LOL: Summoner of Goddess Janna

Swain didn't even take a few steps before he was surrounded by a group of Zaun reporters who had been waiting for a long time.

The reporters resisted the pushing and shoving of the guards and asked him loudly in the eyes of everyone watching curiously: "General Swain!"

"Can you please tell everyone whether the recent rumors about the existence of a shadow government in the Noxus Empire are true?"

This moment caught Catalina's eye.

She also wanted to find out whether the legendary black rose really existed. As the former number two figure in the empire, Swain is obviously qualified to answer this question.

"But..." Catalina calmed down and let go of her expectations:

No matter how you say it, Swain is a Noxian noble and must consider the interests of Noxus. Even if the black rose really exists, he will only answer that it does not exist, right?

Sure enough... Swain put on the dejected posture of a retired old man, and said to the reporters with a calm expression: "Rumors, these are rumors made up by leaders who are seducing the wind and shadows."

"There are indeed some interest groups behind Noxus, but these interest groups are not the shadow government in the true sense, let alone the Black Rose underground society rumored by the leader."

"It's just a small circle of nobles, but it spread among the common people and became the shadow government of the empire. Noxus has been inherited for nearly 1,000 years, how can it be controlled so easily. His Majesty Darkwill still has great power. , Black Rose can control him? This is impossible..."

Catalina: "..."

Don't know why.

Originally, she didn't really believe in the conspiracy theory. But after Swain refuted the rumor in such large sections, she started to believe it.

Looking at the expressions of Galen and other people around him, they were more or less suspicious.

"What about this movie?" Another reporter asked: "General Swain, what do you think of this movie with you and the Black Rose as the theme?"

"It's just a made-up story." Swain replied: "On the one hand, I came here because of Mr. Levi's invitation, and on the other hand, I came here to see with my own eyes how the leader would arrange my experience."

"..."

With that said, Swain didn't care what others thought. After briefly answering a few questions from reporters, he staggered into the Zaun Cinema under the protection of the guards.

As he said, he also came to watch a movie.

Catalina followed Galen in, and then followed all the way into the screening room.

Not long after, the movie started.

Catalina didn't even care about the mission target around her, her eyes were firmly fixed on the huge movie screen.

Finally, as the lights of the Hex projector came on, there was a picture on the screen.

Swain and the Black Rose—the title flashed across the screen to the sound of Seraphine humming a low ditty.

"Your...name is Jericho, right?"

The young Jericho Swain appears in the first scene, attending a palace banquet in the Immortal Fortress when he was a boy.

The banquet hall is filled with gold vessels tribute from the Shurima colony, crystal lamps imported from Piltover, marble sculptures from Demacia, and mammoth specimens from the Freljord.

Arranged in an orderly manner on the dining table are the fine wines carefully brewed by famous Noxian masters, the sea beasts that Bilgewater fishermen hunted to the death, and the various Ionian products infiltrated by natural magic. Rare fruits.

The nobles enjoyed all this with peace of mind and toasted to it.

But Swain stood alone in the corner of the banquet hall, which was incompatible with this extravagant and extravagant scene.

Many people wanted to get close to this young man because of his prominent family background.

But Swain wasn't interested. He just stood alone in the corner holding a glass of the most worthless water, looking out the window in concentration.

"Your...name is Jericho, right?" Suddenly, a voice sounded in his ear.

"Yes, but I'm not interested in chatting. Sorry." Swain answered without looking back.

"I can't do it either?" The voice was majestic yet gentle, making it seem approachable.

Young Swain was startled for a moment, then turned around in shock, only to find that the person talking to him was:

"Your Majesty Darkwill?!"

The person who came was none other than Braun Darkwill.

This fatuous emperor, who now causes widespread complaints and makes the people suffer unspeakably, was still a wise and powerful emperor with a good reputation in the background of this scene in the movie.

"Your Majesty, please forgive me for being rude." Swain couldn't help but feel a little frightened.

Darkwill didn't care, and just followed his eyes and looked out the window: "Swain, what were you looking at just now?"

"I..." Swain was speechless for a moment.

He replied uneasily: "I'm looking at the sky, Your Majesty."

"Really?" The camera follows Darkwill's gaze as it moves out the window: "Look at this dark sky?"

Then it moved from the sky to the ground, and to the cities on the ground.

This city is generally called the Immortal Fortress, but the real Immortal Fortress is actually just a "ring" of the city. Most of the rest of the city is built outside the high walls of the Immortal Fortress.

Contrary to what most people imagine, the capital of Noxus, the most powerful country in Runeterra, actually looks particularly bad.

Because Noxians don't like to be superficial.

The poor in Demacia are outside the capital, and the poor in Piltover are isolated in Zaun.

The poor people in the capital of Noxus live in the slums of the capital.

