Chapter 203 Riwen’s Curiosity (Please subscribe~)

Not long ago, on the commercial street.

"Wait a minute, I'm going to buy a newspaper." Riven suddenly stopped and said to her best friend and adjutant Marit.

"Newspaper? Yo." Marit couldn't help but raise the corners of her mouth with a teasing smile: "Commander of the Riven Army, when did you become a cultural person?"

Riven was an illiterate serf before joining the army. He later learned to read, but his cultural level was not much higher.

She obviously didn't have the habit of reading newspapers before.

"Nothing." Riven replied casually: "I just want to see the news about the Wind Leader."

"Leader?" Marit frowned slightly.

"Yes, I want to know more about our enemy." Riven said.

If you know yourself and your enemy, you will never be in danger. This is a truth that even a three-year-old child knows.

Noxus has always focused on intelligence work. Wherever the imperial army moves, the "war masons" responsible for spy intelligence work will go there in advance.

Riven had fought in the past, whether in Demacia or Shurima. Through the intelligence channels of the War Masons or the military information provided by her superiors, she could at least get a rough idea of ​​the enemy's details.

But this time.

Perhaps Zaun's anti-espionage work was too good, resulting in the war masonry that Noxus was proud of never being able to play its role.

As the superior, General Amystan not only refused to provide detailed information about the enemy to his subordinates, but also issued a death order strictly prohibiting his subordinates from secretly inquiring about the leader's relevant information.

As the majestic commander of the Rune Swordsman Corps, Riven has been stationed in Pi City for some time, but she still doesn’t know it.

What are the political views of the enemy? What conflicts of interest do they have with Noxus?

Why does Amystan regard the other party as an enemy, but keeps it secret and does not allow her subordinates to understand the situation of the leader?

Riven wanted to know this.

In desperation, she could only learn about the enemy through the "Piltover Daily".

"What do you want to know about this?" Marit disagreed a bit: "As imperial soldiers, we only need to faithfully execute orders."

"But." Riven said hesitantly, "I just want to know, why are we fighting this time?"

Fighting requires a reputation. Even Noxus, who is like a mad dog, has to find an excuse before biting someone.

The reason for fighting the Freljord was because the northern barbarians went south to plunder every year, causing countless casualties to the Noxian border people (and this was indeed the case). It was a reasonable defensive war.

The reason for attacking Shurima was because the natives were ungrateful and attacked the law-abiding merchants of Noxus. It was to protect the legitimate trade of the Southern Continent.

If we fight against Demacia, we will have an even better excuse.

Noxus and Demacia have been feuding for hundreds of years. There is no need to make false claims and just put up a sign saying "Punish the Violent" to encourage a large group of fanatical Noxian soldiers to fight on the front line.

As for fighting Ionia.

That is of course because the land of Ionia is nourished by natural magic, and the food yield is astonishingly high.

However, the Ionians have been closing the country to the outside world and "maliciously hoarding food", which has indirectly pushed up world food prices, causing innocent Noxian poor people to starve to death.

This is really too much.

In order to seize food from the greedy Ionians, in order to obtain magic-infiltrated land for Noxus, and in order to prevent thousands of people from starving, the benevolent Emperor resolutely decided to send troops.

Regardless of whether these excuses for war are reasonable or not, the Noxian soldiers believe them.

Only when the division is famous can the army have morale.

"what about now?"

"Why did we come to Piltover, and why did we fight against the leader?"

Riven really wanted to figure this out.

After all, she is also a commander of a medium-sized army. As a commander, she should also know this.

"Then have you figured it out now?" Marit didn't seem to care. She just asked casually: "What do these newspapers say about those leaders?"

"Uh" Riven thought for a while.

Then, based on the articles in the Piltover Daily that criticized Wind Leaders these days, she summarized the reasons why Wind Leaders should be regarded as enemies: "In short, according to those Piltover people:"

"They are enemies of the leaders because they trample human rights, infringe on private property, destroy the human rights system, and threaten the oil world."

