The kingdom of Demacia is rapidly heading towards hell.
The city of Mithril, governed by human traitors, has become a battlefield and is firmly controlled by the devil-tainted sinners. The corrupt rulers have left the country open, allowing the demons of the ice field to invade the country...
The fate of Demacia hangs in the balance.
She must expel all these demons. No one should be left alive!
The first one to die is...
"Laxana Crownguard." Vayne looked at the "devil" girl from afar.
In the eyes of others, Lux is the glorious lady of Demacia, the pride of the Crownguard family, and the pioneer of the struggle for equal rights for mages.
But in Vayne's eyes, Lux is a complete troublemaker who destroyed Demacia.
To say that he is a troublemaker is an understatement.
To Vayne, Lux is the evil embodiment of the devil on earth.
Because her parents and family were killed by a female sorceress with horns on her head. It was the demon-infected who destroyed her family.
From then on, her life's mission was only revenge - revenge on all those infected with magic, all magical creatures.
To this end, Vayne has been traveling to every corner of Demacia, playing the cruel role of "folk demon hunter".
She will mercilessly hunt down any magical creature she sees, whether it is a beast or a person who can use magic.
In the past, Wayne's efforts have achieved a lot of results.
The high pressure of the Demon Hunter Corps' ban on magic, coupled with her spontaneous hunting to fill in the gaps, made this land look very "pure".
But all this changed because of the appearance of Lux.
"This devil..." Seeing the target getting closer and closer, Wayne couldn't help but clench his fists secretly.
This guy has deceived many people with his harmless pretty face. But she won't.
If Lux had not infiltrated the high-level officials of Debon and bewitched the royal family of Jarvan, the ban on magic would not have been revoked and evil magic would not have completely enveloped the land.
Because of her, those demons can actually appear in the sun openly as "humans"!
This is simply...
"This is an unforgivable crime!" As the target gradually came into the range of the Holy Silver Crossbow, Vayne's anger reached its peak.
But as a cold revenge machine and a ruthless night hunter, she never lets anger affect her state.
Her eyes were still as calm as water, like a crocodile lurking beneath the water, quietly staring at the approaching prey.
And Lux ​​didn't come alone.
She also has a companion with blue hair and twin tails.
"Sona." Vayne also recognized her. This young mage from the Buwell family was also at the top of her hunting list.
And Vayne could roughly guess where Lux and Sona were going now.
They were going to the factory building at the foot of the mountain ahead...well, it looked like an ordinary factory building.
But actually, that shouldn't be a factory.
Because Vayne saw with her own eyes today that there were not only ordinary workers coming in and out of there, but also a group of Freljord people carrying frost staffs.
It seems that they are all shamans from the polar regions and have frost bloodline.
A group of alien mages, organized by the evil leader Lux, gathered in a large house under the cover of a factory, doing things unknown to outsiders...
In Vayne's view, this place is undoubtedly a mysterious and evil underground mage society, a Demacia version of the Black Rose.
Lux is clearly colluding with those Freljord demonbearers and secretly planning some shocking conspiracy.
"She must die." As Vayne thought about it, Lux had another reason to die.
At this time, Lux and Sona had already entered the optimal shooting range of the Holy Silver Crossbow.
Thanks to Vayne's powerful concealment skills that were like magic, they were still unaware of the danger they were facing.
"Come on, old friend." Vayne slowly raised her Holy Silver Crossbow and locked Lux's head under the crosshairs.
"Let us hunt those who fall into darkness..." She pulled the trigger indifferently.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh——
Three faint sounds of breaking through the air were heard.
Three powerful holy silver crossbow arrows were shot mercilessly at the vital parts of Lux's head.
Wei En's heart was calm. She believed that she would not fail.
She quickly pulled the trigger again, ready to take advantage of the target's panic to kill Sona as well.
However……
"Who?!" Lux and Sona, who were unaware of the attack at first, actually caught the slightest change in air flow at the last moment before the crossbow arrow flew over.
And then...
"Wind Barrier!" Lux waved her staff almost instinctively, summoning an invisible wind wall.
"What?" Wayne was slightly stunned.
Doesn’t the intelligence show that Lux is just a light magician?
This kind of light magician has high attack, low health, long arms and short legs, and is obviously the easiest to deal with.
But how come this guy suddenly became so responsive and even able to control the wind element that was most restraining to her?
Vayne couldn't figure it out, but she soon realized what this fatal intelligence leak would bring her.
"Sona, there is someone there!" Lux quickly recovered from her panic and followed the direction of the crossbow arrow to find her hiding place.
And then, before Wayne could even escape...
