Chapter 189 Today Is Different From the Past

There were a few leaves on her black hair, and her face was flushed because she walked too fast. Her slender hands danced gracefully, and several rows of silver blades stood in front of her. Looking at this side, she asked in a low voice.

"Excuse me, does the master of Marsan live here?"

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Rowen raised his eyebrows, surprised by her sudden appearance.

Without looking up, Rowan recognized who she was. A young girl, a flying blade, with such an image, who else could it be but Irelia?

[Irelia]

[Friendliness: One Star]

[Age: 17]

[Race: Human]

[Strength: Low Threat]

[Skills: Blade Dance (Supernormal Level 6) Zan Family Spirit (Supernormal Level 3) Spiritual Power (Supernormal Level 1) Sword Skill (Supernormal Level 1) Leader (4)]

[Fortune: Ionia Leader (S) Blade Will (S)]

She stood there, a trace of confusion appeared on her beautiful face, and she said in a low voice.

Rowan stood up and took a few steps forward, while Sett also hurried forward. He looked at Irelia with his hands on his hips like a little adult, not knowing that the girl in front of him, who was at his age, at most two years older than him, had already become a hero on the battlefield.

Irelia: I cut off Swain's arm on the battlefield when I was fourteen years old. Am I proud?

To be honest. Irelia's record is excellent in the entire Runeland, because at the age of fourteen, she has become a hero of the country by leading the country to resist the enemy.

Darius was still robbing and cheating on the street when he was fourteen, right?

Garen was still training and coaxing his sister when he was fourteen, right?

But Irelia has become the spiritual will of a country.

Sett looked at Irelia, obviously not knowing that the girl in front of him was the leader of the Navoli Brotherhood, an organization of tens of thousands of people. He hummed and said, "What do you want to see him for?"

Irelia's eyes lit up and looked at Sett: "Do you know where he is?"

Just as Sett was about to answer, Rowan put his hand on his shoulder and gently pulled back. Then, Rowan looked at Irelia and asked with interest, "What do you want to see me for?"

To be honest, if possible, Rowan did not intend to get involved with Irelia, because Ionia's affairs were too troublesome.

Especially for Irelia, if you say that she is not favored by the spirit of Ionia, then Rowan really doesn't believe it a hundred times.

Irelia's upper limit is also far beyond that of humans. She is extraordinary now, but she will definitely have rule-level combat power in the future.

In this regard, Rowan reached out and touched the ends of his hair. With the improvement of his strength, the people he could meet now were also getting stronger and stronger. Or, is it that Ionia is a place that does not produce ordinary people?

"I, I do have something to talk to you about. Can you talk to me?"

Irelia waved her hand, retracted the blade, looked at Rowan and said.

"Come in."

Rowan nodded, and then Irelia trotted up.

After entering the house, Irelia saw Yu cooking and showed a surprised expression: "Vastaya?"

"Are you a couple?" Irelia asked curiously.

It was not the first time she saw Vastaya, but it was the first time she saw Vastaya living with humans. This was very strange!

Didn't they say that Vastaya people did not contact humans?

As Irelia's voice came out, Sett was furious and shouted: "No! He is not my father!"

Rowan shrugged with a smile.

What are you in such a hurry to refute!

I didn't plan to be your Sett's father!

"Ah, then who is your father?" Irelia asked curiously.

Orcs, the combination of Vastaya and humans, this is really rare in Ionia now!

Sett was asked, paused, hesitantly looked at Irelia, and after a long time, he spit out: "I, I don't have a father! I don't need a father!"

"I just have my mother!"

"I'm sorry to make you laugh." Yu came up embarrassedly, hugged the noisy Sett, and said.

"Have you eaten?"

"No." Irelia shook her head.

"Then let's eat together, it's time for us to eat." Rowan said.

"This, that, is this convenient?" Irelia showed a hesitant expression. She was very worried that the other party didn't cook her meal, and she stayed, which was not good.

But. She didn't expect that she would come at mealtime. After all, she didn't know the time.

Irelia actually wanted to stay. She was really hungry. After all, she had only eaten bread and dry food along the way. Irelia hadn't eaten hot food for several days.

And Yu's words made Irelia feel relieved.

"It's okay. Just let my son eat less. Seti, you are only allowed to eat three bowls today." Yu said to Seti with a smile.

"Okay, mom." Seti always agreed to his mother's words.

Even if Seti didn't want to do it, he would agree to it when he thought of the sacrifices his mother made for him.

Because there is no one in the world who treats him better than Yu. Not to make his mother sad is Seti's manly will.

