The news of the "Iron Wall" fortress being breached in an instant spread like wildfire throughout the entire Noxian Empire within just one hour.
Shock, anger, and then disbelief.
Noxus, an empire founded on military might and glorified by conquest, has never suffered such a humiliating defeat in its history!
The entire empire roared like an enraged lion.
At Darius's personal command, the largest army in Noxus's history began to assemble. The Trevory Legion, the War Stonemasons, and the elite of various affiliated chapters converged on the Immortal Fortress from all corners of the empire. Countless monstrous war machines were dragged from the armory. Even the raging war beasts imprisoned deep within the arena for gladiatorial combat were released.
Noxus will use their proudest torrent of steel and flesh to show those invaders from another world what true "power" is!
Swain, on the other hand, calmly made another preparation.
He contacted LeBlanc of the Black Rose through secret channels, as well as the Du Coca-Cola, the most elite assassin family that had always remained outside the Noxian power structure.
"The enemy's leader, that white banshee, is the key to this war." Swain's voice was filled with unwavering resolve. "Darius's main force is merely bait. I need you to assemble all of Noxus's top assassins into a 'decapitation' unit. Kill her at all costs."
"This may be our only, and slim, chance of winning."
And so, as the Noxian frontline legions and the army of the Calamity Vanguard prepared for their final battle on the Plains of Sorrow before the Immortal Fortress, an invisible shadow force composed of Noxus's deadliest serpents also quietly infiltrated the battlefield.
The leaders of this force are none other than LeBlanc, the Deceiver, and Katarina, the Sinister Blade.
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The Plains of Sorrow, a barren black plain long since used by Noxus to execute prisoners of war and traitors, is about to witness the most unequal and brutal war in the history of Valoran.
On one side was a black ocean, filled with the desire for slaughter and conquest, composed of millions of Noxus's most elite warriors, most ferocious war machines, and most savage war beasts.
On the other side, there were only tens of thousands of Calamity Vanguard soldiers, standing silently like statues, their bodies pitch black.
The disparity in quantity is so vast.
But in Irelia's eyes, this was meaningless.
She stood alone, suspended at the forefront of the vanguard of the calamity army. Her pale figure appeared so small in the face of the black ocean, yet she exuded a chilling sense of oppression that made the entire world tremble.
Darius, riding his war lizard named "Basilisk," walked to the forefront of the Noxian army. He raised his massive axe, the "Noxian Guillotine," powerful enough to cleave mountains, high above his head, pointing it at Irelia.
"Invaders from another world!" His voice, like rolling thunder, resounded throughout the battlefield. "This is Noxus! Here, only power matters! Today, I, Darius, the Hand of Noxus, will use your heads to forge a new glory for Noxus!"
"All troops! Charge!"
"For Noxus!!!"
Millions of Noxian troops, like a black flood bursting its banks, roared with a fury that shook the heavens and the earth, and launched a devastating charge against the seemingly frail vanguard of the Calamity army!
The earth trembled, and the sky roared!
However, despite the apocalyptic scene, Irelia's face remained expressionless.
She simply raised the demonic sword in her hand slowly.
"Before absolute 'order'," her voice clearly reached the minds of every Noxian soldier charging forward, "your so-called 'power' is nothing but... a laughable, primal carnival."
She gently swung her sword down.
There was no sword energy, no light.
Only an invisible, indescribable force of "concepts," transcending the laws of physics, emanated from her and spread across the entire battlefield.
"Concept rewriting: gravity."
In an instant, the millions of Noxian soldiers who were charging madly across the Plains of Sorrow were as if they had been slammed to the ground by an invisible hand of God!
In that instant, all people, all war machines, all war behemoths, endured a terrifying gravitational force more than a hundred times their own weight!
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
Countless Noxian soldiers didn't even have time to react before they were crushed into a bloody pulp by the terrifying gravity! Their bones and internal organs were crushed in an instant!
Those steel-cast war mechs emitted a tooth-grinding, metallic, distorting sound before turning into piles of scrap metal, like crushed cans!
Meanwhile, those enormous war beasts let out painful howls. Their bones, strong enough to support a small mountain, broke inch by inch, and their massive bodies collapsed to the ground like mud!
In just a moment.
It was just one sword strike.
Noxus's proud steel torrent, capable of conquering the entire continent, was brutally destroyed in the most unbelievable and humiliating way on its way!
The entire battlefield fell into a deathly silence.
All the surviving Noxians stared blankly at the scene before them, a sight that was both miraculous and hellish, their minds completely blank.
Their unwavering belief in the supremacy of strength was utterly shattered at that moment.
"What...what is this...?" Darius, with his superhuman strength, barely managed to stay upright, using his giant axe to support himself. But the war lizard beneath him had already been reduced to a pile of minced meat. Looking at the unrecognizable corpses of his former comrades scattered around him, for the first time, a look of fear appeared in his battle-hardened eyes.
Just then, in the shadows of the battlefield, dozens of black, ghostly figures appeared silently behind Irelia in a strange way, seemingly unaffected by gravity.
It's LeBlanc and Katarina's assassination squad!
They are Noxus's last hope!
"Now!" LeBlanc's voice echoed in the hearts of every assassin.
Dozens of daggers coated with deadly poison, enough to kill a dragon instantly, and dozens of curses containing the most vicious dark magic, attacked Irelia's seemingly unguarded back from all directions, silently!
However, Irelia didn't even turn around.
“A swarm of… pathetic worms wriggling in the shadows.”
She simply said one sentence.
"Concept Rewriting: Space".
In an instant, the space around her shattered like a mirror, and then reformed.
All the attacks aimed at her were transferred to... their own companions the instant they were about to touch her body!
"Pfft! Pfft! Pfft!"
Katarina's dagger, powerful enough to cleave dimensions, plunged viciously into LeBlanc's chest.
LeBlanc's soul-corrupting curse, however, had its full effect on herself.
The other assassins were no exception. They used their most lethal attacks to kill their most trusted comrades.
In a mere instant, Noxus's elite and proudest assassination squad was wiped out.
Only Katarina survived, because she had targeted LeBlanc's illusion.
But she froze on the spot, staring incredulously at her dagger that had pierced the air, and at her companions around her who had died in various bizarre positions.
Irelia slowly turned around.
Her empty, emotionless eyes stared at Noxus's most beautiful and deadliest red-haired female assassin.
"Not bad skills, not bad... 'material'."
She reached out and aimed at Katarina.
"You will become yet another fine 'collection' to be offered to His Majesty the God Emperor."
An irresistible, icy force instantly enveloped Katarina. She felt her body and soul being imprisoned and… “marked” by this force.
The war in Noxus is over.
It ended just as it began.
What remains is merely a cold, systematic "asset liquidation".
Those beautiful female heroes of Noxus, those female warriors full of wildness and power, their fate will be the same as those white lilies of Demacia, sent to the center of the empire to become Lin Feng's newest "concubines" and "playthings".
Noxus, this empire that reveres power, will ultimately be utterly crushed into dust before absolute, higher-dimensional "power."
Irelia's expedition continues.
The eternal night of despair she brought was only just beginning.
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