She discovered in despair that Sona, who was supposed to be a spiritual mage, actually flew into the sky on the wind in an instant.
With the help of the strong wind, the opponent quickly approached to a very dangerous distance.
Then: "Dancing to the end!"
Sona's slender fingers gently brushed the strings, and a materialized golden note overflowed as the strings vibrated .
Wayne had no time to escape and was fixed by the golden note.
"Damn it!" She barely regained consciousness with her strong willpower.
But it was this brief pause of one second...
"Don't move!" Lux's glowing staff was already pressing against her head.
The battle ended just like that.
Lux and Sona, one on each side, kept a close eye on Vayne. She then waved her hand and summoned a gust of wind, blowing the dangerous Holy Silver Crossbow away from her hand.
Wayne tried hard to break free, but was still heavily "nailed" to the tree by the invisible airflow.
At this time, Lux finally asked sternly with a cold face: "Why do you want to assassinate me? Tell me! Who sent you?"
"..." Wayne remained silent.
She glared back fiercely, her eyes cold and crazy.
"This..." Lux couldn't understand.
Who is this? Why does he hate her so much?
She didn't start to fight the local tyrants in Demacia, she just used Galio's power to scare a few old nobles who were unwilling to cooperate. They hated her so much just because she touched such a small piece of cake?
"Sona, please help me." Seeing that Vayne refused to speak, Lux had to ask her friend for help.
"Yeah." Sona nodded, then tried to reach out and gently touch Vayne's shoulder...
"Hiss——" Wayne's twisted and extreme spirit made her shudder.
Lux looked over in surprise: "Sona, what did you see?"
"I saw... what she was thinking about, a memory that she was recalling all the time." Sona gently covered her heaving chest and said in a complicated tone.
"Who is she?" Lux asked, "Who sent her here?"
“No one told her to do that,” Sona said. “She wanted to kill us just because … we’re mages.”
Lux was stunned for a moment, then said, "Is this guy a remnant of the Demon Hunter Corps?"
"No." Sona shook her head: "She is not from the Demon Seeker Corps. I can roughly tell from that painful memory... She hates magic so much because her parents and family are..."
"This..." Lux's expression changed slightly. When she looked at Vayne, there was also a hint of understanding and sympathy in her eyes.
"I see. You are... because of the death of your family members..."
"Enough!" Wayne finally spoke.
She said coldly, "Devils. It was you who destroyed the Forbidden Magic Case and allowed those evil monsters to completely take over this kingdom."
"Just for this, you deserve to be torn into pieces!"
"You..." Lux realized how extreme this woman was.
But considering that the other party was not an enemy of the noble class, she was willing to calm down and have a good talk with Wayne.
"Evil monsters? You mean... us mages?"
"Heh." Wayne gave an affirmative answer with a sneer.
"You think we are all monsters? Why?" Lux patiently explained: "Just because we know magic?"
"Ma'am, I know you've been through some bad things. But you shouldn't elevate the behavior of an individual to the whole, and then hate everyone with an identity label based on that identity label."
"There are indeed some bad guys among the mages, but..."
"Some?" Wayne interrupted her with a sneer.
She said rudely: "If you had read my memories in full, you would know how many villains there were among the mages I killed."
"I have killed at least hundreds of evil wizards. Can this be considered an isolated case?"
"Of course." Lux replied calmly.
No matter how numerous individual cases are, they are still individual cases. They cannot prove that all people in a group are so bad.
Using this deliberately collected "collection of individual cases" to form an intensive information bombardment, create prejudice, incite hatred, and divide the masses was originally the specialty of the Piltover tycoons to unite the people of Piltover and deal with the people of Zaun.
They give the people of Piltover a comfortable life and certain privileges, and deliberately condone the discrimination and oppression of the people of Zaun by the people of Piltover. This creates a de facto split and transforms class conflicts into ethnic conflicts between the people of Piltover and Zaun.
Does this contradiction between different identities exist objectively? Of course it does. The people of Zaun have indeed been bullied by the people of Piltover. This is not something that can be pretended not to exist by just reciting a few theories.
But is it a fundamental contradiction? No. If we only think about defeating people of another identity and do not resolve the fundamental contradiction, there will always be "Zuan people" who are bullied in the world.
Levi had already written about this in his article. Lux understood it very well.
"Intentionally collecting? Haha..." Vayne said disdainfully: "Do you think I can 'intentionally' find so many evil wizards and kill them one by one?"
She usually kills any wizard she sees, regardless of whether they are evil or not.
But her indiscriminate killing often resulted in her not killing the wrong people.
Nine out of ten mages she met were bad guys who deserved to die.
