Another day passed, the third day when the Noxian army entered the city.

"General, there is a new situation over at the Leader." In the morning, the adjutant sent General Lester the intelligence they had gained from secretly monitoring the movements of the Leader.

"Say." Lester frowned slightly, but quickly covered up the solemnity without revealing anything.

"They have been distributing Walkmans and tapes containing the teachings of the Goddess Janna to the citizens gathered outside the refugee camp since yesterday, and announced that there are still enough places in the refugee camp, but only those who have understood the true meaning of Janna are eligible.

shelter."

"Now, in just one day, the Walkmans and audio tapes they distributed have spread to the entire city of Yipu River Port. Almost everyone is studying the so-called Janna Thought day and night."

"General, I'm afraid."

The adjutant hesitated to speak. He instinctively felt that there was something wrong here, but he couldn't tell what the problem was.

Anyway, this is very wrong.

General Lester looked up at the sky with a deep look, thinking for a long time.

In the end, he said to the adjutant with a relaxed look: "It's nothing. It seems that the followers of Goddess Janna are not much different from other magicians. They just want to take advantage of the massacre to make a 'windfall' and use the asylum quota as bait."

It’s just preaching.”

"They teach their religion, and we kill our people. As long as they don't take the initiative to cause trouble, we don't need to worry about them."

"But." The adjutant looked worried.

It is a very sensitive matter to preach like this in the unconsolidated territory of Noxus, right?

To put it more seriously, this is an attempt by the civil sect to seize grassroots control of Balua Province from the empire. Well, although the empire does not intend to control Balua for a long time, let alone let the grassroots people here survive.

In short, this is a power that only the empire can have. If you, the leader, try to steal artifacts with your religious power, that is a threat in itself.

"I said, don't worry about it." But General Lester's attitude was extremely relaxed.

Even the most basic hostility he had shown before had mostly disappeared, and he just asked his trusted lieutenant dissatisfiedly: "Do you think what we are doing here is a good thing?"

"Of course not." The adjutant also knew that massacre of the city was not a good thing.

But the Noxians didn't care about this. The emperor had ordered it, and since the province of Barua was weak and easy to bully, it was to be slaughtered.

Does it make sense to make moral criticism? I cry till dawn at night, and cry till dusk at dawn. How can I still curse Noxus to death?

"With the goddess Janna here, the situation will be different." Lester glared at the adjutant dissatisfied.

Massacre of a city is a heinous crime in the eyes of the goddess Janna.

"Now we still want to stop them from spreading their teachings? If we really offend the goddess Jana, can you and I still get out of this city?"

"This" the adjutant also understood what the general meant.

There are gods who can raise their heads three feet high. But if they are always concerned about the gods, won't they never be able to raise their heads in front of the leader?

Noxus has lasted for thousands of years, is vast and vast, and its heritage is unfathomable. The goddess may not be willing to completely break up with them.

"Idiot, no matter how much information the empire has, by the time those old nobles in the Immortal Fortress come up with their 'information', our group of cannon fodder at the front will already be dead!"

"There are hundreds of war groups in Noxus, why should we be the leading one?"

"That guy Amystan stole the chicken but lost the rice. He put himself on the front line facing the goddess Janna. Now the entire battle group is stuck in Pi City as a chopping block. Can't you see this lesson?

?”

General Leicester cursed bitterly.

The adjutant immediately lowered his head anxiously. He heard the general's concerns. However, he was still surprised by Lester's mood today.

Finally, Lester sighed and said what really bothered him: "You know what?"

"I received news from the Immortal Fortress that the teacher will be reactivated by His Majesty."

"Teacher is coming back?" The adjutant's eyes lit up.

The teacher they talk about is Jericho Swain, the former strategist commander of the empire and the former commander of the Ionia Front.

Last year, Swain led the main force of his army deep into the territory of Ionia in search of a decisive battle, but was defeated in Placidium by a 14-year-old girl.

This can be said to be the most humiliating battle for the empire in the past ten years.

So Swain fell from the clouds into the mortal world after the battle. Not only did he lose an arm, he was also deprived of his title by the emperor, expelled from the military, and was reduced from the commander-in-chief of the empire to a commoner.

But Swain was, after all, a former strategist and military god of the empire, and he had led troops in major battlefields of the empire for many years.

