again.

The two of them walked hand in hand on the road, shoulder to shoulder, in that subtle and charming atmosphere, just like an ordinary urban couple.

But Katerina looked a little distracted.

"Kana, what are you thinking about?" Garen asked concernedly.

"I... was thinking about the movie just now." Catalina hesitated for a moment, and finally revealed her feelings with relief.

She asked Galen: "General Galen, if you were General Swain, what would you do when you found that your country was sick to its core?"

"..."Galen was silent for a while.

He didn't seem to expect that Kana would see such profound issues in the movie, and seemed to be thinking about something secretly.

Finally, he replied with a subtle look: "If Demacia is controlled by a conspiracy group like the Black Rose like Noxus, then as the heir of the Crownguard family and a knight appointed by the king, I must be loyal to the country and fight these conspiracy usurpers to the end."

Galen's words sounded righteous.

But Catalina could tell that this guy was trying to evade the question.

Galen has also studied the theory of the Wind Leader, and has done a lot of research on it. But in his answer, he is still only willing to point out the "conspiracy group" such as the Black Rose, and is unwilling to point directly to the essence of the problem.

This is really...

So much like her.

Katarina looked at Garen's conflicted and helpless eyes and felt that she shared the same suffering.

Galen is a noble of Germany, and she is a noble of the Empire. If they want to pursue change, they must first reform themselves and get rid of everything they believed in in the past.

Fortunately... everything she believed in in the past had been almost shattered by the movie she just watched.

"But, Mr. Galen." Katarina took a deep breath, as if asking herself: "Noxus was founded by the Black Rose from the very beginning. This organization has always firmly controlled this empire for nearly 1,000 years."

"That is to say..."

The Black Rose is not an underground conspiracy group at all, nor is it a so-called small group of rebels.

They are Noxus itself, the emperor of Noxus, and the true masters of this great empire.

"To oppose the Black Rose is, in the final analysis, to oppose the current Noxian Empire."

No matter how you use slogans like "respect the emperor and punish the traitors" or "clean up the court" to whitewash your actions, in essence, what you are doing is...

"It's a rebellion." Catalina no longer avoided it.

"Mr. Garen," she asked again, "if a similar situation occurred in Demacia, would you really be determined to raise the banner of justice and wield the sword against the king you once swore allegiance to?"

Garen was speechless for a moment, as if he was afraid to face this sharp question.

After a long time, he finally answered with difficulty: "I... probably can."

"But I am not betraying Demacia. I just want to make it great again in this way. I..."

As he was talking, Garen stopped talking out of guilt.

Because the core idea of what he just said, to put it bluntly, is to "obey the will of heaven and quell the rebellion" - that is, to rebel.

Whether he is doing this for Demacia or for some other reason, whether his motives are pure or not, the essence of this behavior is rebellion.

So, here comes the question…

"Mr. Garen, since you are determined to rebel for the betterment of Demacia," Katarina asked Garen, she was also asking herself, "Why don't you rebel more thoroughly and let the Leader lead Demacia?"

Galen blushed when he heard this.

He suddenly realized that he had been tricked by Catalina——

Swain's story resonated with him. Following the excuse of opposing the Black Rose, he put himself in Swain's perspective and unknowingly let go of his blind loyalty to the royal power.

And that's scary enough.

Because the theoretical core of Demacia's feudal monarch-subject system is the absolute loyalty of knights to the king and vassals to the monarch.

But he was so immersed in the role that he even dared to say something like "clear the court of evil officials".

How does this look like a knight?

And just as Catalina said, since he dared to rebel, since he could give up his loyalty to the monarchy, what reason did he have to defend the old world?

For the privileges and interests of the family ?

Galen didn't care about that. He had never been greedy for money and had no interest in it.

Or is it for the friendship with Prince Jarvan?

But Prince Jarvan had already surrendered. That "big fool" sold all his family property right away, and every day he urged him to rebel against his family.

Or for your parents?