"They also accused the leaders of carrying out massacres in Zaun, robbing legal property, persecuting innocent businessmen, scholars, and intellectuals, building concentration camps, enslaving prisoners, and forcing labor."

"Wait?" Marit was a little angry when she heard this: "Are these Piltover guys talking about us, Noxus?!"

"Um" Riwen thought seriously and said, "Probably not."

"From the perspective of the Piltover people, this is really the reason why they are enemies of Zaun."

"Huh?" Marit didn't understand.

Trampling on human rights and infringing on private property. In today's Runeterra, apart from Piltover's words, which other country would pay attention to human rights? Can this be considered a 'pretext for war'?

The strong trample on the weak and take away everything from the weak. Isn't this very reasonable?

As a general of Noxus, she was completely unable to understand the brain circuits of the Piltover people.

"Yeah, so I'm weird too." Riwen couldn't figure it out.

The so-called "crimes" that the Piltover Daily accused the Windleaders seemed to Noxians to be trivial.

They massacre a city at will, and they are a hundred times more cruel than the leaders of the "Pi City Daily Plane".

And Noxus is not the world's police. They will not come all the way to be enemies with the leader just because he is "evil".

There must be other reasons for this.

"But why didn't General Amystan let us know?"

Riven was very puzzled. And the more puzzled she was, the more she wanted to know, and the more curious she became about her new enemy.

"Maybe I know a little bit about this," Marit said hesitantly.

"Oh?" Riven looked over curiously.

Although Marit's position was lower than hers, the other party was from a noble family and had much wider connections than she, a Phoenix girl.

Marit may indeed know more information that she doesn't know.

"Actually, I don't know the details. I just heard from my acquaintances above that the Wind Leader seems to be a true god sect."

"I have a general understanding of this." Riven nodded.

The leader of the wind is a believer of the goddess Janna, which is no secret in the entire Twin Cities.

"And they are not only the True God Cult, but they also possess terrifying magical techniques that can invisibly brainwash people and make them actively convert." Marit added.

"What?" Group brainwashing is really powerful.

"And this is not an ordinary brainwashing spell - I heard that even among the war masons we sent there, within half a month, 5 out of 10 rebelled and surrendered to the enemy."

"Huh?" Riven was even more shocked.

Even well-trained war masons can be brainwashed by the enemy, so how terrifying is this leader?

"No wonder General Amystan wants to garrison Pi City and trap the enemy in a corner of Zaun." She seemed to understand.

If the True God Cult, which masters this terrifying brainwashing technique, is allowed to grow and develop, it will definitely be a threat to the empire.

"But..." Riven still couldn't figure it out: "Even if the enemy has the magic of mind control, we won't be completely denied access to the enemy's intelligence information, right?"

"Could it be that if we are across the canal and read a few articles about the Leader in Piltover, we can be brainwashed from a distance?"

Now the entire Piltover is digging deep into the ground to search for the promotional materials of the Wind Leader, as if there is some world-destroying magic hidden in those small pieces of paper, and if they are not searched, the world will be overthrown.

This made Riven curious, what was written in those booklets?

The people of Piltover are not allowed to read it. Why are they, the Noxians, and even the Noxian officers, not allowed to read it?

Could it be that these ordinary sheets of paper printed in batches really contain any evil brainwashing spells?

"This." Marlette wasn't quite sure either.

"Okay." Riven shrugged.

Marit had no idea what to expect. And she didn't know where to get the Wind Leader's pamphlet to learn about the enemy she wanted to know.

So, the two of them were speechless for a while.

And Riven finally took a step towards the newsboy hawking in front.

"Here's a copy of the Piltover Daily News." She stopped the newsboy and handed him two copper rings.

The newsboy glanced at the red and black Noxian officer's armor, then tremblingly handed over a copy of the Piltover Daily.

Didn't dare to take the money.

"." Riwen frowned slightly.

"Take it." She took the initiative to hand over the money.

The newsboy still didn't dare to take it. He just shivered there.
To be continued...