If we kill them all, there will definitely be some innocent people, but if we kill every other person, there will definitely be some who slip through the net.
This made Vayne more determined in her thinking: "Mages are born evil. They all deserve to die!"
"This is the result I saw with my own eyes and verified personally. It can't be wrong!"
"No!" Lux shook her head in response: "Ma'am, perhaps your experience is correct, and the data you calculated that 'nine out of ten mages are bad people' is true, but..."
"Your conclusion is still wrong!"
Huh? Wayne was slightly stunned.
The experience is real, the data is correct, how could it be wrong?
"Because your data was collected in the past Demacia Kingdom. "
What was the situation of the Kingdom of Demacia in the past? Magic was strictly prohibited by law, and mages were strongly discriminated against in culture.
There is no place for magicians in the whole society.
Just like Silas. He just awakened magic when he was a teenager, and he hadn't done anything bad yet, but he was reported by his biological parents and sent to the Demon Hunter Corps.
Once the identities of the mages are exposed, if they are lucky enough not to be captured by the demon hunters, they will immediately fall into the desperate situation of being wanted nationwide.
They are unable to work and live normally and can only hide from place to place all day long and make a living by doing some shady jobs.
"Do you think a wizard who grows up in such an environment can grow up to be a good person?" Lux asked in a serious tone.
Sona beside her also nodded secretly.
She and Lacus were both born into noble families. They started out as Celestial Dragons, and both had to go through so much grievance and pain because of being infected by the devil.
What about those folk magicians?
They have been living under discrimination and oppression from the whole society, and are even born with the heavy crime of being infected by the devil. How can they become good people who abide by the law?
Would a fugitive who has been sentenced to death still be afraid of murder and arson?
So in Demacia in the past, nine out of ten folk mages who survived with difficulty were bad guys.
"But is this because they are born bad? Or is it because the suffocating racial oppression forces them to take this path?" Lux asked seriously.
"This..." Wayne was speechless for a moment.
"So you're wrong." Lux pressed on, "You didn't consider the strong correlation between the environment and the variables at all. You came to a wrong conclusion subjectively because of personal hatred."
This is actually a statistical trap.
If we do statistics in old Demacia, where mages are extremely discriminated against and oppressed, we can only come up with the result that "mages are all bad people."
Likewise, the Piltover tycoons used to tell the people that Zaun people had the highest crime rate. Is that true?
Of course.
The people of Zuan are so poor that they have to sell their kidneys, so of course the crime rate is high.
The Zaun community is a veritable cesspool, and even Zaun people like Levi despise it.
But does this lead us to the conclusion that Zaun people are born bad and born criminals?
Are they really born bad, or is it the social environment that shapes the Zaun people into this way?
"Using the same logic, you can come to even more outrageous conclusions."
"For example, the mortality rate of patients in large hospitals is higher than that in small clinics, so the doctors in small clinics are more skilled."
"There has never been an accident involving a female miner in the Miyincheng Coal Mine, so women are more suitable for coal mining than men."
"Demacia has won more than it has lost in past border defense battles, so Demacia is the world's most powerful country, and Noxus is not worth mentioning at all."
"..." Lux gave several examples in a row, choking Vayne so much that she was speechless.
"Now, do you realize your mistake?"
"You are not doing scientific statistics at all, but are interpreting the data subjectively with hatred."
This trick was actually used by the Demon Hunter Corps in the past.
Their purpose is to prove the "racial inferiority" of the demon-infected and to incite mortals to reject and hate the mages, so as to ensure the legitimacy of their own existence and protect their own interests.
And Vayne is...
"You are blinded by hatred, ma'am." Lux sighed softly, "You are just believing in the result you are willing to believe."
"If you don't believe me, you can do another round of statistics... Ask the people of Demacia today, are there still so many bad mages among the ones they have seen?"
With the abolition of the anti-magic law, many wizards and civilians who had previously been afraid to reveal their identities and lived a low-key life have gradually stepped into the public eye.
If we do statistics at this time, there are definitely more good people among mages.
"No... I don't believe it!" Wayne gritted his teeth and refused to bow his head: "This is just your disguise! Just like you, a devil..."
"You appear to be a good and beloved lord, but you are secretly colluding with those Freljord mages and organizing a secret underground mage society here!"
"Who knows what conspiracy is hidden behind your beautiful appearance!"
“Huh?” Lux was slightly stunned. “Colluding with Freljord mages…underground society?”
She thought for a while before turning back to look at the factory not far away: "You mean... that factory?"
"That's right!" Vayne looked over coldly and said, "Tell me, you gathered so many Icefield Mages under the guise of opening a factory, what exactly do you want to do!"
