armyinform Chapter 888 Taliyah Sivir
Chapter 888 Taliyah Sivir
Chapter 888 Taliyah Sivir
“What a shabby city.”
Walking in the wide streets leading to the dilapidated city walls of Vikaura, a city rebuilt from ruins, Qiyana couldn't help but wrinkled her nose in disgust: "What a bad smell."
It has been a week since Ji Xing left Ixutal. The two have been traveling in the yellow sand. This is the first time they have returned to the crowd.
Compared to the beautifully decorated Ixooken, Vikora looked like a garbage dump, although there were indeed some scenery here that Qiana had never seen before.
Unlike the generally educated elementals of Ixokon, people here gathered in the hundreds in a market, sweating profusely, laughing loudly and bargaining at a very fast speed, which looked like a heated argument.
The vendors kept boasting that the goods on their stalls were unique in the world, but the noble-born Qiyana could see at a glance that they were just crude imitations of the utensils of the former Shuriman nobility.
There were even vendors who tried to pull her and Ji Xing's clothes and force them to the stalls, but Qiyana looked disdainful and pushed them aside with a wind ring.
She did not use the Yuanchu Axiom for this elemental magic, but relied on her 'instinct'. This was what she had gained from following Ji Xing for seven days. Casting spells no longer required calculations based on the Yuanchu Axiom.
In simple terms, she used to have to write vertical equations for two-digit multiplication, but now she can get the answer directly for three-digit multiplication. This improvement made her feel that the shame of agreeing to be a 'maid' was gone.
The Queen of Elements is flexible and...there's nothing shameful about pursuing knowledge.
Of course, the main reason was that she heard the news that Azir wanted to rebuild the Shurima Empire, and Ji Xing did not treat her as a real servant.
"Are there no laws to constrain these vendors here? If it were Ixuokun, he would be arrested for forcibly pulling customers!" After walking through this savory commercial street, Qiyana couldn't help but complain: "If they bump into me, I can even sentence them to death!"
"Maybe there are some rules." Ji Xing shook his head: "But didn't you hear it just now? Some people said that if they can't make money, their families will starve to death. What's the point of rules to them?"
Qiyana was stunned: "Even an idiot can tell that it's just an excuse to sell goods, right?"
Jisung looked at her. “What if I told you that at least half of it is true?”
"……what?"
"The future Queen of Elements should have only seen how the so-called 'lower class' live in books, right?" Ji Xing smiled and said, "The people who really work hard are 100 times more miserable than that. The closure of Ixoken is a good thing for the civilians of Ixtal, at least from a certain perspective."
Qiana was silent for a while, then looked back at the market that was gradually moving away. This time, what she saw was no longer noise and chaos, but some people who were struggling hard and hoping to survive.
"...Since you can see it, why don't you just buy something? You should have more money than you can spend, right?" she asked in a low hum.
"What does that have to do with me?" Ji Xing shook his head. "Believe it or not...with only 10 gold coins, there will be at least 20 bodies left in the market. If there are more, and there is a large-scale riot, there might be a river of blood."
Qiyana curled her lips: "That's right, that has nothing to do with me."
But she couldn't help asking herself, if I become the queen in the future, how can I make these guys live a prosperous life?
At least like the people of Ixokon.
It wasn't out of kindness, but ever since she heard the news of Azir's resurrection, she had been wanting to "compete". The dynasty she would rule in the future must at least catch up with the heyday of the legendary Shurima Empire!
The future queen feels the pressure, and being a ruler doesn’t seem to have it easy?
The more she thought about it, the more distressed she became. She came to her senses and looked at Ji Xing, who was smiling at her, with some annoyance. After getting along with him for a long time, she always felt that there was an indescribable badness in Ji Xing. He always teased her like an adult teasing a three or four-year-old child. The key point was that she was always fooled and always fell into some verbal and thinking traps.
Not only magic, but also thinking, experience and all other aspects were crushed, almost wearing away the pride of the Queen of Elements.
"Let's go quickly. Didn't you use some divination magic to determine that Azir's descendants are in this city? What's the exact location? You can't tell the location by divination, right?" she asked unhappily.
Ji Xing smiled and said, "We are almost there. We are on the right track."
Qiyana pursed her lips.
