Regarding chem-bombs, Riven had always held strong resistance from beginning to end. Ultimately, the harm of this weapon simply exceeded the scope Riven could accept.
As a child growing up on an empire farm, Riven knew very well the importance of land. The increase and decrease of food often affected the living conditions of all people in a region for the next year or even longer. Under these circumstances, although those chem-bombs had amazing lethality, the residual intense poison would cause the affected area to be unable to grow any crops for quite a long time, even making birds consciously avoid and reduce contact.
As a warrior, Riven preferred to use her own sword and blade to build careers on the battlefield. In Riven's view, even if it's an enemy, dying under the opponent's sword in a head-on battle, no matter how much unwillingness in the heart, at least that part of the soul as a warrior could rest in peace.
But chem-bombs...
Riven clearly remembered how despairing the expressions of those rebels infected by the poison gas were before death. Wherever it passed, no one survived; even those lucky enough to survive only prolonged their pain while lingering on their last breath. In the end, they could only watch helplessly as their skin ulcerated and formed sores, hair and teeth broke and fell out, and even bones and flesh would deform bit by bit. Even before death truly arrived, this torture of watching oneself lose human form would make them give up all hope of life...
Even if these people were enemies of the empire, Riven still felt intense discomfort for this... She would rather kill them with one sword strike.
Feeling the resistance in Riven's heart, a look of understanding appeared on Emistan's face, then she patiently advised: "Don't take the encounters of those enemies of the empire to heart, they are just enemies of the empire. Even if they survived, the final result is nothing more than being sent to the arena to become reckoners for people's amusement. Death is death anyway; at least now they can provide us with some valuable experimental data."
"As for why we should go to Piltover first..."
Speaking up to here, Emistan smacked her lips. First glancing at the rose mark on the back of her hand, she then pretended not to care and looked away, saying casually:
"Ionia is no simple opponent. According to the intelligence of war masons, the land there has its own soul. That is to say, if we don't truly kill that piece of land in a meaningful sense, then no matter how many enemies there we kill, we still can't truly occupy it and make them part of the empire. So, chem-tech weapons are necessary. Only this kind of weapon can directly harm the land itself, making the spirits of the land there weaken or even die."
"And the place where chem-tech weapons are most developed is naturally Zaun. Our partner is also a Zaunite—the chem-tech technology in that place is much crazier than Noxus. It's just that the situation in Zaun during this period is a bit special; a new master inexplicably popped up. The name seems to be Faen? Under that guy's interference, the Twin Cities are currently a total mess. So we go to Piltover first to confirm the situation, and then head to Zaun."
Hearing Emistan's explanation, Riven on the side also scratched her head somewhat puzzled, but in the end didn't say much more, just sighed and carried the runic giant sword on her back saying: "Well alright... I'm not very familiar with this kind of thing, so I'll listen to you."
"Don't worry, this isn't the first time we two have cooperated; I know your character." Hearing Riven's words, Emistan chuckled lightly: "Unless necessary, I won't use chem-tech means. After all, regarding research in this area, Zaun understands deeper than us. And Zaun is our future partner after all. Even thinking from the perspective of future resource supply, I wouldn't directly strike to kill and forge feuds, letting other legions take advantage for free."
Hearing this, Riven nodded, then turned and left.
Noxus directly bordered the Twin Cities. However, because the original destination of Emistan's legion was Ionia, it was already two days later when they arrived in Piltover.
Just at the very first moment the warship docked, related intelligence was delivered to Faen's desk through Camille's channels.
When seeing the legion's name, Faen froze slightly.
"Runic Blade Legion?" Seeing this name, Faen opened the envelope and scanned the intelligence inside. After discovering Riven's name, Faen nodded somewhat knowingly, realizing why it was this legion that arrived in Piltover. And also understood why this legion was named Runic Blade.
Personally awarded the runic black stone blade by the Noxian Emperor Darkwill, Riven's influence in Noxus might not be as great as veteran generals like Darius, but she was definitely considered a star warrior. Especially since Riven was a female orphan whose parents both died, this undoubtedly made Riven a symbol, a banner. Letting all women in and outside Noxus realize that in Noxus, even without any family foundation, even without parents' backing, even as a woman, as long as you have ability, you can equally be admired by tens of thousands and achieve fame and success.
This is Riven's honor, and also the honor of the entire legion. Although unknown what this legion was called before Riven joined, before Riven was awarded the runic blade. But now, changing to this name, at least in terms of popularity, it was enough to compete with those veteran legions, increasing its own legion's new recruits, blood-making ability, and strength foundation.
Noticing Faen's expression change, Soona, Zeri, and others on the side also asked curiously: "What? Do you have an impression?"
Although Faen rarely mentioned it, they all remembered the fact that Faen was a 'prophet'. Although according to what Faen said, he only saw some fragments of the past and future. But undoubtedly, just being able to see, and being able to be seen by Faen, had already proven Faen's extraordinary nature, and the extraordinary nature of the person Faen peeked at.
But as newcomers, LeBlanc, Camille, and even Caitlyn didn't know about this ability of Faen. Now noticing the attention of Zeri and others, the few also perked up slightly. Seeing this, Faen briefly described some things about Riven.