The time must be stuck within three minutes.
After waving her hand for the attendant to leave, the girl sat in front of the luxurious crystal glass mirror. She first put the twelve magic steel flying knives as thin as cicada wings into the scabbards at the base of her thighs and locked them tightly. After confirming that there would be no problems, The girl lowered her skirt to cover her flawless and round thighs, and dressed herself up expressionlessly.
Compared with the usual careless things and the makeover during the mission, this time the girl deliberately spent some unnecessary effort on her face, or spent an extra two minutes to tidy up her appearance. There is actually no need to do so, but this This time the situation was completely different from usual.
"The Point Guard Is Here"
Her master Xina deliberately told her to unconditionally obey and please another man, and this man was the first demon-faced lord who selected the ancestor Maurice in the legend of the Jerlist family, a man who was as immortal as a god— — Lester.
Kelsey, who has determined since childhood to follow the example of her ancestor Maurice and inherit the glory of the Jerister family in the Emerald Territory, felt the movement in her heart for the first time in her life. It was a primitive desire that transcended reason, eager to follow. His master made great achievements, fought in all directions, and used the glorious magic steel weapons in his hands to kill all enemies who blocked the path forward of the Emerald Territory, making himself a conspicuous mark on the immortal monument and left in the archives of the castle. Waiting for future generations to pay homage.
In order to follow in the footsteps of her ancestor Maurice, she has been doing her best to complete the training. It was not until she became a qualified Night Blade Assassin that she understood the top secret hidden under the Assassin's Castle, which is today's Jade The Demon Face Lord is the woman of the first Demon Face Lord, and the founder of Night Blade is someone else.
When completing various tasks, she always took the trouble to look for any clues about the founder of Night Blade. Unfortunately, even after becoming a senior assassin, the Night Blade organization did not provide her with any valuable information. There is only one thing that is certain, that is, the Blade of the Night, Lester, the founder of the Emerald Territory, is still alive in this world and will one day regain the power of the king.
Her thoughts came to an abrupt stop, and Kelsey looked at the cold and beautiful girl in the mirror. When she didn't smile, this face that fascinated countless people was missing some kindness and gentleness, and was too cold and harsh.
The long black hair, parted in the middle, hangs down from both sides of the cheeks to the same level as the chin. Under the fluffy and thick bangs in front of the forehead are a pair of azure almond eyes like Freljord ice jade. The slightly cold eyebrows are slightly raised, and the eyes are half-squinted. The eyes like blades were reflected back from the mirror, giving people an overly serious feeling.
Pursing her red lips, the girl slowly raised the corners of her mouth, revealing the most perfect arc.
It's not that she can't laugh, she just doesn't like to laugh. If she wants to, she can smile more friendly than anyone else. Any expression is just a disguise to complete the task. She has already mastered the disguised assassination technique. She has reached the realm of transformation, but she has just started on her way to power.
She still has a long way to go before she wants to take charge of the entire Night Blade like her ancestor Maurice and pull Fred, the leader of the Night Blade, from the throne of commander.
Recalling the handsome man who was not much older than himself, Kelsey Jarister slowly closed his eyes and sorted out his impetuous emotions. Even the breathing method passed down from his family could not suppress the emotions in his heart at this moment.
After not seeing each other for many days, she once again waited to see her.
When she opened her eyes again, the sharp edge had subsided. The almost perfect girl stood up and left the room.
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"Dongdong, Master Liszt, I am Kelsey."
Along with the knock on the door, the voice of a descendant of the Morris family came from outside the door.
"come in."
Lester buried his head in the eucalyptus without looking back, reviewing and sorting out the complex power relationships in Zaun today.
In fact, this is also the reason why he summoned Kelsey. This time he came to Zaun not only to find Heimerdinger and investigate the void movement underground in Zaun. His main purpose was to make arrangements in Zaun in advance. The ability to organize information is the best ability of the eldest daughter of the Jarrist family.
