Walking into the huge factory, you can see workers wearing masks everywhere. Those workers who were converted from civilians wore tattered clothes and did the simplest processing work.

The factory was shrouded in light green smoke. Julian could clearly see through the mask the skin of those people exposed to the air, with strange patterns.

That's a sign of poison gas infiltrating the human body.

Julian thought to himself.

But looking at the indifferent expressions and numb eyes of those people, Yulian sighed slightly in his heart.

"This city is dead."

It's not the death of the body, it's the death of the mind.

The roar of machinery is endless, and in addition to workers working, there are also guards wearing thick clothes coming and going.

They were each doing their own work, and they lost interest in Julian who walked in after just a brief look at him. There were countless people like Julian who came to see the Alchemist Baron every day.

Walking all the way into the spiral staircase, accompanied by the sound of machinery clicking and the sound of the noose pulling, the spiral staircase slowly ascended.

"Ding!" One minute passed, the spiral staircase rose to the top floor of the sixth floor, and the door opened automatically.

Julian looked at the passage where several guards were lined up neatly in front of him, and the gate at the end of the passage, and slowly remembered the transaction partner of this mission:

Singed, a descendant of the alchemist family, is now the owner of nineteen factories in the lower city of Zaun, and is a military pharmacist designated by Noxus.

"A... very annoying person." Julian thought.

As the military pharmacist designated by Noxus, this title did not originally belong to Singed, but to his master, an alchemist baron named Warwick.

He is a very powerful alchemist baron in Zaun. He is good at brewing various alchemical potions, and has even participated in the development of some healing potions in Noxus.

That life-saving pill had his involvement.

Zaun is a chaotic area, controlled by countless alchemy barons, and behind these alchemy barons, there are also large and small interest groups involved.

Warwick is no exception.

As the designated spokesperson of Zaun, Warwick has cooperated with Noxus for decades. As Noxus became increasingly powerful, his status in the lower city of Zaun also increased.

Warwick himself was also a shrewd, ruthless and ambitious man. Through a series of suppression and mergers, his factory once occupied a quarter of Zaun's territory during its peak period, ranking among the Alchemy Barons.

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The alchemy products he made also followed the footsteps of the Noxian army, and became "famous" throughout Runeterra - of course, in the eyes of those who were invaded, they should be infamous.

And Warwick's plan doesn't stop there - if he only has this ability, his position is not completely unshakable.

Twenty or thirty years ago, Noxus fell into a relatively major internal crisis.

As the Hand of Noxus, General Thane, after decades of fighting, finally couldn't support his body and fell into a state of collapse.

This collapse is not a simple muscle or body strain - if so, the team of Noxian magicians have countless ways to restore it.

What he faced was a kind of collapse at the genetic level.

A strong man with a height of more than three meters, an iron man, a symbol of the will of the army, and a flag of victory in the war, suddenly collapsed in a simple invasion war. That scene was unacceptable in the eyes of many people.

Noxus failed in that war. In order to save this general who devoted his whole life to the expansion of the empire, the Noxian military gave up the war plan that had taken half a year to draw up, and as a result, more than a thousand soldiers were lost.

But compared with these, if the flag of the empire can continue to stand, then these losses will be worth it.

But when General Thane's dying body was rushed back to the Immortal Fortress, almost all the mages in the empire, including Arcane Fist, were helpless against such a collapse.

It was under such circumstances that the alchemist Baron named Warwick, like Lu Buwei, who had a rare commodity, left Za'an when it was in chaos and went to the Immortal Fortress alone, bringing with him "the most perfect weapon"

"Masterpiece" directly found his contact in the military and claimed that he had an alchemical potion that could save Thane.

The general who received him thought the man in front of him was a madman.

Although Noxus intervened in Zaun's chaos and invested some resources to support Warwick and his alchemy team, all of this was done casually and without much care.

Some people in the military even joked that if possible, Noxus could make those who covered the sky with their hands in Zaun lick the boots of everyone in the military, except for the alchemy barons supported by a few sworn enemies.

It is precisely because of this that the general did not pay much attention to it, but casually arranged a place for him to live and left it aside - he had no time to spend time with this alchemist baron, and the empire was debating whether to hire one.

There is endless debate about the mysterious blood mage!

This blood mage named Vladimir, no one knows how many years he has lived, and no one knows how he is different today from the one he was a hundred or a thousand years ago.

But just such a person has always been hidden under the vast territory of the empire and has an important position.

Because he once made great contributions in the battle where the Roxi people captured the Immortal Fortress.

It was with his joining and the help of the Pale Lady that the empire could open the door to the Immortal Fortress, kill the evil monarch, and thus open a new era for the Noxus Empire.

But after all, he is too mysterious, and it is impossible for others to know what he wants.

Even the pale lady, the commander-in-chief of the empire and the experienced nobles can understand her appeal and use her power for their own use.

But Vladimir has remained so mysterious and unknowable for decades or hundreds of years.

Some say he is a prince of a certain kingdom, some say he is a black magician who survived the Rune War, some say he is a demon cursed by God, and some say he is the true god of immortality.

But no matter how you evaluate him, one thing will not change, he is mysterious and powerful.

Such a person has always been independent from the world, floating outside the rule of the empire. Even when General Thain is facing a crisis, the nobles are not willing to pray to him easily.

But they all know that that person has that ability.

After countless days of arguing, General Thain's situation had deteriorated to the extreme. The general finally remembered the Warwick he had forgotten aside.

Then, he was invited to the secret room under the Immortal Fortress,
Chapter completed!