Nowadays, most of the front-line generals in Noxus, especially the new generation of military nobles, have been promoted, trained, and even taught by him to a greater or lesser extent.

He is like Sima Yi in Runeterra. Although he is idle at home, his disciples and old officials are still spread throughout the entire army system of the empire.

Lester, including Lester's adjutant, were all students of General Swain.

That's why they called Swain teacher.

"The teacher is coming back, which is a good thing!" the adjutant said excitedly.

If teachers can make a comeback, they can follow suit and become prosperous again.

He would not be sent to conquer the Balu'e province, which had little to gain, and then help the empire do the dirty work of slaughtering cities and destroying countries.

"What a fart!" General Leicester said with a gloomy face: "Do you know that those old guys from the Imperial Command suddenly "showed mercy" to reinstate the teacher to his military rank, and where are they going to transfer him?"

"Where?" The adjutant actually had something in mind.

After all, Swain, as one of the few famous commander-level generals in the empire, has long been an old "fire captain."

He will always fight on the most difficult battlefields in the empire, and he will appear wherever it is most difficult to fight.

"Could it be that the teacher is going back to Ionia?" The adjutant was looking forward to it.

"Haha." Lester only sneered: "No, his new station is in Piltover."

"Piltover?" The adjutant's face darkened.

Everyone in the Imperial Army now knows that Piltover is a hot potato.

Whoever goes there is the cannon fodder facing the leader on the front line.

If Zunuo and Zunuo are at odds again, the first one to die will most likely be the Noxian Piltover garrison - no one expects them to be able to defeat the goddess Janna who may die at any time on her own.

It's ridiculous enough that Amystan is stuck on top and can't get off.

Now, Swain has been sent there. Facing a god, no matter how powerful Swain's military strategy is, how effective can it be?

It was obvious that no one in the military department was willing to go to Pi City to take over, so they had no choice but to let this despised old general fill the line.

"Assholes! These bastards from the headquarters," the adjutant couldn't help but cursed loudly: "They clearly want to kill Marshal Swain!"

"We should have thought of it. What we should have thought of last year in Navoli was that these dogs ordered us to go deep into Presidio to raid alone, but they deliberately delayed the time and did not allow friendly forces to come to support——"

"This is why Marshal Swain led us to a defeat! Otherwise we will definitely win, we will definitely win!"

Last year, there was a move called "Friendly troops are in trouble and cannot move like a mountain", which caused Swain, who was once invincible, to lead them to a collective death.

This year, Mingsheng came up with another trick and sent their teacher to Piltover to be a receiver to die.

With all the old and new grudges added together, the young officer couldn't bear it anymore: "Damn it! How can we do a good job in the military if we are with these bugs from the headquarters?"

"This group of powerful people who only know how to play politics and don't know how to run a country and an army should have been punished by God long ago."

"Ahem, that's enough!" Lester signaled his men to brake quickly.

The war masons in their army are not only responsible for helping them collect military intelligence, but also responsible for monitoring them, the frontline soldiers, for the emperor and the old nobles.

Everyone who understands some things understands it, and those who don’t understand won’t say much.

"In short, the teacher has now decided to go to Pi City. The primary opponent he will face in the future is the Wind Leader, do you understand?"

The adjutant finally understood.

Swain has decided to go to the front line of Piltover.

If there is an irreconcilable conflict between them and the leader, not only will they be unlucky, but Swain, who went to Piltover, will definitely be unlucky as well.

Moreover, Swain was facing the leader's headquarters, so he might be even more unlucky.

And if this teacher completely collapses, they, the spiritual leader of the new generation of military officers and the backbone of their faction, will completely collapse.

"So let the leaders do whatever they want. If we have a conflict with these guys - if we lose, we and the teacher will be unlucky together; if we win, the teacher will be unlucky as well."

"Now it's the old guys from the headquarters who want to punish us, and His Majesty the Emperor is bewitched by these insects and targets the teacher everywhere. No matter what we do, we will never be good. If we do too much, it is wrong, so it is better not to do anything."

"Hey." The adjutant also sighed angrily: "The dignified marshal was manipulated like this by a bunch of villains. How did the empire become like this?"

Lester continued to look up at the sky sadly.

He thought of the secret letter sent by the teacher. There was actually some other content in the letter, which was more dangerous. He did not disclose it.

"Maybe the empire should be changed."
Chapter completed!