There is no shortage of excellent killers and assassins in the Blade of Night, but there are very few intelligence masters who can extract key points from clueless information at a glance. This is also an important reason why Xina focuses on cultivating Kelsey. Under the rule, although the new generation of the old nobles will receive certain preferential treatment, they cannot fundamentally affect the important power components of the Emerald Territory. For now, the rules of the Emerald Territory are still that the able ones prevail, and those who do not meet the standards will always Will be kicked down.
As for the world's rune fragments, there is no change in the current rune crystal disk. Considering that most of the rune fragments are hidden in the underground world, Lester can only wait patiently for the rune fragments to appear in the world and mobilize the jadeite. It is impractical to use the leader's power to find rune fragments.
While Lester was thinking about it, Kelsey had already gently pushed open the unlocked magic-patterned steel door. The girl first bowed to Lester in an extremely ladylike manner and gave a Noxian lady's salute to Lester, and then slowly He closed the door, took a few steps forward and stood aside, glancing at the white-faced screech owl on Ste's shoulder.
If she guessed correctly, this white-faced screech owl was a fog-tailed killer, because ordinary white-faced screech owls were not qualified to appear in this room.
"Lord Lister."
Finally taking his attention away from the document and looking at it for a moment, Lester nodded to the carefully dressed girl. He didn't expect that Morris, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, could have such an outstanding descendant. It seems that after hundreds of years The Ridgrist family has done a lot of genetic optimization.
"Sit down. The tea has been washed. Try the tea I brewed. It was brewed eight minutes ago. The temperature should be just right now."
Sitting across the table according to Lester's instructions, Kelsey held up the tea cup and took a sip. As expected, the temperature was neither hot nor cold. The rolling tea leaves washed out all the tea aroma. She took a sip and lingered in her throat. Bitter and fragrant.
When Kelsey, who was peeking at him, put down the cup, Lester asked with a smile.
"How does it taste? Relax, there's no need to be so nervous, just think of me as your friend."
"yes."
Kelsey, who tensed up, nodded and spoke cautiously.
"Master Liszt, I tasted three flavors from this cup of tea, one is bitter, the other is fragrant, and there is a feeling that I can't understand. Your tea ceremony has exceeded my knowledge... I'm sorry, my knowledge is too shallow. , I made you laugh, my lord."
Hearing Kelsey say this, Lester's eyes couldn't help but soften a bit.
The girl in front of him could read his longing for Soraka from the aroma of tea. Although it couldn't be described accurately, it was keen enough.
"Among your peers, you are already outstanding. Children of the Jerlist family, there is no need to belittle yourself in front of me. I will judge by myself whether you are outstanding or not."
"yes."
Not knowing whether her words made Lester dissatisfied, Kelsey did not dare to say any more.
Lester also focused his attention again on the information on the table.
"Tell me about Zu'an's current situation."
"Yes, Lord Lister, Zaun is currently in its most critical period. The narrow sea channel can no longer meet the increasingly prosperous maritime trade. Especially after the practicality of gunpowder in war was discovered by Noxus, Zaun's A machinist invented the first rifle with fixed gunpowder, giving the Zaun people a powerful defensive weapon..."
In the next hour, Lester roughly understood the situation in Zaun from Kelsey's narrative.
To put it simply, more than a dozen merchant families evolved from the [Shurima Caravan Alliance] and successfully took root in Zaun. After a long period of development, under the stable rules, the seeds of science and rationality began to emerge. The land of Zaun took root and thrived without magic and otherworldly power.
Building a science academy, holding regular science and technology exhibitions, and setting up specific science and technology experimental fields... various means have made the people of Zaan no longer rely on magic and gods, and began to change their minds and pursue science and rationality.
The peaceful and stable research environment has attracted many inventors and scientists who are eager for academic exchanges. Businessmen have gained profits by investing in these valuable talents with empty minds but lack of resources to develop technology and inventions. Inventors have also become famous through their own inventions. Go overseas, build your own family, and ultimately achieve a win-win result.
Steamships, internal combustion engines, machinery workshops... Hidden behind invisible assassinations and secret games, advanced inventions were born in Zaun one after another. They are changing with each passing day. Known as the advanced civilization of Rune Land.
The massive accumulation of wealth has completely changed the original barbaric rules of Zaun, allowing Zaun's merchant forces to complete the primitive accumulation of capital. Most of the research results will be secretly shared among the major forces through the results of games. No fool would think of it. Use force to monopolize this land full of treasures and opportunities.
