Legends of Runeterra

At the Piltover Research Institute, with the funding from Medarda, Jayce not only obtained a professorship, but also had a complete set of laboratories of his own with complete facilities.

Jace, wearing a full-body isolation suit, stood in front of the operating table. Under the watchful eyes of many assistants, he operated the robotic arm to carefully place the Hextech crystal into the No. 1 prototype he had created.

"Click~!"

"Hoo~!"

After placing it, Jace took a deep breath and gently pressed the switch.

"Buzz~~!"

A charming blue light lit up, and the blue Hextech crystal power that was guided out like lightning rushed along the planned orbit of Prototype No. 1, and the assistants all showed excitement on their faces.

Jace stared at the data intently, and all of them changed as expected.

In the flickering light, Jace seemed to have returned to that snowy land.

If it weren't for the unnamed wizard's intervention, young Jace and his mother would undoubtedly have been buried in the raging blizzard.

The No. 1 prototype that Jace is making now is inspired by the spell that the wizard used to teleport the mother and son from the snowy land to the green grass.

'Hurry up! You must succeed!'

As Jace prayed silently, the data on the panel changed abruptly, and the brightness of the blue light quickly increased to its maximum.

"Buzz~~!"

“Crack! Bang!”

Prototype No. 1, which took a lot of time and manpower and material resources to build, exploded in a dazzling blue light.

“Dang~dangdang~!”

A piece of debris wrapped around the prototype rolled on the ground and hit the protective glass in front of the operating table.

Glancing at Jace's gloomy face from the corner of their eyes, none of the researchers spoke a word and did not dare to move, like beetles frozen in amber.

"..."

When the thinner researcher could no longer maintain his posture.

“Tick, tick, tick!”

Jace stepped toward the damaged prototype.

"Franken."

"Please give me your orders, Professor!"

"Copy down all the data from this experiment, and everyone else, come with me to check prototype number one!"

"Okay professor!"

After receiving Jace's instructions, the originally frozen laboratory became busy again.

However, under the expressionless gaze of Professor Jess, everyone was busy with the things at hand and even breathed very carefully.

...

"Boss, here are the concert venue candidates you arranged, as well as the concert process. Please take a look."

"Okay, I'll take a look."

Li En took the document and read it carefully.

The last time he went to Piltover's commercial street, Li En made an appointment with Seraphine and invited her to hold a concert in Zaun in the name of Hefeng Industries.

On the one hand, she hopes to use this opportunity to expand the influence of the Japanese-style industry. On the other hand, Seraphine hopes that Li En can see herself on the stage.

Li En was naturally happy to satisfy the girl's little thought.

"The process is fine. As for the location, choose point number two. It's the junction of the two cities, the top of Zaun and the bottom of Piltover. It's a very good location."

"Good boss."

Ze Li nodded, took the document and walked out of the office. Her back was showing a gradually growing curve, and her green twin ponytails were swaying gently.

After the promotion, Li En prepared a separate office for her next door so that the girl could feel the difference of the promotion more intuitively.

Of course, it was also because after Li En reached an agreement with the Piltover nobles, the Alchemy Barons withdrew their thugs at the junction of their territories, and the pressure on Hefeng Industries' field forces was suddenly reduced a lot.

Wei, who was the leader of the most elite terrorist mobile team, also had some free time. After the battle that day when he needed to change the room decoration, the unyielding Wei became more and more courageous.

To avoid embarrassing Zeli, the easiest way is to assign her a separate office.

"Ah~! I am such a considerate boss~!"

Li En, leaning back in the leather seat and admiring the scenery, couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

After taking a sip of tea and finishing his affairs for the day, Li En received a piece of news, which aroused his interest in visiting the experimental area.

...

"Om~!"

The heavy door slowly rose up, and Li En smiled and nodded at the employees who greeted him, and then he came to Victor's experimental area.

Since the current progress of Hextech prostheses still requires the accumulation of a large amount of complex data, with Li En's approval, Li Weike and Victor each found a topic of interest to study.

"Good day, Lord Li En!"

"Good day, Victor."

Seeing Victor, who had gone from being a poor man with only two sets of school uniforms and a gloomy and cautious face to now having a rosy complexion and eyes sparkling with confidence, Li En felt happy for him in his heart.

This is not the period in the original timeline where Jayce was jointly developing the Hextech Gate with Viktor, but actually the period when Jayce was doing a lot of PUA and empty promises to Viktor.

At Hefeng Industries, Victor's gifts and talents have now been witnessed and recognized by everyone from Li En to every researcher in the laboratory.

After receiving recognition, Viktor threw away all the insecurity that was caused by the oppression he suffered during his studies in Piltover.

Li En is sure that Victor today will no longer become the mechanical pioneer who worked tirelessly to replace prosthetics for the people of Zaun, and who took the initiative to transform himself into a shoulder-derived prosthetic that shoots lasers and laughs at every shot.

"How is it going, Victor? Is the experiment going well? What other support do you need?"

"It went very smoothly, Master Li En!"

Victor, who had replaced his Hex limbs, no longer needed crutches. After pressing a few buttons on the operating table, he walked with brisk steps to the isolation glass.

"Master Li En, please look, this is the result of my research, a Hextech-powered robot!"

"Buzz~~!"

The gears turned and the heavy platform slowly rose.

A robot made entirely of metal, nearly three meters tall, with a round body and a smooth metal head, appeared in front of Li En.

"Hey, a rice-steaming robot!"

"what!?"

"Nothing, it's just that the appearance of this robot suddenly reminded me of the name of a toy. Victor, please continue."

"Yes, Master Li En."

As a passionate scientific researcher, Victor simply ignored this little surprise and introduced it with pride.

“Even wearing heavy protective clothing, collecting those highly toxic alchemical wastes is still an extremely dangerous task, so I personally developed and designed this Hextech-powered robot to replace this dangerous job.

In addition, compared to those bulky and old robots, after testing, it is found that the efficiency of this robot powered by Hextech crystal is 324.76% higher! "

Victor said this with an excited and distressed look on his face.

"Most importantly, Master Li En, we found that this prototype can 'learn', and its current efficiency has increased by 31.4% compared to when it was first created!

only..."

"Hasn't discovered the secret of its 'learning' yet?"

"Yes... We subsequently manufactured the second and third models, but they do not have the capabilities of the prototype and can only operate according to our settings."

"Haha~! Then we'll produce some first and work with Zach to clean up the alchemical waste.

As for this...”

"Blitzcrank, my lord."

"Let's keep this Blitzcrank in the lab and see how much it can learn."

"Okay sir!"

"Well, you did a good job, Victor. Keep busy. I'll go look somewhere else."

"Yes, sir, please take care!"

Patting Victor on the shoulder, Li En walked away.