Lunch was simple but rich. A huge rabbit that Sett caught in the jungle, half the size of a fawn, hundreds of pounds of meat, mushrooms and wild vegetables picked by Yu in the forest, and white rice.

Ha. Rice, I have to say, after coming to Ionia, Rowan's best food is this.

After all, how can Chinese people not eat rice?

At the dinner table, Rowan and Irelia also started chatting formally.

"So. Brotherhood leader, Irelia, what do you want to see me for?"

Rowan reached out and picked up a piece of rabbit meat, and asked casually.

As soon as this sentence came out, the three people at the table were stunned.

Yu showed a surprised expression, Sett first showed a dull expression, then excitement, and then Irelia, she showed a somewhat horrified expression.

"You recognized me?" Irelia stopped holding the chopsticks and looked at Rowan in confusion, "Wait, along the way, few people can recognize me, how did you do it?"

"You used the dance of the Zan family, and the row of flying blades, is it difficult to recognize you?" Rowan said casually.

Irelia nodded and said, "This is also the first time you see the blade is not dead."

Along the way, Irelia packed the mark of the Zan family in her backpack. Irelia would not release it unless it was necessary. The row of blades was like her arm, following her will. Just now, facing the flying branches, Irelia stretched out her "arm" to open the wood.

".I, I have some questions to ask you."

"Oh?"

Irelia continued: "When I came here, I heard that there was a powerful man in Marsan who easily repelled the gathering of Noxians and lived in seclusion outside the village. I. Originally thought it would be an old elder, but I really didn't expect you to be so young."

Rowen was eating rabbit meat. After hearing this, he thought about it, looked at Irelia and said, "Are you disappointed?"

"Fortunately, there are many strange people and things in Ionia. Maybe you just look young?"

"No, I am really that young. I am just twenty this year." Rowan swallowed the rabbit meat and said to Irelia.

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At this moment, Irelia wanted to say sorry, then throw down some coins and leave.

After all, Irelia didn't think that a man who was only twenty years old could solve her confusion. After all, even the old people in the camp couldn't solve Irelia's confusion.

But Rowan seemed to see what he was thinking, and asked himself again: "But, if you tell me, maybe I will have an answer?"

Irelia put down her chopsticks, took a deep breath, and said to Rowan in a deep voice: "Mr. Rowan, I want to ask a question, that is, should the Ionians now let go of hatred and live a good life, or should they remember hatred, live in pain, strengthen themselves, and take revenge on their enemies?"

Rowan paused with his chopsticks, and then reached out to the mushrooms made by Yu.

These mushrooms taste good, and the wild vegetables taste good too. Ionia has abundant spiritual energy, and the taste of fruits and vegetables is far better than other places. Even rabbits grow as big as calves.

As for Irelia's question, Rowan can only say.

Sure enough, it's this question.

The topic of Irelia feeling lost has long been discussed in various places in the forum, and even Lao Xu has specially made a video to talk about Irelia's mental journey.

So how did Irelia solve this problem and change her state of mind?

Quoting Irelia's personal story, Irelia just went to a place she would go to every day and met an old woman who couldn't be more ordinary, and then Irelia changed her state of mind.

A simple story, the old woman used her own story to tell Irelia that things change, nothing will remain unchanged, and whether the future will get better or worse is not something that can be defined at all.

When she was young, the old woman could crush walnuts with her hands, but when she was old, she could only use a knife to open walnuts. Using a knife to open walnuts would crush the kernels. When she was young, she would feel unhappy about this, but what does it matter? When she was young, she was not living in the present.

Thinking of this, Rowan began to organize his language, thinking of using his own way to learn from the old woman's words to tell Irelia that the world has changed, and Ionia can no longer hold on to the customs of the past.

Sometimes, change is not a bad thing.

So, Rowan looked at Irelia and said, "Before I solve your problem, I have to ask you a question first."

"Mr. Rowan, ask whatever you want. I will tell you everything I know and can say." Irelia blinked.

"Where do you think I am from?" Rowan said.

Irelia immediately said, "Are you from the north? Are you from the monastery?"

"You guessed wrong."

"Then are you from the temple?"

"No."

"I heard that there was a place called Wuji, but it has been destroyed now. Are you from there?"

"No." Rowan shook his head.

After asking a lot of questions, Irelia couldn't find the right answer, so she shook her head and said she didn't know.

Rowan then said, "I'm from Demacia."

"Demacia. Demacia?! Are you from Demacia?"

Even Yu and Sett were surprised and turned to look at Rowan.

