LOL: Summoner of Goddess Janna

"No...impossible!" Azir looked at his good brother, his eyes filled with shock and confusion. session

He still didn't want to believe it. Even though Xerath has already admitted it himself.

These are his siblings!

How could he betray himself!

"Azir, it's me." Xerath sighed.

"..." Azir was silent for a while.

Then, his body trembled and he turned his head, recklessly using the Ascended One's magic to summon the rolling yellow sand in the desert.

The dust forms a ghostly apparition, recreating the city's final moments. session

These are images of the past, echoes of Shurima's physical form.

I saw the human figures made of sand and dust, all looking towards the direction of the sun disk. The sun disk still hung high in the sky half a mile away, showing off the glory and power of Azir's empire.

However, the next second...

The joy on people's faces turned to fear. They were instantly obliterated by an invisible energy and turned into dust and disappeared in the wind.

Soon, Azir’s family emerges, presented in a picture-perfect scene with heartbreakingly realistic details. His pregnant wife. Her shy daughter held his wife's hand. His son held his head high and was almost ready to grow up.

But all this soon disappeared with the explosion of the solar disk.

Looking up at the altar again, the source of this disaster...

A figure formed from sand and dust appeared. This is his most trusted servant, his wizard, Xerath.

"W-what happened next..." Azir's voice trembled.

He looked at Levi with red eyes and a ferocious expression: "What happened next?!"

"Later, the Shurima Empire perished." Levi knew what he wanted to ask: "Without the guidance of the Sun Disk and the Ascension Order, and without the restraint of the empire's center, the Ascended Ones' minds were affected by the void. He soon transformed into an independent warlord and began endless melee."

"The warriors of the gods fell one after another in this thousand-year war, and the remaining ascendants were finally sealed by the design of the stars."

"Thus, the era of Shurima has completely passed."

"The new human empire rose in the northern continent of Valoran, and the Shuriman people who lost the empire eventually regressed back to the primitive slave tribal era."

Azir was silent.

Families die, empires fall, and people perish. Everything he cared about was gone.

It was too much to bear, but there were no tears in Azir's eyes. His ascension form no longer has this simple function of expressing sadness.

"Then..." Azir suddenly looked at Sivir who was not far away excitedly: "Where is she?"

He could feel that Sivir was his surviving bloodline. This is the only thing he still has left in this world.

"Is there anyone else?" he murmured.

"No more." Sivir answered personally. session

3000 years is too far away for a mortal like her.

She was just watching the show of her ancestors.

"My parents and relatives all died at the hands of desert bandits." Sivir said rudely: "And Your Majesty the Emperor, the 'noble bloodline' you left me did not help me avoid being hungry while wandering. "

"..." Azir was heartbroken.

He didn't expect that the only bloodline he inherited, his descendants, would live such a purgatory life.

"Tell me the names of those desert bandits...I will kill them and avenge you!" He looked at Sivir deeply, as if he was trying to make up for something.

"Haha." Sivir didn't appreciate it at all: "I have avenged this revenge myself. Why do you need a dead person like you?"

Azir's heart was stabbed hard again.

Only then did he finally see clearly what kind of misfortune Xerath's gentle push from behind had brought to him, his family, and his empire.

"Ze! La! Si!" He turned his head and looked at his good brother angrily.

"Why?" Azir asked angrily: "I regard you as a brother, why do you do this to me?!"

But Xerath remained silent.

"Speak, Xerath!"

"I..." Xerath was silent for a long time, and finally sighed: "I have nothing to say."

As he spoke, he glanced at Levi and Janna, who were guarding him closely, as well as his gloomy body that had suffered heavy injuries in the battle.

Xerath knew that he could no longer escape.

After being sealed for 3,000 years, he was beaten by the void as soon as he came out. Not only did the power he had worked so hard to usurp fail to realize any of his ambitions, but instead allowed him to passively serve as the main force in the fight against the virtual reality.

All his plans for dominance, hatred and ambition were instantly wiped out in this ridiculous way.

