The Immortal Bastion, the capital of Noxus, lies at the heart of the empire, with a history stretching back over a thousand years, dating back to the conquest of Valoran by the Iron Wraith, Mordekaiser.

After enduring the erosion of wind and rain and the decay of time, the Immortal Fortress has been gradually rebuilt in the past hundred years. The streets are stacked up and down, and some areas are even below the ground.

Even though it is not as deep underground as Zaun and not as chaotic as Bilgewater, it is still a slum that even people in the capital are afraid of, with all kinds of people.

Even if a noble or a general passed by here in the middle of the night, he had to be accompanied by sufficient guards.

Only the three triangular prism-shaped castles standing in the center of the capital, as the symbol of Noxus, have a history of about 1,500 years. Their scale and grandeur are not much inferior to the Dawn Castle in the capital of Demacia.

Most Noxians believe that the Immortal Bastion was once a symbol of power, but that is only the evaluation given by outsiders who do not understand politics and magic.

Throughout history, many people have discovered the secret.

Mordekaiser's forbidden knowledge of the soul and death, secrets of the material realm, the spiritual realm, and other realms, even demonic secrets, lies buried deep within the Immortal Bastion.

The Pale Lady is the one who knows the Immortal Bastion best, followed by Svein, who controls the power of the hidden demon Ramo, and is the one who can be regarded as Leblanc's nemesis.

If it weren't for the deception and trickery inherited from ancient Shurima that allowed the Pale Lady to create countless "mirror flowers and water moons" clones and have her own puppets in various fields, Swain would have worried that Noxus would fall into chaos, and the first thing he would do after becoming the commander-in-chief would be to purge the Black Rose members.

However, with Li Lin's help, Swain rekindled the idea of ​​cleaning out the empire's parasites.

Teleported to the sky above Noxus, Li Lin looked down at his feet.

In stark contrast to the technologically advanced Twin Cities, Noxus has a serious architectural style and narrow, claustrophobic streets. The most striking feature is the Empire's unique Noxtora, a majestic archway made of black stone that serves as the gateway to Noxus and symbolizes the Empire's symbol and ruling power.

This was Li Lin’s first time in Noxus. Depressing and dull were his first impressions of the place.

[The presence of dark magic has been detected, specifically categorized as deception and blood magic.]

Before Li Lin could sigh for too long, a reminder from the intelligent computer came, bringing his thoughts back to reality and calling up the detected magic level.

"This level of deception magic is most likely from the Pale Lady. As for the blood magic..."

Li Lin raised his eyebrows, recalling the blood magic team he encountered in Demacia.

"Vladimir seems to have quite a few members of the Juan clan... Well, he seems to be Viego's great-uncle, and a descendant of Kamavia. Why does the Heigari royal family like to stir up trouble so much?"

Li Lin shook his head helplessly and didn't think too much about it for the time being.

In order to maintain the relationship between allies, even though the Black Rose posed a considerable threat to him, he had to take Swain's feelings into consideration and discuss with him how to defeat the Pale Lady and Vladimir.

Activating the optical camouflage module of the armor, Li Lin flew straight down from the sky, heading directly for the Immortal Fortress.

Since the Black Rose had spies planted in the Immortal Fortress, Swain discussed with Li Lin and decided not to alert the enemy, so he asked him to fly directly to the Commander-in-Chief's room.

Following the location given by Swain, Li Lin came to a balcony where several red-eyed ravens were standing, landed directly, and removed the stealth function of his armor, changing into ordinary clothes.

"Look, isn't our Speaker Li here?"

Li Lin looked up following the familiar voice and saw that this was Swain's study.

There were not many people in the room, three of whom were familiar to him, namely Swain, Darius and Draven.

Swain sat behind his desk, while Darius and Draven sat against the wall.

The other two men, wearing general's armor, with strong backs and arms, and many battle scars on their skin exposed to the air, sat on the sofa.

There was also a person wrapped from head to toe in a loose robe, with an expressionless, smooth black mask on his face. It was impossible to tell whether he was a man or a woman. He was sitting alone in front of the bookshelf on the other side.

Compared with the five people around him, this strange masked man has almost no presence.

Swain stood up from his chair, and everyone else followed suit, their eyes focused on the young man who suddenly appeared from the windowsill.

Even the masked man's cold eyes showed a hint of surprise.

"Let me introduce you to these two generals I trust, Leto and Mela. They are the heroes who pacified the Battle of Rocklund."

Swain used Piltover etiquette, extended his right hand and shook hands with Li Lin, and first introduced the two generals behind him who were no smaller than Darius.

Li Lin nodded to them, and Leto and Mela returned the greeting, but their expressions were very cautious.

They are all veterans of the battlefield, and have resolved countless dangerous situations by relying on their combat instincts and intuition.

Their intuition told them that if they faced this seemingly "harmless" young man with a polite smile and gentle attitude, they would be killed in an instant.

This guy is even more terrifying than Swain...

After introducing the two generals, Swain extended his hand and turned in the direction of Delaiven.

But before he could say anything, Delaiwen blew on his long, thin beard that drooped from his nose to his chest, winked at Li Lin and said, "My name is Delaiwen. I'm multi-talented and very stylish!"

As he spoke, he took out a dagger with a ring on the handle from somewhere and spun it rapidly on his fingers.

Darius glared at his brother helplessly and scolded him, "Okay, now is not the time for you to mess around."

"cut."

With a self-deprecating pout, Draven retracted his dagger. Swain continued to introduce the last person to Li Lin: "As for this person... Speaking of which, you two actually have a history."

"Master assassin General Du Kecao, nice to meet you." Li Lin clenched his right fist and placed it on the left side of his chest where his heart was, and greeted the mysterious man with a smile.

"Thank you for letting me get rid of another waste from the family, so that he won't bring disgrace to the name of Du Kecao." Du Kecao's voice was hoarse and cold, without any emotion in it.

"Please don't mind me. General Du Kecao has always been like this... Come and sit over here."

Swain invited Li Lin and everyone else to the hall outside. Li Lin sat alone on the single sofa at one end of the coffee table, while the others sat on the long sofas on both sides.

Siwei filled the wine glass for them and sat opposite Li Lin.

From beginning to end, his left arm was hidden under the hem of his simple coat, not revealing at all.

"Now, let's get down to business."

The smile on Swain's face faded, becoming cold and inhuman.

"The threat of the Black Rose must be resolved as soon as possible."