……
Azir was resurrected because Cassiopeia and Sivir unsealed the Emperor's Tomb, and it has been more than three months now.
The capital city that had been lost for three thousand years had reappeared, and countless people had seen it. The news had actually spread to a few areas of the Shurima continent except Ixtal.
Even in the distant continents of Valoran and Ionia, there were rumors of the resurrection of the Shurima emperor in the streets and taverns.
After hearing the news, even though it had not been confirmed, Taliyah, who was in Ionia, immediately rushed back to Shurima.
She was a girl from the nomadic Shurima tribe. She awakened to magic at a very young age. However, due to the strong power of magic and her inability to control it, she brought some harm to her family and tribe, so she had to leave her hometown.
She wandered around Valoran, was hired and deceived by Noxus, survived a near-death experience in Ionia, and finally found a master who could teach her how to control her power - Yasuo, the Swift Swordsman.
During the year they were together, she made a lot of progress, both in physical fitness and magic, but when she collided head-on with the Ascended Nasus, she still fell hard on her butt.
"He's really tall. He doesn't even seem to be standing up straight, but he's at least... two meters tall?"
While rushing towards the temporary shelter, Taliyah rubbed her butt gently and murmured, feeling curious about the giant whose face she had not seen clearly just now.
But what made her even more anxious at this moment was the goal of finding her family.
Nomadic people always live in pursuit of water sources and often change their residence. At this moment, most of the river water in Shurima is flowing back to the capital of Shurima under the power of Azir, building the legendary Dawn Oasis. She knows that her parents and her tribe must also move in that direction.
Not far from here, the abandoned city of Vikaula has revived because of this.
But she was held back.
Soon, she returned to the abandoned house on the eastern edge of Vikaura, and saw the woman still unconscious lying under the shade of the tree, and she quietly breathed a sigh of relief.
She found the woman in the desert, covered in wounds and buried in the sand dunes, dying. Of course, the situation is not very good now.
The wound she had stitched had gradually scabbed over, but Taliyah could not forget the bloody mess. An ordinary person would have died long ago after receiving such a wound. This woman must have been a warrior.
She knelt beside the woman, helped her take off her armor, and cleaned her body as much as possible. The intricate scars on her body that looked like a map made Taliyah's hands tremble, and she was more certain.
After cleaning, she put new bandages on the woman. She heard several painful moans from her mouth, and she murmured in a dreamy voice: "Azir...Emperor..."
Taliyah had heard her mumblings about the emperor and death a lot during this period, although she still didn't understand what had happened.
After finishing everything she could do, Taliyah sat there in a daze for a while, missing her hometown. Then, bored as if she was about to leave her hair uncovered, she lifted the black hair off the woman's forehead.
Unlike her body covered in scars, the woman's face was very beautiful, with Shurima's typical light brown skin color and a tough and sharp look.
"May the Mother of Weaver bless you." she murmured.
At this moment, she suddenly heard the sound of hard boots stepping on yellow sand not far behind her. She quickly turned around and saw a young man with a kind and handsome face but definitely not a Shurima, and a girl with eagle-like eyes.
The sound of stepping on the sand came from the feet of the girl in high boots. Taliyah was stunned for a moment and said quickly: "Hello, this abandoned house is already occupied. If you need a place to stay, there should be no one next door."
"Who would rush to live in a place like this?" Qiyana expressed disdain for Taliyah's vigilance.
Ji Xing said kindly, "Let's find someone."
"Looking for someone?" Taliyah was confused for a moment, then she realized that since she didn't know them, they could only be looking for one person.
She half-turned her body to block the unconscious woman more and asked, "Are you... her friends? Or her enemies?"
“None of them.” Ji Xing said, “It may be a bit complicated to explain, and it seems that it is not very convenient to see her condition… Well, to put it simply, I heard that she is the descendant of the Eagle King, and Azir was revived because of her blood. I want to ask her for some blood for research to find out the secrets of the Ascendants.”
"...Ah?" Taliyah was stunned.
A descendant of the Eagle King? Emperor Azir was resurrected because of her? This woman I saved actually has such a great background? !
"No, doesn't it mean that... all the bloodlines of the Shurima royal family died out with the ascension disaster that year?" she couldn't help but ask.
"I don't know that either."
