The battle ended, and Faen also picked up the harp.
Regarding the parasitic ability of Darkin weapons, Faen didn't take it to heart. Because even Styraatu in her prime was still just an individual slightly below the demigod level. Under these circumstances, she herself was mostly composed of the material realm; wanting to possess Faen was simply a fool's dream. What's more, Styraatu's spirit was currently severely damaged due to the seal of the Darkin curse. Even if she had clear reason, she absolutely couldn't shake Faen's will the slightest bit.
She couldn't even achieve the kind of relationship between Kayn and Rhaast—what virtue and ability do you, Styraatu, have to want to be on the same level as Ashlesh?
Plus, the current Styraatu was directly shattered right after being unsealed, so her spirit actually fell into its weakest moment. See, even if Faen picked it up directly, he didn't feel any overly intense resistance; instead, after trembling twice, it returned to peace.
Seeing this, Faen simply threw the harp directly into his spirit realm space, instructing Janna to watch over it carefully, preparing to deal with it properly later.
Putting away the harp, feeling the gazes of the surrounding Piltovian citizens, Faen couldn't be bothered to say much. Connecting with Janna, taking advantage of the fact that the current Janna still maintained her prime form, he directly broadcasted his experiences in Bluewind Manor through the faith anchors of the spirit realm.
In fact, Stevan's envisioned plan to reverse black and white through manipulating public opinion had absolutely no effect on Faen.
Because as the native deity of the Twin Cities region, Janna's connection with the people between the two cities was deeper than any other spirit realm life. Before, because her power was too weak, Janna already exerted all her strength just to maintain her own existence. But now, accompanied by the perfection of the faith system, Janna's power had been recovered, and the previous faith anchors had all been relit.
Of course, as for the current situation, the current Janna was still incredibly weak compared to her true prime. Because according to the historical records of the Explorers Guild of Piltover, when the ancient Shuriman Empire faced other foreign faiths, they often roughly destroyed them directly in the spirit realm. But when dealing with Janna, they carefully started from the faith in the material realm.
This was enough to show how powerful Janna was back then. And in the journey of the LoR plot world, Nilah embarked on an epic path of challenging ancient existences. In the Bilgewater sea area, she accidentally encountered an attack by a demigod sea monster and fell into a bitter fight. In the end, it was Janna who took action, summoning wind and rain and controlling sea current changes to help Nilah complete the retreat, enter Piltover to repair the ship, recruit hands, and praised Nilah as the true Water God.
However, the development of the Twin Cities in the LoR timeline and the Twin Cities in the League of Legends main universe was completely different, and also completely different from the timeline where Faen was located.
Simply put, although the Twin Cities in the LoR timeline were equally fragmented, Zaun also walked its own path.
It already had its own resistance culture, street culture, and in chem-tech, although not as stable as Piltover's Hextech Crystal technology, the power was even stronger. And Viktor in the LoR timeline, while literally achieving mechanical ascension, didn't overly blindly believe in mechanical modification, but regarded it as a means; the true purpose was still to make up for character and mental defects through body enhancement—just this point alone, who knows how far it throws the arcane cultists of the Arcane timeline away.
Under these circumstances, Janna in the LoR timeline was more powerful than Janna in the regular timeline. Even the faith war from Shurima didn't affect her existence much. The faith related to her even ushered in a new round of revival after the fall of the Shuriman Empire—accompanied by the rise of ocean trade.
Thinking this, Faen also nodded thoughtfully.
Faen never hid his thoughts on being protective and employing people by favoritism—on the one hand, Janna herself was indeed promising enough; on the other hand, Janna's trust in Faen and that deeply bound contract almost acting actively as a vassal also made Faen willing to repay her.
After all, why had Janna willingly maintained human form until now? Was it because of habit? Not at all. If really counting, turning into an invisible wind or a free bluebird was the form Janna was accustomed to. Continuing to maintain human appearance like now was just to facilitate Faen's aesthetics, satisfy Faen's desires and needs.
Setting aside things like returning a favor with a favor, isn't taking care of people around oneself a matter of course?
As for Styraatu...
In Faen's memory, the number of Darkin couldn't be said to be small, but basically, every region had one or two. Of course, this was only what Faen knew. There were many Darkin who hadn't debuted in the background stories, among which even included some fallen ones who failed Ascension. Although these didn't become demigods, they also possessed power far exceeding ordinary people; monsters that could at least be called 'legendary' level, placed in various city-states, were all bottom-of-the-box ruthless characters. For similar things, Faen wouldn't mind collecting however many.
And after seeing the message Janna sent over, a look of uncertainty also emerged on the faces of the Piltovian residents present, somewhat unable to believe that the trade nobles, as the guardians and pioneers of the Piltover region, would actually betray the interests of Piltover itself.
And Faen was too lazy to say much more; anyway, next those so-called trade nobles would actively help refute the rumors, proving whether all this was true or false.
Thinking this, Faen also yawned, then set foot on the road heading to Bluewind Manor accompanied by flowing water and wind.
Before long, he arrived at Bluewind Manor once again. Recalling carefully, this should be the third time Faen came to Bluewind Manor—the first time was the previous public execution; the second time was just coming to make trouble, who would have thought he encountered a big surprise. The third time was now.
It was just unlike the previous two times, this time when Faen came, Bluewind Manor had lost all will to resist. Even the guards on both sides of the road didn't have any intention to stop him, just watching helplessly as Faen walked close, then helped Faen open the gate and stepped forward to lead the way. Making it seem like Faen was the master here.
Stepping into it, the person standing in the center C position of the hall had unknowingly changed from Emistan to the Camille Faen was familiar with.