Battle of the Two Cities: Begins with the Mage

After Katerina left, Ryan was preoccupied with the twilight.

The full name of the continent they are in is Valoran, and the alias is called Rune Land.

A mage who has been wandering for countless years once said that mastering the runes is equivalent to understanding the mysteries of magic.

Except for very few cases, the birth of every mage is destined, and the strength of the awakening moment determines the height that can be reached in the future.

Unless...can penetrate more secrets of runes.

When Ryan first arrived in Valoran, he awakened to water attribute magic, and the magic power was extremely powerful.

After joining Noxus, he continued to make military exploits, and the mages of the Noxus Empire were all open to him.

This is also what he likes most about Noxus. As long as there is strength and merit, the empire will not be stingy with any rewards.

Ryan's palm once again had a rune like the word 'water' rising, and his eyes showed a rare trace of reminiscence.

This is the first rune he has mastered, and it is the 'water' rune that suits him the most.

I still remember that time in the desert area of ​​Shurima, he and his boss encountered Shurima's quicksand army. For the first time, he used the magic in his body to outline the runes, the huge rune magic circle manifested, and the large tracts of yellow sand were wetted by the rain and turned into soil.

After fighting for a whole day, Shurima's quicksand army was buried in the dirt by him and his comrades, and they built a new Noxtora, which was a symbol of Shurima's surrender to Noxus.

As his thoughts turned around, more runes emerged from his palms, and the runes exuded dark blue light, surrounding the purple shimmer, and from time to time blue threads passed through the shimmer potion.

Soon, Rune gave Ryan the answer.

Through the analysis of multiple runes, although he was unable to create the shimmer, he almost understood its secret.

He never imagined that there was another way to steal the power of magic besides the hex technology created by Piltover.

In the shimmering purple light, he seemed to see a magic that could be named "variable".

This kind of magic can rudely open the door to the potential of the human body, but unfortunately, I don't know if it is limited by the creator's psychology or ability. Shimmer did not control the violent force of the magic, but only rudely made it merge with the human body. Makes the uncontrollable magic even more violent.

"Wonderful design, crazy ideas. Such a character should come to Noxus, and only there can show his talent." Ryan felt a little regretful.

The producer of Shimmer was obviously born in the wrong place, and this kind of person has no future in Piltover. In the end, he was either driven mad by Zaun in the lower city, or tried by the magistrate of Piltover in the upper city.

Thinking of Piltover's progressive code based on the code of human nature, a sneer appeared on Ryan's face:

"It's absurd to talk about human nature in a precarious world. Ionia has its own outstanding strength, what is Piltover? Heimerdinger, who lived to be 300 years old? Or the rookie Jace Towers Liss?"

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Hearing the knock on the door, Ryan threw the shimmer into the bucket and withdrew the runes that spread out from the palm of his hand.

"Your Excellency, the time is up."

"Let's go then, Miss Katerina."

As the door opened, Ryan was greeted by a well-dressed noble lady.

The black close-fitting dress perfectly showed Katerina's figure, and her long burgundy hair was drooping down behind her, scattered and graceful.

Facing the well-dressed Katarina, Ryan felt a little awkward. After looking around with admiring eyes, he sighed and shook his head:

"The makeup is in place, but your expression is too stiff. A qualified assassin has to learn to adapt to various identities, at least how to play various roles."

"He doesn't know that either." Katerina was a little dissatisfied.

"You don't need to compare with him, you will definitely be better than him in the future." Ryan's eyes were encouraging, "I'm more optimistic about you, you can become the most outstanding assassin."

Immediately afterwards, he ignored Katarina's strange expression, and walked out naturally, holding her arm.

"I only cooperate with you once, try to be a noble lady of the Kekao family, understand but don't indulge."

"I'll try my best."

Katarina tried her best to restrain herself, maintained an awkward smile, and kept trying to relax her body and let herself adapt to her current state.

Sitting in the mechanical car heading to the banquet hall, Katarina was relieved when Ryan let go.

As if to relieve the previous embarrassment, she pointed to the soft pad under her body and curiously said:

"Driven by pure machinery, is it a unique technological product of Piltover?"

Ryan lifted a corner of the car curtain and admired the downtown street scene of Picheng outside the window:

"The mechanical car originated from Victor, a student of Heimerdinger. He was determined to use technology to change the city and invented various machines to improve people's livelihood. His ideals are beautiful, but the reality is extremely ironic."

With a mockery of the city on his face, Ryan said in a strange tone:

"All the machinery is only used in Piltover, the upper city, and the Zaun people in the lower city are still living a life that is not as good as a dog. A bridge is separated, and the difference is barren."

"You seem to admire this person?"

After Katerina finished speaking, she seemed to be defending herself and added:

"I'm trying to adapt to my current role."

"I really admire this person." After that, Ryan smiled and encouraged: "Just say whatever comes to mind, I don't agree with the ruthless way your father upholds. Sometimes I am more curious about the world. , which will make you grow faster."

"But that's the way of mages." Katerina felt that this sentence went against her education.

"Using wisdom and hex crystals, Jace Tallis pried open the door to magic, why do you think you can't?" Ryan asked.

"I don't have such a smart brain." Katerina shook her head.

"Victor was Jace's helper, and I think he played a more important role in Hex's research, so I admire him a lot," Ryan said.

"What does this have to do with me?" Katerina didn't understand why she turned back to the previous topic.

"You think I'm worse than the two of them?" Ryan asked rhetorically.

"Your Excellency is far stronger than the two combined."

This is by no means touted by Katarina, the heroic story of Noxus will spread throughout the Empire. Among those heroes, Ryan in front of him is definitely one of the most outstanding.

Not only has powerful magic, whether it is alchemy, war command, assassination, or medical treatment, magic research, Ryan has corresponding brilliant deeds.

Ryan Meredith's name is a symbol of excellence in the eyes of Noxians.

How could such a person be comparable to two ordinary scientists in Picheng?

"Then why do you think that you can't master magic." Ryan's words were meaningful.

Hearing this sentence, Katerina's expression froze, and immediately felt a little ridiculous.

If Ryan was just Victor, she didn't doubt that she could be Jace. But Ryan is Ryan, is he really qualified to carry this excellence?

"Don't think about it, it is because you are optimistic about your potential that I brought you with me. I believe you will not live up to my expectations, Miss Katerina."

"If I have the potential, I won't be here. I should be involved in more killings with the army." Katerina expressed her dissatisfaction with herself.

"Potential always needs time to be realized. Even if you have the idea of ​​not betraying the trust of others, you should do better. Well, it's time for us to get off."

When the mechanical car drove to the location, Ryan got out of the car first and extended his hand to Katarina in the car, behaving like a nobleman.

"Your Excellency, I will try my best."

Katarina had an awkward smile on her face, which was much better than her previous stiff smile. It could be seen that she was trying hard to adapt herself to her current identity.

Ryan smiled and pulled Katarina's fair hand, making her stand up and get out of the car along the pull.

He was looking forward to the banquet later, not only to see the new performance of his new subordinates, but also to meet some interesting people.

Ryan helped himself and Katerina tidied up their clothes, and then followed the waiter's guidance and led Katarina into the Midarda family's banquet hall.