As a result, Xerath finally let go of his 3,000 years of twisted obsession and calmly accepted his ending: "Let's do it."

"Anyway, you saved my life, and now it's time to give it back to you."

He didn't want to argue or beg for mercy. session

After all, if Azir hadn't sacrificed his life to save him just now, he would be dead now.

"You..." Xerath wanted to die so much that Azir couldn't do anything.

"Why? Why on earth!" He stubbornly wanted to get an answer.

Then, Azir quickly thought about the rift between himself and Xerath before that disaster happened.

Xerath, upon his accession to the throne, was eager to free the slaves. For this reason, he even went so far as to offend and quarrel with him several times.

He refused to let go in order to keep it secret. Later, in order to calm down Xerath and not make the matter a big deal, he even pretended to be indifferent and said something like this in front of Xerath: "You are just a slave, you should remember your place."

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It all made sense.

After that conflict, Xerath never mentioned the abolition of slavery again.

He seemed to have become the emperor's most obedient minister.

But he was no longer his friend, his best brother.

"You betrayed me because..." Azir's eyes widened in pain: "I 'betrayed' you?"

He finally realized how ridiculous the root of this tragedy was.

If he hadn't been so arbitrary and self-centered and had communicated more with Xerath... maybe none of this would have happened. session

"Yes." Xerath finally spoke: "Is communication so difficult?"

"But why don't you tell me the truth? Are you worried that I will leak the secret? But I am your 'brother', abolition of slavery is our common ideal, and you also see my ability. Don't you even trust me? ?”

This is certainly not the case.

The fact is: "Azir, subconsciously you still regard me as a slave and yourself as my master!"

"Even as a brother, you are the big brother who tells you the truth - so you think you can make all the decisions alone, so you don't bother to reveal even a little bit of information to me!"

"I..." Azir was speechless.

Because he realized that what Xerath said was true. It was his arrogance and arrogance that deepened the rift between the two. session

"But, but you shouldn't..." Azir was heartbroken.

"...Yes. I made a bigger mistake." Xerath sighed: "But what's the point of saying this now? A big mistake has been made, and nothing can be done to undo it."

With that said, he walked to Azir's golden spear with relief: "Kill me, Azir."

"..." Azir fell into a painful tangle.

Reason told him that he should kill Xerath. This sinner deserves to be put to death.

But...

"What should I do with him?" Azir looked at Levi blankly. session

Li Wei is not his minister, or even has anything to do with him, but this guy is the only person he can ask for advice now.

"I recommend the death penalty." Levi's answer was straightforward.

He has no intention of judging an ancient person from 3,000 years ago based on modern moral and legal concepts.

After all, if we really judge strictly according to the values ​​of the leader... Azir, Nasus, and Renekton, all of them are Class-A war criminals who are actively launching aggressive wars. An imperialist who couldn't do it a hundred times.

It's just that the enemy of the void is currently facing the enemy, and out of the need for a united front, Levi doesn't want to pursue their past.

But even if these conflicts of values ​​are put aside, and there is no need to use modern laws to conduct any kind of time-space trial, from the perspective of practical pros and cons and the value of united front... Xerath deserves to die.

"He is very dangerous." Levi didn't know if Xerath could really let go of his ambition and hatred. session

Anyway, the Xerath in the original world line is definitely a dangerous person.

He backstabbed his good brother and brainwashed Renekton. After breaking free from the seal, he still pursued Sivir tenaciously, trying to eliminate the last bloodline of Azir.

"If you keep him, he might seek revenge from you in the future." Levi said: "Now the void is our common enemy, and Shurima, which has been in chaos for thousands of years, is in urgent need of restoring order."

"Shurima is about to be rebuilt. At times like this, we must eliminate all possibilities of civil strife as soon as possible."

In the original world line, Azir was resurrected for a full ten years, but failed to complete the unification of Shurima. The northern shore of Shurima is still occupied by Noxus, while the south is slowly encroached by the Order of the Prophet.

The Order of the Prophet says otherwise. There is no reason why the three-line garrison of the Noxus colony on the north coast can stop an Ascended One.

