Battle of the Two Cities: Begins with the Mage

Seraphine's eyes were fixed on the high-rise buildings lined up under the darkness of Zaan's night. Although the high-rise buildings were dilapidated, the moonlight sprinkled them on them, giving them a unique beauty.

The prosperity of Zaun is far from that of Piltover, but the people here are not inferior to Piltover.

Along the way, Seraphine saw a few walking dead, but most of the souls were singing a song of hope.

If Piltover is the city of evolution, it must be the city of hope.

Seraphine silently recreated her image of Zaun.

The former Zaun came from hearsay, but now it was the real Zaun before her.

Maybe it used to be a bad place, but it's definitely not the dirty, chaotic, evil gathering place that Piltover calls it.

The people here have suffered from the pain of birth, but most of them did not sink in this way. They still long for a better life and long for freedom in their hearts.

As she listened to the song of the soul seeking hope in despair, she felt like her heart was blocked.

Perhaps, she should also do something for her parents' hometown...

When she came to the door of Forgan's Tavern, she turned her head to Ike and suddenly asked:

"Ike, if you had the ability to convey your voice, what would you do?"

"Transmitting your heart? The kind that conveys your own thoughts to others' hearts?"

Ike scratched the back of his head puzzled, seeing the other party nod, after thinking about it for a while, he replied with a smile:

"That must have opened the eyes of the arrogant punks, we Zaun people are not what they imagined."

"Seems like a good idea, thanks for the suggestion, Ike!"

Seraphine also smiled, but with a little more excitement in her eyes. After waving goodbye to Ike, he followed Orianna into Forgan's Tavern.

She has a little direction for her own future.

Mr. Ryan... is that what you brought me to Zaun for?

I want to hear your soul singing so much, I will definitely try harder. One day I will hear the voice of your soul.

Going up the stairs of the tavern, Seraphine and the two walked into a humble office with a frail lady wearing glasses.

There are bookshelves on the left and right of the office, and a blue-haired girl is leaning on the bookshelves.

In front of the desk in the office, a figure wrapped in iron was sitting in the seat, with a pair of eyes shining with Hexian light, watching their arrival.

The opponent's body was wrapped in iron armor all over his body, and the mechanical claws on his shoulders flickered, appearing mighty and brave, not like a weak intellectual at all, but like a high-tech warrior in armor.

Wisdom, transcendence, pursuit of excellence...

It was the first voice Seraphine heard from Victor's soul, devoid of any human lust.

Katerina was pure enough in her opinion, but the soul singing of Mr. Victor sitting across from him was no different from a machine.

In the other party's stern singing, in addition to the hope for the prosperity of Zaan, it is the belief in the tireless pursuit of evolution.

"Hello, Mr. Victor, Mr. Ryan asked me to greet you."

Orianna bowed slightly and bowed to the other party without wavering in her eyes.

Seraphine knew that this was not her home court, so she retreated to the blue-haired girl. If Victor's soul is the purest, the blue-haired girl is the most complicated.

"Welcome, great pioneer, Miss Orianna."

The eyes inside Viktor's iron helmet shone with a deep blue glow, and these eyes seemed to see through everything about Orianna.

After completing the fusion of the hex gems, he put his flesh into the tin bump. Not only is his current image unsightly, but he also wants to get used to this feeling as soon as possible.

All for evolution!

He also didn't expect that he still has a companion, he just got the other party's information from Katerina not long ago.

The girl named Orianna in front of her has also completed the hex crystal transplant, relying only on herself, instead of having no strength and no knowledge like Camille.

"Mr. Ryan told me that you can answer my doubts here."

Orianna's face was calm, and the same blue eyes looked at Victor without any cowardice:

"A Clockwork Demon, this is the path I chose."

"Clockwork means the path of mechanical ascension. Demon, I think ma'am, you mean the enchanted soul. Your Excellency Orianna, you want to keep your emotions." As a traveler, Victor maintained due respect .

Walking together on the road of mechanical ascension, Victor can quickly deduce the other party's thoughts from the words.

"I think the difference between mechanization of living beings and machines is emotion and soul. Mechanization does not mean that emotions must be lost. Human emotions are stored in the soul. I think Mr. Victor can understand this." Orianna smiled.

Victor was noncommittal about the point she made:

"The soul stores emotions, but the expression of emotions still requires hormones secreted by the human body. Your will thinks that you like it, but without the body, can you really feel the joy of liking?"

"Mr. Victor, can the mechanical evolution of the body bring you joy?"

Orianna's sudden question caused Victor to ponder for a few seconds, and then Victor suddenly chuckled and murmured:

"The emotion that bursts out from the obsession in the heart, even without the help of

Can the body also bloom from the soul... Mechanical ascension will bring the sublimation of the soul. If the soul breaks through a certain limit, can all emotions be fully expressed? "

"This is exactly the path I'm pursuing, Mr. Victor. I used to think that after the body's mechanization, the emotion will only be lost slowly, but if the soul or emotion is strong enough, even if there is no body, it can still be expressed."

Orianna remembered how she felt after replacing Hex's heart. She had obviously lost most of her senses, and her brain no longer secreted emotional hormones.

But even if it was like this, she still couldn't let go of her father's daily pain, and she always remembered the other party in her heart.

It wasn't until her heart was beating in the other's body that she let go completely.

"Exquisite idea, but you must strengthen your soul to be strong enough before your emotions are completely wiped out. This is a more difficult road than ordinary." Victor said with emotion.

He agrees with and understands the other person's thoughts, but he does not feel that emotion is something that cannot be given up.

Since the soul is strong enough, the emotional release will not be restricted to the physical body. So as long as the obsession does not disappear before the soul reaches a certain height, he will not sink into a machine.

"This is the road you chose, and I don't know what kind of scenery it will have on the road. The only place I can help you is this research report."

He took a note from the shelf and handed it to Orianna solemnly.

This notebook recorded all the experimental data after he began to shimmer and mechanize. He was not only what Ryan meant, but also the help he wanted to give to his fellow travelers.

Perhaps, the other party can really walk out of the way of mechanical ascension that retains emotions...

"Thank you for your gift, Mr. Victor, and I hope you can accomplish a great evolution."

Orianna smiled and took notes, thanking the other party.

"No need to thank you, everyone hopes to find a companion on their own path, and also hope that you can achieve glorious evolution! Clockwork Demon - Your Excellency Orianna."

As the two of them chatted happily, Seraphine was staring wide-eyed with Jinx, who was holding a book in his hand, looking at each other.