Ji Xing smiled and said, "But Azir was an emperor who had been in power for decades. He had dozens of wives, plus some maids and slaves who were not made public... It was normal for him to have a bloodline left by chance."
He walked to the side, bent down and picked up a uniquely shaped cross blade, weighed it gently, and soon found something unusual.
This "Wheel of the Wheel Mother", the weapon Charikar inherited from Setaka, the founding queen of Shurima, is not a magic weapon, but it is filled with an extremely powerful force, making it a divine weapon containing terrifying energy!
The power of ascension?
The essence of this power is even greater than magic power. The difference should be similar to that between fairy chakra and ordinary chakra, with something else integrated into it.
Qiyana, whose inheritance had never been cut off, hesitated and asked, "Could this be... Charikar?"
"Charikar?!" Taliyah, who had not yet come to her senses, was even more surprised. As a Shurima, she had obviously also heard of this legendary weapon.
She looked at Ji Xing and Qiyana, still unable to tell whether they had any ill intentions, and said, "You also said... her current condition is not very convenient. Can you wait until she wakes up before you come?"
"She's awake." Ji Xing said.
"Hey?"
Taliyah heard a noise behind her.
As expected, Xiweier opened her deep blue eyes, propped herself up and sat up. Her pretty face showed a trace of pain, as if she was injured. However, she remained strong and even looked ready to pounce on the enemy at any time.
"Give me back my knife!" She stared at Ji Xing and said, "Or are you going to use my weapon to cut open my body and take my blood for research? You can try to see if I can still bite off the throat of a pretty boy now!"
Qiyana couldn't help but curl up the corners of her mouth. Sivir's threat sounded really interesting to her. Pretty boy? Hahaha... Not bad, the Queen likes this name!
Ji Xing also smiled and said, "Am I white?"
He let go of the struggling cross blade, allowing it to be summoned by Sivir's blood and return to Sivir's hands.
Holding the weapon, Xiweier seemed to have gained some confidence. She wanted to stand up, but just as she moved, she coughed a few times and sat back down.
“Be careful of your wound.” Taliyah hurriedly half-supported Sivir and said, “Thank Mother Weaver, you finally woke up, but you still need to rest.”
She looked at Ji Xing and Qiyana again, and her boyish and handsome face became more serious, obviously saying that she would protect Sivir.
Sivir glanced at her.
There are too many people in this desert who want to take her life, because she is a mercenary who only cares about money and has offended too many people over the years.
Originally, she had enough power to dominate this desert, but most of her trusted subordinates were killed by Cassiopeia. After hearing that she had the blood of the Shurima royal family and Azir was resurrected because of her, other large forces began to dream of reviving Shurima and becoming nobles.
That was why she was hurt. She didn't want to go back to the capital to meet the crazy emperor, and she wasn't interested in the royal identity at all.
She is now completely alone, and the girl who saved her would not have been able to gain her trust quickly. However, Talia's performance when she pretended to fainted made her relax a little.
"Those sons of bitches, they usually eat my food, but they are more ruthless than anyone else." She said, "It seems that my threat is indeed a little weak now. You two dare to cross the desert to come here, you must have some confidence. Although I still don't know where I am.
Well, if you wanted to fight, I wouldn't have said so much just now. I will assume that you have no ill intentions. In that case, you want my blood? Bring me money to buy it, one drop for one gold coin."
She paid a sky-high price and waited for Ji Xing's reaction, but saw Ji Xing casually reached into his pocket, took out a gold note, and activated his money ability.
"Then buy 10,000 drops first."
"……what?"
Sivir took it with her mouth wide open, and Taliyah also looked over with her eyes wide open. The largest denomination banknote ever created by the Piltover vault, 10000 gold coins, came into their eyes.
They had never seen it.
Taliyah had never seen so much money.
Xiweier had handled some, but he earned money in the desert and spent it all, and he never saved a cent. He had never seen a gold note of such a large amount!
She took a sip to confirm its authenticity, and for a moment she felt that her injuries were relieved.
"it is true……"
She looked at Ji Xing again, her eyes radiating greed, and suddenly she was startled again: "Wait, 10,000 gold coins... to buy 10,000 drops?! Are you planning to lock me in a cage like a pig, and keep me by your side to draw blood for your research?!"
(End of this chapter)