And Yu realized why the Noxians at that time respected Rowan and recognized him, because Rowan was not an Ionian at all!

But, his appearance was the same as that of the Ionians!

Although he was very good-looking.

Yu was confused.

"Yes, I'm from Demacia, a real Demacian. Therefore, when talking about your country and the matter you asked me, it's hard for me to put myself in your shoes. However, in my country, there are similar situations as yours."

"My country was founded on the principle of banning magic. It was originally built by a group of people who were hurt by magic and afraid of magic, and banning magic became a recognized purpose from top to bottom. All magic is evil. This was the common idea of ​​the people who built the country at that time."

"And with the change of time, this idea gradually became the national policy of Demacia, but with the stability of the country and the increase in population, mages naturally appeared in our country."

Irelia understood what Rowan meant, and couldn't help but He asked, "Were they killed by you?"

"That's not so cruel." Rowan said to Irelia, and then he said, "The Demacians are fair, just, and enthusiastic, but when it comes to mages, they become afraid, terrified, and angry. Therefore, even though they hate magic and mages, they still leave a glimmer of hope for mages. The worst case scenario is that they are expelled from the country, and the best case scenario is that they suffer the pain of abolishing magic and become ordinary people again. Most of them are imprisoned in dungeons or exiled to isolated islands."

"But even so, they have been treated unfairly, hurt, and persecuted. So the question is, Irelia, are the mages wrong?"

"This is an innate talent. How can it be wrong? It's not the mages who are wrong, but the individuals." Irelia said immediately.

She did think that she couldn't lead the Brotherhood now, but that didn't mean that Irelia had no leadership ability. On the contrary, she was leading tens of thousands of people now, and her identity was already half a king.

Therefore, Irelia immediately pointed out what was wrong.

Rowan nodded and said, "Yes, I also think they are right. So, they were oppressed and angry, and turned their blades against their own people. The riot of the magicians affected some areas of Demacia, and in return, they had a stricter and more severe policy of banning magic."

"But in my generation, everything is different. Now Demacia can provide a place for mages to live. His Majesty Jarvan III, the king of this generation, is a fair, kind, and pioneering king. He abolished the ban on magic and made Demacia's policy of governing the country disappear after a thousand years of its founding. This change has made Demacia better now."

"And in my opinion, Ionia is like a mage. Kindness and peace-loving are things engraved in the bones of Ionians. These things belong to you and should not be discarded."

Irelia didn't speak.

Rowan continued, "But violence is also hidden in your genes. The fire of Noxus ignited your genes, and the violence that made the blood boil has become something that Ionians like now, but is it necessarily a bad thing?"

"I know this comparison is a bit inappropriate, because you were invaded and you are victims. But the example I gave is not to tell you, Irelia, I am not saying that you really put yourself into Demacia and into the mage."

"But I want to tell you one thing - that is, the changes brought about by the cancellation of a thousand-year-old tradition are not necessarily bad, Just like Ionia now, people have finally gathered their fighting spirit and have finally come up with the idea of ​​becoming stronger. If they give up all this, will Ionia return to peace? Will everything return to the past? "

"No, you can't go back, Irelia, because now you have been discovered by the world. Everyone knows that there is a magical country in the East, which is divided into factions. If the Brotherhood is disbanded, who will resist Ionia the next time it is invaded? Will a sisterhood or a war club appear after countless people die? "

Irelia slowly lowered her head.

"Irelia, I know that many Ionians will miss the days of peace. Who doesn't like the days of peace? Those good times must be the beautiful memories in the hearts of every Ionian."

"But, the world has changed. Today is no longer the same as before. There is no need to hold on to it."

"You can't look back, and you can't go with the flow. What you have to do is to control the Brotherhood, establish order, and change the old traditions at the same time."

Irelia suddenly raised her head and looked at Rowan, interrupting what Rowan was about to say.

And at this moment,

Behind her, rows of blades also flew into the air, flashing silver light.

She also showed a sweet smile on her face. She looked at Rowan with gratitude in her eyes.

Yes, the Zan family crest is still stained with blood, and still full of the smell of blood that cannot be washed away. These blades can no longer form the Zan family crest, and it can no longer be clean and flawless and integrated.

But they have always been ready to go, and that's enough.

Mr. Rowan is right.

We should not hold on to the past, and we should not think about letting Ionia return to the past, because things have already happened and nothing can go back.

Then

look forward, Irelia,

look forward.

Grandma will be happy and relieved for this.

Irelia showed a bright smile,

as if she had untied her heart knot,

and she was sublimated.