This resulted in the capital of this great empire looking like a large, messy county town. Busy places are extremely prosperous, but chaotic places are extremely chaotic.

Even from the outside of the immortal fortress that served as the emperor's palace, looking out from the palace banquet hall where Swain was sitting at the moment - one could see at a glance the large slums spreading like abscesses and ringworm in the center of the city.

"You're looking at Slums, right?" Darkwill asked him.

"I..." Young Swain did not dare to answer.

"Haha." The emperor smiled and patted his shoulder and said, "Swain, please come and help me from now on."

This is obviously to reuse him.

"Why?" Swain didn't understand.

"I need someone to help me save this country." Darkwill held the wine glass and looked back at the princes and nobles who never bothered to look out the window and were always intoxicated in the extravagant banquet:

"Swain, you are the only one who can help me here. Aren't you?"

.....................

"This..." Seeing this, Catalina felt very subtle.

She thought that the leader would discredit Swain in the movie and describe him as a villain who cooperated with the "deep state".

Unexpectedly, Swain's image in the movie would turn out to be a good person and a true patriot.

Such a talented and ambitious loyal minister, meeting a wise king like Darkwill, will definitely make the empire better, right?

Catalina instinctively expected this.

But unfortunately, she knew very well what Noxus would become after that.

.....................

Back on the movie screen.

Because of Darkwill's regard, Swain began to gradually emerge in the imperial political arena.

He betrayed his noble origins and worked closely with Darkwill to promote many reforms that could eliminate the empire's ills.

However, Darkwill's reforms obviously touched the interests of many nobles and aroused the dissatisfaction of many powerful people.

They secretly formed a conspiracy to overthrow Darkwill, and the only trace was the symbol of a black rose.

"Black Rose." This name appeared for the first time in a movie and also in Swain's life.

Swain discovered their plot and personally executed the leading conspirators.

And among them is...

"Father, mother." Swain personally sent his parents to the execution ground.

He looked at his biological parents indifferently, and finally asked them: "Do you have anything else to explain about the Black Rose organization?"

"Are you crazy? Bastard!" His father cursed him angrily: "How could the Swain family give birth to a scum like you!"

"Jericho, my child," his mother begged him, "let us go."

"Darkwill believes in you so much. You can save us, can't you?"

But at this time, Swain no longer had the greenness and naivety he had when he was young in the first scene of the movie.

He replied coldly and ruthlessly: "It is precisely because His Majesty Darkwill trusts me that I cannot let him down."

"Son of a bitch!" The father, who is a great nobleman, even cursed Zaun in an undignified manner: "Darkwill, you only know Darkwill! Have you forgotten who raised you? "

"I haven't forgotten." Swain looked calm.

"It was my mother who raised me -"

His mother's eyes lit up and she wanted to beg for mercy, but all she heard was Swain said:

"—My mother, Noxus."

"Noxus has given our family everything. But you have failed her."

Swain sighed and never looked at his parents again.

He turned his head and said to the executioner: "Execution."

"Bastard! Bastard! Traitor! Son of a bitch...ah!

"

The curses ceased as the Noxian guillotine fell.

Two human heads rolled down to Swain's feet.

He glanced down.

"Do you want to collect their bodies, Lord Swain?" the executioner asked cautiously.

"No, follow the rules-"

"Hang their heads in the arena to scare away the worms."

Swain had tears in his eyes and said expressionlessly.

.............................

The more Katerina looked at it, the more uncomfortable she became.

The Leader portrays Swain in a very positive light.

But at this stage in the movie, the more Swain worked hard to save the country and made selfless sacrifices, the more we think of Swain's bleak end later, and the decadent appearance of his disabled old man now, the more people sigh and lament.

"Alas..." Katarina sighed in her heart.

She thought that the leader would make up random stories, but it turned out that the leader was completely retelling Swain's real experience.

The only controversial part is the mention of the "Black Rose" organization in the movie.

According to the movie, Swain's parents are peripheral members of the Black Rose. The coup against Emperor Darkwill was also secretly planned by the conspirators of the Black Rose.

Swain had known about the existence of this organization decades ago.

So, is this true?

Only Swain himself can answer this question.

Through the light reflected on the screen, Catalina quietly observed the expression of Swain, who was sitting in the same row with her.

Then, she was shocked to discover:

General Swain, who had previously insisted on refuting the rumors in front of reporters, now seemed to be moved by the scenes in a movie——

Although his face was expressionless, there were faint tears in his eyes.

Just like Swain in the movie.

"Is it true?" Katarina's belief collapsed instantly.

She couldn't believe what she saw, couldn't believe that Swain would reveal his true feelings because of a fake story. All these performances by Swain confirm the leader’s propaganda:

"Black roses are real?"

"The Empire...was a joke from the beginning?"