The spectators in the arena were completely confused.
For some reason, an entirely unfamiliar face had appeared.
That had given them a little expectation for today's "plot."
But his exchange with Sett could only be described as all thunder and no rain.
That made the audience feel like today's ticket had been a waste of money.
What the hell was that? The fight had been so quick that it was over in a few moves.
They were amateurs and had not even seen the details clearly. Even the announcer had only just cleared his throat.
"Soft-bellied eel! Refund!"
The shouting rose wave after wave. Even a lord of the dark underworld felt troubled in the face of such furious public outrage.
"Go. Use tomorrow's script first."
Sett waved to one of his men. In truth, Caleb's arrival was already something of a shock to Ionia.
Who didn't know that Piltover, the World's Throat, was a place even more tolerant than Ionia?
They were a global harbor, while Ionia possessed vast lands and a great population.
Of course Ionia was stronger than the Twin Cities, and by quite a lot.
After all, Ionia had truly resisted Noxus's invasion. But without Caleb, whether Noxus could take the Twin Cities was really only a question of whether it wanted to.
Back then, the council's leading figure had been Mel, the daughter of a Noxian warlord.
As a harbor with friendly relations with Noxus, Piltover could provide plenty of convenience to Noxus while the port prospered.
But after Caleb rose to power, those reasons why Noxus did not attack Piltover all turned into factors unfavorable to Noxus.
Zaun, the city that Piltover had once used to dump its waste, rose with overwhelming force after one Harrowing, then went on to influence every decision made by the "World's Throat."
South to Shurima, north to the Freljord, and even as far as Bandle City, Caleb did not go around boasting about those deeds, but naturally, it was normal for such things to spread without anyone pushing them.
Because there was a yordle cat who loved eating dried fish, and she had also inherited Caleb's fine habit of not liking to pay for food.
Naturally, Yuumi used Caleb's experiences along the way to trade for tasty snacks, and she sold him out with complete confidence.
Dried fish earned through eloquence tasted so good!
Caleb, however, was still completely in the dark. After all, news about him mostly spread by word of mouth through docks and harbors.
So even in Ionia, though Sett's arena was located inland, people had actually heard of Caleb's name.
But Caleb still did not know much about that. Having such a big reputation was not exactly a bad thing.
"Why are you suddenly interested in the Shadow Order?"
Sett asked Caleb in a low voice.
What the Shadow Order did could hardly be called open and honorable. After all, even now, they were still locked in constant conflict with Ionia's largest order, the Kinkou Order.
So Sett, the underground boxing king, being able to learn information about Kayn was actually a reasonable route.
"Also, there should still be a Darkin inside one of Ionia's temples."
The Vastayashai'rei had once participated in the war to protect all of Ionia, and their enemies back then had not been weak either.
So Caleb had no intention of being polite to a hybrid like Sett.
After all, Sett's Piltover University diploma still had to be faked by Caleb himself.
Caleb guessed that if he asked Heimerdinger for something like that, the man would build a giant turret without another word and fire it straight at him.
So he would have to go around that stubborn little old man and give Sett's mother a surprise.
Caleb thought for a moment, then decided to vent his frustration on Yuumi first.
After all, Kai'Sa was not by his side right now. Before this, he could still use her to persuade those two Darkin.
Now he could only rely on his own trash talk.
But still, he had two World Runes in his hands.
Ionia's dazzling world could easily tempt the eye. If those two Darkin really pushed their luck, Caleb would not mind beating them up.
Darkin relied on blood magic to construct their bodies anyway. The bodies they had once possessed as Ascended had long since been corrupted by the Void.
So even if Caleb beat their bodies to pieces, as long as their weapons still remained, he could take them back to Xolaani and have her reconstruct new bodies for them.
"Kayn seems to be somewhere nearby. Apparently, he's already clashed with an archer."
Sett's gaze became a little strange, because he knew the Shadow Order's style. They would not normally attack an ordinary archer so suddenly.
Most of what they did still revolved around their ideological conflict with the Kinkou Order.
However, even though the current Fist of Shadow had already left the Kinkou Order and become the Rogue, no, the Rogue Assassin, as long as the current Eye of Twilight, Shen, could fight Zed to a draw, there was no way Kayn could possibly handle that little mouse-like yordle.
That guy was practically as old as the Kinkou Order itself. Long years had passed, and he had already outlived several generations of his disciples.
During Sion's earlier charge, when Irelia was sent crashing away, it had been Karma, Ionia's current Enlightened One, who protected Irelia.
And it had been Kennen, darting through the crowd like lightning, who shocked Sion until he was charred on the outside and tender on the inside.
Although under the effects of blood magic, Sion switched to fighting with his fists and went completely berserk, the gathered Ionian people ultimately drove away the well-equipped Noxian invaders.
Although a small portion of Ionia's homeland had now become Noxian territory, in that long, drawn-out war, the Ionians, who had originally advocated peace and then been forced into a panicked response, had finally earned a victory of their own.
Caleb ran toward the place where the two were rumored to be fighting. Sure enough, before he had fully entered the battlefield, an arrow shot toward him at high speed.
After dodging that arrow without too much danger, Caleb immediately began his version of "breaking up the fight."
The specific method was to slam down an Arcane Comet and engulf the entire battlefield within its shockwave.
Still, Caleb restrained its power slightly. It would be bad if he smashed the flowers and grass.
"They're amazing, these two."
Yuumi rubbed her head, which had nearly been grazed just now, and spoke with lingering fear.
"Shurima's Sun Disc has already risen again, and Azir has returned once more."
"Yaanogel and Aatrox have both pledged themselves to the Shuriman royal family again, along with Xolaani, the Faceless God."
"What do you two think?"
Unlike Aatrox, the Darkin who had been the first to break free from his weapon, the two Darkin sleeping in Ionia were not as strong as Aatrox. The bodies they had pieced together were at most the size of a single person.
Rhaast was always ready to seize Kayn's body, while Varus was currently still fighting two hunters for control over his own.
But the moment they heard that the royal family had been revived, the two of them took full control of their bodies almost instantly.
"Is that true?" they asked in unison.
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