"Uh..." Lux and Sona looked at each other.
Then, they smiled helplessly and said, “Of course, we open a factory!”
Lux pointed at the sign hanging at the factory entrance and said, "Didn't you see it? It says -"
"Miyincheng Ice Factory." This is what the factory sign reads.
This is an ice factory. The reason why those Freljord mages were organized here is to...
"Making ice?" Wayne was stunned.
Then she immediately sneered: "Ha! Do you think I'm a fool?"
"Using the manpower of mages to make ice, are you going to sell your ice for more than gold?"
Although she extremely disliked wizards, she also recognized that magic was a scarce resource.
If we let a high-level talent like a magician make ice by hand, wouldn't that be a huge loss for us?
"No." Lux shook her head and explained seriously: "What we produce is not ordinary ice."
"What these shamans produce is magical ice."
True Ice, according to legend, was created from the wings of the frost bird Avinia. It was she who used elemental magic to create True Ice.
There are also legends that describe it as a magical creation of the Three Frost Sisters, and a supreme treasure left by the three sisters to future generations.
True ice is extremely rare, extremely tough and never melts.
Ashe's Ice Bow is an ancient treasure made of this material.
The magical ice created by ordinary ice wizards certainly does not have this kind of strange effect that is suspected to break the law of conservation of energy and will not melt for thousands or tens of thousands of years.
But even so, the magical ice created by these ice wizards is still not an ordinary thing.
Depending on the strength of the spellcaster's magic power, this artificial magic ice can generally be preserved at room temperature for 1 to 10 years.
"A piece of magic ice that can last for ten years without melting and emits cold air for ten consecutive years... Think about it, what is its purpose?"
"It can be used as an air conditioner or a refrigerator to provide long-term cooling for cold storage, helping customers save a lot of refrigeration costs..."
This handmade ice has more craftsmanship than industrial ice.
In this world where mental power can really be used for cooling, Magic Ice with "craftsman spirit" is undoubtedly a highly competitive and excellent product.
"Magic True Ice is now the flagship product of the Mithril City Ice Factory, and is also a key poverty alleviation project that provides strong support for the Freljord immigration project."
"That's why I organized so many ice mages to come here to work and let them be responsible for producing magical ice."
"In this way, we can not only solve the re-employment problem of laid-off shamans, but also create income and provide funds for our production and construction business." Lux said proudly.
"This..." Wayne was stunned.
Well, she could understand the use of magic ice. But:
"You actually use mages... as workers?"
Mages are naturally stronger than mortals. Are they willing to work in factories?
These extraordinary people are not poor students who have no choice but to do things against their will. Instead, they are truly superior people - are they really willing to take off their magician's robes and participate in labor production on the front line?
"Of course." Lux said solemnly: "In Mithril City, mages and mortals are equal."
"For a better life, they are certainly willing to work."
"Moreover, times have changed. In the past, the main theme was war and conflict, but now, what we need is peace and development, productivity, not just destructive power."
"Therefore, the mages must also find a way to complete the employment transformation and devote themselves to production and construction."
Lux spoke a lot seriously.
But Wayne still couldn't understand.
She couldn't understand how mages and mortals could coexist equally. Why were these extraordinary people, who were used to using violence to gain privileges, willing to lower their status and work like ordinary people?
"Sona, you tell her." Lux looked at her friend. She knew she couldn't explain it in a short time, so she just let Sona show the "PPT".
"Yeah." Sona nodded.
She walked slowly forward and put her hand on Wayne's shoulder.
In an instant, all the experiences and knowledge she had about the Leader flooded into Wayne's mind like a kaleidoscope.
“Hoo…Hoo…”
After a long time, Wayne finally woke up, gasping for breath.
She looked at Lux and Sona with a complicated expression: "You... are the Wind Leaders?"
Because they are the leaders, they are the followers of Goddess Jana.
Under the wings of the goddess Janna, mages and mortals can be equal. Mortals will no longer discriminate against mages, and mages can no longer gain privileges through violence.
this……
"How is it?" Lux believed in the infectiousness of Janna's ideas. Except for the vested beneficiaries, no one could resist this beautiful future.
So she couldn't help but smile confidently: "We already have a world where mages and mortals can coexist equally."
"Ma'am, do you still think that all mages should die?"
“……” There was a moment of silence.
Lux took the initiative to extend her hand to Vayne.
Wayne was silent for a while.
"Your goddess..."
"Um?"
"It's also a magical creature."
Lux, Sona: "???"
“Go to hell!!”
…
Many days later.
Zuan City Mental Health and Mental Hygiene Prevention and Treatment Center welcomed a new patient.