Levi guessed that a large part of the reason for this was definitely due to Xerath's restraint on him. session

Azir couldn't even resolve the civil strife, so he naturally couldn't unify the continent and restore order.

so...

"We can't let the tiger go back to the mountain." Levi said. Although Janna is no longer afraid of Xerath, he can still cause trouble.

"He's right." Xerath actually echoed.

He really didn't want to live anymore: "Azir, what are you hesitating about? It was me who betrayed you and ruined everything for you! It's me! Why are you still hesitating?!"

The more Azir hesitated, the more Xerath wanted to die.

"You idiot!"

As he spoke, he actually raised his hand to condense a light blade and stabbed his magic core without hesitation.

"Wait!" Azir subconsciously controlled the yellow sand and firmly subdued Xerath.

"Zerath." He clenched his fists and was silent for a long time before finally saying, "You can't die yet."

"It would be too easy to just... let you die like this."

"Azir..." Xerath looked at the pain in his former best friend's eyes, and his emotions became more complicated.

Azir asked after deep thought: "General Renekton, what is going on?"

The two brothers here are still chatting, but the two brothers over there have already started fighting. session

The empire was once a model representative of brotherhood and brotherly respect, but now he has lost his mind.

"Xerath, what have you done?"

"In order to retaliate against him and Nasus for sealing me, I used witchcraft to twist his will." Xera admitted frankly: "He is crazy now."

"You..." Azir felt unfamiliar with Xerath's viciousness.

"Haha." Xerath laughed self-deprecatingly.

Azir was able to transform from the least favored prince to the supreme emperor, and he had a lot of secret efforts behind the scenes.

Since then, Xerath has been an unscrupulous schemer. session

"This is the real me."

"Azir, you thought of me too well."

"..." Azir was silent for a while before he said, "Then can you remove the witchcraft that was cast on General Renekton?"

"You can, but you can't." Xerath shook his head.

Renekton didn't go crazy because he didn't get rid of the witchcraft. He had been permanently affected by the witchcraft.

It is easy to drive people crazy, but it is difficult to cure them.

"The most I can do is use witchcraft to soothe Renekton's spirit and make him quieter. As for whether he can return to his original state in the future, it only depends on him."

"Then do this," Azir said. "I want you to heal General Renekton as best you can."

"There is only a ruin left in the Shurima Empire, and the forces of the void have returned. At this time, the power of every god warrior is valuable."

"This..." Xerath was slightly startled.

He could tell that Azir wanted to spare his life.

"You won't kill me?" Zerath said in a complicated tone, "Don't forget what I did to you."

"I know!" Azir clenched his fists tightly.

The tragic scenes restored by the phantom of yellow sand surrounded his eyes all the time. session

Xerath has a blood feud with him. But the relationship between him and Xerath was far more than just enemies.

"It's too easy to let you die like this!" Azir gritted his teeth and said, "I want to ask Grand Maester Nasus to seal your power so that you can survive and use the rest of your life to live forever. The earth atones for your evil deeds!”

"No matter if a hundred, a thousand, or ten thousand years pass...you will never be free again!"

Azir delivered his final sentence as Emperor.

He sentenced Xerath to a life-long hard labor sentence with no upper limit that would make LeBlanc cry with sympathy.

"Xerath, I withdraw my pardon for you."

"You are no longer my brother, nor a citizen of the Empire."

As he spoke, Azir paused slightly. He looked at the unrecognizable Xerath, and the young man who pursued his ideals with him quietly emerged in his mind.

He has not forgotten that ideal.

He promised Xerath that he would make slavery a thing of the past in Shurima.

"From now on, you will always be my slave——"

"The only slave in this new Shurima Empire."

"Azir..." Xerath was slightly startled.

Then he nearly choked up. But he clearly no longer has a physical body and will no longer shed tears. session

Then, Xerath gathered all his power. He was willing to accept the seal and put on himself the shackles of atonement.

He knelt on the ground: "Yes, my master."