Battle of the Two Cities: Begins with the Mage

"I?"

Called by a strong man in iron armor, the strong young man pointed at himself with bewildered eyes, but he became vigilant in his heart.

He knew the iron armor on the opponent's body. It was said to be the armament eliminated by Noxus. Not to mention the knife, the bullet would not penetrate. And the people who can wear this dress in Zaun now are all the minions of Shirko.

It's just that it's renamed now, it seems to be called... Zaun Police Force?

Oh, there's Zaun on top, what's more funny than that thirco's thugs as cops?

"Yes! It's just you! I'm Pete from the 2nd Zaun Police Department. I see you are very solid. Have you considered coming to work with us?"

"Is it okay for your police team to pull strangers like this?" The strong guy was slightly stunned.

"What's your name?"

"I...?" The strong boy hesitated, "Ike!"

It's his real name, but it hasn't been used for a long time...

"No, your name is Ike, and my name is Pete. We met today, so from now on you are part of our 2nd team." Pete smiled honestly and patted Ike's thick shoulder.

Oh, with Zaun on, it's really unreliable to have a gangster as a police team.

Ike lamented in his heart, and he also complained about the situation:

"No, the police force should be similar to the Piltover Law Enforcement Bureau. They all demand innocence from their family backgrounds. How can you feel like a fake by going to the street and recruiting people at will."

Hearing this sentence, Pete's face became solemn, and he patted his breastplate:

"Do you know what this is?"

"Noxus-style armor?" Ike asked cautiously.

"Hey, who said this, look at the sign!" Pete pointed to the pattern on the breastplate.

Ike looked closely and found that it was a pattern of a medicine syringe, a sample he played with when he was a child. It was Zaun's logo. I don't know who drew it first, but everyone thought it represented Zaun and kept it.

"Zuan's logo, I know it, and I have one hanging in my house." Ike said truthfully.

He actually had one carved on the tree in his house, always reminding himself to do his part to change Zaun.

"Well then, you're a Zaun, and I'm a Zaun too. Zaun will never lie to a Zaun!" Pete smiled broadly.

Such a lovely daring man...

Ike couldn't help laughing.

When did the Zaun people become honest and kind good babies, is this the Zaun he knew?

"Sure, I have decided to join you, do I need to go through any formalities?"

Ike wondered if he had to pay an invitation fee or something, but Viktor was such a good man, just find any Zaun and assign him a job.

"There's no formalities, just take a photo and keep it in the background. Oh yes, it's convenient for you to show your face at that time."

"Hey, my mask is poisonous, but it seems to be different here." Ike hesitated for a while, thinking that no one had ever seen his face, so he took off the mask, revealing the face of a teenager.

He's really interested in Zaun under Viktor right now.

Perhaps, joining the police department is a good choice.

"That's different. Heixiang is sprayed with fragrances developed by Mr. Victor himself. It is said that if you smoke too much, it can relieve Shimmer's drug addiction."

"Shimmer..."

Thinking of the alchemy potion spread by Shirko, Ike felt a little pain in his heart.

Countless people died because they drank the shimmer. Although they might starve or die of thirst if they didn't drink it, this forced exchange of food and water really made him not like it.

The surrounding area of ​​Zaun is either desert or factory-polluted land. Not to mention planting crops, even the water source is dyed purple and cannot be drunk at all.

Conditional distilled seawater is treated for drinking, and it is better to get water from Piltover. Those at the bottom can only be thirsty, praying for a rain from heaven.

Hope... Victor is different...

Ike clenched his fists and took a deep breath:

"What are we going to do, will we be busy?"

"Of course, Zaun has to employ people everywhere now. Wait, my job is here, watch it, and you'll have to do it in the future."

As Pete said, just in Ike's curious eyes, he walked towards a slender, scrawny young man.

"Cough, stop! How many years have you been smoking shimmer?"

"Two...two years!"

The young man was trembling all over, and he was about to be frightened and slumped on the ground.

"Get up, we Zaan people are all hot-blooded men!"

Pete grabbed the young man and said with a plausible voice:

"Two years is quite a long time. The physical fitness does not rise but declines. It seems that the potential is not great."

"Yes, yes, I just want to live a good life."

The young man was crying, but he still stood firm.

"Okay, okay, I didn't say you have a problem. Now you have a job that includes food and water, do you want to do it?" Pete frowned, disliking the young man's cowardice.

Hearing this, Ike's eyes froze.

Food and water?

Oh, Zaun, how come he wasn't treated so well?

Is he not as capable as this young man?

Ike glanced at his solid arm in confusion. That's right, thicker than the opponent's thighs.

So... what went wrong?

"Really!? Do! Of course, how much shimmer to drink this time?" The young man's eyes lit up.

Hearing the young man's words, Ike frowned with disgust in his eyes.

Could it be...he was wrong?

"Why do you drink shimmer? Your potential is still shimmer? Now I can't drink shimmer. Only people with potential can use professional methods to inject that thing. Just start the work, do it or not?"

Pete pursed his lips, and spoke with envy on his face when he spoke of the shimmer.

"As long as you do it? Do it! You can do whatever you want." There was hope in the youth's eyes.

"Sure, go to the police station tomorrow. You can choose several tasks to do, and distribute the reward according to the completion of the task, or you can replace it with the same amount of food and water." Pete explained.

"Don't do it tomorrow, do you have it today?"

The young man pulled Pete with anticipation in his eyes.

"There are, there are three suitable for you today: river inspection, dangerous building marking, danger source detection..."

Before Pete could finish speaking, he saw the young man running towards the police station without looking back.

Seeing the young man's actions, Pete stared, and said a few words of Zaun, before turning his head to Ike:

"Do you understand?"

"Assign jobs to the Zaan people, the weak police station will assign tasks, and the stronger ones will be directly pulled into the police station. Everyone trades labor for food." Ike said with emotion.

In Zaun, at least not so long ago...

Piltover uses food and water for social welfare, and they even exchange labor for it is a luxury. Every penny here is not clean, and the law of the jungle is played at any time.

He didn't know what would happen to Zaun in the future, but he saw something called hope in the eyes of that gleaming-addicted youth.

If... Victor really represents hope, and Shirko is really for Zaun... Then is it necessary to carry out the plan he once planned day and night?

Hope, though untouched, has never been so close.

"Pete, take me to the police station to see, I also want to contribute to Zaun." Ike suddenly said seriously.

"Come on, I'm about to take you there. The police station is in the dark alley. The original site there was an empty shop with a loft and a basement. It was transformed into the current police station's office building, as if it used to be. What's it called... Benso Grocery, yes, that's the name."

"Benso General Store, it used to be a good place." Ike was slightly stunned, his tone a little weird.

"That's right, that's really a good place. That's the place that Mr. Victor chose. I remember that we also found some children's inventions left by the owner's children. Mr. Victor was very sorry at the time, saying that if the child of the shop owner was a child If you don't die, you should be very promising and make a great contribution to Zaan."

Pete slapped his forehead, and at that moment he was taking Victor to the site on Sirco's order, but he was so excited.

"Hahaha, I think so too."

A smile can always cover up the sadness in his heart. Ike fought back tears and followed Pete into the place that used to be the Benso General Store, now renamed the Police Department.

After a few years, he came back.

There may be hope for the future...