But his mother is already betting on both sides with Lux, waiting to flexibly adjust her position according to the general trend.

"I, I..." Garen was flustered.

Katarina was like the best political cadre of the Leader. With just a few words, she broke down Garen, who had been struggling for months and refused to change his position.

At this moment, she suddenly sighed with relief: "Thank you, Mr. Galen."

"Thank you for what?" Galen was puzzled.

"Thank you for helping me find the answer." Catalina had a complicated expression but a firm look in her eyes.

And at this moment, at exactly the right moment, the clock struck 12 noon.

This is the time when Zaun cleans up the city's haze as usual.

Katerina had lived here for a month and she knew what was going to happen next.

Representatives of the leaders from each district in Zaun will fly up into the sky following the sound of the bells, and fly under the thick haze that covers the sky and seems unshakable.

On the ground, students, workers, citizens... almost everyone in Zaun would look up at the sky and stop to watch at this moment.

The leaders among them will use their faith to summon the goddess's divine power and contribute their own strength to the leaders' representatives who are responsible for guiding the work in the sky.

Each of these forces is very small, but if they are combined together, the power is enough to change the world.

"Ms. Kana, you..." Garen widened his eyes in surprise.

There was air surging around Catalina, and the breeze was blowing continuously.

She skillfully and earnestly controlled this airflow and this divine power, then raised her hands high and dedicated it to the sky.

Countless such breezes gathered together, creating an unstoppable wind of change over Zaun.

In an instant, the wind and clouds dispersed, the sky became clear, and the sun illuminated this city that had not been favored by the sun for more than 200 years.

Catalina basked in the warm sunshine.

Feeling the divine power surging in her body and looking at the thread of faith she had summoned, she finally confirmed and acknowledged her own identity: "Yes, Mr. Galen—"

“Now I am already a leader.”

"This... is great." Galen was happy for her.

Then, as if she had finally made a major decision, Catalina walked up to him with a serious look and confessed to him, "Mr. Galen, I have one more thing I must tell you."

"I……"

Katerina was about to confess everything when her voice suddenly stopped.

Only then did she realize with horror that she seemed to have lost control of her body.

She couldn't speak, couldn't make a sound, couldn't move any part of her body, not even a finger.

But her body was moving - like a puppet, acting according to the consciousness of a mysterious person.

"Who is it? Damn it... Lanfu, it's you, right?! Bastard... What did you do to my brain?!" Katarina yelled in her heart.

"You're smart enough to guess it was me." A familiar voice, Leblanc's voice, appeared out of nowhere in her mind.

"You asked me what I did to you? Haha... I just took some necessary insurance measures."

"And it turns out that it is necessary to do so—" Leblanc's voice turned cold: "You really betrayed me, Katarina."

"You?!" Katarina wanted to curse a few more Zaun words.

"But this is also good." Leblanc said, "Miss Kana, who becomes the leader, will be more useful than Katarina, right?"

"What do you want to do?" Catalina asked nervously.

"Don't worry, I can't do anything." Leblanc has the ability to bewitch people and manipulate consciousness, but she cannot completely control a leader.

In other words, she can control all the actions of a leader, but she cannot control the leader to use magic, summon the thread of faith, and deceive the leader's faith test.

Not only can LeBlanc not do this, no one in the world can do this.

Even the gods can’t help.

Because the premise for the power of faith to exist is that the person's soul is not controlled by magic and has independent consciousness.

After all, if a person does not even have independent free consciousness, how can true faith be born in his soul?

This is a "game mechanics" problem.

No matter how strong a player is, he cannot change the game mechanism by his in-game operations.

"All I can control is your body." Leblanc said ambiguously: "And the only value of your body to me is..."

"Asshole!" Catalina shuddered. "What are you going to do with my body?"

Leblanc didn't explain, but just gave her a cold order:

"Do you see this man in front of you?"

"Give him a kiss, Katharina."

"You?!" Catalina wanted to curse again.