Any force that wants to monopolize Zaun will have a serious impact on Zaun's stable wealth and technological output. Because of this, even Noxus cannot dominate here, let alone Noxus. His territory has not yet extended to the south of the Valoran continent, and Noxus, who is at war with the Principality of Valkos, has no time to care.
Including several families supported by Noxus and the Emerald Territory, many merchant families have the shadow of a certain country or secret force behind them. Each force can only increase its own power by supporting local or foreign families. Influence, using brute force to destroy order and rules will result in being kicked out of the chess game by all chess players, unable to continue to obtain Zaun's new technological achievements through orderly operations.
Because of the seemingly fragile but extremely stable peace, in the endless war-torn Runeterra, Zaun, which is located at the military and transportation hub, has strangely been given the opportunity to accelerate its development.
The merchant alliance that once controlled Zaun has also formed a new ruling body [Zuan Council]. The council is divided into chairman seats and deputy seats. The former is backed by big powers and powerful forces and holds the real say in Zaun. The latter The latter is [higher status] prepared for inventors or big businessmen who have no background and rely on wealth accumulation to gain status.
Nowadays, class barriers in Zaun are almost nonexistent. Through cross-continental trade or the invention of a technology that has never been seen before, anyone with a lot of brains or business talent has the opportunity to become a master in Zaun.
With the improvement of science and technology, ocean-going trading ships with larger tonnage have become a new force on the sea. The narrow strait, which was originally only a few hundred meters, has seriously hindered Zaun's further development.
The existing ports cannot match the larger tonnage and larger number of large ships. In order to expand the waterway and build a larger trading port, the Zaun Council decided through public deliberations to use enough chemical bombs to conduct large-scale blasting on the Zaun Isthmus.
In the eyes of most Zaun people, as long as they blow up those annoying rocks with bombs, they can add another three points to their pockets and reap the development dividends of the times, whether they are rosy-faced traffickers or elegant gentlemen and ladies, The civilized Zaun people who don't know what poverty is naturally have no objections. Instead, they raise their hands to support. They can't wait to see the sky of Zaun Strait turn into a land of return for all rivers tomorrow, and let the cornucopia open its greedy mouth. , swallowing up all the wealth in the world.
Although [Exploding the Isthmus] is just a project that has just been implemented and is still looking for Party B in the [Bidding] stage, the Zaun Council acted very quickly and decided to hold a technical seminar at [Fred Institute of Science and Technology]. After the seminar, the start-up funds for the project were handed over, and the winning bidder was arranged to complete the blasting work on the isthmus. There was a sense of urgency to cut through the mess quickly, and it seemed that there was an unknown reason behind it.
The Adrian family supported by the Emerald Territory is a large business family that holds the explosive formula of the Emerald Territory and is preparing to participate in the bidding. Unfortunately, some problems have arisen within this family in recent months.
Just three months ago, the head of the family, Christopher Adrian, died in an accidental car accident. After the funeral, the position of head of the family of Adrian was succeeded by Christopher's younger brother, Partridge. There were some 'minor problems' in the An family's monthly reimbursement to Jade Ling. Compared with before, Jade Ling's capital return was reduced by 15%, and their attitude also changed from a smiling face to a rude attitude at a speed visible to the naked eye. Damn, the envoys sent by the Emerald Territory all sat on the bench.
There is no doubt that this behavior is a slap in the face of Jade Collar.
Lester knew that even if he didn't come this time, regardless of whether it was Kelsey or not, Sheena would send hardliners to attend the technical seminar, not for anything else but to let Patrick Adrian know , who is the real master of the Adrian family.
However, he did not expect that Sheena would directly send a new generation of high-level assassins from the Blade of Night, Kelsey Jarrist, who once led a four-person assassination team to assassinate a ruthless character from a hundred-man battle group on the Northland battlefield. , an assassin warrior who killed dozens of armed soldiers head-on.
With a plan in mind, Lester looked at Kelsey curiously.
"Kelsey, if this matter was left to you, how would you solve it?"
