Then he put down the wine glass in his right hand, took out a rolled-up piece of parchment from the drawer of the table where he had been reading, and handed it to Darius.
"This is?"
Darius raised an eyebrow, untied the string on the parchment, and spread it out.
This is a lifelike portrait of a person, drawn by Swain himself.
“Ionian?” Darius looked up at Swain, puzzled. “Who is he?”
"You've been back to the Immortal Bastion for a few months now. I'm sure you've seen the changes in the city." Swain didn't answer his question directly.
"Changes..." Darius thought for a moment. "You mean the Hextech flying gates, bicycles, and those expensive power generation devices that are different from Hextech?"
You know, in the past few decades, Piltover has held the secrets of Hextech technology tightly in its hands and would never sell related Hextech power generation facilities to Noxus.
But in the past two years, for some unknown reason, the family of Senator Gilaman of Piltover actually sold various power generation facilities to Noxus at extremely high prices.
Of course, according to Darius's little understanding of Hextech technology, this power generation equipment does not require Hextech crystals, but can generate electricity by burning coal and wood.
There are even devices that can be used by shining them in the sun or placing them in water.
This new technology undoubtedly attracted the attention of all the major families in the Immortal Fortress, but its high price discouraged most people.
Not to mention the Hextech Flygate, which is strictly guarded by Piltover guards, most families that can afford to purchase power generation equipment have their minds on this.
They bought the equipment and wanted their own craftsmen to reverse engineer this novel technology.
If they succeed, they will make a fortune.
However, due to various unknown reasons, this power generation equipment would often be damaged during dismantling, so that the nobles no longer dared to spend money on researching this new technology.
In addition, the most important thing for Noxus is the Hextech Gate that can travel to all parts of the world in a few seconds.
Although it is relatively expensive to use, compared with sea voyages, which are also costly and risky, the Hexgate has absolute advantages in all aspects.
In the few months since the Hexgate was built, the Immortal Fortress's trade volume has more than doubled, greatly increasing the Empire's tax revenue.
Swain paused. "You've probably heard of their inventor."
"Li Lin of the Jiraman family is known as Piltover's genius craftsman and a future pioneer..."
As he was speaking, Darius seemed to suddenly think of something and lowered his gaze again to look at the parchment.
"Could it be him?"
"This young man is really beyond my expectations."
A rare playful smile appeared on Swain's tense face, which surprised Darius.
The next moment, he took out a document full of words from the drawer, put it on the table and handed it to Darius sitting opposite him.
"Take a look at this."
Darius had a look of confusion on his face, still not understanding what was going on.
Only after he finished reading the contents of the paper did he look at Swain with wide eyes, speechless with shock, "He actually..."
This document contained all kinds of information about Li Lin, as well as hand-drawn sketches of the air combat machine Storm and the mechanical engineer.
Including the fact that he grew up in Ionia, his parents died in an attack by the Noxian army, and he fled to Piltover alone and spent four years in a daze, and then he was suddenly accepted by the Gilaman family as a craftsman and rose to fame.
Then, in less than two years, he became an important figure in Piltover.
"His rise seems strange, don't you think?" Swain asked in a puzzling tone.
"It's a bit strange..."
Darius put the document back on the table, his face extremely solemn.
Although he was the Hand of Noxus, when the Trifarix Council was established, he was able to be on equal footing with Swain in politics as the representative of "force".
But his wisdom can only be demonstrated on the battlefield.
Darius did not understand such political issues and did not want to understand them.
However, even if Swain didn't mention it, Darius could see that there was something strange about this young man.
These novel inventions, which even the outstanding craftsmen of the Piltover family could not come up with, came from an Ionian who had only been exposed to mechanics for four years.
Everything was going too smoothly.
"We sent a number of War Masons into Piltover, and most of them were captured by these so-called 'engineers'.
"Not only that, according to my spies, it's not just the 37th Regiment led by Prescott that's heading to the Demacia border. The Ashen Regiment affiliated with the Black Rose has also sent troops.
"But we've lost all contact with them. It seems they were completely wiped out... But on the battlefield, my spies noticed traces of Piltover's mechanical troops."
Swain dropped another bombshell.
Darius clenched his fists. "The Mechanical Army... and the Black Rose, what do they want?"
Swain shook his head, returning to his expressionless demeanor.
In fact, he had more information about Piltover that he had not told Darius.
Because it is impossible for war masons to obtain this information alone.
Except for the crackling sound of matches burning in the fireplace, the room fell into a temporary silence.
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