Chapter 211 Camille's Decision
After receiving the general's kind words of comfort, Marit finally felt relieved and left with Riven following the order.
As they walked away, the faint smile on Amystan's face quickly came to an abrupt end.
"General Amistan." Camille walked up slowly and stood shoulder to shoulder with him.
Riven and Marit, two muscular girls who can only charge into battle, may not understand Amistan's true intentions.
But she saw it clearly:
"Do you think you will lose?" Camille asked meaningfully.
If she just wanted to maintain the face of the Imperial Army, Amystan could have followed Marit's previous statement and characterized this incident as a reasonable action to "hunt for the Wind Leader's spies."
After all, the girl named Orianna is really a leader, and even Levi showed up in person. Even if the accusation of Colin's family of "colluding with Janna" was false, it is now true.
But Amystan chose not to use this ready-made excuse to blame the leader, but instead held her own soldiers accountable.
why is that?
To enforce military discipline?
What a joke! How could Amistan, the murderous devil that even Noxians are afraid of, really care about military discipline?
"I don't believe this is your purpose," Camille said.
She could see that Amystan was leaving herself a way out in advance.
The leader put forward a condition that she should hand over the perpetrator of today's incident in a week.
Of course, Amystan would not give in and do as she was told.
But she took Levi's side of the argument, and under the pretext of enforcing military discipline, characterized the actions of those soldiers as raping women, and characterized the actions of Riven and Marit as favoritism and shielding.
Now that the soldiers were dealt with, Riven and Marit were still safe.
After that, when the Leader attacks, will Amystan, seeing that the situation is not good, bring up the old matter again and use the pretext of "rectifying military discipline" to get rid of Riven and Marit as well?
This not only meets the requirements of the leader, but also preserves the face of Noxus.
If both sides can save face, it will be easier for both sides to achieve peace.
"They're leaving room for peace talks before the war even starts. This isn't the style of the Noxians I know." Camille said unceremoniously, "General Amistan, do you think you'll lose? Lose to such a weak leader?"
"Idiot!" Amystan snorted coldly: "Since you also know that the leader is weak..."
He is as weak as a pig, yet he dares to provoke the tiger.
What does this mean? It means that the leader is either extremely stupid or has some hidden card that allows him to play the pig and eat the tiger.
If Amystan had not dealt with the Leader, she might have believed the former.
But she had many exchanges with Levi, and even negotiated a lot of business. She knew very well that Levi was a calm and rational person, and the decision-makers of the leader were definitely not as short-sighted and fanatical as the top leaders of Noxus.
Such a group of sober and rational people actually made such a radical and risky decision this time. This made Amystan worry about what cards they really held in their hands.
Moreover, this trump card is not ordinary big——
A quick thought would reveal that if Windleader's trump card was only slightly stronger than Piltover and Amystan, then it would be meaningless even if they won the battle.
Because behind Amistan stood the Noxian Empire. If the Wind Leader dared to attack Amistan's regiment, it would be declaring war on the entire empire.
"So once the war starts, they will not only need to defeat me, but also crush me with absolutely overwhelming force—"
“They must fight with great power in one battle, shocking Noxus and even the entire Runeterra, to achieve true victory.”
Not only slap the empire in the face, but also scare this "mad dog" so that it dares not talk back.
How much strength does this require?
Does the leader have such a trump card?
In theory, there is...
"Goddess Janna." Amystan's expression was solemn.
If the goddess herself were to appear, Noxus would have to retreat three feet.
The empire is now fighting on four fronts, and it really does not have the ability to offend another demigod.
Thinking of this, she couldn't help but look at Camille again: "Old friend, can't you understand these principles?"
"You are simply playing with fire with your own life by provoking a True God sect like this!"
Camille just remained silent.
"You..." Amystan understood. It's not that Camille couldn't understand these things, she...probably saw them too clearly.
"Yes, I know." Camille finally said.
She suddenly started talking about something that seemed completely unrelated: "Stevan was treated well there, and Kaya also learned their theories, passed the goddess' faith test, and became a true leader."
"She also successfully joined the Science and Equipment Department and is in charge of the improvement and research of artificial Hextech gem synthesis technology. She can be considered to have made a name for herself."
Because the technology for synthesizing artificial Hexgems is an invention of the Philos family, the best synthetic gem technicians, engineers, and scientists all come from the Philos family.
Kaya is one of them.
She and her relatives possess unique skills that leaders desperately need, so once they pass the faith test, they can immediately enter key departments and take up important positions.
"The Firoz family will not perish." Camille said, "Even if I fail."
"You lunatic!" Amystan looked at him coldly.
"No, I don't have the ability to go crazy." Camille raised her mechanically modified head.
She added: "My great-niece Kaya, who had just become the leader, sent me a letter - do you know what she said in the letter? She advised me not to go against the tide of history, and advised me to surrender and turn myself in to atone for the evil deeds I had committed."
"The scary thing is that this is not a letter of persuasion written to deal with organizational tasks."
"I can tell that Kaya...really thinks so."
Is this a scary thing?
To Camille and the other Piltover bastards, this was a horrible thing to do.
Who is Kaya? A typical chaebol daughter. She was educated by the Philos family. She may be silly, but she is definitely not naive.
Even she could be infected by the thoughts of Goddess Gana and become a true leader.
"Then how can your tangible canal possibly block the intangible thoughts?"
"If we don't do our best to strangle the Wind Leaders in the cradle now, they will sooner or later blow over like the sea breeze, and even gradually blow over the entire Noxian Empire!"
"So, we urgently need a war!" Camille said resolutely.
"So you're going to burn me to the ground?" Amystan's eyes revealed murderous intent.
But Camille was not afraid: "If the battle goes badly, you can kill me."
"Kill you? Then I'm afraid it's not my turn." Amystan sneered.
If the war goes badly, she will sell Camille out immediately.
Because as analyzed before, there is no fundamental conflict of interest between Amistan and Levi. They are even in a cooperative relationship economically.
And it is foreseeable that even if the Leaders win, they will still need to do business .
Otherwise, without the food, raw materials and huge market provided by the Empire, how can the more than 2 million people in Zaun survive?
Since both parties still have to continue doing business, there is still room for discussion between Amystan and the Leader.
"But there's nothing to talk about with you." Amystan glanced at Camille one last time and said, "You'd better pray to your god. If you believe in God, please bless me to win this war."
"Otherwise... you will die miserably."
Having said that, Amystan turned and left, leaving behind only a cold and ruthless back.
Camille also breathed a sigh of relief. Although this action had more symbolic meaning than practical significance to the Blue Steel Shadow.
She knew that this war might just be the beginning for Noxus.
But for her and the Piltover tycoons, it was a fateful finale.
“I have to win.”
There was a cold blue light in Camille's eyes.
She didn't have many cards left, but she had to play all the cards she could this time. Otherwise, after this battle, there would be no chance or it would be meaningless.
"Help me contact Zaun."
After thinking about it, Camille called the family spy around her:
"Hilco, Renata, Voss, Wolvertin, Patrock, Winchester Spendlaw..."
"Tell those surviving alchemy barons that if they don't want to sit there and wait to be killed one by one by the Leader, then after one week, they should stand up and fight with me!"
